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Neah
I was having some sort of flashback. The memory wasn't quite clear but I could hear Luna Cassandra's voice.
"It's so hot today, isn't it, Neah?" There was a cheery tone to her voice as she helped me make the lemonade. She had let me stand on a chair at the kitchen counter, helping her. A second jug sat on the counter with some leaves sitting in the bottom. "What's that, Cassie?"
"I thought we could make some extra.
Everyone loves lemonade on a day like this."
The memory jumps forward to me offering the jug to my parents. I had stood and watched as they poured themselves a drink and toasted to something. Then there was chaos.
People were shouting and screaming as someone grabbed my arms and dragged me away. Before I was out of sight, I saw the blood pour from my parents eyes, nose and mouth. They had desperately clawed at their faces. "Neah, what did you do?!"
"I don't know." I could hear my own fear in my young voice
"Cassie, I didn't mean to. I'm sorry, will they be okay?"
Her face hardened as her green eyes became slits. "My name is Cassandra and you, you stupid girl, just killed your parents."
I blink a few times, coming back to reality. Just as I look up, Kyle is walking through the door.
"Sorry. I had to deal with some things." His dark eyes find me. "Decided to bring her back then? To much of a pain?" He muses
"Just sit down!" My brother snaps.
It was just so unlike Trey. He never got snarky with his mate or his Beta.
"We have told them the truth about my parents." Trey continues. "It was time for the truth to come out."
"If it even is the truth." Alpha Dane snaps
I follow his instructions and don't say anything. I will tell him about my flashback later, hopefully he won't be too angry.
"I'm also here to make sure you reject her correctly." Alpha Dane tells Kyle,
everyone looks at him.
There was even surprise on Luna Cassandra's face, but not on my brother's.
My brother still knew we were connected.
"You told me you rejected her." Luna Cassandra shrieks and I cover my ears. Her voice always made my ears hurt.
"I did and she accepted it."
"Lies." Alpha Dane snaps. "All fucking lies. Because if you had truly rejected her, how could you force a blood tie on her."
"You what?" My brother's chocolate eyes are wide with shock
Either my brother was a good liar, or he truly didn't know about the blood tie. It was impossible for me to tell. I could probably sense it if I had my Wolf.
Alpha Danes crimson eyes search my face.
"Say it."
What did he want me to say?
"Fucking speak the words and reject her." Alpha Dane roars and I feel myself tense up.
"Kyle, reject her. Reject her right now." Trey utters
"No." Kyle's lips are curved up in a smirk
Alpha Dane turns away from me, squaring up to Kyle. Alpha Dane is easily taller than him, yet Kyle holds his place, refusing to back down. Unafraid. If I was in the same position, I would probably be preparing myself to die. "Kyle, do as you're told." My brother shouts
"Fine." He moves around Alpha Dane and stands directly in front of me. I drop my gaze not wanting to look directly at him.
"Look at me, whore!"
I could feel my body trembling, and slowly forced myself to look at him. There was so much hatred in his eyes.
"I, Kyle Souls, Beta of the Moonshine pack, reject you, Neah Kitson." He pauses, "as my mate, now and forever."
"I accept!" I mutter quickly, wanting to get this over with. "I accept your rejection, Kyle Souls."
While I feel nothing, his face screws up like he is in some kind of pain.
"And now," Alpha Dane smiles. "I can kill you!"
He pulls a dagger out of his jeans and shoves it straight through Kyle's back and into his heart.
Kyle stumbles forward clutching his chest and Beta Eric quickly pulls me from my seat before Kyle falls forward. He lets out some low guttural sounds before he stills. Both Luna Cassandra and my brother were on their feet.
"You...you killed him!" Luna Cassandra cries
"He deserved everything he got. I just needed to make sure that he had rejected Neah properly."
"You killed my brother!" Luna Cassandra shrieks, rushing to Kyle's side.
I hadn't known that and for a split second, I felt sorry for her, until I remembered the hell she had caused me.
"You better watch your back, Alpha Dane." She growls at him
"You don't scare me!" He muses
"Maybe I don't, but when you see what's coming, you will wish that I was the least of your problems."
"What are you talking about?" Alpha Dane demands. "Is that some kind of threat?"
"You will see." She mutters as my brother pulls her arm and helps her get up from the floor. They both run from the room and Alpha Dane sends Beta Eric after them.
I stare at Kyle's dead body, half hunched over the chair that I had been sitting in. I had wished for so long to see him die and now it had actually happened, I felt.....relieved.
"Are you okay? Did it hurt when he rejected you?" Alpha Dane speaks softly to me. Using his fingers to turn my face to his.
"No. But it hurt him, I saw the pain on his face." I whisper. "He... he said it differently this time."
"I thought that might have been the case."
"I...I didn't know they were brother and sister.
"Does it matter? You are Trey's sister and they treated you horrendously."
"But it was me, I did kill my parents." I mutter quietly. "I saw myself giving them the jug."
"What did you remember?"
I tell him about the flashback, he doesn't interrupt me once as I try to recall smaller details. It's only when I finish that he tells me that he still believes that I was set up. The same thing he had been saying all along.
"Cassandra said she wanted you to kill her parents, I think that was an excuse. I think the plan was always for you to give the poison to your parents. She wanted to be Luna and your brother wanted to be Alpha."
"They will never know though. They died believing their daughter killed them." I groan
He sighs at my words and before he has a chance to speak, Beta Eric returns.
"They're gone. Everyone has gone. The pack has cleared out."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"I followed Trey and Cassandra into the trees and quickly lost their scent. It's like they vanished into thin air."
"That can't be possible, Wolves don't just vanish. Where the fuck do they go?"
"I'm assuming they have some kind of safe space." Beta Eric shrugs his shoulders.
"Set up a search party and hunt them down. I'm taking Neah home."
Back in the car, I feel his eyes on me, yet keep mine low. I knew he had questions, but I couldn't answer them. I knew nothing when it came to my own pack. And it turned out, I didn't actually know much about Wolves at all.
"You don't have to see them ever again, if you don't want to." His voice is low. "As far as I'm concerned the contract is void. The one thing that was tying you to the pack, is dead."
Lying down on the seat, I turn away, facing the back. I could still feel his gaze like it was burning into the back of my head. He wanted me to talk, but there was nothing I could say. I was too busy, remembering the last time I saw my parents and how they had looked at me.