Episode 3
1007 Words
Valeria Romanez:
Some months had passed and I was still nursing my wounds from the hot oil my stepmother sprinkled on my body.
My inner wolf cried out when she did that to me but I did nothing.
"This is to teach you to not act silly," she said while she poured some more.
I hated her for that, I really did.
My father, Alpha Romanez, came back home the next day. I ran to his room again to show him what my stepmother had done to me but I got the greatest shock of my life.
My father agreed to it.
"It's far better than Kate dipping you in the pot of oil" was his compensation to me. I sighed. If only my mother was alive.
Now, I was seated in a tree, waiting for my best friend Karina to come by and see me.
She was the one who attended to my wounds. Only she cared for me.
I sat there for a while and soon, my far vision could stop my best friend, Karina in her wolf form, coming at her highest speed towards me.
"Valeria!! Valeria!!" She called my name loudly.
"What?!!" I screamed from the top of the tree. A look of confusion was glaring on my face. "What's wrong?"
Karina got to where I was and shifted back to her human form. Her hands were still claws, however. She was going to use them to climb to where I was.
"There is going to be a pack meeting tonight. Aren't you going?"
I got even more confused.
"What?!!"
"Why didn't anyone tell me"
It was a rhetorical question. I knew why. My stepmother surely didn't want me to attend. How despicable of her!
"No worries, I told you. Let's go get prepared" Karina said to me. She held out a big smile and I smiled back too.
I jumped off the tree as my legs met the ground
"Let's go!"
******
Evening came when we heard the bell. They indicated that the meeting was about to start. A pack meeting was surely down every two months and I loved them.
I strolled into the venue causally with my best friend as I watched my father and my stepmother ascend their seats.
The bell rang again and I watched others take their seats.
The beta wolf started to speak.
"Members of the Wolf Bane pack, it is a pleasure to have you all seated here. We met again. Today, we would like to talk about the problems we are facing in our pack and how we can solve…" his voice trailed off when I heard my best friend, Karina scream.
Everyone turned in our direction to see me laying on the ground.
"What's going on!!!" Karina shouted at me while I lay there weak.
I was about to speak when I felt my heartbeat stop and my eyes close.
That was the end, everything went dark, Boom!
*****
My father had come to where I lay as he lifted me up and placed me gently on the table.
"Stay with me!" He kept shaking me but I was ice cold.
A few minutes later, I woke up again.
My eyes opened to see a strange man beside me. He held some tools, touching me in some very inappropriate places, asking me questions I didn't understand and when he was done, he took a deep breath and asked me to shift forms.
I rolled off the table to my feet as I adjusted my dress and took a balance.
"Shift forms and don't waste our time!" My stepmother yelled from my father's side.
I rolled my eyes.
Could she let me have my space?
I guess not.
I moved away a little and tried to shift forms when I felt nauseous and weak and stopped.
The physician said out loud that he suspected it.
"What?" My father grew curious.
"Your daughter, Princess Valeria Romanez, is pregnant"
My eardrum ruptured.
"What?!!!!!"
*******
My stepmother stepped closer to me. She smiled at me and then awarded me a slap.
She turned to her mate, "I always knew she was a disgrace!! Look at her!! She is a w***e"
I held my cheeks, tears rolling from my eyes. I held my cheek with my second hand as I looked up at my father. My gaze shifted from his face to the other pack members before us.
After searching through their faces for the judgment they would give to me, I returned back to look at my father.
"Father.. I can … I don't.. oh no.. father.. please" I stammered as I saw him approaching me.
My father came to me. Slapped me again, just like his mate as he nipped on his lower lips.
"How could you?!!!"
"Father .. no"
Another teardrop fell off my eyes. I tried to beg but my father hushed me.
He turned to the guards beside him and ordered them to bring him the wipe.
He turned to another guard beside me, "Tie her up!!"
I fell on my knees as I held my father's feet.
Others came to him, my best friend, Karina came first.
"Please alpha, have mercy on your daughter!" Her tiny voice echoed while everywhere was quiet.
"Let go of my leg," he said as he bent to face everyone.
"This would be the first and only warning"
Everyone left except my best friend and I. We were crying, still begging.
My father said nothing as he kicked my best friend off his feet and picked me up by the collar.
"Please… please Father" I kept begging as we walked to the ropes the guard had tied for me.
My father paid no attention to my pleas. He tied me to the wooden log and buckled me in tightly.
The guard handed him the whip as he collected it from his hand. With a deep breath, he raised his hand to the sky and looked at me.
A tear rolled down my eyes…
Blood splashed his face.
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