Chapter 6
Danna slowly opened her eyes and found herself in a hut made of wood and straw. She was leaning on some skins, and the fireplace was burning with a warm fire. Looking to the side, he saw a white-haired, white-skinned lady in her sixties, with a bowl in her hand.
“I’m glad you woke up. You were brought unconscious and burning with fever. Thanks to the goddess Selene, you have been healed,” the old woman said with a kind smile.
“Who are you?” What am I doing here? What about my baby? She asked in anguish, touching her belly and tears in her eyes as she recalled the last images before everything went black.
“I’m Hecate. Wild wolves brought you to the door of my cabin. Your baby is fine.
“Wolves without humanity?” She cried out in fright. It crossed his mind: “Why didn’t they eat me? Thank you moon goddess for saving me from them.”
“Don’t worry, I got scared too. I’ll tell you, two nights ago some wolves were howling at the door of my cabin. I looked out the window and saw one of them carrying a body on his back. Carefully, they placed you at the entrance. I plucked up the courage and opened the door. The strangest thing was that they lowered their heads, and one of them just looked at me as if asking for help. As best I could, I brought you inside my house and I’ve been taking care of you.
Danna widened her eyes in surprise.
Hecate couldn’t contain her curiosity and asked where she came from and why those wolves brought her fainting.
“What happened to you?” Where do you come from?Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.
Danna gave a big sigh, her eyes darkened, and they were filled with hatred.
“I used to live on the outskirts of the blue herd. I was betrayed by my mate, he’s an alpha of alphas and I’m a simple omega. Also, there are people in that pack who despise me for being an omega. Tears rolled down her face.
Hecate offered him the bowl of soup she had prepared while Danna slept. She took it and showed him a smile of gratitude.
Tears welled up in Hecate’s eyes as she thought about what Danna had been through, as well as the scars and a mole she had visualized on her back that had her uneasy.
“I’m sorry to be curious and ask you this, but could you tell me about your parents?”
“My parents were a pair of omegas who raised me. My biological parents, I don’t know anything about their existence.
Hecate put her hand to her mouth, unable to believe that the moon goddess had taken her precious granddaughter to her hut. Only a descendant of Titania could wear that crescent-shaped mole on her lower back.
“Did you happen to be found in a basket on the bank of a river?”
Danna was startled. I couldn’t believe that woman knew how she was found.
“Yes, how do you know that?”
The old woman put her hand to her face, and tears welled up in her eyes.
Danna, who was still holding the bowl in her hand, put it aside and with trembling hands pushed her hands away from the lady’s face to ask:
“Ma’am, what’s the matter?” Did I know my parents?
“I knew your parents. Their names were Fenrir and Carlin. Your father was the alpha of the Vilkas pack, and your mother was a descendant of Titania, queen of the fairies.
“Where are my parents?” Why was I abandoned?
“They didn’t abandon you. They were killed by the false alpha of the Vilkas pack, Edon, your father’s cousin.
“By the goddess Moon, how did your family kill my father?”
“Yes, Edon is a dark-hearted wolf. Your parents loved each other very much. They came from the neighborhood where some of your mother’s relatives lived. Carlin was in the last days of her pregnancy. On the way, they were ambushed by a pack of wolves. Fenrir was a great warrior. He and his beta, along with about five other wolves, tried to defend themselves. But the attacking wolves, including Edon, outnumbered them. Your father left one of our men in charge of Carlin and went into the thick forest. Soon after, the warrior was wounded, and your mother went into labor. She had the baby on the banks of a river. He had a basket in his hand with some things that had been given to him. He accommodated you in the water of the river with little current so that someone good could find you.
At dawn, seeing that your father had not returned, we deployed a group of warriors to search for him. The sniffer wolves found the bleeding bodies of my son and his beta, along with the other warriors. Hours later, they found your dying mother. She told what had happened to one of the men and then died in his arms.
“By the goddess Moon, how wicked!
“That man, who was my utmost confidence, told me everything Carlin had told him. That day was a black day for the pack. Edon proclaimed himself alpha and displaced my son’s trusted warriors with any excuse. I was depressed by the death of my son. Many wolves who served your fathers were exiled, and others were imprisoned. Among those, me. The wolf that was going to lock me up was someone I had known since I was a child. I begged him not to, and he had compassion on me. Together, with his family, we run away from the pack and become renegades.
“How can he have so much hatred in his heart?” It was his cousin.
“By proxy, my child. He was a bad seed of my deceased brother, fathered by an omega. He was ashamed of his lineage. As a child, he was cruel to others. But I never imagined that I would go so far as to kill my son, who treated him like a brother and enjoyed the benefits of being the alpha’s family. The Vilkas herd became impenetrable. There is only His law. It seems that he has allied himself with other dark beings and does not accept visits or audits.
Danna, though she had never met her parents, shuddered at the thought of how they died and the torment they had experienced. His heart and soul ached.
“You’d better eat, my child. You have yet to tell me in detail how you got here,” the old woman said, picking up the bowl of soup again and handing it to Danna.
After drinking the soup, Danna told the old woman all that she had suffered in the mansion of Eros. After a long talk, Danna fell asleep again.