They Faked her Death For Months, When I Truly Died, They Went Mad Chapter 06

They Faked her Death For Months, When I Truly Died, They Went Mad Chapter 06

Three days later, Dad moved to a regular ward, and Mom came off the ventilator. 

Doctor Vale called me into his office, the desk covered with both their test results. 

Your father’s damaged brain regions are repairing rapidly 

and your mother’s brainstem function has recovered beyond 

belief. From a medical or wolf–healing standpoint, I can’t explain it.” 

Maybe the Moon Goddess finally listened.” 

He looked at me for a long time, then stopped asking. 

At this rate, your father can leave within a week. Your 

mother needs two more weeks of rehab.” 

Just as I walked out, a nurse handed me a business card. 

*Someone came to see you. She says she’s your cousin.” 

The name on the card made me stop breathing, 

Selena Holloway. 

Not Selene. Just one letter off. 

She was the daughter of Mom’s sister, raised in another Pack’s 

territory, coming back to Frostmere only once or twice a year. 

We weren’t close, but we’d never had any bad blood. 

On the back of the card was a handwritten line: 

“Rhoslyn, long time no see. I heard your parents woke up, so I 

came to check on you.” 

Below it, in smaller writing: 

Those five years in the south must have been hard.” 

A chill ran up my spine. 

She knew. 

My phone rang right then, an unknown number. 

‘Rhoslyn.” 

The voice on the other end was soft, light, with a familiar hasal quality. 

Almost exactly like Selene’s. 

“Who is this?” 

‘You can call me Selena. Or you can call me the witch.” 

Are you Selene?” 

She laughed softly on the other end. 

Names, voices, faces – they can all be borrowed for a while. 

That’s not the question you really want to ask.” 

“Why did you make me go through the south?” 

“Because you agreed to walk that road.” 

“That’s not an answer.” 

“Then I’ll owe you that answer.” Her tone stayed light. “Your 

parents will recover, and my promise is kept. As for the 

people down south – the bonds the potion severed have 

finally taught them what loss is.” 

My fingers slowly tightened. 

“What did you want me to see?” 

“It’s not what I want.” 

Her voice was no longer coming through the phone. It pressed 

against my mind instead. 

“The choice has always been yours. Do you want to see what 

happened to them?” 

I was quiet for a moment. Then I closed my eyes. 

Yes.” 

The witch said nothing. 

A cold mist spread from deep in the mind link, and the 

hospital corridor vanished. 

I was looking at Ravenwater Bridge again. 

At the same second the bus hit the water, a wine glass 

shattered in Dad’s hand at Ashborne Manor. 

The bond to his blood child was cut clean through, as if by a 

blade. Mom clutched her chest and fell to her knees, her wolf 

screaming in her mind. 

“Rhoslyn…” 

Cael’s smile froze too. 

At the same time, Oren, Wilder, and Mistral each felt the link 

they’d deliberately suppressed for four months vanish. 

completely. 

At first, they still didn’t believe it. 

Mistral even snapped, “It’s just another trick to make us call her back.” 

Until Pack rescue sent the accident report to everyone’s 

terminals. On the passenger list of the bus that fell into the 

river, Rhoslyn Ashborne’s name was right there in black and white.