4

I feel what electrocution is like. It raises everything in me and it awakens all of my memories in a seconds. I am thrashing all over the surface of the tub as if I did not just try to kill myself as everything that I’ve been through flashes through my mind.

 “And everything returns to darkness, tightness and so much…cold.”

I open my eyes, my head hurts and my throat is parched. It takes more minutes before I remember what happened yesterday and the moment I remember the feeling of what happened and how it happened. I jerk from the bed.

Why am I on a bed? I think in my head and when I try to get up, I find out that my right hand is handcuffed and I try to use my other hand to set myself free. I look around the room but there isn’t time for me to remember that I was here yesterday.

I look down at myself and I notice that I’m wearing clothes, a sweater, pants, and socks! I wasn’t wearing clothes when I tried to kill myself. How come I’m not dead? I continue to force my hand out of the handcuff even when I can feel a throbbing pain at my wrist.

At this moment, it doesn’t matter to me what happens as long as I get out of here.  I kneel on the bed, turning my head in different directions to find something that can help me break free. My cheeks are wet with tears as none of my effort works in this dire moment.

Not even my wolf helps me in this calamity!

Suddenly, the door bolts open and Dane, the new alpha steps in and he looks at me in shock. I shudder, back away to the wall and look at him in despair and confusion.

What in the world! He says as he looks at me.

It is when his eyes looks at me that I realize that my wrist is bleeding because of the force I have placed on it.

Are you crazy!?

“First, you tried to kill yourself and now…”

You are not only cursed, you are crazy too. Dane says to her as he walks over to the bed.

Why are you doing this to me? I say to him as he heads forward and places his hands into his pocket.

I’m saving you but your pride fails to see it…you would rather kill yourself? What would your grandparents say about this?

My grandparents are dead! I scream at him.

You don’t know me! Your brother did not know me! Why are you trying to save me against my own will? I say, turning my face so he doesn’t see that I am crying.

“If you step out of these walls, your death is going to be sure.” And my brother, he made me promise that I will not let anyone lay hands on you or harm you.

I look at him in confusion when he says that.

Yes, how stupid.” My brother who died while saving you is still trying to save you even n his death. Dane says.

“I don’t care what agreement the both of you have.” This is my life and I will save myself. I reply him, yanking off the handcuff from my right hand.

Stop it! He yells at him, removing the keys out and unlocking it.

You are still Luna! He says and I get off from the bed.

“No, I am no longer a Luna.” In fact, I was never one to begin with. I say to him.

“It would do the better of us good if we stopped falling on the same tracks.” You don’t owe me anything. I say.

“But, you owe me.” My brother lost his life when he tried to save you. The least you can do is repay him. He says to me.

Repay him? By allowing you and your pack members disgrace me for a life that isn’t even worth living? I didn’t ask your brother for this and it pains me that he is gone but there is nothing left for me here. I say to him.

“I can’t let you go.” He says, gazing at me as he begins to walk closer and therefore, making me retreat to the door but I know there is no way I could escape especially because there would be wolves scattered just outside of this place.

And how do you plan on doing that? I’m not a Luna! I say and he smiles.

“Yes, you are.” He says and I begin to laugh frantically because it amazes me to what extent he would drag this.

You are so stupid! I scream at him, turning to the door and opening it.

I marked you yesterday. As of this moment, you have become my mate as I have given you my mark. “You can run as much as you like, I will find you.” Dane says and I pause, placing a hand on my shoulder and feeling the mark.

“You have no right.” I say and I did not expect my voice to sound so breaking, lifeless and tired.

“You have forced my hand.” He says and walks towards me.

“We have to leave.” There is a journey ahead of us whether you accept this or not. He looks at my hand and tries to hold it but by my anger I hit him across the face in anger and barge out of the room.

Just like he said, we do have a journey ahead of us. We have been moving several hours and when I think I cannot handle another moment of being in the same vehicle with him, the new alpha.

“Evening has drawn and we are right back at the house where I was running away from.” I lived here for two years and I have been running away from it like someone without roots. Now, I’m back but I don’t just belong anymore. I sit still as the men leave the car.

“Get out.” Dane says as he comes out of the car and I am fuming with anger in this very moment.

Maria, get out! He says and I step out, my hands are holding my shoulder as I come out.

He begins to walk into the house and I follow him. The moment he opens the door, I can already see familiar faces and one of them is Max’s godmother. The moment she places her eyes on me, she freaks.

Dane, I will not allow this! You will not bring this curse back in to our pack. Emily says as she storms towards me but Dane stands before me.

You forget that I am now alpha! Dane says and the other people in the house look at him.

What is being an alpha if the curse gets you at the end? Your brother left us just two weeks ago. “You were supposed to kill her and not to bring her back into our premises.” Emily says in anger.

She won’t be staying here. I have only come to let you know that I have brought her here under my wings and protection. And from this very moment, she is a Luna once again.

“You cannot be serious.” Steven, Max’s uncle whom I also recognize enters into the conversation.

“You really want death.” Max died because of that notion, or legend of her being the way to save all of us and you still want to believe it? Do you even realize that was a stupid fallacy that was made to hide her curse? Steven says.

“My brother believed in it.”

“I will find out if it is really a curse or if Max was just unlucky.” Dane says and he grabs my hand and leaves for the door.

Grabbing my hands, he leads me to a different house that is larger and it is situated across a river. It is at least hundred steps away from the latter house if not for the bridge over the lake that divides both houses.

He opens the door and lets go of my hand to work effectively. I look at the sophisticated compound and it is glimmering in riches, one that is rare in our pack’s community.  I have known this building but I have never gazed at it to this extent.

After opening the door, he beckons me to enter and slowly, I do. At least, he doesn’t wish to make me suffer even when it is obvious that the family hates me. I did not have a care for them in the world before and now, this is not different either.

I look around the well-polished home that I saw many times from where I stayed but never cared to know who lived there. It definitely was most different in all the houses lived in by the pack members. The glass walls, polished and authenticity bulwarks that is most suited for an Alpha.