Chapter 12
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” Where the hell have you been?” Alpha Leonard barked out the moment he saw Diana giggling at whatever Brittany said. She knew she was supposed to be scared under his heated glare but a rebellious part of her wanted to give him a snarky comeback instead.
” She was with me Alpha, I was just showing her…” Brittany jumped to her rescue before she could open her mouth but the Alpha cut her off.
” I’m asking my sister not you and I believe she has a mouth” He snapped and Brittany gulped in fear while Diana remained unfazed.
” I was bored and alone and I decided to ask Brittany to show me around the pack house” She replied with a shrug of her shoulders while moving closer to Howard who gave her a tight hug. She fit right into his arms and the anger on Leonard’s face faded seeing his sister snuggling up with his Beta as it should be.
” You are not to go anywhere without telling me or your mate understood?” The Alpha said and she nodded yes, so close to saying ” Bite me” but she bit off the comeback before she let him know about her opinion.
” Words peaches words”
” Yes Alpha,” She said without detaching herself from her mate’s arms, if he wanted a show then she would give him one. She would do everything so Howard wouldn’t have to mark her.
Brittany already disappeared from their sight unable to bear the tension radiating from the siblings. The Alpha left for his office leaving Diana with her mate. She detached herself from him as he followed him back to their house.
” I’m sorry he yelled at you” Howard apologized immediately they both stepped into the living room where Diana flopped herself on the sofa immediately. She was very tired but she knew she had something to do, and that something involved looking for how to open a particular storage room.
” It’s okay. That’s how Alphas are I guess”
” No, he was just worried about you. You know it’s hard to feel your presence because you don’t have a wolf” Howard said taking a seat beside her, he stroked her hair and tucked a stray strand to the back of her ears. She hummed as she felt her tiredness taking over her. He continued playing with her hair and finally fell asleep. Only this time around, she never had a dream but a nightmare instead.
” Get back here you bitch! You don’t leave when I’m talking to you” A man’s voice yelled at her as the background morphed into a room painted in pink with torn posters on the wall, a small bed, and a little shelf containing books. The room belonged to her no doubt, she must have liked books even in the past because the room was filled with them. It was a memory and it was hers but she couldn’t recognize the voice of that man.
But her heartbeat sped up as she heard footstep before the door swung open to reveal a fat burly man panting hard as he stared at her menacingly, she felt very helpless under his gaze she moved backwards away from him but soon her back hit the wall and she knew she was done for.
” You left this house for four weeks! Whoring around huh? How about I show you what happens to little sluts who like to whore around like you?” The man yelled more moving closer to her, she closed her eyes as she waited for his gruffy hands to come in contact with her face but it never came. Her eyes only opened in another perspective, her sight was sharper her hearing was more heightened and she felt stronger even though it was a dream. She noticed the date man was dead, no torn apart in front of her with blood splattered around the room.
She panicked and started screaming at what she had done while a big pair of hands tried to hold her down. She continued screaming at the sight in front of her before her surroundings morphed into the familiar living room of Howard’s house.
” Diana open your eyes” Howard shouted while holding her flappy hands down.
” Diana look at me, it’s Howard” His voice faded as her vision shifted back to a forest clearing running as fast as she could still in her wolf form, She panted hard as she stopped under a tree waiting for someone as she circled the tree. Soon enough a man came out of the forest, He looked oddly familiar with his jet-black hair, his tall frame, and his signature red eyes. It was the same man in her dreams. He was about to attack her when her wolf barked at him.
” Diana?” The man gasped in shock at her appearance in wolf form. She barked again, this time happily and he moved closer to her while retracting his claws and fangs. He was a vampire?
Her eyes jerked open from the vision as she stared at her surroundings. Howard was holding her her arms so she wouldn’t hurt herself and she could feel a bead of sweat on her forehead as she pondered on what just happened.
” You were having a nightmare,” Howard said offering her a glass of water. There were scratch marks on his arms that healed up immediately Diana’s eyes landed on him. She must have scratched him while he was trying to hold her down. She felt sorry immediately but her mind was still on the strange dream. It must have been a memory because that room and that fat man were oddly familiar to her. And that must have been the first time she shifted into her wolf. The man was about to hurt her but her wolf had surfaced and tore him apart. And that man from her dreams had been there and he was a vampire?
The thoughts were still heavy on her mind as she felt her eyes closing in exhaustion one more time. She felt herself go limp in Howard’s arms as he carried her to their bedroom. He placed her on the bed gently and he covered her with warm covers before lying beside her.
” Howard?” She muttered feeling her consciousness fade away from her slowly, he answered her with a hum; his worried expression flashing before her eyes.
” How did I grow up?” She asked with a low tone but strong enough to tell him she wanted nothing but the truth from him.
” When you were four years old, tragedy struck in the pack. A newly turned vampire attacked your mother and you disappeared on that night. We searched everywhere for you but we couldn’t find you so we thought the vamp killed you also. I managed to stumble upon you five years ago when you just shifted for the first time” Howard said and she sighed as she tried to remember more but nothing came to her. Only exhaustion and a terrible headache.
If that man was a vampire, how did Howard find her in the forest and why did the wolf seem happy at the sight of a vampire, a being who was supposed to be an enemy to her but her wolf even purred when he got closer to her? Who was the man? And why does she feel more confused than ever after that glimpse of memory?