Chapter 13

Before I could react, he suddenly left her, and went out of the room, and out of the house. Soon, we heard his car zooming out of the parking lot. And I could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Mom are you okay?" I asked. She turned her neck twice, and coughed. "Yes I am. I punched him!" She said and laughed. She laughed so hard that it started to make me feel bad for her. You know that kind of laughter with so much sarcasm and pain in it.

"I told you he cannot hit me anymore. I've broken my covenant with him" she said and we rocked ourselves to sleep. I was so relieved that he didn't hit her, or yank me out of the window like I dreamed. What covenant did mom talk about? Covenant. That word made me remember Big Joe. It had been a while since I saw him in school, and I never cared to ask anyone his whereabouts. The last time I saw him was the day I kicked him hard. I started to rethink what he had told me. That he had arranged for me to be kidnapped. And that it was his father that forced him into it, and that the driver that kidnapped me was his father. And that he wasn't his biological parent; his own parents had died in a car crash, when he was a baby. How true was that?

I had never seen any car come round to pick Big Joe up after school ended. He always caught the bus. And that was pretty normal because many students caught the bus too. It didn't mean they didn't have parents. It simply meant maybe their parents didn't have their own vehicles. Or they weren't available to pick their children up because they were always so busy caught up in their work. Was Big Joe really telling the truth? And what was this initiation about?

What connected Uncle Robinson, Big Joe, and his "father" together? And why did they all work together to kidnap me? And who was this Martinez that they all worked for? The one they called Alpha?

I wondered who the assassin was too, if it was really not Cameron. And what did he want exactly? Why was his target mom? Did he work together with Big Joe and others? Was he also a wolf?

I began to wonder. It was so confusing.

"Ariana" mom jerked me out of my reverie.

"You're too young to worry" she said and rubbed my hair. Now that was soothing. It reminded me of Mike Tony. How he put me on his thighs and rubbed my hair and played with my cheeks. I missed him.

"What are you worried about, my daughter?" She asked carefully. I didn't say a thing. It was not that I didn't trust mom, I just didn't want to give her more reasons to worry. Besides, everything didn't make sense to me yet.

"Tell me about what happened the other day. I know I am late in asking, I'm really sorry...but..."

"It's not your fault, mom. A lot has been happening" i said and kissed her slowly on the cheek, then wiped the spot with my hands. She smiled.

"You remind me of someone" she blushed.

"Who?"

"You'll soon know him" she said and blushed the more, and I could tell that my mom was seeing someone else already.

"You're too young to worry, Ariana" she said again, patting my back and placing my head on her shoulder.

"Nobody should worry. It isn't about age" I said. Mom lifted my head slowly and gave me that face that showed she was shocked at my words.

"Oh my baby, you talk like a grown up" she said. "Yes, nobody should worry. It isn't about age" she repeated, smiling.

"So, tell me, what happened on that day? Tell me everything baby" she said rocking me from side to side. So I told her everything, except my secret with Big Joe and Uncle Robinson. I needed to find Joe and ask him a lot of things like , Why did he send someone to kidnap me? What brought him into that cult? What happened to him? Why was the Blue Wolf pack after me? Or was it someone else?

You know, on that day I was kidnapped, The left-handed man who was commanded to tie me to the big tree was Uncle Robinson. I knew because Joe told me after he came in, after Uncle Robinson was summoned. Uncle Robinson was "Sword", Joe was "Karl". The other day, I had seen Uncle Robinson bundle something in a big duffel bag to the boot of his car, but I didn't think too much about it, until I was kidnapped.

In the little, dark underground room, Joe told me many things. Many things you'll only know because you're reading my diary. No else knows / will know except you, Joe, all the other members of the pack and I. I am scared to let this secret out because I know the consequences. Joe knew the consequences too, yet he risked his life to open up to me. He told me that they did not dare hit a vampire or have relations with them, and also they did not talk to humans about their affairs. Some of them did relate with humans and even fell in love with them but they did not tell them secrets or bring them into the pack except they were to be turned into werewolves.

Whoever knew their secret affairs and told another person will either be hunted for food and killed or punished severely. The only exception is if they like this human. Yes, it's possible for werewolves or vampires to fall in love with humans, especially young girls. especially.

Werewolves communicate to humans they are after, or they like through their dreams and imaginations, without directly affecting their personal life, their living on the planet Earth. The Blue Wolf exists in another realm. They do not influence your life on Earth, meaning that they do not make you appear like a beast with horns on planet Earth, you're just a normal person and will look normal all your life, but they'll give you messages to deliver in some parts of Earth, and you'll find yourself doing it without being conscious of what you are doing. They do not make you do things you've never done; they make you stronger in doing bad things that you already know how to do. There were the good-hearted ones who were mated to one another to live in peace, in their own world but the Blue Wolf was a deadly gang.

Their aim was to accept lost souls and hunt humans for food, and of course fight Vampires. They accept lost souls and fortify them. Souls that have been rejected and cast down by humans are initiated into their cult.

They also bring humans down with words, actions and visitations. The spirits of the pack hover around humans who forcefully have sex with other humans, and forcefully take things from other humans. These spirits keep living with these set of people until they're able to possess them and register them in their world, because they have the properties needed in their kingdom"

These were some of the words of Joe to me, that day. He let me know that whenever a wolf was about to speak or come out of a member of Blue Wolf and they won't let it, it'd make them act crazy, like a possessed individual. That was what happened to Nora

It might or might not interest you to know that while he spoke these words to me, his mouth was not moving. So you see, I can not tell anybody about this. Joe also told me the only way out of this cult is murder.

'If a werewolf falls in love with a vampire or another set of supernaturals, and wants to go for it, he must murder someone close to him who is human, as replacement for rejecting and leaving the pack. This human replacement will be eaten and stored as fresh meat, and so the pack would not have to hunt for some days' that is what he told me. It was very scary when he told me all these, and I had to pen them down in my diary so I would not forget.

"It is hard to get out, very hard. The only reason why a werewolf would think of leaving his pack is if he finds a mate from another vamp pack, if he wants to relate himself with vamps, and it's usually Omegas who are weak who fall into these traps" He had said. "Because getting out means murdering someone, not just anyone but someone who hasn't done you any harm, a human to be precise because they are fresh meat" That's the criterion.

"One day I tried to suffocate my foster father, because he was too hard on me and didn't want me to be mated to the human I fell in love with(he didn't say it was me) I lit many big candles in his room while he was sleeping and blew the fire off then, made smoke fill the whole room..I ignited fire everywhere and put it off so thick dark smoke would encamp round him.

But it didn't work, because he woke up in the midst of everything and escaped. He was an alpha, so he healed in time. It was me the fire affected and I couldn't heal for months

Till today, he's never raised the topic before me, although I somehow feel like he knew that I was involved in that incident"

These were the things I heard from Joe's soul. Karl. That was his Wolf name, what the other men called him. I remember one time in Introductory Technology class, Uncle Robinson had called him "Karl" when he raised his hand to answer a question,

"Okay, let's hear from you, Karl!" , and the rest of the class had jeered at him in laughter

"Karl Marx" they laughed. I laughed that day too because I wondered what Uncle Robinson was thinking. We weren't even discussing anything related to Karl Marx, the capitalist. We all laughed because it didn't make any sense.

Now it did made sense.

Whoever it was that tried to attack mom must have been a Blue Wolf agent. He must be one member of the pack who's trying every means to get mated to someone he had linked himself to, possibly a vamp or human or the wrong alpha. And one answer was it for him-Murder Ruby, my mom, as a replacement. He wanted to make mom his prey. It was scary. He must be someone close to mom. Who could it be?

That moment, I thought of Joe. Joe has told me every secret there was to the wolverine's pack. Does that mean he was going to die? I thought. I was confused about their buildup. He didn't tell me with his mouth, he communicated into my soul by looking into my eyeballs. He possessed me and had a conversation with my spirit or soul. That was exactly what happened.

I wondered what would become of him, for letting his people down. I remembered that he had been missing from school for a while. I had to find him.

Not minding the fact that I had a fight with him and feel betrayed by him, I had to make sure his life was safe. I had to ask him if he knew anything about the pre-planned assassination because it was strange that someone would come in, unlock our main gate, and enter the house without difficulty. Such person must either be someone very familiar with our activities or family, or someone supernaturally bedeviled. There was no other way to explain it. Someone came in, in the middle of the night. Cameron's body and height, tricked us into thinking it was Cameron's car which zoomed into the compound, destroyed the CCTV, unlocked the main door and walked in silently, dressed to the teeth, aiming directly towards the woman of the house. But it wasn't Cameron.

Who is this person?