Loss and pain Chapter 23

Elinor 's POV

"Why did you choose this restaurant exactly?" Kayden asked me as we entered the restaurant

"Just because it's my dad's restaurant."

"You're an obedient daughter," Kayden said to a laugh

"Hello, Miss Elinor, it's been a while," the restaurant manager advanced

"You're welcome, I've been a little far away this time," I replied

"Then your favorite place is empty," he told me to pull Kayden behind me and sit down at a table in front of a big window

"Why is this your favorite place?" He asked me after we sat across from each other

“Because it carries the memories of my mom and dad and we used to come here with them from time to time.”

"So your parents are telling you their stories?"

"A little bit, but Aunt Adele or Aunt Maya were the ones who were telling us most of it, and most of it was fun."

"Then tell me," he said while he was focused with me, I nodded to him and before I started talking, I ordered food for us

"The beginning of my mother and father was harsh, they were not like the rest of the companions, my father was suffering and did not want to drag my mother with him in his suffering, but of course my mother stayed by his side and broke his wall" I said and smiled to look at him and find him looking at me with concentration and depth

"And this restaurant witnessed their beginning and their lives as well. One time when they were beginning to approach each other they were eating and there was a human waiter who looked badly at my mother and do you know what happened to that waiter?"

"Your dad must have broken something in him. That's the least I can think of doing. If someone looks at you in any way that I don't like," he told me, looking around as if making sure no one was looking at me, I laughed at him.

"Don't worry, no one can look at me badly here, this is my father's restaurant in the end" I told him to look back at me as if he was relieved when I said the food came so let's start eating

"And also when my mother was pregnant with me, my aunt Maya told me that they were meeting in this restaurant and there was a human girl looking at my father and my mother was jealous and suddenly kissed my father in front of everyone, and my aunt said it was because of pregnancy hormones" I said while laughing at the positions of my mother and father I looked at Kaiden To find him looking at me and putting a side smile

“What’s wrong with that smile?” I asked him

“Would you accept me if a girl looked at me now?” He said to me, to understand the reason for his smile, I felt a blush on my cheek.

"I'm not pregnant, I don't have hormones that control me," I explained to him, before I lowered my eyes to the plate again.

“But Kaiden, I have heard that our power in spatial mobility makes us weak if we use it too much.” I asked him

Yes, but we won't use it much.

"Grace told me you used it a lot once. Why did you use that?"

"That day I think I was years old. It was just months after the war and the death of my father. It was a difficult period. I had to stand on my feet. I had to build the legacy of the war. I had to be theirs. That period was difficult and I was going." Seeing you was giving me a kind of inner peace and calm so I used it a lot.” He told me to feel my heart aching for him I held his hand in mine and was upset about not being able to console him at that time even if I was only years old, he looked at me smiling

"It's all gone, it's okay now you're here and beside me," he said, raising my hand to his lips to kiss it.

the next day

Elinor 's POV

“You can try again,” Daniel said to try to use my power again toward a medium-sized room. I try to destroy it with my might, but I don’t succeed

"Maybe I can't use my power to hurt something" I told him to look at me

"No way, there must be a way, I can also use my strength as a weapon and you shouldn't be like that," he told me

"But I don't make it."

“It’s okay, we can do it again after a little break.” He told me to head over and take a seat in the lawn chairs

"So...Daniel, are you also not on good terms with Joseph?" I asked him when I remembered how much Kayden hated Joseph, whom I met yesterday, but I didn't ask him why. Maybe Daniel would tell me.

“No one in this palace is on good terms with that person,” he told me

"Why? What's the reason why he doesn't get along with Kaiden?" I asked him, looking at me like he was thinking

"It's because...a girl."

" girl ? "

"Yes, years ago there was a beautiful girl, so Kidn fell in..."

"Kayden" corrected his name

“Yes, I will only use my brother’s word. Whoever my brother fell in love with her so much, then the cousin appeared to fall in love with her too, and that’s how they started fighting over her and of course my brother won.” He told me to feel my heart starting to hurt a girl?? Kaiden has loved another girl before me?? I got angry in my body because I don't know this

“Did he finish how he dealt with her when he won it?” He told me to look at him angrily

"I don't want to know, let's go back to training," I shouted as I stood up and walked over to our place earlier. Daniel stood next to us, still feeling very angry.

"Now breathe and try to focus on that you want to destroy that room try to make...." I interrupted him as I quickly raised my hand and shot my strength towards that room to explode into pieces scattered about the air I heard Daniel's applause

“Very well that my method has worked, as expected, a comrade is the weakest point of any werewolf.” He told me to look at him

" what do you mean ??"

"I needed a stimulus...E.L....I forgot your name. Whatever mate of my brother the queen was, you needed a stimulus and I created this story. I didn't think you would believe it, but you really did. with it "

“Who will feel sad?” Kaiden’s voice interrupted us

"Do you know that she believed that you were in love with another girl before her?" He told him to look at him with hatred

" what ??" Kaiden asked, looking at me

"I... I just..."

"Look at her she can't even defend herself I'm really disappointed he's been going to you for more than and his eyes have always been just you and you..." He didn't finish because I raised my hand and used my strength to knock him down.

" It's not a question of trust, it's a matter of friendly jealousy over her partner. You're making it big," I yelled at him as he tried to get up from the ground and looked at me.

"Wow, you have more control over your power," said Daniel, sitting on the floor, looking at me and smiling. He did it on purpose to get angry and use my power again.

"I'm sorry" I told him as I gave him my hand to hold and stand

"It's okay, I wanted to increase your control over your power," he told me

"So you're jealous of me?" Kayden said looking at me with a side smileth

"I'm going because I don't want to see these romantic scenes," Daniel said as he walked away from us

"What are you talking about?" I ignored him

"But I've really been in love with a girl for years" He told me to look at him quickly

“That girl is always brave and kind, and every time I see her I fall in love with her again, as if she were casting some spell to my wizard, and her name is Elinor.” He said to me, smiled and shyly lowered my gaze.

"But Kayden, what really happened between you and Joseph?" I asked him

He wanted the alpha position.

"If he wants your position?" I asked him

So the girl Daniel was talking about previously is the position!

“Yes, so you fight with me, although there are no laws that give the possibility of taking the position of alpha from the main alpha, but I agreed that if he beats me, I will give him my position, but I beat him and thought he would stop but he kept doing things that anger me and trying to disobey my orders so I made him walk away About the palace, I just don't like him. There's a bad feeling around me whenever he's close to me, so don't talk to him at all.” He explained to me and nodded

"I won't." I told him to open his arm for me and hug him. Kayden is a strong person, even his cousin wanted to take his position.

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