CHAPTER 5 : CONFRONTING THE PAST

Kira looked away for some seconds before answering, "There is nothing to talk about the past for, talking about it does not change anything."

"I am aware of that Kira, but it can possibly improve things", Elara pressed on.

Kira then turned and looked at her, "So where should we start from?", she felt the anger slowly seeping into her, "Three years ago? When the pack accused a seventeen years old girl of conspiring with a rebel pack to kill her parents at night? Or where they exiled her? Or is it the bad treatments she received in the pack ever since she was born? Where should we start? Trust me, I can list so many more."

"Kira!", Elara tried to calm her down, reaching out to her, but Kira moved away.

"Don't touch me," she said, "Do not touch me with those hands, you, everyone, this pack has caused me so much pain and I cannot forget about it, no matter how much I try."

"I was just seventeen," she said her voice sharp and cracked as tears yet again began to well up in her eyes, "I was only seventeen when I was accused of killing my parents, my parents", she pointed to herself, "the only people who cared about me, the only people who made me feel among, made me feel worth it."

"Kira", Elara called out, guilt washing all over her.

"No let me speak", Kira stopped her, as a tear slid down her cheek, "I was never accepted in this Pack, everyone made that pretty clear just because I was different. My parents were well-respected and strong members of the pack and their child, me, turned out to be weak, an Omega, weird and so instead I was made an outcast."

She felt herself break down as the memories of what had happened three years ago started flooding in.

"I begged, I cried, I pleaded guilty. They were killed under the same roof as me, but I woke up alive, and just for that reason, I was tagged a murderer", Kira laughed while drying her eyes, "The same Alphas, the same twins, your boys were the ones who said I was guilty and for the peace of their beloved pack, exiled me, never to return. These are the same boys who what?", she laughed some more, tears rolling down her face, "They are the same ones who brought me back here, without my consent, marked me forcefully."

Elara could only look down, feeling ashamed of everything they had done to Kira.

Kira sniffed and closed her eyes, trying to calm down, "I know what you have come to say, things like, we want to make amends, try to understand the twins, right? Is that not why you have come?", she asked Elara.

Elara could not dispute the fact that it was indeed the reason she wanted to speak to Kira, she wanted a way to make things right for Kira, for everything they had put her through.

"Or is it to ask for forgiveness? If it is that then I am deeply sorry, but I cannot forgive any of you, I will not forgive you all for the pain you have caused me," Kira told Elara sternly.

"I was not even allowed to say goodbye to my parents when they were buried", Kira broke down completely, her head in her hands as she sobs, "How cruel of all of you, not to let me have my last moment with them."

Elara pushed on, her owns eyes getting watery as she could feel the pain that was erupting from Kira, "Please Kira, I have no words, I know you would rather not hear whatever I have to say, and I probably do not even have anything to say that would make you better but all I ask for is a chance, just a chance."

Kira raised her head up, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, "I want to be alone Ma, please."

She was not thinking straight at the moment and it would be best if Elara just left her alone.

Elara was quite aware, and the guilt was killing her, so instead of leaving she thought she could hug Kira and maybe help relieve some pain, but when she got closer and tried to hug her, Kira screamed at her, 

"I said, LEAVE!"

Elara immediately let go, "I hope one day, you will find it in your heart to forgive us, and we will do our best to make things right."

Before Elara could leave the room, giving Kira the space she needed, Bryan and Aiden walked in.

If their eyes were bullets, pretty sure Kira would be dead by now, "Get up!", Aiden commanded.

"Aiden", Elara tried to hold back her son.

"Get your ass up, Kira, right now!", He ordered.

"Aiden, stop it," Elara scolded him.

Kira did as she was told and got up.

"Now apologize to my mother for raising your voice at her and speaking the way we just heard you speak," Aiden said to Kira, "Do not waste our time."

"Bryan, talk to your brother", Elara called out to Bryan. 

But Bryan was in full support with his brother, although he did not want things to be like this, not even Aiden, but they felt like Kira needed to be put in place and get used to the fact that this is her life now.

Kira, with shaking fingers, turned to face Elara, her eyes on the ground, "I am sorry, i-i… I should not have spoken to you the way I did."

"It is okay, Kira, I understand you. They may be a bit hard on you but…", Elara herself was getting exhausted, all her efforts, "Just try to understand them, please."

"Mother please, we would like to talk to our mate alone," Bryan said to his mother softly.

"She did nothing wrong," Elara said, defending Kira, knowing her two boys.

"Thank you Mother," Bryan said and escorted his mother out so he could shut and lock the door.