VIOLET
There was no single remorse on his face as he said those words. I wondered how someone could reject you without even looking like he cared at all.
My mouth remained open as no words would come out. This couldn’t possibly be happening. Why was he doing this to me? It felt like my heart was being shattered into thousands of pieces and there was nothing I could do about it.
“W-What?” The words left my mouth in a stutter.
“You heard me. I don’t want you as my mate. The sooner you get that into your head, the better.” He looked at me with disgust, written all over his face.
If looks could kill, I’d probably underneath the earth. I wondered why he was looking at me with such hatred in his eyes. Like I was some vermin that had crawled from hell. I felt like collapsing into a puddle. This couldn’t be happening.
“You heard what he said.” A voice said from the crowd.
I watched as the slut of the pack, Sienna, gingerly walked up to meet us. Tristan’s eyes were set on her, watching her every move as she stopped before him. I watched as she snaked her arms around him.
Her long black hair fell to the small of her back. Her lashes seemed to flutter the more she stared at Tristan. She was looking at him with what looked like hearts in her eyes. I felt like throwing up. It was all so disgusting.
He wrapped his hands around her face. I couldn’t help but watch in remorse as she crashed her lips against his. He let out a hum as he fervently kissed her back, both of them oblivious to the stares of the crowd around there.
With each second I stood and watched them, it was another second that my heart seemed to shatter into pieces even more and more. They didn’t care that I was standing right there before them or that my whole world was crumbling right before my very eyes.
They finally stopped after what seemed like forever. Tristan turned to regard me, his face twisting in disgust.
“I could never accept the reject as my mate.”
He pulled away from Sienna and turned back to me, disgust creeping back on his face. I could tell whatever he was going to say again would shatter me completely. My heart thrummed violently against my chest. I didn’t think I could take another onslaught of it. Unfortunately, he didn’t look like he cared much.
“I don’t like you. I have never liked you. I will never like you. As a matter of fact, we don’t need a retch like you in this pack.” He closed the distance between us.
He was so close; I swore I could feel his breath on me. The whole place erupted into murmurs of agreement. I looked around, wondering if there was anybody, anyone at all that would come to my aid.
What I saw was something I expected…it didn’t make it hurt any less though. They were all looking at me with disgust written all over their faces. They didn’t care one bit. I bit my lip, my body trembling with both heartbreak and anger.
All this while, I had suffered through nothing but pain. Yet, they had decided to pay me back this way. After everything I had endured from them. Tristan had noticed my trembling and was staring at me.
“I won’t take it.” My voice was low, I barely even heard myself.
“What?” Tristan asked.
“I said I won’t take this.” I whipped my head up to glare at him. “You think you can just do this to me? After everything I’ve been through?”
I pointed at every single one of them present, the rage welling up in me the more I looked at their pathetic faces. I refused to accept their mistreatment any longer. They thought it was okay to treat me however they liked. Like hell, I’d accept that.
“You call yourself an Alpha. Yet you remained silent and watched them all treat me this way. You let them do this to me. You let them bully and punish me. You let them treat me like a maid and all for what, huh? Because my parents aren’t here anymore? Is that it?”
My rage would not be caged or controlled anymore. Something in me wanted to stop and just cower into a corner but I was done doing that. I would not remain silent in the face of this injustice any longer. I turned back to Tristan, my eyes burning with hate and anger
“You might call yourself an Alpha but you’re nothing but a fucking coward.”
For a split moment, I was happy that I had let out all the things I wanted to say. Immediately, I started to wish I hadn’t said that. The hard look on his face let me know that I had definitely stepped on the wolf’s tail.
Before I even had any time to react, my face whipped to the side and I collapsed on the ground. Tristan had just slapped me. I looked up to see him glaring down at me like I was some ant beneath his shoe.
“You really had fun running your mouth like the bitch you are, huh?”
He spat on me before proceeding to kick me in the stomach. I let out a pained yelp, my eyes fluttering close as the pain seemed too much to bear.
“Morris! Jay! Grab her.” Tristan ordered.
Just as I opened my eyes, two male pack members grabbed me and hefted me up to my feet. I was now staring Tristan straight in the eye.
“Since you’ve proven that you’re not worthy of all the kindness we’ve shown you in this pack, I thought of doing you a favor.”
My eyes widened as my heart rate sped up. I had a feeling I already knew what was coming.
“From this day onward, you are no longer a member of West Creak Pack.”
It was then, I felt my world crashing down. I didn’t bother fighting the darkness that consumed me.
VIOLETWhen Lucian had said he had somewhere he wanted to show me, I didn’t think it would be this. A large lake stretched wide before us. The movement of the water was soft, occasionally clashing with the banks before eventually receding again.“Come on,” Lucian’s voice broke me out of my daze.I nodded, taking off my seatbelt before getting out of the car. Now outside, it was easier to get a better view of the whole place. There was something surreal about the whole place. One would think it was something straight out of a movie. It was all so surreal.“What do you think?”I turned to Lucian. Had he been watching me the whole time? His eyes were mostly always an unreadable mask so it wasn’t easy trying to read his mind.My gaze flickered back to the lake. “It’s beautiful.”Before I realized it, my feet were wandering, eyes soaking in the whole place as much as I can. “Has it always been here?”Different trees and flush forestry lined the adjacent area making the place somewhat seclu
VIOLET“Eh?”Lucian blinked. “Got something in your ears?”“I heard you the first time.” I grumbled. “What do you want to show me?”He gave me a blank stare for a couple of seconds before rolling his eyes. “Would you pipe down first?”I folded my arms, staring me down in hopes of whatever he had in mind eventually spilling. Sadly, Lucian had always been a tough nut to crack.“Is this you rejecting my proposal?” he finally said after a moment of silence.I pondered on the thought for a second before letting out a sigh. “Don’t say it like that. Makes it sound like an actual proposal.”I half-expected some sort of sarcastic or grumpy reply. But so far, nothing. He simply stared, eyes scouring through my face like he was searching for something. Then they dropped to my abdomen, and my stomach churned instantly.Was this about the scars? I knew he wasn’t over them just yet. I opened my mouth, about to come up with an excuse as to why I didn’t think going out would be a good idea.“Come wit
VIOLETThe body always remembers.It never forgets, regardless of how much time seemingly passes, or how long it had been since the incident occurred. It always remembers.“Is this okay, Luna?”I turned my attention to the little girl standing in front of me. Dokcha. She was one of the pups in the pack, just reaching three years old. In her hands was a crayon drawing of a sun with a bunch of stick people raising their hands up to the sky.“Oh, it’s lovely.” I cooed. “Mind drawing me another one?”She nodded vigorously. “Yes!”All too happily, she went back to her workbench, excitedly fishing out a red crayon. I let out a breath, eyes preening over the other pups in the playroom.Viola and Jax had settled with keeping themselves busy with some Lego. Suzuru was more of the quiet one, seemingly satisfied with the toy horse in her hands. I’d taken it upon myself to come to the estate.It was getting a bit uncomfortable at the main house. Not because anybody was making me feel that way. I
LUCIAN“I don’t know man. Maybe it’s something she just wants to put behind her.”Zayn shrugged, eyes watching me carefully. I barely gave him a glance too focused on the papers he’d brought me.He’d done a pretty good job at digging up what I asked him to find. It was paper after paper of evidence. Evidence of what they’d done to her, maltreatment and what not.Zayn went on. “I’ll hand it to them. They did a pretty good job at keeping it all under wraps.”I let out a grunt, eyes skimming through the one paper in hand. Something gnawed at my stomach as I read through the lines. Group attacks meted out on those they deemed ‘omegas’. Weaklings.Unfortunately for Violet, she classified as one. Her wolf wasn’t as big as most were. I’d noticed during the tag game. It just wouldn’t make sense if I had stared so much. But she—she faced so much belittlement at West Creak for it.“Ran away from the pack due to being unable to accept rejection. Currently facing charges of Treason.” I read some
VIOLETHe saw them.I’d sworn I’d do my best to keep him from seeing them but somehow, he did. Well, those three words had been on repeat since the past day.As soon as we’d gotten back, I’d immediately hurried to my room. Reese had been worried, asking if her brother had done something and if she needed to handle stuff.“I’m fine really,” I’d tried to assure her.I wasn’t fine. Not in the slightest. He’d seen them. All this time I’d done a pretty good job of hiding the scars and this one time, I somehow slipped.“Fucking idiot.” I cursed myself as I peeled an orange into a bowl.My mind was barely there. All that ran through my head was the image of Lucian staring down at the scars. The very injuries I’d be branded with back at West Creak. I’d done my best for crying out loud. Did everything I could to stay invincible. All I asked was that they let me breathe. But I doubt I deserved that.To them, I was but a mutt who didn’t even deserve to live. I shook my head, trying to push those
LUCIANThe last thing I’d expected when I came down from my office to get some refreshments was for Violet to ask me if I could participate in the game they had going on.I was a busy man. So, it made sense that I’d have a lot more going than preoccupying myself with whatever games they had on.But something about her eyes, the way her tone had gone softer when she asked me. I didn’t have it in me to say no.Well, not like I was compelled to. I was simply humoring her. She wanted a game of tag, she would get a game of tag.Which was how I found myself running past trees, all to escape being made tasks. Reese had no trouble in keeping up with my speed, the outline of her shadow zipping past me as quick as the wind.The person that had me impressed was none other than Violet. She was doing a stellar job at keeping up with us.Every now and then, I’d find the outline of her whole form keeping pace with how fast I ran.“You good?”Our mind link meant that I could communicate with her perf