Chapter 57
Over the last week, the wolves have been talking about how Ashley will make a powerful alpha whenever they see Kyle. Kyle soon joined the morning training with Ashley. When I thought maybe he wouldn't take the bait he started asking around about Ashley. Wolves have reported that he has asked why she seems to be stronger than most alphas her age. The fact that she is still years from shifting has made her very appealing to him. The day I found out he asked if she has been betrothed to someone to hand the alpha ship to him had me wanting to rip his throat out/
“calm down love no one will take the alpha ship from her,” Noah whispered in my ear as he tried to calm my emotions. The longer this wolf was around the more short-tempered I was getting. The thought I would let someone take the alpha ship from her first was what upset me but then the word betrothed set me off again. Noah sensing my anger again suggest I go for a run to calm down and burn off some steam. Growing up in the blood moon pack I saw many wolves do this. They believed their fated mate was too weak or in some cases the wrong sex. I know the green lake pack and the blood moon pack were running similarly with choosing mates for status and strength. Most males wanted a mate with a strong bloodline believing it would increase the power of their pups. Having a female as the heir to many wolves was unacceptable. If a female was born first they would do everything to produce a male. I have heard a few times that alpha john and Luna Ella had a hard time conceiving a pup and when they did it was a female. The female died not long after her birth making me now wonder if the stories were true or not. I never knew Luna before she had Samuel but I know that she was never happy.
It is said the alpha had sought help from witches to conceive a male heir. I know that Luna loved Sam but she never looked at him with happiness. Laying down at the small lake deep in the woods. Watching the dragonfly dance from flower to flower I dozed off.
the crashing of something hitting the floor hard draws my attention. Sliding off my bed my toes touching the cold floor. I slowly make my way to the door. I hear my father yelling and screaming. What he is saying I can't make out yet. Creeping down the hall I see mother on the floor blood dripping from her mouth as tears fall from her eyes. I then notice she is covered in blood. Her white dress from the waist down is now spotted in a lot of red-brown colors. Wanting to go to her I know I can. “another female how could you do this to me” he kicks her stomach hard making her slide across the floor. “you will take the potion again once that thing is out of you do you understand bitch?” he sneers at her kicking her again. She just nodded her head. I knew better than to go to her when my father was around so I waited and silently cried for my mother. The scene in front of me fades away to another not long after the same scene only now mother is slimmer and more bruised. “for your good you better hope you produce a male soon or I will replace you.” the father says when the doctor walks in shaking his head. Father's face is red and angry. “ill give you one more shot after this to give me another male or I will end you.” he yells before punching mother in the stomach over and over. Soon blood is running down her legs and she's folding in on herself. “you have two weeks to heal then we start again you better pray this next one is male.” and he storms out of the house.
Going to my mother I look up at the doctor who is just sitting at the table drinking that brown-colored stuff my father loves. He watches mother as she lays on the floor bleeding. “get away from her pup go to your room now.” he sneers at me. Looking back at mother she just nods knowing it's better I do as he says. As I walk away everything changes again. Back to the kitchen father paces glaring at mother who looks nothing like my mother anymore just a shell of a woman. The doctor comes back smiling “twins. I could only see the sex of one but it's male. Congrats beta.” for the first time I saw the father smile but the mother was crying; the doctor was talking to the father as the scene shifted again. The twins are just babies laying on the floor. Father is talking to someone “I’m sorry about your female pup. I know you had plans to use her to broker a deal later. My mate just gave birth to twins a male and a female. So you have her as your backup if your bitch does not produce you a female.” they both laugh. “I don’t plan to bed that worthless bitch again so your mutt will be our bargaining chip when she's older.” they both laughed again making my stomach turn.
The scene changes again to my father storming through the door and grabbing my mother by the hair. Throwing her against the table lifting her dress and taking her. The babies and I still sitting at the table eating lunch at the time. Starting to get out of my chair when my father growls for me to stop and watch. “watch and learn to be a man.” he demanded. Tears cover the table under their mother's face as a father punishes her by slamming into her over and over. Once he is done he pushes her off the table to the floor yelling at her to get him food. This became a regular thing every day at lunch father would come and violate mother in front of us. Thanking the goddess the babies were too young to understand but now six I understood more. One day while this happened she started bleeding again from between her legs like before. He was watching as the blood flowed smiling more. Her body began to shake he eyes rolling back in her head before she went limp. This made him mad and he hit her while still slamming into her. Once he was done he called for the doctor to come and fix her so he can take her again soon. The doctor came and told him she lost a pup. This enraged their father and he beat her so bad the doctor had to take her away for days. Leaving us with a nanny. When mother returned she was no longer my mother she was just a shell that father played with. He reached his hand out to me fear reaching my body again as his fingers wrapped around my neck. He opens his mouth to speak……jerking awake. No longer in wolf form, I’m laying on the ground a panting sweaty mess.
“DANIEL ANSWER ME DAMN IT!!!” Noah's worried voice fills my head helping to calm me down “Noah” I whisper out through the link before I break down and start crying. The things I saw now I know what was happening I now understand it more and I felt broken all over again.
