The Lost Alpha Princess

Chapter 31

Holt's POV (MORNING OF HOPE'S ESCAPE)

I haven't been home much since everything has happened and the one time I did go home my mother told me all about my father knowing from the start that this was going to happen, years I spent blaming myself and the Goddess but all this time it was her and my father I should of blamed. It's my birthday today and I'm waiting for my first shift, I know I shouldn't be doing this alone but I'm still so angry that if I shift around people I don't think I could stop Shadow from doing something stupid.

"I'm sorry we are doing this alone we should be with Hope and Selene." Shadow say's to me "Wait shadow why should Selene be there?" I asked him, "She is Hope's wolf our sister." he replies like I should know this. "Hang on are you telling me she has the Moon Goddess.′ name but why?" I ask him confused, he chuckles before saying "She is the Moon Goddess as of midnight, you know this Holt.".

Realisation hits me then and I get this sudden sense of calm, I look out towards the lake and sigh not sure what to do next, I've been spending more time here recently, this was Hope's favourite place she always loved the water and as kids I remember we used to play here all the time. I plan on staying here until after my first shift which could happen anytime between midnight and midnight, from the look of the moon it's about three in the morning now.

I look out over the water and remember the last time Hope and I ever came here, we went into the water for the first time alone. It was the first time I saved Hope I don't know how but I knew how to swim instantly but Hope didn't, of course she would never admit to it so off she went on her own.

I was swimming around when I heard her scream, then I heard the splashing. I quickly looked around for her and my eyes found her just as she went under, I wasted no time and headed straight to her but when I got there she wasn't on the surface anymore. I started to panic and look around for her but couldn't see her I ducked under the water and there she was on the bottom, I swam down and grabbed her pulling her back up to the surface with me. When I made it to shore father was there looking for us I could see the panic in his eyes as they landed on our wet forms, he came running over snatching Hope away from me laying her on the grass.

He quickly started CPR on her and thank Goddess she started breathing within seconds, she was gasping for air and coughing up water at the same time. I knelt beside her rubbing her back the whole time waiting for her to catch her breath, that was the first time she nearly died. She had two more accidents that nearly killed her and then she was taken, the memory quickly fades as a bright light suddenly blinds me and I know what's about to happen.

The Moon Goddess has come to see me again, and again I will refuse to talk to her. I thought she would of figured out that it was a waste of time, but clearly not. "My child..." she began but I cut her off with a growl "Don't you dare call me that." I said to her, she didn't even flinch "Holt I understand how you are feeling but you must listen to me and if not me listen to Shadow." she whispered softly to which Shadow whimpered.

"Please Holt listen to her and we will find our sister I promise." he pleads with me. "What do you know?" I growl the question back at him. "I can't tell you anything, I want to but I really can't all I can say is you have to trust me and listen to her, have I ever given you a reason to not trust me?" he asks pleading, I sigh before nodding my head and saying to both Shadow and the Goddess that I'm listening.

"Go to Mountain Ridge pack with your parents, I know things are hard with them but they love you and you love them. I know you have no faith in me and no HOPE left but you will find both again with your parents at Mountain Ridge." she says with a soft smile and a sparkle in her eye.

"Fine but if this is just another waste of time I will cut contact with you both permanently." I all but growl at both Shadow and the Moon Goddess, I feel Shadow flinch at my tone but the Goddess just tilts her head to the side with a look I can't figure out. "Your Hope will come back again." the Moon Goddess says before she started to fade, the more I thought about it the more I started to think she was talking about my sister Hope and not actual hope.

Suddenly I feel a sharp pain run up my spine and I know instantly that I'm about to go through my first shift, I can feel shadow trying to help by talking me through it but I can't hear over the ringing in my ears. I can feel my body start to transform and within thirty seconds I'm on all fours and the pain has stopped and before anything else can cross my mind I wonder if Hope has shifted yet, other than swimming Hope was always first at everything.

I walk over to the waters edge and look at my reflection, and I surprised I expected to be a black wolf but instead I'm a dark charcoal grey. "There is a reason for our colour but you won't find out until we are in Mountain Ridge." Shadow says to me "Well lets go for a run and then go and find our parents so we can leave the sooner we get there the sooner I can start looking for Hope again." I respond still unsure if I truly do trust the Moon Goddess.