Silver Blood

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"I feel sick" Isabella whispers, her brain is clouded with a million thoughts a minute as she tries to think of the life her poor mother and father left, the fear they must've felt along with the many others who were wiped out simply for being who they are despite it being nothing they could ever control

"I did too," Catherine says sympathetically

"Oh stop it, you stood by him, you support him and what he did to that poor baby!" Isabella says her voice hoarse like she had been screaming for hours when it was simply unshed emotion

"I am guilty like Dominic in a number of things but I have no idea what you are talking about when you mention that baby" Catherine shrugs as if it means absolutely nothing

"You allowed him to kill the baby" Isabella retches thinking about the dream again

"I WOULD NEVER and I will not have you accusing me of that Isabella, I don't care who you are and what you mean to my son, I do not harm children" Catherine booms and for some reason, Isabella instantly believes her but something happened to that baby because he is nowhere to be found... then again, Isabella hadn't been looking.

"What happened then?" Isabella demands answers

"He was adopted out, I don't know much more than that. It was to a couple, an Alpha and Luna of a pack actually, they couldn't have children and there would be no heir to the pack and when your King asks you to take in a child you can't say no - he will have had a good life" Catherine explains, even though this does make Isabella feel slightly better it still doesn't stop the questions spilling off of her tongue

"What are their names, the name of the pack, his name?"

"Oh don't be silly Isabella, how on earth am I to know the silly name they chose?" Catherine pauses as she watches Isabella frown "I'm sorry, look I might know where to find the answers

"The attic," Isabella says instinctively, she barely even registers that she said it but the look of shock on Catherine's face confirms it

"How?" 

"A guess"

Things are now incredibly awkward but Isabella thinks of another important question

"The necklace, tell me about that" Isabella asks

"I don't know much about it, it was created by a witch, not the one who... you know but her sister" 

"A) what is with all these witches and B) are you about to tell me a story about a good and bad witch who are sisters?" Isabella rolls her eyes at the ridiculousness of it 

"Well... yes," Catherine says smiling softly as she realises how crazy it all sounds "she heard what her sister was involved in and wanted to help, she also knew the power people like you held but respected it and was horrified. She nearly killed herself creating that necklace the only downside was that whenever people like you touch it, it lights up with the power from within"

"But what is the point?" Isabella was confused, she used up so much magic and she respected wolves like me then surely she didn't do it to make us more obvious

"I heard a rumour that she created it for a man she loved who had a daughter who had this... affliction, she could see that the girl was harmless, just a normal child and wanted to protect her," Catherine says pointedly and it clicks into place

"My mother? she gave it to protect my mother but how?"

"Yes, there is nothing else like it in the world as far as I am concerned, it holds an unprecedented amount of power but from what I know your mother only saw it as a pretty necklace and never unlocked it, that it why Dominic wanted it so badly, all he ever wanted was power" Catherine looks sad, almost enough to make Isabella feel sorry for her, how would she feel is Hunter did all this?