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“Mom, I mean it. I want to have my own. child soon.” I texted my mother.
During my hospital stay, the doctor told me that this latest incident had significantly weakened my health. I should get pregnant while I’m young and while I can.
My time is running out and I wouldn’t waste it on Lucille and the Zane twins.
Then, a sudden thought struck me: what if those twenty years are never a waste? What if they’re a lesson?
I looked up at the dull, gray sky. Thunder grumbled in the distance and raindrops. started to fall from the heavens.
The doctor said it would take about a week to recover fully–and I would use this week to show Xeus and Xavier and Lucille that I can live without them.
I glanced at the mirror facing me. And
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there I saw the innermost part of myself: my lifeless soul. My snow–white face, gaunt and one step closer to my grave.
This is the effect of that lethal poison I drank. The Head Doctor, the head of the pack s healers, told me that if I was a minute late rushed to the hospital, I would probably be dead by now.
I stared at my reflection–at myself. This was the girl the Zane twins pampered and showered with affection for twenty years. And now…I look as if I was a living ghost.
That’s what Lucille does: he twisted Xeus and Xavier to just focus on her. The brothers did not even ask me if I was alright after the poisoning incident. They just want me to apologize in her face and treat her like some precious porcelain doll that needs an ample amount of caring.
I sighed. I can’t do anything now that Lucille has entered our lives. Me going to their mansion and explaining to the Zane twins my side of the story would be as good
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as handing my head on a platter to them.
1 bid farewell to Luna Shea Zane, my mother’s bestfriend and the woman 1 considered as my second mother. She secretly visited me without the knowledge of her husband or sons.
“I’m sorry about my sons, Lou,” she whispered in my ear as she kissed my forehead. “They are their father‘ s children. Besides, boys will be boys.” She chuckled without amusement, but I
didn’t return her reaction.
I just stared at her with a lifeless gaze and
nodded tightly.
‘She’s right,
my wolf mused. ‘Boys
will be boys. The Zane twins are boys!‘
I cracked a smile at that.
The Luna caressed my cheeks. “There. That’s what I love about you: your smile.”
I beamed at her. “I really should go, Luna
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Shea. Thank you for the twenty years of taking care of me.
I was about to turn around when she grabbed my arm gently. “You know…I always hoped that one day, you’ll be my daughter. My actual daughter.”
I can see her emotions even with her blink, the movement of her lips, and the swaying of her hair in the passing wind. “I know,” I whispered and compelled my voice to remain steady. “I also hoped for that too.”
And then I walked away.
***
A month ago…
I just came back from the hospital after breaking my leg. I fell from the stairs when Lucille surprised me by the foot of the
staircase.
The taxi stopped right in front of the
Zanes‘
mansion.
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I may be an Alpha‘ s daughter but I wasn‘ t trained to be as strong as Warriors. or as enduring as Healers.
The injury left me quite numb. And it worsened when a very cold water soaked me as soon as I got out of the taxi.
“Lou!” Lucille exclaimed, the same tone she used when she surprised me and I fell down the stairs. She was watering the garden with the garden hose and it was angled right towards me.
Even when my teeth chatter that I can barely bellow out her name back, she still dozed me with water until all of me was
wet.
She only lowered the hose when the twins approached.
As the cold morning breeze hit me, I felt a couple of sharp shivers crawling down my spine and into my injured leg. I almost dropped to the ground but I flattened my palm against a wall, forcing myself not to
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faint in front of them..
Xeus and Xavier exchanged looks, a silent. communication going between them. Then, they sneered at me: my body a breath away from the floor, crouching to
the wall one–hand as my other hand was on my chest.
“It seemed you‘ re putting on an act again as soon as you returned, Louise,” Xeus drawled.
I didn’t hide my glare at them and shot Lucille a stare that can instantly kill. “Is that what this woman told you? That my leg injury was just acting?” I scoffed. “I didn’t know you can fake a cry of pain nor an outright injury.”
There was a bite in my words that Lucille flinched. In a matter of heartbeats, she yielded a pitiful face again–the same face that won her the attention of the Zane twins in just months.
Xavier cleared his throat. “If you‘ re so
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tough, Louise, why did you come back to this house?” he dragged his gaze to Lucille, who’s faking another silent cry. Best actress indeed.
“Oh, her own mother didn’t even want her there. Even her Alpha uncle,” Xeus‘ mocking voice didn’t falter as his tone. dripped with sarcasm. “Where else would she go but here?”
Their words pierced so deeply into my heart that I burst into tears. Real tears, not the ones Lucille was compelling her eyes to show right now.
“Xeus. Xavier. That‘ s enough,” she uttered with a trembling voice like a victim showing mercy to her abuser. Even early in the morning, Lucille won’t really get tired of stirring up drama.
At that moment, the memory of the first time I arrived at the Zane mansion crossed my mind. At that time, Xavier had held my hand and done everything he could to cheer me up. Xeus even caressed my cheek
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and assured me that their home is free to
be my new home too.
But then Lucille arrived just three months ago. My once–glorious paradise that I so adored became my bullying ground and living hell. She was a Beta‘ s daughter who came with her mother under the guise of helping in the household. The Alpha didn’t mind it but Luna.Shea rolled her
eyes at Lucille’s sweet smiles and gentle words as if both of us could see right through Lucille‘ s facade.
Looking at their faces now, those twenty years of the Zane mansion being my home has stopped. This has become my prison. Worse, their torturing ground for me.
At that moment, I realized my time is up. And I shouldn’t waste anymore time
living here. I should leave as soon as I can.
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