Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Maya's pov 

  I heard a knock on the door and  cautiously approaching it and squeezing the door handle.

  It was late into the night, even the headmaid wouldn't send me an errands by this time but I wouldn't put it past her anyways. 

 “Who's there?” I asked, holding my breath.

 “Relax, it's just me,”

 The sound of Madeline's voice did everything but help me relax, even so to avoid suspicion I backed away from the door. 

 “Come in if you want to,”

 “I didn't think I'd catch you awake by this time,” she said folding her hands together. 

 “Why are you here, Madeline, to say ‘I told you so’... In that case, don't even bother I've already mentally butchered myself before you even walked into this room,” I tried it to keep my voice steady but it betrayed me stripping my feelings of inferiority from their mask. 

 “There's no need to rub it in my face,” I said to have gesturing with my hands wide spread.

 “You win. You always freaking win in the end, and I'm always the loser. Are you happy now? Are you satisfied after taking everything away from me?”

  She looked at me the same way someone would look at his zoo animal with this sort of condescending amusement before a ripple of laughter left her lips. 

 “What nonsense are you talking about? It was never yours in the first place. How can someone as pathetic as you accuse me of theft?” She said then laughed a bit more. 

 “Ridiculous!” She let out, “But never mind that, I came here to ask what you were going to do with your bastard,” she said bluntly. 

 My hand fell to my stomach, “My child is not a bastard,” I said shaking with spite.

 She shrugged as though her words were not hurtful.

 “Whatever you choose to call it, it's an inconvenience in my plans,”

 “What plans?” I was unable to help my curiosity. 

“You are somebody that has never born the weight of expectation, so you can't even begin to comprehend what I'm planning,”

She walked closer holding eye contact with me then lowering her eyes to my stomach as she scrunched her nose with disgust.

“Tomorrow morning, I'll announce this pregnancy,” she said with no emotion, as if she was merely reading about the weather.

 “I'll let everyone in the park know that my twin sister is a shameless whore who seduced MY mate,”

  I shivered at the coldness of her tone.

 “Madeline, if you do that…I'll…they'll force me to have an abortion,” I said, my voice crumbling with each syllable.

  “They might banish you too,” she said with a casual shrug.

“Doesn't really matter how I get rid of that parasite in your womb as long as the end results are the same,”

  I had never felt close to my sister before, it always seemed like we were worlds apart, but I didn't know what to make of this new distance between us. It was like someone I'd never glanced at before.

 Madeline left me with those heavy words weighing me down, until I picked myself up. Knowing what I had to do.

With tears blind in my eyes I packed my few early possessions into a small bag, finally coming to a decision that I should have made years ago. 

  I'm leaving this blasted pack.

There might be nothing waiting for me beyond its boundary, but I would rather feel nothing done than all of the hurt that was wrecking my heart.

  In the middle of my packing, I thought about Barry; the love I'd tenderly nursed all these years only for it to metamorphose into a flame that burnt me mercilessly.

  Then my mind drifted to the Innocent life growing in me with each passing second. 

  This was my priority now.

  I managed to sneak out of the packhouse on the pretence of an errand. When I reached the boundary I looked like the sign and gulped, turning around one last time. 

 Once I took a step beyond this line I would become a rogue. A vagabond with no home that welcomed.

  A sarcastic laugh left me.

 That was almost the perfect description of my life.

 So what was I so afraid of?

 Passing the line, a strange feeling mixed up with the turmoil in my heart, it was as though I had dropped a heavy weight that I had been unceremoniously carrying my whole life.

   Like everything good in my life the feeling didn't last long, I don't know for how long I walked until I was surrounded by border guards, their scents telling me they were from another pack.

  “A rogue!” one of them yelled as two others grabbed me by my arms, I was forced to release my bag. It fell to the ground with a soft thud.

“Search that,” the leader amongst them said, gesturing to my bag, 

“There's nothing in there!” I said as my few cherished belongings were unloaded to the bare ground and all but destroyed while being searched through.

 “I told you there was nothing in there!” I yelled tears rolling from my eyes.

 “Silence, rogue!” The leader of the guards yelled back at me.

 “That proves nothing, your kind are always out to do something. Why are you here; to steal? as a spy?…spill it!”

 I couldn't believe how pathetically naive I was, running away thinking everything would be okay. I hadn't been on my own in one solid day and this happens.

 “You won't talk, fine then it doesn't matter you'll pay for trespassing into the Red Phoenix pack,” 

 “Please don't –please spare my child!” 

   the leader hesitated for a second then a familiar voice cut through the chaos.

 “What's going on here?”

 All the guards bowed in unison, “Greetings, Alpha!’

   My throat became dry, I was almost tempted to pinch myself because this had to be some kind of weird dream if not how could it be –

“I didn't think I'd see you again, “

 That he was my one night stand.