***Dahlia's father Ethan; reflects back on the past trials and the upcoming trials that they all will face and share.***
What happened to my baby girl? I remember the day Emma first told me, we would be the care takers of her sister; Genevieve's child. We had just suffered the lost of our 1st pup. Emma was broken an torn. She is my fated mate, and something like that she felt I would reject her. Emma can be so silly. Unlike Genevieve, Emma is a kind compassionate woman, her heart is filled love. I remember the day I held our baby, Emma named her Dahlia. Emma named her after the flower; The flower stands for wealth, elegance, love and involvement and can be recognized as a religious symbol. I used to always pick on her that she named her after the Black Dahlia, I received my fair of slaps for it. I remember the day I held her. What a beautiful pup Dahlia was. Her traits were those I've never seen before, multicolored red hair, and purple eyes. How could two people so evil, bring in such a beautiful innocent child. My fatherly moment was cut short after just 24 hours. Our territory was invaded by rival wolves and Vampire underlings. Dahlia had to be rushed to safety, by Emma's assistant. Her assistant was loyal to us and not to the royal Ravenwood's, we knew Dahlia would be safe. I remember the carnage, the blood and all the innocent wolves; Adults and pups, condemned because of Genevieve and Sébastien. King Tobias, was relentless. Can I blame him? His mate was killed for a bullshit reason. I lost a lot of family and friends that day but I also lost my baby girl. After Dahlia's parents were killed, Tobias still wast happy and vowed to kill every last descendent of Ravenwood. Our trusted maid with the use of teleportation was able to make it half way across the world and left Dahlia in an Orphanage in Italy. It was a smart move since she couldn't be tracked by teleportation. Our maid was killed once she arrived back to help us. In that moment we lost all information, pertaining to our baby girls where abouts. It took us 9 years, to track her down, with the help of packs that were friends of mine and Emma's. The state of our baby was horrifying. The orphanage is lucky I didn't burn it to the ground. Our royal Luna and my daughter; Skin and bones and unhappy. This was unacceptable. We retrieved our daughter and took and hid her away in; Dravenwood. A small supernatural town. We placed spells to protect her identity. After that the magic started, we were able to do what parents do, raise our daughter. We should have been more forthcoming with her history, but how do you taint such innocence? Now as I look at her, I can see the power raging inside of her, she's scared and there's very little I can do to help. I met her power, God help whoever is her enemy when it surfaces. Even with all that power, she still thinks of others. Maybe that's mine and Emma's influence, but I feel she was truly blessed by the moon goddess. How did something so pure, come out of such evil? We suppressed her wolf side, now that she's days away from her celestial birthday, the shift is inevitable. Im scared for her. As her father, I don't want anything bad to ever happen to her, but her shift will be a good thing. The recent changes have made me restless, I can't imagine what Dahila is going through. We just got away from Tobias underlings, days ago, but my intuition says something more ominous is at play. I hope I'm wrong.