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Chapter 2. Barnished

"James, please come in!" Alpha Mike yelled out. James rushed in, and at the sight of blood gushing out of Evelyn's head, he quickly closed the door behind him and rushed to check her vitals. "She is dead, my lord," James proclaimed. No, you can't be sure she is; I said nothing to her. "Just pushed her a bit," Alpha Mike said as he trembled.

"I'm sure she is, my lord; we need to act fast about this," James said.

"What am I going to do?" "Surely this will tarnish the image and reputation I have been building." "I don't want that to happen," Alpha Mike said. "Let me see what we can do," James replied.

"When you called her here, was anyone with her?" Alpha Mike asked No, my lord, she was all by herself working in the kitchen. "Other maids are serving your lady at the time," James replied.

"Good, so this is only between the two of us." I need you to gather all the guards and send them to the throne hall. Tell them an important person is visiting soon, but bring anyone you trust back here. "There must be someone you can guarantee this secret will be safe with," Alpha Mike said as he tried to cover up the situation.

James rushed out and did as he was asked to; after making sure all the guards were gone, he came back into Alpha Mike's room with his friend, Henry, who was also a guard in the palace. "Are you sure we can trust this fella?" Alpha Mike asked, "Certainly, sir," and James replied

"Hey you, if you dare tell anyone what you see, consider yourself dead, okay?" Alpha Mike said with a fierce look towards Henry.

"Yes, my lord, this never happened," Henry replied.

Okay, this is how it will work: you will help me wrap her dead body up with my ropes. You go and get a Charleston prepared, and you guys should dump her far away from here. Make sure the location seems secure and safe when dumping it. Okay?" Alpha Mike said

"Yes, sir," the guards chorused as they got to work. Henry went out to get the charriot prepared when Alpha Mike and James packed the dead body of Evelyn inside the king's expensive ropes and wrapped it up with it. Henry and James later conveyed the dead body in the dead of night to the central market and dumped it there, believing it to be a safe place and that it was very far from the palace.

They returned to the alpha's room and cleaned everything up as if nothing had happened. The Alpha went to the throne hall and declared his visitor had changed their mind, and afterward he held a meeting with his now-most trusted guards.

"Don't you think this will soon get out?" "I have a feeling the bean will be spilled soon," said Alpha Mike in a worried tone.

"What do you mean, my lord?" Henry asked.

"I mean, her daughters surely know she left for her shift, and they will surely want the matter investigated." "What do we do with that?" Alpha Mike asked The guards went silent for some minutes, thinking of a plan to help out of the situation.

"I have a plan, my lord, but that will involve the priest." Why not proclaim that her blood is cursed as soon as her dead body is found? "We can use the fact that her husband dumped her with her twin and the fact that they live a hard life as evidence to back this up," James said.

The Alpha reasoned with him, and besides, he knew the priest to be a man who loved material things. He should be easy to say to on his side; he called for the priest and explained the situation to him and also offered some cash as a reward if he could do the job.

The priest accepted the offer and set off on his way to complete his task. The sun rose up in the morning, and Kitara and her sister were already on their way to purchase some foodstuff from the market so they would be able to prepare breakfast for their mother before her arrival.

But then something caught their attention: crowds gather around something that seems to be a figure of a woman, and they rush there to get a glimpse of what happened, only to see the dead body of their mother.

They were shocked, devastated, and torn apart emotionally. They began to wail at the spot, and out of nowhere, the pack priest appeared. His look seemed pissed up: "Fellow pack members, do not wail for this individual; she is surely reaping what she sows."

"What do you mean by that?" Kitara said as she turned to the priest with a fierce and pitiful look.

"You must be her daughter; I can see her cursed blood running in your vein," the priest said, and almost immediately the crowd shifted away from Kitara and her twin sister.

You have been cursed; I am sure you guys have not wolfed out yet. "You won't be able to get the gods of the wolf dispersed; you have only three hours to grab your belongings and leave this vicinity," the priest said as he turned his back towards them.

His followers gathered around the sisters and followed them home, not allowing them to carry the dead body of their mother along with them as was the tradition of the pack. Any cursed blood will have to be buried by the priest after several rituals.

The guards arrived at their house within a few minutes and sent them packing away, but Kitara knew something was wrong from the look of the dead body of her mother; her mother was killed, and surely the person who killed her is trying to cover it up.

She and her twin sister embarked on the journey to an unknown land, and with the little money they had saved up, they boarded a boat to a nearby werewolf empire. They could only afford a gangster-owned boat with a lot of dangerous gamblers on it. At first, she was reluctant to board the boat, but it is their last hope, as they will be killed if they fail to leave the empire that day.

As they continued their journey on the boat, Maya Kitara's twin sister decided to have a view of the river, as she has not been out for days and her sister has been overly protective. Locking the door behind them, what they have been doing all the time is mourning their mother's death. On her way to have a glimpse of the ocean, she was corned by some gamblers and kidnapped.

They room her to the lower level of the boat and take advantage of her rapping her one after the other. After some minutes, Kitara was worried about her sister and decided to search for her. She went to the gambling room and saw that only Democratic gamblers were there, which was unusual.

When she heard the screams of her sister, she rushed to the source of the screams only to see her sister being raped. The men attacked her, and in the course of attacking her, her twin sister was stabbed as she tried to protect Kitara with the little strength she had left. "Run, Kitara, run," Maya said before she took her last breath. Kitara ran with all her might as the men ran after her; she had no other choice but to jump into the cold river for her safety. She swam to the river bank in the cold of the night.

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Why is all this happening to me? Mama, I have failed you. I failed to take care of my twin sister. But this is not the end. I will avenge those involved in your death and in her death. No matter what it caused me, I will surely do so.

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