Werewolf’s Heartsong

Chapter 17

Sarah’s POV

Mom and Dad had dragged me to the Principal’s office. This was not where I wanted to spend my break, but my parents were determined to get that girl to change her name back. I didn’t want her to; she had tried to steal Matthew from me. Why should I want her to change her name? I said as much to my mother, and she turned around and slapped me. Me! Her precious Princess!

“Why?” I asked.

“Because of you and your sister, we’re about to lose all the respect we’ve worked for in this family. Mason’s family is about to be promoted because he is now listed as the strongest wolf of the Northmountain Clan,” she snarled.

This caused me to pale. “Why would that matter?” She slapped me again for my question. “Because you are now the lowest-ranked fighter of the Northmountain’s!” she shrieked, “And your sister, who is now First Rank of the Alpha class, the child who can support our status, has severed her ties to the Northmountain’s by changing her name.”

I was shocked. “Why didn’t you tell me this?” She looked at me in fury. “I did, every time I told you that you had to be better than your sister!” We stood around in the office. It was ten minutes before the Principal showed up. He didn’t look surprised to see us.

“What can I do for you?” he asked my mom after he was seated behind his desk.

“I understand that my daughter has changed her last name to Heartsong. We’re here to have it changed back,” her tone was sharp. This was all that girl’s fault; my mother never treats me like this. I’m her Princess! I’ll make that girl pay for this.

Maybe I’ll cut her face off and give it to Matthew as a gift, since he kept staring at her instead of paying attention to me. He was mine! She can’t have him! I’ll make her bleed, make her hurt for this. Maybe I’ll pay some human males to have their fun with her before I cut her face off. I’ll make her beg for death, but I’ll keep her alive to torment her further.

I’ll keep her chained up and have my fun with her. If someone makes me angry, I’ll just go to the basement and torture her. She’ll suffer for breaking my spell over Matthew. I’ll have to ask the Witch how she did it and get another sachet. I was snapped out of my internal planning when the Principal said my name. I tuned back in to what they were saying.

“As far as I know, Sarah is still registered as a Northmountain,” he told my mother. Pointing at me, she shrieked, “Not her!” She then threw her hand up in the air. “My other one, the brown-skinned one with the purple eyes and black hair!” she snarled.

“Oh! You must mean Alora!” he said brightly with a smile, then frowned at my mother. “I was under the impression that she was an orphan that the Alpha and Luna had taken in,” he said to her.

“WHAT?!” Just when I thought I had yelled that out loud, I realized it was in my mother’s shrieking tone as she continued, “What would give you that idea?!” still shrieking. I felt like my ears were going to bleed. Just one more thing that girl needs to pay for. I’ll have to bust her eardrums, let her feel my pain.

“The Alpha and Luna are the ones who have signed off on and filled out all of her school enrollments, as well as her permission into an accelerated education, and her entry into a special educational program.” He paused to take a breath and continued while my head tried to wrap itself around the information we were being given.

“The Alpha is also the one who had all her registration paperwork changed to reflect her new surname as soon as it was changed. She was 18, so legally allowed to change her last name. Her blood work confirming her as a descendant of the Heartsongs has allowed her to have Heartsong as her chosen surname.” He paused again before dropping another bombshell. “Oh, and her being the only she-wolf with the Heartsong surname, and possessing a crescent sun and moon marking, has allowed the Alpha to have her named as the Alpha Female of the Heartsong Clan and the title officially put into the Pack Records.”

He looked at each of us, taking in our expressions, before directing his gaze back to my mother. “The only way her name can be changed back is if she consented and was sworn by blood to the Alpha with the name change. As she is the one who filled out the request for the change in the first place, I don’t think she will change it back.” My mother was practically seething in rage at this. “Also, after the exams are finished, she will be receiving her doctorates from the University. She will be made a lead research Doctor, assigned her own team of researchers at the Pack’s Lab,” then shocking us even further. “As a Clan Alpha Female and a Doctor, this will make her more than just a Noble in the pack.”

No! This couldn’t be! How could this be?! All my plans, they’re slipping through my fingers! There has to be some kind of mistake! No! I won’t accept it! She will pay for my pain somehow! My mother asked if the Principal could get Alora here using the Loud Speaker. He told her no. Since Alora is 18 and a registered Alpha Female of the Pack, Mom has no parental rights over her anymore.

Mom then grabbed my arm, painfully, and dragged me out of the office. I have to be able to make that girl pay for this humiliation! Mom took us into an empty classroom and called Alora. I didn’t pay attention to what she was shrieking at Alora when she finally picked up. I didn’t care; I just wanted to take my anger out on someone.

Wait...she still has to come back to the house. I could find a place away from the house to hold her. There was Granddaddy’s old place in the mountains. It’s been abandoned since he and Grandmommy died. There were no neighbors close by, and it wasn’t that far from here. I didn’t know why we didn’t live there.

I knew there was a trust set aside that paid to have the place taken care of, but that didn’t explain why we didn’t at least holiday there. I remember that there was a large basement the size of the house. There was an insulated wine cellar that would be soundproof; that’s where I could stash her. As though summoning it forward with my thoughts, Mom suddenly started talking about it.

“The House Allister, the one in the mountains!” she yelled. “In father’s will, the house would go to the daughter with the Crescent Moon and Star mark. If no daughter of mine is gifted with this mark by the time the youngest is twenty-one, then ownership will revert to me!” she yelled.

“The will is registered in the Pack records, and now so is she with her mark! That means she owns the Heartsong Mansion and all the surrounding thousand acres!” she was shrieking now.

“That land was the first seat of power for this Pack. Everything on that land is historic and extremely valuable. By bringing that to the family, I would have been able to make us head of the entire Clan, and we’d be the richest wolves in the Pack!” she was practically frothing at the mouth now.

What’s happening? How can this be happening?! She gets everything?! Why?! She’s just a blight! A mistake! An ugly, worthless wretch! How can this be happening?!

“The only way we’ll get the house now is if we force her to sign it over to us.” Those words from Mom had me tuning back into their argument.

“How will she sign it over if she doesn’t know about it?” asked Father. “Maybe if we keep silent, she won’t be able to take ownership of it,” he suggested.

Mom scoffed at him. “You don’t think the Alpha is very aware of that will?” she spat at him. “It was where the First Alpha ruled our Pack; centuries of Alphas owned that house, all Heartsongs.” She informed us. “Then the powers shifted here or there, and now the Alpha House is on Moorstar land.” Giving us a history lesson. “Now with that wretch owning that house, she’s not only going to be a Noble in just name only.” She laughed ruefully. “I bet he’s waiting till she graduates before telling her about it,” she said.

With this information, I realized keeping her for a long time before I kill her is no longer an option. We’ll need her to turn up dead soon, before we lose our status officially, so I’ll only be able to keep her a week. I’ll start tonight, and I’ll let her know just how close she was to escaping. I’ll let that tear into her soul as I torture and torment her.

I won’t have long, so I’ll make the best of it. That thought calms me down and makes me smile inside again. I’ll have my fun and get my revenge. Mom will never be able to be mad at me anymore, and Matthew will never lust after that girl ever again!