Rune. The shuffling of feet and whispers of multiple voices violently pulled me out of sleep. It wouldn't have mattered if the sounds came from outside my window or my door, but the sounds came from my room.I sprang out from my bed immediately, confused as to what was going on. With raised brows, I scanned the area, taking my room in. About six omegas were walking in and walking out of my room with my belongings in their hands, each taking out something and returning to pick more.“What are you guys doing? Why are you taking my things, and where are you taking them to?” I asked with wide eyes. All six of them stopped, bowed and exchanged glances, and then one of them, a black-haired, stepped forward.“Pardon me, but we received strict instructions to move all your belongings to Alpha’s room,” she said.I repeated the words after her, trying to make sense of it.“Strict instructions from who?”“From Alpha,” I stared at her for a while, waiting for any indication that she was lying o
Rune.I succumbed to the kiss immediately, whimpering as he bit my lower lip.It wasn't like all the other kisses we'd had; those kisses had a certain softness to them, a certain emotion to them. This one had an emotion: Anger. We were both angry and very aroused.Kane kissed me hungrily as though he had never done it before, his soft lips swallowing mine. He slipped his tongue into my mouth—a sensation I had never felt before— and I shut my eyes tight. Our tongues danced in my mouth, each eager for dominance, but Kane won.I was furious at him, furious at my arousal for him, furious that I pulled him closer to me instead of pushing him away. I was furious that his hands roaming around my body set me ablaze, and I was powerless to resist him.My pulse skittered alarmingly as a delicious shudder heated my body. At his touch, blood surged from my fingertips to my toes, and I could barely contain it all in my tiny body.Without words, Kane pressed his large hand on my stomach and traile
Rune.With speed I never knew I possessed, I grabbed my shorts, slipped them on and ran out of Kane’s study. I could hear his footsteps following after me, but the only thing on my mind was how to get to my room to relieve myself.Upon entering my room, I rushed into the bathroom, kneeling over the toilet seat as I let out the contents of my stomach. My stomach turned, and I felt as though I would pour out my intestines along with the tuna I had for dinner. Kane came up behind me, a secure hand resting on my back.“You are sick,” he pointed out, and I shook my head.“I'm not sick. The tuna tasted funny last night, but I couldn't stop eating it. Marian cooked it well,” Kane raised a brow at me with a silent question: “Do you hear yourself?” A bile rose in my throat again, and I returned my face to the toilet, but nothing came out. My throat was itchy, and my mouth tasted funny, just like the tuna.“Water, please,” I was about to say, but Kane offered me some in the blue cup that alway
Rune.I woke up to the sun shining directly into my face. I shut my eyes tight immediately, and for a few seconds, I just lay there, preparing myself for the brightness that I was about to face. I spread my arms on the bed and opened my eyes immediately when I found it empty and cold.“You're awake,” a honey-like voice pointed out, and I smiled as a wave of relief washed over me.I sat upright, lifting a brow as I took the scene before me.“Are you going somewhere?” My brows creased. Kane nodded, working the buttons of his navy blue button-down. I’d never seen him wear a button-down shirt, even for festivals and events.“Where are you off to so early?” I asked with a tiny yawn.“There is an alpha meeting I must attend,” he said, his eyes focused on the shirt.I was no alpha, but I knew that those meetings lasted days, sometimes weeks, and if Kane were to attend such, he would be away for a while. The idea left a bitter taste in my mouth. We had just gotten together and expressed our
Rune.A chill washed over my body at the implication of what Rachael's words implied. I removed myself from Black’s embrace and turned fully to her. “I wonder what her mate would say if he hears of this,” Rachael snickered, flattening her palms on her blue dress. “Did you just say If? I think you mean When,” Jummy laughed. Embarrassment washed over me because I knew they would not stop until they’d both said the most horrible and vile things about me. If I were alone, I wouldn’t have felt so embarrassed, but Black was standing beside me, and with the way they approached and spoke to me, it wouldn’t take much for him to put two and two together, realizing that I was, in fact, not Luna. “It’s so disgusting,” Rachael shook her head. “What is disgusting is you both implying something that is untrue. If you want to know what’s happened here, all you need to do is ask. But making up stories because you’re bored has to be the height of it,” I folded my arms.Rachael threw back her head
Rune.I had gone to bed with a huge smile on my face that night at having done something for myself; I stood my ground and defended myself against bullies.Even though Black kept telling me to stop, I felt good knowing I had done something I've always wanted to do. I put Rachael in her place, and it felt so good.When I woke up the next morning, I heard whispers of my name outside my window, but I didn’t think of it as anything since it wasn't the first time wolves had spoken about me in the pack. It was almost normal for them to talk about me. I got out of bed and took my time preparing myself to go downstairs to meet with my friends.As I made my way downstairs, I noticed I was getting weird stares from the omegas present. They were looking at me and hiding their faces whenever I met their eyes as though they had something to hide. It gave me flashbacks from the last time where they spoke about my inability to conceive a child, how it was all everyone could talk about. I didn't think
Rune.“They’re coming,” At Marian’s words, my chest tightened.Who's coming?” I asked, my heart beating rapidly against my ribcage. “Almost everyone. Wolves are marching towards the pack house right now,” she said, and I rushed to the window to confirm if she was right. She was.An angry mob of wolves was approaching with sticks and stones as though they were coming to get a criminal. Panic set off in my chest, and my palms were clammy with sweat. Realizing that all those wolves were coming for me forced me to take a few steps back, hitting the wall.“Soph, what do we do? We need to do something before they get here and fast,” Marian cried. I had been living in the Pack house for a while, and I had seen Marian with different expressions, expressing different emotions, but I had never seen her this scared. She placed a shaky hand on her chest, eyes wide and lips agape.It was as though I was having an out-of-body experience; everything was in slow motion, and I couldn't believe what w
Rune.“This is why I told you we should have cut off her tongue that day,” Zarah yelled, “if we had, we wouldn't be in this mess.”It had been four days. Four days of complete torture and staying locked up in my room, on my bed, regretting some of my decisions, a lot of my decisions. I only had access to Soph, Marian, Kimi, and the head guard wolf, James. He’d been really helpful in keeping angry wolves away from the pack house.In those four days, wolves dedicatedly slept outside the Pack house, taking turns praying to the goddess for my demise. Soph refused the elders who tried to meet with me, telling them that no decision or anything would be made until Kane and Jett returned.The stress of not being able to go out, mixed with the knowledge that almost every wolf in the Pack wanted me dead, added to the tiredness I'd been feeling in the past few days. I felt sicker; I threw up more often, had no appetite, my entire body hurt, and I could barely sleep.A soft knock resounded on my