Then the voice came, it was pure like a musical wind chime ‘You’re not a demon, you’re a werewolf, and I’m here now‘ she had said. ‘Who are you?‘ I had asked. ‘I am Xena, your wolf‘ she told me. ‘But mommy said I would never have a wolf, that I didn’t deserve one‘ I told her.
“Every child born to a werewolf has a wolf‘ she told me ‘I’m here now, you’ll never be alone again‘ she says.
‘Never?‘ I ask unsure, wanting her presence to be true. ‘Never, I’ll love you, and one day you’ll have a mate who will love and accept you too‘ she told me. I cried at that, I wasn’t alone anymore. ‘You didn’t do anything wrong by being born‘ she tells me. ‘They are wrong, and
they’re the ones who don’t deserve you.‘ she had said.
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That was the day I had stopped trying to gain my family’s love and acceptance. That was the day I started to plan my escape from them.
They didn’t deserve me, so I would take myself away from them, and live my own life free of the pain and blood that was my existence
with them. I shake my head to shake off the memory, tuning back into our present conversation.
“When you first came to me I remember telling you that my mother had told me I would never have a wolf because I didn’t deserve one” I
remind her.
‘That night I had been trying to break the chain that was trapping me in my ‘space‘ keeping me from coming to you‘ she tells me.
How did you get free of the chains” I asked her.
“The Moon Goddess had heard me crying out, she came to me that night‘ she says
Shocked at that information What did the Moon Goddess do?” I ask her.
‘She touched the chain and It broke. She said, “Your destiny to be with your human half will not be kept from you, you will be free to be with
your other half.” That’s when she broke the chain. Then the Moon Goddess told me.‘
‘The she–wolf who has birthed you and your human half cannot escape her punishment, for rejecting her destined mate she has failed to be true
to her bloodline. She was told, as punishment she was denied ascension, her first daughter born will never be acknowledged and gifted my
blessing, it will be the second daughter born, the one most like the first Alpha, who I have blessed, the one who I will acknowledge.‘
She had to be the one who did it, it had to be her, but how?“” I say to her.
‘I believe she is the one who had it done, yes‘ she states.
“The one who had it done? Meaning you believe she had someone else do the chains?” I ask her.
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‘It was a Witch’s spell, a Dark Witch‘ she informs me.
“How would mom know a Dark Witch?” I wonder aloud to her.
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‘I may have been kept from you since birth, but I was still with you while being trapped in that space‘ she says remember one of the neighbors
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that came over all the time, till a little after we were tossed in that river, she always smelled faintly of Black Magic, and something else,
like she was trying to mask her scent.“”
Xena’s revelation, had me thinking of who she was talking about. I started to think of the woman she was talking about. I remember my mother calling her sister and Sarah calling her Aunty. They couldn’t be real sisters so I think it was more of a deep relationship, them so
close they were like the sister each never had.
She had hated me too, she had always had a look of contempt whenever her gaze would land on me. She had brown hair and Ice blue eyes rimmed in black. She was always over, every day. Until shortly after I was almost drowned in the river by Sarah and her friends. Then she
was suddenly gone, never seen again.
I started to remember a couple of things. “About the time the woman you’re talking about disappeared, there was an uproar in the Pack. I remember the adults were all upset about something to do with a Witch, she was banished from Pack Lands because she was caught practicing
Black Magic on wolves.” I say to Xena.
‘She has to be the woman they were talking about‘ says Xena, thinking what I’m thinking.
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“It can’t be a coincidence, that and the other thing that happened, make me believe that’s who they were talking about. She’s also got to be the
one who bound us in chains.” I tell her.
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She’s quiet for a moment, she knows what I’m talking about if what she said is true. That while she had been kept from me, she was still with me. Then she would have borne witness to that night. That night had been the first of many nights spent in that basement chained
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Rudite
I do want to see that mother (and father) and her nasty sister get their due. Hope they find that witch because as long as she’s around and tied to that awful family, Alora is still unsafe.
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
