Chapter four

     I woke about an hour later to Amelia calling my name and gently nudging me. I groaned at her and she practically started shaking me so hard that I could of easily fallen out the bed. Or maybe it just felt like that since my limbs felt so heavy. I stuck my tongue out at her and opened my eyes. She smiled down at me and motioned for me to move over so she could sit down next to me. I did and pinched her at the same time. She rolled her eyes at me.

    "Come on time to get up girl. We gotta get your shit organized somewhat. Dom told me he was gonna take you out once he was done training and he should be done by the time we're done with that." I groaned.

    "I am so comfortable though." Amelia laughed.

    "I know girl and I promise I will let you sleep in tomorrow but we got a lot to do today girl plus I went through all the trouble to hunt down the kitchen, get you a coffee the way you like it and I got something else for you.' She said slightly tilting a plate on my nightstand for me to see. I bolted upright.

    "Please tell me that's French toast with cinnamon sugar and strawberries like my mom used to make and I am not delusional." She laughed.

    "It is girl. Apparently one of the ladies in the kitchen used to get cooking lessons from your mom before she became Luna. She knew exactly who you were and was more then happy to whip these up and even said how much everyone in the pack loves them." 

     "Remind me to find this woman later and sincerely thank her for this." My best friend nodded. I practically inhaled the french toast my mom used to make for me on occassion and smiled to myself. I missed my parents everyday but I knew they wouldn't want me to wallow in misery over them so I just tried to remember the good things and smile. 

    I sat the plate on my bedside table and stretched. Time to get shit done. I climbed out of the oversized bed and followed Amelia into what Dominic had said was my closet. It was considerably larger then my parents and my own closet in my old pack. Amelia giggled at my facial expression when I realized how big the closet really was. I shook that from my head though and focused on the six boxes nicely stacked in a corner.

    "Again I saved what I could." I smiled at her.

    "You saved more then I thought." She smiled proudly. Two boxes were marked mom and dad so I opened them first. I nearly cried to see my mothers luna dress sitting right on top in the first box. Beneath it were some of my mothers shawls and almost all of her jewelry that I hadn't incorporated into my own collection. In the second box was mostly pictures but my dads watch, three of his favorite rings, his favorite cologne, and his alpha ceremony suit were also tucked in there. I looked at Amelia while crying a little and hugged her.

    "I wish I could have saved more I am so sorry I didn't." I shook my head.

    "Mels you saved the most important things to me and I can't thank you enough for that. I know how much you risked. You are seriously the best. Here I want you to have this." I fished out one of my mothers pearl necklaces. Amelia looked at me.

    "Kay you know I can't accept that." I laughed and shook my head.

    "Bullshit you deserve it after everything you have risked I will be giving you more presents to show my grattitude but I never gave you anything of mom or dads belongings when they passed so I would like to give you this for now until I can find more to give you becuase they loved you too." She smiled and hugged me.

    "Thank you Kay. Go ahead I want you to see how much of your stuff I managed to snag." She seemed very proud so I didn't even hesitate to open the first box. In it was the silver gown that I had worn on purpouse to piss Elstan off the night i named my beta and gamme, I was very proud of her for saving that because I had a feeling Dominic would love to see me in this dress. Underneath it was my silver shawl but carefully folded I looked at her confused. 

    "Why did you fold it like that?" 

    "Carefully unfold it." I did and as I unfolded it I could see why she had. All of my necklaces were neatly folded into the shawl for safe keeping, very smart. 

    "Thank you Mels." She nodded. Underneath the shawl were three of my other favorite dresses and two more shawls, one held all my bracelets and the other was just neatly folded. I opened the second box with my name and saw six of my favorite shirts, two pairs of jeans and a big round container housing all of my earrings.

    "I managed to get all of your jewlery and makeup, don't ask how but I did."I nodded in understanding. Sure enough the third box housed all of my make up and hair stuff. The last box held two more dresses that she knew I loved, a pair of leggings, two tank tops and a good portion of my bras and panties. I looked up at her and smiled.

    "I can't believe you were able to get all of this out of there safely. Seriously Mels thank you." She smiled at me.

    "I know it's just material objects and they can be replaced but I know how much your parents' stuff meant to you and I know how much you loved the clothes I was able to save of yours plus I wasn't too sure how much of your jewelry was your moms versus how much was yours so I did my best to save all of it." I stood up and hugged her.

    "I don't know what I would do without you sometimes." She laughed and hugged me tightly.

    "We would both be screwed without each other. But come on lets get you dressed Dominic should be done soon and I want him to see you at your best." I smiled and nodded. I grabbed a clean pair of panties and a bra and one of my t-shirts and jeans and set them on top of the makeup box and carried everything back out to the bedroom. I quickly undressed and Amelia gasped. I turned and looked at her.

     "Oh like you haven't seen me naked before." She shook her head.

     "Kay that's not the problem. There's scars on your back, really nasty looking ones at that." I flinched.

     "What?" She nodded. I quickly slid on the panties and bra then walked over to the mirror on Doms side of the room and twisted in several different ways until i could see my back. I wanted to cry.

     "Do I even want to konw what that ass hole did to cause those?" I fell to my knees and started to cry. I knew they were there the whole time, or at least I imagined they would be but seeing them made the reality of what I had gone through hit me harder then it had when I was going through it. Amelia rushed to my side though and wrapped me in her arms. I put my head on her chest and just continued to sob. Eventually I heard the bedroom door open and close but I was too busy crying to really look and see. I smelt him soon enough though and I knew that he would see me like this.

     "Is she ok?" Dominic asked scooping me up into his arms and letting me cling to him and finally letting go of Amelia.

     "I think everything is just finally hitting her. Elstan really tortured her. Look at her back if you don't believe me." Dom moved his hands and looked at my back through the mirror as I stopped sobbing and started to dry my eyes. He looked so angry. 

     "I am going to murder that fucking cock sucking bastard." He growled. He stood up and left the room and I looked up at Amelia confused. She shrugged but coaxed me to my feet so that I could get dressed.