Chapter Nine.
It had been a few days since Ben accepted me, and unfortunately for me that meant he had to go back to his Alpha duties. I had called my pack of rogues a day ago and they had decided to come and live up here. They were packing up and heading up in a week, they would be right in time for my Luna ceremony. I was at the house, getting ready to go to the training center. I wanted to show these wolves that I was a force to be reckoned with.
There was a knock on the door and I went to answer it, picking up my water bottle and keys so I could just head out. I opened the door to a very pretty woman, she had light grey eyes and dark brown hair. She looked at me confused at first and then sniffed the air. Her stare turned to malice and she looked like she was ready to pounce.
“What are you doing here vampire?” she growled at me. What the hell was her problem, most of the pack liked me or at least was forced to like me.
“I’m defined by more than just being a vampire and I’m here because my mate lives here” I responded back in a bitchy tone. She was making me late for training and I wanted the other wolves to respect me.
“Your mate? My boyfriend lives here, so you are obviously mistaken leech” she said angrily. I wanted to kill her, first of all her boyfriend was my mate and second of all I wasn’t a fucken leech. I only drank animal blood now a days.
“Yes, my mate. If you are so concerned why don’t you ask Ben yourself” I said pushing past her and closing the door. I locked it and headed towards the training center.
“It’s because of you that he left!” she screeched behind me, I turned and gave her a look. The look that said: You are a pathetic bitch.
“He was obviously going to have a mate, what did you expect? That I would never be found?” I replied back calmly.
“He loved me before you came along; you’re just a pathetic vampire who thinks she’s better. But you’re not! You never will be!” she shouted at me. My blood started to boil and I raised an eyebrow at her.
“You better shut the fuck up and call Ben before I wrap my hands around your throat” I said, with a deathly calm. She flinched but I could tell she was opening her mind link. She must not have liked the answer because her nose went up in a sneer and she gave me a death look. She launched herself at me, making me topple over. The wolves nearby stopped and stared at us. I rolled her off me and then straddled her waist, I threw a punch that landed her nose. She bucked me off and stood up, she held her nose in her hand noticing that it was broken.
She turned to me and landed a kick to my side. I stumbled but stood my ground, she came at me again and I caught her leg and swiped her feet from under her. I jumped on top of her and began to land punch after punch after punch. All of sudden arms were around me pulling me off of her. I froze and panicked.
“Breathe, breathe” my wolf whispered to me. But I couldn’t, I could only think of my father pulling me off of my mother.
“Why doesn’t Christian want to see me anymore?” I asked as my mom came to look and examine me.
“Because we don’t want our son around such filth” she said harshly and grabbed my arm, she examined my skin and then shook her head.
“Please, why doesn’t he want to see me anymore? Tell him I need to see him, that I miss him” I pleaded. I was still hanging on the hope that their humanity would eventually come back, but lately that hasn’t been seen as promising.
“We told him that you willing changed, that you fucked a vampire and that you loved every second of it. He doesn’t want to see you anymore because you’re evil and he knows his real sister is dead” she said harshly. At first I couldn’t comprehend what my mother―who used to wake me up early so I got first dibs on chocolate chip pancakes―just said. But then it sunk it and I was filled with a rage I had never felt before. It ate at my insides giving me strength I hadn’t had before.
“I hate you! I hate you! You stupid bitch!” I pounced at my mother and she toppled over, making the metal tray go with her. I grasped for the scalpel and held it to her neck. They hadn’t fed me in nearly five days and I could feel my stomach gnawing at my insides. I pushed the scalpel hard against the skin, the blood droplets went down the sides of her neck and she looked at me with fear. But before I could carve her up I was grabbed around the waist and thrown to the ground.
“You are the monster! Not us!” my father shouted as he landed a kick to my side. My body collapsed in on itself and I curled into a ball and held my knees crying. My mother looked at me with disgust but made me get to my feet.
“Where are you taking me?” I whispered. My mother slapped me making my cheek burn and I held it as tenderly as I could.
“You do not speak to us” my mother said with malice. I nodded my head trying to hide the tears. We entered the lab and they forced me on to the lab table.
“We haven’t been feeding you because you have an advantage as a vampire and a werewolf. But we need you to have the aspect of only a vampire so we suppressed both sides until you were balanced” my father said. He placed the chains on me to hold me down while wearing his gloves so he didn’t burn his hands.
It burned and I whimpered but I didn’t cry out. I needed to be strong and I didn’t have the energy to scream like usual. My mother picked up a needle filled with a silver substance, she flicked it with her finger a few times.
“We are going to inject you with pure silver. Vampires and werewolves barely survive this so we are testing to see if you recover from it faster due to your mixed genetics” my mother said. All of a sudden I was afraid, I tried to break the chains again but they wouldn’t budge.
“Please don’t” I whispered weakly. But they ignored me, my mother got the antiseptic ready to use for my arm and my dad got his clipboard. I don’t know how long I had been their experiment but I knew it had to be at least a few months. At this point I’d rather be with Clayton and his irrationality. At least most days he gave me food and let me sleep in a really comfy bed.
“Prep the patient” my father said in a mechanical voice, my mother found a vein on the inside of my arm and wiped antiseptic on it. She flicked the needle again and then positioned it for the vein. I knew what was coming was going to hurt so I closed my eyes and imagined someone, anyone saving me. “Okay to inject the patient” my father’s voice echoed in my head. There was a pinch and then at first I felt nothing. Then there was this exploding pain that made me scream and scream and scream. The pain coursed through my veins making me hope for death.
“You’re safe. I’m here, you’re safe” a voice whispered, I was clutching onto this person like my life depended on it. When I felt the tingles I knew that it was Ben. I clutched onto him tighter and he just rocked me back and forth. “What happened? What’s wrong?” he whispered.
“I get flashbacks of them hurting me” I sobbed into him. “They were injecting me with pure silver” I finished. I felt like clawing at my skin, I didn’t think it was healthy. Ben growled and held me even tighter, I knew he didn’t like the idea of anyone harming me.
“Shh, no one can hurt you now. Okay?” he said against my hair. I looked up at him and noticed we were outside. Kira was handcuffed and being held by guards and Gage was looking at me worriedly.
“You’re weak, too weak to lead this pack” Kira whispered to me. Her nose looked broken after all the punches I had landed on it, she had a bruise forming on her jaw and her eye looked like it wouldn’t be okay for a few weeks. But she was a werewolf so it would all be gone within a couple days. Ben growled at her harshly, I pulled away from him.
“Stronger than you’d ever be” I replied back.
“Not if you’re in the middle of war and have a mental break down, face it, you’ll never be good enough for this pack” Kira looked at me with malice. I couldn’t handle all of this, so I turned away and took off running. I heard Ben and Gage calling after me but I ignored them. Running as fast as I could, I made it to the end of his territory and headed to the town.
I found myself sitting in a diner that I couldn’t remember the name of and ordering a basket of French fries. I remembered when Christian and I would sneak out of the house at random times at night and go to get food anywhere that was open. We’d talk about everything going on with us and talk about the future. I missed my brother badly, missed talking to him and hugging him. I wished things would go back to how they were, when I actually had a family.
“But you wouldn’t met mate” my maybe wolf whispered in my head. I guess she was right, I couldn’t imagine what life would be like without him and I didn’t want to know. I just missed my family so much some days and I just wished I was as normal as everyone else was. I didn’t want to be part vampire, I just wanted to be all wolf.
The waiter brought me my fries and left me to my thoughts. I took a bite of one and thought of my mother’s homemade fries. The bell outside the door jingled and I looked to see Gage and Ruckus scanning the diner, when they found me they walked to my table and slid in.
“He’s worried about you” Ruckus said. I nodded at him but shoved another fry in my mouth.
“We’re worried about you” Gage said, I looked up at him and something in his eyes changed. We sat in silence and then Ben walked into the diner a few minutes later, he spotted us quickly and headed over to us.
“You guys can go” he said. I felt like I was unraveling, like I was waiting on him to grab a stray string and pull to hard so I could fall apart. But like usual he was very gentle and sat next to me. I was pulled into his arms and held there, and in that moment I knew that no matter how much shit my past threw at me. Ben would get me through it all; he was the anchor to the ship that had been lost at sea for years. He felt like home.