VERA.
I ran as fast as my legs could carry me without looking back or turning around to see who might be tracing me from behind. I was too heartbroken to think about my health at this point. Everything was happening so fast and the fact that I just confirmed from Alpha Eric’s mouth that he didn’t love me, made me hate myself the more.
“Is it now a crime to fall in love with genuine intentions?” I questioned myself inwardly trying to wrap my head around the garbage that he spewed.
My step-sister who I trusted with everything and whom I saw as my only confidante when I was dealing with the trauma of being barren based on the misconception that Eunice had about me went behind my back to have an affair with my Alpha.
“Where the hell is that bitch?” I stormed into my family apartment in aggression.
“Excuse you?” My mother erupted from the kitchen, holding in her hands a wooden spoon, “Is this how you welcome someone you haven’t seen for some years, Vera?” placing her hands on her waist she asked me hesitantly.
Ignoring my mother's indignation, I pestered my words, “Mother, I need to see Cyndy right now.”
“What does Cyndy have to do with what I had just said about you not welcoming me properly, Vera?” She arched her eyebrow waiting for me to do the needful before she gave me a verrified answer.
“Everything Mother!” I lost my patience and angrily banged my fist on the wooden table as it split into two pieces.
Seeing the scene that unfolded before her eyes, my mother quickly dumped the spoon she had in her hands over to the kitchen sink and walked to me, “What exactly has gotten into you, Vera?” her eyes reddened as she asked me in anger.
“Cyndy has gotten into me, mother!” I screamed back at her as I broke down in hot tears, “She went behind my back and was having sex with my Alpha. Mother, I swear with my blood, sweat, and tears that….”
“Will you shut up that little pit you call a mouth?” My mother swept me under my feet by shunning me up before I’d say a word, “Instead of you being grateful that your step-sister is helping you to cover your shame of barrenness you are here frolicking your mouth like a fool.”
“Mother?” I looked at her in shock and amusement at the insult running out of her mouth, “Is this what you have to say? After all that I have done for you.”
“What have you done, Vera?” redirecting back her question to me she asked, “The only thing you have done is to bring more shame and embarrassment to me.
I tried mumbling out some words to defend myself but it wasn’t coming forth. I was so devastated to hear all of that coming from my mother’s mouth and that made me confirm that she might be the one that orchestrated the plan.
“Use the door and don’t you ever come back to this place without my consent since you want to forever remain ungrateful.” She dropped her two cents and pushed me roughly from behind slamming the door right in front of my face.
Her words trussed on my face like the sting of a bee as I thought about her words while the weight of her rejection rested on my shoulder. Where else could I go? The place I once called my home, has cast me out.
With a heavy heart and a sinking feeling in my stomach, I turned and walked away heading back to the pack while shame and disgust burned within me.
I hadn’t even entered the pack’s house when Alpha Eric sighted me from afar and ran to give me a warm embrace, “Welcome back my love.” he murmured right into my ears.
“Did he just call me his love? After all the disgusting words he said to me?” I shook my head waving off my inner voices.
He saw the tiredness and heaviness in my eyes due to the endless tears that kept gushing out, “What’s wrong, my darling? You looked troubled and sick.”
“I’m doing okay, Alpha Eric.” Slightly removing my hands off his wrist I answered him and began walking into my chamber when his words stopped me.
“Cyndy is coming back today and I have decided to welcome her properly by throwing a homecoming party?”
I raised an eyebrow in surprise, “Cyndy is coming over and she decided to tell you without informing me her sister.” releasing a deep sigh of frustration, I continued, “Is there something happening between both of you that I’m not aware of?”
“Vera, nothing is happening at all between me and your step-sister. I’m not supposed to tell you because she wanted it to be a surprise but I couldn’t do that without you being involved.”
“Surprise me?" I scoffed, "Why didn't she tell me? I'm her step-sister."
Eric gently placed his hands on my cheeks, his gaze searching mine. "She wanted to make it a special surprise, my sweetheart. Please, try to understand."
His words which were meant to ease the little trauma and pain he has afflicted on me made me feel a little bit uncomfortable.
How could she, after these years, expect me to simply accept her return without any communication? When I'm fully aware that they have something going on between each other.
It felt like a betrayal and a heavy slap to my face, “Could this be the day where he'd mark her as his Luna?”
