~Reese's POV~
'where am I?' I wonder as I come to. I have a splitting headache. The muffled voices I heard while I was sleeping become clearer. "No, mom. I cannot accept her as my mate. It's not possible for someone like me to have a second chance at the mate bond." A deep male voice says, half yelling. "Baby, I'm sorry. Im sorry that you feel this way. Im sorry that you're going through this rough patch and I have no way to help you. but maybe accepting her as your mate will help you get through this. The mate bond will help you heal baby. By the way, you cannot deny the fact that she is a splitting image of Lilly." An older woman's voice says sounding pained. "No, mom! I can't accept her. I can't accept that she looks like her." The guy says sorrowfully. Sounding almost like he was close to tears. "Lilly is dead and it is my fault. I couldn't protect her ma! I couldn't. I'm a failure of a mate and I don't deserve another chance."
"It was not your fault, son." An older male says. "It could have happened to anyone. It's not your fault that you were poisoned and she was taken by those rogues. There's nothing you could have done, son." He says trying to soothe the younger guy but he just lets out a sad and depressed howl. Then I heard something break and doors slamming. I try to recall what I was doing before I got here. I remember walking around in the hallways, perceiving the most amazing scent ever, seeing Malcolm and blacking out. "Oh my gosh." I say to myself. "I must be at his house. Ughh! Why did this have to happen to me? Do I always have to have the most dramatic relationships in the world? Good one, Moon Goddess." I say quietly, clearly pissed. I look around to try and get a bearing of my surroundings. The room has a gray and midnight blue colour scheme. A large wardrobe, dresser and a mirror. Im on a large four-poster bed and covered by a beautiful two-tone faux fur duvet. I look at the overhead shelf and see trophies. Sports trophies, academic trophies, medals, science fair first place ribbons and they all belong to Malcolm. 'The sports trophies I get but the academic and science fair trophies? I really don't understand how he's a nerd.' I'm busy admiring the beauty of the room and amazed that Malcolm was a geek when I see the most shocking thing I've seen in my life. A picture of me sitting on the dresser. I stand up and walk towards the dresser as though in a daze. I pick up the picture and instantly I feel very light-headed. I begin to see flashes of memory from sometime far back.
It seems like their memories from someone else but they were still through my eyes. I see Malcolm in the memories smiling and laughing. Which is odd because I have never seen him smile in real life. Not like this. And then someone barges into the room but I can't see him because these memories are so painful that my eyes cloud with tears. He yells at me incoherently and snatches the picture frame from me but I can't respond. I grab the edge of the dresser for support because I'm losing my strength and rapidly. Somehow recalling these memories is draining me of energy. It feels like I'm feeling someone else's pain and suffering. But I just can't tell whose they are. Someone else rushes in and tries to help me stand seeing as I am on the verge of collapsing. I can tell whoever is holding me is male due to the fact that their arms are huge. A female figure rushes into the room placing a wet rag on my face as my body seems to be overheating. She's mumbling something in some weird language. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I know that language but I just couldn't access that part of my memory. But one thing is sure. This lady was a witch.
~~Fun fact~~
Although people always depict werewolves and witches to have bad blood, we usually get along well. They help with divination, strange cases within the pack and they help out whenever we need to go to battle. Of course, there will always be an exception to this rule. Some witches hate werewolves to the death and vice versa.
~~Anyway, back to the story~~
I really wanted to say I'm sorry to whoever was pissed at me for touching the picture and thank you to the people who were helping me but then I kept getting weaker and weaker. My vision began to have dark spots which were multiplying by the minute till my vision eventually went black.
I wake up with a throbbing headache. 'what in the world happened? What was that crazy dream?' I look around and I realize it was not a dream at al. I see the dresser and the now vacant picture frame. I wonder why I was able to see someone else's memory and feel their pain as though it were mine. 'And who was that girl in the picture?' I wonder. 'don't bother digging deep. All you'll find out will just hurt you.' Xenia says. She sounds different. She sounds like she's pissed, sad, betrayed and hungry for revenge. Which is weird for Xenia because she's always so upbeat and chirpy especially after the incident a few years ago when I was kidnapped. Then there's a gentle knock on the door. "Can I come in?" says the warmest and gentlest voice I've ever heard. Somehow, I feel like I know who this beautiful voice belongs to. Somewhere in my deepest darkest memories, I can tell that I know this angel fondly I just don't know how. "yeah, sure." I reply. She walks in and what I'm immediately reminded of is a fairy godmother from the fairytales. She's got a small stature with silvery grey hair. A very sweet and soothing but tired smile graces her face which oddly isn't wrinkled but you can tell that she is quite advanced in years. Her chocolatey skin glistens as rays of sunshine stream through the windows and bounce off her skin.
"Hey there, how are you? I'm Tina. I'm Malcolm's mom." She says, introducing herself to me. Im still feeling a bit star struck after realizing that she's the legendary half human half witch hybrid that tamed the biggest, baddest, most powerful wolf alive, Alpha Calvin. "Hellooo? Earth to reese?!" that snaps me back to reality. How in the Orion's nebula did she know my name?
"I'm a witch baby. I'm also an empath and a telepath. I can hear your thoughts and feel your emotions." She chuckles. I stare at her, in shock. "Okay, baby. You can snap out of it now. Anyway, it's nice to see that the moon goddess chose a science nerd for my baby boy seeing as he's also a nerd. Y'all are going to have a lot of time to talk about those crazy science nonsense y'all like. I just hope y'all give me grandbabies soon." At this comment, I literally freeze. The man doesn't even want anything to do with me yet his mom is talking about us having kids. That's not entirely true yunno. The man brought you to his house after meeting you for the first time. Xenia chimes in. I really want to bash her face in. but then, I realize that doing that means bashing my own face in too.
"You know, it's a bit rude not to respond when someone is talking to you, Reese." She says making me snap out of my confused daze. "I'm sorry, ma'am. I-" "hey, you can call me Miss Tina." She interrupts. "okay, Miss Tina. I'm sorry. I really should have responded but I guess I was feeling a bit star struck and I'm still trying to understand what happened to me yesterday. My brain is just a jumbled mess." I rambled away.
And then she laughs. She just looks at me and laughs. I stop talking and then I just stare at her as she laughs. I wonder what I said to make her laugh so hard. Am I so comedic that she looks like her face is about to explode. "Girl, you are just too funny. Honestly I can see why the goddess paired you two, together. You guys are going to make the perfect couple." She says as she simmers down. "Tina!" a deep, rich baritone voice calls smoothly and lovingly. "Tina, baby. Where are you?" he calls again. He sounds like a really, sweet and warm guy. His voice reminds me of a dad. The kind that loves to give warm hugs and is very affectionate. "Tina, are you in here?" he says as gets closer. "Ugh, Calvin. He always does this. He seems to forget that he's a werewolf and he has a heightened sense of smell!" she says while face palming herself. "any second now, he's gonna burst into the room and start rambling without caring to look into the room and assessing the situation."
"Finally, I found you Tina. Tina, I've got some news for you. Malcolm is going berserk in the lounge. This thing about his new mate and Lilly looking so much alike is destroying him from the inside. He's so torn up. You should see him. Oh, it's so sad" "Calvin?" "Tina, listen to me. You haven't even heard the worst part." "Calvin!" "listen, listen, Tina. He said he was probably going to reject…" he's stopped by a shoe flying at his head. "Tina, what the heck did you do that?" "Calvin! Look" she says tilting her head towards me animatedly. "Tina, are you okay? Have you finally become possessed by one of these crazy things that Mateo loves to watch? It seems like my entire family has lost their minds! Anyway, I'm still going to tell you Malcom wants to reject he....." he stops soon as he sees me. "Oh sorry. Didn't see you there. I'm Calvin. Malcolm's dad. So uh, I'm gonna go. Tina, I'll talk to you later." He says and then turns to leave but is somehow stopped by a massive wall of muscle that seems to be vibrating.
"Well, hello there Malcolm. Didn't see you there. So I'm gonna go.." "I don't think so, Pops." Interrupts Malcolm. 'So does everyone in this family just interrupt the other when they're speaking?' I wonder. "So, Dad. you're here busy being a snitch after raining on me about being a snitch." I can literally feel the anger rolling off him in waves. Scratch that. Torrents.
"Hey, Malcolm. Don't worry about it. He didn't say anything wrong or embarrassing. He was just introducing himself. Right, Mr. C? is it okay if I call you that?" I say without thing. Yup. Its official. You're an idiot that's ready to die. Xenia adds in her usual sarcastic and annoying way. Well she wasn't wrong. Just then, it seems like the torrents just stopped flowing. Although, he still looked a bit pissed, his features had definitely softened.
"Yeah, sure. Anytime. Reese. You see, I was just using my alpha charm on her. You know. Trying to be nice to her." Alpha Calvin says while doing a nervous chuckle. Miss Tina starts to do her hilarious laughagain after looking at me for a few seconds I can tell that she can read my mind, and she can tell how frustrated and terrified I am. Her husband joins her too even though its obvious he doesn't know why she's laughing. I giggle a bit and I don't know if my ears were deceiving me but I believe I heard Malcolm the Mighty chuckling. As soon as I think that, his mom bursts into even more laughter.
"yeah, whatever." Malcolm says. "Can you excuse us? I need to talk to Reese."
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Author's Note: I apologize for not updating this book regularly. Life has just been a lot recently.
I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to end this chapter with a cliffhanger. Also I'm sorry that this chapter is very long. As I said earlier, life has just been a lot. Whenever you see fun fact in this book, please note that those facts only hold water in the universe created in this book. Those facts are only true in this book. So please pardon me if they don't relate to the ones you know from other books. Also if you notice any similarities between this book and the sitcom, The Neighborhood, it's because it's one of my favorite sitcoms of all time and it provided a lot of inspiration for this book. Please don't forget to comment and vote for my book. Bye lovessss (…..