THE MAFIA PUPPET

The Scars She Hid From The World

REGINA MCBRIDE

The heavy iron gates of the Wilderness Correction Camp groaned as they released me after three years of state-sponsored hell. I stood on the dirt road, clutching a plastic bag that held my entire life, waiting for the family that claimed they sent me there for "rehab." My brother, Brady, picked me up in a luxury SUV only to throw me out onto a deserted highway in the middle of a brewing storm. He told me I was a "public relations nightmare" and that the rain might finally wash the "stink" of the camp off me. He drove away, leaving me to limp miles through the mud on a snapped ankle. When I finally dragged myself to our family estate, my mother didn't offer a hug; she gasped in horror because my muddy clothes were ruining her Italian marble. They didn't give me my old room back. Instead, they banished me to a moldy gardener’s shack and hired a "babysitter" to make sure I didn't embarrass them further. My sister, Kaleigh, stood there in white cashmere, pretending to cry while clinging to her fiancé, Ambrose—the man who had once been mine. They all treated me like a volatile junkie, refusing to acknowledge that Kaleigh was the one who planted the drugs in my bag three years ago. They wanted to believe I was broken so they wouldn't have to feel guilty about the "wellness retreat" that was actually a torture chamber. I sat in the dark of that shed, feeling the cooling gel on the cigarette burns that covered my arms, and realized they had made a fatal mistake. They thought they had erased me, but I had returned with a roadmap of scars and a hidden satellite phone. At dinner, I didn't beg for their love. I simply rolled up my sleeves and showed them the price of their silence. As the wine spilled and the lies crumbled, I sent a single text to the only person I trusted: "I'm in. Let them simmer." The hunt was finally on.

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Alina stands outside the door listening to her fathers conversation with the dark wizard, normally werewolves don’t believe in dark wizards but gods and noticing that her father was actually talking with one she became curious to listen.

"I need him out of the way, I am afraid he has more wisdom than I have and people will compare my reign with his, additionally I am not ready to leave my Alpha’s position to anyone, not even my son" Alina hears her father say as her eyes widened in shock.

"I won't suggest you kill him now Alpha Thomas, it would cause a lot of suspicions, why not cast him into stupidity first so that the love your people have for him will be reduced to nothing." The dark wizard responded.

"I know my people love him but they also believe in the gods and the gods already declared that he should be named Alpha '' Alpha Thomas replied.

"I know of that but his death would also bring question, let's make him act stupidly first then push himself to suicide, that way his death would seem natural" The black wizard suggested.

"Hahaha, it is foolish of wolves not to believe in dark wizards, you have never disappointed me since the time I took my father's position as Alpha '' Alpha Thomas responded in laughter as the black wizard also joined in the laughter.

Alina quietly leaves her hiding spot, it's unbelievable that her father has actually been dining and talking with black wizards, a specie which was totally forbidden in the werewolf world, joining the two pieces together, she finally realised that her father was serving the gods in the eye of the people but originally he dines with the wizards.

She thought of warning "Alex" her brother but why should she? her father was finally making things easy for her, Alina is the first child and she is meant to be the Alpha but it had to skip her only because she is a female, she will make her father carry out his own plan and silently watch stupidly as she had always done, everyone in the pack believes her to be a weak wolf and that's how it should be till she lays her next plan and makes it an action.

With those that she heads outside towards a cave where she practices her fighting skills everyday, no one would actually look for her as no one cares anyways.

"What about Alina?" The black wizard suddenly asked the Alpha admist creating the right spell to cause his son stupid.

"Alina doesn't even stand a chance, that girl is the dumbest so we will leave her, her brother is the only one that inherits my wisdom, so he is the only threat" Alpha Thomas responded.

The wizard laughs wickedly as he continues his spell, raising his hands up and a large ball of smoke forms on his hands, he starts to say some words that are inaudible.

Chanting out Alex name, he throws the smoke at a mirror image of Alex that had appeared right after his change, mumbling some words again the image disappears as the wizard laughs wickedly.

"it is done, he is going to start perceiving some horrible smell for his nose only and he will be seen as a mad man sooner or later, that way we can push him to suicide then" Black wizard said as the Alpha smiles in satisfaction.

"But hold on, isn't it extremely childish to give him such an ailment, I mean smelling of horrible things seems like a joke" Alpha Thomas finally said.

"HAHAHA, I know and that is the point of it all, they will see him as childish and term it to madness they we will hypnotise him to commit suicide, they will think his madness had drawn him to to do it" The wizard explained.

"Well even though it seems silly, All I want is the result, I can't hand over my Alpha Title to him, it is mine and mine alone" Alpha Thomas concluded and right after wicked laughter erupts the air from the wizard.

"Someone is coming and I can't be seen, till next time Alpha Thomas" Black wizard said as soon as he perceives the footsteps of someone approaching and disappears.

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