” A long time ago, when I was only a girl back in our hometown, everything was perfectly fine with us, my family and I lived happily in peace until they came.”
” Who came?”
” Shape-shifters or werewolves as they are being called, they were the Radar’s pack and their arrival caused a lot of pain and misery in our lives. The pack was on a journey for months, and when they arrived in our community, we accepted and harbored them. It was a time when shape-shifters and humans dwelled together. The shifter’s race was well-known back then, only a few humans did not know of them,”
” So how did they bring pain to your people?”
” The Alpha’s son, who just came of age, smelt his chosen among us upon their arrival, and she was human. Not only that, but she was my sister, my twin sister Raquel.”
” Nana! I never knew you had a twin sister!” Macy mutters surprised,
” There are countless things you do not know, Marathi. Raquel was the opposite of me, you see, she was the quiet one, who loved to read and sing. She loved animals, and she was so beautiful. Every young bachelor in Covina adored her, Raquel was outstanding. And I loved her so much, we were both our parent’s eyes.”
” What happened to her then?”
” Thiago smelt her and that was when her life changed, he was the son of Alpha Ragna of the Radar’s pack. Thiago immediately wanted to claim her as the bond took control, his wolf wanted its mate, but there was a problem.”
” What problem, Nana?”
” Raquel was betrothed and in love with her fiancee Zurich, who also loved her. Things got heated when Thiago tried to mark her certainly, and Raquel got drawn to him because of the mate bond, hurting Zurich in the process. My sister was also hurt by everything that happened, rumors flew around the village, causing the humans to react against the werewolves staying in the community.”
” Raquel promised Zurich that she would love only him and never leave him despite any bond with Thiago, nevertheless, that was not the turn of events,”
” What then happened?”
” Raquel could not fight to stop the mate bond as it consumed her in no time, she was as pure and still untouched even though she was betrothed but not for long, as Raquel succumbed to the bond. That night, when everything crashed down, Zurich and his friends had planned to kill Thiago. So, they all matched to his favorite cave up the hills where Thiago usually rests, but what they saw was too heavy to spill.”
” What did they see?” Macy inquires, wanting to know more.
Nana closes her eyes and shakes her head before reaching out for her mug of tea on the table, after sipping her tea, she continues her story.
” A completely naked Raquel in the arms of her chosen Thiago, The screams of men woke both of them up, and in that instant, Thiago shifted to his massive white wolf, protecting Raquel from the angry villagers, The fight was not an easy one as many lost their lives in a battle between Wolves and humans,”
” Did Thiago die?”
” No, but his pack was forced to leave Covina, after everything,”
” What about Raquel who did she end up with?”
” Raquel got pregnant and Zurich broke up the engagement, said he would never marry a slut like her, who now bore the mark of a beast. My parents refused her to go with her mate and begged Zurich to take her, she suffered all alone, she was locked up in her room for days without seeing the sky,”
” Poor Raquel, what about you, what did you do?”
Nana laughed bitterly at Macy’s question, “Well me, I did something stupid that I will never regret for the rest of my life, Marathi.”
” What did you do?”
” I switched places with my sister and asked an old friend of mine to help her escape and bring her to her mate,”
” You did that! Did you get caught?” Macy asks with wide eyes.
” Of course, I did get caught by my father after I stayed in my sister’s room for two days, pretending to be her,”
” Were you punished?”
” I received the punishment of my life, baby, but it was worth it because my sister got to her mate, her happiness was worth every stroke I received Marathi,” Nana says with so much love laced in her voice.
” Nana, I…I cannot imagine the pain you both must have been through,” Macy says as tears run down her eyes,
” Do not cry baby, come here,” Nana says to a crying Macy, who runs into her grandmother’s arms as she sobbed more,
” It is all in the past now, Marathi, do not cry,” Nana comforts a heartbroken Macy.
Later on, about twenty minutes later of simply laying in each other’s arms, Macy broke the silence by asking a question,
” Nana, did you ever hear from your sister again?”
Nana clenched at Macy’s words, her body shook, and her countenance entirely changed.
” Come on, I have something to show you,” Nana says to Macy who carefully follows behind as they both get into Nana’s old room.
Macy sat on the bed waiting while Nana brought out an old box, before walking to the bed and taking a seat next to Macy.
” What is that?” Macy asks, pointing to the old-looking box in her grandma’s hold.
Nana opens up the box and brings out some old pictures, in the pictures are two little girls, in another one the girls are now grown maybe twelve years old,
” Is this you and Raquel? Nana,” Macy asks as she looks closely at the pictures in her hands.
” Yes, Marathi, That is me and Raquel,”
Nana handed Macy another picture and this time, she stared stupefied at the photograph, she was looking at herself in the picture, but she looked different,
” Nana what is this, I…I don’t understand how I am here.” Macy asked confused,
” That is Raquel, Marathi,” Nana says with a warm smile on her face.
” How is this even possible, She looks like me, I don’t understand, Nana,”
” This might sound crazy, but it is the truth,”
” What is the truth, Nana!” Macy asks impatiently
” The prophecy! After Raquel left, a prophecy was said by a witch concerning the awakening!” Nana explains,
” Prophecy? Witch? Awakening? What are you talking about Nana!”
” Macy you have a destiny to fulfill, you are no ordinary girl. Yes, you are human, but you are capable of so many things, which you do not know yet. You were born with the mark of the moon and stars. And just like Raquel and the ones that have come before her, you are chosen. My prayer is that it all ends with you and Liam!”
Macy looks at her grandmother dumbfounded, the words that she just heard playing repeatedly in her head, Her whole body shivered.
” You must have had the vision already,” Nana says, looking deep into Macy’s eyes.
” What visions?” Macy asks in a whisper,
” Have you had any weird dreams lately?”
Macy furrows her brows for a second trying to recall such an incident,
” Yes, yes, I…I had a dream a few days ago, a strange one at that,”
” Tell me all about it,” Nana says with a serious look on her face,
Macy explained her dreams to her Nana, and without leaving a thing out.
” Come on, go pick up your jacket, we are going out,” Nana tells Macy,
” Where are we going to?”
” To pay an old friend a visit, Marathi,”