GwenA blow to my chest throws me off guard. Blood spewed from my mouth. I coughed out more blood and the coughing made the pain more intense as it surged through my body. It seemed my ribs had cracked. "Bitch! You're going to die. Nothing is going to stop that from happening."I was tired of begging her to let go. Her tenacity made me realize she wasn't going to give up. "Then I'll fight you back until only one of us stands," I muttered. "Alright then." She shifts into her wolf form. I shift too, my legs hit her muzzle. She takes in the blow without flinching and instantly her claws dig into my back and begin to slice. The pain had me howling. I struggled out of her hold. I could feel blood trickling down my back from the cuts she'd inflicted on me. I'm still an amateur when it comes to shifting and fighting in my werewolf form compared to Lisa who had found her strength and learnt to shift for years. I didn't allow that knowledge to deter my spirit from fighting back. I looked
GwenBarely thirty minutes after waking up, a tribunal was set up by the pack community. The hearing of my encounter with Lisa is to take place at an Assembly hall commonly called the 'Moonlight Tribunal Hall. My father drove me, my mother, and Zara to where it was going to take place. I learned that Lionel was at school and that Collins was at the hospital, still unconscious. It was going to be me versus Lisa now. I could see Jasper enter the hall. Seeing him walk into the hall made tears well up in my eyes. At a point when fighting Lisa, I thought I was never going to see him again. He searched around the hall quickly as if looking for something. Since I woke up from what I'd like to call a mini-death, I haven't seen him until now. His eyes fell upon me. He smiled and waved. I waved back. He rushed over to meet me. "How's my strong mate doing?" he asked, wrapping me in his arms."I'm okay. Like it never happened." I liked that he called me his 'strong mate' like I really was. I
GwenThe hall fell silent after everyone was implored to keep quiet. Alpha Howl began "You said Lisa killed Katherine. She admitted that to you?""Yeah," I answered. "But she's denying it now. I hope you know why we are all having this sitting. It's to eliminate any friction that could exist between the packs or colonies involved. You saying she killed Katherine means you are trying to say a member of one pack is responsible for the death of another pack member. Is that the case?""It is. She boldly admitted that she killed Katherine.""And why would she do that?""For the same reason she tried to kill me too. Because of Jasper. She wants no other girl next to him. She mentioned that if she can't have him, then no one else would.""Is that all she said to you?""She also said she wants me and Collins dead because we know her secret now. A secret she and her mother had kept hidden for many years.""Do you know what secret this is?""Her mental illness.""What else?""She also made Ser
Jasper I still can't believe it. And I wouldn't say Gwen is lying. I trust her. Lisa's obsessed with me. I know that much.She's always been. She gets crazy and jealous whenever she sees me with other girls. I wouldn't say we were close but we dated for a very short period before I decided to leave her. I met Katherine two months after I was done with Lisa. Lisa was showing signs that weren't healthy for our relationship. She was too clingy and I saw it as her being desperate to be given attention by me and worse was her obsession with me. I couldn't stand any of that. I wouldn't say I pushed her away but she had begun to annoy me with her incessant calls and messages about how she loved me and couldn't live without me. Of course, I didn't take her seriously at all. When I first made out with Lisa, It was my first time. It appeared she was experienced and she wasn't a virgin. She never told me how she lost her virginity nor did I ask her. But she was the first girl I ever got to f
Jasper This was getting intriguing. But since people's lives were affected, I'd prefer to use the word eerie because there was this strange atmosphere as Mrs Grimwood spoke about how the man she later remarried became her and Lisa's doom. The hall was so silent that if anything as light as a piece of paper had dropped, it would have been heard. Mrs Grimwood began. "The day Lisa turned thirteen she came to meet me telling me her stepfather who I had married was doing some weird things to her. We were only six months into our marriage. I asked her what things and she started describing how he touched her body and how he kissed her. For a minute I couldn't breathe. And I did the most simple and most cowardly thing ever. I ignored her." Mrs Grimwood began to cry again. A box of tissues was placed right next to her. Alpha Howl asked, "Why did you ignore her?""Because I thought she was conjuring up things again. The doctor had told me that her disease would prevent her from having insi
GwenI felt a droplet of water on my arm, except this was no water at all. It was my tear. Mrs Grimwood's tale about her daughter Lisa coming to be how she is was not what I expected it to be. Lisa had gone through a lot. Lisa's first murder was when she was fourteen. That's why her mother said "four years ago" on the phone. She must be referring to this encounter because Lisa's eighteen now. "So she killed him?" Alpha Howl said. Mrs Grimwood nodded. "I called the police to report that we were attacked by burglars. I hugged my daughter telling her everything was going to be alright. She began to cry when she realized that she had killed Victor. I used a piece of cloth and fire to heat the blade so I could get rid of any fingerprints then I threw my jewellery all over the place to make it look like we were robbed. When the police arrived, they asked me what the robbers looked like I told them they wore masks and had gloves on. I included the gloves in case they inspected the blade t
Gwen"I'm sorry for interrupting but this is insane. How did she get rid of the fingerprints? No fingerprints were found on the knife." a voice from the corner of the room sprang up pulling our attention from the room to the person speaking. He was in a police uniform. Mrs Grimwood faces him. "Just like how she saw me do the night she killed her stepfather, she must have wiped the blade." The police officers were furious now. It was written all over their faces. The man who sprang up earlier pointed to Lisa. "There's no way that young lady over there would escape the Law. She's ended lives. She is mentally and emotionally unstable to fit into the society. Alpha Howl permit me to say that there's no way we would let the daughter go and then arrest the mother. There's nothing to consider. The mother is equally at fault and would be put behind bars. She's practically been helping her daughter sharpen her killing skills. Like. Pardon my language but this is shit!""I can't agree more,"
Gwen Three days have passed since Lisa and her mother were arrested. I have no reason to watch my back anymore. I feel sorry for Lisa sometimes. What she went through when she was younger molded her into the person she's become. Her mental illness made her a victim of abuse by her stepfather. What an awful man! I hope he rots in the depths of hell or wherever disgusting people like him are supposed to be punished. It was time for breakfast. I had been on my bed thinking of how I was going to approach Zara about my father. I became more intrigued about finding out who he was after she told me I have super healing abilities like him. We haven't talked much since the day of the tribunal. I need to be downstairs for breakfast before I get late or my mother would keep screaming my name like my room's somewhere in the sky and not in this house. I took my AirPods off when the song I was listening to came to an end. There were just four of us. Zara wasn't here yet. "Mother, where's Zara