Chapter 27


    Alora’s POV


    Today seemed to be a day for reliving horrible things, that have happened to me in the past.


    Unfortunately to figure out what has happened and why, I have to relive the bad, painful, bloody


    memories. Not a fun adventure. It just further illuminated how fucked up and abusive my family has


    been to me. ‘Will I ever be able to heal from the wounds they had all gleefully given me?’ I wondered. 2


    “How do we heal from all that has been done to us?” I ask Xena.


    “I don‘t know...but maybe…? she hesitates.


    “Maybe?” I prompt her.


    “Maybe we could talk to Luna Ember?’ she’s still hesitant.


    I could understand why she was always urging me to talk to someone, to tell them what was


    happening. And while I would talk about some of it to Darien… I’ve never told him about the full extent


    of the horrors visited on me. I still haven’t told him about what dad did, that one time he was drunk,


    shaking my head to avoid that atrocious memory. I focus on what Xena had said.


    “I think....you might be right...and maybe we should talk to the Luna I finally say to her. I feel her


    surprise at my words, already understanding it. “I want to heal, we‘re an Alpha now, we need to be


    healthy mentally.” I pause a moment. “Well as mentally healthy as we could possibly be, considering all


    that‘s happened.” I say thest in a dry tone.


    Xena snorts at thisstment. She says in a soft tone ‘I‘m d you‘re


    finally going to get us help.‘


    I think about that for a moment, by denying myself help I had denied her help. I suddenly felt guilty, I


    wasn’t the only one experiencing the abuse I suffered. She had too, that suddenly made me realize my


    silence hadn’t only hurt me, “I‘m so sorry Xena, I should have spoken up when you first urged me to.” I


    tell her.


    ‘You needed to be able to ept the help too. Besides, we‘re stronger now than any other wolf here,


    except for Alpha Andrew.’ she says. I chuckle at thest bit. I love my wolf, she’s so special. “I promise,


    we‘ll talk to Luna Ember soon.” I tell her. I would seek help, not just for me, but for Xena too. It wasn’t


    just me who needed to heal.


    It took Darien sitting next to me, and practically pushing me to the floor from my seat, to snap my


    attention


    back to what was going on. “Shit, we didn‘t pay attention to his fight.” I tell Xena. I struggled to keep


    from looking guilty as I met his annoyed gaze, and failed miserably. “I’m sorry.” I finally say after a


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    minute of his silent ring


    “You didn’t pay attention to any of my fight did you?!” Was his questioned usation. Cringing, a guilty


    half smile on my face. “Noooooo…..” I draw out the answer then said in a rush “But I may know who


    put the chains on me and Xena!” I finished brightly, Hoping I’m forgiven for finding out something we


    had both wanted to know.


    He suddenly jumps forward and grabs me by my upper arms. With a firm but gentle shake, he gazes


    intently into my eyes and says. “Tell me everything and all will be forgiven.” Iugh. “Ok, but you have


    to let me go first.” I tell him. He lets go of my arms and sits


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    back, then wiggles like an excited puppy before whining “Tell meeee. making meugh more.


    There were two fights before his and my second fights, so I had time to tell him everything Xena and I


    discussed. Telling him what Xena told me, what the Moon Goddess had said. He’s silent for awhile


    looking contemtive. “I have a couple of theories about this.” he finally tells me. “OK.” I say. “What are


    your theories?” I ask.


    “So your mother rejected her destined mate because he was not blond haired and blue eyed, yeah?” I


    nod. “And because of this she doesn’t receive the Goddess’s acknowledgment like she was going to,


    and was not allowed to ascend?” I nod again. “So her first daughter, the one she rejected her destined


    mate for, the one thates out as desired, is the one that will never be


    GMAMO acknowledged by the Goddess?” he goes on. I nod.


    “But the second daughter she is to have will have the blessing right?” he asks, another nod from me.


    “So at that point she’s probably thinking, that’s fine, because she still expecting that you’lle out


    blond hair and blue eyed too?” another nod. “But the message from the Goddess was, the one most


    like the first Alpha.” by this point I’m feeling like a bobble head toy with all my nodding.


    “When the Goddess told her this she probably was not thinking about what the First Alpha looked like,


    just what the first Alpha’s aplishments were, this meant you were going to be what brought the


    family to a high status permanently.” Nod. “But when you came out with dark skin, hair and purple eyes,


    she was faced with the very reason she rejected her mate for, to avoid producing a child with dark


    coloring.”


    As he continues I think I know where he’s going with this. “So she’s furious, the child with the wrong


    coloring is the one to be blessed by the Goddess, she can’t ept that so she has the Witch bind your


    powers and your wolf, in an attempt to deny you your destiny.” he finishes. ‘Yup he’s drawing the same


    conclusions.


    Now I’m full of questions. But one that nagged me enough to ask out loud. “Why didn’t they have


    anymore children after me?” Looking at the fight happening without really seeing it. Then Darien next to


    me straightens saying . “Oh! I know the answer to this one.” He said. I look back at him, he turns to


    face me. “Well” I finally say impatient, this only makes him smirk at me.


    “Patience is a virtue young one.” He says in a faked wise mans voice,


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    teasing me further. “Spill it you.” I snap. Heughs at my expense for a moment, then sobers up. “Your


    mom got pregnant not even a month after having you. She was five months along when she was in an


    ident taking you to a routine well pup check.” I’m shocked, I hadn’t known this.


    “They had to deliver the pup early. It was a boy, a dark skinned ck hair boy. He didn’t survive, the


    ident had caused the umbilical cord to detach, he suffocated in the womb.” he pauses. “Your mom’s


    womb never healed right from the injury, she kept experiencing excruciating pain and heavy bleeding


    for months after.” he pauses again. 2


    “Come to find out due to the ident, her ovaries and uterus were damaged beyond werewolf healing,


    and had to be removed.” I take a moment to process this, her abuse and hatred of


    me starting to make more sense now. None of what she’s done had been right though. She never


    should have rejected her mate. She never should have abused me. But she did, she had hurt me again


    and again, over something not my fault.


    I started to question how she could have been so discriminating of someone’s coloring to reject her


    mate. It never made sense to me, and it still doesn’t. What made the Northmountains and a faction of


    the Frosts do this? They were rejecting their mates for this, for some asinine reason! What had they


    wanted so badly that they have done this for ten generations now?


    I didn’t have time to think about this now. I was up against Lexus now, so I get up and head to the floor.


    I push my questions to the back of my head. I climb up to the tform, strip down, and once more


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    into our half form. The mummers start again, but not in shock now, they’re just appreciative remarks.


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    I’m even more proud to be who I am now. Knowing my family tried to make sure I would never realize,


    or grow into my destiny. Despite all they did, we still broke free, with a little help from the Goddess.


    Darien, the Alpha and Luna ying big parts in helping me achieve this as well. I will be forever


    grateful to them, for all they’ve done for us.


    At nine foot two Lexus, a reddish mostly brown wolf, was only slightly shorter then me. But that didn’t


    matter, he blocked the first kick. The one that would have sent him flying out of the ring and into the


    stadium wall. Spinning around I lower my self in a kick that takes his legs out from under him. He


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    the side of his head. He’s out, another match over far too quickly.


    I transform back, dress and head to my seat, passing Darien on my way up, this round is his second


    fight, “Knock them out.” I say on the way by. Heughs beforementing. “That’s what you’ve been


    doing.” Iugh, he’s right, I have been knocking them out, literally.