Dead...

“Get her to a safe place!”

Luther shouted, and it took me a while to realize what was happening.

My mate didn’t shift because he wanted to attack me. The only reason why he shifted was because he sensed that we’d been under attack.

I felt someone escorting me somewhere; I didn’t know where, but I didn’t know who I was going with. For some unknown reason, I wasn’t able to see.

“Who are you?” I asked whoever the guy was I was walking with.

“That’s me, Noah!”

Of course, I’m not supposed to know him by his name since it’s my first time hearing it, but based on his voice, I can tell that he was the third guy of the trio.

“Noah!” I called his name, then I asked, “I can’t see… why?”

He didn’t answer me immediately, but the moment I was in my room, he started explaining.

“It’s a vampire attack. They’re filling the air with vervain, and since you just shifted two or three days ago, your wolf is not used to it.”

I took my time to realize what he was saying, then I asked him again.

“Why are they attacking us?”

“Are you usually that dumb?” he asked playfully that didn’t make me feel embarrassed. Right after, he answered my question.

“It’s you that they want, and if they got you…” He then stopped speaking, and I felt like there were things about myself that I didn’t know. Or maybe I just forgot about them.

“Vampires can’t only use an elementary wolf’s blood to be able to walk under the sun. Worse… your kind’s blood can be used to create a cure!”

“A cure?” I repeated, suggesting that I didn’t fully understand what he was saying.

Of course, he took the hint right as he started explaining again.“Being a werewolf was never an illness… Yet, this is how night bloodsuckers are treating the werewolf gene… They previously managed to create what they call a cure, which is a substance made to kill the werewolf gene. Any wolf that gets infected by it becomes nothing but a human…”

I felt terrible while trying to understand what he was trying to say, and he seemed to notice.“Hey! Don’t worry… We’re going to keep you safe..!” he said, while wearing an innocent smile on his face—a smile that was able to calm me down… almost.

He was cut off by a bullet that smelled like wolfsbane... Too much wolfsbane.

Immediately, he fell down, revealing my mother’s face, who was standing with a gun between her hands.

“What have you done?!” I shouted, not believing what she had done.

“Hurry up, we need to leave before anyone spots us!”

Realization hit me hard as I came to notice that she was here to save me. She never left me behind or gave up on me!

“But… Noah… We can’t leave him here like that!”

She grabbed my hands as she started commenting.

“We don’t have time for this now! If we don’t manage to leave fast, we’ll be either caught by the vampires or Lycans… I will shift, and then next, you ride my wolf so that I can take you somewhere safe.”

Not knowing what to do, I let her take the lead and followed her, since, based on what she said, if I shifted myself, we would draw too much attention.

In no time, we were both on a dark, snowy path, and as we thought we had almost made it, a group of vampires appeared from nowhere and circled us.

All I remember after that was darkness, and when I woke up, I was in a cell.

A weird silence was consuming the space between us since we were caught. It was as if we both had a lot to say, yet none of us dared to speak. So I decided to ask her about what had been driving me out of my mind.

“Mom!” She looked at me, gesturing that it was okay for me to speak my mind.

“Who’s my father?”

She breathed in and out before she answered... An answer I didn’t expect.

“I don’t know.”

She stated it, and all I could think about was how cruel we had all been to her. Meanwhile, my father was someone who had taken advantage of her.

“You mean that… he… I can’t believe that you went through all of this…”

She cut me off, not waiting for me to roam too far with my imagination.

“No… that’s not what happened.”

“Then what?” I asked her, a bit angry about the entire thing. I mean, how could she not know the father of her child unless…

“Do you remember my ‘missing’ twin sister that no one seems to know where she has been?" I nod my head, gesturing that I do. “She isn’t really ‘messing.’”

“How is this linked to me?” I asked her, although I kind of had a hint about what was happening.

“My sister met her mate, and both ran away together in order to have the life they always dreamed of. In fact, as soon as she got pregnant, he mysteriously disappeared, and she reached out to me. She badly wanted that child to be born, and I could do nothing but stay with her. I left my pack, my mate, and my entire life so that I could be with her. Eventually, she did give birth to you, but died while delivering you.”

My heart was aching because of the pain, but I saw the hurt in her eyes. It wasn’t easy for her to reveal a secret she had hidden her entire life. So, I took the hint to continue the story for her, since I knew what came next.

“A couple of months later, your mate found you, and found me with you. Instead of telling everyone the truth, you claimed me as your own, telling your mate that you were pregnant with his child when you escaped.”

“I was trying to protect you!” she shouted out, defending herself. “If I told anyone your mother was dead, you would never have a normal childhood. You would always be looked at as an orphan girl with no family. I didn’t want you to feel that way… I didn’t want to cause you that pain, since I grew up without a family… All I was doing was protecting you, and here I am, leading you to your end.”

I knew words wouldn’t do a thing in such a moment, but I was indeed feeling to hurt.

"So, you mean I have no parents? Am I a loner"? 

Before she said anything, a vampire, who seemed to be hiding in the darkness, started clapping while watching the scene between us. He then sarcastically commented on both of us.

“So lovely… So pure… So honest… Sadly, it’s only going to end here!”

“Who are you?” I asked, trying to figure out who was watching us. He seemed quite confident in himself as he rudely stated, while looking deep into my eyes,

“You can call me your worst nightmare.”

“Get her!” he ordered some vampires standing behind him.

Upon realizing what was happening, my mom asked me to stay behind her as she tried to protect me. What we both didn’t expect was that the vampires took my mother instead of me.

They dragged my mom out of the cell, and even when I tried to save her, I couldn’t.

They were stronger than me, and in no time, my mother was taken away from me.

Before I realized what was happening around me, the same vampire twisted my mother’s neck and ended her life in front of me.

She was snapped away from me by death... once and for all.