Timeless Love: Second Chance

2. I'm back

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[Selena's POV]

After what felt like a moment, I immediately opened my eyes, to see a very familiar ceiling. It was a black ceiling that looked like the nightsky and the stars were actual fairylights.

It finally clicked with me.

I'm in my old bedroom. I remember how I helped paint this ceiling with my father and brothers. Just talking about my family made me get up from my bed and run towards the mirror. And that's where I saw myself.

Well, younger me actually... I was sixteen, my hair was dyed blonde, but thankfully I didn't listen to Kayla back then and I bought washable dye. I wore green contact lenses, my vanity was filled with tons of different make-up and a lot of jewellery.

....I hate how I look in the mirror.. Everything reminded me of how I always listened to Kayla's advice and did exactly as she told me.

All just to make my family think that I hate them and this pack..

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"Do I really have to do all of this?" I asked Kayla, while putting on my green-colored contact lenses.

"Of course! They control you too much, Sele, we need to show them that you're independent and that you can do whatever you want!" Kayla said, while styling my dyed hair.

For some reason, I felt uneasy about all of this.

"B-but do you really think that this is going to work? After all, they just want me to appreciate my pack's traditions and such. I think that me just having my natural looks wide open won't be that bad." I tried to give Kayla a very valid suggestion.

Of course she shakes her head. "No no. Sele, they clearly try to tell you that you're beautiful, but you're not. Don't tell me that this is not what you wanted to look like. Pretty, smart and intelligent?" She asked while helping me choose an outfit for the evening.

I looked into a mirror for a bit, before slightly smiling. "You're right... This is truly how I want to look and feel. Thanks, Kayla." I told my best friend before I stood up and took the clothes that Kayla chose for me.

"No problem, Sele~" She said, while I started to change into my new fit.

My outfit consisted of a pink shirt, a short but not that short polkadotted skirt and red heels. Not gonna lie, I genuinely looked like one of those mean girls from classical movies about high school.

But I felt good about myself.

Even Kayla whistled at me. "Well daamm!~ What a babe!" She clapped. "You look f*****g gorgeous~ No man will be able to resist you!"

This compliment of hers truly made me feel stunned. "Thank you~ Now let's go~" I said before slowly going downstairs. It was a very important dinner, but I didn't know about that back then.

So when I appeared in front of my family, Kayla's family, Damien and his family, as well as some important people that had come to discuss something really important, everyone had their gaze frozen on me. My mother gasped, while my father, in anger, actually broke the glass that he'd been drinking water from.

He didn't want everyone to be witnesses of something that was about to happen. So he got up, grabbed my hand and dragged me somewhere.

Once me and my father were away from any guests, he finally snapped at me.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WEARING?! THIS IS AN IMPORTANT EVENING, NOT ONLY FOR US BUT FOR YOU TOO!" He snapped at me, punching a wall in anger. "I closed my eyes on everything you did because you're my daughter and I love you very much. But tonight, it's an exception."

"What have I even done?! I just dressed up as I wanted to! I am not doing anything inappropriate!" I tried to defend myself.

That's when he finally lost it. "You are! You are denying the fact that you're a Euton for f***s sake! You dyed your hair, wore so much make-up, wore green-colored contact lenses and now you are dressing inappropriately! Do you hate this family that much?!" He finally asked the question I was scared of.

Tears started to form in my eyes. "N-no.. I-"

"Spare your useless excuses. I’ve had enough." My father turned around.

"You're lucky that your mate is more appropriate than you, so I will spare you, but you are no longer my daughter, nor a future Alpha-to-be. From now on, your mate is going to become the Alpha and you're just going to do your purpose as his Luna."

And with that, he left me alone. To say that I was speechless, was barely touching the surface.

I was.. devastated and broken. I can't believe that my own father would do such a thing to me...

My tears slowly started to run down my cheeks, as I quietly sobbed alone, in the darkness.

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I still remember how all of this broke me and it took a week or so for me to recover from that.

Right after that dinner, everything went haywire.

But not this time. I'm going to play this game by my own rules.

Looking in the mirror clearly made me realize that I f*****g hate the color yellow now. So my first task was to go to my bathroom and take my sweet sweet time giving myself some spa procedures that we’re well deserved.

First things first, I washed my hair and took very good care of it. Looking at my white tips, I started to remember how beautiful my natural hair color was.

"...God I was such an idiot.." I told myself, while chuckling quietly.

After giving my face and body a well deserved scrubbing and lotioning, I was done with my beauty procedures.

I decided to wear a vintage bohemian, dark blue, loose, high-waisted jumpsuit with gold cherry printed on it with wide shorts. For my footwear, I wore white converse shoes. And with my hair, I chose not to fool around much, so I left it loose.

To spice up my appearance, I found my mom's earrings with white gems on them. I don't know if they were diamonds or not, but I treasured these earrings even after I got disowned and my family died.

Once I finished getting ready, I looked at my reflection in the mirror and was about to cry.

"I look... so beautiful..." But I didn't want my family to question my red eyes, so I restrained myself from crying.

After observing my beauty for a bit, I glanced at my phone for the time. It was 8:30 am.

"Time for some breakfast!~" I sang outloud before going downstairs.

Arriving to the kitchen took me a bit, because it's been so long since I've been here.

"Good morning mama~ Papa~"

At first, I received silence from my parents, but when my mother finally looked up from the stove, her eyes widened and I could see tears forming in the corners of her eyes. "Sele? Dear?.. Oh goodness!" She dropped what she was doing and without any words....

...ran towards me just to embrace both of us in a tight hug.

"Thank the Moon Goddess... You look so beautiful, my little star." My mother said that, while I, of course, hugged her back tightly.

My mother, Aurora Euton, is the Luna of our pack and an amazing mother. She has so many talents that it's scary, but what she's amazing at is cooking. There were people who tried to compete with my mother, but they lost immediately. Unlike my father, she's more of a timid personality, but when it's necessary she'll fight back, mostly with words, of course.

"Sorry I'm late... Mama.." I said while I cautiously glanced at my father, who, of course, observed us very intensely.

"It's all good, Selene.. You j-just needed time to think about everything, right?" My mother asked, while backing away from me.

"...Y-yeah... I really needed to think....." I thought for a little bit before answering. "....If I am really good enough to become the next Alpha. ...And I think that I need....to have an intense training session.... in order to catch up with e-everyone else.."

This was the truth. I have never trained with anyone before, because I listened to Kayla back then, who told me not to. She told me my parents just wanted to use my potential in order to cause wars with every pack. When, in reality, Kayla just didn't want me to be stronger than Damien and they both wanted to have easy access to manipulate me.

I was such an oblivious girl in my past life... But not this time.

My father continued to look at me. At first he was suspicious of my actions, since he's completely used to me looking like a mean Barbie girl. But I didn't lose my calm and cool aura in front of him, I wanted to show him that I was completely serious.

Axel Euton, current alpha of our pack, Moonlight Dwellers, and my father. He is well-known for his very warm personality towards all of his pack members, mostly his family, but at the same time, he's ruthless, cold and serious towards everyone. Other pack alphas, visitors, enemies, you name it.

"And why are you having such thoughts? What happened to 'I'm not going to follow yours or any of the family's paths, I will be my own person.' " My father mocked the last sentence with a girly voice-- but in his case, it didn't really work well for him, since his voice is quite deep and manly.

Definitely not good for trying to imitate a girly voice.

"I may have said that before.... But.. I needed time to think about all of this. And I realized that Kayla, my best friend, is not a good influence on me." I finally said it.

I finally told them why I had such a drastic change and such. I just... hope they will understand me.

My parents were both quiet at first, before finally speaking.

"Kayla?.. I thought you two were good friends. And she looked like she was giving you good advice for everything." My mother said, of course, my mother really likes Kayla. To my mom, she was the sweetest and most polite lady.

I really felt sad that my own mother was deceived by that b***h like that. I was about to tell her stuff, but my father decided to interfere.

"So you have finally noticed that, dear daughter of mine?"

That question really put me and my mother in shock about what we had just heard.

"....Wait... You knew about Kayla?!" I exclaimed, clearly confused.

My father chuckled sadly before answering my question. "I'm an Alpha... I am not an i***t. I immediately sensed that she was up to no good, but I was slowly losing you, sadly."

"Dear... Why have you not told me?!" Of course my mother felt betrayed a little bit. "I thought that we had nothing else to hide from each other!" She pouted like a hamster. Honestly, my mother was just the cutest little thing.

My father chuckled once again, while standing up from his chair and coming closer towards his wife. "Oh can you stop being this cute?~ I didn't want to tell you, because knowing you, you would have already acted cold towards Kayla, then I wouldn't be able to observe her more in this habitat." He said, before hugging her tightly and leaving a small peck on her forehead.

She and my father have a clear height difference. My father was 6'0 while my mother was 5'3. So he needed to lean towards her a little bit.

I smiled sombrely, because I knew that in the future, my own mate would only pretend to love me. And such affection that my parents share with each other, I won't be able to feel it.

My mother pouted slightly, before mumbling. "...Okay you're forgiven.." She looked away with a big red blush on her face.

Then she masterfully slides away from my father's embrace.

"Now I need to finish making breakfast for us!~ Take a seat you two!" Aurora laughs before going back to the kitchen to cook.

My mother really loves to cook, so my father told the pack members that if my mother wants to cook for us and for the pack members, then we should all just let her do it.

"Okay okay woman. Sheesh~" My father said jokingly, before taking his seat.

"I really am starving! I was such an i***t for forcing myself to eat less." I said before taking my seat as well. I was so excited to eat a lot of my mother's cooking.

While my mother was busy finishing cooking, my father looked at me a bit more seriously.

"Have you really thought about what you said recently?" He wanted to make sure, cautious as always.

I simply nodded. "Yes. I did. Since I am the oldest and have more potential of becoming an Alpha, I should carry such honor with pride.” My expression was serious this entire time, not breaking eye contact with my father. “So I need to be capable of protecting not only myself, but also my pack and my family." My answer came from the bottom of my heart.

And because of my father's sudden change of expression, I think he was satisfied with my reply. "Very well then. We will be starting your training tomorrow morning."

"But why not today?!" I asked.

He laughed. "Because you need to rest a little bit and don't you want to hang out with your family today?"

My face got flushed because of the embarrassment. "Y-yeah.. Y-you're r-right." I looked away while I heard a loud snickering from him.

I am so happy that I am back.. I can finally spend time with my loving family.

Then sudden voices that came from the entrance of the kitchen surprised me.

"...Why's this i***t here?" One voice said.

"Yeah. I thought that it was breakfast with 'family'. There's no need for a random person to join us." Another voice added.

I recognized their voices immediately. But I simply replied with a gentle sigh.

"Good morning to you two, Reece, Isaac. My lovely brothers.." I said that without even turning around to face them.

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