"Mom"
The last time I saw my mom was at amber's funeral, after the burial, mom begged me to stay, but she knew amber was with child before the transformation, but she kept it from me, her fear for her husband was more than her love for me. Seeing her standing in front of me scared made me angry, she has always been scared to stand up for her family, but this time she wasn't just scared, she was desperate, and she wanted something
"What are you doing here mom?" she felt the anger in my voice
"Hello Michael"
"That is not my name anymore"
"It Damien now, Damien dark, and you have a new family" she said looking impressed
"My pack is more of a family to me than you and dad ever were"
Stephen and the pack were present; they all looked like they had been in a war,
"Did nick attack?"
Stephan explained how they rescued my mom; she was hiding in a small village in Santa Ynez, she has been taking care of a bunch of kids who got their home invaded by nick and his pack, their parents had been taken hostages and some killed by nick and his pack, mom had been hiding them in a small winery with a ranch along Sagunto street.
"Nick attacked us at night under the full moon, and his army took some of the kids, I was able to kill a few of them, but it was just me, I couldn't hold them off, if your pack didn't come when they did, I would have been dead"
"I didn't know who she was until I heard nick called her mom" Stephen turned and said to me
"Nick was there?" from the tone in my voice, I was getting really angry
"Yes, Damien" Stephen replied
I noticed Andrea and Antonia wasn't present
"Where's Andrea and Antonia?"
Looking around to see if they were somewhere around, I couldn't smell them, but I felt their connection, they were still alive and I have to save them before nick gets into their head, they knew about amber and nick will try to get that information out of them, there was no time, if I know nick, he was a master interrogator, dad taught us how to torture and get into a man's head, even a werewolf can't resist.
Nick would definitely break them
"We have to save them"
"Stephen, gather as much weapons as we can carry"
Bare manor had a secret room filled with weapons of all kinds, guns, sword, knives, silver bullets, I was prepared for anything, and I knew a day will come when we will have to fight
Stephen rushes to gather weapons
"Alexei, Jared, I need you to stay here and protect amber and my mom, the rest of us, we fight"
Amber wanted to go with us, she didn't like being left out of the battle, Karla had been training her
"I want to go with you Damien"
Even though she was probably the strongest among us, I can't risk letting my father know about her
"You need to stay here and look after everyone amber, I can't risk letting my dad get his hand on you, you are the only one strong enough to stop him"
She saw the serious look on my face; this was a side of me she had never seen before she quickly rushed to kiss me
"Be careful"
"Come back to me" she whispered softly into my ears
We headed out in my old truck.
As I kept following my connection with Andrea and Antonia, we drove for miles, I prayed they were alright, but part of me also blamed myself for not being there to protect them, as their alpha and their leader, I promised to protect them, but I didn't, if I wasn't with amber, maybe I could have sensed that my pack was in danger, I failed them, I let myself get distracted.
The truck stopped, it looked like they were kept in an abandoned warehouse, I counted four guards out front, looks like Andrea and Antonia were inside, I could feel it, but I couldn't sense nick.
We attacked the guards out front; Karla and Stephen took them out, we broke into the warehouse, but nick wasn't there, apparently, we were too late, nick had disappeared again, but we saved Andrea and Antonia and a bunch of other kids my mom was talking about.
I knew we have to take the kids back to bare manor to keep them safe, some of their parents had been killed and others forced to join nick's army
Andrea and Antonia looked so weak, I was too late, and Nick must have tortured them
"Am so sorry Damien, he knows everything" Andrea said out weakly
Few years ago, dad taught nick and I how to get into a person's head, it was a special trait we had.
We can make a werewolf share his thoughts with us, it's like mind reading, we get into a werewolf's head and see his memories.
A few years ago I learnt how to get into a person's mind not just a werewolf, a human mind, after Aurelia's death, I searched for answers, a way to bring her back, so I went in search for a warlock who had the power to raise the dead, rumour has it that he lived in a mountain in the clouds, no one has ever been able to find him, there were only rumours about sages who knew how to find the mountain, so for years I searched, pried into any mind with information on the warlock, but after so many years of searching, I found the mountain, but dad had already found the warlock and killed him, he destroyed the mountain.
After a while I buried that ability, I didn't want to pry into what other people were thinking, but I knew nick would figure out what I was hiding and kidnapping Andrea and Antonia was his goal all along
He knew I was distracted, and He was one step ahead of me this whole time and now, knowing what amber is, he would go after her.
Oh shit! I just realized amber, and my mom were back at bare manor
"We have to go back"
"Nick is going after amber"
Nick knew I would try to save Andrea and Antonia and without me and the rest of the pack, bare manor would be left unprotected.
By the time we got to bare manor, nick and his pack had destroyed everything, there was blood everywhere, I saw Alexei coming out of the house bleeding and weak, he was badly hurt.
Nick had taken Amber, my mom and everyone else
"Am sorry Damien, I couldn't stop them, Jared…" he said weakly trying to find words to speak
He was too weak, he collapsed.
Some of nick's men were dead on the floor, but there was no one else in the house, I noticed the smell of amber's blood, I could still feel my connection with her, so she was still alive, that was a relief.
But she was now on her way to meet the monster, my father
"Damien over here" a voice yelled out to me
But then I saw josh and the others standing in front of a body lying on the floor.
It was Jared, he was dead.
Just as I stood there with blood all over my feet and my hands covered in blood
The only thing I felt was pain and rage…
Chapter ends…..