Chapter 3

Melanie Pov

As a kid, I used to ask my mum where my dad was, at times I would sit and wait thinking just maybe he left for work and he'll be back.

With my mum's absence, which was almost every day, I couldn't ignore the longing I felt in my heart.

Not even once did my mother let me believe she loved me, she never attended parents meetings at my school, ever.

All the responsibility was left to my nanny whom I appreciate so much.

She was more than a mother to me.

I could watch other kids with their both parents, how they interacted with their fathers, the love and admiration in their father's eyes, their smiles, I wanted that.

I wanted the love and protection only a father could give, I wanted a warm hug from my father because my mum never gave me one.

I wanted to experience what it felt like having a father who would be proud of me and love me.

I wanted my father to show me homework and drive me to school every morning. Instead of hard face guards.

One day I was so determined to know the truth from my mother, but she brushed me off harshly saying that my dad was gone and he never wanted me, that to him I don't even exist.

I was only seven by then and she didn't even care about hurting that little girl's feelings.

I stopped pestering her but still kept my hope. That may be,? just maybe one day he'll come for me. And I held on to that maybe.

When I started working, courtesy of my mother, I hired investigators to help me find him but they always came back with zero results.

My childhood was full of sadness, hopelessly waiting for a miracle of parents to happen, which unfortunately never came.

When I turned seventeen, I gave up the hope of ever knowing him and stopped wishing my mum would love me.

I accepted the fact that not all parents love and want their kids, and I stopped wishing my mother was home, and that's when I found myself a penthouse in the city which im moving in today when I get the hell out of this place.

I'm sick and tired of my mother's cold heart and her lies, she can have the empty house to herself from now on.

No kid deserves feeling the way she made me feel and looking at the man before me, he's just like her, he never cared.

He knew I existed and did nothing but stay away for seventeen years and now here he is, claiming to be my father.

He was never there when I needed him and now I don't.

Thinking about it, it's him who didn't want to be found.

Yet here he is, magically dropped from whichever hole he's been staying at for 18 years, claiming am his daughter.

Why does the universe hate me?

"How come" alpha wonders looking from my supposed dad and back at me with disbelieving eyes.

"I will explain later," the man says sighing.

Who are these people? and the wolves?do they know each other? Was this a setup?

I'm I finally going to die? Or worse dead?

My mum will not even care, no one will notice I'm gone, maybe my boyfriend. I can't find my friends or my guards, did they plan this or something?

"No no no, this can't be happening, please let me go," I look at alpha with teary eyes, silently pleading with him to let me go.

He looks down at me tenderly stroking my cheek and concern covering his features. He gently wipes away my tears using his thumb, his other arm is still holding my waist tightly.

"No one is gonna hurt you" he assures me but I don't trust anyone right now.

I just wanna go home and forget anything ever happened. And remain safe in my own house.

It's like being in a dream, a nightmare that I'm trying to wake myself up from but I can't, sadly this looks real. I have never been in a situation like this one before.

"What is happening?" I ask looking around me with fear. All the people at the party are now wolves.

"We need to get her out of here," my supposed father tells alpha.

This is bad, really bad.

"What are you, people?" I shout in exasperation because nobody is saying anything.

Alpha looks at the one calling himself my father and they seem to be communicating with their eyes.

Weird weird.

He sighs and finally speaks;

"You are in a pack of werewolves sweetheart" he answers calmly.

Sweetheart?

Pack of werewolves? does that mean they live with werewolves or something?

"You live with werewolves, " I ask him calmly trying to understand what he's saying.

"No, everyone here is a werewolf," he says softly.

Not possible.

" Where are my friends and my guards," I say looking around me.

Four wolves come forward and turn to my two best friends and my two guards.

Them too?

No, this is not real.

This is not happening.

My two best friends are werewolves and my guards too?

Am I that stupid to never notice?

All this time and they never said anything?

I look at them with teary eyes shaking my head in denial, I'm I that thick in the head?

Why didn't they tell me?

"Mel we are sorry we didn't tell you" lily breaks the silence crying like me. Even my guards? Oh, God!

Is my father too?

I look at him to confirm my suspicion silently begging him to say no but he nods.

How?

If he's a wolf does that mean I'm too? but I'm human, right?

What about my mum, she must also know, is she one of them?

And why is alpha calling me mate and being nice to me when I just met him?

What does mate mean to them?

All these questions with no answers make my head hurt.

"Can I go home please?" I don't want to be here anymore second.

My eyes silently beg alpha because he doesn't wanna let go for some reason, when I get out of here I'm gonna run for my life and I won't look back ever.

Wolves changing to humans and vice versa? never heard of it in my entire existence.

He looks unsure, like he's thinking hard about it, what if they keep me here for good?

Or eat me. Wolves eat meat, right?

Please, God, help me, if I get out of here alive I won't do anything wrong. I will even admit the truth to Jake, please just help me.

"I won't tell anyone, I swear" I seriously assure them.

Maybe it's their secret that's why no one has ever heard of their kind.

"Let her go Aiden, obviously she's not okay right now," my supposed father says.

For the first time, I appreciate his presence.

So the handsome man holding me is Aiden? Aiden Alpha?

Aiden run his long fingers through his hair sighing, he looks like he is battling with his mind about the idea of letting me go.

"Please Aiden" he shivers when I say his name, his eyes darken and he looks at me with so much affection it scares me.

I just met him.

Stop looking at me like that.

He holds me to his chest with both arms secured around me, once again his face finding my neck and he inhales deeply.

I don't understand why he's behaving this way. Also, I'm supposed to be scared of him but strangely, I find comfort in his arms.

I don't understand what I'm feeling at all, I feel drawn to him yet I just met him, and his presence for some reason gives me a sense of safety, comfort and warmth.

He reluctantly pulls away sighing sadly.

He looks at my father again communicating with their eyes and brings his eyes back to me kissing my temple, and finally, he releases me.

Thank God.

I take a step away heading to the car, right now I just want to be alone, cry my eyes out for the betrayal of those I trusted, and sleep for a very long time, if possible for the rest of my life.

I can only hope the events of today doesn't haunt my dreams.

With one last glance at everyonee, especially my friends, who are sadly looking at me with guilty eyes, I take quick steps to the car my guards came with.

Not before missing the look of pain and longing in Aiden's eyes.

Weird Weird.

Before opening the door to my car, a sharp pain goes through my spinal cord and to every inch of my bones and it disappears as soon as it came.

What was that?