Today is Alana, my daughter's birthday and I'm so excited about what the day has to bring. My beautiful sweetheart will be turning eight this year and as the perfectionist that I was, everything had to be in order.
I was standing at the great and grand pack hall that was going to be used for this joyous ceremony and my maid, Brielle, was standing by my side watching me while I worked.
"Brielle can you hand over that balloon? And I thought I asked for blue and purple color? Why am I seeing red?" I questioned my maid authoritatively.
"Oh I'm sorry ma'am," Brielle said and kept her face down.
"Why are you keeping your face down? Hurry up and go change these things. This is not a toddler slumber party, this is an eight birthday. I want everything to be perfect," I said as I handed back the pink balloons to her and asked for other ones.
"Yes ma'am I'm doing that instantly. Please hold on," she said and rushed to the door.
Immediately after Brielle left my sweetheart came into the room from the door. She just woke up from sleep.
"Good morning mommy," Alana my daughter greeted me and came forward to me for a hug.
She looked rough. Her eyes were still swollen and her hair was distorted. Oh! This child. Had she not warned her not to come down stairs if she was not organized enough. She had to understand that she was no more a little girl and she must start acting like a growing lady.
"Alana! You are still in your nightwear," I said as I returned the hug and grumpily freed myself from her sharply after.
"Mom, come on! I'm at home! You don't expect me to always be dressed like a princess," Alana retorted.
"Yes you are a princess and you must never be caught slipping. Anyways, did you see your father when you were coming down from the hallway?" I asked my daughter desperately.
Lately he has been cold to me. We slept on the same bed for weeks and he wouldn't want to touch me. Anytime I tried to touch him he would say he was tired.
He always came back late and claimed it was meetings at work keeping him and when he was at home, he would say he wanted to patrol around the area with his beta because he smelt some vampires around.
Anyways today will be his daughter's eighteenth birthday and there was no way he would miss it. Not even for the world. She was daddy's princess and only child.
I did not care if he had any kind of feelings towards me, I dismissed it as him being too loaded with work and having pressure put on him recently.
"No mom, I have not seen him around here. I waited for my yearly early morning birthday surprise from him and I could not find it," Alana answered me with a gleam of sadness in her eyes.
I did not want to disappoint her so I changed the topic.
"Oh my baby is a year older today. You know, you'll always be my little girl. I love you more than life itself."
Tears were streaming from my eyes.
"Aww thanks mom I love you too, forever," Alana said as she pecked me in the cheek.
"Alana dear, we are an hour from the party. Let me supervise the maids in the kitchen."
Alana left to go to her room and I walked to the kitchen.
The party had started and my daughter's friends were here and everything was set. I was dressed up looking very cute and I went to greet other alphas that came from other packs. Something was missing. What could it be? It was my alpha. He was supposed to be here.
The party had progressed for three hours. I ignored him coming late because I thought he would make a grand entrance here and Alana had started to be disappointed. Angry, I barged out of the hall to call him.
"Pick up, Ethan. What is the problem? Pick up," I said as I called him. After the tenth missed call I went to the office to see what was happening for my eyes.
When I reached the office, the place was quiet and dark and I heard someone laughing.
'I thought Ethan said he was with his beta?' I thought to myself.
I kept walking to the office and I heard the moans of a lady. They both looked like they almost reached ecstasy.
What? No! My ears were certainly deceiving me. Was that a woman? Riding on my alpha? I never saw this coming. My brain began to shake.
'I stood at the door and I heard a female voice. It was Jasmine, my sister. Moon goddess! What could this be?!' I talked to myself and said with my voice trembling because this was a surprise.
I could not hold it anymore and I barged the door open.
'curse myself for not being able to pin the pieces together,' I thought as I looked at them.
"Moon goddess what in the hell!" I screamed and sharply my sister Jasmine stood up from on top of Ethan and fell on the floor as she tried to run to one corner.
Jasmine stood up and hastily wore her clothes and tried to apologize to me.
"I'm so sorry sis, please don't be__"
"Hold it there, you evil witch!" I said as I yelled at her and looked in disdain at Ethan that did not even try to cover himself.
I walked closer to her and looked at her neck. It was the necklace Ethan bought for me that I carefully tucked away. So he took it and gave it to this bitch.
"This bitch! So you're with my necklace. No wonder. Right from when we were kids you always wanted what I had. From that plushy gift mom and dad got for me and now marriage. You first refused this guy because he was not an alpha now look!"
Suddenly Jasmine faked a fall to the ground.
"Arrh! My belly."
Ethan nakedly stood up, pushed me and walked to her and touched her and asked me to apologize.
"Apologize now or it's over!" Ethan threatened.
"Never!" I said
"You must or__"
"Or what?"
"I will punish you because she's pregnant!"
"What!" I was shocked to my bones. I had seen the signs but ignored it.
I wanted to ask why he never tried for another child with me but when he looked at me and swore, I realized it was over.
I wanted to scream again when I heard Alana's footsteps and calls.
"Mommy! Where are you?"
I didn't want Alana to see this mess so I tried to negotiate. "It's okay Ethan. You can come home and we will talk about this. Today is your daughter's party. She deserves this honor. Please dress up and come."
His face softened a bit for a while and then hardened back when he heard me talk about Alana and then looked back at Jasmine and then at me.
"Making you my Luna was the biggest mistake I had ever made," Ethan declared.
"Alana dear, please hold on! I'm coming, I'm trying to settle some issues with the elders," I said to my daughter as I lied so that she would not come any closer.
"What did you just say Ethan? Are you out of your mind?"
Ethan had started to wear his clothes and he was turning his back at me. I had to go to him and turn him around so that he would see me as I was talking.
"So you want to do this to me now huh? This is how you want to treat me after years of sacrificing and breaking my back for you. I have drank poison because of you. I protected you by drinking that wine so that we could identify if there was poison or not. I laid down my life for you."
"I did not ask you to," Ethan fired.
"Wow. Ungrateful much? I have been stabbed by assassins because of you. How many times have I put my life on the line for you," I asked as tears were coming down my face?
"Your years of being Luna in my palace and enjoying being catered for my servants and being honored are your repayment for your services, thank you ma'am," Ethan told me.
I hoped Alana went back to her party.
"Give it up sister, how do we know you are not the one that poisoned the wine and arranged the assassins by yourself," Jasmine shamelessly said to me.
I was surprised and stunned by Ethan's coldness and Jasmine's new found confidence.
"Wow you're such a shameless person you know, Jasmine. I always knew you could take my life if you had the opportunity to."
I looked at Jasmine and this time she was sitting comfortably on Ethan's lap, sneering at me. She was such a shameless person I could not believe this was my sister that I housed, trusted and fed.
They always said even if a snake shed its skin, it will still be replaced by the old snake skin. How could I not see?
"At least I did not love you when you needed basic things. I loved you when you were still a boy and there was no hope for you to be an alpha. Now today after the wealth, you are back to the same person that rejected you. Wow!"
"I helped you and made you grow into this current position. You forget your uncle wanted to be the alpha but I gave you tips on how to fight him away and now today see," I could not cry anymore. My heart was beginning to harden.
Ethan got angry and slapped me very hard on the cheeks.
"Arrh!" I screamed. My face was already red and his palm made marks on my face. Jasmine gave an evil smile and she looked at Ethan with happiness.
"Stop reminding me of the past you dimwit! You should even be happy that I stayed with you and your disability," he sneered at me.
Just as I screamed and wailed on the floor, Alana walked in to see me and covered her mouth in shock. This was what I wanted to avoid!
"Dad, what is happening? Why is mom on the floor?"
"Your mother is misbehaving," Ethan coldly answered without even wishing her a happy birthday.
"Is this how you treat your Luna? I grew up to see both of you struggling and now see you are slapping her. You know domestic violence is against the law."
I was ashamed. I buried my head further and tried to clean my tears so that she would not see me. How did I put myself into this mess? This was the height of disgrace and in front of my own child. I just thank God she did not come in here they both were butt naked.
"And why is aunt Jasmine on your lap?"
"No she mistakenly sat there, please get up Jasmine."
My heart became very softened and I cleaned up my tears to talk to my child. Ethan immediately asks Jasmine to stand up and starts to walk close to Alana but she walks back.
"Damn it child. Curse you and your mother," Ethan said and he walked back and held Jasmine on the waist.
It now became clear to Alana what was happening and she opened her mouth wide and stared at me in shock. Then she proceeded to close it with her mouth and look at Jasmine.
"Alana, dear happy birthday, I was going to come to the hall," Jasmine said and faked to care.
Alana looked at Jasmine with a very stern look and hissed then she looked at her father. I could see disgust written all over her face. It was as if she was not proud of her family at this moment. I could not blame her. Who would be proud of such?
"Please don't talk to me. Why is my mom in spins and you're on my fathers laps?"
Jasmine clutched her chest together with her arms and said, "see small Alana. Now she does not want to talk to me anymore."
"For this rubbish I'll lock you up for three days. How dare you talk to Jasmine that way? Guards!"
I stood up and ram to hold my daughter and I saw how she looked at her father with disappointment but did not cry. She was hurt.
"Today is her birthday. How could you be so heartless and you know she is sick, we are still treating her," I tried to beg for mercy.
"I blame you for not training your child well. Is that how she should talk to elders? Especially her family members?" Ethan blamed me.
I looked up at Jasmine's face and it was filled with laughter.
"May I suggest that both of them should get locked up together so that they can continue that mother daughter love there? At least that way she can keep treating her illness," Jasmine sharply added.
"Your wish is my command, my love. I always knew you were a considerate person," Ethan said and thanked her for her kindness and kissed her.
So he called her my love. The guards came and held me and my daughter and he walked out with my sister Jasmine.
It had been a week since that dangerous incident happened. We never got to go to the party again.
Ethan lied and told the guests to drink and merry that Alana had to go through some rite of passage that needed only her parents to be there for her and the crowd, unknowingly feasted till dawn while we were in the cold prison without any chance to at least change our clothes.
Alana had started to develop a different illness minus the old one she had and we were struggling to treat.
"God Alana I'm so sorry that I roped you into the middle of this. You honestly don't deserve this. How do I take good care of you now that we are inside here?" I talked to Alana and I doubted she even heard me with the way she was shivering.
"Mom please you should not worry about me, I can handle myself," Alana said as she was stuttering.
"My poor child. Desperate times call for desperate measures and I must see what I can do to help you."
I beckoned one of the guards to come. I prayed to the moon goddess to give me the strength to be able to talk to him for him to agree.
"Come, can you please get me a pack doctor? My daughter is almost on the verge of death."
"Ma'am orders were given to us by Alpha Ethan not to let anyone here to see you or run errands for you," the guard said.
"Please. You are a father, put yourself in my shoes. You can tell him that Alana was screaming and fainted, please," I begged him rigorously.
"Okay ma'am just this one time," he nodded and agreed for me.
I was happy and I thanked the moon goddess for this victory only to see the guard coming back without any doctor.
"Where's the doctor? Why can't I see him with you?"
"I'm sorry ma'am, no doctor is free. They are treating your sister Jasmine that came down with a bad bellyache. No one is free," the guard said with a tight face.
"Now you will go look for a doctor for me and stop all these rubbish complaints. You forget that I used to feed you well. How is your new Luna treating you? I guess never as good as I did. Humans are so ungrateful."
"Ma'am please I don't like all this banter. Luna Jasmine has occupied all the doctors. What more do you want me to say?
"So, after all my contributions here they are now too busy to attend to my child?"
I started to shake the cage of the prison.
"I want to see the doctors! I demand that as the Luna of this pack. After everything this is how you have decided to treat me? I will rain hell if I cannot see the doctor," I started to threaten and screamed.
"One more noise from you and I will be forced to call Alpha Ethan."
"Go and call him. Go and call the loser. So now my sister's name is no more Jasmine it's now Luna Jasmine and with all the plenty of doctors in this pack, how can there not be space for me and my child to be looked after?"
"If my daughter dies, I will burn down this place,"
The guard ignored me and goes back to his duty. Even if I screamed no one could hear me anyways. Then he left his duty post.
He came back with a doctor and I rushed to point at the affected places and the doctor got into work immediately.
Hours later I calmed down. I was worried as my daughter was weak and now crying.
Suddenly Ethan came in and I thanked my stars because I thought he came for our child.
Then I saw that stupid Jasmine behind him.
"What is the problem, my love here," he said as he pointed at Jasmine "complained that there were not enough doctors taking care of her and that you had snatched up all. Are you treating an elephant or what?"
Jasmine rubbed her belly. "I need like five more doctors honey. My baby needs all the love it can get," she said to him.
"Ethan you should be ashamed of yourself. Your daughter is sick and this is all you care about?"
"Don't talk to me about that! Do you not see that she is pregnant with the future alpha of this pack and he needs all the love I can give?"
"So, it's one is what? The person that gave birth to you is not a lady?" I asked him and then Jasmine interrupted.
"I don't have time to be exchanging words with you. As you can see, right now you are the least of my problems. I just want the doctor to come with us."
"He's not going anywhere. There are hundreds of doctors, go and engage one."
"Honey, the baby does not like this noisy area, can we go to the reception?" Jasmine said as she cut into our discussion.
"Yes darling, anything you need will be done for you," Ethan said as he and Jasmine started to play love in front of my prison cell close to where his daughter was sick without saying a word to her.
I felt irritated by this and prayed that if my daughter made it, she would never want to forgive her father.
Then I looked at Jasmine and saw that she was very healthy. So, this bitch lied about a stomach ache because she knew my child was sick and would need some attention. Look at how round her cheeks were.
If there was one thing, I knew Jasmine for, it was pretending like a pro. And my poor daughter was there shaking while she was cornering all the doctors. This made me boil in anger and I lashed out on them.
"You are a very foolish man, Ethan. How could you ask me not to look for a doctor for my child?"
"You're the one that is foolish can't you see Jasmine needs it?"
"Look at Jasmine. See how healthy she is looking. Did she tell you the sickness is real? Look!"
Ethan looked at Jasmine to insect her and just then she fell to the floor and clutched her tummy pretending to be in pain.
"Arrh! My belly!" Jasmine screamed.
"My baby, are you okay?" Ethan ignored me and rushed to the floor to hold Jasmine
Just then the healer came from my daughter's prison cell with bad news.
"I'm sorry ma'am."
"Sorry what?" I asked him with concern in my eyes.
He bent his head.
"Your daughter is unconscious and she may never wake up again because you delayed treating her. I'm so sorry ma'am, my condolences."
"What does this mean? doctor don't tell me that- Noooooooooo!!" I fell to my knees and screamed in pain.