ROXANNE

The child wasn't here yet. I was six months gone. And to celebrate the unborn child or rather, to celebrate Alpha Alejandro finally expecting a child after so many years, the elders started a tradition of eating breakfast in the Pack House.

It is a tradition where the expectant mother AKA me, is made to eat lots of nutritious food, pack delicacies and also take medicinal herbs in the presence of the moon goddess like they said. It started the moment Alpha Alejandro introduced me to the Pack Elders as a woman pregnant with his child. Thankfully he didn't use the derogatory word he'd used that day in the...