Tahra could have sworn that she heard wrong at first but the severe look her father directed at her said otherwise.
"You heard me!"
"I've brought it up before but this time around I'm dead serious! Look at you. You're twenty-one and the wolf you manifested is a shivelled up thing. Do you really think you're fit to be Luna of a pack,"
"You'll disgrace our family if I allow you! Zane will also reject you and he can then pick someone more suitable," He continued, glancing at Maeve for a second before he glanced back at Tahra.
"Who knows, fate might give him another mate in the family. You'll feel extremely weak for a while but regardless you'll be fine," Tahra hearrd Julia her mother add, and for a split second she couldn't help but wonder why her parents never seemed to love her enough.
'Even if my wolf is weak, is that enough reason for them to ask me to reject my mate?' Tahra thought with tears pooling in her eyes.
"Oh please! Father and mother are saying the truth. You'll see it too if you weren't so emotional. Somene like Zane can never truly love you! He just pities you and wants to toyâ€""
"Shut up!" Tahra responded raising her voice in a heated tone before Maeve could finish. "You know nothing about Zane and you simply wish he was yours. News flash, he's not!"
"No matter howâ€"BAM!!!" But Tahra was still in the middle of speaking when Joe, slammed the table heavily with both hands loud enough it to echo through the dinning room and further through the house.
But somehow no servants came running, having experience such a thing in the past.
"SHUT UP TAHRA! I'm the one talking to you! You do not speak until I'm done speaking!" His voice thundered across the room even as Tahra frowned and even subconsciously lowered her head.
Wanting desperately to point out that she wasn't the only one who spoke but aware that it was a fact her father already knew.
"You are unfit to be Luna. You must have heard the rumors about you. Noone in the pack wants a woman like you to be Luna!" He told her, and Tahra couldn't help but respond seeing as how the rumors about her were a touchy subject for her, especially since she was sure Maeve was the source.
"I already discussed it with Zane! I would never cheat on him with anyone and he knows that!" But Tahra had just responded when she regretted it. Her father wasn't trying to have a conversation, he simply wanted her to accept his words as law.
Rye was barely done speaking when she saw her father move with lightening speed and appear in front of her, smacking her cheek hard enough to send her straight to the ground.
Rye's vision shook, but even them she could see the smirk on her sister and mother's face, while Drey looked on with pity, spreading himself more comfortably on the chair he sat on.
Her jaw throbbed but she didn't even get a chance to think about anything else, when she heard her father slowly approach.
"You will reject him, or I'll announce that you were too sick to attend!" He announced in an extremely threatening tone as both his arms shook from the anticipation to continue the beating, he was bound to enjoy.
'It wouldn't be the first time!' Tahra thought raising the tips of her fingers to touch her swollen lip as she nodded toward him.
"I-I accept! I'll reject him" Tahra said in the most convincing tone she could, taking in a breath of relief the very next second when her father gestured for her to immediately return to her room and stay there.
Tahra immediately accepted turning around before a sly smile flashed across her face as she walked out of the dinning room and made her way upstairs to her room.
'This time tomorrow I'll be Luna and you'll all have to obey me. Even you father!' Tahra thought to herself, as she continued to touch her lips and the side of her left cheek confident that it was going to bruise.
However, it wasn't until Tahra slammed the door of her room shut that the remaining four members of her family stopped staring at the main door of the dinning she had walked out of.
"I don't get it! She's just an Orphan you picked up father, why can't we just put her in her place!" Maeve said, speaking in a heated tone and an expression that conveyed nothing but hatred on her face.
She found out by chance while eavesdropping on her parents conversation but it was enough for her to generate nothing but hatred for the sister she already hated.
"Zane should be mine! I Should be Luna!" Maeve said about to raise her voice as she stared at the cool expression on her mother's face when she instantly sobered up the second she heard her father speak.
"Its fine! We'll just have to go along with Plan C!" He said getting on his feet with a severe expression on his face.
Even Maeve couldn't help but show a shocked look as she raised her head go look at her father.
Plan C was one she could have sworn her father simply brought up to show how terrifying he could be. Never did she think, he would actually think to implement it.
"Do you understand? Maeve! Drey!" he growled in a deep tone that instantly made Maeve bend her head in submission.
Even Drey got on his feet and also did the same thing, his body unable to go against the strength his father displayed.
"Yes Father! I'll get it done!" he responded with Maeve saying the same thing a second later.
Julia, their mother on the other hand looked like she was about to speak, only to lower her head and glue her eyes to the table in front of her with a cruel smile on her face.
'In her next life, she'll avoid my family and stick to the miserable parents who abandoned her!'