Chapter 145. Possessed

Natasha was laid on a floating plank covered in white and I spoke before the pack gathered.

"Natasha is being buried like this because she's a traitor and an enemy of this pack. She shall be set ablaze on lake and her ashes scattered without a place of rest. This is what is done to traitors. This is the tradition," I said, holding a torch lit with fire. Everyone agreed to it. That was the punishment of traitors in the pack.

Just then, the wind blew the cover off her face to her shoulder. I bent over to lit her with the fire when Ava stopped me.

"This tattoo," she began to say as she lowered on her knees close to Natasha and observing her neck. "This tattoo, Skye, do have a look." She said and I lowered myself to Natasha.

I was shocked by what I saw. "It's a mark of the serpent," 

"Belonging to the demon king," Ava said and I immediately sensed her anxiety.

"I noticed a tattoo on her neck, but I never knew it was a mark of the se