One Day, I Woke Up A Werewolf

Hailey's POV

"And now that she has proven herself to you, it is time to do the same. Submit to my daughter and pledge your lives to her." Theo demands, his eyes flickering between colors.

Everyone was quiet, not a sound coming from one of them. All I could hear were their calm heartbeats and breathing sounds that were in some way synchronized, all following the same rhythm without faltering.

As Theo spoke, his voice was holding so much power that even I wanted to kneel. One could not go against his words, they held so much promise. A promise to cause harm if one is to go against him. A promise to inflict pain if one even tries to utter a word at this very moment that disagrees with him.

The people from his land, the pack were all still bowing down but one by one they all shifted back to human form. I could see their bones break in half, I could hear each bone, the crunch sound going off in numbers as if it was some musical number, my body shivering at the sound but to them, it seemed not to affect them. Their bodies contorted and moved in ways one would find traumatic but just as they were wolves, they were human and as normal as ever.

On their knees they went, slowly moving from one bended knee to the next they went on the dirt. One by one they would tilt their heads to the side, showing their necks to me, heads still facing down.

I look up to Theo, he smiles before looking back at me.

"Rise my loyal soldiers. Your pledge of loyalty has been noted and from today, your most important job as my most important officials is to protect my child. Her life over yours until your last breath." He says and my heart skips a beat.

I don't want anyone sacrificing themselves for me. If I'm to die tomorrow then so be it! Why would I want anyone else jumping in the line of fire for me? As poetic as it sounds, I would never forgive myself.

"But.." I try to disagree only to have the crowd rise from the ground to finally look at me and say the following words,

all say... but what scares me was not

heard them all

holds and saying it all in my head. Their lips unmoving as they utter

caught on to my confusion and gently grabbed

linking was a thing between werewolves but it's still creepy. When it actually happens, when one hears it, it shakes you and not in a good way. It is just scary to think someone can just get in to your

you all family. You may now introduce yourselves to Hailey. Let's get

the people surrounding me. Their smiles were warm and they all had lovely things to say but I did not even know who to listen

to my left, looking to my right and turning around just to acknowledge everyone was really taking a toll on me but the time quickly passed even though it did not feel that way at

wolf. How to call her forward when needed and what to do when she tries to take power. Trained how to

after shift the pain lessened until I didn't feel it

was too much to take in, my body was not doing that great and to be honest, I was emotionally drained

past events so I can move forward in life. It's funny really, how ones life cannot truly take a pause but the mind can by being stuck in one place. To force you to deal with the events that got us here and as life goes on, the body moves, normal activities are done, the mind remains stubborn in its aim to finally get out of whatever

any biological explanation for all humans, my head decides at the end of the day that enough was

new life, a new me and if I did not deal with my old self and the events

after dinner and locked

I call out