Family Reunion
My mother runs out towards me. She sees Minerva, and I can see her mind click. She recognizes my mother.
“Aunt Raven?” she says in shock as she stares at my mother. Tabitha runs towards her.
“YOU!” Minerva growls, looking at Tabitha like she’s ready for attack. She is caught by surprise when Tabitha grabs her by the hands, she stares into Minerva’s eyes for a long while. I see Minerva eyes go wide, they’re locked in a trance, and I hear Tabitha say “Remember me” in a whisper to Minerva. Minerva winds her arms around Tabitha, they close their eyes and have a smile on their faces. I wonder what I am seeing. My mother whispers.
“I have not seen them do this since they were young”
“What are they doing?” I ask mother.
“They are twin communicating telepathically. They used to do that, it was a way of embracing or recognizing each other.
Suddenly, Minerva starts grabbing her neck and screaming in pain. Their connection is broken. She falls to the ground shaking.
“Someone get the oracle Laurel! Now” I scream. I grab Minerva's hand, I am whispering comforting words to her. Tabitha is staring at me with a confused look. It's like she can't deside whether to be pissed seeing me holding her sister or broken cause of how much pain Minerva clearly is in. Suddenly, Tabitha shrieks and falls next to her, mimiking her actions. I stare wide eyed, watching them mimik each other.
"Some twins if they have a psychic connection like these two, can feel each others pain. Hopefully with their wolves, they can share it and help take the pain away" My mother says.
The oracle walks towards us, coming through a portal.
“I heard from the spirit realm that I was needed.”
“Dear goddess! you finally reunited the twins!”
“We need you!” I tell her. She begins to wave her hands around.
“The child is being poisoned from the inside. I will remove the poison.” She said as she begins to chant and produce powerful smoke from her hands. She throws her hands on Minerva; the girl screams and begins to levitate up from the floor. Her brand on her neck is turning black. It looks like Laurel is removing the brand. I stare at our witch oracle in shock, I knew she would help Minerva but, I never thought it was possible to remove it. Minerva’s back arches, and she looks like she’s locked in a silent scream.
Suddenly, I heard screams of terror. I looked up, I saw both Verona and Carter running towards Minerva. She looks so much like him, that might also be why Lucius specifically wanted to claim her, so he could find a new way to destroy Carter and the family. I can see my father and mother holding them back. Father is putting up a bit of a fight, Carters wolf might come out any point, being denied his long-lost pup.
Minerva’s body falls to the ground. Laurel gets up, dusts herself off like she’s done hard work which, seeing what she just did, it does look exhausting.
“There, the child will be fine, all of her internal scars have been healed, the poison and curse are removed as well as her property brand.” Laurel tells us.
“Property brand?” Carter, Tabitha, and Verona all say at the same time.
“Yes, not sure where she has been but, there was a permanent birth control potion inside of her, there was a sex slave brand on her neck connected to a powerful spell. It would activate if she would ever betray her “owner” so to speak. If she would find her mate, it would kill them both, if she were unfaithful to her “owner” it would destroy her. I have not seen that in a thousand years since Salvator Luthor did it to my mother.” She shook her head. “My mother died, after Salvator realized that she had met my father who was her soulmate, after she had me and decided not to be with him anymore, he killed her. That’s how I learned those brands can kill.”
“We know why it was activated, when I met Minerva, she was flirting with me, playing the hostess, walking me to class. In a way, claiming me but, she walked past Travis, and she glared at him. She also told him mentally “I’m finally free of you.” Travis was pissed off; to top it off I moved her in with me to get her away from him after hearing her pain. I couldn’t leave her with him.”
“You did the right thing son.” My father tells me.
“Minerva was adopted into a family but, when she was ten her warrior father was asked to join Lucius’s pack by the Alpha himself. Minerva just realized before we left that she lost contact with her parents, I don’t even know when she last spoke to them. Her wolf told mine it had been months, but she’s been kept blind to it. She was moved into the pack house by the time she became a teenager and was forced to pledge herself to the Alpha’s. They could’ve been dead for years and she hasn’t known.” I told everyone.
“She lived in my house?” Verona asked. Incredulous.
“Yes, that’s what she said, she was one of my many girls assigned to a male werewolf. She was selected by age sixteen to be the companion of your husband and son.”
“That little harlot!” Verona screamed; she rushed toward Minerva in rage. She raised her hand to beat her, I held her back. “She was ordered to, or she would die” I told my sister-in-law. She walked back to Carter in tears. I saw the look in Carters eyes, his wolf was fully awake, his eyes were black, he looked murderous. He was understanding everything I was saying, the Luthor’s broke both of his missing children. One was wolfless, the other was a sex slave with a death threat and her adoptive parents who he was friends with are possibly dead.
“Plus, why would you care anymore? Vera, I heard you reject Lucius as your mate and Alpha.” Tabitha said.
“About fucking time”
“What?” Verona said.
“Seriously the whole Luthor Alpha line are dirty pieces of shit. Look what they have done! I have never seen anything like it! this is fucking sick, and you were still playing Luna defending him.” I growled at Verona. She backed away and stayed silent. She knew I was right; she knew she could not defend anything of what I said.