!!!WARNING  mild VIOLENCE!!!

"ALOYSIUS HAND THE DRIVE HERE THIS INSTANT!" I yelled my eyes filled with tears of frustration.

The lighting in Al's living room is dim as if paying homage to the unfortunate series of events that have transpired against me in a single day. I lost my father and my security within 12 hours.

They don't even notice me as they are too absorbed in the laptop screen.

Al's mouth hangs open and tears stream down Sia's face. Alpha is next to them watching silently with fury building up in his eyes.

On the screen, there I was in my bob cut, naively having a black and white view of morality in life. I was talking about 'principles' that help us service the moon-goddess wholeheartedly. Even thinking about it makes me laugh and cringe. A lot has changed since then. None of that burden needs to be carried by my family.

If I were to tell them everything, it would be like poking the sleeping dragon 'fate' in the butt. Only a matter of time will pass until they will have to pay for the mistakes that I have made.

I was talking on and on about my missions and abilities. That girl in the tape has no idea of what living in the reality of the crudeness of life feels like. I pity her incompetence.

I can see the judgement and wariness grow in Al's eyes as he watches on. What he does not know is that every second of the tape he watches, is every second he could have been safe.

I reach for the laptop. Al removes it from my reach and looks up at me in shock. I reach out my hand for the drive. "Please give it back to me."

"What is this, Lia?" Sia whispered.

" Ok. This is just nothing I was just playing around with a camera." I smile hoping that I looked convincing. Don't they understand that some things are better left in the dark.

"Try again, Lia. No lies." Al says his eyes still on the laptop in his hands. Why does he want to tempt fate like this?

" Ok. This is embarrassing. I was auditioning for this role in a futuristic movi-"

"I SAID NO LIES ANATOLIA!" Al boomed. Curiosity kills the wolf...woof.

"Fine. Your way then." I looked at all three of them again.

Something in their eyes just makes me think of how their future would have panned out differently had they not seen this tape. I just chuckle.

The easiest way out of this mess would be for me to run and never come back again.

'You will do no such thing they deserve to know.' Wes drills

'But my oath? Their lives?'

'What if Alpha throws you out now that he knows?'

'I'll take my chances.'

"I need you all to sit calmly and listen to me carefully." I walk around to stand in front of them.

"I..."

"Tell us everything from the beginning." Alpha interrupted. My eyes are darting around the room picturing how this confrontation could potentially play out.

Scenario 1:

The easiest option. I tell them about everything, Wes has made no secret that she wants to, and possibly put them in more danger than they already are in.

Scenario 2:

Window is open. Grab the drive. Knock them all out. Shift and run . But the window is too small for a wolf, so jump out and turn into wolf mid- air and dash, hoping the woods can disguise your steps.

However, Alpha looks like he is pumped with adrenaline. Regardless of my combat skills, a full blooded Alpha still in the prime of his life will be hard to knock out.

Scenario 3:

Throw up all tables as a distraction and hide in the stairwell until coast is clear and dash.

This will only confirm their fears and cause suspicion, and they could raid my apartment. No chance!

Scenario 4:

Tell them a carefully concocted lie-

Al will see right through. Damn him!

"Lia, hello?" Sia is waving her hands in front of my eyes. So, Scenario 2 it is.

"Stop freaking us out and tell us what-"

My fist connects with his nose. That will teach him to meddle with things that are above his comprehension. He looks up at me from the floor with a bleeding nose his eyes turning color.

"How dare you?! Right in front of-"

With a second blow to his face and a calculated kick to his chest, he is passed out on the floor in pain. With my heart racing, I turn around just remembering that a 6 foot 9 inch giant of an Alpha is struggling not to shift out of anger, in the middle of the room.

Sia's tears have long dried and purely fueled by anger, she charges forward. I run towards the exit grabbing the laptop with the drive still in.

Bones crack. The atmosphere turns ominous.

Great. I have managed to anger the Alpha himself. Before I can turn around, I find myself flying through the air.

Landing on the plates cabinet, shards of glass dig deep into my skin. Hissing in pain I look up at him.

Canines bared, bloody eyed, he looks every bit the ferocious beast humans always feared.

Looking behind him I see Sia is near Al, trying to take care of him. I rolled my eyes, of course I didn't kill him. I would never kill my own fr-

"How dare you first disrespect me at the packhouse and now you attack my Gamma in front of my eyes?"

Right. Yeah, they have this rule, attacking your inferior unprovoked deserves the punishment of death. Pfft. Unprovoked my ass. He-

A blow to my gut knocks out even the last of my breath, my ribs crack with an unearthly sound. My fingers come off the place with blood. My blood.

Flashbacks of Training Camp, swim in front of my eyes. The older wolves chasing me around taunting me making me feel like a decrepit piece of scum.

If only Wes was on my side about this I could end him in an instant and that would be all.

Calming down, myself I will the furniture around us towards me. For a second I see distraction flash across his snarling features. Like a distracted canine he growls at it.

In this window of time, I whack his head with my fist, bearing down on his neck with the rest of my body. With a slump, he settles down, his big red eyes changing colors as he loses consciousness. I breath out summoning the laptop again back to my hand.

Distracted by the big brute at my feet, I momentarily forget that Sia knows nothing of my powers. Gulping, I turn around to find that she had made herself busy. She is waving a pair of nun-chucks at me.

I smirk at her amateur moves and immediately summoned the TV to smack it out of her hand.

"I'M PREGNANT!!! Please don't hurt me." She yells putting up her hands in surrender, her eyes filled with terror. Good now she understands the gravity of my position. So, now its secret scenario 2.5.

From her kitchen I find a rope under the counter. Tying her up, I smash their phones to the ground so that it will take hours to reach someone even if their healing kicks in and they wake up in the next 5 minutes.

I shed my clothes and stuff it into the backpack I grabbed on the way here. Staring into her black orbs, I think of the future I could have had with her and my little niece or nephew.

Pressing the partially wet rag to her nose, "Congratulations," I tell her. All she does is close her eyes.

This is the last time she will ever see me, whether she knows it or not. She will never remember this.

Without turning back, I run, leaving nothing behind but a trail of blood.

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