Chapter 52
William pov
It was weird I could feel the fear of what I might have seen yet when she found out she acted as if she didn’t care. She was more curious about Wendy. Wendy was not my mother though I ended up calling her that once she and father wed. Wendy helped my father raise me. She had been my nanny. My mother died in an accident when I was a few months old. We had been in a car accident on the way to my mother's cousin's wedding. She had been mated to a human and her father would not let her move to the pack unless she was married to him. So they arranged one of my mother being his closest relative outside his family. In their pack, it's up to the closest relative outside the family to stand with them during a wedding. This is a human thing something about if they don’t show up or are killed during the ceremony. Then the closest relative takes responsibility for the spouse or mate. On the way, their father did not have gone due to meetings at the same time. Wendy had come along to help mother with me during the ceremony. A truck ran a stoplight and rammed the side of the van sending it down an embankment. Hitting the bottom the van rolled three times before a large tree stopped it.
Wendy got me out first having been in a car seat I was the most protected there. The driver had the steering wheel embedded in his chest killing him. As for mother, a shard of glass had sliced into the back of her neck. Her skin healing fast no one knew of the glass in her neck. Days went by with nothing other than headaches. Mother called to have an appointment with a healer when we got back. She trusted her old pack but they were not as advanced as our pack. Mother never made it back to the pack. Had they known about the glass it would have been removed but it had lodged itself between her brainstem and the top of her spine in her neck. On deep bump smashed the glass to dust leaking into her body and spine. The glass sliced bits of her spine as they drive the bumpy road home. Each bump adds to the pain. They had stopped to get lunch walking into the restaurant mother was dizzy and clumsy all of a sudden. Missing the curb she fell to her knees. The fall sent the glass dust through her body shredding her from the inside. Her blood was leaking from her pores. Father had been broken I now understand what he felt. Wendy had been hired to help my father with me. Over the years I thought of her as my mother. But I refused to call her mother as she was not my actual mother or my father's mate. They spent years just being friends one night I had fallen from a tree and was in the hospital getting a cast on my very human ten-year-old body. Stupid I am an alpha wolf I should have started healing sooner than 16.
They spent hours talking about things they never talked about before. Father found out that Wendy's mate had died years ago in a rogue attack. father knew of the battle he had been off at school when it happened. That was the turn of their relationship. They spent the next couple of years dating. The pack had asked him to define his relationship with Wendy so they knew how to address her now. Father had taken a week he told me to think over what she was to him. It was then that he decided to mark her making her his mate and Luna. The pack loved Wendy and opened their arms to her. The only downside to Wendy is her niece is Hannah. Hannah believes that because father and Wendy mated means that she has a chance to be my mate. She has always tried to get me to notice her nothing worked. I have never liked Hannah and it all started in middle school when she bullied a small human girl whose family didn’t have the biggest of bank accounts. I had talked my father into hiring her father giving them a better paycheck. The girl I remember had not let Hannah bully her long. She was a proud human and had a strong sense of self a rare trait in humans. Once they found out we are real they all suffered some form of denial for a while. Now that things seem to be over they are slowly going back to the way the history books talk about them.
I had a feeling she wouldn’t take a hand out so offering her father a better job was helping them help themselves. I can't lie they won a lot of company giveaways and still does so, does she? I know I should know her name but I don’t spend my days at the human-run business I own. I rarely leave the pack lands. Both her father and her manage a few of our human-run businesses. Hannah had demanded that Wendy and father give her mother and father a better job now. Even though they told her no. they explained they already had high position jobs in the security department. Took Hannah a while to understand but she finally did. She tries to get the girl fired almost monthly. It will never work.
I am so happy she was not my mate. And I do understand my mate's fear of her challenging Allie for her title and mate. So we will train harder than ever to make sure any challenge Allie is now faced with she will come out on top. The only other request was she had was access to books to read. The only thing she was allowed in her room was books. They used them as tools to control her even more. They don’t like what she did they took the books. They were pleased with her she gets a book back. I will have to show her how to get on the computer and order things she needs and wants. Maybe even go to the mall one of these times.
