Alpha's Fallen Angel

I wake up with a raging headache and groan. I can see it’s dark outside, meaning I slept all day. Which I kind of expected. When I got home yesterday, I had trouble falling asleep without Roman. That, and I simply couldn’t turn my mind off. I kept spooking myself into thinking I was being watched by one of the vampires. Have they been watching me this whole time? Just waiting? Waiting for me to become available to snatch me up?

I snap myself out of my thoughts and get out of bed before I can freak myself out all over again. Roman’s scent is barely in the room, meaning he didn’t come to bed either. I sigh. I could really use him right now to calm my anxiety, but I won’t bother him. I look at my phone, 8:24pm, ugh. I’m going to be up all night now!

I get out of bed to shower but I can’t get this whole thing out of my head. Even while I’m standing in the hot water I don’t feel relaxed.

‘Amara, you need to read that letter from mom. It might tell us something’ Tamisra tells me and that same gut wrenching feeling settles in my stomach

‘I know. I’m scared of what it will say.’

‘I know you are, but you got me, and we have Roman and Seth and the girls. We’re not alone anymore, whatever it says we’ll get through it together. We need to get ahead of the situation while we still can. As of right now, the vampires think you’re still clueless. Roman will come up with a plan.’ Tamisra tries to soothe me.

I take a deep breath and turn the water off. I know she’s right. I dry off and throw on one of Roman’s shirts along with my own pajama pants. Goddess, please don’t break my heart too badly with this letter.

I walk over to my old room and grab out my box with my parents’ things. I smile at my dads flannel and hold it to my chest. Picking up the letter I take a deep breath and rip the envelope open.

My baby, Amara

I’m writing you this letter because there’s evidence of vampires that have been tracking the territory. In the event your father and I don’t make it, I need to make sure you know the information of your birth somehow.

You were our daughter the moment we laid eyes on you, please don’t ever doubt how much your father and I loved you. After I had Seth, there was a rogue attack, I was still not healed from his birth but I was too far away from the bunkers when the attack hit. I of course survived the attack, but a wound to my abdomen caused me to be infertile, as Ciara was still too weak to heal me properly. I was content for a long time just raising Seth, although I always yearned for another child. I thought I had accepted that I couldn’t have anymore, but after a year I started having dreams of a little girl with eyes so green the forests of the Moon Goddess realm seemed dull. A little girl, who would sneak into my room at night asking for hot chocolate because she had a bad dream, a girl who would sit down with me every night and tell me her boyfriend drama while I braided her hair. I had dreams of you, before you were even born. You were always meant to be my baby. Everyday I cried for you, thinking the Goddess was showing me what could have been, but she was actually showing me what was to come.

Your birth mother was an angel and your birth father a demon. I was near a meadow that I visited when I needed to clear my head when I heard her sobs. She was clutching you, and when we locked eyes with me, she handed you to me and grabbed my hand, showing me everything that had happened through her touch. Your father was a demon, and despite their races they were madly in love. As you know, demons are the most populated species of the underworld. Your father is the supreme King. The highest rank an angel can be is a guard of the Gods and Goddesses themselves. Your mother was the daughter of Jeremiel, one of the highest ranked guards. When your mother fell pregnant with you and told her father, he was enraged, he was determined to prevent your birth. Your mother wouldn’t allow this, so your father took her to the underworld to protect her, defying the basic laws of the realms until they could come up with a plan. Deciding to hide you on earth, your father summoned a Demon Lord from the Prince realm, Deumos, to give you the ability to survive in the earth realm. She gifted you the genes of a werewolf, the most powerful supernatural of Earth. Eventually, your mother was too weakened. Her body rejected the underworld and she fell ill. This gave those citizens of the underworld who were disgusted with her, the opening to discard her behind the King’s back. She was dumped into the earth realm and abducted by vampires who spoke of the Prophecy of the Tribrid. The tribrid would be the most powerful being to ever cross any of the realms as she had the genes of powerful beings from each. Should they have access to your blood, they could drain you of your essence. Power that strong cannot be destroyed, only transferred, which would make them the supreme species instead of the weakest. Using her last bit of strength, your mother escaped using what powers she had left and carried you to me.

Nothing outside of the Prophecy is known of your powers, but when she had you, your father found her saying that the underworld’s barrier was cracked from the sheer force your presence into the world created. He was able to find you, and place a barrier on your aura and your powers. Whenever you are of age to wield your powers, the barrier spell would break, alerting both your parents that you could return home. Unfortunately, your mother died minutes after she handed you to me, so now only your father will be alerted.

Please know I only withheld this information from you to protect you. I was meant to be your mother, as your dad was meant to be your father. You are our greatest treasure along with Seth. You completed our family, and I wouldn’t change a thing about our story.

Love always,

Mom and Dad

I couldn’t comprehend what I just read, my hands shook as I reread ‘your birth mother’ over and over again. My mom wasn’t my mother. My father wasn’t my father. They died protecting me, as did the woman who gave birth to me. They would be alive if it weren’t for me. I felt every piece of my soul shatter. Any joy or happiness I had ever experienced paled in comparison to the agony that took over my body. I was the reason they were dead.

I let out a feral growl so loud I felt the pack house quiver, in an instant I ran straight through the glass doors leading to my balcony and jumped off, shifting midair. Despair I never knew could exist flooded me as I ran for the forest, letting out a howl laced with sheer agony. I looked to the moon and let out howl after howl, making sure Selene knew the pain she caused me. Tamisra’s agony bled into my own, amplifying it tenfold. We ran at a speed I didn’t think was possible. At some point, I thought we were being followed, but they would never catch us.

We ran until we reached a clearing, I jumped into the middle, shifting when I hit the ground. Tamisra’s howls were replaced with my screams. Screams that came straight from the shattered pieces of my soul. The trees shook and the ground trembled as my screams reached a crescendo and something within me snapped. Coldness. Frozen, black, and so cold that not even the fires of Hades’ inferno could tame it, overtook my body. Instead of it leaving me, it surrounded me. I opened my eyes and watched as a black tint clouded my vision. My despair turned to rage as I turned to the skies. The Heavens that held my birth mother and the moon that held my parents will feel my wrath for inflicting this pain on me and my family.

And then everything went black.