Chapter 6 Declan's breathing grew ragged as he watched the screen . " No ! This memory is wrong . Hazel is definitely lying . " " My sister would never bully anyone . This has to be fabricated . " The live chat exploded again . " How could a memory pulled by the Moon Mirror be wrong ? " " He's so biased ... even now he's defending that liar Helena . " Hearing the pack members ' chatter , Declan fell silent . My father's face had gone hard . " Hazel has her own problems , " he said . " If she hadn't insisted on staying in the pack , Helena wouldn't have treated her like this . " My mother nodded . " Right . Helena even offered her $ 100,000 , and she still refused to leave . " " Ever since she came back to our pack she hasn't once mentioned her adoptive parents . I think Hazel's just climbing , she wants our wealth and that heir status . " " No wonder Helena tormented her . " The pack's discussion burst into noise again . " What ? I can't- I'm literally suffocating . " " They're still blaming Hazel ? My God , I'm going to lose it . " " My heart goes out to Hazel . How did she survive three years in that house ? If I were her I would've taken the money and left . " " Yeah - why didn't Hazel go back to her adoptive parents ? That had to be better than this , " I watched with a bitter smile on my face . Why hadn't I gone back to my adoptive parents ? Because compared to this , that would have been a deeper hell . Declan clearly hadn't understood . He thought he'd found the smoking gun and sneered at me . " Hazel , don't think you're innocent just because people are talking to you . A selfish person like you doesn't deserve to live . Wait until the third memory , you'll be erased . " " You drove Helena to attempt suicide three times . I don't believe you haven't done anything wrong . " With Declan smug and sure , the trial continued . The large screen played the next memory : my father drunk on the floor . At the time , no one else had been in the pack house . The Beta was out running an errand , my mother was visiting another pack , and Declan was at an Alpha meeting up North . It had been only Helena and me , while my father lay unconscious on the floor . The next morning , he had woken up clean and tucked into bed . Helena had been there the whole night , holding a towel , worn out from worry . He had been moved to tears by her care . At the same time , he felt nothing but disgust for me , his other daughter , who had slept soundly in her own room , seemingly indifferent . He hadn't scolded me then ; he had simply resigned himself to the idea that I could never truly belong . What turned resignation into fury was his belief that I had secretly hurt Helena . Later , he walked into the kitchen and found me there , apparently pinning her down and slapping her face . All Helena had wanted was to offer me a lollipop . Chapter 6 R ReelShort 60.00 % " Dad , why did Hazel hit me ? " Helena had said . " I just thought you were sick and felt so sad . Eating a lollipop would make me feel better . I wanted to give one to Hazel , too . If she didn't want it , why hit me ? " My father had looked at me with hate in his eyes . " Because she's bad . She's rotten to the core . " Then he kicked me hard , I hit the floor and couldn't get up . Even after he punished me , Helena was terrified . That very night she tried to kill herself by taking an overdose . In the note she left , she wrote that being hit by me had left so deep a shadow that she didn't know how to please me . She was terrified , convinced that her very existence had caused my twisted behavior . She said she was willing to die to atone for her sins , only hoping everyone else would be okay . Luckily , my mother , who always said good night to her , found Helena in time and rushed her to the pack hospital . Utterly disappointed , the family decided that the pack court would be more appropriate for me than the pack psychiatric hospital . They wanted me to admit my wrongdoing in front of everyone , then atone with my life . The scene ended . Declan's eyes flashed with the certainty of a man who thought the verdict was settled . " Hazel , what are you going to say now ? Not only are you ungrateful , you hit someone . You were rotten to the core all along . " " This isn't the first time you forced Helena to try to kill herself , it's the third time ! " " You evil thing , just wait ! You'll be erased . " But the pack's reaction wasn't unanimous . " I think there's more to this . " " Exactly . I can't trust that liar Helena anymore . Let the Moon Mirror slap her down . " I let out a bitter laugh and closed my eyes . I thought , Declan , I wasn't the one rotten to the core . Why wouldn't he believe me ? As if on cue , the Moon Mirror contradicted him again . " After a comprehensive cross - check of the facts , the defendant Hazel was still not guilty of bullying , " it declared . Declan went slack with surprise . Just as he opened his mouth to object , the Moon Mirror lit up once more and began to play a memory from my point of view .