CHAPTER 70

Maya's pov
Edna kept on squeezing the note that was sent by Melissa along with Killian's body as she stared blankly at nothing in particular while we decided to give Killian a burial to honor him for her sake. One moment, she was sniffing the paper with hatred and sorrow in her eyes, then the next, she was zoning out and staring at an empty space.
When Daniel found the body and brought it home, he showed us the note without an idea of who sent the body, Edna snatched it and perceived it to catch the scent of who sent it… it was Melissa, she knew immediately because she could recognize her scent after our encounter with her when we were kidnapped. She had been a mess ever since she watched Melissa kill Killian in her front. She wasn't the cheerful Edna I knew anymore, she didn't eat or talk to anyone, she just slept and cried all the time. I and Shalom tried to give her our support and our love, hoping to make her feel better but it wasn't working.
Then when Daniel found Killian's body, she was allowed to see his body. She didn't cry, or wail. She just kept on touching his body like she wanted to be sure he was dead with a face so blank, I was scared she had probably lost the ability to feel anything. She became calmer and cried less; she was at peace for finally seeing him, but she was still distant. I knew she wouldn't get her old self back in a day, it was going to take our patience and love to stay strong with her as she healed and learnt to live with the absence of Killian. We decided to have the burial the next day at dawn so we could all have our closure over Killian's death.
We had dinner, everyone ate quietly as we lost our regular joviality in the air; there was no chatting or cordiality between us. Everyone just sat there and munched like we were ghosts to each other, we were traumatized… we barely baded each other good night too as we left for our rooms after cleaning the dishes and dining room and I spent another night without Asher so I could stay with Edna and Shalom, she needed us… we needed each other to heal our wounds.
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It was dawn already and everyone was up even though the whole house was depressingly quiet. I wore my back dress and helped Edna wear hers too then we waited for Shalom to get dressed and we went downstairs to join the men for breakfast… We ate in silence this time too as we requested in whispers for the egg to be passed or to pass the coffee, or any other dish that was cooked for breakfast. Asher held my hand under the table and I looked at him as he sat beside me
"We'll all be fine eventually" he said to me after mind linking with me and gave a sad smile, I forced my smile at him too then took his hand and squeezed gently to tell him I was okay… he needed to calm his thoughts, I was all good… I think.
Except I was angry, it was slowly building up inside me and I was gradually losing it even though I still tried to control myself in respect of Edna and her Killian whom we were burying, so I had to be okay. I couldn't ruin today with my anger and my crave to taste revenge.
Soon we left the house for the pack's burial ground and Edward, the priest, was already there waiting for us. Edna, who I linked arms with, held me tighter once Edward opened the coffin and Killian's body was revealed to us once again. She dragged in a long breath and composed herself, trying not to cry while Edward performed the rites on his body before he would be buried.
His body was then lowered into the grave and we all dropped what we wanted him to take along with him to the other side as a remembrance of us as myths had it that werewolves took whatever was dropped into their graves to the other side to remember the people they knew.
Edna dropped a flower and a note she wrote to him baring out all her heart and things she wished she did with him, then she asked him to wait for her until she comes to join him at the other side. I dropped a knife, for him to be able to protect himself this time, Asher dropped a flower too. Daniel, a flower while Shalom and Tommy co dropped a book for him to read whenever he got bored.
We kept all that we wanted him to go with him and watched as they heaped the sands slowly on his coffin till we knew we'll never see Killian again, it was a final goodbye.
I was still swimming in pure fury, anger, rage… all that one could call it. I kept on thinking of how much I wanted to have my revenge on Alpha Rick because enough was enough! He had already killed enough people around me and I couldn't help but feel a bit guilty for Killian's death.
I kept on saying so many 'i should haves' in my mind ever since his death. I should have gone earlier when Rick requested for my presence instead of thinking there could be another solution we could come up with, I should have been there, maybe I would have been able to stop Melissa from killing him, I should gone immediately, maybe that fate wouldn't have been Killian's, maybe no one would have died.
I cried for several nights alone, multiple times ever since I found out the truth about myself, the way my parents died, and how Alpha Jamil was killed and now for Killian's death… Alpha Rick was damaging me emotionally on and on and I doubted he even knew it but I was set on making him pay. I was going to make him go through double the pain I've been through my whole life before he died at my hand and it wasn't going to be fun to watch.
I only saw red on our way home from the burial ground and I didn't indulge in the conversation everyone was having, I was too furious to make a full sentence, I just wanted to punch my fist into something and I wanted it to be the devil that called himself the alpha of the blood moon pack, I wanted to make him see hell in my hands by all means.
"What are you thinking?" Edna asked, her arm still linked to mine and I shook my head, my lips were pursed tight like I always did whenever I was angry. I was gritting my teeth and my fists kept on clenching and unclenching… I knew she was seeing it all,my body language but I wasn't going to tell her anything… no one had to know what I was thinking.
We finally arrived home after our long walk and settled in the living room. Everyone still looked distressed and I wondered if this was how we were going to keep on sitting and waiting for Rick to strike again. It could be any of us next time and I didn't think I had the emotional strength to take the death of another person among us. I had already experienced enough death as it was and the only one I wanted to see dead right now was alpha Rick.
He killed my parents, my foster father and my friend. I didn't even have a grave to go to if I wanted to see my parents, he burnt them all when he attacked the white wolf pack and that alone hurt so much. I never got the check to see my father, or my mother… I never got the chance to address my mother as 'mum' like everyone else did when I was little because I never had one, he killed them all! That devil's incarnate under the guise of a leader that couldn't even rule except inflict fear in people's hearts. I was going to make him pay! It was now or never.
I suddenly stood up and everyone looked at me, surprised at how fast and sudden I stood up. I began to walk towards the door and Asher held my hand
"Where are you going?" He asked and I looked at him with ice cold eyes "the blood moon pack" I replied without thinking and freed my hand from his grip
"No one should stop me" I ordered but Asher didn't take the hint. He tried to stop me again and I flipped him hard on the floor, making it hard for him to stand up.
Daniel came forward and I knocked him out too… I felt powerful at that moment and no one that approached me was able to defeat me as I knocked them all out.
"Kill him Maya, the moon goddess is with you, I am with you too" Edna told me and I nodded before leaving.
"We can't sit back and let him kill us all, someone has to do it while you're all here like sitting ducks" that was the last thing I heard Edna say as I left and I smirked to myself… someone that understood me… we both knew what it felt like to lose someone personally.
I began to race to the border and shifted to my white wolf form making me run faster like the wind. I felt powerful.
I got to the blood moon pack soon and I killed every guard that tried to get in my way as they all looked surprised at the sight of a white wolf in a very long time. The story was widely known, that no white wolf existed anymore, but here I was, the last of my kind… ready to avenge my people's death.
The guards of the blood moon pack poured out from different directions and shifted to their werewolf forms too but none was a match for me. They tried attacking at once but I got bigger and killed them all. I had researched a lot on the powers of the white wolves and tried them all out to see which power I had been gifted with. I could shift to a bigger size in my white wolf form, I could run really fast and I could use my special growl to create a wind or hurricane that could sweep out people.
I saw they were becoming numerous and the goal was to get inside and meet alpha Rick so I used my special growl to create a heavy wind that turned into a hurricane and took them all away, clearing the path to the headquarters where alpha Rick was situated.
I knew he would have gotten word of the attack, I wondered if he knew it was a white wolf that was attacking too.
I walked into the building majestically and watched as the shine on my white fur illuminated on the walls. Everyone I came across on the way either ran away or gasped and moved out of the way for me to pass, they feared me, they feared the white wolf I was because we were that powerful. I was the new alpha and I was going to take my pack immediately. I was a proud white wolf, the last one and I was going to make my reign the best the people of the blood moon pack would experience in history after Alpha Jamil's.
I was going to claim my destiny.
I finally got to the hall where alpha Rick was always found and strode in in slow, threatening steps, our eyes met and I watched his eyes go wide as he quickly stood up, maybe to make sure he wasn't dreaming.
"I killed you all… impossible" he said in disbelief and I began to go towards him again. For the first time in my life, I saw fear in his eyes and it was really satisfying.
"Who are you?" He yelled as he took careful steps back and I shifted back to my human form "Maya fucking Jamieson, you dick" I replied, ready to unleash my rage on him.