Alpha Maximus The Last Lycan novel Chapter 50

I realise only my mother can see me. I'm a ghost to everyone else.

"Mother!" I yell as I run toward her.

Alpha Cal throws the torch at her feet. The fire erupts into a large column of flame. My mother screams in pain as the fire engulfs her. I scream and cry, witnessing my mother's horrible fate. Suddenly my mother's screams stop. I fall to my knees in front of her ashes and cry.

Alpha Cal starts laughing. I stand, wipe my tears away, and turn to face my grandfather. His laugh is dark, sending a quiver down my spine.

"I will avenge my mother if it's the last thing I do!" I shout in his face, even though I know he can't see or hear me.

I run back toward the lake. The only place I ever felt safe. I hear the baby crying as I approach. A few people gather around the baby.

"It's been abandoned?" a woman says.

"Well, pick it up. Alpha will decide what to do with it," another says.

I follow them into the pack house. They approach Alpha Tate's father. Seeing Alpha Tate so young at four or five years old is strange.

"What's this?" he asks.

"We heard cries and found it on the border by the woods."

The alpha grunts, "I can smell its wolf, so it's not a human," he says.

He looks toward an elderly woman sweeping the floor, "Our current slave will probably drop dead in the next few years. Perhaps this baby can take her place," he shrugs.

"Who's going to look after her in the meantime?" A pack member asks.

"Give her to the current slave. The baby can be her problem!" he grunts.

The old lady takes the baby and leaves the room. I remember her, but very vaguely. She died just before I turned five years old, and that's when I had to do all the pack house chores by myself instead of with her.

That was also when the beatings began that I had to endure. I went to follow the old lady but suddenly began to whirl up in the air by an invisible force again.

I close my eyes as I feel dizzy, then open them to see I'm back under the tree. I had just witnessed my mother's death and when I had been found. I lie back on the grass staring into the distant sky in shock. The sun is setting.

I force myself to walk back to the castle in a zombie-like trance.

An hour passes, and I haven't reached the castle yet as I remain in human form and haven't shifted into my wolf. Alpha Maximus and others are in front of me and by my side, trying to talk to me. Alpha Maximus waves his hands in my face.

It's not until Alpha Maximus cups my face in his hands and kisses my lips. That brings me back to reality. The kiss sends sparks flying throughout my body.