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Chapter 31
[Valerie]
** Six Years Ago **I had often wondered why it took as long as it did for my wolf to come. I was already well past my seventeenth birthday, and was the only one in the pack who remained there without a wolf.Garrett - the jock of Pleasant Hill High - was giving Mateo hell for his decision to keep me there. The Beta seemed to hate my guts, and probably hated the Alpha more than that. I had no idea why he looked at me as if he’d punch my face if I said something wrong, but I kept my distance and said nothing for my own safety.Mateo was preparing to leave for college, and it worried me more than I thought it would. It felt as though I was losing my best friend, who had proved that I could trust him with my life when he kept my secret safe - from the pack and from his own parents.Even though I only knew the vague details of my birth, I was well aware that I was never born to be a part of the Shadow Hunters pack. Which is why I accepted my fateRelated chapters
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[Alexander]I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I pushed off the chair, hearing it fall behind me, and kept sceptical eyes narrowed on the witch leader. I was trying to process, trying to find a loophole in what she said.“She led you to her pack! She led you to her Alpha.”“I read her palms before she did any of that. She is of Alpha blood, Alexander.”Alpha blood? How was that possible when Valerie was an Omega?“She told me herself!” I defended her. “She is an Omega of her pack. She led you to them to climb up the ladder. It’s not possible.”“Oh, but it is,” Elena said calmly, “She just doesn’t know it yet.”“Why are you keeping here?”Elena stood up gracefully, as if she was floating instead of standing on her own two feet and beckoned me to follow her. I wasn’t sure if she had some kind of an effect on me - after all, she was a w
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[Valerie]** Five Years Ago **For my best friend, I endured even more of the bullying. Not just because I knew he was there to protect me and defend me every time someone crossed a line, but because I loved being around him. His Beta stopped pairing up with him to go around impressing Selena, so Mateo and I partnered up on these hunts.A year after my wolf came, Mateo taught me everything there was to learn about the “perfect hunt”. How to train my breathing so that I barely made a sound, how to walk, how to prowl, how to run faster than any other animal out in the woods. Running was the hardest part for me - not because I couldn’t do it all, but because I was smaller than the rest and always ended up being left behind. Mateo showed me how to use my size to my advantage and to the disadvantage of my prey, and become a nimble werewolf with a tiny frame.They never did stop teasing me. From pack meetings to our last year in high school, I was alw
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[Alexander]I was determined to see Valerie one last time before I left. The witches seemed pleased to know that I was willing to give up my pack and myself, and I was just pleased that it meant my Valerie could be free from them.As I stood in the witches’ house, waiting on their leader, I thought about what it meant to give ourselves up. I knew I wouldn’t be able to tell Adam about the deal I just made. I would just tell him to stay at home, where he was safe. If there was one thing I did know was that these witches craved power, and would target Adam as soon as they knew he was my Beta. No. He’d be better off at home, with his wife Amelia and their daughter Ava.It pained me to think about what I was giving up for Valerie’s life. Not my own - I hardly cared what would happen to me - but the lives of the five werewolves the witches would choose. Each member had a family, had a life outside of this, and I felt like the villain in my own story.
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[Valerie]There was movement outside the door, and I stirred awake, wondering who could be there. Alexander left hours ago, and as much as I tried to call out to him, or call out to anyone to come down, no one came. Even Layla, who had suffered much more than I did because she was considered a traitor, laid unconscious on the ground and barely moved after I managed to feed her the vegetable soup when Elena was done with us.The slices on my back stung as if I’d been attacked by a thousand bees. I had to take my bra off, and used it to tie a terrible wound on Layla’s arm when she was bleeding out too much. Luckily, the bleeding stopped, but I knew her pain didn’t. There was no way out of this dungeon, and the dull light ahead was flickering as if it would die too. It seemed to match the way Layla was breathing sporadically, and I wished there was something more I could do.I found an old blanket and used it to cover Layla’s beaten body. The horr
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[Alexander]One week. The witches had given me one week to gather my pack and have them ready for the scalping. I too had to mentally prepare myself for the most horrific death any werewolf had to endure.It was a tough decision to make, and as the days passed, it only became tougher on my head, like leaded weights being carried on my shoulders. I was finding it hard to concentrate, and the only thing I could think of was the ones I’d picked to give up to the witches.Among them, was not my Beta. I couldn’t bear to put my sister under the tremense stress of losing her mate, the man she loved and the father of their child. I’d be a savage beast if I had to do that. Already it felt as if what I was doing was selfish. But saving Valerie in itself was an act of selflessness. Perhaps I only looked at it that way to make it easier for me. But nothing could prepare me for what was bound to happen.I found it difficult to fall asleep, plagued by nightma
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[Valerie]The rage I was feeling only grew stronger inside me, and I was afraid of myself. I scrambled across the cold hard floor, grabbed Layla by the arm and shook her, neglecting to feel remorse for her pain in my pursuit to stop whatever was happening to me.“Hm?” Layla mumbled under her strained breath, and turned to me, shading her eyes from the dying light. “Val? Are you okay?”“Something’s wrong Layla. I think I’m having a panic attack.” I frowned at my own assumption, because I knew what a panic attack felt like, and this was not it.My fingers didn’t tingle, and the bile never visited my throat. Neither was my head spinning enough to leave me disoriented. The only thing I could think of was that the baby inside me - the baby that grew fast enough to give a positive test in the doctor’s office and alert Layla’s senses - could sense that its father was in danger.Layla sat up - struggl
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[Alexander]The voice I heard was stern, unlike anything I had ever heard before. But I knew that it was coming from inside me and couldn’t be heard by the others. There was anger laced in that voice, a throbbing bitterness, but at the same time, it eased my heart knowing that all wasn’t lost after all. Elena became alert, tilting her ears in the direction of the werewolf standing on the top of the mountain where we could see it clearly, its fur gently swaying in the wind while its magnificent sheen seemed to outshine the moon itself.I called out to the others, “Now!” when the witchwolves turned their attention to the wolf on the mountain, and we all sprang into action, fighting them off us, kicking them and getting back to our feet so we weren’t as overpowered as we were before the werewolf howled our attention to it. Their moment of weakness was our turn to gain the upperhand, and from my periphery I saw that the wolf was climbing down the
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[Valerie]The immense power I felt was almost as if it came from an outward entity, stronger than I could ever imagine anything could be. Except, the entity was balled up inside me, like a titan’s fist ready to throw punches, and I was puppeteering my own strings.I never thought myself a killer. I always fantasized about the strength I felt right now, being able to heedlessly shed blood with no remorse for the next life, only feeding into the strength that was already there. I tasted that careless from the bitterness between my lips, as I severed Marcella’s neck, forgetting her name in that moment and only thinking about her crimes against me. It was a selfish act of revenge, yet it worked out as a selfless one the moment I laid eyes on my mate, laying on the ground and breathing from the wounds inflicted by the one whose blood reeked and tasted of her sins.I always controlled the rage, the anger, and pushed it far enough so that it wouldn’t consum
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