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Daughter’s Regret After Telling the Truth

Daughter’s Regret After Telling the Truth

Short Story · Werewolf
By:  MagnoliaCompleted
Language: English
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Feel-Good Story

Plot Twists

Familial Bond

Girl Power

Hypocrisy

Child

Karma

Face Slapping

Family Emotions

My daughter Lyra believed the Moon Goddess had given our kind one virtue above all others: honesty. So she never told a single lie. I put on a newly bought lipstick and turned in front of the mirror. "Sweetheart, does Mommy look pretty today?" She glanced up at me. "Honestly, Mommy, you were ugly to start with, and that color only makes it worse." One evening I was scrambling around the kitchen while my mother-in-law scolded me for not being able to cook a decent meal. I asked Lyra, "Grandma says Mommy's useless. Does that upset you?" She kept stacking her blocks. "Honestly, I'm actually glad you're getting scolded." That night, while my husband read her a bedtime story, he asked whether she would take care of me when I was old and could no longer walk. She thought it over seriously, then rolled onto her other side. "No way. A useless wolf should just go off and die on its own." Something in me went cold. She only grinned. "But I'm just telling the truth." Later, when a caseworker from the Pup Welfare Council came to register us for the census and asked Lyra a few routine questions, she insisted on telling nothing but the truth. This time, though, it was a truth she would regret for the rest of her life.

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Chapter 1

Chapter 1

As werewolf birthrates kept falling, the law had grown more protective of our pups than ever before.

The latest welfare ordinance required the Council to register every pup by name, to stop packs from snatching one another's young.

When the Council caseworkers made their rounds to our house, my seven-year-old smiled and blinked up at them. "Why do you come and look after us?"

One of the caseworkers warmly scooped her up.

"To keep all the little pups in our pack safe, sweetheart. To make sure no bad people trick you away from your mom and dad."

Lyra nodded, looking thoughtful. "But the bad person you're talking about is my mommy. A few days ago she told me herself that she snatched me from another pack."

The caseworker's face changed at once.

I stared at Lyra, at the flash of smugness in her eyes, my mind buzzing.

Lyra had always loved her little "truths," the kind that left me hurt and humiliated.

Yesterday, when I wouldn't let her play on the phone before bed, she called me wicked and said she didn't want to be my daughter.

I'd been angry myself. "You're right, you're not my daughter. I snatched you from another pack."

I never imagined that today she would take those angry words as "the truth" and repeat them to the inspectors at our door.

"Please don't worry. She's just been acting up lately. I only said those harsh words out of anger, never thinking she'd take them to heart."

I gave an apologetic smile and explained as patiently as I could.

The caseworker relaxed and smiled at Lyra.

"Little one, that's not something to joke about. Even an Alpha or a Luna has to face the High Court if they break the law."

Lyra nodded obediently, as if she understood.

But the next moment, with the most sincere face, she asked a question.

"But my mommy can't have pups, so I can't really be her own, can I?"

The caseworker looked at me with eyes full of suspicion.

Embarrassed, I tried to explain.

"I was injured when I gave birth to her. What she means is that I can't have any more. That's all."

I pulled Lyra back from the caseworker and tugged her hand, signaling her to stop.

"Mommy really does love to lie," she said, her voice neither loud nor soft.

"Mommy and Daddy both carry Alpha blood, so how could they ever have an Omega like me? Besides, they only got mated five years ago, and I'm already six—"

In a panic, I clapped a hand over Lyra's mouth, the hair on the back of my neck standing on end.

The caseworker's expression turned cold and grave.

"Luna, I'm sorry, but you'll have to show us this child's birth registration."

My breath caught.

The truth was, we had no birth registration for Lyra at home.

Five years ago, during a fight with another pack, I had taken her from her birth parents' hands.

When the border guards pulled up her birth parents' records, every single one of them couldn’t help feeling pity for the girl.

Once my husband and I learned the whole story, it weighed on us too.

One thing was certain: if the child were sent back to her birth parents, the little pup would likely never live to grow up.

So I simply proposed to my husband that we adopt her.

We would raise her at my side and bring her up healthy and beautiful.

All I had was her adoption record.

Lyra knew those had only been words said in anger.

What she didn't know was that they were also the truth.

I had never meant to tell her the truth; I only ever treated her as my own.

But if I kept hiding it now, the caseworker might really take me before the High Court.

Just as I was about to explain, Lyra suddenly cried out.

"Oh, I understand now. Mommy got pregnant before she and Daddy were even mated. How shameless. Hee hee."

Hearing Lyra's words, I froze where I stood, a deep chill spreading through me.

And seeing that she'd wounded me, she couldn't keep the excitement off her lips.

"Mommy, I only told the truth to help you. Please don't be angry with me."

The caseworker's gaze settled on me, complicated, even as her hand kept noting things down.

"Luna, perhaps there's been some misunderstanding. We'll stop here for today."

For a few seconds, while no one was watching, I clutched the hem of my shirt and forced the tears back down.

This was not the first time Lyra had said such things.
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11 Chapters
Chapter 1
As werewolf birthrates kept falling, the law had grown more protective of our pups than ever before.The latest welfare ordinance required the Council to register every pup by name, to stop packs from snatching one another's young.When the Council caseworkers made their rounds to our house, my seven-year-old smiled and blinked up at them. "Why do you come and look after us?"One of the caseworkers warmly scooped her up."To keep all the little pups in our pack safe, sweetheart. To make sure no bad people trick you away from your mom and dad."Lyra nodded, looking thoughtful. "But the bad person you're talking about is my mommy. A few days ago she told me herself that she snatched me from another pack."The caseworker's face changed at once.I stared at Lyra, at the flash of smugness in her eyes, my mind buzzing.Lyra had always loved her little "truths," the kind that left me hurt and humiliated.Yesterday, when I wouldn't let her play on the phone before bed, she called me wicked and
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Chapter 2
Every year, in the pack's official vote, I was named the most beloved Luna in the pack, yet none of it made Lyra the least bit proud.I asked her, "Isn't Mommy impressive?"Lyra tilted her head and answered with perfect bluntness."Not really. All you do is make other people work and snap at me."I froze. Her eyes had curved into little crescents, her mouth full of smugness, and I said:"When you say that, it really hurts Mommy."She only said proudly, "The Moon Goddess says honesty is a wolf's finest virtue. Good children don't lie."I didn't know how to argue with that, and it left me uneasy.Logically, a child should feel attached to the elders who raised her so carefully, should instinctively take her mother's side, but Lyra was different.Over summer break, I took her to the International Junior Wolf Games.Others looked at the two of us and sneered. "That girl was the last one picked for the team, and she barely scraped through the fitness test. If another girl hadn't come down w
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Chapter 3
After the caseworkers left, Lyra sat down on the couch and stole glances to see whether my eyes had gone red.When I showed no reaction, her little face fell.I couldn't help asking, "Why did you say Mommy trafficked you?"Lyra pouted, full of righteous certainty."You're the one who said you bought me. I only told the mister and miss what you said. I'm a good, honest girl. My teacher says we can't lie."Now I was certain she had done it on purpose.Her whole aim was to make my own people and the Council look at me with those suspicious eyes.I forced myself calm and asked her again."And if Mommy took you back from other bad people, and your birth parents weren't good wolves either, so Mommy never returned you to them, would you still call the people at the Council and have them take Mommy away?"Lyra nodded without the slightest hesitation."Of course I would. Mommy, I'm a good girl who tells the truth."I went rigid where I stood, a ringing in my ears.My husband had come back at so
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Chapter 4
When he learned the matter involved me, the Council Head came to the house himself with a team in tow."Luna, we received a call. The caller said that you—"Lyra cut the Head off, burrowing into his arms with her face streaked with tears, and pointed at me in fear."Mommy is a bad woman, a trafficker. She said she kidnapped me."No one noticed the triumphant glint in Lyra's eyes.On her face was that smugness of someone who could once again humiliate me under the banner of "just being honest."The Head signaled that I needed to keep my distance from the child.When he spoke, his tone was polite but full of authority."I must ask you to open the safe and let us take a look."My husband kept his face cold, holding back the overwhelming Alpha pressure that wanted to escape.The Head looked at us apologetically, sensing our reluctance.Then he simply motioned for the caseworkers behind him to force the lock.I looked at Lyra. "Lyra, hasn't Daddy been telling you these past few days that it
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Chapter 5
"Mommy, where are you sending me? I'm your own daughter!"The smile could no longer hold on Lyra's face.When I didn't react, she ran over to look at the file.There were too many words she couldn't read, but she made out the photographs clearly, and her expression turned grave."Who are they? They look so mean and cruel. Mommy, I don't like them."The Head, wanting to smooth things over, crouched down with a pained look to explain."Sweetheart, these are your birth parents."Lyra's little mouth parted, and then, as if she'd remembered something urgent, she whipped her face around."Mommy! You're the Luna. Whatever you say, these people will do. I was only being honest with you, and you can't take the smallest joke. If you're this angry, then maybe you really did sell me, and you're the one who ought to be a rogue."Lyra hurled her questions at me one after another, and not one of them stirred the faintest ripple in my eyes.I only watched her quietly, the way I'd watch a stranger."No
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Chapter 6
The couple who had come were Lyra's birth parents, both of them low-blooded Omegas.A centipede-like scar lay across the man's cheekbone, making his sunken eyes look all the more sinister.The woman had a round face and a heavy build, but a pair of small, nimble eyes.The moment they stepped through the door, their eyes slid around the room.By the look of it, they were tallying up the furnishings and pricing everything out.Only once they'd seen enough did they turn their attention to Lyra."I remember you two. You're the ones who adopted our Roxy."The heavy woman pulled Lyra in front of her and began sizing me up from head to toe.Realizing how outmatched she was, she swallowed and worked up the nerve to speak."Back when you adopted her, didn't you say your family was struggling? Looks to me like you're living comfortable now."A fine sweat beaded at her temples, even with the air conditioning blowing cool air straight at her.Yet she seemed not to feel it, and only after a while d
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Chapter 7
The scarred man stared the two of us down.He had no idea that with a flick of a finger we could drive them out of the pack entirely."You raise the brat when it pleases you and dump her when it doesn't. You came to adopt our Roxy dressed so plainly, we figured you had no money. Turns out you're loaded. So hand over a hundred thousand, and be quick about it.""Who do you think you are, talking to us like that?"My husband shot them a vicious glare.Perhaps it had been a misjudgment of mine, years ago, to set up that rescue post along the border.I should have exiled wolves like these long ago.When we adopted Lyra, we'd gone to their home to sign the papers.The whole place was bare, nothing in it but two old wooden cots and a single iron pot.I could see the marks of drug use on the man, and I knew neither of them lived an honest, decent life.Their pups, from nine years old down to barely six months, were every one of them thin as kindling.Sensing my bloodline, the two of them put o
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Chapter 8
I couldn't help recalling something from half a month before.She already had a watch exactly like it, but she'd wanted the newest model, which had only one new feature.I hadn't wanted to buy it, so she'd thrown a fit for it.In the end I gave in, telling myself a daughter should want for nothing, and bought it after all.Yet because I hadn't bought it on the spot, she held it against me for days and went around telling all sorts of people,"Honestly, my mommy is so stingy. She's an Alpha, and she still can't afford to buy me things?"But the daughter before me now had not a trace of that pampered, willful child left in her.Her face was covered in wet streaks of tears, her little face pale with fright.One small hand reached desperately toward me, flailing."Mommy, save me. Please save me."I turned and spoke to the caseworkers."I never abused her. Every month, beyond her tuition, I paid for her extracurricular classes as well. As for the potions, she's a mixed-blood Omega; only a w
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Chapter 9
Sick of the noise, the scarred man grabbed her by the leg and hauled her up.Then he brought a hand down across her face."You're deafening me. Shut your fucking mouth."I listened to Lyra's words, and all I did was slide open the little window in the door."I stopped counting on you long ago. You said it yourself, that I'd die sooner or later. Don't you remember?"Lyra seized on a thread of hope and said quickly,"Mommy, I only said that to make you angry. It wasn't my truth."My voice held no warmth."I know."Then I spoke with a smile."But it was your truth, wasn't it? Have you forgotten? I still remember. You told me you were the kind of child who loved the truth best of all."She'd meant to fling some vicious line back, but it had never crossed her mind that I simply no longer cared.Those sharp words of hers were all stuck in her throat now, impossible to spit out and impossible to swallow.Lyra didn't want to go, and the heavy woman didn't seem to want to take a daughter home e
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Chapter 10
The next day I went to the Temple of the Moon Goddess.With Lyra gone, the house had grown tidy, and the stifled feeling I'd carried so often eased a great deal.With the witch's potions and the Moon Goddess's blessing, I at last conceived a child.My brother had been all too eager to take the Alpha title for himself, but now there was no need.Ten months later, a new pup was finally born.It was a lively little girl.Holding this little girl with my own eyes and brow, I couldn't hold back my tears.The Moon Goddess named her Phoebe.Our daughter grew little by little, and soon seven years had gone by.She was about to start primary school.As always, I drove her to and from school.By chance I heard that the border community had grown restless.Seeing there was still time, I hurried over to take a look.A clamor of voices spilled out of the neighborhood.A moment later, a young woman was shoved out into the open by an older one."Pfft. Coming around to poach my customers day after day
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