Aurora’s p. o. v
I was silently debating with myself whether to tell Amelia the truth or not. She looked happy and for the very first time in her life, her wish was coming true, our mate was willing to give us a chance in his life.
She was humming happily while rolling the dough on the wooden board.
Ian was still resting in our room and that was a huge relief to her because she wanted to surprise him with breakfast in bed.
“I want this to last forever.” She whispered softly as a sad feeling washed over me. She quickly stopped what she was doing and stood upright.
“Aurora what is it?” She asked softly.
“It’s nothing,” I answered in a whisper.
“Come on, I know you are lying. Have you forgotten that I can feel what you feel?” She asked seriously.
I kept quiet for a few seconds thinking through what to tell her, as it was we really were in danger, it was just a matter of time before the Alpha king knew where we were.
“Can you take a seat?” I whispered calmly.
“Okay…..” She answered hesitantly then moved and sat down on a chair.
“Amelia, do you know that whatever I have done is and was for our own good?” I asked softly.
“Yes.” She answered in a whisper.
“And that we are one.” I continued.
“Aurora, what’s going on? You have never said such words to me before and you sound so serious?” She asked.
This was it, she needed to hear the whole truth and I was going to tell her everything without holding back.
“Our mother wasn’t a regular she-wolf. You see, she was born from a unique pack and rank.” I said then kept quiet for a few minutes.
When she didn’t say a word, I continued.
“Long before packs were formed and alphas began to rule, there was what we called a favoured race of werewolves. According to the elders and stories taught by our books, this race or should I say pack of werewolves were the pride of the moon goddess. Not only were they bigger than a regular alpha, they were faster, smarter, sharper, stronger, true-born leaders and royalty. They not only ruled over all werewolves, they were the ultimate rule and order. They married in their own bloodline and lived peacefully until a war broke out.
That war was between the vampires and them, I quite don’t know how it started, but all I know is that it changed a lot of things. In order to survive, a lot of werewolves under this royalty race began fleeing for their life and into unclaimed land.
The royals, who are called alpha kings and queens, couldn’t do a thing but hold their ground to their last breath. Although a lot of vampires were killed and the remaining ones chose to retreat, the damage was already done. Not only were the women brutally killed, their territory was completely destroyed.
They knew building back their territory was more important than anything else, so they began to do just that, not knowing that those werewolves who had run away had begun to form their own packs as means to help one another and survive.
The runaway werewolves under the royals were very used to having someone rule them, so they came up with a decision to elect the second rank of the alpha king and queen to rule them and that was an alpha.
By the time the alpha king’s finished building back their empire to its former glory, a lot of years had gone by. They had no idea where to start from or who to summon in order to find their people.
A few elders sat down and came to a decision of just letting their pack members be in whatever territory they were in. According to them, what they needed to focus on was to continue their bloodline and to produce a lot of heirs to stabilize the empire as it was. Sadly that too became a problem, because the alpha queens were very few than the alpha kings. And so another fight broke out between them and this time, the alpha kings decided to split and go their own way. The strongest alpha kings were given an alpha queen as their companion in order to continue their bloodline while the weak ones were ignored and given nothing.
“Before you ask me this, let me make it clear. An alpha king’s chance of producing an heiress with a lower rank is very slim compared to their own rank. Mating a lower rank mostly resulted in them birthing the male gender and that was very frustrating because what they needed was the female gender to increase.”
So as I said, each strong alpha king remained with an alpha queen, and just like that, the bloodline continued. But then there was one empire called the moon-star empire, its alpha queen was barren. No matter what, she couldn’t give the alpha king an heir or heiress and so the alpha king murdered her in anger and went on to sleep with a lot of lower ranks in hopes of birthing an heiress, but all was in vain.
The heartless alpha had to think hard until he came up with a perfect evil plan and that was to ambush another alpha king’s empire, murder both the old alpha king and queen then kidnapped their little girl for his own needs. As hard as his plan was, he actually went through with it and did exactly what he had planned.
The elders and other alpha kings decided to not involve themselves in his affairs because they knew how powerful his empire was and how crazy of a psycho he had become.
For years the alpha king raised the little alpha queen and taught her all there was to learn with hopes of making her his wife.
But everything changed when one day, the alpha queen met a werewolf warrior in the forest where she was taking a bath.
When they looked at each other they knew that they were mates.
The girl knew what duties awaited her but she just couldn’t give up the man that was bestowed to her by the moon goddess, so she began seeing the warrior behind the alpha king’s back.
Their affair went on for quite some time until the alpha king found out. He was furious and ordered his guards to kill the man and lock the alpha queen in the dungeon!
But news traveled fast and in no time the alpha queen escaped before they could do it.
There in the forest she met her lover again and the two of them took off.
The man loved the alpha queen and wanted to give her a good life, but he knew if he was to go back and beg for her hand, the alpha king would murder him. And if he was to take her with him to his pack they would all figure out who she was and they would quickly inform the alpha king in fear of them being killed.
So their only safe option was to find or build a safe cottage away from the empire or werewolf packs and that’s what the man did exactly. In no time they had their own little house they called home to live happily. As if that wasn’t enough, the goddess blessed them with a daughter and they became truly happy. For a few years, they lived peacefully until the alpha king’s warriors found them.
The woman was certain that they were all going to die if she resisted, so she asked her mate to take their child and run away, but the man was stubborn that she had to force him to submit.
And so the man ran away while the woman gave herself up as a distraction to the warriors.
The alpha queen was dragged back to the castle while the warrior went back to his old pack to seek refuge.
Immediately the woman was put into the dungeon, mating preparations began to be made.
This time the alpha queen knew her fate, even if she was to refuse to pledge her love to the alpha king, it was of no use because he was going to force himself on her and make her a useless breeder. And what’s worse would be him capturing her daughter and killing her mate.
So she decided to do the worst thing ever, and that was to take her own life.
Yes she did, and her mate felt the bond they shared being shattered, then it vanished. The man was hurt and in pain, for years he cried for his mate and guilt haunted him. He hated to look at his young daughter because she reminded him of her, he later distanced himself from her and called her his greatest mistake and regret. The warrior wished to have never met the alpha queen and he put her death on his head.
His treatment was so harsh to his six-year daughter that it affected her badly, she was lonely, scared, and slowly began to lose her mind, that’s when her wolf decided to step In. Her wolf had been quiet from her birth because she knew she could only manifest on the day of her shifting but then she couldn’t bear to watch the girl break. And so being the alpha queen in her, she used her ability and whipped away her sad memories.
While the wolf remembered everything, the girl did not. To her, her father was the most amazing man who had loved and lived for her, even when he passed away she had only beautiful memories of him.
Amelia, that child is ….”
“Me.” She whispered in a cracked voice as tears rolled on her cheeks.
“I remember Aurora. That child is me.” She sobbed silently.
“I watched as you were mocked and bullied by the pack members because that was the only way of protecting us. If we were to shift or use any of our abilities, the old alpha king would easily find us because of our strong bloodline, he would be able to sense our whereabouts easily and pinpoint which pack we are in. Him tracking us down would be easy and he would stop at nothing to get us as his breeder.”
“Amelia, I never wanted us to reveal what we truly were, that’s why I held off from everything, my only wish was for our mate to find us and give us a better life than the hell we were in, but that didn’t work out because he was a selfish, cold bastard who made us suffer even more.” I said sadly.
“Wh… y, why are you telling me this now?” She asked silently as her tears increased.
“Because in order to save our mate we shifted, in order to protect him from harm’s way I used some of our abilities. Amelia, I know that you are very sad and upset with me, but you just have to understand. You know that my intuition and instinct are always right, that’s why I want you to know that the alpha king will be here in a few days or weeks to slaughter everyone in this pack just to install fear in us and show his dominance. Our only way out of this mess is to leave this pack and our mate behind, we need to be on the run until we are sure that the old bastard is dead. We can’t kill him because he is way stronger than us, but we can avoid him.” I said as she burst out in tears loudly.
I could feel her heartache and hear her silent words.
“Why, why now?. What did I ever do to deserve such a fate Moon goddess!”.
She was very furious and didn’t know what to do.
Ian quickly rushed into the kitchen and went straight to us wrapping his arms around us.
“What’s wrong?. Did something bad happen? Has anyone said something mean to you? Amelia, tell me!” He yelled loudly on top of his voice, slightly shaking us.
She stopped crying and looked at him sadly.
“Today is my father’s memorial, that’s all. I feel so sad and very lonely.” She cried.
He wrapped his arms around our shoulders gently pulling her closer.
“You don’t have to feel lonely when you have me. Please always rely on me.” He whispered softly as she broke down in loud sobs
As painful as it was for me too, we knew what we had to do and that was to leave our mate behind. In order to secure his life and his pack members.