“Where the fuck is he?” Pete Thompson , the alpha of the Blood Moon Pack and Sarah’s father, asked looking at his watch. “He is doing this on purpose, I'm sure !”
“Calm down , father,” Mark said, seeing him so agitated and thinking that he's going to explode a blood vein soon. “He said that he will come. Let him be! If he is a fucking royal ass it doesn’t mean that I should stay straight waiting for him.”
“Are you sick on your head, Mark?” Pete Thompson asked him a little bit furious. “This is a big chance for us. Your sister will be the next queen and we will become even more powerful than anything you've ever seen. So don’t tell me to calm down.” and he would want to say a lot of things to Mark, to put his minds back in his head, but right then the door opens and Patrick comes in.
“Your Royal Highness, I am glad that you made it!” and he bows a little, shocking Mark.
“What fuck?” he said in his mind looking at his father acting.
“I had some business but I here now” Patrick said looking around for a place to sit comfortably but Pete Thompson can’t hold his mouth closed and asked directly:
"Your Royal Highness, did you go to see Sarah again?"
Patrick just turns around and looks him in the eye with an irritated face.
“What’s his problem?” Bart almost growls in Patrick's mind but he can’t react more because Patrick puts Pete Thompson at his place in no time.
“You can’t hold me accountable for what I am thinking or doing, because I think it's none of your business” and he escapes a soft growl making Pete Thompson take a step back, while Mark just clenched his fist watching the whole scene.
“You said that you want to talk with me about the marriage problem. So, Alpha Thompson, I suggest you start speaking because I don’t have the whole day to stay here!”
“Yes, Your Royal Highness. Everything goes as we already spoke. The wedding can be held as soon as Amber feels ….”But Patrick stops him.
“Look, Pete,” Patrick said. “I’ve already told you that I don’t care. Just make her look decent and not like she will die in the next second as she is now. Amber just looks creepy right now with that pale face of hers! She will die before reaching the aisle, for the goddess's sake!”
“She will look beautiful, my prince!” Pete said.
“Don’t fuck up with this. Are we clear?’ he asks. “I came here because your daughter is the legitimate heir of your pack and this will help me to get the throne. It’s a win-win situation so take care of everything as we talked." and Patrick who stands up and comes to him, brushing some imaginary dust from Pete Thompson's shoulders.
“It will be, Your Royal Highness. I assure you that nothing will go wrong.” and he is boiling in anticipation to see his daughter married with the prince of werewolves, to see her the future queen.
“Everything goes according to plan.” and laughing Pete Thompson said “You will be a king soon, my prince!”
“Prove it to me!” Patrick said “I don’t need your empty word. I need to see the facts, Alpha Thompson!” and Patrick starts to move around the conference room while Pete just looks at him.
“Look , Your Royal Highness, you told me by yourself that you came here because of that prophecy that you read about if.” but Patrick cuts him.
“Stop reminding me what I already know. That prophecy is the only thing that made me come here and look at you daughter. The heiress of the one who calls himself the Lord of the Blood Moon will rise and shine and give us peace. Isn’t it what the prophecy said? The Queen of werewolves brings salvation .”
“Yes, Your Royal Highness. And the King knows that too.” Pete said, stammering a little.
“He knows it but he is more focused on finding my fated mate. He has the strange belief that a fated mate can make any werewolf stronger. He actually insists on this, so make your daughter look good enough to change his mind. In front of this prophecy any fated mate fails.”
“I want my fated mate, man. If you ask me, I want her not that pale and sick woman.” Bart said but Patrick ignored him.
“What if you will find her?” suddenly Pete Thompson asked.
“Find who?” and Patrick knows exactly what he asks but he just likes to see Pete Thompson nervous.
“Your fated mate, Your Royal Highness. What if she will appear? What will you do with Amber if something like this happens?” and he just stayed there with his heart heavy waiting for Patrick’s answer. “You spend a lot of time with Sarah. What if time will prove that she is your fated mate? ”
“My father asked me the same thing and I am telling you what I told him to. There will not be such a situation. Never, am I clear enough? So stop thinking about this. I am able to deal with these little things by myself. “
“But what if she really is our mate, man?” Bart intervenes and stops him from talking. “If she is our fated mate and you marry her sister wouldn't it be cruel? You will make her suffer and she had enough already! She is just a sweet girl.”
“I think that you are delusional, Bart. Sarah is just a good girl, but she is not the one I need to achieve my goal.”
“But what if she is?” Bart asked “What if Sarah is our mate?”
“It’s impossible. She is the illegitimate daughter of Pete Thompson, my father will never accept someone like her as a queen.”
“But what if she is? He will , if she is our fated mate” Bart insisted.
“She is not, so stop this. It’s simply impossible. And anyway, it wouldn’t change anything. And the prophecy talks about the heiress of this pack not about the bastard daughter”
“It would if she would be our mate.” and this time Bart is not so decisive.
“It would not, I will not ruin everything now, just because you are hoping for impossible.” and looking at Pete Thompson he commands:
“How do you plan to make Amber look decent in front of my father? Time flies and I don't see any improvements in her appearance.”
“With this last blood donation everything will be perfect. Sarah ‘s blood helps Amber a lot. Being half sister I suppose it is some genetic compatibility.”
“Spare me the details, all right?” Patrick said, throwing himself in an armchair. “This is your business. I just need a smooth marriage and let my father see all this, or I will never get my hand on that fucking throne.”
And Mark just looks at him with a very complicated look hearing him speak like this. Is it all about money and power?
“ Yes, Your Royal Highness,” Pete said, signaling to Mark to say something but he is just cursing this royal ass who acts like some god almighty.
“I will give you a proper bride to impress the king!” Pete Thompson said seeing that Mark doesn’t helps him, and he is starting to fuss a little.
But thinking about this last step Patrick almost sees Sarah’s face. Maybe she is not as sick as her sister but after so many blood donations she is also tired and pale.
“Tell me what is the plan for the blood changing ceremony. What will happen with Sarah?”
“Your Royal Highness, you don't have to care about this. We have the best therapist, and they will definitely cure my daughter. “ But he is speaking about Amber, Sarah’s fate is not Pete’s Thompson problem.
“Why are you beginning to shuffle?’ Patrick looked in his eyes.
“I am not, it's just I don’t know how to explain it, this is the doctor's work and he knows better what will happen.”
“Tell me in simple words everything you know.”
“She will take a cure, before she will change the blood with Amber, something to help the blood work and then we will make the exchange, so practically it is the same thing as we did in the past.”
“Except for the fact that you will use a cure this time” and Pete’s face twisted a little hearing him.
“To end this it is a must to use the cure, or this will continue forever and Amber will never be healthy.” Pete said accentuating the benefits of using the cure.
“Is it tested? Did you use it before?” Patrick asked a little bit concerned because he doesn’t want Sarah to suffer more than she already did.
“Our therapist is the best. We need to use this cure and everyone will be relieved “ and Pete Thompson looked Patrick in the eye.
“Relieved you say?” Patrick asked, looking at him and feeling good to find out that everything will go as he wished.
“Yes, Your Royal Highness. Everyone will be relieved” Pete insisted and Patrick’s heart went still finally.
“Why don’t you go and see Amber a little? She will be so happy, she will feel better for sure knowing that her future husband cares about her” he said trying to change the subject. “
“Why should I see her?” Patrick asks reluctantly.
“She really wants to see you.” Pete said, “ After all, you are getting married, and she will be the future queen.”
“This shit cares for Amber but he doesn’t even say a word about Sarah” Bart said growling in Patrick's head.
“It doesn’t matter that he is a shit as a father. The only important thing is that my father trusts Pete Thompson.
“So?” Pete insisted. “Will you see my daughter?”
“Daughter?” Bart asks again “You have two daughters, piece of shit !”but Patrick controls Bart so he can’t come to the surface and growl at Pete.
“Shut up, Bart!” Patrick commands him.
“I can’t, Patrick. Just look at him. He has two daughters, one is used as medicine and the other as a tool of interest exchange. He doesn’t deserve to be called a father!”
“Your Royal Highness?’ Pete asks again, seeing that Patrick ignores him totally as if he is just a dead weight.
But this time Mark can't stand it and asked his father through their mindlink:
“Do you really need to tell His Royal Highness all the time? How will he blame us then when he will find about Sarah?”
Two days later in the morning Sarah just stood alone in her room. She was thinking about everything the doctor said to her. Today she will be finally free and she is happy to finally reach the end of this Calvary.But her thoughts are interrupted when someone knocks on the door and she opens the door just to see her brother there holding a tray with a lot of food. She just looked at him with her mouth open and seeing him alone she couldn’t help it and she stuck her head out of the door looking for something.“You are alone?’ she asked him looking at him strangely. He seems different today. .“Yes? Can’t you see it?” he asks her and puts the breakfast on her desk. “I brought you some food. You need to eat for tonight's ceremony so you would have enough strength to resist. You can’t faint in the middle of the ceremony.”Mark was never alone in her room, so this is strange. He is the one who comes with the doctors, but he is a tough guy. He never acted like a brother, rather more like a
She stood there for hours, in her chair , with her eyes closed and holding her mother's necklace. Calm and cold as if this was not happening.This is the way Patrick found her when he came back to her room.“Hey!” he whispered .”Why are you staying here alone when outside the sun is so warm?”Sarah opened her eyes and smiled at him, but not as she was doing on a normal day. She forced herself to look like she would not die today.Why make Patrick sad ? Just as that Bible verse said “ Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. (Matthew 6:25-34)”It’s enough that she feels like shit, he doesn’t deserve to feel as well.“You didn’t leave back to your pack yet?” she asked him and stood on her feet.“No, I will go there tomorrow, but today I wanted to stay a little bit more with you.” Patrick said.“ Would you accompany me to the forest this afternoon?” and he looked at her smiling, making her think at the doctor’s words. The chain food. He is the top and he is beyond happy, while she is
“I thought that he didn’t know about my horrible life, but he knew all this time,” she said to Gal. “He knew how miserable my life was and he just stood and watched me as I struggled to survive!”“I can’t stand it anymore!” she yelled in her mind “I..I just need to get out of here!”She remembered everything and all those thoughts that were running through her mind in the last few minutes now were revealed through the light of a new plot. Plot which was not new at all but it was there from the beginning.They fooled her.Her father, her siblings, the pack doctor, Patrick…everything was a fucking lie! And she was thinking of asking Patrick for help!“Shit!” She just stood there and caught the bridge of her nose trying to focus and think about what she should do.“Run or die!” gal stated “ Those are our options!”“I thought that he loves us , Gal. After mom died he was there, he took my hand in his hand and told me that everything will be fine! Someone will love you! Those were his own
“Sarah!” Patrick called her but she just walked away from the lake, from Ian, from everything, without looking back.“Sarah, don’t be like that!”” He said, seeing her that she is just ignoring him and keeps walking without saying anything and this is something he just realized that it’s kind of upsetting.“Why did you act so rough with her, Ian?” Bart asked but Ian just stopped and let her go. In the end she was returning to her father's packhouse and this was what counts. Without her the blood exchange ceremony couldn't start, isn't it?He watched her moving away, he watched her delicate figure, her long brown hair fluttering in the breeze, until she was only a small point in the horizon and a lot of thoughts started to run in his mind. She never acted like this, he has been seeing her almost everyday since this blood change ceremony started.It is true that she was more and more pale every day but with him she was always smiling, even today, in the morning she was laughing and askin
“Goddess!” Sarah screamed in her heart as soon as she closed the door behind Patrick.“Hey, they don’t deserve our tears!” Gal said.“Everyone left us, Gal! We don't have anyone in this world to care about us, but at least we have each other.” and Sarah put the book on her desk , because the truth is she never intended to read, it was just a reason to make Patrick leave.“We are so alone in this big world that it’s scary, Gal.” and tears start to run again on her face, but those are not tears of fear, tears of pain. Are somehow, in all this madness, tears of relief.Someone once said that betrayal can be a gift.“Everyone laid to us. All this time all they wanted was to save Amber, no matter what. My life is not important. Mom was right, Gal. Mom was so right.”“You have me, Sarah.” Gal whispered “To the end, I will be by your side”“But the end is so close, Gal. And I didn’t have time to be happy in this world, to have our first shift, our first run, to find my mate.”“Is better this
“Just sit here and drink this cure!” the doctor said without looking at Sarah. And how would he have been able to look in her eyes when he knew too well what he was giving her to drink?“Cure?” Sarah asked laughing bitterly “Oh my goddess” she whispered and lifting her gaze she saw Mark and the doctor’s assistant watching her with concern.“Let’s do this, give me that so-called cure you said about” and Sarah holds out her arms and takes the “cure” from the doctor.“Drink it to the bottom,” Her father said. “Don’t let not even a single drop inside that recipient or the cure will not work” he said commandingly, while Amber, her sister was just smiling.“Can’t we start it?” she said “I am tired of waiting. I want to be healthy and meet my future husband, she said, accentuating the last words to stab Sarah in her heart, because she knew too well that Sarah and Patrick had a good relationship.Sarah just looked around.“What the hell , Gal? Isn’t it here not even a single person to care ab
“Sarah..” he heard her name being called.“We did it , Gal” she said “We are free.” and she just stood there, trying to find the strength to open her eyes.“Why am I feeling like this?” and Gal escaped a soft growl “I thought that on the other side there would be no more pain. I feel like shit!”But hearing what Gal just said Sarah realized something and focusing on everything she heard around the doctor’s voice.“This was not a part of the plan. Why the hell did you give her her sister blood?”“Oh my goddess!” Gal yelled “We are still here? We are not dead yet?” and he starts to cry so hard that brooked Sarah’s heart.“We are together in this, Gal. I am here, “ she whispered and tried to focus around to find out why she was still alive.“He will break our legs for this” the doctor said and she felt his hands over her arms , probably searching for her pulse and blood pressure.“We could say that she simply resisted, he doesn’t need to know that I gave her the blood that we exchanged f
Next day at breakfast Sarah just went to the kitchen as she always did before this madness with changing blood to start at this level and she opened the fridge searching for something to eat but nothing looked good.“Why are you here?’ She heard a woman's voice behind her back.“Luna Marcella” Sarah said turning around and bowed her head in front of her auntie. Pete Thompson’s Luna is her mother's sister. She hated Sarah from the first day of her life, since Pete Thompson brought her into his house and his illegitimate child.The only reason she tolerated her around was the fact that Amber was sick and her husband promised her that he will use this child as a cure for their daughter. He promised her that after Amber will be healed she will not be around anymore and yet, here she is in the middle of her kitchen, remembering her about her fucking drunken husband who raped her own sister.“Why are you here? I asked you something!” and she almost growls making Pete Thompson search for her