Chapter 13: Elijah's p.o.v... 12

Laura began “As you know Violet and i grew up in a kids home, well that was where we met, Violet had already been there for several years, it seemed that people didn’t want a baby with Violet eyes.

I came and went from there while my mother got clean and dad come home from leave, but then one day i went in and never left well until the Johnson’s came to our rescue.

It seems my dad had saved their sons life and when he came home he felt so guilty about surviving they decided to take me, but i refused to leave Violet so they took both of us and for a while it was wonderful, it was the first time that Violet and i had experienced what a real family life should be.

But then one day we discovered that Colin had killed himself, it seemed even by rescuing Violet and myself didn’t curb the villain’s he held on to inside, even with that lost the Johnson’s kept us and they were the best parents anyone could have, they came to every parents evening, show or game even splitting up some times on weekends for one to take me somewhere and Violet somewhere else.

Dad taught Violet the importance of saving he never showed me, he use to say my importance of money was to spend it like his wife, she taught me about fashion and make up, mum ended up with cancer it broke dad we did what we could to help him take care of her, he couldn’t live with out her when she died and he soon followed.

It was back to just Violet and i again but we inherited everything so we were comfortable, they made sure of that. Violet knew about me it was the only thing my mother had ever really told me when i was little.

Drummed it into me over and over so when it got close to my eightieth birthday Violet set about trying to find out as much as information about wolves, what they needed and how was best to handle the shift.

She found some rogue woman who needed help escaping violent mates, she gave them money to run and in return they told her about wolf life and rules of a pack. It was the first full moon after my birthday and we had discussed it repeatedly trying to decide what was the best way to handle it, the rogue had said because it would be my first shift it would be painful but i would be most feral and prone to attacking anything until my wolf and i bonds sync into place”

“Laura stop” Violet pleaded i could hear the pain in her voice and the realization Laura looked at Violet eyes filled with pain, which hurt me.

she turned to me now “stop this please” i could see she didn’t mind begging for Laura she would always do what ever it took to protect her, even if it meant causing me pain for herself.

I wanted to do what she was begging me to do but i knew this was going to be the quickest route to get what Jasper and i needed, i looked at him straight in the eye, i could see she saw what Brax and i felt but she couldn’t understand it yet or why? I could see her fear of what she saw though because she looked away for a second until i asked the question knowing she didn’t want to answer “will you tell me yourself” she didn’t want that, this part of her life she wanted to bury deep down within her and i wasn’t going to allow it any more, it would be out in the open for all of us to deal with head on.

she looked back at Laura and knew she wouldn’t be able to tell me “no, it has nothing to do with you, it’s my past” she answered me frustrated as hell with me and partly herself too.

“i am your future Violet, so i will get the answers i need to protect you” i could see she knew i meant every word of it

“don’t say that, i don’t have a wolf, so there is a mistake! Or your moon goddess has a sick sense of humour to saddle you with a duff” she snapped back at me it didn’t even flinch or argue.

“continue Laura please” she lost her appetite i knew she didn’t want to listen to the details of her life being hashed out for her to relive. I could see her breaking in front of me but there was nothing Brax and i could do to help her yet, not without this part of the story.

I watched my mate crumble as she stood turned to Laura “once you’re done leave and don’t come back, keep her safe Jasper please, i am dead to her now” and walked to the staircase i heard the sob break from Laura, she knew it would hurt her but she did it anyway, Brax saw her resolve and reasons for it before i did, Laura didn’t need her to protect her breaking away this was the last thing she could do for her to keep her safe.

With each step i watched her break a little more, her feeling of drowning as Laura continued to speak, i could see and feel what she thought was betrayal.

I turned to Laura who was fidgeting with her hands “where was i?” she asked numbly

“your first change at the woods” Jasper said encouragingly

“Laura had drove us to the woods we thought i would be safe there, people walked their dogs there all the time, so a small wolf shouldn’t have caused too much trouble, even though the rogue women had told us it would be dangerous for Violet to say with me she never left me, stroking me through the excruciating pain of my joints and bones reforming i made so much noise with the pain that we hadn’t notice we had caught the attention of Sebastian Montgomery he had witness the whole shift and decided that i needed to be killed so he fired a couple of shots at me, Violet leapt up without and hesitation at all, knowing i was too weak from the change she scooped me up in her arms and ran with us, i was heavy and she could run too far so she hid me, telling me she was going to draw them away and i was to stay put until she came back for me or to head for the car in the morning.

It felt like hours and Violet hadn’t come back for me and despite what she had said to me i didn’t listen and went to look for my sister, i found her tied to their vehicle being repeatedly raped by him and his friends, they had already beaten her black and blue, blood was pouring from the knife wounds she had across her chest, throat and stomach and i watched as they turned her around and start to cut into her flesh on her back and buttocks, i watched her being sodomized i made the mistake of whimpering as i watched them untie her again and let her drop to the floor like a bag of trash.