The Wolf In Me

Chapter 17: Part 2 The truth hurts

"Say, something son. Please," father pleaded. All I could do was stare back at him.

I found myself in a roller coaster of emotions.

"Korine raised you like you were her son. You see, she was going to have a child a few years before we met but unfortunately, he passed away before he was even born. As soon as she saw you she instantly fell in love with you and you helped her find the light she once lost. She has asked me not to tell you the truth. To her you were hers. I accepted her request as long as she kept you safe. That is why I never told you the real truth. But now since she broke the one promise I asked of her, I had the full right to let you know. Both your parents are alphas son."

I looked at Mei still not knowing what to say.

"What promise?" I blurted out looking at him sternly.

"For her to live with you here and help you with your alpha duties until you find your mate," he explained.

"I am simply feeling numb. All these years I thought my mother was human. I am still processing all this. Dad. I need some time to take it all in." That is all I could say.

He nodded and stood up from the chair he was sitting on and moved it back in the corner where it was originally.

"I will give you two some space then," he said before leaving.

I held a strong fist and punched through the wall, screaming out with rage.

"Why? Why me? Why all this?!" I yelled.

"Lulu," Mei said faintly, looking weakly at me.

"Mei. Oh...My Mei," I started sobbing both with joy to hear her voice and sad at the same time for knowing that there was a secret kept from me once again.

I rushed to her side, held her hand, placing my forehead against hers. "I was so afraid of losing you."

She chuckled as I lifted my head to look at her face, admiring her natural beauty.

"You can never get rid of me knowing how stubborn I can be."

I stared at her for a moment, then laughed at her joke, making me feel more at ease.

"How long have you been awake?" I asked now as I realised she might have heard it all.

"Enough to understand your pain," she said with a weak voice.

She managed to lift her hand to my heart.

"I am always going to be here for you. Bring your father back. He saw me open my eyes before he left. He knows I am awake. But I need to have a word with him."

"I thought you needed some space princess, with your mate," he started walking in through the door.

Mei shook her head slowly.

"Welcome back. I believe you are Luka's father.....that makes you the previous alpha of the moonshine pack. The pack I was born in. I was too young to remember you but I heard stories of how good you were to us."

He sat down beside her and took a deep breath in.

"I remember you and your parents quite well. Your father was one of the strongest wolfs I knew," he said looking straight into her eyes.

"I was sad to hear that they were taken away from you. That is why we need to get rid of the vampires. They have done enough to....."

Mei held his hand as she noticed tears forming at the edge of his eyes.

"Help me sit up," she said gasping as she tried hard to lift herself on her own.

I was sitting down on the other side of the bed not saying a word and just listened to the conversation. ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

"We need to let them know that we are done with them," Dad continued saying as he sat back down.

"We will," she said looking at me trying to send me a non-verbal message by moving her eyes at dad and me before my father could see her. I nodded in agreement.

"I will protect everyone from harm. For now, the Vamps are dormant but they will soon wake and we need to be ready for when they return."

I looked at both of them with a serious look in my eyes.

"I do have a question though," Mei asked. "How are you alive when everyone thought you were dead?"

My dad smiled weakly at her as I could see he was trying to find the right explanation.

"Our Goddess brought him back to us Mei," I explained shortly before we got interrupted.

Steph barged in the room with a bowl full of poison berries.

"I found these in ......" she looked at all of us and stopped talking.

"Mei, you, you are awake. Oh goodness, gracious!" She rushed in to hug her. "I thought I have lost you. How would I have survived living without you by my side?!"

Mei giggled and whispered something in her ear softly.

Mei's POV

"You know I always keep my promises," I told her as I moved her ears closer to my lips.

She nodded and smiled with teary eyes. She lifted the bowl to show it to Luka.

"This is what I found. Poisoned berries hidden behind the pots and pans."

She gave the bowl to Luka and bowed down looking at all of us before heading to the door.

"Thank you Steph," Luka told her. She nodded and left the room.

We all stared in silence for a while.

"Who must have done this surely left in a hurry. It feels that way. If they left the evidence here, then, they must have fled before we could find the culprit behind this crime. I wonder if it was the vampires. Could it be they have already awoken?" Gerald said pacing up and down the room.

"What makes you think that?" Luka asked with his deep voice I much loved.

"Well. Because this has happened before. They poisoned Kalile, one of my favourite guards back when I was the alpha of the pack. Unfortunately, he did not survive. Right after, a messenger from the

vampires stood just outside our packhouse and yelled loud enough so that I could hear him. We can do more than just poison. We will kill you all he said, then he ran away before my guards could get to him with his vamp speed."

I looked at Gerald with an angry look.

"Then it must be them. They want to let us know that they are not going to stop until they achieve what they have in mind. But they don't know us enough. We are survivors and we are protected under our sweet Goddess Leto."

I looked at Luka and saw that he was still holding the bowl not saying anything.

He looked angry and upset. His eyes turned red and started to growl breaking the bowl of poisoned berries between his hands. He stood up looking at us.

"If they want war, then war we must give," he blurted out still growling.

My eyes gazed at Gerald hoping that he would calm Luka down but he just stared at him with stunned eyes holding his chest.

"Son, I can feel your anger. I can feel it inside me," he looked surprised. "How is this possible?" He started to growl too losing control of himself trying to stop shifting. "Stop son, stop" he growled and revealed his huge wolf teeth as he started to shift. Luka was too angry to notice what his father was saying.

"Lulu. Come here, sweety. Come to me" I said softly. He looked straight at me and he started to breathe in and out trying to get back into his senses.

He seemed to relax as he heard my voice and slowly walked towards me still with his alpha eyes full-on red. Gerald seemed to stop shifting but was still gathering himself. I looked at Luka and held my hand cupping one cheek.

"We will find them together and destroy their nesting home. Wait for me to heal. I am already feeling better. We have to start planning how we should get rid of these monstrous creatures." He nodded and then looked at his dad.

"How could you feel my anger?" He asked, now realising what was happening.

"Leto must have somehow made us connected. She said she would give you the strength of two alphas, but I never thought she would connect us like this."

He raised his head to look at his son.

"I think if we are close enough to each other we can give one another's good or bad energy," he explained.

Great I thought. Then he would feel it when Luka and I are having our own private time together. He would feel it through his son.

I smiled and looked at Luka. "Well, tomorrow will be the day we start preparing. I will be better by then. I can already feel it." Luka leaned in for a long hug and kissed me.

I looked at Gerald to see how he would react and he smiled back at me.

"I will see you in Luka's office at 9.00?" He asked. I nodded before he left the room to give us some space.

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