The Secrets of the Panther
Chapter 130

IZZY

As I skimmed over the top, the book was like a diary with a date on each page. I read the story out.

The story begins with an alpha who was mated to a panther, James and Sophia. They were madly in love, which made their mate bond strong, and no one ever questioned their love for one another. Even those opposed them, as they were not the same shifters.

After three years, they had two girls. But the alpha wanted a son, as girls couldn’t be alphas. He and his fated mate kept trying, but his mate couldn’t give him an heir for the alpha position.

The alpha got angry and even pushed his fated mate away. No one knows why he acted like this, but he forced his mate and daughters into a different section of the house.

They believed that the alpha was looking for another to give him a child. Sophia begged him not to and love their daughter endlessly, but the alpha was adamant that he needed a son.

Sophia saw less and less of her mate, but one night she broke down in excruciating pain in her chest as her panther whimpered out that her mate was with another. Sophia was heartbroken. She knew if the woman he was with could bear a son for him, her daughters and she would be gone.

Sophia had to hide her pain from her children as her mate kept going with another woman. This all happened for months until the alpha came to her room with a smile. “I’m going to have a son,” he said to her.

Sophia was heartbroken, and she knew her daughters would suffer more.

As months passed, the alpha moved his mistress into the pack house. Sophia and the daughters were pushed away. The alpha never saw them.

Sophia saw the light in her daughter’s eyes daily, but it was flickering out when their father never visited them.

Deirdre was the apple of his eye when she was born, and he would hold her while he was working. Clara was the same. He loved her dearly, but she was a force to be reckoned with. She was a sassy little thing, but she never showed her emotions.

One day, a servant entered the room Sophia was staying in with her daughters. She was happy to announce that the alpha had his son, but it wasn’t just the one son he had. The mistress gave birth to twins.

Even though it broke her inside, Sophia had to pretend to be happy about it. When the servant left, Sophia knew she had to get her daughters out of the pack. She always thought someone was after her and someone wanted her dead.

One night, it came to light. Clara and Deirdre were nine when they witnessed their mother get brutally murdered by the mistress.

Sophia found out who the mistress was, and it was none other than a woman who was after her mate at the beginning. It was rumored that she used magic to capture the alpha’s heart and gave him what he truly wanted—a son. But she gave him two, which the alpha was more than happy about.

After the birth of her sons, the mistress hunted down Sophia and used a hunter to kill her.

The alpha wanted to spend time with Sophia. So one day, he wanted to take her out into the gardens. Sophia thought something was up as the alpha never came to see her during the months leading to the birth of his sons. But she desperately wanted to see him, as she missed him so much. She made the girls stay in the room as she didn’t want to get their hopes up, but they wanted to watch their parents. They spied on them from their window, directly overlooking the gardens. Both prayed that they would get back together, mainly Deirdre. Clara had suspicions about it, as her father never seemed to be the man she remembered when she was a child.

The girls watched as their parents walked hand in hand, talking. It all looked too good to be true, but the mistress came to them out of nowhere. The alpha leaves their mother, and there is an argument, but neither girl can hear what is said.

The alpha was angry and started shouting at their mother. After a few moments, the alpha walks away from her, leaving their mother with the mistress. Once the alpha was nowhere to be seen, the mistress turned around with something silver in her hand. Sophia never saw it coming as the mistress plunged the knife into Sophia’s heart.

The girls were horrified to witness it and even hid in their room.

Clara remembers wrapping her sister in her arms as she wept for her mother. Clara never cried. She was angry, but she needed to be calm for her sister.

The alpha never came to see them. He sent his servants to watch them, and after a few months, they became attached to one, Rachel. She loved the girls and made sure they were loved. Rachel respected the Luna and never liked how the alpha treated her. It was said that Rachel overheard a few rumors the daughters were next to die. But nothing came of it. The daughters stayed away for years as the alpha played happy families with his mistress and sons.

When the girls were old enough, the mistress entered their room with her spoilt sons at twelve. They trashed everything that they owned.

Everything in the room belonged to their mother. The mistress wanted to eliminate the girls, as they were a constant reminder that the alpha had other children. The mistress dragged the girls out of the room and brought them to the grand hall where most werewolves entertained the alpha.

The alpha was away on business when the mistress did this, but every wolf in the room tormented the girls. They held Rachel back as the torment went on. Deirdre would cry, but Clara would take everything they threw at her. Clara never gave in to her emotions and never wanted to show weakness to the mistress.

When her father returned, he was angry to see his daughters in front of his pack. Clara remembers his father returning with a man who took an interest in Deirdre. Clara never knew what was about to happen until it was too late.

The man wanted Deirdre as his mate; even though she was fourteen, her father didn’t care. Deirdre was taken away and was made to stay with the man that night. Clara was placed in chains and was held in the hall.

That night was the hardest ever; she heard Deirdre’s cries as the man did things to her. Clara didn’t know what the hell was happening to her. She never saw her sister again after that night. She was taken away.

Clara never shed a tear for anything, not even her mother’s death. She kept everything deep down, never thinking about what happened to her; she placed it somewhere it would never be reached.

Clara, still chained in the hall, was the entertainment for everyone. They could do whatever they wanted to her. Clara was covered in scars because some using weapons on her. But she never let them know how much rage she had inside her.

One night, after receiving another beating from a pack member, Clara gained her panther. She was strong but knew she needed to be there for Clara.

Clara never let on that she had her panther to anyone; her panther would heal her after every beating.

One evening, the alpha left and even took the mistress with him. His sons were left in the care of staff while they left. Rachel knew no one would be around and came to the hall. Everyone was out of the pack house, as the alpha ensured no one was there. Rachel helped Clara escape and even went with her; she knew she needed to protect her.

They left the pack and never stepped foot there again.

For the first several years, Clara and Rachel searched for Deirdre. No one knew where she went. But the man had sold her when they came to the pack that held her.

About six years later, Rachel and Clara learned to stay in the shadows as people hunted them. The alpha never searched for Clara, but people were after them, but they were under the mistress’s rule. She wanted Clara dead, as she still had the right to take over the pack.

The hunters never caught up to Clara, but one night, hunters slaughtered blood through a human town. They killed everyone in sight, even Rachel.

Rachel had made Clara escape.

Clara was alone and went deep into the forest on the outskirts of the human town. But she came across a woman who could make her dreams come true. All Clara wanted was revenge for her mother, sister, and Rachel. The people she loved, the woman, could feel her pain and rage running deep throughout Clara.

The woman never gave her name, but she knew the girl and her panther were strong, but the built-up emotions inside them were even more powerful. The woman told her she was a powerful witch and the oldest in the land. She was in hiding as many witches wanted her power as they could to transfer it through her blood.

The woman let Clara stay with her; she trained her and made her feel like part of a family. But good things never happen to Clara for long. A group of witches were coming closer, and the old woman was ready to pass her power onto the next living person she wanted, and she wanted that person to be Clara.

The old woman did a ritual that would bind her power to Clara, which made the ritual work, but the power itself didn’t go as planned. The power was transferred, but it connected itself to Clara’s emotions.

The witch stayed behind to fight off the witches who wanted her dead. With her power transferred to Clara, she fought till her dying breath. Clara avenged her mother by killing the mistress and even her father, but someone caught wind of Clara’s power. A witch and vampire, Nell and Amir, knew they could transfer her power onto Nell.

Clara was staying in between human villages, staying out of sight.

Nell and Amir were looking all over but never found her, but they found her brothers, Claude and Carl. They were looking for their sister, and they wanted her dead. They were older and more ruthless. The alpha taught them everything they needed to know; they were brutal and knew how to torture people.

Clara met a good witch, and she knew she was being hunted. When she read Clara’s energy as the witch could read auras, she realized that the witch that gave her power placed a curse on them.

The witch’s curse said that the person who took her power would pass the power onto a living relative and have the same life as the ancestor. Everyone related to the ancestor would give birth to one of each girl. But it would be tens of times worse. Everything comes with a price, and that was dead set on whoever received the power.

After the meeting with the witch, Clara bumped into a man she found out was her mate, and he was utterly besotted with her. But things were about to change for Clara and her mate.