Life Turned Upside Down
Miss Donna’s Story
By
Julia Matthews
(section 2)
“Doubt
he’ll care that another man’s child was kicked out of my home.”
My hot
angry skin felt as thought someone had splashed ice water over me. Donna knew
her face had gone pale. For a few moments everything around me seemed to be in
a tunnel. I heard mom yelling and begging for dad to stop. Dad chuckled as he
told her to hush her mouth.
Donna
shook her head a couple of times, clearing the fogginess in time to see dad
move in front of mom. Protective instinct kicked in, and I jumped in front of
him. Stupid of me, yet, knowing dad there had to be more, if it was true. Dad
might have been using it as a prevention method.
“What
does that mean?” I asked, as he halted his advance on mom, buying her a few
more minutes before she had to deal with him.
“Means
exactly what I said. You. Are. Not. My. Child.”
Dad
looked back at mom who still held a pleading look, which only had dad laughing
for a few minutes before he spoke again.
“Your
mother was about to mate to another man.” Dad spat on the floor. “To a
were-wolf, but as you know old laws stated that since Mother Earth mated, I had
the right to change her. Choice was easy for me. Then she chose to follow her
Mother Erath mate.”
“Lie,”
Spittle flew. “I am a were-panther. Or has your nose finally stopped up.” Such
a comment would piss him off, but hell it was correct. No scent of a wolf lived
on me. I’d never once shifted to a wolf, only a panther.
“Indeed.”
Dad spat again. “You are a child of a were-wolf, who carries the human gene, as
well as the panther gene.”
“How?”
Wasn’t sure what that question meant. Might have been how did he know. Could have been how was it possible. Got more of an answer than I wanted.
“Friend
of mine says it’s due to me changing your mom while she carried a child. Rotten
streak of luck, one could say. I got landed with a lousy Mother Earth mate, who
loved someone else. Worse she stuck me raising another man’s child.” Anger grew
with each word he said, but anything else dad said was drowned out by Donna’s
internal thoughts.
A were-wolf, A were-wolf. A were-wolf.
It was
the only thing registering. My biological father is a were-wolf who let my mom
go. Did he know about me? Why had mom chosen to go with dad? With such a
bastard and mean man? Had that been why? Or had it been due to the Mother Earth
mating pull.
“Knowing
that do you think your dear old friend, Pride Master King would enforce the
rule.”
Dad was
right. Pride Master King would have to kick me out. No mixed breeds were
allowed in any pride. From what dad had just said, mom had been a human who was
pregnant by a were-wolf before he turned her. Mother Earth, this was a
nightmare. I tried getting to my mom, who stood in the hallway crying and begging
for dad not to tell the pride master.
As I
did, dad grabbed my arm, and slammed me up against the wall. With spittle
flying out he said, “There is two choices. Leave with or without the check.
Leaving without means Pride Master King gets informed. Your choice.” He leaned
in closer and whispered, “What do you think young Tally will think about you
being a damned mixed breed?”
Tally wouldn’t care. Neither would Pride
Master King, but supernatural laws had to be enforced and there’d be no way
around it. There was only one choice.
With
what little breath remained in me, I said, “Check.” Dad’s gripped loosened.
Donna inhaled and said, “May I back a couple bags?”
“Good
decision, Donna.” He released me and motioned to the dresser. “Two bags of only
clothes and two photos.” Dad faced a red-eyed mom and frowned. “Get yourself
cleaned up. You look like a sniveling little brat.”
Mom
shot me one more look, and then scurried off to do as told. Couldn’t hold it
against her. Dad had always been a controlling manipulating bastard and that
wouldn’t change. Apparently, I was reason. My leaving might mean a better life
for her.
NEXT SECTION WILL BE POSTED ON DEC. 22
REMEMBER THIS IS A a work of fiction. All names, characters and events are from the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual events or person is purely coincidental.
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Copyright © Julia Matthews December 201
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