Chapter 84
My laughs filled the empty street and they were all I heard when I sped up. It was a wonderful sound that I missed and it got louder the closer I got to the
border.
“Three,”
I was almost there.
“Two,”
I saw the border and sped up.
“One,” I laughed and there we crossed it. We were home.
What would I say to Mathilda to get her to come with me? Maybe she wouldn’t care about that, maybe she’d even help me back her bag and I had to remember to pack her favorite dress. My parents were the only other problem, my father was still close to the Alpha family so he could tell them that I kidnaped her and everyone would be after me, but if I could make it out far enough before anyone found out I could keep her safe and keep us hidden.
When I saw my house it was like the halo on an angel’s head, it lit up like a glorious light leading me to where I was meant to be, or at least the girl I was meant to be with.
I turned off the engine and dropped the bike on the ground before I ran up the steps to my house.
“Mathilda!”
Something hit me the second I walked in, a feeling of dread went up my legs and turned my body into a heavy sack.
“Mathilda?” I yelled again.
The smell of ammonia was the second thing I noticed after trying to pretend I hadn’t smelled it before I came in.
“Mom? Dad?”
From absolute silence to a single sniffle and then water hitting the sink from the open tap coming from the kitchen. The floorboards squeaked under my feet and I followed the noise in a fog of my mind where every step felt like a lifetime.
The bottom of the corner of the kitchen still had a dent in it from when I was seven and kicked it out of sheer frustration of not getting the chocolate chip cookies I wanted instead of raspberry biscuits.
The door to the bathroom still had the drawing my sister made when she was five, there were flowers and what was supposed to be a wolf but looked more
like a frog with fangs.
I stepped into the kitchen and turned my head, a loud gasp left my lips and my hand flew up to my mouth.
“Hello, puppet. Welcome home,” Darian said with my mother’s head locked in his arm.
I slowly turned my head, the strong metallic smell lingered in the air and the tears pressed against my eyes.
“No-no-no,” i said breathlessly and looked across the kitchen towards the window.
The scream that left my lips rose from the floor of my lungs and filled the house when I saw my father in the chair with a knife through his throat and his eyes wide open.
Darian brushed my mother’s hair back, tears falling down her cheeks and the mascara under her eyes covered her in thin lines.
“I heard that you feared for your sister,” he said and covered my mother’s mouth with his hand.
“That you feared for her involvement in the Hunt when her time comes, you were scared she would one day experience the same domestication that you have. A true fear indeed-” he said and covered her nose as well so she couldn’t breathe.
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“-as your mate, I figured I should take care of the problem for you,”
I shook my head and felt the air being sucked from my lungs.
Her eyes didn’t even grow, she didn’t fight for a breath or panic over the fact that he was holding her in a headlock. My mother’s eyes flickered to my father dead in his chair, the same chair he always sat in whether it was breakfast or dinner with the family. It was when she looked at the ceiling that something twisted in my gut making me fall forward a step, the tears doubled and she closed her eyes like she’d given up. He twisted her head and her neck snapped. The sound rose to the ceiling and through the open windows.
“NO!”
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