Gossips and whispers followed me wherever I went throughout the pack house. People were eager to see me and then make that face that says ‘are you serious?’ before turning away and engaging in more gossip. Even Peter stopped harassing me. He told me to go rest one day. REST! Can you believe it?
Alarmingly, Lucinda hasn’t contacted me after that dreadful day, but I can sense her everywhere. She is like a spider hovering over me, playing with me, knowing well she can consume me anytime.
Mom on the other hand believed my innocence immediately because she knew I had never crossed paths with Adrian before. She said if I could just lay low for a couple of days, people will forget about this.
So I did.
She was wrong. The rumour became stronger each day.
Peaking from behind a pillar to make sure there was no one outside, I quickly rushed out of the pack house to work, aka clean up the ground.
Just as I reached the ground and rejoiced my tiny sneaking out, someone tapped on my shoulder.
About ten girls surrounded me within a moment, trapping me in the middle. I recognize them, all fellow omegas, staring at me with gleaming eyes.
Crap. Adrian had a crazy bunch of fan girls who sighed at his every move. How could I forget that? My heart rate picked up as I started to stumble back a little, “I- guys… what are you doing?”
“Finally out of the kitchen, huh?” a girl tilted her head to the side, “fond memories. You must be missing them, don’t you?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I said in a trembling, hesitant voice.
“Quit pretending!” a girl jumped out from behind and pushed her way through the circle to get to me. I remember her name is Emily. Her shiny blue eyes sparkled with excitement. It was kind of creepy actually.
“Why were you so shocked? Whom were you expecting to see here so sneakily?” Mina, a girl that was a bit younger than me giggled mischievously.
“I’m working?” I frowned, not getting the meaning.
“Oh come on! We all already know all about you. Stop all this and just spill the deets!”
Oh goodness, is this chaotic mess ever going to end?
“You know? How was he? How did you both end up in the kitchen alone? Who took the first step?” Emily rushed off to spill all the questions.
“It is not like that.” I lifted my hands up in front of them, palms facing them, and explained, “guys…”
“Isn’t this same like those storybooks say?” Aysha muttered with a dreamy look in her eyes, her hands clasped together, “an omega and an alpha meet unexpectedly. Their eyes locked, and then the next minute they are together in the sheets, hooking up again and again…”
“We are NOT hooking up!”
“We all saw it! How wild was it?” Mina asked excitedly, “all those ripped clothes of alpha on the ground and your knees red and swollen… it definitely looked like he had you on his palm.”
“We did not do anything in the kitchen, guys!”
No one listened to me.
“Ooooh… her face was red too. Alpha was definitely on the dominant side.”
“August, you must be shocked right? Was it your first time? It definitely became too much for the first night.”
“Are your knees still hurting? Did he come back for more?”
“Surely!!” Emily flipped around to face me, “speak up! Tell us everything! We are dying here.”
I took a deep breath and dropped my hands, “NOTHING happened between him and me! We just slept because the door got locked!”
“Stop with all the hiding now already. Ayesha whined, “we know what happened and you keep on hiding. Just tell us how it was! Or we’ll never let you leave here!”
I pressed my lips together tightly in order to suppress my scream of frustration. Fine. If this is the only way I can get rid of them then..
“Okay.” I whispered, “I’ll tell you guys only. No one can spill it to another soul, okay? I’ll know it’s you if someone else is talking about it. And I’ll tell Adrian, you know what’s gonna happen, right?”
They all nodded and swore they are gonna keep the secret.
“Okay. Now tell us,” Emily grinned, her hands grabbing mine, “how did Adrian look up close?”
Like the sun.
“He looked alright.” I said nonchalantly, “that jaw is definitely real. His eyes are dark and he did not creep me out by the look on his face so I guess he is okay.”
“OOooooo…” Emily giggled and leaned close, “I heard his ears go red when he is shy. Did it happen?”
“I don’t remember.” I muttered and sat up straight to lean close to the group, “I don’t think he gets shy easily though.”
“Not even when he is naked?” Mina put her hand on her mouth dramatically.
I thought about how proud he was sprawling around the kitchen in all his glory without even a hint of shyness and then muttered, “Yep.”
“Oh my gosh!” everyone snickered, “how are his abs? Does he have six packs or eight?”
Smirking, I said in a hushed tone like I was about to tell them a national secret, “Six-packs. Really, really toned.
Several gasps escaped their mouths. Their eyes glimmering with imagination.
“I wish I was there to see it,” Mina said dreamily.
“Same…” many girls muttered at the same time with a hungry look in their eyes.
Suddenly the dreamy look in their gazes disappeared and they all went quiet. Their eyes were wide and staring at something over my head behind me.
With knitted eyebrows, I turned around and looked up. Lucinda was standing there, her eyes locked with mine.
Fuck. Fuck fuckfuckfuckfuck!
“Is it really appropriate to mention the Alpha family like this?” She is still smiling, but somehow twisted.
Something BAD is gonna happen.
“I’ve wanted to talk to you August,” She said, “Will you come with me?”
Panic grew inside me like lava out of a volcano, sweat covered my forehead. Oh no I have a terrible habit when I’m nervous. I became so tensed and nervous that I felt the food I just had barely half an hour ago rise up to my throat.
Don’t throw up. Don’t throw up.
I slapped my palm on my mouth, and shot out of my seat, “Move!” I barely managed to splutter out while forcefully pushing everyone aside and running toward the sink in the washroom.
Immediately I threw up everything I had eaten.
A girly scream echoed in the hall behind me, “OMG! August is pregnant with Adrian’s baby!”
“I just have the flu or something. I am not pregnant!” I tried to explain hurriedly as I ran toward the group. And somehow it looked even more suspicious.
The stares at me did not change and instead, they all looked at me like they had never seen anyone more pitiful. And I knew why. My heart was pounding like a jackhammer and my mind was in chaos.
Having a fling with Alpha's son is groundless gossip. But being pregnant with alpha blood? I am just an omega! I am like the last one to eat at the table and the first one to be expected to clean up. Alpha is at the level of a king and alpha’s son… a prince.
‘Thud.’
A hard slap fell across my face, making me fall down to the ground with excruciating pain in my cheek. The right side of my face felt numb and pain. I lifted up my face again with tearful eyes at the person standing over me.
Lucinda is freaking losing it.
“Grab this ungrateful vamp and tie her up,” Lucinda growled dangerously. Her hands shivered on her sides in fists and her eyes pinned upon me like she was staring at a pathetic creature.
Guards rushed inside the hall and grabbed me by my arms. Their powerful hands snatched me off the ground in one swift move.
“Stop! I am not pregnant!” I shouted desperately, “it’s all lies.”
“Stuff some rag in her mouth to shut her up.” Lucinda snapped. Her orders were swiftly followed by the guard. They grabbed a dirty rag off the table and forcefully pushed it in my mouth to silence me.
And then as if she decided to recollect her image. “I can not believe you committed such a sin! You don’t care about our pack’s reputation at all, do you?”
“Follow me,” Lucinda said in a barely calm voice and started walking swiftly through the hall. Everyone was a silent spectator to what was being done to me. Their gazes followed me as the guards dragged me out of the hall.
With deeply instilled fear racing through my chest, I saw them take me toward Alpha Bruno’s office.
Fuck!
Alpha Bruno is as traditional as the werewolf rituals go and as strict and stubborn as an ox. I’ve never met him before. But I did hear stories of him banishing an omega who tried to seduce Adrian. Nothing happened between her and Adrian, but the punishment was brutal. No one heard of her again.
A guard knocked on the door. ‘Come in.’ a low serious voice ordered. Lucinda grabbed the handles, pushed open the door, and walked right in.
Alpha Bruno turned around. He was double my size, so it will be easy for him to just snap my neck and throw me away to save his son’s future. His gaze is a dark, dangerous one. One that showed he had seen the world in all its cruelty and now I could be the next victim..
he looked at me and then at Lucinda with a questioning gaze.
Lucinda bowed in front of him in respect before straightening and then whispered in his ears.
The look in Alpha Bruno’s eyes changed within a second. His jaw tightened. His hand grabbed the intercom off the table and pressed a number on speed dial.
“Come to my office,” he muttered to the mysterious one and hung up.
A knock came on the door and the pack doctor, Dr. Jake walked in.
He is a young man who had just joined our pack a few months ago. It was even more embarrassing for me to be examined by someone like him.
“You are the new doctor?” Alpha pinned him under his scrutinizing gaze.
“Yes, Alpha.” Dr. Jake bowed down in respect in front of him and then straightened. His face remained emotionless and plain, waiting for the alpha’s orders.
“What I am about to ask of you shall remain within the walls of this room.” Alpha Bruno said calmly but the threat in his voice was clear. “One wrong word of this out of your mouth to others, you will be expelled from the pack and I don’t need to tell you what happens to discarded rogues, do I, doctor?”
Dr. Jake’s calm expression slipped for a brief moment to be covered by a sense of fear. But he quickly masked it up and replied, “Of course, alpha.”
Alpha Bruno nodded his head in approval and then motioned toward me with his eyebrows,
“Is she pregnant?”
Dr. Jake turned to me. His gaze held insecurity and a hint of fear.
“Stand up,” he said in a gentle voice.
I did not get a chance to follow his words. His arms gripped mine forcefully and painfully, then pulled me up on my feet.
“I need to do a pelvic exam to confirm.” He said out loud.
No! No, no no no no! What the fuck?!
Pelvic Exam?! In front of all these people?!
I stumble back my feet, my legs shaking so hard that I was about to fall down on the ground in fear.
I turned my gaze in Alpha Bruno’s direction. My eyes wide with shock, and my lips barely able to move and plead breathlessly, “Alpha, don’t do this to me here. I- I am begging you. Please.”
“Stop wasting my fucking time!” Alpha Bruno growled out in annoyance at the guards, “get this done. I need its result right now! Adrian can never be tainted with such nonsense!”
I trembled, stumbling back on my feet.
The guards moved toward me immediately following alpha’s command. They snatched my body, ripping my thin t shirt off my body.
“I will go to the hospital room willingly. I will comply! I swear, alpha.” I screamed as the guards grabbed me, my breaths choking, “alpha! Alpha!!!”
One of the guards picked up the dirty rag off the floor and shoved it in my mouth forcefully. Its stink again filled my mouth and nose.
When I could not scream anymore, they snatched me by arms and legs, and dragged me to the couch in the corner like I was an unruly animal threw me on the couch. One of them pinned my upper body while the other one grabbed my legs and ripped the trousers off of my legs. There were so many hands on me, rough palms on my skin.
I spat out the dirty rag with difficulty, terrified screams leaving my mouth immediately, “No! Please! Don’t! Miss! Miss Lucinda, please! I am a girl like you! Don’t let them do this to me. Miss-!”
SLAP!
The guard holding my uppper body hit me across my face. My neck twisted at a angle that it left me aching in terrible pain. My eyes rolled, and a strange ringing started in my ears, leaving me deaf for several seconds.
The guard holding me had said something in a booming voice. It was so obvious that they had ill intentions. Why on earth would they rip off my t shirt for a pelvic exam?
My bra was unhooked and ripped off my chest, my breasts were now bare in front of everyone.
"Oh my… August, since when you haven't changed your panties? How can there be holes? It is not healthy, you know?" Lucinda said in a fake worried tone.
The young doctor walked toward me quickly with his hands covered in gloves. Guard forcefully twisted my leg at a painful angle. I could not scream. I could not even breathe! Tears fell on my cheeks, and my body trembled with fear. With nothing but numbness ringing in my ears, I sobbed with terror covering my chest.
The doctor grabbed my panties, and slipped them off my legs. "I will make it quick." The doctor muttered in a low voice.
I struggled desperately, but the doctor came again. He grabbed my knee and pulled it sideways to expose me.
Suddenly the door to the room slammed open.
Adrian I rushed inside the room hastily. August was pinned on the couch by two men four times her size. She looked devastated. Her face was covered with tears as she fought for her dignity. She looked completely helpless but no one seemed to be bothered by her constant begging and struggles. “Back off!” I snapped and push away those perverts who are busy touching her naked skin.. She is an omega. But she is a girl, for fuck’s sake! “Adrian!” dad’s thundering voice crescendoed in my ears, “Do not interfere. You have already done enough.” I grabbed August’s clothes off the floor and tossing them to her, “Put them on.” She grabbed them immediately and rushed behind the couch to put the clothes back on. When I turned back around, I saw the same guards inching toward the couch, trying to look at her. “Hey, perverts!” their eyes snapped to me immediately, getting caught made them stumble and move away from that place. “Out of here. Right now!” I barked, “and remember to get ten wh
AugustI have never met a more narcissistic person than Adrian! Just because he is the future alpha of the pack, and handsome and nice, and has arms that can wrestle an elephant, he assumes that every girl that sees his ethereal, divine face will fall in love with him?Are you kidding me? I’m not those girls! I don’t even think about his crazily beautiful brown eyes.Sure, Adrian was not as bad as I had thought him to be. He didn’t laugh at me when I made mistakes. He is much more reasonable than his Dad. He has a great smile. And most importantly, though we don’t know each other too well. He still did his best to rescue me from those messes. It would be cherry on top if he is wearing shining armor. Even better if I can be the lucky princess that will live happily ever after with….Wait. What was I thinking??????I’m definitely out of my mind. August, August, remember who you are!I started to sob. My heart aching terribly. And then he started saying soft words in that gentle voice
Brady?I recognized that face. I had seen the redheaded, six feet bloke hanging out with Adrian a million times ever since they were little. They were best friends ever since I knew of their existence. His eyes immediately fell upon my naked form which was barely covered with Adrian’s shirt. His eyes widened for a brief second in shock but then he threw the omega working suit in his hand on me. It looks identical to the suit I was wearing before it turned into strips. My eyes dropped in shame and I tried to hide my body as much as possible.“Wear it,” Adrian muttered and marched over to Brady. Grabbing Brady’s neck from behind he turned him around to face the wall.I took a moment to collect myself. Standing up on my feet, and pinning my gaze on the both of them to make sure they don’t peek at me.None of them made a move to turn and look at me change like a pair of good boys.Grabbing the shirt off the floor, I clutched it tightly in my hand, and breathed deeply before walking up to
‘Don’t tell anyone you have a wolf.’ - this is what Adrian’s note had said. My heart sank. Why did he say that? Is there something wrong with my wolf? But she’s not disabled. I ’d know when I shfited, right? Suddenly I couldn’t be sure of anything. Millions of possible problems rushed to my mind. But it’s not like I can just march over to the alpha’s son and ask for an explanation. I’m at the kitcen. It’s not a safe place to shift and check on my wolf. As much as it was irking me, I decided to focus on the one thing I CAN control right here, right now, and that is- making this cake that Lucinda asked of me.“Make a Tres Leches, she says. Make it quickly, she says.” I muttered under my breath as I preheated the over before making the batter for the cake in a baking pan. I grew up in the kitchen. But I’ve never cooked anything with a heart full of strange and warm feelings. The curves on my lips refuse to be straightened when I thought of him.I remembered the look on his face when h
Immediately I shifted back. I rushed toward the window. Wasn’t it too soon to be attacked by wild animals already? At least let me get a nappy time before I get into trouble again.I looked out the window, saw something, and snapped back immediately.I wished it was a wild animal.I sneaked a glance out again. A man wearing an all-black outfit with his face covered in black cloth was right outside the window. He pushed his hand through the bars, forcing the window to open wide. And that is when his and my eyes met, and I opened my mouth to scream like hell.His hand shot up, his eyes wide in horror as he put a finger over his lips, “Shush it!”My voice got stuck in my throat. This voice was… familiar?“Adrian?” I called out hesitantly.He nodded his head, and pulled down the cover on his face a bit so I could see his face. “What are you doing?! And what are you even doing here?”He leaned closer to the window, “Did you tell anyone about your wolf?”“No.”His face visibly relaxed. “B
For a brief moment my heart had stopped because the pang of pain was so harsh. What was I even thinking? Building up hopes and dreams of being together with the star boy? But it was not me. Definitely not me. This stupid, irritating mate bond must have turned me into something that I would have never acted like. I laughed out loud to make myself believable when I shrugged his words off nonchalantly, “What? Do you think I am thinking that you and I will ever be together? That’s so ridiculous!” He smiled, his hands reached up to my shoulders to shake lightly, “That’s great then! But I would love to be your friend if you want?” Friends? Someone whom I am not allowed to even look into eyes is asking to be my friend? He is a ten and I am basically in the minuses of zero.&nb
“Oh my god!” I quickly brought her arm closer to take a good look at the scratches, “what happened?!”The sight of hundreds of cuts on her thin arm was horrifying. Here I had been crying and sobbing over a boy while she had been suffering without me out there? What happened to her out there when I was laying here like dead thinking nothing worse can happen to me? Guilt was filling my heart.“Just some scratches.” Mom mumbled and tried to pull her hand away from mine.“Mom, these are not ‘some scratches’. I can see them!”“August, it is nothing. Stop worrying about it.”I gri
“What? No!” I said immediately, wide eyed in shock. We had lived here my whole life!“What no?” mom frowned, “I am telling you we are moving. I have already packed everything.”“Why are we moving?” I grabbed a chair, pulling it close so I could sit down before my shaking legs give away. The thought of moving away from here, from everything, and what my heart didn’t let me admit- moving away from Adrian unpleased me. Terribly.The frown on mom’s face deepened, “We are moving because I said so. We have nothing here. A good friend of mine lives in the Redwood pack. Let’s move there. Sometimes a change is all we need to make our lives better, August. We have lived here for so long. I think it is time w