Aurora pov:
Even though I was reluctant to talk about my past life, I also know very well that truth, honesty and trust was very important in any sort of relationship.
Whether it was in between friends or between lovers.
And so, I chose to be honest and decided to tell the truth about what I have experienced in the past as I saw the honesty and trust Casey have on me, when she said that nothing I am going to say can change her love and opinion she have on me. And I believe every word she said.
With the warmth coming from Casey’s hands, I took courage to speak.
She knowingly squeezed by hands silently telling with her gesture that she was with me in this situation of mine.
I closed my eyes and all that had happened in my life from that dreadful day, on which I lost my mother and every thing and everyone I held dear to me till the day my ex mate rejected me, flashed in front of my eyes scene by scene, like a movie was being played in the television.
When I opened my mouth to say the first words, I felt like something heavy was struck in my throat, making me unable to say a word. The words I wanted to say got struck in my throat itself, making it difficult for me to say them out loud.
I thought of the moon goddess, and said a silent prayer, wishing that I made a right decision and that nothing changes due to the words I was about to say.
I gulped down heavily and Then I began to speak.
“I am not a rogue from the very beginning like you guys were thinking. I lived in a pack. With my family. I was a pack wolf.
But my family was not like other family. Instead of being a moral support and giving love to me, they hated me”, I said and when Casey heard that, she widened her eyes in shock. I knew why though.
She thought that I was a rogue from the very beginning. She thought that I was one of the rogue from that infamous rogue group camp. Well everyone thought like that. They all thought, that I ran away from the rogue camp because of being treated terribly in that rogue camp. They never thought that I belonged to a pack before.
Then I continued further, while she just squeezed and gripped my hands with a little bit of more strength. Taking a deep breath, I continued again.
“And your guess was right about my scars which you are dying to know, from the day you know about it my the chief doctor. I know once I got my consciousness in the hospital, that the doctors must have done a full check up on me and would have found out about the bruises and scars on my body. And to confirm my doubts, you too behaved a little oddly, and treated me like I was made out of a glass material and often stared at my skin that was hidden under my hospital gown “, I said making her sigh in defeat.
“then???? What happened? “, Casey questioned me anxiously.
“I was abused in my previous pack both physically and emotionally. And it was for a very long time too, that certain things would never make me to frown in pain, even when I was hurt”, I said thinking about all the taunts, pushes, slaps, and punches and all sort of things that I was made to endure it.
“The members in my old pack hated me and never left a chance to slip past their hands when it came to the topic of hurting me. I was treated like a slave in that pack. That’s where I got all those scars and fading bruises from. I had to do all sorts of works in the pack house from cooking to cleaning the pack house to taking care of the laundry. I was not even allowed to eat when I was hungry”, I said.
“oh my dear moon goddess. What a cruel people they were?. How could they deny food and let a fellow pack member to stay starved, when they were eating their foods to their stomach's fill, more importantly, which was prepared by her on an empty stomach…. Cruel people…. They don’t have f*****g hearts at all”, Casey said and her eyes were already tearing up.
“What about your family??. Didn’t they try to stop the people who wanted to hurt you??”, Casey asked both in a curious yet in a distressed voice.
‘Family???.... Like they tried to stop. I snorted internally. I thought back to the times where my family just syood there or been a part of the tormentors group who were dead serious on torturing both my mind, soul and body. I thought how my dad ordered every pack member in the violet moon pack to treat me badly. The times when my elder sister taunted and hurt me using both her words and actions. The time when my elder brother Sebastian just stood there watching others beating and tormenting me silently, without even uttering any word of objections on how they treated me', all these thoughts flashed in front of my mind, making my heart to hurt like hell.
All of a sudden, I felt a warm hand caressing my cheek. I came out of the world of my own thoughts and look up, only to realize that Casey was wiping the tears that was flowing down my face.
She looked at me both sympathetically and reassuringly, and gave me one of her warmest smile.
“it’s okay sweet heart. I am here”, she said. I nodded at her like a little kid and continued to tell her about my past life.
It was really difficult for me to say the next words, as even thinking about my family, made me more sad than anything else.
“My family members… . They….they were also a part of the group of tormentors, who abused me and dead set on making my life a living hell. They never cared for me. They hated me and abused me with the other pack members, instead of protecting and supporting me as a real family should do”, I finally said all those words that I really wanted to say out aloud.
Casey gasped in utter shock and her grip on my hands increased more. Once I said finished saying those words, I started crying my heart out and unlike other times, where I was always alone while crying, this time, there was a pair of hands that held me dearly to them. There was a person with me who lended their shoulders for me cry.
Casey hugged me close to her and patted my back and allowed me to cry in her embrace. She didn’t say a word out loud, but the warmth that came from her embrace, and the hand that was slowly patting and ran behind my back in a up and down fashion, in a soothing manner, gave a great comfort to me..
And like a thirsty person who was in the middle of the desert was offered a bottle of water to drink, I held on to Casey tightly like a little child hiding in her mother’s embrace and poured out my grievances in the form of my tears.
But in truth, saying things out loud, about how I really felt, really made my heart to feel light. I had never openly blamed, and complained about my family before, for not loving me and instead, tormenting me. But today, when I said to Casey about how I really felt, I felt like something that was heavily pressing on my chest was lifted. And truth to be told, I felt much better.
“ I thought at first that, everything would change for better one day. That I should endure a little more, so that there will come a day, when I will receive the love and support of my family. But it never happened all these years.
They only hurted me more and more as time went by. And I can’t take it anymore. That’s why I ran away from my old pack. Being a rogue seemed much more better than staying in my old pack “, I said to Casey, while she ran her hand on my back in a comforting manner.
After a long period of time, when I felt like I had cried enough, I wiped my tears and sniffled lowly. But I didn’t want to come out of the warm embrace of Casey, so I just hugged her and sniffled lowly.
She too must have seen through the thoughts that ran through my mind, as she didn’t say anything and only held me close and patted my back lovingly.
“Okay sweet heart. Enough of your crying. Stop it this instant”, saying this, Casey made me look at her.
When I took a closer look at her, I saw that even her eyes were filled with a layer of tears.
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