The Ex Wifes Revenge

/-Alora-/

This couldn't be happening to me...

Not now, not my daughter...

"Lila, please... please open your eyes for mommy, please, I beg of you..." I sobbed, shaking her frantically. 

My dress was soaked in her blood, her eyes struggling to stay open as her grip on my arm weakened with each passing minute.

"Lila please, I beg of you... don't do this to me... I'm going to take you to the infirmary, you're going to be fine... you're going to be fine for mommy..."

I pushed my trembling self off the ground. If I shifted, I would get to the pack faster but when she wasn't even strong enough to open her eyes, how would she get on my back?

I didn't even have the time to think as I scooped her off the floor and ran through the forest as fast as I could. 

Goddess, please... Please don't take her away from me...

Tears streamed down my cheeks, blinding my vision as I ran through the dark forest but I didn't dare stop. My daughter was dying. I could feel her form getting weaker and weaker in my arms. 

I didn't know what wild beast did this to her. If it was a rogue or just a wild animal but it had clawed her stomach open and left bite wounds all over her legs and neck...

It was a miracle to find her alive.

The pack suddenly seemed like it was miles away and my legs were throbbing from the speed I was sprinting at.

Twigs snapped under my barefoot but the pain was almost insignificant to me. 

"Mommy..." I heard her frail voice call out.

"Shhhh! Don't say anything please... don't say anything..." I sobbed. The pack gates were just ahead of me.

"I didn't get it... Daddy will punish me..." her voice cracked and my heart shattered to a million pieces. Even while dying, she was still worried about her father's reaction. 

"I was so close... but I couldn't reach it... it was right there... he will hate me..."

I dashed through the gates and headed for the infirmary. The entire pack was silent as everyone was blissfully asleep in their beds. 

I pushed open the doors and all eyes snapped to me. In less than a second, the nurses were running to me. 

"Please save her, do everything you can to save her please," I pleaded desperately as they dropped her on a stretcher.

I could feel my lungs closing up on me as my little girl lay helplessly on the stretcher. Her eyes were closed now, but I didn't want to believe she was dead. 

She couldn't be dead after everything I've had to endure for her sake. Her hands were clenched tightly around her teddy bear. 

It was the first and only gift her father had ever given her. I couldn't bring myself to move as I watched them roll her away. 

Even though she was just five years old, she suffered the cruel end of her father's hostility and neglect. 

And it hurt more because she was so fond of him. They had been somewhat close until she turned three and his ex-girlfriend returned out of the blue. 

My knees buckled and I found myself crashing to the ground. My tears hit the tiled floor as the earlier events of tonight replayed in my head. 

Me, returning home late, after the annual charity visit, only to discover my daughter was nowhere in the palace. 

I couldn't find Tyrone too, so I assumed she might have gone out with her father, as unlikely as it was, until I asked a maid how long they were gone for, and she told me vividly that my daughter was not with him.

"The Alpha left with Miss Allison, Luna. Young miss injured her pet and the Alpha sent her to the woods to get herbs and some huckleberries..." the maid's words echoed in my head. 

The words sent me trembling all over again. I had been too late. Way too late. 

"Luna, are you okay?" One of the nurses asked and I got off the floor, wiping the tears off my face. 

Thirty minutes had barely passed when the doctors returned. I rushed to them.

"How is she?" I asked desperately but the looks on their faces were not even encouraging. "Why isn't anyone answering me? How is she?" I yelled.