THREE

Three humans waited nervously inside Alexandra's home as she walked inside, angry and utterly exhausted. She pulled the scarf off her head, and let her brown hair fall to her shoulders. 

"Is everything alright dear?" her mother asked. Her two sisters Eve and Anna were wide awake. 

It was four thirty in the morning, Alexandra frowned, "What are you two doing up? Go back to sleep."

"What happened?" Anna asked, her green eyes, just like Alexandra were curious. 

"I will not repeat myself again, go back to sleep. Now." 

Alexandra's angry tone made Eve pull her sister Anna inside the room.  Anna didn't look scared but angry as she followed her sister.

Anna was so similar to Alexandra it scared her sometimes. Eve on the other hand, was gentler. Eve had also inherited her mother's brown eyes.

Alexandra motioned for her mother to follow her to her parent's bedroom. She closed the door behind her and Alexandra's mother grabbed Alexandra's hand, guiding her to sit on the couch beside her. Alexandra avoided eye contact as she whispered the words slowly,

"Dad... he's- he got hurt, and-"

Her mother's eyes widened as she clasped Alexandra's cold hand in her warm ones. "Hurt?! Is he alright? What happened?"

Tears brimmed Alexandra's eyes as she continued, "T-There was an attack, and he was killed."

Her mother dropped her hands on the couch. Her mouth slightly parted with shock, and her brown eyes stared into Alexandra's green ones. 

"K-killed?"

Alexandra nodded, "He was trying to save the Alpha's daughter, and he was attacked."

Her mother said nothing and just hugged Alexandra tightly—so tightly that Alexandra was shocked her mother had that kind of strength. And then the tears flowed, this time, even Alexandra couldn't control herself.

Alexandra was sure the girls could hear the sobs, but she also knew they wouldn't dare to come out. Alexandra was scared, she had no idea how she would manage her family, how she would she take care of them now? Her father made it look so easy. She knew her mother too well. She knew she would spiral and take time to get out of this, and her sisters were too young, so she had to take the responsibility of doing everything. And even though she wasn't ready herself, she knew it was her duty now.

Eventually at seven in the morning, after Alexandra put her wailing mother to sleep, she went into her room, to see the girls still up as if only a minute had passed by since she had asked them to go to sleep. Tired, but still awake.

"Look-"

"Is daddy okay?" Anna inquired. "I heard her call out his name too many times,"

"And we heard crying too." Eve added slowly.

Alexandra's heart broke as she told them the news. Their reactions were as she expected. Eve was shocked, and Anna was in denial, just like Alexandra was. After calming down an angry Anna, who insisted that she had to see dad immediately, she held a crying Eve in her arms, till she fell asleep. Anna was so angry that she had fallen asleep on the couch, soaking the cushion underneath her. 

Alexandra was still in her boots, her jacket and her knives digging into her stomach. But she couldn't feel a single thing. All she could hear, or see was her father's face. Everytime she closed her eyes, she saw his face. Everytime she would try to think of something else, she would hear her father's voice. All she did was look at Eve's face, and try not to cry until the sun came up, and shone through their windows.

One night had changed everything in her.

And somehow, she was relieved to finally find her purpose.

She would take revenge for her father's death.