The Lycan King's Mysterious Mate

Shining Stars

~Elena's POV~

If Mom was here... Nothing would be like this. We were living perfectly fine when she was alive but after she left for the moon goddess, my whole life turned upside down.

It's not that my life as a kid was like the shining stars in the sky but at least it wasn't this dark. He used to give me death stares and cold shoulders but he never lay finger on me but when Mom took her last breath, everything changed drastically.

My father...

My father became my biggest enemy. He was never a good father to me but at least he was not my enemy either. He never loved me the way a daughter should be loved but at least he didn't dare to lay a finger on me.

My eyes moved to the frame which was hanging on the wall and a smile crept on my face. I was five when I won an essay competition in which I wrote about my mother. I wish the lines that I wrote that time would have stayed like that only.

Hi... I am Elena Flores. I am a werewolf but I don't live in a clan. It's not that I am a rogue, I have my alpha's permission to stay out of the clan. As I told everything was fine with my life until my mother passed away, but after that, my father became a man that no wants to see in his life.

It's not that he loved me or even liked me, it's just he never said anything or did anything to me first because of my mother and second because of my sister. They both were his precious darlings whereas I... I was just a rock thrown at him which crushed his precious people under it.

There was a time when he loved me and that was the only time when my sister told me he was genuinely happy for me coming to life. He always wanted daughters only and his dream came true when his first daughter, my sister Rebecca born. And when he heard he will be having another daughter, he was over the moon. But what he didn't know was that this daughter will be the death of his wife and the one for whom he wished that she would have died in the womb itself.

It's not that I killed my mother, no I didn't. It was my condition in the womb which made her so weak that over the years her health deteriorated and she passed away after 7 years.

A heavy rogue attack made Mom participate in the fight and even though she won and survived, the fight caused her so much suffering. I was already fragile in her womb that she needed to take extra care of herself while she was pregnant with me but that fight... That fight wasted all the hard work that she did for me.

She started bleeding heavily one day and thought she lost me. The doctor suggested a premature delivery as I was still alive and if they didn't take me out soon, there was no other option but me to die. My mother didn't want anything to happen to me so she pushed me even when she was bleeding hard. The blood loss was so much that she suffered for whole seven years after she pushed me out.

My father started hating me for doing this to his wife. Although it was not my fault, still he blames me for ruining his happy marriage.

After my mother left us, he started shouting at me even if I didn't do anything and hated me always. He wanted to get rid of me but couldn't do anything as my sister took a promise from him not to do anything to me.

Unlike him, my sister never blamed me for anything. She always stood up for me and gave me the love of father and mother. She stood in front of him so many times that I can't even count. If it wasn't for Rebecca, I would have died a long ago.

To keep me safe, she held my hand and moved out of our house to the house which our mother bought years ago. My old house is in the Shadow Moon Pack whereas this house is on the outskirts of the city. But still... Becs efforts went in vain because our father found his way to this place after he ran out of money.

My mother's demise hit him so hard that he lost control over everything. He became a maniac and started doing illegal things and when the alpha got to know about this, he kicked him out of the pack. He has nowhere to go so he went where he knew Becs and I were living.

Everything was still going well when he started living with us because Becs was always there for me but two years back... I lost the only support I had.

I wiped the teardrop which was rolling on my right cheek, I wish I would have heard her that day... My life wouldn't be like this if it wasn't for my stubborn side taking over me at that time.

I heard tiny footsteps approaching me and I quickly wiped my tears. Chase came running into the kitchen and I saw tears in his eyes.

I quickly picked him up, "Hey what's wrong?"

"Leo said that my father is a killer. He killed Mama..."

What the heck? From where kids are hearing such nonsense?

"Hey... Stop crying. Your aunty Elena is here."

"He said they were mates. Aunty, mates don't love each other?"

His brown eyes were looking at me with so much hope that I don't know how to answer this question.

Mates...

Love...

I don't think these two words align with each other. These are the words which are meant to play with one's heart. If the mate bond was that strong... I wouldn't have been facing heart aches every day and my father would have never broken the promise that he gave to my mother.

Mate bond is nothing... But just a myth which keeps you away from the reality.

I kissed his head and gave him juice so that he can stop thinking about this and said, "What matter is... love. The love we give to each other. Don't listen to anyone. You know Aunty is here with you and will always love you."

He brightly smiled while nodding his head and I sighed, mate bond... I will make sure that I will stay as far away as possible from this term and its world. I don't want any other man to become our destruction again.