Nalda sauntered out of her room with her school socks on her hand and her cell phone struggling to balance between her shoulder and ear.
She was on a call with her friend.
"Mum, my breakfast!" Nalda screamed while trying to put on her socks.
Her mum walked up to her and whispered in her ears.
"We've got guests so lower your voice. Nalda, you've got a project to finish up with Sonia back in school right?"
Nalda stared at her suspiciously. Her mum wasn't the type to go around asking her anything concerning her school and it was weird, seeing her mum tiptoe inside the house.
Nalda pulled her mum closer.
"Mum, is everything okay? Are we being held captive?" She asked in a lower tone.
Her mum chuckled and threw Nalda 's breakfast inside her school bag.
"Stop being silly. Don't bother coming home early today, spend some time with Sonia. Our guests aren't leaving anytime soon and you know how much your father respects his guests" she said and dragged Nalda along with her.
Nalda got to the door and still couldn't brush off her mum's suspicious act.
"Just a minute mum!" Nalda uttered and ran up in the direction of her father's bedroom.
She peeped through the door hole and saw strange faces murmuring with her father with a huge map hung in front of them.
Her mum ran to her and dragged her out of there.
She nagged Nalda for pulling a stunt like that.
Nalda headed to school and her mind was crowded with thoughts and suspicions about what she saw today, she had a hunch, that things weren't fine. Her parents have been acting weird for the past few days. They are either late outside or have suspicious guests at home.
And to make matters worse Nalda knew all her father's acquaintances.
Nalda is the only daughter of her parents and she's currently fourteen and still hasn't gotten her wolf yet. Everyone at school ridiculed her and some even mocked her for her predicament but it never bothered her. Her mum had a similar situation when growing up so this gave Nalda the confidence she could ever ask for.
She went to school and hung out with her best friend, Sonia.
Throughout the day, Nalda couldn't brush off the thoughts about her father's strange guests.
After school, she reminded her mum's warnings to her not to come home early after school.
"Nalda, your mum called. She said we should spend some time together. Let's go to my place" Sonia cut in through Nalda's thought.
Sonia's words to her made it even more clear to her that something fishy was going on or something dangerous was going to take place.
"I'm sorry, Sonia but I can't hang out with you today. See you tomorrow!" She said and ran along.
When she got to her house, the door was left wide open.
"Mum... Dad!" Nalda called out slowly as she walked in.
She looked around the house and couldn't find her parents.
She headed out to look for them but then she saw numerous rogues running up in the direction of the pack house.
Nalda ran to a corner to take shield but then she heard her father's voice.
"Don't spare anyone!" He growled in his wolf form.
Nalda ran out of her hiding spot to have a careful look at her father, indeed it was her father.
She covered her mouth in shock.
'Dad's rebelling!' She gasped in her head.
Nalda was still in a state of shock when she saw her mum running into the pack house in her wolf form as well.
"Mum.." she gushed and took on her heels.
Nalda ran to the pack house to stop her mum if possible.
Running to the pack house, many of the rogues were lying on the ground dead.
Nalda covered her mouth in shock so she didn't gasp out any word. At this point, her eyes were glistening with tears already. She had a hunch already about what her parent's fate was.
"Mum...!" Nalda called out in a shaky tone.
She kept running around in search of her parents and just then her injured mum was thrown from the roof of the pack house when she landed on the ground, and blood gushed out of her mouth.
"Mummmm!!!!!" Nalda screamed as tears streamed down her cheeks. She ran over to Mum and bent over.
Her scream alerted most of the rogues nearby and they thought of her as an enemy so they ran in her direction to attack her.
They were about to puncture their claws on her skin when Alpha Damian showed up from nowhere and then brushed them off with his sharp claws giving them a heavy cut on their chests.
His fangs were sticking out angrily. His amber eyes gleamed red cos of anger.
He stood before Nalda, protecting her.
Alpha Damian's beta showed up from behind and attacked the rest of the rogues.
Nalda's Dad dropped dead on the rooftop after having a tough fight with the alpha.
Nalda watched the tough fights between the rogues and the alpha and also her mum who was lying dead before her eyes, she passed out before she knew what was happening.
Damian was twenty-two years old when this happened.
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FIVE YEARS LATER...
Nalda wiped her hands with a napkin and rushed out of the kitchen at the mention of her name in the sitting room.
"Prepare something delicious today. Damian and I are expecting a special guest today and also my bedroom should be sparkling, not the slightest dust should be found there!" Hazel instructed meanly and she smiled a scrolled through her phone.
Hazel is Alpha Damian's Luna. They got wedded four years ago.
"Yes, ma'am" Nalda bowed to her request and left for the kitchen.
Years back after the rogue attack and the loss of Nalda's parents, Alpha Damian took her in as a maid cos that was the only suitable job he could offer to a traitor's daughter. Nalda was more than grateful to be at the mercy of the alpha.
'She looks uglier when she smiles' Celia, Nalda's wolf said.
Nalda chuckled loudly. Hazel turned to her direction.
"Did you just laugh at me?" Hazel grunted like a psychic.
Nalda frowned immediately.
"I wouldn't dare!" She lied and turned back to what she was doing.