SAD DAY

“Restrain him!”  Screamed Alex. I froze, watching Buick struggle in the hands of a strange man.

His eyes were white, no pupils, and he kept whispering something.

“We didn't finish it,” he moaned loudly, fell, and started sobbing. Everyone was shaking, cries of children echoing.

“What is going on?” I asked. This festival was going so differently from everyone's expectations.

“Clarissa”

I turned to my mother. Her eyes had turned white like Buick's. “You are going to die,” she screamed, and then collapsed.

What the actual fuck?

Alex signaled to two wolves, and they quickly shifted. Tieing up Alpha Buick and my mom, they shifted back to wolves, waiting for their Alpha's command.

“People of Grey Wolves Clan,” Alex started, “as you can see, you've been lied to.”

He looked at everyone. “I am here to set you free. Free to be shifters; there's no need to hide anymore.”

We weren't hiding. Yeah, sure, we were different from other shifters, but we didn't hide. We shifted within pack lands and went on runs together within specific areas.

The rule was to not go over the River Tangen.

I looked at my wolf, still in shock at the sight in front of me. “What are we? I didn't have a wolf before.”

My wolf replied, “You've always had me. I was just hidden.”

She walked closer and went back inside. Everywhere silent, people still bowed in fear.

“Mate, you have to come with me.”

I looked at the man that had infiltrated my clan. As much as they treated me like shit, he had no right doing this. Not today, of all days.

“I will not,” I said fiercely. I was ready to fight with him if it was needed.

Alex snarled at me, “Do you want to get killed? Do you know what you are? The evil that would want your soul?”

“I was thinking you were the evil.”

He looked at me. “Well then, I do not care whatever you think of me; however, you are the key to something even greater than us, so you will follow me. By force if I have to.”

I gasped out. How dare he?

He turned towards the people. “Who can take care of the clan? We are going away with your alpha as our prisoner.”

Hudson stepped forward, “I'm the beta; I'll do it.”

“Good. Tie that woman too. She showed signs of the laykiri,” he pointed to my mother.

Gwendolyn threw herself forward, “I am the alpha's mate, I cannot live if he died. I must follow him,” she pleaded with Alex.

Alex thought about it, then nodded. He knew how powerful mate bonds were.

“Ours will be more powerful,” my wolf said.

“What's your name?” I asked.

“Clarissa. I am you,” came the reply.

“Why couldn't I shift before?”

I got no reply, no response. My wolf had abandoned me.

Alex was talking to Hudson, giving him instructions and telling him how to run the land. I overheard him.

I didn't notice her creeping up to me. “Clarissa,” she said. Her voice sounded like she was hissing my name out.

“Who are you? What did you do to me?”

“I am Donae, I worship the moon too. But I am a witch.” Donae answered.

“I didn't do anything to you. I just broke a cage that was holding your wolf. I expected you shifting, not you splitting.”

“Why did we split?” I was getting exhausted by the minute.

“Whoever laid the spell on you wanted to get rid of your wolf. They couldn't, so they put it in a separate cage. In you.” She looked with pity. “You could always shift.”

I stared at the moon, wondering what I'm Luna's name was all the madness I was hearing. “Well, can it be fixed?”

“I do not know.”

Praise Luna, I was cursed, and the witch that was here didn't know how to fix it.

My mom was getting pushed onto the back of a wolf, I ran to her. “Please, she's my mother. Don't hurt her.” The wolf shook his head back. Howled in agreement and took off.

All the other wolves had started leaving quietly. “Alpha Alex,” Hudson called out. “This raid, you spared our lives. The stories said you were a cold-blooded murderer.”

Alex laughed out. He walked up to me, still giggling at what Hudson had said.

“When I shift, climb onto me, mate.”

I stood hands akimbo, “You'll have to take me by force.”

Why was I testing the big man?

“Do you really want that? Okay”.

He spun me so fast, I lost my breath. Donae stood in front of me and blew something in my face.

“What the actual disrespect?” I started saying.

Then everything went blank.

Somewhere else

The man swiped his knife clean, looking at the fool on the ground at his feet. He didn't want to be slow. She had proved difficult in answering his questions.

This was the fifth witch that he had killed.

He walked over her body, boots covered in blood. Sheathing his knife, he went to his horse outside.

They all said the same thing.

“You will never know, Demon, they spat at him. Witches, even when they were in death, were loyal to their coven members.

He had been searching for the white wolf for 21 years. He could search longer.