The curse of the black lycan

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Ashley's POV

As I open my eyes I'm met by Carlys happy face

"Hey Ashlee"

I yawn smiling back at her

"Hey sweetheart"

"Carly you didn't wake her did you?"

Mum asks from the kitchen. I stick my nose in the air and sniff. My stomach grumbles in hunger as I smell mum's amazing pot roast

"It smewls gowd downt it"

Carly says licking her lips excitedly, the child was crazy about her food. She was going to be an amazing cook one day. She loved to eat, she would eat you out of house and home and eat more than your average adult but apparently that's because she uses so much energy being born of 3 hounds and a primordial. Apparently that takes up a lot of energy and in turn she needs to eat more too even it out

"Yeah it really does, where is mark?"

"He's doing paperwork with the lawyer, he should be back any minute"

"Do I not need to sign stuff too?"

I ask mum sitting up and wincing at the pain in my side just as Fay walks in and catches my face. She rushes over as Carly jumps off the couch and onto the beanbag chair

"Is it sensitive? Here I brought you this"

She hands me a little bottle full of what seems like a homemade mixture

"What is it?"

"Caron made it for me, it helps so much, put it on and see for yourself"

She pulls the blanket off me and I raise my shirt for her to see. Her jaw clenches and she shakes her head sadly

"Bastards are going to suffer for that"

She opens the cap and dribbles it over my scars and I rub it in and true to her word the itchy tight feeling disappears

"Wow"

"It's great isn't it? I thought I'd always have to live with the itch reminding me of where it came from but not anymore"

She lifts her top and turns so I could see her back, tears brimming in my eyes. I have heard what she has been through but seeing it is a different story.

"How do you live with them? I can hardly look at mine"

She drops her shirt and takes a seat beside me sighing

"Arden said to me once that if he had a scar across his face and all over his body, would it make me love him any less? if mark had scars all over his face and across his body would it make you love him any less?"

I think about it, hell no. I love that boy more than I love oxygen. Nothing he could say or do would ever change that fact

"No not even a little"

She smiles at me

"See, so why would it be any different for them? He's not going to love you any less ever so why love yourself any less. Looks are just that, looks. Once I realised that everything changed. Damn now I love that I have extra sensitive spots on my body because for one it's hot as hell and 2 arden probably loves me more because of what I've been through"

Everything she said seemed to click into place and open my eyes to the reality that she was right. She was so right that I felt stupid for ever thinking any less about it. I grin pulling her into a hug

"Thank you, thank you so much"

"Us girls gotta stick together"

I pull back grinning at her then I jump up onto my feet