To The Alpha who Broke My Heart

Three

Chapter Three: A bad omen and strange, strange

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"No, no, no, I don't mind at all, of course I will get it for you." I flashed her my best fake smile and walked away after she nodded her head and smirked at me.

This woman hates me, I am sure of it.

I have always had suspicions that my mother- in- law or my secondary mother by wolf rights, Eraline, or as she prefers to be called "ma'am Lin", hates me. I have never forgotten the look she gave me when Bears introduced me to her as his mate, it was a withering up and down stare like no other. I don't think she will ever accept me because of my bad background and my reputation as a rogue, even though I am intelligent, kind, one of the best doctors in all werewolf lands and I always strive to the best luna and a woman worthy of being by her son's side.

At first, I tried my best to win her over and gain her acceptance and she made it real hard for me. She was just aloof and always sneering, she would smile at me and she barely acknowledged me, even when I was trying to make conversation with her, but that all changed, well not entirely, as soon as I became luna.

Once my union with Bears and the mate bond was sealed, she just pretended to like me, she slightly tweaked her attitude towards me, especially in front of Bears. For a moment I had been fooled, I thought she had finally accepted me, especially after I gave birth to her grandchildren, but unfortunately her heart of stone can't be softened and she is still a wicked b***h. She has found ways to torture me while smiling sweetly and now she has "kindly" requested that I bring her her special flower, which she uses to sweeten tea, from the Enchanlia River, which is in the Fae kingdom. When have you ever heard of a wolf obsessed with tea?!

Fae and wolves don't exactly get along, the Fae have never forgotten the land that Bears' father took from them. The forceful seizure made the Dark Bloods a vengeful enemy, but because of the packs power and sheer size, the Fae queen had no choice but to be compliant and get her people to pretend they don't have anything against wolves.

Against my better judgment, I decided to go alone and I was supposed to go alone, with no escort for whatever reason. I had to be the one to collect the tea alone and I did not want to defy her or ask her any questions, so I did as she asked me.

As soon as I stepped out of the house I knew very well that I was setting myself up for a very annoying trip. But still I made it, because when your mother-in-law demands some tea from an enchanted forest, of course you go alone and get it for her. At least this time around she had not sent me to the Fire West. The last time I had been there I had an absolutely awful time that's I couldn't even complain about because she would simply turn it on me and say that I am weak and talk about how I did not deserve to be here in the first place. I did not want her saying those words to me, not that I want him reiterating them to her son, so I decided to go there all on my own.

I was strong enough? Surely. I had even the energy boost from the love session that I had this morning so I could ignore her because I was in a good mood. Even though this was going to make me late for the hospital. I knew very well that if I did not get this tea today and I meet her even after a mere 3 hours, I was not going to hear the end of it from her. She knew how to hold crutches over such small, little things. She could make a big matter out of nothing, absolutely nothing at all. And I had to endure this woman. Oh, I had to endure her. I'd been enduring her for almost five years now, so I could just let myself breathe through it.

I had learned and adopted this method over these past five years, and let me tell you, in the beginning it was not easy at all. I tried to play the docile game, to be naive and gullible, and that as well made her even more conniving and cunning.

I had not collected this tea of hers since my first year here and after that, a strange set of events happened, some that I could not even remember that well. I was hoping that none of that happens as much as I was hoping that I did not encounter any of the species that I am already dreading encountering. Hashtag should I just say the fairies? Those were always my biggest nightmare. I did not need to be engaging in any verbal brawls with anyone, that would just be a waste of time. But I knew very well that if I was to meet the Queen or even more as the king of Faes, then all they will want to do is to chat up with me, try to get me to come to some sense of moral crasp. And every single time that we engaged in those conversations, which was only once, I ended up with more than a mouthful. I ended up so annoyed that I did not even need to see anyone for a couple of hours after that. I remember that I was unapproachable the entire day, and this time around I could not believe that I had been made to come back here. But why? Because she wants tea? Because a wolf like her, a wolf of her caliber, cannot survive without her tea. Can you imagine that? I thought to myself, rolling my eyes.

The only way to get there was with a vehicle, but the car could only carry you so far. The forest is dense, it is impossible to drive through it. So I had to make sure that I am able to shift. In order to shift. I had to pick an extra set of clothes that I will wear so that I do not strut around in my nakedness and expose myself to the eyes of all these fiesty creatures just waiting to see one of the most feared wolves to ever live walking around in the nude.

I stack up the clothes and get into the car. I had not even told anyone where I was going, but that was only because the love of my life was like getting busy with his alpha duties. I remember when his beta came, I rolled my eyes so fiercely. Oh yes, as much as I did love Scott, he always came at the worst times, and right now all I was doing was missing my babies.

Whenever I would step away from the house, I would always end up missing them terribly. Oh so terribly, and I could not wait to return to them. As soon as I retrieved this tea, I was going to see them.

As soon as I stepped into the forest, I could feel the air. It was much more dense, but it was much more fresh. It is where I belonged. As much as we adopted civilizations that were not natural to us, and we made it seem like that is exactly where we belonged, nature always felt much more comfortable to our senses. And right now, as much as I was comfortable, there was always such a dreadful feeling about this forest. Obviously because the creatures in here were not very fond of us wolves because of our superiority, because of our dominance over their realms and their lands. Well, I had to make sure that I'm out of here very quickly. And I had a timer set in my head. I had to be there for my patients as well. I could not lose anyone this morning because of Eraline and her tea. I tell myself up precisely 30 minutes in and out.

Retrieving that special flower was very difficult task because of where it grows, grows in the water and in that water is said to be something, a creature that you would not want to encounter in the middle of the night. I never encountered it. But like I said, I've only been here only once and the last time I got lucky, I had so many distractions. It was abuzz with a lot of conflict so I just simply retrieved the flower, made the tea for her, and it was all to be forgotten. After a few days, when I got over all the insanity that going through the forest had put me through, I had told her I'd never go back there again. I had to say so in a joking manner, telling her that it kind of drives me crazy, makes me do things that I didn't think I was capable of doing, which was a great exaggeration, but she could've gotten it if she was a feeling, living being, but seeing as she has this heart of stone, she could not understand what I was saying at all.

I got into the water after running in my wolf form. My wolf hated getting wet, so unfortunately I had to shift into my human form in order to swim. Thankfully, I was a great swimmer even in my human form, and I could already tell where the flower was. This flower was very sacred to this forest. The inhabitants did not want anything to do with it because, like I said, it only belongs to one creature; the creature of the lake. And that creature of the lake was supposedly one of several arms. I could imagine it as a snake with five heads. Creepy, I thought to myself as I swim across the river.

And finally I felt it. I thought I was just scaring myself, but it became more and more real that it was here. It grabbed me. It grabbed me so quickly that I barely had the time to respond. I thought of shifting, but then I knew that I'll be even weaker fighting against something like it in my wolf form. Because guess what? Arms, hands come to a great advantage when you're a human being. It flipped me over until I faced it and then it only had a message for me, stated in the eyes.

I stared at it and it was…. It was strangely beautiful, but also undoubtedly frightening. It was a creature so reptilian, so serpentine. It looked like a snake that had been merged with some form of a dragon, some mythical beast that I could not even describe by words. I was shaking, I was trembling, just trying to put up a strong front, but inside I was frightened as hell. It spoke. It spoke something to myself in its language. I could not quite comprehend it, It was a language I could recognize as the ones that the fae spoke, and I did not understand much fae.

So I understood that this creature was their guardian, probably something that they had conjured up in summoned through the manipulation of the spirits, so I expected it very well to be territorial but what it told me was like a message, like it was not here to harm me, to such at me, but still I could feel it getting from my brain. And just like that he let me go and swam away as soon as it did so I recovered so quickly.

I got the tea and I swam out of there. It was a very crazy encounter, my drive on the way back, I kept on thinking about what it was trying to say to me, what it was trying to tell me… that something was going to happen, but I cannot be sure. Like I said, I did not speak the language and I'd never given myself much attention to learn.

Once I saw one of the girls, her name was Mara, and Mara had been here for quite some time, in fact, before she got traumatized by her time, guarding the frontier, she was a very great warrior, one of the best, she was always guarding the boundaries, she would be there with the guys, they would be mocking and making fun of her, but she was a lot better than them. But then something happened, something inexplicable, something she refuses to share in detail and ever since, she does not ever want to even be reminded of the fact that she was once a warrior.

"Mara, have you seen Rose?" I asked her, and something struck her face so loudly that everyone with eyes could see that she was very bewildered. "I need to talk to her about the other day. She came to a room where she's denied access, and I need to make sure that it does not happen again."

"Which Rose are you talking about, Luna?" She asked me again, a look of confusion patched on her face.

"Rose. Rose. Rose. You know Brooke's daughter?"

" Brooke's daughter?"She seemed even more confused than a few seconds ago. "I don't understand, Luna. It couldn't have been Rose that you saw."

"And why is that?" I asked her.

"Rose has been dead for over a year now, so excuse me, I need to be somewhere." She said to me again, looking at me strangely, and I stopped her before she could leave.

"What do you mean Rosa's been dead? I saw her just this morning."

"No," she shook her head. "It is impossible, it was not her."

"Does she have a twin then?" I asked, and it was ridiculous of me to ask because I'd known Rose for quite some time and I do not remember any mention of her having a twin, but I do not remember any mention of her death either.

"Rose does not have a twin, Luna." I watched her walk away.

It was so confusing.

Who had I seen then? If that was not Rose, then who was it?