Chapter 8


    Only this time her hand didn’t connect, instead I saw Ace grab her wrist just before she struck me


    again. “Pregnant or not I will break your fucking arm if you strike her again” He growls at her and I rub


    my lip with my thumb to find it bleeding.


    Ryker growls and I feel his aura rush out at the threat against his mate, my mother. Ace and Tyson


    are able to resist it slightly being family but me, it dropped me on my ass, my teeth clenched so tight I


    thought they would break as I screamed at the sudden agony before themand drops and my father


    grips my arms.


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    “Damn Lucy, I am sorry. It wasn’t directed at you” He says gripping my arms, hauling me upright


    while I try to catch my breath.


    My mother res at me but says nothing.”Everyone needs to cool off, Lucy go with Tyson and


    Ace, till your mother calms down”


    “Are you fucking insane, she can’t go with them after what they just told us?” My mother screams


    at him and he res at her. My father never ever denies her anything, or goes against her. He can


    usually persuade her but never directly tells her what to do but today I could see she really got under


    his skin.


    “Lucy is going with Tyson and Ace and that is final, you had no right toy a finger on her, I don’t


    care what she did, she is our fucking daughter” He yells at her while pointing to me.


    I flinched away from his sudden anger which I was not used to, he was always calm and loving


    growing up, this was another side of him I was not used to, though I had heard stories of the Lycan king


    and how cruel he is, but to me he was dad.


    “Fine, she can go!” She said, looking at him before she turned to me, my stepfather sighs and


    looked relieved until the next words left her lips, shocking all of us.


    “Don’te back I am sick of digging you out every time you bury yourself, I won’t have Rayan


    around your destructive behaviour, you should be ashamed of yourself, I know I am” She says I feel my


    stomach twist painfully. I could see she was upset at what she said. I look to my father and he


    mindlinks me.


    “I will speak with her, just let her calm down” He says before touching my mothers shoulder.


    My mother hangs her head, her long blonde hair falling forward and he pulls her to him tucking her


    under his chin and I could see he was upset at yelling at his mate, but she was being a little over the


    top, I never expected her to kick me out though, never thought she would be embarrassed of me. I


    know it caused conflict with Aamon and Avery seeing as they were mum and dad’s bestfriends, but to


    say she was ashamed of me stung. I had enough shame, and she was thest person I wanted to be


    ashamed of me.


    “Go Lucy” He says softly nodding toward the door. I swallow the lump in my throat and look to the


    stairs to see Rayan standing on the top step. I go to step toward him when I see tears slip down his


    face at me being kicked out. I felt bad I had let him down.I was only home for 5 minutes and I was


    already being kicked out.


    “Get out” My mother says not even looking at me and I stop looking up at my brother. I press my


    lips in a line fighting back tears before turning on my heel and walking away from him. I walk outside


    and Tyson grabs my arm and I rip my arm from his grip.


    “Don’t touch me, this is exactly why I didn’t want toe home, she never lets me exin” I tell


    him before walking toward the forest.


    “Exin what, what did you expect Lucy when you burned a ssroom down?” Tyson says


    throwing his arms in the air. I don''t bother answering there is no point, instead I start running toward


    Mitchells.


    Mitchell’s was the only ce I knew I could go. I couldn’t face Tyson and Ace, they seemed just as


    disappointed as my mother, everyone always saw the worst in me. Maybe I was bad, maybe I asked for


    it? There is nothing more lonely than having no one on your side, no one you can rte to. I was


    basically a vampire living amongst wolves, the illegitimate child to the lycan king, though dad never


    treated me like I didn’t belong but that didn’t mean I knew I didn’t, that is why I asked to go to the


    boarding school in the first ce.


    Mna and Josie thrived under the attention of being mutations, Mna enjoyed the attention she


    received in school here, however to me it was just a constant reminder I don’t belong, I was the only


    mutation without a wolf. The rest survived the shift, my biological father being a human made me


    weaker than them and my wolf never survived, I never survived. If I didn’t have vampire genes from my


    mother being a hybrid mutation I would be dead. Dieing awoke the vampire gene within me and now I


    was basically a bloodthirsty monster amongst a pack of wolves.


    When Aamon and Avery opened the boarding school, I begged my mother to let me go and it was


    Tyson and Ace that convinced her for me. They knew how much I struggled in school and saw how


    much I struggled with my own identity. Turns out I didn’t belong there either, boarding school was just


    another ce of torment but for different reasons. The first four years were great, thest year has


    been a living nightmare. I put my trust in the wrong person, that trust was abused.


    “Lucy, where are you going?” Comes Ace’s voice through the mindlink.


    “I am going to Mitchell’s” I tell him as I try to focus on where I am going without running into a tree,


    the mindlinks can be distracting and wouldn’t be the first time I had run into something.


    “Make sure you are home before dark” He says before cutting the mindlink, I could tell he was


    angry I ran from them, yet I didn’t understand his issue with Mitchell.


    Home, I wasn’t going home. Tyson and Ace may have let me stay with them but I didn’t belong


    there with them. I didn’t belong anywhere and everytime I came back, every holiday that I returned, it


    got more and more startling clear how much I didn’t belong. I had no home, mum had built a new life


    and I was on the outside of it now, not even she wanted me. I would watch her with Rayan, I was so


    excited when he was born. I even helped deliver him, he was so perfect, so small and I loved him


    instantly, but mum was so focused on him which is understandable he was a baby, but I got pushed


    out, bit by bit.


    Before realising if it wasn’t for me they would be the picture perfect family. I felt like the dirty secret


    everyone knew about. I had no doubt my parents loved me but sometimes that isn’t enough when


    everyone else looks at you like you don’t belong.


    Stopping at the river that runs almost a full circle around the city and the borders. I walk through


    the tree a little further before I stop at the green wooden house nestled amongst the trees, hidden from


    the road on the other side of the forest, the driveway barely visible.


    Mitchells dad was a pack warrior of my fathers pack, all the packs were linked together branching


    off one another now since the majority of his family ran them now. Stopping out the front, I walk up the


    verandah stairs. Before I could even knock his mother had opened the door. Her curly red hair framing


    her heart shaped face. Her green eyes light up when she sees me.


    “You’re back” She says, opening her arms to me. I always like Merideth, she was always so happy


    to see me, despite me being a pain in the ass sometimes and getting her son in trouble. I wrap my


    arms around her slim waist, hugging her tightly.


    “You hungry, I am just about to put dinner on if you want to stay for tea?” She says and I nod


    before thanking her.


    “Mitchell, Lucy is here” She sings out to him before walking toward the kitchen off the side of the


    stairs. I hear footsteps on the floor above. This house was a pole home and was homely, not like the


    packhouse that was always crisp and clean. This ce had character with its exposed rounded beams


    and fireces, family photos hanging on every wall.


    “Lucy?” Mitchell says, stopping at the top of the steps, a grin gracing his face showing his perfectly


    straight teeth. He sweeps his blonde fringe out of his eyes before rushing down the steps toward me.


    His arms wrapped around me as he lifted me off the ground in a hug, my feet dangling in the air and I


    hugged him back.


    I first met Mitchell when I was ying at the river when I was ten, his family had just been


    epted into the pack and I was ying by myself when he came across me, after that we quickly


    became friends and through primary school were pretty much inseparable, well until we hit highschool,


    once I left for boarding school our only contact was via phone and video chat, we still spoke every day


    but it wasn’t the same I missed my friend, missed him something fierce.


    He had shot right up since I saw him 8 months ago. He was well over 6ft tall and had packed on


    quite a bit of muscle but was still lean and nowhere near the size of Ace and Tyson. He was built like a


    warrior, like his father and I knew he would be a great one when he finished school.


    “You came back, for good?” He asks, letting me go and cing me back on my feet.