Vows for revenge.

VICTORIA

  

"What!!!" I exclaimed, wide-eyed and my mouth hung open.

"Coma?! For two years?! How the hell?!" I deepened the lines in my forehead as disarray took over my mind.

How is that possible? Does it have a connection with my fall from the cliff?? 

"Please grandma, say something! I'm still as confused as ever!" I huffed.

"It was an attempted murder on your life. Your fall from the cliff was carefully planned out and executed by an unknown person. I found you by the cliff and brought you here to my village. So many things happened while you're in coma, my dear," Grandma informed and her bright mood suddenly turned bitterly sour. 

I wondered what happened while I was away and who actually attempted to murder me. The thoughts gave me a skull-splitting headache as I made my way back to the bed and sat on it.

Grandma also sat on the bed close to me and held my hands.  

"I'm sorry Victoria, your mother is dead. She couldn't bear the pain of you getting disowned by your father so she committed suicide." 

"No!" I exclaimed, throwing my hands off hers.

‘What is she saying? There's no way that can ever happen.’

I waited for her to just smile and say everything's a joke but none of that happened as she continued crying.

"My mother's not dead! She can't be!" I yelled and fought back the tears in my eyes but they managed to find their way out.

"I'm so sorry, Victoria," she sniffed and pulled me into a tight hug.

After a few minutes of letting out my tears on her shoulder, I first pulled away. "What about my little sister?" I inquired with fear of the unknown.

"Calm down, Josephine is alright. Infact I have good news for you; Josephine found her mate and is living happily with him now."

That little info gave me a moment of peace and relief in my heart. At least my sister's living happily with her mate; away from that monster I call a father. 

I'm a hundred percent sure that the mate in question fit into dad's criteria else he would have forced her to reject him.

Now the only thing that bothers me was the fact that someone tried to take my life with that rope. Who could it have been? 

I remember seeing a silhouette of a hooded man leaning against one of the trees, his face wasn't clear cos of the hoodie but I guess his height should be no less than 6'3. Who was that? 

"What secret do you know about Alpha Mike?" Grandma asked, shaking me out of my thoughts as we moved out of her little cottage to see the bright sunlight outside.

"Huh?" I frowned, halting abruptly.

"Answer me," she prod further, also stopping to face me.

That question was definitely least expected from the thousands of questions I felt she would ask me. Why is she even asking me that? And her tone was also really cold.

"He ordered the assassin to murder you. Your existence almost came to an end because of a certain secret you knew about him," she revealed all of a sudden, the expression on her face turning to anger.

"What!" I gasped with a flustered look. Even though I expected the perpetrator to be him, I gave myself a thousand and one reasons why it can't be him so this is coming as a shock to me. 

I had to wonder; did he ever even love me? Or was I the only one immersed in my infatuation for him?

And what secret is it that would make him kill me? I couldn't even place my mind on anything cos the only swirling in my memory is REVENGE.

Yeah, I guess that's all that's left within me. That deep, burning thirst for revenge. 

Wait a minute...

 I remember the secret now. There was a day Mike drank a lot and became uncontrollably drunk. He mistakenly spilled that he was an illegitimate child of his father, only him and his mother knew about it. If his dad finds out, he will be thrown out of the pack and turn to a slave or a lone wolf, he can be killed also.

Maybe he thought that I would be as viciously inconsiderate as he is and tell on him to his father since we broke up. I probably meant nothing to him from the beginning anyway.

"No wonder he wanted to kill you, I knew it was something big," Grandma sighed. 

Now the fool thinks I'm dead and decayed and is living happily with his wedded wife as Alpha and Luna while I'm here wallowing in misery and not being able to meet my family.

"I want revenge, Grandma," I declared with resolution. 

I might be easy and weak but there are just some things I can't tolerate.

-;Betrayal on the day of my wedding.

-;The death of the only thing that gave me strength to go on, My innocent, unborn baby.

-;The restriction of everyone from having contact with me.

-;The demise of my mother, who was my true best friend that always listened to my fears and pains. 

-; And then, the greatest of all, the attempt on MY LIFE.

Each and everything listed is connected to just three people, Mike, Tiffany and my father, Ralph Luza. 

"Tch..." I scoffed. They have all seen my weaknesses and gullibility, now they will see the real beast, VICTORIA in me.

"I support you," Grandma said and held my hands.

"I support you too!" Rina also squealed from within me. 

  

I stood up and strolled into the woods as everywhere was dark and stars were glittering from the sky.

  

I stopped immediately as I sensed someone following me, like I am being watched, hope it's not what I'm thinking.