The Wrath Of The Shadow Wolf novel Chapter 3

Riona could also see her team from Rennet Aid, the Non-Governmental organization that is owned by her mum. Cindy was in their midst. She has been a dutiful and diligent staff all these years and Riona knows that with Cindy by her side, she would not have any difficulty in running the affairs of Rennet Aid.

Riona led Wright to the front of the gathering. At the time they were almost close to where the priest was standing, the coffin was ready to be confined to mother earth.-

In fear of watching her mum go away from her forever, she clinched onto Wright as she could not bear to look at the remains of her mum buried to come out no more. She wanted to scream and wail, perhaps that would make her mum come back to her but as much as she tried, she could only let out some sobs.

She has lost her strength and her voice from crying for the past month since the demise of Evolette, and now she has no tears left to shade anymore.

Tears dropped from Wright’s eyes as he watched the remains of his late wife been finally laid into the earth.

He held his little girl to himself, he could not imagine how much she must have suffered from missing Evolette, her mum.

When he broke the news of her mum’s death to her, he saw how traumatized she was and how she could not bring herself to accept that her mum was gone to be seen no more.

The next few days that followed after that were hell to both Wright and Riona. Riona would not stop wailing as she refused to eat anything and asked that her mum be brought back to her.

During those times, Wright had hated more than anything else to see his beloved daughter in such a state, but what more can he do? On his part, he could not even console himself. For days, he lived in denial of Evolette’s death, he believed that his lovely wife was going to walk through the door and return to him and their precious little daughter, Riona to make their family whole and happy once again.

It was only until this morning that Riona has stopped crying and had joined him in the dining for breakfast when he announced to her that Evolette would be laid to rest today.

At first, Wright had feared that Riona would not want to come for the burial. His fear was premised on her blunt refusal to accept the death of her mum, Evolette. Hence, he was very careful when he was relaying the information to her.

Riona watched as sands were poured to fill the earth. Unwilling to take it, she held her breath and also closed her eyes. When it became impossible for her to sustain herself without air, she opened her mouth slightly and began to breathe a little bit fast as she starts to gasp for air.

“It will be okay Rio, mum is fine wherever she is right now” Wright whispered to Riona.

When Wright, saw that the whole scenario was becoming too much for his daughter to take, he decided to lead her out of the premises for he too was unwilling to look on any longer.

He led her to the back of the venue, away from everyone. He took her to an empty bench and they both sat on it.

“She will be fine, dad,” Riona said.

Her voice was barely audible and it was obvious that she was only trying to reassure herself that her mum would be fine.

Wright looked at his daughter, not sure whether to respond or not. In reaction, he could only shake his head in affirmation of what she had said.

“She loves us, and did not just leave us” Riona continued.

What Riona just said touched Wright so much. Yes, it is undeniable that his wife loves him and their daughter, Wright was certain that if Evolette was given an option to pick, she would have chosen to stay with them and not leave.

“And I believe that she knows that we love her too and would forever miss her so dearly” She added.

Wright placed his hands on Riona’s shoulders to assure her that he is still here for her and would never leave her, at least not anytime soon.

“She knows dear, we love her” Wright managed to say.

“Hello, Mr. Wright” Cindy called.

Wright looks up to see Cindy standing just a little distance from them and he replied to her. “Hi Cindy”

“Please you can come inside now,” Cindy said.

“Very well Cindy. Thank you” Wright replied.

Cindy went back inside and looked at her, Riona wished she would be closer to her family in place of Maeve as she has been very good to her mum and has diligently worked for her and the organization.

Wright held her by the hands and they both stood up. They looked at each other and smiled and still holding hands, they both walks back inside.

CHAPTER 4

Riona is all alone in her room and is seated on her bed and going through her laptop. As she scrolled through her pictures on the laptop, she arrived at a picture she had taken with her mum at the city’s fun park. Riona stopped as she arrived at the picture. The picture brought back memories. Memories she would never want to forget, and she wished were not mere memories anymore. Unable to decide what her reaction should be, she only stared at the photo with feelings of love and hope.

Thereafter, she placed the laptop on the bed beside her as her mind drifted to when she and her mum had taken the picture only but some months ago.

On that day, Riona had casually requested that she and her mum go to the park together with some of the kids that Rennet Aid provides for. But then she never knew that would be the last time that she would ever be there with her mum.

FLASHBACK

Riona and Evolette were in the city fun park and they were taking selfies with their phones. Unlike Riona, Evolette was eager to capture every fun moment that she has with her daughter.

Cindy was the person in charge of the kids that they had come with and she led them around the parks to have fun.

Evolette kept on leading Riona round and round to different backgrounds at the park to take more selfies amidst subtle protest from Riona who felt that this was unending and wanted them to be rather engaged in other fun activities rather than just waste the whole day on selfies.

However, in response to Riona's protests, Evolette said “Come on Rio, this is going to be the last one I promise”.