It was a work of art.
The way Janet stood up and reclaimed her sin of killing an innocent animal to ruin my dress. I wondered how could she even do that to me. Didn't she have any remorse? For that animal at least?
It was not my proudest moment, but I prayed that Janet would die the same fate as that snake soon.
I was walking to my room, sniffling and heartbroken. My family was snatched away from me. Everything was lost. I was lost.
My pace slowed down when I caught a silhouette lingering by my study. I grew confused.
"Healer Mia? What are you doing here?" Mia, one of my trusted healers, was looking tense as I inquired.
"Luna, we need to talk. I have something to show you." Saying, Mia shifted to her wolf. It was strange. I was on the fence but decided to follow Mia anyway.
I shifted into a big brown wolf. We raced down the territory border by the south. The overwhelming stench of wolfsbane concoctions was messing with my senses. But still, I followed Mia.
"Whoa..." I said in my head, staring at the outsourced healer's lab. Mia is the head of this secret project. They were weaponizing wolfsbane for war. It was foul, but it was only promised to be used in times of crisis.
"Please. Follow me." She urged. I shifted back. I followed Mia to her lab when she shakily passed a bunch of papers.
"Alpha Nate killed my mother to hide this secret from you, Luna." She said in tears. At once, I lost all humanity against Nate.
"Impossible...no...Mia, your mother..."
I started connecting the dots.
When Mia's mother, Kayla, took my fertility test, Karen and Nate were there. In fact, that was around the time Karen joined our pack after rejecting Zade, mutually.
I shuddered just thinking about it.
"This says I'm...I'm perfectly healthy." I stuttered. Mia nodded.
"Mother opposed to the idea of sharing The Truth with you. But alpha Nate silenced her forever." She confessed with trembling hands. I immediately hugged her.
"Your bravery might have just saved a bunch of lives, Mia. Thank you." I said through tears. The young woman needed my shoulder to cry on. I let her for a few moments. When we parted, Mia asked,
"You wouldn't leave the pack now, right, Luna? Don't leave us in the hands of that monster. He will starve us to death. Enslave us if need be." Her words broke my heart. Mia was born exceptional. Excellent healer, an excellent student, and an even more excellent daughter.
But I had my resolve.
"Mia. You're stronger than you think. Hold onto yourself until I come back to save you. Can you do that?" I asked, my heart being squeezed as her eyes welled with tears again. However, she nodded with a smile.
"I will wait for you, Luna." She said.
I clutched the papers in my hand and went straight to my room. I was begging Rexi to control me. But we were on the same page. To hurt Nate for what he did.
'He must've not done it by himself. That bitch is involved for sure.' Rexi said. I've been thinking the same, too. Karen was capable of dark, dark shit.
But taking away a life so she could make another with my mate? Outrageous. Barbaric. I was going to put an end to this madness. But first, I needed to get right back on track.
I couldn't look at Nate and Karen the same anymore. They were murderers.
The betrayal cut deep, but the truth about their true personalities cut deeper. I was repulsed to have not seen the signs before. Nate was always toxic to me.
After throwing up in the bathroom, I left the pack at the speed of light. No one was there to stop me. The warrior ranks meaning to patrol the borders weren't even there at the south borders. I had my escape pretty fluidly.
I was in my car, tears streaming down my face and trembling hands driving me to absolutely nowhere.
I was out of that place. But where did I want to go? What did I want to do? Where could I feel...belonged?
I was about to call the first person I thought would answer, but another call interrupted my chain of thoughts.
"Hello? Oh my Goddess! Nova! Where the fuck are you? Come back, this instant! I don't like your gift at all!" Gagging noises in the background interrupted him. I heard him run away and pant loudly.
"You almost made Karen puke and hurt our baby! What is wrong with you!?" He screamed. I smirked.
"That's what you deserve, Nate. For everything you did to me. For every lie you fed me." I growled under my breath. Gagging noises followed wherever he went.
"You're a fucked up person, Nova. Come back and clean this mess right now!" Nate yelled. I started laughing, as if that was the funniest joke ever.
The thing was...right before I left, I prepared a little biomedical gift for Karen and Nate.
Mia let me get my hands on rotting body parts and animal remains from her outsourced lab. I spread all the waste in Nate and Karen's room. The feeling was awful, but in the middle of Nate's room was a bloody note I wrote and stuck with a bone over the desk.
[You will regret this, Nate]
After my little art work, I rushed to my room to throw up. Now you know the real reason.
And I also knew something...that Nate will do everything in his power to bring me back.
He loves me too much.
So much that the idea of me leaving him haunts him and he...
