CHAPTER-5

Kimberly P. O. V

(Sixteen year old Kimberly)

Damn, today was tiring, all the work has drained my energy. First school then waitressing in two restaurants downtown. Those two were populated today.

After coming out of the back door of Mile's restaurant I went to my car. Another night alone, I blew air through my mouth . Living in New York is a living nightmare.Even after working two jobs is not enough.

It has been six years since I shifted to NYC with my dad. I did not know what happened after I passed out that night. When I woke up I was in the bedroom of my apartment in New York .

I tried to talk to my dad about the incident but he shut me down whenever I tried. Mom's death was traumatizing for both of us. While I lost my mom he lost his other half, his soul, his wife, the love of his life. Mom's death was hard for me, I cried to sleep every night for a few years after her death. Dad built a thick wall around his heart .

He was no more a passionate and loving person, he was like a walking shell. He never abused me physically but when we needed each other to heal he just stayed in his room because looking at me reminded him of my mother .

Dad became depressed and sold his company and our house in Florida . He starts drinking, start staying out late at night . Sometimes he does not come back for weeks or even months.He provided me money till I was fourteen .

I started working at the age of fifteen. It has been six months since I last saw him. I do not know what he does or whom he works with.

After that night I never saw Jonathan again. What happened in the faculty after I passed out is still a secret but whatever happened has changed my father completely. I hate Jonathan with all my heart. He snatched the most important person of my life. When kids of my age talk about their mother I feel envious of them. He killed my mother in front of me and my father. He destroyed our lives.

After my mother died I started gathering more information of their kind and other supernatural creatures. There is not much information as humans do not believe in supernatural creatures. I get to know their history, their ranks and mate bond. Searching for more information about her kind makes me feel close to my mother.

I learned that at the age of sixteen wolf children first shift in their wolves and at eighteen they find their mates. As my eyes are not violet that means I also have a wolf and soon I will be shifting as today is my sixteenth birthday . At midnight the shifting will start.I will be a wolf just like my mother only there is also a hunter inside me.

I do not know whether I have a mate and if I have ,will he accept me? He will probably reject me when he can feel the hunter inside me. Hunters and werewolves hate each other to death. They have been enemies of each other for centuries. I read in hunter's history that even werewolves that were mated to hunters had to reject their mates as it is against werewolf's law.They do not want a mixed blood .My parents were also mates and had me. My existence is against the werewolf's law. If they know about me they will kill me. I think that's why my mother did not keep any contact with her family.

I start the car and drive out of the parking lot. My NYC apartment is in a decent part of the city.Though it is small but it is very homely and also fits in my budget.

Today is my birthday but there is no one with whom I can celebrate.My best friend is out of the town with her family.Anna Mary is the closest person left after my mother's death.we became best friends in Sophomore years of school. we have each others back whenever required.Her family is like a second family to me.

I parked the car in the garage and locked the car.I went in the elevator and clicked the switch on my floor. I start feeling restless as if something is going to happen. I tried to shake off the feeling but I can feel it in my bones that whatever is going to happen is very bad.

My thoughts were cut off when the elevator chimed and the door opened . I exited the elevator and went to my apartment. I started looking for my apartment keys when I found them. I put it in the key hole but found the door was unlocked. My anxiety level started to increase, sweat rolled down my back but I did not hear any sound.

I opened my shoes outside the door. Twisting the knob I entered in my apartment. I slide down my bag near the entrance and grab the vase on the shoe cabinet and tip toed towards the living room.

Though I have not shifted yet I can smell and feel someone's presence like a werewolf.When I confirm two people are there when I come near to the living room by their smell one is my father that I can recognize. The other is familiar but I can not pinpoint whose scent is this.

The vase crashed on the floor when I entered the living room and saw my dad standing beside the couch while bowing his head . On the couch Jonathan is sitting crossed leg , he spread on the couch like a king. It has been six years since I last saw this bastard.I am shocked why father is standing beside him but I masked it with an expression of hatred towards Jonathan.The fire for killing him and avenging my mothers death has not dimmed till now.

I narrowed my eyes in hatred and suspension.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?".

He smirked evilly at me and listening to me his smirk only grew. My skin started crawling. Seeing him reminds me of the memories of my mother's death that I have tried to bury deep in my heart.

" Did you not get enough peace after you destroyed my family? You killed my mother . You make a loving and cheerful person this, a walking shell. What is left that you came back to destroy? ".

He stood up and strode towards me.

" What do I want, hmm? Good question. I want your wolf. I want to kill it. You see dear here your daddy dearest had made a deal with me that when you will shift we will bring to the faculty and wolf inside you and make you a complete hunter".

Hearing that I felt a pain, the pain of betrayal. To confirm it I looked at my father. I saw guilt written all over his face. My suspension was confirmed.

Tears are rolling down my face.

"Jonathan the deal wa-".

" Nh -ah do not interfere, it's between a grandfather and his granddaughter "He is taunting .That shut my father up. I am shocked why my father is listening to everything Jonathan is saying. Then one thing became clear to me.

" You were working with them".My father turned to me. Guilt and pain is written all over his face but I ignored it.

"All this time you were working with the murder of your wife,the person you love the most? All the time you vanished for weeks, for months you were working for them? How could you? " Tears are streaming down my face. My face is feeling hot and I kept panting because of all the crying.

I start walking towards my father and stand in front of him. My voice became hard as steel.

"WERE YOU WITH THEM WHEN THEY KILLED MOM? WERE YOU ARE THE ONE WHO HELP THEM TO KILL HER ? DID YOU BETRAY MOM? ANSWER ME. ANSWER ME DAMN IT" I kept punching him while crying. I can not control myself any more.

"Answer me answer me".I felt a sting on my neck, all energy drained from my body, my eyesight started to become blurry , my knees gave up. I fell on the floor. Everything turned dark.