5. Willow: Meet my Family.

As we walked into the house, I could see Luca's family all seated in the dining, they were quite a number, all in their wolf form, the exact way I caught Luca and George that night. My legs were wobbling at the sight, Luca was right, they were scary, but he didn't tell me they would be naked too.

All of them. Male and Female.

The only thing they wore were heavy chains that served as accessories on their neck and on their waist. All of their eyes were fixed on me and I buried my head to the ground to avoid their gaze.

"How lovely to have kept your guests waiting!" I heard a loud feminine growl from a distance. I raised my head and saw an elderly naked woman on her feet.

"Thank you for waiting, Mother," Luca said. Two naked ladies of my age then rushed towards Luca and held him by each side of the arm, leading him to a seat at the dining table, I followed them behind till Luca was carefully seated and I stood beside him, my face fixed on the ground. The two ladies stood behind Luca and I.

Accepting this job was a bad idea. I could not breathe, my legs hadn't stopped shaking, I could not stare at these naked people too. What type of family was Luca born into? Why was he always the different one?

"You've brought us fresh meat." A masculine voice said. Was I the 'family dinner' Luca spoke about? I looked up and saw a naked wolf approaching me, I felt stiff everywhere. I was tortured enough seeing his wolf face, but his dangling dick too?

"Stay back, Agopa" Luca's voice hardened and the man stopped coming close to me, he grunted in disapproval and went back to his seat. I found my breath once more but I still didn't feel safe. I only wanted to get out of here.

"If she's not for dinner, then why's she here?" The woman Luca referred to as Mother spoke. She had a more commanding presence than the rest of the family.

"Everyone, meet Willow." Luca introduced. I was shocked he knew my real name, this was the first time he called me Willow. In twenty-four hours he had imprinted Mousey on me I had started to think that was my name.

The stares were back at me once more, they were not nice ones but hungry ones. These people wanted to rip me apart and drink my blood, they craved my flesh.

"Willow is my maid, she'll be in charge of taking care of my needs," Luca said. The two girls behind us grunted in disapproval and I flinched, I figured they were some kind of maid assigned for Luca.

"Bringing a human for a family dinner is prohibited. She's a distraction!" Another feminine voice said she was sitting down beside Luca's mother.

"Then just take your eyes off her, Dena" Luca responded and Dena pointed her two fingers to her eyes and then at me.

"Why does she know about us? You were meant to stay hidden, no human must know about us" Agopa said angrily.

Luca's mother stood to her feet and started walking close to me, I started to feel sick on the spot, was she going to hurt me? Why was I the target tonight? My desperation for money had led me to a den of monsters.

She stopped and then slowly placed her two hands on my breast, she raised them like she was weighing them, my heart is leaving my chest, she turned around me and grabbed my butt too squeezing them tight in her hands.

"Slender, pale, light, flat. What do they eat around here?" Luca's mother asked, looking straight into my eyes.

"...not humans ..." my lips quivered as I responded to her.

"Mousey..." I heard Luca's tone of warning. I knew he warned me about speaking but I'm literally about to shit my pants. "Mother, go take a seat and let's have dinner. You've come a long way, tonight's not about Willow"

His mother was nice enough to go take a seat. "This dinner would be short, we did not come here for merriment," she said in a stern tone.

"Then why have you come?" Luca asked. The two naked maids went to open the food on the dining table and started to serve the family. Just like I predicted, it was raw animal skin in different sizes. "Did you change the food menu?" Luca's nose flickered around.

"We met strange foods on your table, thank goddess we did arrange our food before coming," Dena said.

"It's been six months since you left town and there's a lot of strange attitude I'm seeing here. You promised me to return and we haven't seen you" Luca's mother tore a skin and chewed on it.

"I love it here, Mother," Luca said.

"You will speak to me in your wolf form!" She slammed the table and I almost jumped.

Luca's head turned in my direction and then back at his mother. "Don't scare her." He said

"We are wolves, Luca Carver! We are scary! We are brave!"

"We are werewolves Mother! There's a human side to us!"

"That human side is for veneer Luca. The moon goddess wants us to exist in this world and that is why there's a human side."

"I wanna stay here, Mother. I wanna explore my human side, I wanna eat their food, wear their dresses, I wanna stay where emotions can't be manipulated"

"You speak nonsense, Luca. You have a family back home, you have a throne to take over, you're an Alpha, Luca Carver! You left six women and escaped on your wedding day! You're royalty, Luca. You would not associate with peasants!"

"You want me to take the throne so you can control me, Mother. You expect to marry six women so I can be confined in the space of my bedroom! You want me to come back home so your deal can be sealed with godfather! I don't have any family back home, I have competitors, haters, bad wishers surrounding my throne. I want to build a new one here, I do not want bad blood!" Luca slammed the table as he rose to his feet, he had slowly changed into his wolf form as his anger built and now he did more of growling than speaking.

Twenty-four hours of knowing Luca but I hadn't seen him like this. He was furious, extremely!

"You want to build your wolf empire here?" his mother cackled. "Who's going to let a blind man lead them? You're as good as nothing without us Luca. Come back home, take the crown and I'll teach you how to lead your people ... and maybe tell you how to regain your eyesight. Let's leave wolves" His mother stood up and walked away and the rest did the same following her behind.

I was dumbfounded at her words. I must have heard wrong, does she mean that..., Is she... her statement...

I turned around to look at Luca who was still panting furiously in his wolf form, his eyes were glued to mine, just like that night, he was staring at me, eyeball to eyeball... there was no way Luca was... blind.