Awakening The Sliver Wolf

I stood at the door, frozen, still not believing what I was seeing.

Lucas and my stepsister hadn't even noticed I was in the room, too tied up in each other to notice.

"Oh, Lucas, you feel so good." Zara kept moaning at the top of her voice.

I'm sure the whole house could hear her.

She turned her face to my direction and smirked. She goddamn smirk.

"Lucas!" I snapped.

Lucas peeled himself away from Zara, staring at me with shock.

"Ravenna, it's not like that. I can explain," he said in a rush as he tried to put on his clothes.

But I wasn't looking at him, I was looking at my stepsister, who still had that smug smile on her face, still lying there naked.

"Ravenna let me explain, please," Lucas said as he moved closer to me.

I snapped my head to him. "Explain what, Lucas? Explain why you're fucking my goddamn stepsister?"

"I... I just..." Lucas stammered, unable to finish.

Zara, slithering out of bed with the blanket draped around her, finally spoke. "Oh, poor Ravenna," she mocked, stepping toward Lucas. "Did you really think anyone could love you? You're weak, broken—pathetic. No one could ever love such a thing."

My eyes stung at her voice but I won't cry in front of them.

"So you texted me just to show me this?" I asked, turning to Lucas, who was desperately trying to push Zara away.

"Texted you?" Lucas frowned in confusion. "What text?"

I glanced back at Zara, her smug smile widening.

"You're twisted, Zara," I snapped. "A spoiled, worthless brat. You'd really stoop this low just to mess with me?" Since I couldn't touch her, I used my words as weapons.

"Pathetic," I added with a harsh, bitter laugh.

They had finally succeeded in breaking me. I was never coming back from this. Ten points to them.

"Where's your mummy?" I continued. "Is she somewhere pulling the strings as we speak? Aren't you tired of being her little puppet?"

Zara moved so quickly I barely saw her coming before the sting of her slap hit my cheek, followed by another on the other side, just as sharp and sudden.

"Zara, don't do that!" I heard Lucas shout, but I just smiled.

I smiled because I finally have her where I wanted.

I was going to hurt her today, damn the consequences. Damn it all to hell.

I grabbed her hair forcefully and she let out a pathetic sound.

I was stronger than her, even without my wolf. I had trained everyday for years.

I had strength and knew how to use it.

I slammed her head to the wall, satisfied at the sound she was making.

"You don't have any sharp words to say now, dearest sister?" I taunted, watching the blood trickle down her face, a twisted smile still lingering on my lips.

Yes, I was definitely broken.

I felt hands on me trying to peel me off Zara, but I wasn't done.

I landed a slap on her face, splitting the skin.

I was about to land another one when someone grabbed my arm.

I looked up and there he was—the Alpha, my Father.

He peeled me off Zara and I let him, because all the fight had been drained from me.

"Father—" I tried to speak.

"Silent," he said, his voice harsh and unforgiving.

I heard someone shout—Lila—and I looked away from my father's cold eyes.

My eyes met Lila holding her bleeding daughter, and she raised her head and looked at me.

I saw the usual emotions in her eyes, but now there was a new one—fear.

Good, be scared of me.

I looked around the room, to Lucas, to bleeding Zara, to my father, and they had the same look in their eyes. The same fear.

Now they see me. Now they notice me.

"You weak, vile creature," Lila hissed, clutching her daughter tightly, that same hateful look fixed on me. "Look at what you've done to her."

"Weak?" I replied, my voice sounding foreign, even to me. "Weak wouldn't do that to your precious daughter."

Her expression shifted, shock and more fear flickered in her eyes.

I was enjoying every second of this until my father spoke. "Not another word from you, Ravenna."

I kept quiet, fixing my gaze on the ground.

"She should be punished." I heard the anger in Lila's voice.

"And she shall." Came my father's response.

I braced myself. No matter what the punishment was I would take it and my small victory today.

"And you will be the one to decide her punishment, Lila," he declared. "Whatever judgment you pass on her will be carried out."

I didn't need to look up to see the smile on Lila's face.

She passed the bleeding Zara to Lucas and walked up to me. I still kept my eyes fixed on the ground.

"Look at me," Lila said in a cool voice. And I knew whatever was coming would be harsh and cruel, just like her.

I raised my eyes to hers and all I could see in them was satisfaction.

Yes, this was really going to be harsh.

"Ravenna Hale," she began, her voice cold and steady. "As Luna of this pack, I hereby banish you. You are to leave this pack and this forest, never to return. Should you ever set foot in this territory again, it will be the day you die."

My eyes widened, my ears rang, and the pain in my chest grew unbearable.

Banished. No, I can't be banished.

"You can't do this to me," I said, my voice creaking.

"Oh but I can," Lila responded with a cruel smile. "Leave immediately. And do not take anything with you. After all, everything you own belongs to this pack."

No, no, no. This can't be happening.

"Father," I turned to him.

"I am no father of yours," he said, turning away from me. "Leave. Immediately."

I stared at my father, at the man I had grown to love. This wasn't him.

I nodded once and straightened my back. If this was my last moment with them, I wouldn't be remembered as weak.

"As you wish," I replied, my voice hollow.

Without a glance back, I turned and walked out—out of the room, out of the pack, and just kept walking.

They had done it. They had succeeded in breaking me, in stripping away everything I had left, including my sanity.

I didn't cry as I kept walking, too numb to feel anything.

I was banished. Now an exile. Now a rogue.

I walked and walked, not knowing where I was going but I still walked.

Night had fallen, and rain poured down, soaking me to the bone, draining what little strength I had left. Shivering, I kept moving forward.

Finally, I reached the river—the border between my former pack and the neighboring one.

It was here that I crumbled.

I collapsed to the ground and let the tears flow, sobbing until there was nothing left but the emptiness inside.

Thunder boomed across the sky, each rumble vibrating through the earth.

Lightning flickered, briefly illuminating the world in sharp, brilliant flashes.

But I knelt, rooted in place, lost in my sorrows, defying the storm's fury.

Then, in a single, blinding instant, a searing bolt of lightning tore through the sky, striking me with a force that sent my entire body trembling.