Chapter 1
“Lia! Listen Lia! AMELIA! Wake up!” shouted someone.
“What the hell! Let me sleep,” I groaned while getting up, but as soon as I saw at my mom’s panicking expression while holding a sleeping Thomas, I realized something wasn’t right.
“Lia, you need to listen to me very carefully. They have found us, and they’ll come here any minute. Your dad is fighting them now in the woods and I will join him soon, but I need you to escape. Even a special alone can’t handle those many people,” my mom whispered while spraying me and Thomas with the concealment spray to get rid of our werewolf scent.
“Mom I can’t. Not so soon. I can’t leave you, I just can’t leave this,” I cried, “and you know I can fight so I beg of you please let me help.”
“Dear trust me I know but if not for your sake, at least do it for Thomas. Your brother is too small to understand any of this and he needs you. Take him and go through the secret passage in your cupboard. At the end of it you’ll find a car, get in it and drive as fast as you can to your aunt’s place. Disguise it with your abilities until you get out of town,” she explained.
I broke out into tears as I hugged my mom for what seemed like the last time. It was too early, and I wasn’t prepared for this responsibility. I took my brother from her arms along with a bag full of necessary supplies like food and clothing and then went through the secret passage while looking at my mom one last time till she faded away as I walked further into the tunnel.
Upon reaching the car I buckled up my brother in it, he budged slightly but remained asleep. Taking my phone out, I wrote my aunt’s place’s destination on the GPS and connected it to the car. Jumping onto the driving seat, I made the engine roar to life and speeded out of the garage which was towards the backside of our cottage at full speed. I looked at the rear mirror of the car and I saw my cottage catch onto fire.
‘She must have done it to hide nay evidence of us.’ I thought.
Then my mom came out in her wolf form and ran into the forest. I wanted to be there. I wanted to fight. I could feel my blood pounding in my veins, but I wouldn’t dare to leave Thomas alone, so I kept driving along the road at maximum speed. I concentrated my focus on using my ability so that to anyone else it would have looked as if this route hadn’t been used for decades and I made the car invisible, so they won’t even bother searching. Even though we are werewolves, a minority of us have powers and each one is unique. However, whenever a pack found out that anyone was a special, they were hunted and killed as they were considered a threat to the werewolf society.
I, for one, can control minds by making them see a fantasy far from reality and I can even use a person’s memories to show them their worst fears. This power always made me feel confident and secure but right now, at this instant I truly wish that I never had it so that we’d never have to face this day.
About half an hour later when I was out of our town, I let my tears fall. Now that my attention was no longer on concealing our car, I simple couldn’t digest the fact that all the consistent hiding our family did by moving our place almost every year and living far from any pack wasn’t enough. We were still beaten. They managed to catch us. I couldn’t believe it and I don’t think I’ll ever be able too.
This was going to be one hell of a journey and it had only just started.
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So guys this is officially the first chapter of my very first book. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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