Chapter 34

"Ouch," I groan, getting up from the hard floor. I must have fallen asleep here and now my neck hurts all the way down to my waist.

I feel anger bubbling inside me. O Moon Goddess, don't let anyone provoke me because I don't know what I will end up doing today.

I trudged slowly towards the bathroom, stripping off my clothes before I stepped into the warm water and easing my tense muscles.

"Kate, be fast. We are having training today," Ma yelled from outside the bathroom door.

"Yes, you can go. I will meet you there," I yelled back. "I should always try to lock that door," I mumble to myself.

After spending time washing my hair and body I did my daily routine before stepping out of the bathroom with a white towel wrapped around me.

I change into my training outfit before leaving my room and heading to the gym where Ma was setting up things for training.

"You are here. Okay, let's begin," she says, adjusting the weights.

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After hours of boxing and begging Ma to let me rest, she finally agrees. I leave her in the gym and go to my room for a warm shower. When I was done I changed into white jeans and a black crop top.

"Now to feed you," I say, patting my flat stomach.

I entered the kitchen, and I prepared a plate of toast and jam.

"She will refuse to help, so just forget it," Grace says to someone before Lillian enters the kitchen.

"You are just the person I am looking for," Lillian says taking a seat on the stool with Becca and Grace trailing behind her.

"For what exactly?" I ask with raised eyebrows before taking a bite from the toast bread and jam.

"Grace here is trying to impress Jack," Becca answers for her, grinning mischievously.

"She just found out yesterday that they are mates and she has always had a crush on Jack, so now it's a dream come true for her," Lillian said with a wide smile.

"And so what's my role in all this?" I ask nonchalantly before taking my empty plate to the dishwasher and facing Lillian.

"I want us to have a girls' night and you can help Grace get ready," she says, glaring at me.

"I am not interested, but you can do whatever you like," I say, leaving the room.

"Your loss," Lillian yelled after me.

I walked into the living room to find Tomas and Elisa calculating something or at least that's what it seemed like.

"Kate, can you help me with something?" she called, putting down the notepad in her hands.

"Yes?" I say.

"Go through this for me," she says giving me a huge book that looked over 3 years old with a brown dusty cover. "Check the accuracy then bring it back to me, okay?"

I take the book from her, checking through the unknown numbers. It's all about pack distributions.

I sigh, getting to work. "I can't believe I am stuck with this. I need to calm down before this anger rises more, but this work is meant for the king and not me, for crying out loud." I sigh loudly, gaining the attention of the pack members in the movie room, "Sorry, please continue," I say, laughing awkwardly.

"Can you stop grumbling? This is also going to be your work since you are the Luna and queen," Tiara yelled angrily.

"Finally I am through," I yelled jumping up. Two hours of sitting here, or was it one hour? Who cares? What matters is I am finally through with this stupid book.

I find Elisa in the living room still working, but Tomas is nowhere to be found.

"Here, I am through," I say, putting the book on the table in front of her.

"Thanks, dear, you saved me from this work," she says tiredly.

"Is this work not meant for Lawrence and Anderson to actually do?" I ask, taking a seat on the couch with her.

"Yes, they left saying he has work to do with the Dark Shadow Pack," she says, placing some files on the glass table.

I helped her arrange the remaining files and books before transferring them to the library in Lawrence's office. I never knew there was a library in Lawrence's office. It is a huge library with all kinds of different books, some about past legends but many books that were unknown to me. I will surely find the time to go through all these legends.

"Thanks, sweetie, you can take a rest now," she says with a sigh.

I really need to go for a run. It has been a long time since I left Tiara. I think this is the right time to let some anger out.

I pass through the movie room where Lillian, Becca, and Grace were watching a TV show.

"Kate, let's watch a movie," Becca says, calling out to me.

"I don't feel like watching a movie," I say coldly, and leave the room, but before I can leave Grace yells after me.

"Is it because I am here? I can leave if you don't like me being here," she says walking towards me.

"Can you stop behaving like the victim here?" I say harshly, feeling my anger rising to the surface.

"Kate, can you please give me a chance to prove myself," she says with tears streaming down her eyes. What's going on here, a pity party or what? "I need you to at least listen to my reasons before judging me the way you do."

Seeing the tears made me lose my cool, I pin her to the wall with my hands on her neck. "Shut up before I end what I should have ended a long time ago," I growled in her face.

I was pushed with force away from her by Lillian and Becca. "What's your problem?" Becca yelled angrily, and she walked towards Grace, helping her up and leaving me stunned by their reactions.

"I know what your problem is. Grace told us everything about you," she says pointing a finger towards me, "that you were once her best friend," she says.

I look at Grace's face to find hurt and confusion.

"You're always fighting those around you. Sometimes I am scared you will get angry and kill me. I have tried to be nice and understanding but it's not my fault your dad hates you so much," she growled loudly, releasing all her anger and frustration on me.

Becca glared at me while Grace tried to speak, but she was cut off by Lillian. "You are a murderer who kills when someone provokes her."

I am shocked but I understand that everything she is saying is nothing but the truth. "I am sorry," I say, my voice barely above a whisper.

"I am a murderer," I whisper to myself. Maybe if I hear it coming from me it will make the pain easier.

"Kate, don't listen to what she is saying. She's just angry," Grace says, trying to reason with me.

"I understand people always say what they feel about you when they're angry." I smile weakly at them before leaving the mansion and head to the forest.

I shift into my white wolf. I need somewhere to clear my head.

I know the right place to go. I run full speed, feeling the wind blow through my fur and paws until I came to a stop at the gate for Lawrence's waterfall.

I put in the pin since I memorized his pin the last time he brought me here.

I sit down on a rock close to the waterfall. "Kate, don't cry. You are a strong woman, and you can hold it all in the way you always do," I trailed on giving myself a pep talk to stop the tears from building in my eyes.

I tried doing this for a few hours while watching the water flow freely. If only my life was so easy.

"I am always here for you," Lawrence says taking a seat on the rock closest to me.

"You're here? How did you know I was here?" I was so deep in thought I didn't know when he entered.

"Forget about that. What's going on?" he asks, concerned.

One look at him made the tears I was trying to hold back flow freely from my eyes like the waterfall. This man seemed to break down the walls I put around myself.

I got up and gave him a tight hug. He seemed surprised for a few minutes before hugging me back.

I hug him as if my life depends on it, and for real, my life depends on him because of the hope that someone is always there to hold me when I fall.

It's great.