CHAPTER 3: THE REALITY

***Kayla***

I ran out of the room in shame and embarrassment, I was pregnant and had given my virginity to a man who didn't want me.

I could hear Sheila running after me as I left.

I ran outside, gasping for breath.

"Hey, Kayla, what's wrong," Sheila asked.

"Derek, Derek chose Kylie as his mate," I answered her.

"Are you that surprised sister? Well, I guess I am too, but why would you be this shaken over that? Kayla is our friend and that means one thing, we'd enjoy from her luxury as luna" She chimed excitedly, obviously clueless as to what I was going through.

"Derek is my mate Sheila, and…." I broke down into a hysterical sobinable to finish my sentence.

"No Kayla, Derek is Kylie's mate," she replied, confused as to whatever it was I meant "And please don't cry," she added patting my back.

"No Sheila, Derek is my mate, and he's been for 2 months now, in fact, we made a baby," I said, touching my stomach as I cried harder, then found my way to sit on a stairway at the entrance.

"But I don't understand, he told me he was going to announce me as his Luna today and mark me as his, and now he marked Kylie, it means I've been rejected," I rushed my words amidst sobs.

"What?" Sheila asked, surprised.

"Why am I just hearing of this? How did you guys meet, when did all of this happen?" She had a lot of questions and I knew it was wrong for me to have kept them from her, she was my sister, and she never kept anything from me.

"Derek, he told me to keep it a secret," I said, realizing I had been stupid, and began to break down and cry even more.

"I hate to say this to you now in your darkest moment, but Kayla, how could you be so stupid, how would you expect Alpha Derek to love you, when he'd rejected his mate who was an omega once?" She asked, she was concerned, but I knew even though Sheila was concerned, she'd always say the truth and hit the nail on the head, but what she was saying I had no idea.

"He rejected an omega?" I asked, facing her as I wiped my eyes. "What could she have done?" I probed.

"You really don't know?" Sheila asked.

"I don't, would you explain to me already?" I demanded, and then she sighed and began.

"Before you, Derek had once been mated to another, only he never marked her, his excuse for rejecting her was that she was a weak omega who he couldn't trust to rule alongside him," I couldn't seem to be able to comprehend the rest of whatever Sheila was saying, as the only thing that kept ringing in my head was.

Derek had rejected me cause I was an omega, but then, why had he been intimate with me?

Was I just a plaything in his eyes?

"Kayla, Kylie is walking towards us" Sheila snapped, waving her right hand in front of my face.

But I paid her no attention, the more I thought about the situation I found myself in, the more confused I was.

"She's here," Sheila muttered, tugging at my gown, succeeding in getting my attention, I stood from the stairway I sat, dusting my gown, trying to look presentable as Kylie approached, she was now my Luna and no matter how I felt, I was to serve her.

"Kayla dear," Kylie said in a very disgusting tone, "you must have thought Derek was going to name you as his," she said, as she began to toy with her fingers then burst into a hysterical laughter.

"But you see, you dream so high and try to reach things that can never be yours, I mean, look at you, trying to become the alpha's Luna, a mere omega dares to dream" She mockingly said.

Kylie had changed from the loving beta friend who stood by me to a bitch who dared to steal a man she knew was mated to me.

"But, I'm not surprised he rejected you, if I were you, I'd reject me too," she said with a wicked grin on her face.

"Don't you dare talk to my sister like that you bitch," Sheila growled at Kylie, but I pulled her back, Kylie was now above us, and getting on her bad side meant punishment.

"Let's go, I want to leave this place," I said to Sheila who tried to protest, but looking at me, seeing the frustration on my face, she closed her mouth, held my hand, and dragged me further away from Kylie.

***

"I need some water, could you get me some?" I asked Sheila, we were in the warehouse of the hotel and had sat in silence for over 30 minutes since we got here after fleeing Kylie, Sheila didn't say a word, she just sat there, for me.

"Sure, lemme fetch you some water," She said and made her way out of the warehouse, but soon after, she came rushing back in, panicking.

"Kayla, you have to run, right now," Sheila said, roughly tugging at me

"What's wrong?" I asked, confused and not understanding what she meant.

Sheila moved closer to me then in a low tone and a sense of urgency repeated, "You have to leave Ravenclaw right now,"

"Why?" I asked in a more serious tone.

"I can't explain much now, but Kylie is dead, no she's murdered and Derek seems to believe it's your doing, and now, the whole pack is on the hunt for you," Sheila said, pacing around in front of me as she rushed her words, but they were clear enough.

A lot of thoughts rushed through my mind, a lot of questions I knew better not to ask cause Sheila wouldn't have answers to them.

Why was I to be hunted?

Why was I suspected?

Why should I run?

And more importantly, where was I supposed to run to?