SHE KILLED MY DADDY

HERTH LOCKWOOD.

Gideon knelt in front of Sophia, attending to her wound, helping her clean it off while I watched. Sometimes it seemed Gideon loved Sophia even more than I, her father.

“Sophia, why didn’t you tell us about being bullied. For years, you’ve been bullied by her and you said nothing?” Gideon scolded, a deep frown etched on his face.

Tears filled her blue eyes, just like Gideon’s - one of the reasons I assume he cares a lot about her.

“She is an orphan so I just thought that it was frustration. She has been bullying me since kindergarten, calling me names and dragging my hair. You saw her right? You saw what she did to me? I blame myself for being so kind-hearted and trying to understand everyone.” Tears rolled down her cheeks and her body trembled lightly.

Gideon pulled her closer, wrapping her hands around her while she sobbed in his chest.

I looked away.

“She is barely twenty-two and she managed to seduce you, Herth. She is bad news.” Gideon shook his head and then Sophia disengaged from him, turning to him.

“Yeah, Chris told me she was trying to blackmail Daddy. She even tried to make videos of it to help her blackmail you, Dad,” she explained, wiping her eyes. I shut my eyes as if it would stop the dread that revelation made me feel.

“Damn!” Gideon growled, got up, and started pacing which was a sign of anger.

“We need to find her,” I said, getting on my feet.

“See why you shouldn’t have let her go. She is bad news. She even marked you, only god knows what that mark means!” Gideon hissed but I refused to answer him.

She might seem a liar.

Infernal.

Evil. But I swear the sex we had that night was the opposite.

“Sophia, you are Alpha daughter and even though we live in a human world, you shouldn’t be scared of them,” Gideon said and she nodded. Sophia was weak, human, and my daughter, I shouldn’t be thinking good of that Infernal being. I should never have let her go.

“I… I know where she tells. She lives with her grandpa, named Kels downtown.” She uttered making me whip my head up, meeting Gideon shocked ones

“An old man?” Gideon asked staring at Sophia and she nodded.

“Yeah, lives down the oak tree after Maple Town… Has a farm too. Owns the house.” Sophia replied and Gideon's brows shot up.

“That’s my dad. She lives with my dad.” Gideon turned to me.

“You disowned him.”

Gideon grabbed the keys off my table, meeting my eyes.

“You know what he did to me. Don’t make me sound like I am a bad son, not in front of Sophia.” He hissed.

Sophia got closer.

“What happened, Dad?” She asked.

Gideon glared at me, warning me not to tell her.

“Well, your uncle fell in love with a woman, Beatrice,” I uttered, trying not to laugh.

“Well, that is not bad.” Sophia pinballed between us and I chuckled before replying,

“You don’t even know the full story yet.”

“Shut up, Herth!” he yelled, shooting me dagger stares now.

“So tell me. I want to know.” Sophia grabbed my arm, sitting on my lap and I laughed as she tugged at my arm.

“I will not bring up such event, let Gideon tell you himself.” I cupped her face, kissing her forehead before I pulled her off me.

With this we left the house going to see kels for the first time in many years even though we stayed in the same city.

Since the deterioration of wolves and our women inability to birth naturally cause by lack of strength, we had to adopt Nuart thus making us live amongst the human race.

“She will be locked up once we find her. Infernal wolves are destined to end our race, there is no way we are lettting her roam freely.” Gideon said, his resolve strengthening.

Deep down, I didn’t want that.

I wished she was the genesis wolf.

That night with her was everything. It felt like I had found my soulmate.

Why did she have such horrible fate?

Soon, we arrived at grandpa’s house.

We stepped in, his living room looked the same from twenty years ago.

“You never visited him for over twenty years.”

“I am only back here because of the evil wolf, nothing more. He really hurt me Herth and I will neve forgive him for it.”

I sighed, heading for the stairs when a pungent smell hit me.

Our sense of scent wasn’t very strong hence I mixed smell sometimes.

I walked down the hallway, sighting an open door ahead, the smell came from there.

My heart thud in my chest for no reason.

Stepping into the room, the smell of blood exploded through my nostrils before my eyes caught the red thick fluid spreading around a big old man. Kels!

My blood ran cold, I froze only getting myself when I heard Gideon’s voice closing in on me.

I stepped out quickly, my heart pounding harder in my ribcage.

He raised his brows.

“Why do you look like you have seen a ghost. Is she not here? Where is grandpa, we can ask him.” He made to walk past me but I held him.

“Don’t… don’t go in there,” I said, loooking away.

“Don’t worry Herth,” he tapped my back, “He can’t possibly hate me for twenty years, he is still my father.” he chuckled, pulling my hand off his and then stepped forward.

His footstep slammed against the rug hard at first then lost rhythm when he stepped into the room.

I turned around, and watched his face loose all colour.

His fingers dug into the door frame tightly.

Slowly, he stepped into the room fully and I followed, yet gave him the space.

Over twenty years, he refused to see Kels. I could already tell what was going on in his mind.

"Da… Daddy,” he called, his voice cracked as he pulled Kels unto his lap.

“No, please… I am back. I am back now, fucking open your eyes!” He growled this time, tapping the man’s already bloody face.

“I am no longer angry. I forgive you for everything. Every damn thing, just open your eyes!” Gideon kept tapping his face, his body trembling now.

I had never seen Gideon this way.

No. Not since he lost Beatrice.

“Fuck…. No, please!” He shook kels with shaking hands. But I knew he was never going to wake up. His eyes were tightly shut. His lips were clamped. His face were pale. And he didn’t have an heart beat.

Gideon knew too.

I could see guilt and regret spread across his face, wishing his anger hadn’t led him to turn his back on his father.

I allowed him mourn, sat by the door frame and watched him scream, shout, beg and wish Kels would wake up. After hours of mourning, he turned toward me.

“Look over there, the infernal wolf’s picture. Sophia was right, she lived with dad.”

I turned over my shoulder and there she was, flashing her teeth next to Kels and they both looked happy.

She had the most beautiful red hair I had ever seen, they were natural too, the colour looked it.

Her eyes a mic of blue, yellow and green.

“Do you.. do you think she did this? Afterall, she is destined to ruin the werewolf race. Do you think she has started?”

My heart thundered in my ribcage.

No way!