Five

Cassie's POV

I stood there for close to what seemed like an hour contemplating whether or not to jump in.

But I thought it to be a stupid acceptance to defeat that I was rejected by my mate.

I sat by the edge of the cliff for a couple of minutes to think.

My eyes followed the running wondering how far the waters poured.

And what it would be like to be carried away by it.

I shook off the thoughts of having to jump off the cliff as I thought of heading back to the mansion.

Or better still, I would go on to my mother and father.

That way I would get to avoid any form of mockery from my other members.

I wiped my cheeks completely off the dried tears, as I took a deep breath.

I got up to my feet and walked my way back to my mother and father.

And was hoping the news hadn't gotten to them that I had been rejected.

It was going to make my father mad, but I wasn't to blame anyway.

I exhaled tiredly from walking a long distance back to my father and mother realizing it was now getting dark.

As I walked back up the bridge that linked the waters from the neighboring pack to ours.

I realized I had walked so far away from our pack.

What was I thinking to have come this far?... I asked myself.

I hummed my way through the grass, trying to get thoughts of Conan from my head.

I hated how bad I had felt back at the training hall the moment he embarrassed me right in front of the others.

I had suddenly wanted the floor to have me buried as soon as possible.

As I couldn’t stand the pain and shame that came from being rejected by the one person, I was given as a mate.

Memories of how he had me dragged and beaten in front of the others resurfaced in my mind, making me feel so less of myself.

I was surprised how it was that I wasn’t bothered, walking all alone on the lonely road leading to my mother and father’s.

I was a few walks away from the house when I saw my father go into the house.

Luckily for me, they were home tonight and weren’t out on any of their silly trips.

One reason I wasn’t so close and never had any intimate relationship with the both of them, like a daughter should, was because they always had themselves engaged in one trip or the other.

And that sort of always made me pissed growing up with them as a kid, and what angered me the most was the fact that they didn’t care about the fact that I was always left all to myself as a kid.

On most days I thought they didn’t care about me.

I had gotten to the house as I thought of how to go in without them knowing.

I knew my way around the house anyway, so that wasn’t a problem.

I climbed my way up through the back, and I discovered they had the back door to the house locked.

I climbed up through the window, and then up to my room.

I lay on my bed silently the moment I got into the house.

Feeling hungry and exhausted, I had my clothes changed as I walked out of my room heading to the kitchen.

As I walked through the corridor, I heard them both arguing.

I paused wanting to know the reason for their rants.

I had my ear to the door as I stayed still to listen.

“How long can we keep up?” My mother asked.

I was curious about what secret they were hiding, so I tried my best in staying quiet by the door.

“She doesn’t have to know!!” My father shot at her.

She?…

“Cassandra is of age now and has every right to know who her real father and mother is” my mother yelled.

I paused hearing that they had just said something about not being my real parents.

It suddenly felt as though I had heard them wrong.

“She’s Eighteen now!!” My mother said,

“And has every goddamn right to know” she yelled.

The next thing I heard was my father’s hand on her face.

And then, I had the door opened staring at the both of them with tears welling up in my eyes.

“Is this true father?” I asked as I walked in trying to push back the tears.

“I…I was going to tell you but” he stuttered and paused.

“All my life, I have been living on lies?” I asked as tears rolled down my cheeks.

“Was that the main reason, you guys never cared about me being alone or not when on your silly excuse trips?” I said.

“I get it now, you guys never wanted me in the first place”

“How did you get into the house?” My father asked.

I looked back at my unreal mother as she had her head lowered to the ground.

“Why should I even still be here,” I said as I had the door closed running off and out of the house without even looking back.

“Cassandra!!” They yelled calling out to me.

But now, I was more determined than the first time.

I am going to end it all.

They all never wanted me in the first place.

All that happened today, seemed far too much to bear.

I had been rejected by my mate, as if that wasn’t enough I finally got to find out that the one man and woman I had always known to be my parents, were not.

What more am I to live for…

I ran to the cliff, I was at a while ago as I stared at the running water gushing out from the cliff.

And this time, I didn’t mind being carried away by the water.

I had my eyes closed as I wiped off my tears.

This is it…