Five

There was a pin drop silence. Anastasia stared at her ‘parents’ in shock suddenly everything made complete sense. The way they never showed her love and treated her like a commodity instead of a person. Memories floated in her head.

“Mum can you play with me? I have no one to play with.” Five years old Anastasia said to her mother who was sitting on the couch watching the television.

Her mother turned to her in annoyance. Anastasia innocently held out one of her dolls to her with a cute smile. Her mother stared at the hand for a while before turning to the television again.

“Have you done all your homework?” she asked

Anastasia nodded.

“Redo them again then.” She replied while changing the channel to another documentary. Anastasia sadly put down her hand, it was already starting to hurt and walked way.

A hand touched her causing her to flinch violently. It snapped her back to reality. Anastasia realised that she had been silent for so long they thought she went into a shock.

“Well that’s believable.” She said angry her voice cracked a little. Her parents looked at her with guilt.

“So who forced you to take care of me, because you obvious didn’t chose to.” Anastasia said with a mocking tone.

“You are special.” Her mother said finally.

She scoffed.

Her father sighed.

“Why don’t we have a sit and we can explain what is going on.”

Anastasia walked ahead of them and sat on the nearest chair. Her parents sat too. More silence followed.

“I’m waiting...” she said. “Okay it started like this...”

22 years ago

A heavily pregnant woman sat on the rocking chair on her porch. She lived with her husband in the middle of the forest. Since they were werewolves they weren’t really scared of the animals in the forest. They knew not to approach them.

The woman rubbed her belly to soothe the baby that kept on kicking. She begun humming a lullaby. She laughed softly when the baby settled down.

“Don’t worry my sweet baby, you will soon be out and in mummy’s arms. Soon my dear soon.”

Some rustling in the bush got her attention. She didn’t sense danger so she didn’t call for her husband.

“Hello sister.” The person said.

The woman turned to face her sister who she hasn’t seen in several years.

“What do you want?”

“I wanted to see if my niece was born yet.” Her sister said.

“How do you know that’s it a girl. What if it’s a boy.” The woman replied in a bored tone.

“It needs to be a girl so you can fix what you destroyed.” Her sister bit back bitterly.

The woman sighed and ran her hands through her naturally silver white hair. “I didn’t destroy anything you fool.”

“You knew what you were yet you didn’t fulfill your duty to the pack.” Her sister growled in anger.

“I had no duty to the back. The pack does not deserve me.” The woman said quietly. “Stay away from here and never come back. If you think you can come to my home and threaten me I’ll end you.”

Her sister flinched and stepped back disappearing into the bushes. The pregnant woman sighed, her baby squirmed in her womb again.

Another rustling in the bushes caught her attention. Her mate was here.

“Honey, I just saw your sister leaving.” He said as he leaned down to give a peck on the lips, which turned into a fully blown kiss.

When they finally parted, the pregnant woman was out of breath. Her mate helped her up and led her into the house shutting the door.

A shadowy figure watched them from the shadows.

A group of people sat around a round table, the looked jittery and apprehensive. They were arguing about an issue talking down and over each other.

“Silence.” A voice boomed. It was their pack alpha.

“The pack is getting to a point of no return. The people are sick, our borders are breached and we will soon be overthrown by our rivals.” The pack alpha continued in a commanding voice.

“It’s all that selfish woman’s fault. She wanted to be with her fated mate rather than fulfill her duty to the pack.” A voice said.

“Maybe if you all treated her with a little dignity and respect she would have never ran away.” Someone snapped back.

The alpha grabbed him by this neck lifting him. His feet barely grazed the ground.

A snap echoed in the room. The body falls with a thud.

“Anyone else.” The alpha said as if he hadn’t just killed a pack member in front of everyone.

“Good. We will take her child after her birth and kill them. Both she and her mate.” He said with finality.

“Yes alpha.” They echoed.

The pregnant woman cursed the fact that she was from a sacred line of white wolves who were blessed by the moon goddess. Just the mere presence of them brought prosperity to any pack. 

This made her to be continuously hunted by packs in an attempt to secure her for themselves. This is why she chose to live in the forest with her mate. Free from any trouble.

Another groan slipped from her lips, her time had come. She was ready to push. Her made ran quickly in search of towels and water.

“argghhhh.” She nearly screamed as she waited on her mate. He returned with the towels and set her on it.

“You can do it my love. Push.”

And she did. She pushed and grunted and pushed. Two hours of pushing later she held her beautiful baby girl in her arms.

“She’s so beautiful.” The woman whispered as the baby girl clutched her index finger.

“You are so brave and beautiful.” Her mate said in return kissing her sweaty forehead.

The rattling on their door startled them. No one knew they were here... except for one person. Her sister entered the room and people trickled in after her. Her face was stone cold and emotionless. They were surrounded by at least twenty people who were up against two defenseless people.

“Your father fought the pack alpha till death and your mother was killed. You were ripped out of your mother’s dying arms. By me.”

“That’s why you have a crescent marking on your shoulder. You inherited the blessing of the white wolf.”

Anastasia stared at her fake parents in complete shock. They were monsters. “So not only did you betray your sister, you also killed her.” She muttered.

“I didn’t kill her and she betrayed the pack first.”

“Your betrayal killed my mother!” Anastasia screamed.

So this was how they treated her mother. She wasn’t going to let it hap

pen to her.

Anastasia burst out of the door into the night. She knew what she had to do. She had to take the bull by the horns.