Mellona
I was the best healer in the world.
The Alphas of every pack fought over me day and night.
To escape that exhausting life for good, I faked my own death.
Then I put on a pair of dark glasses and pretended to be completely blind.
When the Silver Moon pack found me and brought me home, I thought I was in for the usual family drama: the biological daughter and the adopted one fighting over their parents' love.
But my older adopted sister, Evelyn Howard, turned out to be sweet and kind. She learned Braille for me right away.
My father, the Alpha, and my mother, Eleanor, were consumed by guilt and heartache over me.
My seven older brothers, the backbone of the pack's defenses, guarded me as if I were the most precious thing in the world.
I didn't have to save anyone. All I had to do was sit there quietly , play the part of a proper little blind girl, and do nothing.
That all changed when eight packs joined forces to crush our family.
William Carter, an Alpha and the Cedar pack's heir apparent, kicked in our front door with his wolf guards.
"All Silver Moon territory is under our control. If your whole family isn't off this land by morning, I'll slaughter every last one of you.
"As for the older sister and the little blind girl ... they stay. I'll lock them in my private cage as pets."
I looked at my seven brothers. They had been beaten until they coughed up blood, yet they still shielded me with their bodies.
Then I looked at my adopted sister, sobbing as she offered her life to save us all.
I twirled my cane between my fingers and let out a slow sigh.
Without the pack to protect me, how was I supposed to keep doing nothing?
As my family watched in despair, I rose from the shadows and calmly took off my dark glasses.
"William, go ask the Chief Elder something for me.
"Three years ago in the Alps, I repaired his heart myself and injected a life-saving serum into it. How's it working out for him?
"Tell him his three years are up today.And now I'm cutting him off."