Chapter 19
ERICA'S POV
After hearing all about my parents from Claire, I was heartbroken and depressed for days. It took Claire extra efforts to bring me back to my normal self. We were taking a walk around the bluemoon pack when I realized that I only know that Claire is my sister, elder or younger, I don't know. Then, as if suddenly coming to realization I blurted: “how old are you?” She looked at me like I have grown two heads. “I am 19 years old”, she finally said and I gasped. “What about you?” she inquired. I am 18 years old, clocked 18 few months back. I told her and she was even more shocked.
“No wonder I had felt like protecting you the moment I saw you” she said, looking at me with so much love and admiration. “And you did” I replied,smiling at her. “What about Father? and how is he doing?” “Have you visited him since then?.” I inquired. “Yes I did, you know, being a rogue wolf is not so easy, you need to constantly keep your emotions on check” she replied while I try to ruminate on what she said.
“You see,life has not been too good to him, being a rogue wolf is similar to being a corrupt vampire, have you heard about corrupt vampires?” She asked me. “Yes I have read about them, they go on killing spree at any slight provocation before eventually dying” I said. “Yes dear, that was what happened to our father.” She replied,looking downcast.
“How, why?” I queried. “being a rogue werewolf literally means you are not in your complete frame of mind, it mostly happen in Alpha werewolves whenever their mates died unexpectedly or hurt them and this was what happened to Father” No thanks to Alpha Logan, he made sure of that.” “Also, being a rogue wolf requires that you are not allowed to live with any member of your family, just you,the guards and maids.” “And several times I have heard my dad cussing out at his workers at any slight provocation although he had never killed any of them” “once he is not in his right frame of mind like I heard, he do go on hunting spree by entering the forest and hunting down pests,birds and wild animals.”
“I am proud of him Erica, I am proud of the fact that despite not being in his right frame of mind, he never hurt his workers, you can then imagine how he was before becoming a rogue wolf,
he was the best Father” she said and sniffled. I hugged her, trying to keep my own emotions in check although its not really working as I eventually poured out my pains in the form of tears,out. “Alpha Logan would surely pay for this!” I said through gritted teeth and hugged her tightly.
Few days later, I woke up to seeing Claire's hands on my stomach, muttering incoherent words like spells. With colored candles lit all over me. I flinched and moved away from her, surprised and shocked. But she pulled me back not caring about the fact that i was terrified and continued the spells and shortly afterwards my baby kicked and I felt it. She then opened her eyes and gave me a worried look.
“I need answers to whatever just happened now Claire,or what do think?”, I said to her, visibly annoyed. “I’m sorry I didn't tell you earlier” she said, looking apologetic. “It's just that…I -I didn't know how to tell you,really..well… mom was a healer.. and-and a magician- not a black magician though” she quickly added. “She inherited the magic from her mother who had inherited it from her own mother and so on..” “I didn't know how you'll take it, really.. I thought you'll be scared off or something..” she stuttered while trying to summarize whatever happened as much as possible.
“But what just happened now, I need answers, Claire” I whispered,still in disbelief. “I-I-I-erm you know you're carrying an Alpha's baby and-and you have an human blood in you- erm- I just did that to make the baby gentle and not distressed, she said nervously.” “I'm sorry I didn't tell you all these earlier”, she added. I was ju-jist.. she trailed off still looking at me.
I sighed silently and nodded although I didn't understood anything from all the things she said. I hugged her after noticing how scared she was. She couldn't have been telling lies our late mom. She's my elder sister afterall and had tooke I. At my lowest point. She had cared for me when I was down, she had shown me so much love and accepted me although I lied to her from the very beginning, which could have altered her trust in me but she didn't, she had accepted me despite everything. Why would I hate her now? She never hurt me or killed me even when she had all the opportunity to do so. Now is the time to repay her back so therefore I don't care even if she's a black witch. She's the only family I have now, afterall.