Lycan Second Chance Mate

"Dad!, Dad". I called out yet again. I sucked in a deep breath and pushed the door wide open, entering the room. I scanned the room to catch a glimpse of his presence.

"Dad, are you in there?" I asked, creeping closer to the bathroom as I heard a rumbling voice, probably the tap running.

The bedroom was dark, and the silky rug muffled at my legs as I took long strides to the sagging curtains at the window, adjusting them.

I widened my eyes, satisfied, as the efficacious brightness illuminates the room, providing a soft glow.

My dad stepped out of the bathroom holding a hand towel, rubbing his hands on it as he threw it inside a waste bin in front of the bathroom.

His countenance hardened noticing me as he leaned by the entrance of the bathroom door.

"I will be going to Aunt Marie's place " I informed him staring at his face for his expression.

"You can go, did you need anything?". He asked not glancing up crossing his hands on his chest

"No, I don't think so". I replied to him with my subtle tone fondling my hands. He didn't give a response as usual again, I stomped my legs and dragging my legs in anger to my room to get ready.

I freshened up moving to my wardrobe to pick out an outfit, I picked a long-sleeved A-Line midi red gown with a black belt and black heels decorated with crystals.

I packed a few clothes in my small suitcase should I sleep at her place since I am just bored at home? I picked up my phone to inform my aunt from my makeup table after applying a little touch on my face to compliment my look.

Carrying my small suitcase and handbag, I hailed a cab to Philadelphia International Airport.

I took a long strides to the checkpoint and an air hostess glanced up, and attended to me.

"When is your flight schedule ma'am?" She asked me with a full-fledged smile, her dimples showing by the side of her cheeks.

"Afternoon, 2:00 PM to be precise". I relayed bringing out my passport and handing it over to her.

"Ma'am, a mail has been sent to you, the flight has been canceled likely there will be a storm in Philadelphia this evening as per the weather forecast". She divulged.

Enraged, I furrowed my brows running my hands through my hair as this had ruined my plan.

"We are sorry for the inconvenience this might have caused you" She muttered with a low tone apologetically.

I dragged my feet carrying my suitcase heaving a long low sigh knowing I would go back to meet my Dad cold yet distant face.

Deciding to call my best friend to sleep over at her place but she wasn't picking up, I stood in front of the airport flaring my nose with my hands constantly rubbing my neck.

I hailed a cab telling the taxi driver my destination, I settled inside the cab staring out the window feeling a knot in my stomach.

The taxi driver dropped me off at her place, taking a long stride to the entrance I knocked but there was no response, I knocked again before deciding to enter, I walked briskly to her room dropping my suitcase in the living room.

I hwld on to my sub-consciousness as the scene unfolding before my eyes seems like a nightmare.

I opened the door slightly. I froze, my brain couldn't process the scene unfolding before my own eyes.

My best friend was on her toes naked gripping the edge of the bed, her face flushed with beaded sweat on her forehead as my fiance was thrusting into her aggressively drowned in their moments of intense pleasure.

I couldn't believe my eyes as I shook my head in disbelief with tears threatening to pour out, I felt the air stilled around me I couldn't breathe, I was gasping for air while holding my chest and gripping my phone hard till it fell making a sound which startled both of them as they raised their head.

"Just fucking release into me, Jace," Clara said with a smirk while casting a dismissive glance at me.

"No, this isn't real". My breath hitched as I took my phone on the ground while rushing out, bumping into Mom by the doorway.

There was terror on her face as she was shaking frivolously staring at me not uttering a word as to what was going on.

"So you knew, Mom" I choked out, the words hanging in my throat. I cried out in disbelief as tears streamed down my cheeks.

She looked at me avoiding eye contact, at least she felt guilty unlike those idiots with their nonchalant attitude as I saw Clara descend the staircase with Jason trailing behind her like a scaredy cat.

Jason was dressed in a brief and singlet while Clara wore a strapless bra showing the hickeys on her neck.

"Did you enjoy the sex scene, my dear friend". Clara said with a smile plastered on her face as she moved to Jason kissing him on the lips while rubbing deep circles on his chest.

"You think you have the whole world at your back, Ivory" She said and scoffed rolling her eyes.

"You're dumb, bet that's why you couldn't see what was beneath your nose ". She scoffed displaying a wide grin on her face.

"Did you really believe Jason loved you?" She questioned, arching her brows and smirking.

My hands were shaking, my stomach churned as bile rose up my throat, and I was silently fighting back the tears that were about to fall.

"My dear, it was just a bet and Jason here needs money for his tuition fees which you don't hesitate to give out". She said smiling and rolling her hazel eyes.

"You are a fool and all the kindness you show by offering to help is just a facade. You always think you are kind, always giving off the classic and intelligent babe in college." Clara added gritting her teeth.

"Are you envious of me?". I questioned scoffing at her petty outburst coming out from who I thought had my back.

"Who is jealous of your miserable, lonely existence?" Jason laughed and put his hands around Clara's waist.

"Everyone around you suffers because of you; your mother died giving birth to you; you are a curse." She continued, drawing nearer to me.

I paused my lips into a thin line and couldn't believe what I heard from whom I thought was my friend. No way I am gonna cry out in front of them, they would be satisfied if I broke down in front of them.

She winced and held her cheeks as I stepped in closer to slap her, raising her other hand in retaliation.

"Don't you dare!!". I held her hands before they could collide with my cheeks as she struggled to free her hands while looking over to Jason.

"That is for putting my life in jeopardy." I balled my fists and kicked Jason in the groin.

"And for you ma, train your daughter so she won't turn into a community whore taking people's leftovers". Clara's Mom's face darkens frowning her face.

"I will make sure you regret ever living, I will make you feel miserable, I will make you forget to breathe, each one of you". I swore as I raised my chin throwing them a threatening look.

I rushed out of the house as the tears poured out streaming down my cheeks. I called a cab rushing inside to let the tears fall freely.

"Where to, miss". The Cab man asked looking at the rear view mirror with a concerned look.

"Just drive". I told him feeling lightheaded looking out at the window, with tears in my eyes.

/Ivory's POV/

The haunting wind whispered eerie secrets as the cold night breeze swept past me and I shivered.

The crescent moon hung low in the sky, casting a soft, silver glow over everything in sight. The world was hushed as if it had been put to sleep by the gentle light.

I looked up at the sky with tears streaming down my face.

"Why me?" I screamed as my heart twisted in my chest and my knees buckled as silent sobs racked through my body.

I didn't know for how long I had been walking heading to nowhere in particular with disheveled hair, my eyes were red from crying ruining my perfect eye shadow, and mascara I had on my face which had been smeared.

Walking barefoot with my shoes clutched in my hands as one of the heels had broken off.

My legs ached so much that it hurt, people stared at me with different expressions on their faces.

I had been betrayed, by my fiance, who cheated on me with my best friend Clara. I had been betrayed by someone who portrayed a mother figure to me. I met Clara in high school and we passed through every phase of our lives together, her Mom was like a Mom to me, she's my soul sister.

I loved Jason and we have been dating for three years now which he proposed to me after his graduation ceremony from college just a few months ago when I was just in my third year in college.

I remembered the dreamy yet happy look when he proposed to me kneeling, confessing his love, and slipping the rings on my finger.

What could have ever gone wrong, what did I do to deserve this treatment, am I cursed asking myself as I broke down again into silent sobs holding my chest as my knees wobbled to the ground?

My knees wobbled to the ground as I screamed falling and sitting on the ground.

I raised my head and realized I was alone, there was no one in the street. As I trekked through the lonely street with no signs of humans, my heart raced with adrenaline and fear. It was getting darker and I could feel the cold grasp of the night tightening its hold on the surroundings.

Everywhere was silent, I couldn't hear the dogs that barked at night. As I walked through the dark and eerie streets, I could feel the chill in the air.

I walked further and realized it led to a forest with a notice board in front of it, there was a danger zone, keep off. I didn't even know where I was.

I needed something to take my pains away and forget all that happened to me, I don't give a damn about it as I stepped my foot into the forest.

I was shivering from the cold since I had yanked off my woolly coat from my long-sleeved A-Line midi red gown with the belt at Clara's house. I rubbed my hands together as I wrapped them around myself.

As I ventured into the dense forest, my heart raced a hint of fear. My father had always warned me about weird stories that people encountered in the forest when we were still close cause he's a cop more like the community hunter.

With each step, the air grew thicker and the trees seemed to close in on me. My mind keeps telling me to go back with echoes of my father's warning in my head.

Suddenly, a loud growl echoed through the forest and my body froze in terror. My heart beat rapidly in my chest, and I couldn't shake off the feeling of unease.

Fear gripped me as I continued sobbing which I had stopped earlier as I lacked the strength to, I leaned on the bark of a tree reminiscing on my joyful moments with my Dad.

As a single father, he tried to bring me up with different obstacles he encountered, the joyful moments went into pause when I graduated from high school and entered college.

He always looked so distant, cutting me off with a quick reply when I asked him a question, it feels so unbearable having no one to care for me, no one to give me fatherly love or motherly love.

Everything became a nightmare for me to live, for me to breathe I could ended my life now if I was to be eaten by a wild animal rather than die from depression. I have been acting strong all my life but I couldn't keep on living.

Tears streamed down my cheeks as I was too weak to sob loudly, a loud growl echoed through the trees again, causing me to freeze in fear.

My heart stopped as I looked up to see a massive black ferocious beast glaring down at me with its sharp teeth bared.

The vicious creature, clad in fur, was on all fours and staring at me with bloodshot eyes. Panic consumed me as I tried to think of a way out of this situation.

But just as I started to feel some relief at putting distance between myself and the unknown creature, I stumbled over a large root and fell to the ground. I struggled to get up, a huge shadow loomed over me.

I waited for the attack as I closed my eyes, ready to be devoured by the beast. A gunshot rang through the forest as I opened my eyes to see who could have come to my rescue.

The vicious creature turned his direction to my Dad as I opened my mouth agape while silently sobbing conveying a message through my eyes to my father.

It was already late as the beast leaped into the air and yanked my Dad off.

"Ivory, run and I am sorry ". He shouted pleading with his eyes, his voice echoing in the forest as he was been dragged by the vicious beast.

I let out a piercing shriek as I witnessed my Dad being devoured by the ferocious beast, my heart pounding in my ribcage as silent sobs racked through my body for the terrible mistake endangering his life.

"Run". The words keep ringing in my head but my legs refuse to move from the excruciating pain.

I was breathing heavily and covered in blood as I struggled to stood up and run, and with my heart still thumping fiercely in my chest.

The ferocious beast materializes out of nowhere and charges at me with incredible speed as I closed my eyes waiting to be devoured by the vicious beast.

I awoke to a loud banging on my head and realised that I was in my room and not dreaming about the images from the previous night.

The faint chirping of birds and the golden rays of sunlight that peeked through the curtains on my window made me realize it was already morning.

Limping to the kitchen to take a cup of water, clutching the walls for support, I gulped down the water, My throat felt so dry like I hadn't taken water for a whole day.

"No, no It can't be," I tucked in my upper lip with a slackened mouth.

I kept quiet staring blankly, my mind in a mess as I couldn't decipher what happened last night, how I got home, how I found myself on the bed alive if truly it wasn't a nightmare.

Having these vague, hazy pieces of memories left me pinching my cheeks while sobbing and rolling on the floor.

Maybe I should just die, I stood up but felt my knees wobble and a sharp excruciating pain in my legs.

It was an unbearable pain, it hurts so freaking much...I screamed as I heard my bones snapping, and cracking. The bones in my hands crack rearranging into something that feels like claws.

I managed to get to a full-length mirror to see what was wrong with me. It was a horrifying scene, my bones snapped again making me writhe in pain, I didn't realize I was crying with liquid dripping down my cheeks.

My knees wobbled as I fell to the cold floor rising and standing on fours, clad with platinum furs and a shade of black below the abdomen. Looking at the long pointed snouts, long pointed ears, the long canine teeth. I didn't know how to classify the beast I transformed into.

I felt so big trying to move while knocking down some things, stumbling on the floor.

I stood up again balancing my legs as I moved in front of the mirror to observe what was wrong with me. I lifted my hands which had transformed into claws and furs on it.

I yelled in horror which came out as a growl, my voice wasn't heard by myself but rather from a voice within me. The events from yesterday were still overwhelming as I recounted what happened after the beast jumped at me but I couldn't remember leaving the area, coming back home lying down in my bed.

"I brought you home". A voice replied to me and I turned back and forth wanting to know where the voice came from knocking down something in the process with the tail.

"And I am your wolf," She added, my eyes widened in horror.

"What the heck was that?"I questioned shrieking back in fear.

"I am talking inside you, took you long enough, I am Celene, and I am your wolf" The voice uttered inside my head.

I shrieked back in fear not knowing what was happening to me.

"Did werewolves exist, how did I become one?". I turned around with the vicious beast turning back and forth knocking out things in the process.

"Yes they do exist far from human imagination and abode, there are so many secrets that are hidden, a few I am aware of some I am not" Celene explained inside my head.

"How can I become a vicious beast that killed my father, I deserved to die I want to die in this miserable world, I can't live with this body" I yelled out which came out as a growl, I trembled in my beast form using my claws to scar my face.

But to my utmost surprise, the wound closed up healing completely, the first still as new.

"You are a werewolf, you have some supernatural abilities, healing being one of them" Celene whined inside me, my stomach churned at her words meant to snap me back into reality.

I limped to the kitchen with imbalanced steps not accustomed to this stinking wolf's body. I reached for a knife in the cutlery equipment in the one corner of the kitchen which was divided into two.

I cut my wolf body by the neck and fell lifeless on the floor with blood splattered everywhere. My eyelids felt heavy succumbing to the darkness

I awoke with Celene's voice ringing in my head as I felt an electrifying jolt inside my body, the pain subsiding as the wounds closed yet again.

I screamed in terror exhausted, lying down with the stinking vicious creature on the floor.

"You don't call yourself a stinking vicious creature, as a werewolf you embrace and accept your wolf, it's your inner self," Celene said with a low tone which meant to console but I don't fucking care.

"You fucking shut up, I don't know who you are, whining in my head to manipulate me. Dream on" I snapped at her, scowling and growling.

She laughed hysterically at my outbursts. What the hell did I say that is funny, I couldn't pin my head around it.

"I have been lying inside you dormant all this while and now, I have surfaced, it's ridiculous bantering with your inner self" Celene muttered snapping back at me.

"What did you mean lying dormant all this while " I questioned her standing with the beast's body, my eyes widened in shock.

"You got to know later on, and don't call your wolf a beast, that's very rude of you" I could imagine her rolling her eyes saying that.

"Then what are you?, your kind fucking killed my Dad, just what else am I breathing for with my miserable existence". I cried out as each word felt like a knife stab in my chest.

How I found myself still alive from the near-death experience left my jaws dropped open. I slipped a tear off my face as I remembered I had no one to turn to now and I found myself with this mess of a body.

"I wouldn't forgive myself for causing both of my parent's death". Tears rolled down my furs which tickled.

"How am I supposed to leave with this self-guilt" I asked, aid taking an I'm able steps to the kitchen as I fell at the entrance as I was so big.

"I informed you, you ain't going to do a damn thing about it". Celene chirped in again.

"Transform me back into a human, this is freaking hard, you this beast". I yelled in my subconscious mind as I just wanted to die, nothing was worth living for in my miserable existence.

"You are still gonna heal if that's what you intended to do". She snapped back at me.

"Then what the hell am I gonna do, what did you want me to do, I want to have my body back, I don't want to live as a vicious beast". I break down admitting defeat probably tired of the petty outbursts we have been exchanging.

"Then will you stay still and do as I said and it's on a condition" she relayed standing up from the cold floor we have been lying down for a while now.

"What's that?" I tried to keep my cool and listen to what the hell she had to say.

"Envision yourself transforming into a human back". She divulged...

"It's not working, beast" I snapped back at her imagining as she had informed but it's not working.

"You have to relax your mind and be self-conscious, human," She said glaring her deadly teeth at me.

I felt my body instantly changing as the claws on my hands transformed back into fingers, the furs on my body changed to my hairy, and the big structure of the beast transformed into my small yet average stature.

"What's the condition?" I said to my inner self with furrowed brows and a frown after changing back.

"There's going to be a full moon today, and it's the best time for a run, you have to move to an environment close to a forest". Celene said giggling inside me.

"Dream on beast" I scoffed squishing my eyes with hands running through my hair.

"You agreed to the condition ". She snapped back at me sounding annoyed.

I am gonna hold you down today with all I got, with whatever means I will hold back your transformation. I swore with my head tilting down to one side.

"So, is this how you want to play? You will end up hurting yourself more," Celene said shrugging it off.

"Remember the full moon is tonight, you got to make preparations or you will end up hurting people around you if you later go berserk," Celene added raising her tone to her normal serene tone.

"Let's wait and see," I said to her with determination in my eyes as I set to find anything on the internet that could seal this stupid damn wolf.

My stomach grumbled feeling the urge to eat, I grabbed my black sweatshirt with matching black joggers, and a black baseball cap putting on my black sneakers. My platinum blonde hair cascaded down my back blending in with the black outfits.

I called a cab driver giving him the location I found on the web, I sat down in the back seat with my thoughts wavering if I would be able to get how to seal this beast.

"Ma'am, we have reached the place" The cab driver called out interrupting my thoughts, I quickly paid him alighting from the car.

I felt a painful pang in my ears, different voices I couldn't decipher, and my nose picking out different smells, I felt lightheaded as my knees wobbled walking to the entrance of the bar with my hands on my heads begging the pain to stop.

The door opened to reveal a man with striking features far from this world, he was a tall and imposing figure with, his shirt clung to his body as if it was about to be ripped off with his chiseled chest and muscular arms. He scented nice with floral laveñder emanating from him and evading my nose clouding my senses.

His alluring hazel orbs darted toward me drowning in his eyes as I felt a word that wasn't mine before my heavy eyelids succumbed to the darkness.

"Mate".