Chapter 96: prisoners of fate

Reene’s pov

“come on spill” I said to Joseph who had this huge grin on his face as he was looking at me.

“I told them, I told my grandmother, and she was okay with it. she even gave us her blessings, and her friend, the Hale one is totally okay with us” he said almost jumping with joy.

“that’s amazing, I told you, you were worried for now reason” I said, and he nodded.

“I should really started listening to you more” he said with a huge grin, and I just winked at him.

“now that we have done that there is something I want to ask you” he said, and I nodded.

Right then and there he went down on one knee and popped the question.

Please marry me, will you marry me Reene?” he asked, and I smiled.

Okay I will be honest I screamed, a lot like multiple times and very loudly.

“yes, a thousand times yes” I said, and he smiled as he slipped the ring on my finger.

I looked at it and it was perfect, after that I had to go and meet up with a friend of mine.

Damien Darhk, he is way older than me but somehow we get along just fine.

He is almost like that older brother you can trust with your life.

“what they agreed? Just like that?” he asked me, and I nodded but he frowned.

“we are talking about Cara Hale; she wouldn’t agree just like that” he said, and I frowned.

“what? but she did, maybe you don’t know her enough” I said but he shook his head.

“I know her well enough.

She is the shadow behind the council, people think I have all this power an authority.

But that woman controls things from the shadows, I am nothing compared to her.

She wouldn’t just give in so easily” he said, and I looked at him.

I could tell he meant what he said which scared me.

Damien is powerful, everyone in our community respects him a lot.

If someone as powerful as him is scared of this woman then how powerful is she?

If she doesn’t let things get in her way then why did she do what she did?

Why give us her permission if it messes up with her plans?

After lunch with Damien, I decided to walk a little before going home when a car stopped in the middle of the road.

“Reene Brown get in” an older looking woman said in a demanding tone.

I looked at and immediately knew who it was because Damien showed me a photo of her.

I felt this fear rise in me by just looking at her and my curious side got the best of me.

I got into her car and her eyes landed on the ring on my finger and she just smirked.

“break off things with Joseph” she said, and I looked at her confused.

“what? he said that you gave us your blessings” I said, and she just shrugged.

“Joseph is going to be my future grand-son-in-law… I cant have him hating me, so I would rather come to you and tell you to end things” she said.

I smiled at this looking at this old granny,

“I can’t do that.. I love him and want to be with him so please excuse me” I said and was about to open the car door when she spoke up.

“I don’t like repeating myself. Next time when we meet I know you will have changed your mind… goodbye then” she said In a monotone.

Why did it sound like a threat?

Everything she said today sounded like a threat and I didn’t like it one bit.

I got into my car and drove home, I got there ready to have a movie night with my friends.

But I wasn’t prepared for the scene that waited for me there.

I found people outside the pack house and there was this stench of blood.

But the smell of blood was so familiar, and it was just so much of it.

when my father saw me I saw the pity and worry in his eyes as they landed on me.

“I am so sorry baby” my mother said hugging me from behind.

Meghan was crying her eyes out and as she looked at me her screamed got even worse.

“mom what is going on?” I asked her and she looked at my father.

“its Jennifer and Andrea, they both committed suicide” my mother answered.

I stood there frozen, that’s not possible.

It can’t be, I suddenly felt the world crashing around me, and I couldn’t breath.

No that’s not true, but no matter how hard I hoped it wasn’t true it turned out to be.

My two best friends all died in one day, but I didn’t but the suicide bullshit.

They couldn’t have done this, then her words came to mind.

Is this her doing? But it hasn’t even been an hour since I saw her.

When and how did she do this? How could two perfectly happy people kill themselves

? It doesn’t make sense at all.

I refuse to believe that they could do something like this

. Not my friends, we had some many plans for the future so there is no way they could have done that.

As we were still processing everything the same car stopped and she got out.

“I was in the area and heard about this tragedy… I am so sorry for your loose Alpha Brown” she said.

her eyes landed on me as if mocking and warning me at the same time.

The next few days were hard, actually hard is an understatement.

My two best friends were dead, and it was all my fault.

I went from feeling guilt to anger, from anger to wanting to be left alone.

The two people I could confide in were dead, they would have been the shoulders I would have been crying on.

I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat at all and those days in isolation turned into weeks and then two months went by.

“you need to get out” Meghan said opening the windows to my room.

She forced me out of bed so we can go out for lunch.

When we got there Joseph was there as well, the moment he saw me he hugged me.

he didn’t say a word but just held me like that and I couldn’t stop the sob that escaped me

. “I am here for you. My shoulder is here, its very firm and strong” he said, and I smiled a little at this.

Meghan left us alone and for the first time in two months I had my appetite back.

But I couldn’t tell him about Cara, I couldn’t tell anyone.

I don’t know what she would do to the people that know what she did, so I didn’t say anything.

After that we said our goodbyes and as we were just parting I saw the car again.

She opened the door; I have never felt hate in my entire life, but I hate this woman.

I hate her more than anything in my entire life and she smiled as she looked at me.

it was all a joke to her; my friends lives didn’t matter at all to her.

“I warned you and you really don’t listen.

break all ties with him or you will lose everyone.

What should I do next?

Mass suicide from your pack or a sudden mysterious illness that kills them all?” she asked with a smirk.

“what do you want from me?” I asked her and she smiled.

I knew it, the chills in my body as she said so confirmed my worst fear.

This woman obviously means business,

“end things with him forever. That’s what I want, burn every single bridge and stumble all over his heart” she said.

I couldn’t do that; I couldn’t break his heart like that.

“can I have a week?” I asked her on the brink of tears, and she shook her head.

“please, forever can spare a minute” I said, and she rolled her eyes

. “of course,” she said and the gestured that I should get out of her car..

when I got off I couldn’t go home and instead I decided to go on a run.

But when I was about to change into my wolf form my wolf stopped me.

“something isn’t right.. we are not the same anymore, I sense someone else” she said, and I looked around.

“not around us but inside us” she said, and I looked at my stomach.

“are you saying that we are pregnant?” I asked her and she agreed.

What the hell?

“what haven’t you told me this yet?” I asked her.

“we just lost our friends, and you took it harder than me.. I didn’t want to stress you out even more” she replied.

“and I wasn’t sure until now, the baby didn’t have that much presence. I think its hybrid making it half werewolf .. so, the bond between us and it was weak at the beginning” my wolf explained.

A hybrid huh?

I walked home and didn’t tell anyone anything for days and planned on my next move.

With the announcement of a baby there is a lot I need to think about now.

I met up with Joseph a few days later and we went out on a picnic.

I just needed one last day with him, “you always asked me what I would name our kids if we had one” I said to him.

“and you always avoid the topic” he pointed out and I nodded.

“if a girl I would name her Grace” I said, and he smiled.

“I like the name, Grace but why?” he asked, and I thought about it.

“I want her to be Graceful like my mother, but also kind and forgiving like you.

I want her to be strong like my sister and brave like my father.

And for me the name Frace has all that characteristics.

A graceful person is all that” I replied, and he smiled.

“well, I can’t for us to make her and have her. Grace, it’s a beautiful name Reene. I love it” he said and kissed my forehead.

“I wonder, when will we get to see our little Grace?” he asked with a wink.

The only thought in my head was that I will get to see her.

I will be seeing her but not you, will you ever forgive me once you found out?

Will you hate me forever for hiding our daughter from you?