Succumbing To The Darkness Within (Previously The Gift)

Chapter 22

~Mara's P.O.V~

"Why did she come and do it herself?" I ask Jared and Salem.

"Let's just say she had her own problems to deal with." Jared answers.

"What kind off problems?" They just shrug.

"What was her name?" This is Cassie asking this question.

"Amber." Salem says with pain in his voice. "Why you ask?"

"Because I just came from the Blood Moon Pack." She answers.

"Really! Have you seen her?" He leaps off the bench he was sitting on, in the cell, and place his hands on the bars. "You look familiar but I can't put my finger on it."

"No, not lately. Since the Alpha died, nobody had heard from her. I'm sorry. And I look familiar because I'm Emily's daughter until she almost killed me"

The place went silent.

"What had happened to you two? Why did you guys try to run?" Cassie asks.

"Alpha Kyle used to torture me and Amber because we were the ones that found her." Salem explains.

"Who?"

"His first love. There was an attack on the pack by rogues. She ended up getting injured, bad. We tried to save her but it was too late. He found us and he broke down right then and there crying. Then he started shouting blaming us for her death and because he was an Alpha we couldn't do anything about it." He pauses.

"Our family got sick and tired of it so we decided to run and become rogues. Somehow Amber got caught. She didn't make it with us, so when Emily came to me, remembering me, and she offered me my sister, who am I to say no."

"Was my mom aware of your torture?"

"No she wasn't, but she did remember when we ran and my sister who got caught." Salem answers.

Poor Salem. He lost his sister.

"How old was she?" I ask.

"She was 10. She should be 18 now." I sigh.
He hasn't seen her for 8 years.

Seeing the hurt in his eyes killed me. I wish I could do something but what? I don't know what to do to help.

"Salem.... I promise you that we will find your sister." That wasn't me. That was Caroline.

Everyone's eyes looked at me in shock even I'm surprised. What did Caroline just do? Suppose I don't find her? Salem would hate me for breaking a promise like that. I don't know if I can find his sister in all this confusion? Can I?

"Are you sure you can keep that promise Caroline?" I ask her. She better has a plan.

"Yeah. I think we can find her. She was figured to have run away right? So she's somewhere out there. We'll find her."

"Do you really think you can find her?" He asks with little hope glistening in his eyes. I nod offering him a warm smile.

"Dude you didn't tell me the whole story." Jared pouts like a five year old. Salem just shoot him a glare and he puts his hands up in surrender.

Like seriously what have I gotten myself into? There's an evil Dark Wolf after me and Caroline just agreed to find Salem's sister, when we don't know the first place to look. And then there's the problem with the hunters working with rogues who are trying to kill me for something I didn't do.

I didn't do anything and my life is in danger. I didn't even know if I can sleep properly from now on. This is life-changing.

~*~*~*~*~

"Do you have a plan?" Chloe asks me, while sitting beside me in my car.

After finding out that I was walking up top of a jail for werewolves, I decided to go home. I'm suppose to go home today anyways and plus I miss my mom.

"Not really. It wasn't me that promised, it was Caroline. She's pretty confident that we can find her." I sigh.
Gosh! What did she get me into?

Noticing my mom's car in the driveway, I park. Something is off. But I just shrug the thought off. Coming out off my car, I shut the door not see any sign of my mom. I guess she didn't hear the car.

"Where's your mo.... wait something's wrong." Chloe says while standing beside my car. We both exchange looks, and took off towards the house.

The door was unlocked. Something is definitely wrong. The door makes a slight creaking sound and I was greeted by a horrible sight.

Everything was either broken or torn to shreds. Pictures of me and my mom were smashed, laying on the floor. Walking towards the stairs I see that the living room was in the same state. The couches have claw marks in them, the coffee table was broken into a million pieces and the television had a hole in it?

What the hell happened here? Then realization hits me. My mom.

"MOM!" I scream on the top of my lungs hoping to get a response, but nothing. I didn't even see that Chloe made her way into the living room.

"Whoever did this went through a lot. There was a lot of struggling and running around. This werewolf had a tough time." She mumbles.

I run as fast as I can upstairs and dash towards her room. The door had been kick down. A unknown scent lingered in the room, a scent that I will never forget.

Scanning the room, my eyes land upon the thing that I never wanted to see in my entire life.... My mom's un-moving body. She was laying on her stomach but I didn't see any blood. Thank god.

Running over to her, I turn her over so she was laying on her back. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding, when I hear her heart beating and her chest rising.

"Mom?" But she didn't move.

"Mom!" I repeat a little louder but still now response. My eyes begin to tear up as tears threaten to fall.

"Chloe! I found her! But something's wrong! I'm in her bedroom!" I shout. Why isn't she waking up? What wrong?

Hearing Chloe's foot steps, I see her entering the room and I hear her curse under her breathe. She rushes over and kneels down beside me.

"She alive but she's not waking up. What's wrong with her?" I ask with my voice cracking in the end. I look down at my mom and I see something weird on -or should I say in- her arms.

Lifting them, carefully, so I can observe it properly, I see something black running, coursing through her veins and I hear a gasp from Chloe.

"We need to get her to the pack doctor now."

"Chloe what is this?" The answer that I almost killed me, and I felt like I was suffocating.

"The sons of bitches poisoned her." She hisses.

"We need to get to the pack doctor now or she'll die. Mara teleport us, NOW!"

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