Beta Troy's POV

When I saw the rogues beating up that helpless she - wolf, I felt very angry, I knew they were the same people that an Alpha hired to kill my birth parents and destroy my birth Pack, with the help of a she - wolf I had loved dearly and had wanted to spend the rest of my life with. I didn't want to think about that right now. It still breaks my heart to recall how much I had loved and trusted Ellen and how much it had cost me. If only I could change the hands of time.

I felt akin to the young lady I rescued from those rogues, what had she called her name again? Daisy. Daisy Holt! Her name reminds me of the flower, but strangely enough, I feel that she is not nearly as delicate as the flower. I feel she is made of a tougher stuff. I draw my conclusion from the way she had handled herself before Alpha Bernard. An orphaned Omega like her, she was not timid as would have been expected and I admired that. When she told me she was an orphan, I becane determined to help her, knowing how it felt like to be without parents. It came as a shock when it turned out that she liked almost all the dishes I liked and could prepare them just as well as my mother. I ate today more than I had eaten in a long while. I am glad but I also realize that Daisy was just doing all these as away to thank me for saving her that day and tending to her wounds.

'Mother', I said through mind link like I had always done since her passing. It didn't matter that she was dead and could no longer hear me or even connect with me. I just did it all the sane. It made me feel close to her still and relieved my tension and anxiety as well as keeping me in mind of what I had lost and my vow to avenge my parents' murder.

'The young she - wolf I rescued has succeeded in returning my appetite for food', I continued my mind, thinking, and not for the first time how strange it felt that I always felt connected whenever I mind linked my mother. The only difference is that she does not respond. Anyways, that just goes to show how close I and mother had been when she was alive. I loved Dad too, very much, but we really didn't share that deep connection I had with Mum.

'She cooks all those lovely dishes you always made me and exactly the way you made them. It is really uncanny. I have never forgotten you but she reminds me so much of you and those wonderful times we spent as a family', I said and paused. 'We have stayed together for just a couple of days but she seem to have a lot of things in common with me. I don't know if it is scary or reassuring. She is leaving tomorrow anyways and we may never see again, which is a good thing, I think'.

My phone rang and I sighed, I didn't like being interrupted whenever I was communicating with my deseased mother. 'Duty calls, Mum. Will speak to you again soon but for now rest on'.

'Yes?' I spoke into the phone and listened for a while, then, 'okay, I am on my way'.

It was a fight between two warriors and I had to intervene. After settling the case, I checked in on the Alpha Bernard. It was my duty as his Beta.

'Alpha, do you need me for anything?' I asked. He shook his head and I went to the shade where I liked to stay anytime I felt like being alone.

I shut my eyes and the visions flashed through my mind again like they always did and I felt the anger in me increase and simmer.

My parents seated round the dinning table, eating and laughing with their Beta when suddenly, there was a disturbance outside.

'Let me find out what it is all about', Beta Ben said. 'Just continue with your meal Alpha, Luna. It might just be the guards quarreling over nothing yet again!' And he walked towards the door and out of the room.

'I don't feel too good about this', my mother, Luna Lilibeth said. 'Troy, why not you go inside. Your Dad and I will handle this'. I had been nineteen at the time and was yet to get my wolf.

'Mum, if it is an attack, I want to fight beside you both', I said, bravely. I wanted to prove myself. I was tired of my friends making fun of me anytime we duelled and I lost because they all had their wolves and I didn't.

'You don't have your wolf yet and it will be dangerous to expose you at this stage. You are almost like an ordinary human and will be torn apart with no stress at all!'

'But...', I insisted..

'Troy', my father, Alpha Terrance said, 'listen to your mother and do not come out no matter what happens, unless it is confirmed that this is not a threatening situation. Or we ask you to come out, do you understand?'

'But it could just be a little row between guards, like Beta Ben suggested.

'Over the years, I have learnt to trust your mother's instincts', he relied. I felt like he wanted to say more but shook his head.

'Troy please go into hiding, and don't come out, till the coast is clear!' Mum said with a sense of urgency that rubbed off on me.

I nodded and started off the stairs reluctantly but knowing that my parents were right about my ability being in want since I was wolfless.

'Promise, you will not come out no matter what?' my mother insisted.

'Promise', I replied, feeling bereft and not knowing the reason for that and wondering why my mother was being so insistent. This was not the first time rogues were attacking and my parents always defeated them and in this case, we weren't even sure the disturbance was of rogues attacking, but I guess you never can be too sure and my mother, well, she is just being over protective of me, I said to myself, shaking off the fear their insistence had evoked and as I ascended the stairs, I vowed I was going to do all I could to get my wolf and train hard so I would stand with the men and defend my parents and Pack without fear. But does getting one's wolf depend on a werewolf or the Goddess' timing? I sighed in frustration.

I had just shut the door when I heard the door downstairs open with a crash and footsteps rush in. I opened the door again and saw rogues fighting my parents and was shocked to see that my father's Beta was not doing anything to help them. He just stood at a corner watching.

What about the guards, I wondered. It was later I found out what had happened to them.

Presently, as I watched, I was filled with pride as I saw his father defeating the rogues and I smiled, whispering proudly to myself, 'Way to go Dad, you are awesome!' But just before I finished my silent praise and cheer to my father, Beta Ben exchanged a meaningful look with a rogue who nodded and our Beta stabbed my father from behind and my mother's eyes opened wide in shook and as she rushed to catch her falling husband, her eyes inadvertently looked in my direction and through mind link, gave me an urgent message. I was still taking in the message in my mind which was numb from shock of what I had just witnessed, when the same Beta stabbed my mother too. It felt like I was the one who was stabbed.

'Why?' mother asked, Beta Ben.

'Because you and your husband have ruled for long enough. It is time for me to rule. A Pack that will have alliance with rogues who will through their enterprises prosper the pack. Something an old fool like you didn't welcome!'

I nearly forgot my promise to keep away no matter what and was descending when I heard his mither's voice through mind limk again. Sharper this time. 'Run, Troy, run. The dagger is laced with silver and wolfsbsne and I don't think Ben is going to allow us survive this. Go far away, my dear son, I shall always be with you!'

He was still numb, looking at the scene before him with shock but when he heard Beta Ben shout,' And where is that wolfless brat? ' And started rushing up the stairs, I knew I was about to be killed and knew if I wanted to avenge my parents, allowing Ben to off me was going to cause the sacrifice of my parents to be in vain and I won't allow that. So, with adrenalin pumping into my bloodstream, self preservation set in and I jumped out the windows and luckily, I was unaffected, I looked around and saw what had broken my fall. I saw that I had landed on the bodies of two of the guards I had wondered earlier where they had gone. I looked around and saw bodies everywhere.

'Catch him!' I heard someone howl and I ran with every ounce of strength I had, determined not to be caught, wolf or no wolf.