** * * * * Crystal’s POV * * * * *
I am yet to get a response from my stepmom. Why is she so quiet? Are my suspicions correct? I know that they are.
“I asked you a question Mum, are you responsible for the recent attacks on me? Did you pay the man to run me over with his car? Answer me honestly Mum.
If I am wrong, then please tell me that I’m wrong but don’t just keep quiet like that, say something!” I half-yelled.
I cannot believe this is happening, I wished it was just a bad nightmare and when I wake up in the morning, that I would find my loving, caring, selfless step mum back again.
“Listen Crystal, this is also your mission so don’t take it like I am asking you for a favor, it’s your responsibility too!”
I see! So she just ignored my question and preferred to lecture me instead. By the way, how exactly is this my mission?
The Alpha in question is not a rival to my parents pack and even if he was, it’s not enough reason for me to do what they are asking of me.
We have already argued about this for long, it’s been close to an hour now so why does she keep persisting?
“Really Mum? How is this my mission and responsibility? I don’t remember signing up for any of this, I mean it doesn’t concern me in any way. Like I said, protecting Aidan is the only mission and responsibility that I have in this lifetime, nothing else!”
“No Crystal, it’s your mission as a member of this pack to help strengthen it, that’s what you are supposed to do,” she said
Really? Is that her new way of trying to convince me?
This is not even my pack and why would I care if it was since I am not a damn werewolf. She’s not making any sense at all
I had been in an accident, my body is still bleeding and I am still in pains, yet she seem to care more about getting power and strengthening her wolf clan, she has not even asked how I was feeling, she did not care to clean or dress my wounds, she did not care to know if I had eaten.
I mean does she even need to ask that? I just returned from college and I did not eat any food before leaving so damn yes, I am hungry!
“Who said you are not a member of this Pack? You know the rules Crystal, you were not up to ten years old when you came over to our clan as our daughter which automatically makes you a member of this Pack.
We have provided you with everything you needed, care, support, food and shelter. We gave you education, what more could you ask for?
And here now you want to deny our Pack, you refuse to accept your responsibility,” she yelled.
“That’s not the case Mum, okay fine I am a member of this pack but tell me if that even matters, I am a human mum, it’s not my mission in any way because I am not a Werewolf.
No one even recognises me in this pack, they all think of me as a human living amongst wolves which is nothing far from the truth.
Yes my parents are werewolves, you and stepdad are werewolves too but unfortunately I aren’t, I don’t have a damn wolf, so stop saying it’s my mission!!” I yelled back.
Now I was pissed off as well. With every passing second, I am gradually losing the respect, trust and faith I had in this woman.
We are quiet for a while, staring at each other. I hope she has regained her mind after I raised my voice at her. Perhaps I am cursed, the one person I could trust in my life had turned out to be not so different from the others, just like every other person in my life she had betrayed me.
If not for my little Aidan, then I don’t see a reason why I should be living.
“You are wrong Crystal, you are a werewolf,” she finally spoke.
I was silent for a while then I burst into laughter.
“Seriously mum? Will you stoop so low to lying just to get what you want? Of all the lies in the world, you choose something so unbelievable. Do I look like a kid or a tool to you Mum?
Even my own parents confirmed that I was an ordinary human, isn’t that why they sent me to live with you and Dad-two? Because they were ashamed of me, they thought I was a disgrace to be born into a wolf family without a wolf, why are you doing this to me Mum?” I said as tears polled in my eyes, ready to spill at any moment.
Those were things I had tried hard to forget, memories that haunted me for years. Being sent off by my parents was the saddest thing that ever happened to me, that was the day they ruined me.
“I am not lying Crystal, you are a werewolf,” she said with seriousness etched on her face.
Does she really mean her words? She knows I am not a dummy so why is she persisting on that silly lie? I am not buying it one dime because there’s no proof to support it.
I am past twenty years and I haven’t shifted for once, forget about shifting. I have never heard my wolf speak for once.
Is she going to say that it was not yet awake? I know fully well that a werewolf is able to shift after their 17th birthday.
That was one of the things that gave me hope when I was not yet sixteen. I used to think that my parents assumption and predictions were wrong, I used to hope that my wolf would be awakened after my 16th birthday but then when that day came and passed, nothing happened.
I was broke completely and gave up, I was then certain that my parents were correct, I was just a useless human offspring of a werewolf, a disgrace to the Alpha of the Half Moon pack, that was my identity.
“Crystal, there is so much you don’t know about yourself. Your parents did not send you away because they were ashamed of you, they had no reason to be ashamed. You are a werewolf and your parents and I both knew it, believe me Crystal,” she persisted.
It looked to me like she was serious about this.
Am I really a werewolf?
Is she telling the truth?
But then why am I different?
Why can’t I hear my wolf speak?
Why can’t I shift and why did my parents say I don’t have a wolf? That I am just human, why?
To be continued!!