CHAPTER 112

CHAPTER 112
We walked back to our room in silence, each of us lost in thought. The door shut quietly behind us as we got into our room. I let out a breath of relief as I sat on the edge of the bed. I definitely didn’t think this was how our day was going to end.
I looked up at him to find him staring into space lost in thought. I wanted to know what was going on in his head so badly. I stood up from the bed and wrapped my arms around him from behind as I rested my head on his shoulder blade. “Penny for your thoughts?” I asked him as I placed a chase kiss in the middle of his back.
He released a sigh and turned around to snake his arms around their waist. “I love you Anastasia Rose”. This was not the first time that he was telling me he loved me. It was something that I knew I would not get tired of hearing, but today... there was an intensity behind his words that I could not place my hands on exactly.... but it was there.
I hugged him tighter and buried my head further into his chest. “I love you too Eric Lancaster”. I murmured into his chest. My words were muffled by his chest, but I knew he heard me.
We pulled away after a while and took our turns to use the shower before we got ready for bed and snuggled into each other. Letting sleep swallow me whole.
“Daddy!” I screamed from the end of the street giggling. He started to run in my direction, but I ran away from him as fast as my little legs could carry me. “Daddy, you can’t catch me! I’m too fast for you.” I said in a sing song voice, as I stuck my tongue out at him.
“Really? Now, let’s see who the fastest is.” He said, before increasing his pace and lifting me in the air. I let out a squeal and clung to his arms even though I already knew that he’d never drop me.
“I see what you two are doing. You’re spending time without me right?” mum said with a huff as she crossed her arms and looked away. I shared a look with dad, seeing the mischievous glint in me reflecting in his own eyes I nod at him and let’s me down. As soon as my feet touched the ground I ran to mom with a squeak and started tickling her, while dad came up from behind her to keep her in place.
“Fine, it’s okay. I forgive you both.” She said between laughs. Before I know it I’m engulfed in a warm hug by a pair of large hands. “Come on sweetie, let’s get you cleaned up for bed.” Soon enough I was snuggled between the warm comfortable sheets of my bed.
“Daddy? Could you read me that story of the werewolf and his mate again?” I asked, giving him my best puppy dog look. He looked like he was thinking for a few seconds before he settled in the seat beside the bed. “Why don’t we change the story a little bit?”
I blinked up at him confused, “I want to tell you about a wolf that lost everything he had because if how much he loved his mate.”
“He lost everything? Why?”
“The people around him didn’t agree with the mate that the moon goddess chose for him and they tried to stop him from completing the mating, but he didn’t allow them to do it. He loved his mate too much.”
“So what happened daddy?”
“In the werewolf world there are rules, these rules are made by people called ‘the council’ this council make rules so that the wolves don’t become lawless and live however they want, but as time went on, the council members started becoming corrupt and started making rules to protect their selfish interests and their pride. One of the rules was that no werewolf should be mated to a human. This was because they believed humans were beneath them and were not ‘worthy of being their mates.”
“That’s not very nice daddy, everyone should be treated fairly.”
“Yes sweetheart, but that’s what the mean wolves didn’t understand. So one day one of the council men found his mate, but his mate was a human and he loved her very much. He knew his fellow councilmen weren’t going to support his decision, but he had faith that eventually they would come to terms with it and he accepted his mate.”
“Did they end up accepting him daddy?”
“No they didn’t. They started treating him badly, and he accepted it, he still had hope that one day it would end and things would go back to the way they were, but he was wrong. He didn’t realise how wrong he was till he came home one day and saw that they were about to hit his pregnant wife. That was when he lost it. He lost control to his wolf and did very bad things to those people, and they never bothered him again, but he just couldn’t forgive again, he didn’t have it in him to let it go because they nearly hurt his wife and his unborn child. So, he packed his bags and moved his little family to the human world where they lived happily ever after.”
Unlike the other times I has woken up after a dream I didn’t wake up screaming or crying... instead I felt this happiness in me, we gad good memories together, and I might not get to see then again, but at least I have happy memories to hang on to.
I looked around the room, I was alone. It was understandable because the morning sun was already peeking through the blinds. I collapsed back into the bed, I was honestly not feeling up to doing anything today... I wish I could just stay like this for the rest of the day.
I knew that as nice as it would be to stay in bed all day and do absolutely nothing, I still have a lot to do. With that thought in mind, I dragged myself out of bed and into the shower to prepare for my day ahead.