The Broken Warrior's Daughter

| dread the morning of my 12th birthday. | know my father is getting more and more angry and if | don’t have my wolf on my birthday, it will set him off. Over the last two years, his anger and aggression have increased and the pack is suffering for it. Everyone walks on eggshells with my father now. No one comes to the packhouse any longer and I’m thankful because | don’t want anyone to see what he does to my mother. His abuse of her has gotten worse over I’m terrified that one day he will kill her.

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past year.

The door to my room slams open, and | jerk up out of bed. “Well?” My father says without any preamble.

| just shake my head, no. He stalks toward me. “You worthless excuse for a daughter. You are nothing to me.”

He raises his hand to hit me and my mother comes flying in, out of nowhere, putting herself between me and him. His backhands her, his hand slamming into her cheek. Her head whips around, spit and blood flying from her mouth. He sneers down at my mother as she turns, steadying herself in front of me.

“Move.” He says. She doesn’t respond, but she doesn’t move. He stares at her a moment before turning to me. “Get out.” | look at him, not understanding what he means.

“Get. Out. Of. My. Packhouse! If | ever see you on my pack lands again, | will kill you myself.” He says before stalking out of my room, slamming the door.Property © 2024 N0(v)elDrama.Org.

“Mom? What did he mean?”

My mom is quiet for a couple of minutes. “Pack a bag. Pack light enough to be able to carry it, but enough to get you through for a weekend. Pack anything you can’t live without. I'll be back in five minutes.”

Five minutes later, my mother comes in with her own bag. | had thrown my favorite clothes and a couple of pictures into my overnight bag.

“Let’s go. Quickly and quietly.” My mother says, taking my hand and leading me down the stairs. She stops every few steps to listen before pulling me behind her and continuing our way down the stairs. When we get to the bottom, rather than going out the front door, she takes me down a hallway and out the omega’s

entrance. Once we're outside, we begin jogging toward the forest line. My mother sees +15 BONOS

some of our border patrols and pulls me behind a tree. When they pass, she moves on until my father’s Gamma steps in our way.

“Where are you going Paige?” He says as my mother stops in front of him and pulls me behind her. “He banished her, Jack. | can’t let her leave on her own. | won't. Are you going to stand in my way?”

He looks at my mother then at me before shaking his head. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out some money. “Get as far away as possible. Get on a bus or rent a car but get far away from here as quickly as you can. He may have banished her, but he won't let you go easily. I’ll you as long as possible.

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“Thank you, Jack.” My mother says before hugging him quickly. He says something in her ear, but | can’t hear what it is. Then, my mother grabs my hand and we are running again. We’re only a mile or so from the pack borders when the howl goes up.

then Immediately, my mother hands me her bag. “Get on my back.” She says, shifts into her wolf. | climb on her back and she takes off. My mother may not have been born an Alpha female, but she has been mated to an Alpha wolf and been a Luna for over a decade. Not only that, but she is determined to keep me safe. She runs as fast as she can.

It's 10 miles to the nearest human town. My mother runs through rivers and streams whenever possible to help try to throw the pack off our scent. When we are right outside the town, she shifts back, and | throw her some clothes. We run into the town and find the bus station. We find a bus that is leaving in 15 minutes and she buys two tickets.

We get onto the bus and sit in the back, sliding down as low as possible in the seats. It’s not until the bus doors close and we start moving that we both breathe a sigh of relief. We stay low in the seats until we are well away from the city.