Chapter Two: Ruthless

BRIELLE’s POV

I whimpered as I felt pain tearing through me. My wolf’s howling rang deep in my mind as his rejection shot through me. I wrapped my arms around myself trying to provide some comfort but it did nothing to reduce the pain.

“Mate.” I stuttered my steps staggering as I tried to reach for him, for my mate.

“From now on Brielle. You don’t belong in this pack, you have lost the right to hide under us even as the spawn of a traitor.”

“Huxley….” I whimpered as I clutched my chest, being mateless or rejected was nowhere as terrible as being pack-less. I would become some rogue wolf trying to survive in the wild while hoping that some pack didn’t take me to become their whore.

I watched as my mate, the one I had seen in my dreams stalk off as if his rejection was nothing more than words.

“Bitch! Did you think that you could be our Luna?” Lara asked as her gang all sniggered in laughter. Shame flooded through me at the looks in their eyes.

I was hurting but I didn’t want to stay here and so without another word, I turned and staggered off.

Our pack had always been a power centered one. While I was growing up, I had lived in the center of the pack, where the biggest and strongest of the wolves stayed.

After father died, I had been thrown to the omega section until Ava’s dad had decided to adopt me. It was one hell of huge sacrifice from him since everyone had from that time ignored the three of us.

I don’t know how I managed to take myself back to the house, Ava was on the bed, still reading the book I left her with, but the moment I entered, she flung the book aside as she rushed to me.

“What happened? You look like a mess.” She yelled as she tried to force my head up so I could look in her eyes.

“I... I was rejected by Huxley.” I managed to say and the tears that had been threatening to fall all the while as I managed to get back home fell in large waves.

“Oh my god! How can he reject the mate bond? Does he mean that the moon goddess made a mistake?” She exclaimed and then pulled me into a tight hug.

Her embrace made me feel better instantly. Yet, the mate that my wolf, my newly transformed wolf wanted wasn’t hers.

My wolf wanted my mate.

“I need to pack. I can’t stay here anymore.” I said as I pushed her slightly so that I could get started. Although I don’t know how much time he had given me, I didn’t want to bring trouble to Ava and her father.

I couldn’t let him come here and make trouble for them.

“Where are you going? Don’t be rash.” I could hear her steps as she followed me into the empty room where we both kept our stuff.

Since her mother had died early, Ava had no siblings and so there was a spare room, however we didn’t want to stay apart. So we had moved our stuffs here while we slept in one room.

I dragged out the first traveling bag I found and I had started shoving things into it when Ava entered after me.

“It’s dangerous out there Bri, you can’t just leave because he rejected you.”

“I know you, we would move past this.” She tried her hand at convincing me again and when I couldn’t take it anymore, I threw the cloth I was holding aside.

“Do you think I want to go out there alone? Where there are rumors of rogues being killed? Huxley banished me from the pack.” I groaned and then curled over as another wave of pain washed through me.

Great! Just thinking about the bastard was enough to leave me in pain now.

I straightened up to meet Ava’s stunned expression as soon as the pain dispersed.

“H... how... how is that possible?” She stuttered softly while her expression became slightly empty like she had thought far away.

“Let me get papa! He would know what we can do.” She said and then ran out.

 I was tempted to call her back. Tell her I was strong enough to go out there and survive. But I couldn’t, I knew what lay beyond our pack.

My life here was miserable enough without being a rogue. However, even though I hoped that there was something to be done, I felt like it was going to be difficult.

I had seen the look in Huxley’s eyes as he banished me. Ruthless and decisive.

****

I had finished packing my bags and was waiting to see if there would be some hope or whatsoever from papa. Ava had been gone for close to two hours already.

Just as I stood up with the intention to stand up and search for her, the flurry and rush of footsteps came from the corridor before the door was opened.

“You little slut thought you could save your way out of this!?” Lara yelled as she lunged at me in one clean jump. Lara was a full three years older than me, she had gotten her wolf three years ago too and had cried bitterly about not being mated to Huxley.

“Just so you know, Huxley hates the very air you breathe. Unless you leave, your papa and that useless best friend of yours won’t be released from the Alpha’s dungeon.” She informed me with a gloating smirk.

My heart sank at her words. He didn’t have to be this cruel. This was beyond banishing me. He was depriving me of seeing my only family one more time before I left.

Without thinking, I dashed outside, my medium size traveling back clutched tightly in my embrace. I was determined to fight for myself. My blood was here, I was born here!

Before long, I had arrived in front of Huxley’s quarters where I realized that more than half of the bravado I had brought here with me was already gone.

“If you are here to fight for a chance to stay in the pack’s dungeon then you are about to be disappointed. We don’t want your traitor blood here.” Huxley’s familiar voice rang and I looked around to see where it was coming from.

“Throw her out.” He said again as guards that I hadn’t seen before rushed at me and lifted me like I weighed nothing.

“Papaaa!” I screamed at the top of my lungs hoping they could understand just how powerless I had been.

Flashes of all the good times I had with Ava locked up in the room ran through my mind.

Because of me, she had lost the little social standing that she could have had in the pack.

“Let me see Ava one more time.” I pleaded desperately as I fought in their arms.

I just needed to see her smile one more time. Hear her tell me that I would be fine, that I was the one girl that could get through this.

“Who do you think you are to make demands? Dirty spawn.” One of the guards scolded me with a spank to my chest that made me feel the sharp metallic taste of blood.

Our pack was huge, one of the biggest packs or perhaps the biggest one and so it took a while for us to reach the pack gate.

At this point, my whole body which was being dragged on the bare ground was sore and all bruised.

I didn’t have to look to know that I would have broken the skin of my entire back.

“Don’t ever come here again, traitor.” One of them spat at me as he threw the small bag I had packed earlier.

I struggled to stand, my body wobbling terribly as I tried to see if they would have released Ava or papa.

To just see them one last time…