Book 2 - Chapter 6

Silvie's POV

Everyone that could hear the conversation now wished they hadn't, but I didn't know what Derek meant. Max is my Daddy, he always has been. "What does he mean Mommy?" I asked while turning towards her. "Its nothing sweetie, can you go and wait in the car?" I meekly nodded and stared walking away when Derek placed his hand on my shoulder. "You can't go just yet Silvie" I gulped and stopped moving entirely. "Derek please, just let her go" Derek scoffed while Mommy begged him to let me go.

As soon as Derek realised he was holding onto me rather tightly, his grip loosened and fell off my shoulder. I held back the urge to flinch away from him afterwards, "I wont hurt you Silvie" I meekly nodded, not fully believing him. "I just want to tell you the truth, and nothing else, you've always been told lies" Mommy seemed to be fuming. "No! Silvie, everything you've ever been told is true, we've never lied about anything!" She protested. I didn't know who to believe, I dont know why I didn't trust Mommy 100%.

"Silvie, Max isnt your father" I swear the whole world stopped, my heart had also stopped with it. But I couldn't bring myself to believe him, Max is my Daddy, he would never lie. "You're a liar!" I cried, my eyes filling to the brim with tears. "Silvie, is Max anything like you? Does he look like you, does he do things like you do?" The question floated around in my mind for awhile, I dont know why, the answer was obvious. He didn't. "You cant think of anything because you arent related, Max isnt your father Silv" My eyebrows furrowed as I took in a large breath. "Than who is?"

Derek had a special twinkle in his eye, like he was proud of something, happy. "I am" I was sceptical, but it added up, Mommy said I got my eyes from my Grandpa, but all of Mommy's family have brown eyes, Mommy's actually Daddy had blue eyes, and Max had brown eyes, mine didn't fit. A forest green, different from everybody else's, except the stranger I met yesterday, the stranger who knew things that I never did, the stranger that's... that's... my father.

A loud thud came from behind the door, before it crashed open and revealed Ace, being hung upside down by his ankles. The man who was holding him had light brown hair, blue eyes and a very slight beard. "Echo, please keep your kids under control, they're like animals, if you'll pardon the joke" The man chuckled to himself before Mommy stormed out the room, pulling the man with her. "So, who are you?" Ace asked, gazing up Derek.

"I'm Derek. A friend of your Mom's" Ace pondered on it for a second. "But you and Daddy were yelling at eachother. Just like when Mommy locked herself in her room, she kept yelling things like, 'why Trudy?' or 'I'm so sorry' it kept me up sometimes" He admitted. "Well, Max and I, arent really friends, he has things that I want back." I tilted my head sideways. "What things?" He opened his mouth to answer when Mommy came back in and took both our hands in hers in a forceful grip.

"You cant take them away ever chance you get Echo, this time, you cant hide them from me, not again. You cant take them with you, they're staying here, where they belong, in their pack." Mommy was speechless. "Yes, and you maybe wondering why I'm no longer an Alpha like you, well, funny story, I almost killed myself! The pain of you leaving hit me so hard, I was losing my mind, the fact that I saw none of the important moments, that the human saw them instead. It kills me to know that I missed everything"

"I lost all my power when I nearly died, I remember bringing the gun upto my head, having my finger lightly pressed on the trigger, preparing to say goodbye to the hell of a world that I lived in, mateless, childless, it killed me to know that. I remember Peter knocking down the door, causing me to lose balance and the gun ended up going into my chest, millimeters away from my heart, I barely survived, all I could think about is how I would wake up, and you would be there, with them, waiting for me to regain consciousness. But guess what?

"I was all alone"

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Derek's story was sad, he had tried to kill himself because he was so depressed, and the last thing he wanted to be was alone, yet that's what happened. He was all alone while I was playing with some teddies! I hate that he was all alone in that moment, that he was all alone when he needed support, all alone when Mommy was with Max. "How could you?" I asked Mommy, my voice was just a whisper. "How could you leave him here? While our so called father got a paper cut that you gave your undivided attention to, when he was about to die?!" I raised my voice at the end, not caring about what Mommy said about keeping my indoor voice.

I was getting angrier, and angrier, I could never do that, yet Mommy could do it without a moment of hesitation. "Silvie, we're leaving. Right Now." I shook my head, and trudged towards her. "I'm sorry Mommy, but I cant leave, not like you did." I ran out the room and down the stairs, straight into the kitchen, where many people were chatting. I ran to Malia, and gripped her leg tightly. Stray tears came pouring down my cheeks while I refused to let go of my aunt's leg.

"Sweetie, what happened?" She asked, pulling me upwards until I was crying on her shoulder.

"So many things are wrong, so many lies, so many lies!" I sobbed, my cries only increasing in volume. I noticed that her gaze drifted off me and onto the window, I followed her line of sight until I found what she was looking for. The round moon, so? The same man from before with the blue eyes came in, and stopped dead in his tracks.

"Its a full moon"