Hi! I have this Spanish character in my other story (The alpha that couldn't remember), and a few people suggested I write about a Dutch character. That suddenly got me thinking Storm could be part Dutch, and voila. I wrote a chapter for the new story, even though I promised not to. Don't worry. It's just one chapter. It's just so hard not to think about it. I keep imagining things for it, and I'm scared I'll forget them once I finish the Iron Alpha. So I'm writing those ideas down.
I know I could have spent this time writing for either one of my stories, but I couldn't focus until I wrote this one chapter first.
Are you like that? Do you have whole conversations in your head? I think it prepared me for being a writer. Lol. I always imagined entire conversations I would have with friends, family, or teachers. I even prepared conversations ahead of time, scared I would say something wrong. ( Yeah, just like Kate.) I would practice what I would say in the supermarket. But now, instead of making up conversations inside my head with people that exist, I think of stories and fake people that have conversations. I guess being socially awkward was good for something ;)
Anyway. I'll continue with The Iron Alpha and The Iron That Couldn't Remember after this one chapter about Aeryn in the future.
O name suggestions are welcom. Ariel's suggestion was good, but I like different options to see what fits.
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Chapter 2.
It took for fucking ever to get where we were going. The noise of the motor and the feeling of the wheels on the road made me sleepy. I closed my eyes for a second and didn’t awaken until someone shouted in my fucking face.
“Girl! Wake up!”
I opened my eyes, and for a fucking second I thought it was Myrtle, trying to wake me up. Then I remembered what happened. My eyes shot open and were met by the eyes of a soldier.
“Get up.”
I stood up and looked around, seeing if there was any fucking possibility of running away. It looked like we were in a really big building. The ceilings were high, and there was nothing there but the car.
“I will knock you out and tie you up if you try to run,” the soldier growled.
Ahead of me was Alpha dickface, or Alpha Lex. His black hair was combed back, and he was wearing a suit. Even from here, I could smell his awful fucking cologne. It made me sick to my stomach.
Then I saw it. A plane. I had only seen planes in books. We weren’t allowed to use any type of screen, because fucking Myrtle wouldn’t allow it. I had seen her with a phone, and there was a computer or something in her fucking office, but we were never allowed in there.
Alpha Lex walked up the stairs into the plane, waiting at the top for me and the soldier. It was big, but not as big as I had seen in my schoolbooks.
The soldier gave me a push, and I fell against one of the stairs.
Alpha Lex turned around, “be careful, I just bought her.”
Fucker.
I walked up the stairs and into what looked like a small room with six chairs. Three of the chairs were already taken, and Alpha Lex, me, and the soldier took the final three.
I sat down, and the soldier buckled me in. I suddenly realized that this would make getting to my sister even more fucking difficult. If we were going by plane, that meant I couldn’t just run back. I didn’t even fucking know where the school was. I couldn’t drive. How was I going to fucking get my sister out?! I promised her. Fuck, fuck, fuck!
“Wat heb je gedaan?! [What did you do?]” A woman’s voice said, snapping me out of my thoughts. I couldn’t see her because she was sitting two chairs in front of me.
“Ik heb niets gedaan! Dit was papa, niet ik! [ I didn’t do anything, dad did, not me.]” A familar voice said. So Alpha Storm was here too.
It sounded fucking weird. What were those noises they made? Ggggg? It sounded like they were clearing their throats. What language was that?
“Je kon hem stoppen. Dat arme meisje. [You could have stopped him. That poor girl.]” The woman said.
Storm laughed, “arme meisje?! Je weet net zo goed als ik dat pap niet te stoppen is als hij iets in z’n hoofd heeft. Ik laat haar wel gaan zodra we thuis komen. [Poor girl? You know just as well as I do that dad is unstoppable once he get's an idea. I’ll let her go once we come home.”
“Ben je gek geworden?! Je vader laat haar nooit gaan. Hij heeft teveel voor haar betaald. Of ze wordt je Luna of hij vindt iets anders om haar leven een hell te maken. [Have you lost your mind? Your father will never let her go. He’s paid too much for her. Either she becomes your luna or he finds another way to make her life hell.]
“Could you two stop talking in Dutch? For crying out loud, you’re giving me a headache. I told you both I would get Storm a Luna, and I did. She has alpha blood, and she’s a virgin and not bad looking. She cost me so much money, and you’re the ones complaining? I might not understand a word you’re saying, but I know these were not words of excitement.” Alpha Lex said.
So it was Dutch they were speaking? I got some geography in our stupid fucking school and knew they spoke that in a small country in Europe. How the fuck did this guy, Storm, learn Dutch? I didn’t fucking care. I needed to get out of here.
The plane started to take off, and my heart was beating fast. Once we were up in the fucking air, I was stuck.
The soldier sitting next to me kept glaring over at me. I tried to get out of my seatbelt, and he pushed me back. The back of my head hit the chair hard. The next thing I felt was this fucking weird sensation in my stomach and a ringing in my ears. I turned my head and saw that we were taking off. Fuck!
I started to cry again while staring out the fucking window. I didn’t fucking care if it made me look weak. I still remember what dad said. It’s brave to cry, and I shouldn’t hold my feelings in. And right the fuck now I was feeling desperation, sadness, and anger. I couldn’t fucking believe it. Only a few more days, and I could have gotten Elora and me out of that fucking place.
“I’ll sit next to her,” the woman said.
The woman stood up and walked towards me. She was pretty and looked around forty, although with werewolves, it was hard to say. She looked really fucking pretty. Her blond hair was up in a bun, and she was wearing a knitted sweater dress with long sleeves and a turtleneck. She had some ankle boots on with fur. Where we going, somewhere cold?
“You’ll do no such thing!” Alpha Lex growled, and he slapped the woman against her face.
“Remember your place, Eve. You are not the Luna of this pack; I only tolerate you because of Storm.”
Storm stood up and growled at his father, “don’t fucking touch her. I told you I didn’t want this, and you go and buy a girl! You’re an evil bastard.”
Alpha Lex didn’t seem impressed by his son. “Here, I've got a deal for you. If you don’t accept that girl as your Luna, I will kill your mother. She’s getting too cocky, and I would have killed her long ago if it weren’t for you.”
What a fucking asshole. He would kill Storm’s mother? And why wasn't she the fucking Luna?
I took a good look at Storm. He had black hair like his father, but I now notice his eyes are blue like his mother’s. He had a strong jaw and some stubble. He was tall and had very broad shoulders. Storm had taken off his jacket and was wearing only a t-shirt. I could see that his lower arms had a bunch of tattoos. He was actually pretty fucking good-looking for the son of a dickface. Not that it fucking mattered. I wanted nothing to do with any of them.
Storm growled. His aura was so strong, and he looked fucking scary. He stalked towards his father. He looked like he wanted him fucking dead. I hoped he would fucking kill Alpha Lex. Maybe that would solve all this shit. Storm’s hand went into a fist, but his mother held his arm.
“Niet doen, Storm. Die klootzak is het niet waard. [Don’t do it, Storm. That asshole isn’t worth it.]” Eve said.
“Hij wilt je vermoorden, mama. [He wants to kill you mom.]
His mother laughed, “dus je gaat met hem vechten in dit vliegtuigje? Denk na, schat. [So you will fight him in this small airplane? Think, honey.]
Storm replied. “Misschien als Ik een Luna heb kan ik ons pack overnemen en dan kan ik dingen veranderen. [Maybe if I take a Luna I can take over the pack and chance things.]
“Zelfs al is je vader weg, de rest laat je nooit iets veranderen. [Even if your father isn’t there, the rest won’t let you change anything.] Eve said, sounding desperate.
I wish I could fucking understand one word. The only thing I got was “pack”. They talked so fucking fast.
Storm growled and sat back in his chair, saying, "Fine. I’ll take her as my Luna.”
Not if I can fucking help it. I wanted nothing to do with this fucked up family. Alpha Lex might be the worst, but I had a fucking feeling the rest wasn’t that great either.
One fucking week and I would get my wolf. If I could hold off becoming Luna until then, than maybe I could escape. Or at least kill that fuckface. Maybe I could bargain with Storm for my release. He didn’t seem to want me anyway.
Leia’s pov"Ash, please can I join the Iron River pack?" Sue asked during breakfast.I knew Asher was fucking messing with her. He didn’t do this to Osiah, and I think it was because Sue was a bit of a fucking brat. She was nice and all, but she had a fucking attitude and was a bit spoiled. Honestly, it surprised me a whole fucking lot that she wanted to be a tracker. Didn’t that mean getting dirty, sleeping in the fucking woods and being away for days at a time?Asher seemed to think about it, "why?"Sue sighed, "really? You’re going to make me give a whole speech? I miss my brother. I never realized how much I would miss his annoying butt. We’re twins. We’re supposed to be together. And I want to train here. Training back home was fine, but I think they’re scared to hurt me because of my family. No one wanted to spar with me, and if they did, I’m pretty sure they let me win. I’m good, but not that good."Asher smiled wickedly. Fuck, he was hot. It had been two months since Sue had le
Sierra’s povKate looked at me excitedly as she and Marco laid out their proposal."So, it’s basically a new way to drug people before they’re operated on. Less wolfsbane, so it won’t hurt or damage the body." Marco said."What are you substituting the wolfsbane with then?" I asked."We're still trying to figure that out," Kate said, "but there are other toxic herbs or chemical components we could use instead.""But how would you test it?""Well, you have different phases of testing," Kate explained. "First, we use blood and other tissues.""And then?" I asked again. I didn’t like doing this to my honey, but I needed to see the whole picture."Then we’d move on to testing on werewolves. Usually animals would be the next phase, but there are no animals with genetic material similar to ours.""But who would do that? It could hurt them." I said."We can pay or use rogues or prisoners." Marco said like it was nothing. As soon as he saw me and Kate’s faces, he started to laugh, "I’m joking,
Sue’s povGamma Talia couldn’t meet me yet but invited me to dinner, so that meant hanging out at the packhouse."Osiah, want to hang out? Asher said I could join the pack." I texted Osiah.I hadn't officially joined the pack yet because Asher wanted to make my life hard or something. I don’t know why he was being so annoying. He reminded me of my older sisters. Tao usually left me alone, but Mei and Amalia loved to tease me. Well, before they met their mate and became boring.Molly growled, "having a mate isn’t that bad. The Moon Goddess chose them, don’t you have any trust in her?""I should trust the goddess who put my mother together with her first mate? We all know how bad of a man Amelia’s sperm donor was."Dad was her dad in all the ways that counted, but he wasn't her bioligical father. That role was reserved for a piece of shit Alpha who tried to kidnap Asher and killed my grandmother before I was born.Osiah finally texted back as I tried to find something to do. "Sorry, can’
Maggie’s povThings have been really good. Training is going well, and Rain is studying hard. I think he really likes business school. Maybe he'll become rich and have stores everywhere. Nah, that would be way too much work. I want him home with our future kids while I work as a tracker.Sue joined the pack and the training three weeks ago. She’s fun, but can also be a bit too much fun. I don’t know how seriously she is taking the training. Maybe she’s just not used to working hard, and Gamma Talia does not joke around with her training.But she did get through the trails, so she must be good enough to join us, and who am I to judge her? I guess you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. People have done that to me for years, thinking I was too short or too thin to be strong enough to be a soldier, if they even noticed me at all.So, I’m giving Sue a fair shot. Not everyone, however. Rayan was complaining about her throughout his birthday dinner last week. He didn’t want to have a party
Leia’s pov"Just fucking tell me, it’s been weeks. Did you and Rayan make a decision?" I asked Sue.Sue was mortified and asked, "How did you know?""Well, Maggie saw you two fight and make out; she told Zuri, Zuri told Sierra, Sierra told Kate, and my kittykat told me. It’s fucking phone chain of gossip." I said, laughing.Sue didn’t seem to find it funny at all. "It’s none of your business.""Well, I am the Luna, so it sort of is. Maye I can help? Asher and I can decide if he is the next gamma or not, so he’s fucked if he messes with Asher’s cousin’s heart."Sue sighed, "he didn’t mess with my heart. I am not in love with him."Sure, keep telling yourself that, I thought. I knew how strong the mate pull could be."Look, I fucking get it. You want to travel the world and be free or whatever. And I don’t know how that feels at all. I had Aeryn when I was seventeen, and since then I've been a mother and now a fucking Luna, trapped here in this pack. Well, stuck makes it sound like I hat
Sue’s povRayan and I had another fight, which ended in us having sex. It’s been almost a year now, and I don’t even know who we are."You are mates," My wolf growled. She was getting fed up.Yeah, we were mates. We both felt the pull, but we didn’t mark each other; we didn’t live together or do anything together but train and fight and occasionally have angry, passionate, amazing sex.Rayan breathed heavily as he pulled out of me, "we can’t keep doing this." He laid down next to me, his hand resting on his arm."You were the one who didn’t want us to reject each other." I replied. "Has anything changed?"He looked at me, "how would it even work if it did?"I have had many conversations with Leia. Too many, because she is a nosy, obnoxious Luna, but she is also quite intelligent. She told me we didn’t have to be like everyone else. I could have my dream, if I wanted to."Do you want to mark me?" I asked.He seemed unsure, "my wolf does."I laughed, "yeah, mine is obsessed with yours."
Leia’s pov"I think I’m ready." Kitkat said."Ready for fucking what?" I replied, changing Elora’s diaper. I said I would start potty training, but it was so much fucking work, and I hated having to wash clothes that smelled like pee. Maybe when it gets hotter, I'll let her walk around naked while wearing a dress at home. She wasn’t in school yet anyway."I’m ready to have a baby." Kat said.What the fuck? It’s more than two years since Kate told me she could use Roman’s sperm, and suddenly she’s fucking ready. She never brought it up, and I assumed it would take for fucking ever. But apparently she did wait until Elora was a bit older. Shit. I really needed to start potty training now.I almost dropped Elora, and she started to cry. "Momma.""I’m sorry, Ora. I know. Bad mommy, but your aunty Kate just scared the shit out of me.""Shit?" Kate said, looking at me with a big ass smile."I’ve told you, shit isn’t that bad of a word. They can say "poop," so "shit" isn’t that fucking differ
Maggie’s pov"So he’s okay with you leaving?" I asked Sue.She nodded. "Is Rain?"I shook my head no and said, "It’s just a week and it’s only a small job, but I think he finally realizes what it means that I’m a tracker. We will be apart, and we haven’t been away from each other in years."Sue smiled at me, "Rayan is just happy that I’m gone for the week; he says distance makes the heart grow fonder, but I think he means you’re getting on my nerves, so please leave."I laughed, "I thought that’s just how you communicate? You fight and then you make up.""It is. But he’s under a lot of pressure. His mom is letting him take the lead of a team, and it’s his time to prove himself."I was surprised at how far Rayan and Sue had come. Okay, I was mostly surprised that it took them a year to actually make things official. And then another six months passed before they marked each other, and then another six months passed before they moved in together. They had their own type of relationship t
Aaro’s povI shouldn’t have said that, but it was the fucking truth. No matter how much this wasn’t Storm’s choice any more than it was mine, he was still going to mark me against my will. Maybe if things were different, then I would have chosen Storm as my mate.I always hoped I would find my true mate, but that ship had fucking sailed the moment I was bought. Maybe even before then—maybe the moment I was brought to the damn school. It didn’t fucking matter anyway.I saw how my remark hurt Storm, and all I could think of to make this better was to ask him to kiss me. I knew it fucking made me feel better. More than better. The orgasm he gave me was out of this fucking world, and I just wanted to make him feel good too.I didn’t know what the fuck I was doing, but he seemed to enjoy it, and to be honest, I was enjoying it too. I didn’t think having someone’s dick inside my mouth would be fun, but hearing Storm grunt and hold on to my hair and knowing I was the one doing it to him was a
Storm’s povI knew if I got pissed off, Aaro would stop telling me the truth, so I let her talk while inside of me a storm was raging. I wanted to go to the school and kill everyone who ever hurt Aaro. I wanted to destroy the entire school and get everyone out, but I knew I couldn’t. I was a fucking hypocrite. My father had bought Aaro for me and had funded the school for years. I didn’t realize where part of our money was going until I checked the books today. Our pack had been giving money to the Goldacres for decades. How could I say I would destroy the school if I still profited from it? If it wasn’t for the school, I wouldn’t have met Aaro.I wanted to be Aaro’s home, her safe place. She deserved that. Despite the fucked up situation she was thrown into, she was trying to do things her own way. She could have ignored my mother like the rest, but instead she decided to learn Dutch. The thing that bonded me and mam together. If Aaro was smart, she would have sucked up to Dad and R
Aaro’s povEve explained the phone to me, but I still felt like a fucking idiot using it. She was so patient with me, but I knew if others saw me fumbling with the phone, they’d think I was raised under a damn rock. Everyone used technology for everything, and I felt like I didn’t belong in this world.To be honest, I don’t belong here. I belong with my sister; I belong back home.But a part of me wished I did belong here. That I could give Storm what he deserved. He wanted a real person who didn’t have that many secrets, someone who could be themselves around him, and I wasn’t that at fucking all. I had to think before I spoke, because otherwise I could reveal the truth."I really am sorry, Aaro." Eve said again.I shook my head, "don’t be. I’ll be fine."Eve sighed, "it can be really hard sometimes, Aaro. I try to put on a brave face for Storm. I don’t want him to feel bad for me, but it’s really lonely for me. I miss my family and just having a life. Don’t get me wrong; if I had to
Storm’s pov"Aaro is bijna klaar; douchen liep een beetje uit. [Aaro is almost done; the shower took a bit longer than expected.]Mam laughed, "Ik zie dat jij ook ging douchen? [I see you took a shower as well?] She ruffled my wet hair."Dus? [so?]""Niks. Ik ben blij voor je. Ze is speciaal vind je niet? Ik durf het bijna niet te zeggen, maar misschien is zij je, - [Nothing. I am happy for you. She’s special, isn’t she? I am almost too scared to say, but maybe she’s your, -] " I stopped my mom from finishing her sentence."Mam zeg het niet dan! Fuck, je weet zelf wat pap zou doen. [Then don’t say it! Fuck, you know what Dad would do.]"My mother knew better than anyone what my dad thought of true mates, considering she was his. Dad and mom fell in love when they were seventeen. Love at first sight, she called it, and then my grandfather got killed and my dad turned into a paranoid asshole. Too scared of what a true mate meant. He wasn't just scared of losing half his soul if his true
Aaro’s povFucking phone. That stupid fucking phone. Phones didn’t used to be like this, were they? I remember mom and dad having a phone, and I sometimes watched videos on it or played a game. But this thing was totally different.I felt so fucking out of place. I knew nothing about this world. I guess that the school does this on purpose. Make sure to isolate the girls once they’re out of the school. Make sure we don’t know how to use technology to ask for help.We’re not supposed to tell anyone about the school, but even if we only wanted to help ourselves once we were out, we wouldn’t be able to. We had no one to turn to and no way to set up any support system. Maybe I should talk to Eve. She had been isolated, stuck inside this packhouse. She knows how it feels, and maybe she knows how to get out of here.I opened the stupid phone again, cursing at it."You better not fuck this up again. Send text to Eve.""Send text to Eve," the phone said."Do you want to join me and Storm for l
Storm’s povI put Aaro on my lap and let her eat."So what’s her deal?" Cara asked, mind-linking me."What do you mean?""She seems nice, but is she like the rest? Does she want you because of your title?"I laughed, "no, she isn’t like the rest. Not at fucking all. I don’t think she cares about becoming Luna at all.""Did she have any say in coming here? Did her parents force her?"I sighed, "she’s an orphan. It’s fucking complicated Cara, but she doesn’t really have a choice. So I’m trying my fucking best to make everything not suck as fucking much."Cara smiled at me, "you want her to like you."Aaro started giving me bites to eat, and although it surprised me, I let her. It was fucking adorable that she cared enough to feed me."She likes you already. She was straddling you, and now she’s feeding you!" Cara shouted inside my head.That kiss was amazing. And when Aaro started moving her fucking hips, I went insane. If Cara hadn’t stopped us, I don’t know what would have happened. Wh
Aaro’s povBrand was cool. He reminded me of my dad’s wolf, Logan. He was as fast as him, too. How would it feel to run as a wolf? Would I be that fast?It was easier around Brand because he didn’t talk to me and I didn’t have to pretend so hard.Even when I was myself, I still had to pretend. I couldn’t let anyone know my real name or identity. It wasn’t easy. I so badly wanted to tell Brand about Logan. I wanted to tell the girl in the orphanage more about Ero. And when we discussed our names, I really wanted to tell Peter what Aaro fucking stood for.It bothered me how scared everyone was. It was supposed to be like this. In my dad’s pack, people weren’t scared of us. And although my grandpa Os could be a bit scary, people respected him more than they feared him.Then he shifted back, and although Storm looked a lot better, like a whole fuckload better, I went back to pretending. Pretending that he didn’t look fucking good, and I wondered what it would feel like to touch him. Preten
Storm’s povI tried to get some work done, but my mind kept wondering about tonight. What would be a good date idea?"Let me meet her," Brand said."And then what, have a picknick? It’s fucking freezing outside.""Please?" Brand asked and I think it was the first time he said please to me."I’ll see what I can do, okay, buddy?"Dad had given me her tracker information, and I felt like a fucking stalker, tracking Aaro’s moves. She went from the hospital to the orphanages, to lunch somewhere, and then to one of the elders' houses.When it was around four, I just gave up on working and decided to pick up Aaro early. I'm sure she'd appreciate it; I couldn't imagine spending the entire day with Ruby.I went to the O'Hares' home and watched as Aaro spoke to a young boy. He must be one of the grandkids or great-grandkids of the O'Hares. Mister O'Hare was 104 years old and looked no older than 70.When the boy saw me, he bowed his head and seemed scared. It was such an obvious contrast between
Aaro’s povStupid fucking nightmare. I used to have them when we were younger. I would dream about Marco taking us away. We were asleep when he took us, but we woke up before he brought us to the man who transported us to the school.Doctor Marco had always been so kind to us, but suddenly he was cold. He ignored our cries, he ignored me begging him to let my sister go. In the end, he threatened to hurt Elora if I didn’t help him calm her down.He showed me bones and said they belonged to a girl, and if I didn't help my sister out of her pajamas and make her shut the fuck up, he could turn my sister into a bag of bones too.For years, I wondered what he needed the bones and the pajamas for. I thought he might have pretended it was one of us who died, so my parents wouldn’t come looking for us. Or my parents were dead themselves; there must have been a reason why they didn't find us. Auntie Kat was too smart to not see through Marco’s plan, I was sure. She was the smartest person alive;