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Aleena’s POV
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“Dad, please don’t play this kind of sick joke.”, I cried, holding him closer to me. “Somebody call the doctor!!, I yelled at the people around me. I looked at mom, who was sitting like a statue. As if she had no idea what was happening around her. I looked around. There were so many glass pieces around the dad’s body. I lifted my head and realized that he had been thrown out of the window of his study room after getting stabbed right into his chest.
I picked dad in my arms and started taking him inside.
“I said, call the doctor.”, I roared.
“Yes! Yes!” Noah, dad’s Beta, nodded his head before following my order.
“Come on, dad. Wake up. I have a list of complaints with you, and you will have to listen to those things and explain your behavior.” New tears started to form in my eyes again, falling down my cheeks, and I blinked them away. I recalled our conversation from the evening.
(‘Seriously, dad? It’s my last day here, and all you want to do is pick a fight?”
‘It is not your last day, sweetheart.’)
It was, of course, not my last day but his.
“Dad, please stop this. Please.”, I requested and pinched his cheeks and then his nose, just in the way I used to wake him up in the morning when I was a kid. And he used to pretend in deep slumber. In the end, he used to wake up, laughing loudly like a monster and ready to catch the naughty kid who woke him up.
“…. please, dad.”
I shook his body with force as my tears began to increase because, with each passing second, he was confirming that he had left forever.
“If not for me, then wake up for your favorite daughter.”
“Fine! Fine! If you wake up, then I will believe you that you loved me as much as you loved her.”
“Please, Dad.”, I begged.
“I promise you that I won’t even ask you that ‘you really love me as much as you loved Eva.’ Now wake up, please.”, I tried to negotiate. Soon, I sensed a lot of familiar smells from my new pack. Someone kept the hand over my shoulder to calm me down, but how could I?
“Eva! He is not listening to me. Maybe he will listen to you.”, I said, looking at the person who had kept her hand on my shoulder. When tears started brimming in her eyes, she shook her head. I broke down. She came closer to hug me, but I moved away, holding dad’s body closer to my chest.
I cried louder, holding him tightly, recalling my last sentence.
‘I have always felt that you had been biased against me, so I have no idea how this conversation is going to help because everything has been rooted in my mind for years. Even if you’re telling the truth, it will take time.’
I wished I would have forgiven him at that moment itself, and he would have happily hugged me ending all the issues. Now, I had no time for that.
‘Dad… I’m thankful for your advice, but I literally didn’t want one. At least, not now, I have my brain with me, and it works perfectly. Whether he is my Mr. Right or not, I will figure that out on my own. So, stop tutoring me about love lecture, not until I ask you about it, okay?’
Now, I wouldn’t be asked about any love lesson from him, nor could he give me one.
This… was my fault. I killed my dad.
I felt a wave of spark in my body. I lifted my head and sat him sitting beside me. I didn’t want anyone near me. I wanted to stay alone. I tried to move away from him, too, but being the strong-headed man he was, he didn’t let me stay alone. While I had held dad’s body, he had held mine.
Minutes turned into hours, and I didn’t realize that it was morning already. I didn’t want to leave dad and wanted to hold him close to my heart. Tell him that I loved him a lot. I always loved him even though I was mad at him. I was ready to fight with everyone who tried to separate me from dad until I whimpered in pain when something was injected near my neck.
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I didn’t remember how long I was out when I woke up, everyone was busy preparing for the funeral, but I had to finish one thing before that.
Julia!
I masked my scent using the perfume which I had in my room and sneaked out of the room. I ran in my human form until I was out of the pack because, compared to my wolf, my size was smaller, and it was easier to hide. Letting Leia take control, she growled furiously, running toward the place where that bitch would be. I knew I shouldn’t have left the pack like this, but I couldn’t say my dad goodbye until I killed his killer.
I shifted back into my human form, reaching the place where I had killed Silas.
“I was waiting for you.”, I heard that bitch’s voice. “And I knew you would come here.”
“I will tear you into pieces, Julia, and feed your body parts to birds and animals.”
“I thought in the same way when you killed my mate. But then, I realized that punishing your loved ones for your mistakes will be more painful for you.”, She said in an amused tone. “Karma is a bitch, Aleena, and you will have to reap what you have sown.”
“I don’t know if Karma is a bitch or not, but I’m definitely a bitch.”, Saying this, I crouched a little to jump as higher, and the next moment I was on the first floor, in front of her.
“I have informed all the families of vampires who are killed by you. Soon, they will come for you, to take everything you love or care about.”, She said with a smile. I fumed in anger and attacked her, but she jumped out of the window in the sunlight. “Told you, I won’t give you a chance to kill…”, By that time, she had been completely burnt, and her ashes fell on the ground.
I howled loudly in anger and frustration because that bitch took my chance to kill him.
‘Aleena, Leia. Where the hell are you?’, I heard a female voice in my mind which I had first for the first time.
‘Ivory, we will be back soon.’, Leia’s replied.
‘You better be because this is not how an Alpha heir should behave. You both have some responsibilities on your shoulder. It’s dad funeral time, and you both are missing. Don’t forget that you have a pack in mourning for their Alpha and a mother who is not in a sense. And if anyone will find Eva doing all the duties that being the actual heir you both should be doing, then they forget whom they will choose as their next Alpha.’, Ivory growled.
‘I’m coming.’, I replied, realizing that she was Eva’s Lycan. Once she closed the mind link, I couldn’t help asking Leia about it. ‘How did you know that was Ivory? I don’t remember that we have talked with her ever in our small life. Have you two talked with each other before?’
‘How can I talk to her when we both became the official member of the pack two days before? And now that we are the member of Stone Moon Pack, so we can mind link whoever we want to, and the other person can do that same.’, She reminded me, and I felt like a fool recalling the incident of last night. I was looking for the phone to mind link Eva, and not once did this fact come across my mind.
I shifted into my wolf form and ran toward the pack, and at the same time, Julia’s words kept ringing in my mind.
‘I have informed all the families of vampires who are killed by you. Soon, they will come for you, to take everything you love or care about.’
The list of people whom I care for or love was too small, smaller enough to be counted on my fingers. Mom, and Daniel, that was it.
By the time I reached back at dad’s pack, there were pack members all around, and everyone had dressed in black to mourn their Alpha. When I entered my room, I found Eva already there, waiting for me, wearing a black knee-length dress. She was dressed for the funeral.
“Freshen up quickly and come downstairs. I’m going to check on mom.”, She said and pointed toward a black dress on the bed.
“Does anyone else know except you that I was not here?” I asked.
“Your mate, he could sense that something was off about the smell which was coming from your room. Though you tried best to fool everyone by using your smell on the pillow to make everyone feel that you’re here.”, She responded, to which I nodded my head.
Generally, werewolves have no idea about their smell, and neither do I. So, after gathering the information from everyone around me, I came to know that I smelt like Tuberose and honey. So, somehow that way, I asked my witch friend to prepare a fragrance with that smell so that I could use that to fool others. She had warned me by saying that the perfume wouldn’t be able to fool my mate. His wolf could sense my fake scent of mine.
“How’s mom doing?” I asked, recalling I hadn’t checked on her yet.
“Still in trauma. Her wolf died because of the death of her mate.”, She responded.
“But she is an Alpha. How can her wolf leave her alone?” I asked, thinking about Stephen’s wolf. He didn’t die because of the death of his mate. One of the reasons could be that they hadn’t marked each other but still.
“Sometimes even the ranked wolf die because of the death of mate when they are no longer instead in finding or choosing a new mate for them. You can’t expect mom’s wolf to choose someone else as her mate or wait for a second chance after spending twenty-three years of her life with her mate.”
Realizing the depth of Eva’s words, I couldn’t ask anything else. Once she left, I freshened up and wore the dress that she had left for me.
Throughout the time, I kept thinking, ‘what now?’
Of course, it was a murder, so this case would be investigated, and I knew that if things opened up, then I would be the one who would be blamed for his death. That was a different story that, indeed, it was my fault that he was no more between us.
I sobbed again.
‘I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how.’
For the first time in my life, I was regretting. Only if I wouldn’t plan to kill Eva, then all these things would never have started, and today, dad would have been alive. I wish I had let Eva live happily with her mate, and then this wouldn’t have happened. I wish ….. And many more I wish.
I thought I was smart, but to be honest, I was the dumbest woman in the whole world because I couldn’t realize my love for my dad until he was finally gone.
This was my punishment. Now, I had to live with the consequences. I regret it, I really do, but I couldn’t do a thing to change it.
When I walked out, Stephen was the first to reach near me. He didn’t ask me how I was doing or where I was, but he stood by my side, giving me his shoulder on which I could cry. I didn’t know how but he knew. He knew what I was going through. Maybe because ‘Crying is also the way where your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how things made your heart broken.’
He was being sweet and supportive with me because of the witch potion that I had used on him; otherwise, things would have been different right now.
I was already dealing with one regret. Now the thought that what I did with him added is like the addition of mathematics.
The funeral was, as expected, a somber occasion. All the members of our pack and nearby pack gather around the packhouse.
“Aleena!!” I heard mom’s voice. I turned around to look at her. She had opened her mouth for the first time after dad’s death.
“Mom,” I called out her name and reached near her to hug her because I hadn’t spent a second with her after this incident. “Mom,” I hugged her dearly. “Aaahhhhh!!!” I yelped in pain, feeling a sharp pain in my stomach. My eyes widened when I realized what just had happened.
My mom! My mom had stabbed me.
I heard a few growls and gasps around us.
“Aaaahhhh!!!” I cried in pain when she twisted whatever thing she had used for stabbing me. The next thing I knew, I was pulled out by someone away from my mom, and others got to hold on her.
I looked at her in pain, and she had held the same silver dagger which was used to kill dad.
“LEAVE ME!” Mom screamed. “LEAVE ME! I WILL KILL THAT BITCH!”, She yelled. “SHE KILLED MY MATE!!!”, She screamed at the top of her lungs while I touched my stomach. A lot of blood was oozing from there.
“Doctor!!!” I heard someone else screaming too. I rotated my gaze and saw Stephen, who looked panicked seeing me in this way. “Lina, keep your eyes open. Nothing will happen to you, okay?” he said, but I was losing my consciousness.
‘You will reap what you have sown,’ Words rang in my ear before I closed my eyes.
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#TBC