It's for the Moon Godnes to know

Chaper 7

Angel POV

My marriage to Ryan was pretty uneventful on a daily basis. He got up before the sun to attend the training. I got up with him, washed myself, put on clothes, and made breakfast. Ryan came home, washed himself and ate. Some days he wanted intercourse, other days there were meetings he had to attend in the pack house. The days he was home I cooked for him in the middle of the day, otherwise he did not sit down with me before dinner. The days went by with cleaning, laundry and looking after the kitchen garden. The days he was not home I used to set out traps in the woods behind the pack house. I did not lack the money, but I enjoyed hunting and my mother could use the money from the furs. Ryan said nothing about it as long as I took care of my duties, both in the house and in bed. Intercourse was much better than my mother had let me understand. If it happened one night that he did not take the initiative, I would sometimes lie and catch myself wishing he did.

When we had been married three months I was with pup. In the beginning it went easy enough, I did not suffer from morning sickness and was not tired. But after four weeks, it started to get hard for me to get up in the morning. Ryan noticed it and forbid me to hunt any more, he did not want anything to happen to his pup. When, after six weeks, I could no longer lift anything heavy, my mother began to come and help me with the housework. She came every day shortly before midday and helped me with the food. After lunch, she sent me in to sleep, while she took care of the cleaning and laundry. Dinner was ready when Ryan got home, and usually my dad came and ate with us. Ryan seemed to be happy with my dad's company in the evening. They did not drink, but talked loosely about the news they each heard during the day. It was an evening where I was sitting knitting with my mother by the fireplace that I overheard them talking about Huntsmen. It was the first time I heard about these people's brutality towards wolves. I got cold all the way to my bones and started shaking. My mother stopped the conversation and said they were going home.

That night in bed after intercourse I took courage to myself.

"Who are these Huntsmen?" I heard myself ask. Ryan froze and rolled away from me. "

"So you heard that?" I just sighed and he continued.

“It's been years since a trader told about werewolves!" I frowned. "That's what people without wolves call us. They did not realize that we existed, and when they found out, they panicked! "I was afraid to say anything. I had noticed that the traders did not smell like us, but I had never thought or known that they were without a wolf!  I was very afraid that Ryan would think I was stupid, but I needed to know more. Fortunately, he told it by himself.

"Humans hunt us, vampires and witches. They fear us!" I thought I was more afraid of humans than vampires!

"It's been a year since the first reports of Huntsmen came. It's a group of soldiers with dogs, these dogs are trained to be able to smell the wolf in us and kill us!" I shook and crawled in to Ryan. He held me. "You can rest assured that no one will ever come here, and since we are not leaving our territory, almost no one knows we exist. I fell asleep confident that Ryan would take care of me, or at least my pup.

On another occasion, Ryan's parents were visiting for dinner. I was close to giving birth, so my mother and Ryan's mother washed up after the meal while I half slept in a chair by the fireplace. I overheard their conversation.

"I hope you do not resent the way we got Angel married to Ryan!" Ryan's mother started the conversation and I listened more intensely.

"I don’t understand what you mean?" My mother continued to wash up.

"You see, my husband had long kept an eye on Angel, she is not only beautiful, she is also skilled and strong!" I could hear my mother humming affirmatively. "Ryan hadn't even thought about taking a mate, he was more preoccupied with his goal of becoming the best fighter in the whole pack." my mother stopped washing and turned around.

"You see, the Beta has only daughters, and none of them old enough to get married, but since Ryan and Harry are best friends, it would be natural to choose Ryan as Harry's Beta when that day comes!" My mother sighed, "But no rank without mate!"

"Yes, my mate suggested Angel to Ryan and he said yes. But your mate rejected all requests for marriage to Angel!" my mother chuckled. "Yes, I have had to hear about it many times!" Ryan's mother put a hand on my mother's arm.

"I'm sorry, but we all knew what kind of man your mate was back then!" my mother just nodded. "So it was on purpose that my mate let him build up such a huge debt, so we could get the right mate for Ryan!" I could hear it was hard on her and I could see my mother handing her a handkerchief. "I'm so sorry, but I hope you can forgive me anyway, now we'll be grandparents soon!" my mother put her arms around my mother-in-law. "It was for the best, not only for my Angel, but also for our pack!" There was snoring and nodding. "So I forgive you, but not only that, I thank you too!" I smiled a little to myself, I agreed with my mother, this was for the best, for all of us!

After five long months, I gave birth to Marvel. She was a beautiful little girl, with her mother's eyes and her father's strength. My Mother insisted that the strength was from both of us! But I did not care, she was healthy and well. Ryan was happy that she was carried well and that the birth was without complications, but he was not much interested in her. As soon as I was ready down there again, he would continue the intercourse. I do not know if it was only because he wanted a boypup, or because he also found my breasts very alluring now that they were bigger. Marvel was only four months old when I was expecting a pup again. I told Ryan that at dinner the day I found out, he was just looking at me, then at my stomach. "Let’s hope it's a boy this time!" Was all he said. I must confess that even though I had not expected much from him since he barely looked at Marvel, I had hoped for a little more from him than that! Our life went on and my Marvel grew, so did my pup in my stomach, and so did I. Barely four weeks pregnant and by cleaning up after breakfast is how I remember my last moment where I was happy and as confident as I could afford to feel.

The door to my home was torn open, my mother stormed in and looked around. The panic was written on her face! She first caught sight of me, then her gaze slid on, to the cradle with Marvel. She stroked across the floor and grabbed Marvel and her blankets. I was very incomprehensible and instinctively sought to protect my pup, and to go to take Marvel from my mother. But my mother just grabbed me hard by the arm and pulled off with me and my screaming pup in her arms. I saw nothing but my screaming pup, I suppose there was panic around us too, but I do not remember having discovered it. My mother pulled me into the woods behind the Pack house, she seemed to look around before pulling me on. Suddenly she stopped, handed me Marvel and turned away. She grabbed something and a hatch opened into the forest floor. She grabbed me and tried to push me down the hole, but I resisted. Then came the first mindlink. It was Alpha, and he ordered women to hide themselves and their children. I was now shaking with fear, crawling into the hole and waiting for my mother to follow. But she did not come in, she began to close the hatch. I tried to stop her, but she shook her head.

"Today it's my turn to protect you!" She closed the hatch and I could hear her throwing soil, branches and leaves at them.