Chapter 2: Bad Omen

Iris's pov

"Yes, he is the father to a beast." 

"What type of a beast?" I asked, for some reason, I am curious. 

"I heard that his face is covered with scars, scars that he had gotten from different wars, Father said, he is a good fighter and that no pack had ever thought of going against them, because of him, yet I heard he is a monster, he kill people and drunk their blood, he is cursed, if ever his demons come up, he will go rampage and kill a lot of people, especially she-wolves. He is more like a beast when he does that. When the curse fades away by dawn he hates himself, seeing the life that he had taken, so he decides to become a lone, he lives in a castle, far from the main pack, on the outskirts of the pack."

"There in that castle, is where the beast with his scary face lives, my father also says that its face is masked with that scary mask by the moon goddess..."

"If his face is mask, it could be taken off by him?" Helga said I wanted to second Helga when Hilary laughed at our childishness. 

"What is funny?" I quizzed. 

"You two are very funny, it's not a mere mask that could be taken off, it's the moon goddess that had worn him that and it can not be taken away unless the curse is broken and he can't be broken till he has a heart."

"He doesn't have a heart as well?" I asked. 

"No, it doesn't, his heart left him, and there is nothing in that space in his chest, why would such an ugly monster have a heart? Have you ever seen anyone with a heart take the life of another?"

"What could he have done for the moon goddess to curse him that much? Taking his heart away from him?" I asked with a sad face

"A lot of bad things, maybe he is a blood-sucking vampire."

"Hilary, since when did you believe in the rumor?" Helga asked in frustration. 

"It's not a rumor, it's a fact, did you not see his father, he is handsome. So he can't give birth to a beast, an ugly wolf can't come from his lineage, and come to think of it, his elder brother is as handsome as his father." 

"Does he have an elder brother?" Helga asked in excitement, we all know that Helga loves handsome wolves, apart from wanting her mate to be an alpha, she had also dreamed of her mate being the most handsome wolf in the pack. 

 "Oh Helga, can you stop daydreaming about facial appearance, remember not all that glitter is gold." 

"Stop talking nonsense, if facial appearance is not important maybe you should tell your father to ask the alpha of Wildfangs shadow pack to betrothed you to his monster of a son." Hilary said while Helga burst into laughter. 

"That isn't funny?" I scolded Hilary. 

"Sorry, now tell me, who is your mate?" She said, yet again before I could answer the full moon had appeared and everyone screamed. 

The claiming is going to start, the claiming and mating of our pack will be done as soon as the full moon appears.

"Excuse me." Hilary said fast and disappeared into the crowd, but something wasn't right, I couldn't find Damien in the hall, I had been searching for him with my eyes, but after the full moon he couldn't claim me anymore. 

"Hey girl, where is your mate?" Helga asked. 

"I don't know, I need to search for him," I said, she grabbed my hand. 

"It's a bad omen if a she-wolf is the one searching for her mate, it may either lead to two things, the death of the she-wolf's family or the rejection of the wolf." 

"Stupid, since when did you become so vested in the law of the pack and believe in superstitious things?" 

"Since when the full moon is for claiming?" She said sarcastically, causing me to Laughed as I pulled my hand off her, I needed to look for Damien, but with every step I took, I felt something was wrong, my legs became heavy and my heart wasn't helping me, it was beating so fast that I wish it could stop but my wolf is calm. 

Passing one of the rooms, I could hear laughter, I just felt maybe, one of those she-wolves had been claimed over there, but where was my Damien my mate, my wolf wouldn't have been excited about him, if he was not my mate and she had referred to him as my mate. 

"What is going on here?" I heard a voice from the other room close to that same room I heard that woman's laughter, that voice is that of my father, no one else, even if I was sleeping, I could recognize my father's voice, I peep through the opening of the window, that was father and mother in the middle of his beta, and my supposed mate and some men, I couldn't recognize. 

"Stop asking questions, just signed the document." 

"You don't expect me to do that, do you?" Father said. 

"Maybe, you think we are playing?" Damien dragged the dagger from his boot and stabbed my mom in her tummy, her blood gushed out, I wanted to scream but I closed my eyes as tears dropped from my eyes. 

"What have you done?" Father yelled as he crawled to Mother. 

"To show you how serious we are, now go on and sign the documents." Jason pushed the paper to him. "You should sigh it fast before I ask that they get your daughter." 

"No, leave my daughter out of this, don't hurt her, I will sign it, if it's the alpha position, I will give it up."

Oh no! So all this time, the position of the alpha is all Jason and his son Damien wanted, this bastard. I cursed inwardly, to avoid them from noticing me. 

"Go on and sighed it." Damien yelled. 

"Wait, you are not going to claim my daughter, even after making you the next alpha?" He asked Damien. 

"No, I am not in love with her, even if she is my mate, I am in love with Hilary." 

"Hilary!" I called softly as my lips were shaken by the mere mention of Hilary's name. 

"Yes, I just claimed her, and she is now my mate." Damien said, I could no longer hold my pain, I was falling when my hand met the flower vessel, it shattered on the floor. 

"Who is there?" Jason screamed. "Go, check who is there." He orders one of the men

"If my daughter is not going to be the Luna, then I will not sign it." Father pushed it away from his face, now his beta Jason was mad, charging at Father shifting into his wolf, they battle, with their paws hitting each other, Dad was the pack zeta before he became the alpha, so his beta fighting skills are nothing compared to that of father, dad elongated claws went right on the shoulder of Jason. 

Damien saw that my father had thrown Jason on the floor and his claws were about to go to his stomach, Damien threw himself on my father, and his fangs went right through my father's shoulder.

"Father!" I screamed, causing them to look in my direction, I stood there in tears.

"Shit! Iris run!"