The Crying Wolf Chronicles: Forbidden (Book 1)

The Grimaldi's: Intervention

The Grimaldi's: Intervention

Everyone was sitting at  the kitchen table with small glasses of their meals in hands. Maggie and David interlocked their fingers at the table next to Phyllis; the new immortal. Janet, Mitchell, and Mark sat close together while trying to hold down each other's scent. The Grimaldi's versus The Pierce's. This was something that hasn't been done in centuries. A family sit down.

The only people missing were the stars of the whole show, Stephanie and Colleen. They were the next generation of the two bloodlines. They were the most important children in the family. Unlike most children, they have been given a task of carrying on the gift of immortality. A gift that their children will embrace. A gift that both girls shared in some way over the course of the last few centuries.

Janet's hazel eyes swirled firey orange as they stared directly into David's neon greens. Her chest burned, stinging the very pit of her immortal soul. She knew deep inside herself that this wasn't going to be a normal visit. There will and will always be hell where the Grimaldi's were concerned. In her eyes, they were savages, animals with a rampaging bloodlust. Werewolves like her doesn't classify themselves as monsters or animals even though they truely are. They consider themselves human because they are able to digest human food.

The room was dead silent. No words were spoken to each other. Not even the sound of a single breath. Eyes stared tensely at each other. No movement. It was like the room was put into pause mode. David was staring at Janet, and Mark was staring at Phyllis. Pyllis looked down at her lap and didn't look up again. She smiled, then looked over in Maggie's direction who was staring at Mitchell with a huge smile plastered.

"Um, sorry to break this little family reunion, but I have to go." she spoke softly and calmy.

Maggie raised a brow. "Where are you goin, dear?"

"Colleen." she smiled at the sound of her new sister's name.

The immortals didn't say another word. They allowed her to walk out the front door.

Janet sighed. "So what is this about?"

"We need to get this out in the open and clear the air." David said.

"Clear what air? There's nothing to clear, David." Janet continued to stare.

"Yes there is. For centuries, we've been separated. For centuries, we've been at each other's throats. Why?"

"Maybe did you ever stop to wonder that the reason why we've been separated is because your inability to accept the fact that we will never be family."

"You believe that Janet. Not me. I believe that even though we are separate species, we are still a family because of Stephanie, Colleen, and now Phyllis. I've accepted it. You still believe that we are monsters that need to be put down. I can say the same thing about your kind, but I choose not to because you are married to my wife's brother."

"You are monsters. Savages."

"Takes one to know one." David mumbled.

Maggie lifted up her hands and shook her head. "That's enough! Stop it the both of you? What is it? What?" Maggie's eyes swirled deep blood red from her normal blue.

David rubbed her back and looked down at his lap.

"Sis, it's not between them." Mitchell said. "Father is the cause."

"How?" Maggies soft blue eyes were filled with tears.

"Father is alive." he said.

"How do you know that without physically talking to him?"

"It's obvious. Janet despises my father-"

"And David acts exactly like Cole." Janet interrupted. "His presence is through you."

"I am nothing like that bastard! If you hate me Janet, that is fine. Don't ever compare me to him. He is not important to me." David slammed his hard, marble fist down on the table. Maggie sat in silence while she listened to the rest speak ill about her father. The father she loved dearly and still does.

Mark sat in silence as well. He looked up at the ceiling and shook his head. Out of the siblings, he was the closest child to Cole. He was the oldest, the strongest, the bravest and the smartest. Mitchell and Maggie were just there to be there.

"What is wrong with you two?" Mitchell asked them again. "We used to be a family. What's changed?"

"Nothing has changed, little brother. Janet and David has been like this for years. You were just too blinded by Janet's love to see that. You forgot who your family were and began a family of your own." Mark said.

"So is that why we haven't spoken? Because I fell in love?"

"It's not that you fell in love. It's what you fell in love with."

"She is no different from you and I." Mitchell said.

"Yes, little brother. I see that now." He smiled in Janet's direction. Her face pulled down into her lap and a smile was pulled with it.

"What do we do now?" Maggie asked.

"We should try to make this work for the children." David said.

"No," Janet mumbled deeply. "the children will be fine. They can take care of themselves. We shouldn't try to force something that's not even there."

"No, Janet. Stop being selfish. Our children are going through a crisis at the moment. A human girl is missing and they are looking for her." David said. Mark's back stiffened.

"Why is she any concern to us? She's a human."

"Because she's my daughter's best friend." Maggie said with drying tears in her soft blue eyes.

"That's your problem, not ours." Janet looked at Mitchell.

"She's your problem too. Stephanie is helping my daughters." David said, smiling when he said the word in plural form.

"No, she wouldn't." Janet's mouth was wide open. She couldn't believe her own daughter would get caught up in mess that involved the Grimaldi's.

"Leave her be, dear." Mitchell looked into her concerned face. David and Maggie knew he was reading her thoughts.

Mark sat in utter silence. He didn't know what to say.

"I do know this, I will never accept you beasts into my family." Janet frowned, making deep crease lines into her perfect forehead.

"She's my sister, my love." Mitchell said softly.

"I know. She's accepted because I love you, but David's not."

David shrugged. Maggie shook her head making her curls bounce.

"No, it's either me and David, or none at all. He is my husband. He is my family."

Janet hesitated for a second.

Mitchell sighed and gasped to utter a word. "On behalf of my wife, we will accept both of you into our family."

Mark left from the chair and stormed out the door, leaving the family behind.