A Girl Adopted By Wolves (Three book set)
Epilogue

Arabella

It's been almost six months since the attack. We won in the attack but we lost something precious.The after effects of the loss are still not fading but it is creating a sort of depressed atmospherearound us. I don't think anyone could ever forget that day.

I still remember the day as clear as it was yesterday. Everything was a chaos when we came out ofthe safe house. It wasn't in Scotland but right under our house. We didn't know till then that thehouse had a working basement with hidden entryway before we were shoved in there from underthe table in dad's office. Cassidy and Greyson had performed a number of spell on it and theKnights had repaired and stocked it with supplies for us to stay there. Greyson had also made thebasement sound proof and sort of unable to plot.

We met there with the others who were considered dead in the fire. They had already movedeveryone before the fire. Cassidy had had a vision about the fire and that made it possible for themto take action before the disaster happened but they didn't have a safe place then and had nochoice but to repair and put spells on the basement and use it as one.

I saw dad run inside with mom wrapped in his shirt when I came in the living room. She wasbleeding badly from her neck and a black substance was dripping from under her. Cassidy ran inright after him. I followed them upstairs. She flipped mom over her stomach and removed the shirtas soon as dad put mom down on the bed in their bedroom.

The scene was horrific. Mom's entire back had turned black and her skin looked like it had meltedaround what looked like a stab wound. I felt winded. It felt like someone was squeezing my neckand cutting my air flow. Dad pulled the bed cloth up to mom's waist as she was completely naked.“Come on. Let them work.” Zeno said softly and tried to pull me outside.

He was looking at everywhere but where mom was. He looked like he saw a very bad accident.

“No we need her here. Rest leave.” Cassidy said in a firm voice.

I didn't realize that my siblings were in the room as well. Uncle Ryder was looking at mom with ahorror filled look.

“She will need me here.” Zeno mumbled looking nauseated

That's when I noticed the cuts on his arm and chest.

“You need to get checked. Go.” I told him trying to push him out as others left the room except dadand Ryder.

“No. I will stay here with you. They will heal. We need to focus on Aunt Amy first.” Zeno said firmly.“Tell me what needs to be done. I will help as much as I can.”

"Just stay here with her while she heals Amara.” Cassidy said as she started to wipe the blacksubstance off of mom's back.

Zeno looked at Cassidy with a puzzled expression but didn't say anything. I threw Zeno a towel fromthe bathroom to press on the wounds and told him to take a seat. He did so without complaint.“What do you want me to do?” I asked Cassidy.

"Heal her neck while I get this poison out as much as I can.”

What if I couldn“t heal her? What if I messed up? I glanced at dad who looked utterly terrified. Ishook my head to clear the bad thoughts from my head and took a deep breath to help with focus.I imagined healing the muscles and skin as my hands started to glow and I placed them on herneck. A few minutes later when I removed my hands, the skin didn't even look like it was everdamaged.

I looked at mom's back and sighed in relief as I saw the black thing that was spreading in her backwas retreating slowly as Cassidy muttered something under her breath. There was a ball of the blacksubstance forming under her outstretched hand.

I squeezed dad's hand to reassure him. He threw himself at me and started sobbing loudly. I pulledhim to his feet and walked him to the couch beside Zeno as I didn't want Cassidy to be disturbedfrom removing that thing from mom's body. I let dad cry on my shoulder.

After a few minutes, his sobs died down and his breathing became a little even. I looked over atZeno to replace him gawking at me in astonishment.

"You can heal?” He asked in a whisper.

"Yeah?" I replied confused.

“Why didn’t you tell me before?” he asked looking offended.

“Um...you never asked?”

He glared at me in reply.

"What if she doesn't wake up?” Dad asked startling me.

"Of course she will wake up. Don't think like that dad. Mom is a very strong woman. Surely I don'tneed to tell you that.” I told him firmly and wiped his face.

Dad nodded and went to sit beside mom on the bed.

On the inside I am scared as hell. What if she really didn't wake up? What if she... she died? No. Shewill fine soon. Don't think like that Aria.

“Aria come here quick.” Cassidy snapped me out of my thoughts.

I ran towards the bed to replace the wound clear of the black substance but now it was gushing outblood. Whatever she was stabbed with had left quite a big hole in mom's back.

“Heal her as fast as you can. The poison had stopped her healing momentarily.” Cassidy saidurgently.

I quickly sat down and started healing mom's wound. It was harder than the other wounds as I hadto regrow her tissues, muscles and skin. Fortunately, none of her bones were broken by the blow. Ipoured all of my spirit energy into the healing and slowly but surely it started to heal.

Once the wound was healed, Cassidy flipped mom on her back.

"Check for any other injuries.”

I nodded and checked over mom's entire body but there wasn't anything to worry about but herbody was lacking in blood and spirit energy. I told that to Cassidy.

“Steven I need your blood. Amy has lost too much blood. I don't think her body will accept anyother blood than yours.”

Dad complied without any complaint. Greyson had shown up only a second after Cassidy talkedabout the blood transfusion carrying IV's and other equipment. Cassidy set to work as Greysoncleaned the nasty cut he had on his cheek.

I went to sit near Zeno but it felt like the world was spinning around me. I think I used too muchspirit energy. But for some reason I knew mom was going to be alright.

"Zeno take Aria to her room. She must be exhausted.” Cassidy said as she attached an IV to mom'sarm. “Get yourself cleaned after that.” She checked how much the blood bag had filled from dad'sblood. “Ryder sit down. She will be fine.”

I had totally forgotten about uncle Ryder. I looked at him to replace him frozen in place with his eyesfixed on mom. I was about to walk to him to give him a hug but Zeno picked me up and walked outof the room.

“Close your eyes.” Zeno said as he placed on my bed.

His wounds were still in a bad shape.

I tried to tell him to get himself checked but my eyes fluttered close and I was out like a light.When I woke up, I found out that I had slept through the day. I also found out that Hudson andFrancis were badly injured while fighting and we also had two casualties. We had lost AlexanderKnight in the war. He got killed while saying Francis and Hudson when they were swarmed by thedemons.

I didn't know what to think about it. I felt numb inside. We had just met again and I had lost him.Eros didn't even know that he was his biological father but we told him on the funeral that weconducted a week after. The Knight family left after that.

Hudson and Francis healed to full health. The others with minor injuries also healed up in no morethan a few days. The pack members rebuilt their houses. They just finished construction a monthago.

The second casualty we had was the spirit alpha from Lucas's pack. The sword needed more spiritenergy to finish the demon off and the spirit alpha had volunteered for it. Mom has channeled hisenergy into the sword and we lost him a month after the war as he had grown too weak. His eldestson took over now and is looking over the remaining pack. They are staying in the Greycoast woodspermanently.

Mom on the other hand wasn't so lucky. She went into a coma. Dad and uncle Ryder stayed by herside day and night. The energy in the house seemed to have been sucked and it had turned gloomybut it's slowly starting to change.

Uncle Austin, Aunt Cloe and Zahra are visiting us every month and their plane will be landing at theairport in an hour now. Zeno is coming with me to pick them up. They will be staying here for a fewdays this time.

I entered mom's room to replace dad right beside her. Eros was curled up on the other side and UncleRyder was sitting beside the bed with his eyes focused on mom. She had woken up three days ago.She is weak and can't move for now. She can't even speak properly as it hurts her throat. The lowerpart of her body is more or less paralyzed. Cassidy said mom will heal faster now that she is awake.Mom gave me a weak smile which I returned with a bright grin.

Zeno and I “officially’ started dating four months ago. Hudson found his mate in school. She isadorable and is on the brainier side. Hudson is head over heels for her.

So yeah, everything is going slowly to normal now. We lost someone on the battle field but we alsofound our strengths. Now we know that we can fight anything that will come our way. Even in thefuture if we faced difficulty like these, we will stand together and put an end to everything andanything that will try to destroy or harm us. Nothing can break us apart.

THE END.