The Wrath Of The Shadow Wolf

Riona’s jaws dropped as she listened to her dad speak. She could not believe what she was hearing. All of these could definitely not be coming from him, she thought. Where was the love that he never stopped professing for her mum?

When Riona got the news of the mum’s death, she had feared that a day like this would come when her dad would forget about all the love that he shared with her mum. But then, her dad had acted so well that she had to dismiss the thought as only a figment of her imagination.

She had seen how the home of a couple of her friends got torn apart immediately they lost their mum and their dads soon got themselves a new wife and gradually transferred the love for them to the new wife and the kids they had together.

She had sworn to herself that her dad was different and would not act like the dads of her friends. But no, she was wrong all along as he seems to be exactly like the rest.

When she could not take it anymore, she burst into tears and ran up the staircase.

Wright could not understand what had triggered Riona’s reaction. He looked at her as she ran, and he decided not to go after her. He believes had been soft on her for too long and it is about time that she is left to face reality.

To Wright, Riona should be allowed to grow up and to understand that things would not always go her way. Yes, he knows he owns it as a duty to make her happy, but it is high time she realized that others around her deserve some level of happiness too.

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Riona ran and opened the door to her mum’s room and entered. She fell down on the bed and was sobbing.

After a while, she sat up and looked at the door. She was wondering why her dad had not run right after her as he had always done.

She got up and went to put on the light in the room. As soon as she did, she discovered a necklace of her mum lying on the floor of the room. She bent and picked it and she remembered what led to the necklace being on the floor.

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Riona was alone in her mum’s room on that Friday afternoon. She was holding her mum’s necklace and standing in front of the dressing table. She tried on the necklace and then looked at herself at the mirror in front of her. She saw that the necklace fitted her so perfectly and she was happy.

“Okay, when next I go out with mum, I am going to ask for this rare piece of jewelry” she said as she admired herself in the mirror.

“And when will mum be discharged from the hospital? I just can’t wait to have her with me once again” She lamented.

Riona had wondered why her mum was not back from the hospital yet. She had only gone to see her on the second day of her being admitted into the hospital. Her dad assured her that there was no need to keep visiting her mum as she would soon be discharged from the hospital and would then come back home to her.

At first, Riona refused to listen to her dad’s excuse and had insisted on going to visit her in the hospital regardless of how long she was going to stay. And to make her agree to him, Wright had further explicitly assured her that her mum would remain on admission in the hospital for just one week and that the doctor said that it was not safe for Riona to visit. And just so she could please her mum, Riona had agreed to the arrangement.

mirror and it was very obvious that she

this sent a cold chill to her. But

but her phone that was on the bed

her phone screen, the call

daddy” she said before she picked the

dad’s promise of her mum only staying in the hospital for a week, she had remained in the hospital for ten days now. Wright had promised to take Riona to go see Evolette today and Riona on her part had made up her

to her, as he had been doing that for the past

“Hello daddy”

on the other end of the receiver, so she continued

daddy, is that you daddy?”

was

daddy, hello” she said once

was not hearing what her dad was saying as

of poor network, or was his phone faulty. However, since she was unable to ascertain what might have been the cause for such, she resolved on putting the phone back on the bed

stretched to her limit and might explode if her dad tries to play games with her this time

to go and pick it up and place it back from the box where she had taken it

just as she stooped to pick up the necklace from the floor so as to return it back to the box she

expecting anyone just yet. Actually, the only person that she should be expecting right now

once again abandoned the necklace and went out to see who was at the door and what the person’s mission was. Little did she know that she was willingly going to receive that news that would tear her world apart and

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saw that it was her dad that

like you were not hearing me. Was it

as that would only mean one thing, which was that in a couple of hours, she would be standing in front

noticed that her dad had not responded to all that she had said, so she decided

he was looking pale, she had never seen him this weak and sad before and

house as he had been standing outside all along and that was when she noticed that there were two other

reason for their visit, and why they were with her dad but since she was yet to uncover the mystery behind her dad’s sudden terrible disposition, she decided to completely ignore them as they

to go sit on the couch while he

I have to break this news to you