Branded

Minerva has been staying with me for the last couple of weeks. We go to school and come back to the condo. Some days I have seen Travis talking harshly to her but, I am happy to see the rise of her Alpha wolf. She’s not one hundred percent there, but I am starting to sense her Alpha essence growing. I know for sure, if I can sense, Travis might too. I need to get her out of here soon! One of my many frustrations and challenges is attempting to help her break free of her brainwashing that’s she’s a sex slave to Alpha’s.

In the beginning, she kept trying to get into my bed, saying it was what she was meant for. I told her repeatedly that I was not like that, and she did not have to be this way. She did not have to sleep with me. She’s her own woman. She kept on looking at me confused. I realized she thought I was just playing hard to get. I came home one day, and she was naked in my bed, playing with herself. I walked out of the room, I yelled at her to get dressed. I went into the kitchen, I found a stiff drink of cognac, I threw a glass down, trying to think of what the fuck I should do. I cannot call home. Right now she thinks I am single Alpha looking for a mate. I had to drink a magic potion to hide my mark so Travis or anyone would not notice. If she knew that I was marked and mated, she would flip and run right back to Travis. She’s so diluted by their brainwashing that right now; she thinks her only mission in life is the be an Alpha’s prostitute.

“I do not understand Damien. Am I not worthy enough?” she says looking broken.

“I am not an Alpha to fool around, I want to wait for my mate.” I tell her getting exasperated.

“Do Alpha’s or anyone do that?” she says with sarcasm “I have been enjoyed by Alpha’s numerous times. That is what she-wolves are meant for. My Alpha only approved of my education so I could find other suiters to bed, and to cling tight to Travis as his assigned female.” She says in a love voice.

“I remember you told me but, they are the only ones like that. I have met several other packs and Alpha’s attending meetings with my dad. No one treats a pack like this. My pack has a high respect for the goddess Selene. Selene would never agree with this. She created ‘mates” for a reason, so two wolves can be bound together to love each other, protect and support each other. Mates are meant to find each other be bound together in peace and love for eternity, just like I am sure your parents were mates. I don’t think if they knew, they would care for what has happened to you.”

By the time, I had finished speaking. I glared at her and resumed cooking, while watching her over the counter. She was staring at me wide eyed with pain her eyes. I took a chance to peek into her mind without giving a chance to notice. She was think of her parents. She could only remember them as far back as when she was adopted but, something her mother talked to her about when she was young before the moved to the black onyx pack. Her mother had talked with her about the beauty of waiting for her mate. The night her mother found her father at a mating ball. She felt like she was on cloud nine and did not want to ever come down. For her she wolf mother who waited for her mate like and honored the goddess, she felt like she had gone to heaven when they met.

She collapsed and began crying. She was shaking. I heard her asking forgiveness from the goddess, she’s trying to mind link her parents. She’s screaming and asking forgiveness from her parents. Her eyes go wide, she’s panicking. She’s shaking.

“Minerva! What’s wrong?” I ask her as I notice how freaked out she is.

“My parents, why aren’t they answering?”

“What do you mean?”

“My Parents aren’t answering me! Where are my parents!” she starts screaming and wailing.

“I don’t know, I’ve only ever met you.”

“I can’t feel them! Why can’t I feel any of them!”

“I never felt anything snap, they can’t be dead! They can’t be!”

I stare at her, and I notice something I never saw before. I have not known her for long but, I know this does not look normal for any werewolf. There is a red mark on her neck that looks like a brand. Like she’s been branded to belong to one of them. I need to speak with my pack oracle about this. I have a feeling she has not only been branded but, that she has dark magic blocking her pack link to her parents.