Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha novel Chapter 417

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"And you need a psychiatric ward, but you don't see me talking about it." Dominic fired back, and almost everyone took a step away from the man who seemed a bit too keen on going down the path of death. A path neither of them was willing to take.

Tracy shifted on her feet and glanced at the man and his audacity. For a split second, she wanted to turn him into a toad or something even worse, but she knew that this was not the time. Curling her lips into a smile that didn't reach her eyes, she said to him, "I swear to the goddess of magic, if I didn't have something more important to do other than straightening up that sorry ass of yours, I swear I would have sent you flying to the moon."

"What do you mean by more important?" Finn asked slowly. Every single instinct of his was telling him that this place was layered with more than just rot and dust, and he had no idea what to make of it.

Tracy glanced at him and then very calmly. In fact, a bit too calmly, she said to him, "This hotel is warded."

Everyone stopped moving then and there. The stairs started to groan under their weight as they stood on the spot and stared at the witch in shock. The sound echoed far louder than it should have as they stared at her in sheer disbelief. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Tao blinked his eyes as if trying to understand what she was even telling them. He did a slow blink and then asked, "I am sorry, what did you say just now? Warded what? What do you mean by warded? What is – what are you trying to say?"

Tracy didn't respond; instead, she crouched down and brushed her fingers against the faded carpet. Her expression sharpened from annoyance to focus. The careless air that she usually wore slowly slipped away and was replaced by something old and alert. "Of course, these are not protection wards," she added in a worried voice. "Oh no, these are containment wards. Very crudely made and not to mention the desperation in these wards—I can almost taste them."

Finn had no idea what the witch was even saying at this point. He turned to look at Laxus and Ajax, who were just as confused, but compared to Finn and Ajax, Laxus seemed like he had a much better understanding of the current situation. He pursed his lips and then asked in a low voice, "You mean to say that the witch we are hunting is hiding here? Are we close to her?"

"No, she is not here," Tracy replied as she slowly got to her feet. "These are just …residual. Something she left behind, and in a hurry, too. She must have tried to hold something here. Something that couldn't be contained…something that didn't want to be contained."

A chill slipped down the spines of the men who stood there.

"Amorphous." Tao spat out. There was no doubt in his voice. "Or I should say an incomplete one. The one that cannot hold onto one form for a long time."