Werewolf Academy Year Three - Jayme Morse Page 0,21

snorted. “Where did you hear that?”

“Well, rumor has it that during the ancient times, they once murdered an entire werewolf navy fleet because one of the sailors gave them a dirty look.”

“I highly doubt that’s true.” Contrary to what anyone seemed to think about my mates, they were all very mild-tempered for a bunch of werewolves. Don’t get me wrong. Theo could be moody as fuck sometimes. Well, all of them could be, for that matter. But most people who I had known back in the human world had bigger tempers than the Darken did, even.

“The King and Queen hated the Darken pack,” Sarah continued.

I knew Sarah wasn’t making this up; Aiden had told me in the past that the King and Queen hadn’t been their biggest fans. As he had put it, they were “outlaws,” and Kane, who had been Alpha during those times, wanted to see how much they could get away with before the King and Queen kicked them off Nocturne Island for good.

“They were always causing ruckus. They were always killing random members of the village, sometimes just for fun,” she explained. “There was also the fact that the entire Darken pack tried really hard to marry Princess Fallyn.”

“They did?”

Why was it that none of my mates had ever mentioned this to me before now? It didn’t really make sense why they would have chosen to keep that information from me.

Unless she was lying. I wasn’t really sure what reason she would have had to lie, though.

“Yup. Princess Fallyn was actually interested in potentially marrying one of them.”

“Why didn’t she?” I asked her.

“The King and Queen never would have allowed it. They were set on Princess Fallyn marrying another Royal. The Darken never would have been good enough—and it wasn’t just because they were peasants. They were powerful enough that the King and Queen probably would have allowed it, if it wasn’t for the fact that they were such ruthless wolves. They couldn’t have the future King constantly getting into trouble. They wanted someone better for their daughter. A Royal. Princess Fallyn had no interest in marrying any of the Royals she was interested to, though. I’m pretty sure the fact that the Darken pack was so hated by the King and the Queen made Fallyn even more attracted to them… or to the prospect of them. But the Queen and King forbade her from ever meeting them, so she never got to know them. Instead, she ended up falling for one of the servants, who the King and Queen later had murdered because a servant wasn’t good enough for their daughter.”

Considering I knew from my memories that the majority of the information she’d just shared with me was true, I had no reason to think she was lying about the Darken inquiring about Princess Fallyn’s hand in marriage. It just seemed odd that none of my mates had ever mentioned it before now.

“Did Princess Fallyn fall in love with anyone after the servant who was murdered?” I asked her, testing her knowledge.

I knew the answer to that. I had learned it over the summer. If she got the answer right, then I knew she was legitimate.

“Princess Fallyn disappeared from the castle after that, never to return again. I don’t really know what happened to her after that. The only thing I do know is that the vampires lied about her death. Princess Fallyn is, clearly, still alive.”

Well, she had passed my test.

There was also something else she had just confirmed for me. She was speaking like someone who had been at the castle as all of this had gone on… someone like Sarah.

“You seem to know quite a lot about the Royal family for a werewolf who was born during this century,” I said pointedly.

“I told you, I’m a history buff.” She winked at me. “I’m going to take these books back to my dorm room so I can get some reading done before my roommate gets back. I already checked out those books, so you can just take them. We’ll meet up again tomorrow afternoon to share our finds?”

I nodded. Even though I wanted to see what else Sarah could tell me about my past life, I was also pretty excited to dive into these books about the Triangle. The more I could learn about this prophecy, the better. I didn’t know everything there was to know yet, but one thing was for sure.

I needed to learn everything I could about it before it