Chapter 34 - The Final Decision

>Yohan

Maya’s been having nightmares every night but still can’t remember anything. My only deduction was the logical part of her was still making her forget. Afterall, her memories were sealed for seven years, so of course it’ll take some time for her to actually remember.

Unless.

I sighed.

Unless, she comes in contact with another trigger.

It took me a lot of courage to come to the decision to let things be. In fact it takes the same amount of courage every single day since she wakes up every morning scared as hell. Seeing her hurt, hurts me.

I’m worried about her but if I give her the ring back there would be no point of all of this. We’ll go back to point zero.

But I’m glad, when she’s finally up she gets back to normal. The rest of the day is peaceful and normal but I can’t help but feel a bit guilty. It’s my choice after all.

I sighed. Honestly, I might have given the ring back but after seeing what triggered her memories I just can’t. I can’t shake off the feeling that something is wrong and it’s related to my family.

Although at the same time I’m scared of finding out the truth, I just can’t live a lie and I’m sure no one wants to live with false memories. I’ve always believed that my father hadn’t done anything wrong but after visiting Quincy my faith is wavering. His words keep bugging me. Although as my father’s son I know I shouldn’t be like this but since Maya is involved I’m ready to take the risk.

I smiled nervously.

Even though I say that. Am I really?

I already read the details on Maya’s case and how her parents were killed by an untamed wolf pet of a person.

The report said the man, coal, was mentally unstable and had recently gotten a wolf as a pet. He was also on a trip to the northern lands where Maya’s family was staying during the winter vacations to enjoy some family time but not only had the man forgotten to feed his pet, he also didn’t tie it down. So the wolf went on a rampage and ended up killing the people living in the nearest private hut to feed itself.

The mother died trying to protect the kids from the wolf and when the owner came back to get his wolf he realized it was already dead. In a fit of anger he killed the already injured father but the eldest daughter shot coal with the gun his father kept under the bed for emergencies. It all happened in the heat and confusion of the situation but still Maya was charged with murder. She didn’t have to serve any sentence since it was ruled out as self defence and the fact that coal was the cause of her parents death was also taken into consideration. Moreover she was only thirteen at that time so she was only subjected to therapy.

Maya, along with her three year old little sister, Nena were later taken in by an anonymous rising novel writer who volunteered to take care of them.

If any human read this report, it would seem like a very unique story and a very unfortunate event but the story seems too suspicious to me.

How can a mentally unstable person have an untamed wolf as his pet? You need special permits for keeping wild animals as pets and an unstable person would never get that yet coal did.

Does that make sense to anyone? Well not to me.

Moreover he took the wolf to a vacation house in the north. The forest there is the running ground to many werewolves.

And finally there is no mention of my step-mother here but she was definitely the trigger for Maya so I know the story was manipulated. Well, any incident involving werewolves is changed to make it seem normal. So I know this one definitely was.

That is why I asked Ruiz to investigate the incident secretly.

I clenched my fist.

And that is why. I’m even more scared to find out the truth.

If, it really were werewolves that killed her parents then she would really hate me, wouldn’t she?

And if my family really was involved in it. I don’t think I would have the courage to face her ever again.

I’d understand if she would reject me.

I would reject me too. I laughed awkwardly.

I sighed.

Although, the chances seem low. I hope it isn’t like that.

I hope the story really is like how it’s written in the report.

At least then I’ll have the argument of being different from a normal wolf.

Right?