A Mate's Betrayal

Part 7(The Past)

One year later...

I woke up to the sound of something being broken then Mum screaming. I rushed to Pauline's room but she was not there actually, the room looked untouched making me wonder why she didn't come home. Another scream was heard and this time I rushed down the stairs to go and help Mum only to walk into a very scary scene. 

My Dad was tied to a chair and my Mum was being held down by a huge grey wolf. There was a very scary man standing next to my dad with an evil smile on his face that scared the crap out of me, making me walk backwards slowly until my back hit a breathing wall. When I turned, I found myself looking at a pair of red eyes. "What do we have here?", he said with a wicked smile on his face, I wanted to walk away but he held me in place. 

"Please let her go, we will tell you everything, just please don't hurt her, she has nothing to do with this", Mum begged. It confused me even more. "Mum, what's going on?", I asked with a shaky voice. "Nothing you need to worry about baby, Mr. Rex will let you go now, ok?", I nod my head and tried to walk away but the man's hold on me got stronger.

"Oh Dr. Eleanor, you know there is no way that is happening right? At least not until you take me to the lab and release my people", he said wickedly making me tremble. "Rex please, she is just a child", my Mum said with more tears, the wolf that was holding her down scoffed.

"I know right? As if you cared when you took ours. Humans are very selfish creatures. If it was up to me, we would have sold you all to the vamps, talk about an unlimited supply of blood, I would have been a god", he said with an evil laugh and just before I could process more the wolf on top of my Mum stepped back and started transforming into a man.

I was sure that my shock skyrocketed because after getting dressed he looked at me with curiosity. "Doctor, did you not tell your offspring what you do for a living? if I didn't know any better I would think she is traumatised by my shift", he said and I saw fear on my Mum's face. "She has nothing to do with this", Dad said but before I could turn to look at him the man who was standing next to him started punching him nonstop.

"Stop hurting him, please! Dad!", I screamed but it only made them laugh as if they were enjoying my pain. "Stop it! I will take you to the lab, but you have to promise not to hurt my daughter. Please!", Dad said with blood coming out of his nose and mouth. "Patrick don't!", Mum said with pleading eyes but the man who transformed knocked her out. "Good choice Patrick. Untie him", Rex said holding me close to him as we walked out of the house, heading to the car.

I swear, if someone else told me that my parents were werewolf hunters, I would have denied it with every fibre of my being but being in front of my Mum's lab, seeing dissected werewolves one on the table and the rest in huge glass containers proved otherwise. It was like I was in a horror movie.

"This is where mommy comes to work everyday princess and this is what she does to our kind, look at that one, she is a six-year-old child", Rex said pointing at the wolf that was connected to IV drips that had purple liquid in it, it looked lifeless. "Oh, and this one is a pregnant wolf, I wonder what your mommy was trying to discover with her", he said while forcing me to look at another wolf but this was in a glass container and it had no skin at all. 

Tears started leaving my eyes, my Mum did all this, she was experimenting on all these creatures. "We are done with mommy's office, let's check daddy's, shall we?", he said pulling me with him. I tried to resist but it was clear that he was stronger, he dragged me to another floor. The offices were underground and they required my Dad's fingerprints to get access.

When the elevator doors opened, the light went on and all types of armouries appeared. One of the men tried touching one of the knives and hissed as if he was burned. "Silver", he told Rex. "Oh! So, princess, this is where your daddy makes weapons used to kill my kind. Patrick, would you be so kind as to take us to the testing grounds?", Rex said calmly.

"Rex please, she doesn't need to see that", Dad begged, instead of answering Rex turned to the man who was carrying Mum and nod his head. The man smiled and easily broke Mum's hand, making her jolt awake, screaming in pain. "Can we proceed? Or do you need another motivation?", he asked putting a curl behind my ear, Dad looked at me in horror and whispered a silent 'am sorry'. 

We walked in a dark hallway and when we reached the end, a door opened and we started walking in, we could hear growls, I tried processing but failed until Dad switched on the lights. There were thirty wolves and bears and other humans, but their skins were white like lifeless, vampires. "There you go Patrick, it wasn't so hard now, was it?", he said with a wicked smile. My Dad swallowed hard, clearly afraid. "Release them", he demanded.

"Patrick don't, he will kill us", Mum said holding on to her broken arm, she looked strong, stronger than I thought. "Eleanor, he will kill Erinna, we have to", he said then unlocked the doors. The creatures started shifting back to their human form, they bowed their heads at Rex while calling him Alpha. "Rise, you are free to go home", he said with pride. "What about the humans", one of them asked. He turned to look at my parents and then back to the crowd. "I will handle them; you have been restrained for far too long. As your Alpha, I will take care of them", he said and they all bowed again before leaving without looking at us.