His Revenge Luna

Episode Six

Hope's Point of View

This morning, for the first time in five years, my door wasn't opened with a strong kick and a curse. It was opened the way in which doors were meant to be opened, by my father. I tried to remember the last time I had seen him, but the memories would not come forward.

Maya growled as I pointlessly searched my mind.

'We've seen him once since the first time we shifted, and that was by chance.' She huffed, putting me out of my misery.

My father stood in the doorway, arms folded across his chest, glaring at me.

'Well, it doesn't look like he's here to share a tearful family reunion.' I grunted in reply. There was a time in my life when I would have done anything for him to look at me like a Daddy looks at his only daughter. Nowadays I couldn't give a flying f**k!

'Oh please, he looks nothing like us.. There is no way we are related to that parasite'

I always found it very difficult to argue that point with Maya, she sensed no bond with his wolf at all, she didn't even know its name. I tried to reason that it was down to the fact that they had never met. But the whole thing was sus.

The second hand on my father's watch ticked the time away. I counted seventeen strokes in the silence before I'd had enough. What the hell did he want?

"What is it, Robert?" I asked with very little interest. There was no point in calling him Dad.

"Watch your tone!" He barked, as his blue eyes darkened to pitch black. The black of his irises started to bleed into the whites of his eyes. I'd never seen anything like that before. Maya's hackles were up and she snapped her teeth together in warning.

'What is that?' She shrieked, sounding very un-wolf-like.

He slammed his eyes shut and his breathing became heavy. He was trying to calm his wolf, but I couldn't shake the feeling that he was trying to hide his evil jet-black orbs too.

"My apologies Beta." I half stammered. Warning bells were going off right through my subconscious. Maya was standing to attention, ears flat, she was not happy with my words.

When he opened his eyes after a good minute, the scary blackness had disappeared.

"That's more like it. Alpha Donovan wishes to see you. Now!"

"Wh-" I started to question him.

"THAT'S AN ORDER" He snarled. His words were powerful and yet I didn't automatically yield to them as I should have done. I made a mental note to think about that later and quickly bowed my head and bared my neck to him.

"Follow me." he said in a gruff voice, and then, "On second thoughts, you first."

'He's wary of us' Maya said cheerfully. 'He won't show his back to us. And did you notice his lack of Beta power over us? We have not been made to take orders from a Beta. She sounded so excited, it obviously meant more to her than it did to me.

'Yeah, but his eyes are super freaky..we need to tread carefully.'

The Beta snapped out directions for me to take as we made our way through the pack house. Even when I was treated as the Beta's daughter, I had never been allowed on the Alpha floor. I knew there was an elevator that reached the top of the pack house, but I was clearly undeserving of that. So it was fourteen sets of stairs for me - Yippee!

The pack house had seven floors, but it was an old building and the ceilings were impressively high, so there were two flights to every floor. By the time we reached the top floor, my lungs were somewhere on the fourth. Maya had insisted I didn't eat what was served to me last night and I hadn't had breakfast that morning. I was feeling pretty crappy.

I was obviously slowing down because my father wrapped his hand around the back of my neck and started forcing me forward.

"There is no point trying to delay the inevitable. And try not to worry," he sneered. The Alpha has a surprise for you."

'Ohhh do you think it's a pony?' Maya wondered sarcastically.

I let out a snort of laughter which was rewarded with a powerful punch to the back of my head. Had I been a human, I would have been killed instantly, instead, I heard a c***k in my skull, and pitched forward onto my hands and knees. I retched up bile onto the filthy, foul smelling carpet below my finger tips. It was utterly revolting! No one had cleaned this hallway for a very very long time.

I was yanked up by my hair and forced onto my feet. My vision was completely blank. I whimpered in fright.

'Are we blind?' I shrieked internally at Maya, panicked by my lack of senses. My heartbeat accelerated as the fear of losing my sight threatened to suffocate me. Every thump in my chest was accompanied by a throb in my crown. I was in agony!

'I don't think so, but that was a hell of a whack. Keep your eyes closed and walk slowly forward. I'll guide you through our other senses.'

I did as she asked and we edged our way down the hall bit by bit. The Beta seemed less in a hurry now that he had the upper hand and walked to the side of me. Maya steered herself off to the left a couple of times and he had to nudge me to correct my direction. She was doing this on purpose, presenting us at our weakest and most helpless. Anything to stop him from feeling the need to attack us again - There are some injuries a wolf will never recover from.

Finally, my captor stopped me as we reached a locked door. I heard him take a key from his pocket and twist it in the lock.

"Push forward with your hands!" He demanded. "Open the door!"

'Oh Goddess.' Maya whined.

With as much strength as I could muster, I pushed out in front of me.

My hands connected with the door and I screamed out in pain as the silver burned through my skin.