Iris:
Silence hit all my nerves. I had not been able to move a muscle.
I crawled back against the wall in the corner of the room and hugged myself, pulling my knees up to my chest.
I was in a plain white dress now. The damage had been done.
My mother had proved to that she would cross every limit if I disobeyed her, and tonight she proved it.
The few hours of comfort I got from Kash, she made sure to remove every trace of it from my body in the worst way possible.
The door finally opened, and Scarlett crawled back in on her knees.
I forced myself out of the trance, and my eyes lingered on her.
She crawled forward, her elbows shaking as she whimpered.
"Scarlett," I said, getting to my feet and rushing over to her.
I imdiately made her sit down and hugged her. She was crying and shaking badly.
Her body was bruised, one eye was swollen, and her lip was split.
"We cannot keep doing this. We cannot," she whimpered, and I froze.
My mother could be this evil?
"Do not worry. Once the water works—," I told her as I pulled back and cupped her face.
She started shaking her head.
"No. She will not let it work. Even if it does, she will make sure she has other ways to force us into silence," she uttered, crying as she ntioned tonight.
I bit my bottom lip.
"Your mother will use this night against us," she told , then hugged herself.
Her clothes were ripped. I felt like getting to my feet and attacking my mother.
The only thing stopping was the thin thread of fear of losing my son and my daughter.
"You need to tell Alpha King Kash," she whispered, taking deep, heavy breaths as if trying to calm herself.
"She will find out," I told her, and that alone made her panic.
"Yes, then you should not," she replied, instantly withdrawing her request.
That proved that both of us knew my mother could be truly cruel.
"What are we– going to do —now?" she asked , stuttering.
"Listen, everything will be fine, okay?" I told her. But I was not sure if anything would be fine. After what my mother did, even I was afraid of my future.
"I will go to sleep now," she uttered, making feel worse.
She did not deserve any of this. She was only trying to help .
That small help, that small lie she told, caused her so much trouble with my mother.
She wandered toward the bathroom door, and I noticed how badly her knees were shaking.
I had no idea how far my mother went with her, but I could imagine it was too much.
Once she was in the bathroom, I got up and stepped over to my children’s bed.
Before I sat down, doubt settled in. I did not know if I could trust Kash.
If I could not even trust my own mother, how could I trust Kash, the sa man who had betrayed before?
Everyone around stayed only until they found a better option.
The night was hard for to get through. I could barely sleep.
Still, I had to give Scarlett dicine to help her fall asleep.
Even then, around five in the morning, my mother’s guards stord into the room, waking Scarlett.
I tried to go with her, but they told they were only taking her to transition so she could heal. It was brutal.
My mother stopped from following by threatening my children, and Scarlett wanted to leave as well.
Once she was gone, I stayed in my room, waiting for her.
An hour later, the warriors ca in and told that Scarlett had been taken back to the Lycan community.
She would be traveling all the way there to transition and heal because the South was dangerous for them.
They did not know where the caras were or where the patrol warriors would be.
Just to get my mother’s guards here, my mother had to pay a heavy fee.
So they knew the South was a dangerous place for them to do their dirty jobs.
Everything had changed in one night.
When my kids woke up, they had no idea what their mother had gone through.
Amy asked why my eyes were swollen, and I lied, telling her it was an allergic reaction from my eyeliner.
Then we got ready for the day so we could go have breakfast with everyone, acting as if we had woken up after a good night’s sleep.
"Mommy, when can we go and et Daddy?" Colin asked .
I had dressed them up, and they were playing with their toys while I sat next to the window, staring outside.
"You do not have to ask that. Your father is already here," Kash responded, walking into the room with a bright smile and carrying two balloons.
"Yeah, Daddy is here."
My kids jumped up and down happily and ran toward him, while I turned my face away, not sparing him another glance.
"Daddy, are we going to go around and look for new places today?" Colin asked him.
"Yes, of course. That is what we will do, but only after your mother and I finish so work, okay?" he replied.
As soon as he ntioned , I clenched my fists.
I heard footsteps approaching.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
I barely looked at him, but I knew he was wearing an all-black suit.
He had no idea how much my life had twisted after he betrayed .
It was his fault. At that mont, I blad him even more.
If he had not made holess, I would not have ended up under my mother’s control, and all of this could have been prevented.
"Iris?" he asked again.
I looked up at him, and I knew he could see from my eyes that I was not okay.
"Did Scarlett say sothing to you?" he asked, fixing his coat.
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