Erika’s POV A loud bang had me jerking up from the bed. Even though I didn’t have the hypersensitivity that I have come to understand that shifters had, from past experiences, I was a very light sleeper. Most importantly, the last two days at this new pack had seemed a bit too peaceful to be true. A part of me had found it hard to believe that my life could go that smoothly. Squinting my eyes, I saw three girls dressed to the tooth and subconsciously, I looked around me to be sure I was still in the right place. Beside me, Anita also sat up with a startle and shot me a glance before looking at the intruders. The omega quarters were built like human dormitories. We had four single beds in this room and up until now, it was just me and Anita. To be honest? I wasn’t looking forward to roommates. It was kind of perfect with just me and Anita. “Who’s the one?” One of the girls standing by our doorway asked and some other girl that I hadn’t noticed before stepped forward.
The last two days had been hell. From the moment that girl had made a call to have people avoid us, everything that had seemed to look surreal had taken a turn for the worse. Every moment, there was only someone there to make my life a living hell. “You have to use your hand to wipe these sinks, there’s no other way around it.” The older woman in front of me said as she shot me a disgusting glance. I nodded and took some soaps. Thankfully, I had gotten sufficient training in the previous pack. Carefully, I washed the sinks and then rinsed my hands. “Who gave you the audacity to wash your hands?” The woman asked, before I could reply, a dirty slap resounded in the room and I could swear that I saw stars. “I… I... I’m done with my tasks for today.” I muttered. I had been up since the break of dawn, and in my mind, I had hoped that I would be able to get my work done before most of the other omegas were ready to work. Since I had my share of work that thankfully didn’t
Erika’s POV As much as I didn’t want her to know, Anita had found out about my hand when the ointment had been sent over, and bless heavens! She was pissed as I had imagined. “We need to let these people know we can’t be bullied like this.” She said and I nodded. At this point, arguing or reasoning with Anita was fruitless. “I think running away is a more feasible option. How can we attack all of them? We are being dealt with by only omegas now and we already can’t stand it.” While most omegas had equaling strength. It was important to know that some of them had a top family and were just unlucky. People like that couldn’t exactly be offended unless their family had rejected them. In some cases, they even got to marry a normal male wolf and would later move into the interior of the pack again. We didn’t understand the dynamics here and didn’t know who couldn’t be offended. There was no way we could actually face them head-on. “Erika..” “Living as a rogue is most likely
Killian’s POV From the moment she walked into the room, everything had changed. This couldn’t be how it felt after rejection. Which made me believe that perhaps, Ciro had been right. This bond between us seemed to still be intact. However, there was a dull ache in there. Just a moment ago, she looked like some scared pet that could run away at any moment, yet, the moment she realized what Ciro had done to her, she had changed into another person entirely. Her eyes blazing with her wild and beautiful hair framing that perfect face. She had every being of me entranced. “You know, little bunny, if you had been willing to talk, I would not have had to use my special ability on you,” Ciro said but I could feel Alek’s anger from how he had addressed my mate. “Ciro.” I growled and it took some minutes for him to understand what just happened. “Bro, I can’t help it when she looks like some fallen Angel right? Besides, you guy’s bond has been broken off and you can’t be with her. Let
Killian’s POV “Don’t you think your reaction to her is too much for a rejected mate?” Ciro asked as soon as he got back from sending Erika back to her room. I had many things I thought I wanted to ask her. Something along the line of if she wanted to leave was also there. Yet, the moment I saw her, all thoughts of that flew out of my mind. “You are overthinking, it’s just Alek being reluctant to part with the fated mate thing.” My reply was curt. I was unwilling to go there even though I knew that he had been right. There was no way the bond between me and Erika was broken. No way. “Are you sure that this is what you want? To lie to yourself? The most important thing about breaking a fated mate bond is your wolf also agrees with you. In fact, the name of your wolf is what is usually used to break it off so how can you say you broke it off and Alek is reluctant now?” Ciro said and I rolled my eyes at him being long-winded. But the wolf’s name was what was used to brea
Erika’s POV The last few days in Killian’s pack could be considered quite peaceful. I had a feeling that he must have done something and even though I wanted to be out of there, I was still grateful that I didn’t have to leave like some criminal. “Let’s go and grab lunch first,” Anita said as she pulled away the knitting pins from my hands. Unlike back in our old pack, the knighthowl pack didn’t use omega for unnecessary labor like washing clothes for spoilt brats and ironing. Instead, everyone picked something they could do to assist the pack and while Anita had decided to join the food production team during the day, I had opted for joining the clothing department. We mended clothes and made brand-new ones on request while the money went into the pack’s account for other things. More importantly, we also got a percentage share of the money and I really couldn’t wait to start selling some of the dresses that I would make. “You can just bring some for me, I don’t want to le
Erika’s POV The sweet smell of food mixed with something herbal and floral flooded my nostrils the moment I woke up and the first thing I did was move my hands. Seeing that I was free, I smiled to myself. Yes, I knew it had to have been a bad dream. There was no possible way that people that had hearts beating in them would do that to a living person. Although I felt a little sore, that was most likely because of all the knitting I have been doing… Shoot! I was supposed to be in the clothes industry... I sat up hurriedly. Yet, the moment I turned, I knew something was wrong. This wasn’t my room. Although this room wasn’t flashy, it was easy to see that it belonged to a man. From the colors to the pants that were hanging on a chair. A man’s room. At the thought that I could be in Killian’s room, I stood up sharply, my nightmare still ringing in my head. Diana had said the next time she saw me with him was my death day. “Hey, I heard movements.” Ciro said as he peepe
Erika’s POV It’s been about a week since the incident happened and to be fair, I think I was doing quite great with dealing with the trauma. Knowing that Ciro had ensured that no one saw my body, and the girls that had been dealing with me had been punished gave me some type of satisfaction that I couldn’t explain. At first, I had been scared shitless at the thought that Diana would come back after finding out that I was with Killian later on but she never did. And as much as I didn’t think this was possible, I was lonely. For the last week, it had felt like Anita had been avoiding me. The very moment I’m back in the room, she’s heading out and when I’m out to get lunch or some other thing, then she’s heading back in. She was totally difficult to get a hold of which made me completely suspicious. Even though I had so many questions, I had as much work as the questions I had. Today was going to be the displaying of the pieces I had made. All through the week, Luke had been