Reeling emotions

THERON

This was a bloody abomination, this was… utterly despicable of me. Her huge rounded brown eyes stared deep at me and I felt my c**k twitch again between my thighs. It made me feel like a creep. She stirred some sort of darkened emotion in me. I stared down at her with absolute lust and disgust.

"I'm your uncle," I breathed out, the harsh reality dawning on me. Her puzzled innocent eyes bored deeper into mine. She seemed to understand too.

In two swift motions I ripped her off me, shoving her away, giving enough gap between us. I watched as she stumbled onto the floor. I'd taken the chance to adjust myself in my pants before glaring down at her. Why was I so hard? So painfully erect when I'd never gotten a reaction from any of the most beautiful maidens given off to me?

"You would say no word of this to anyone. To everyone. You’ll keep your mouth shut. My brother could have done better than run off with that pathetic mate and f**king birth to a weakling of a child," I sneered, my words filled with venom and hatred and absolute frustration.

Her lips pressed shut, to hold herself from crying? Or perhaps to keep her head intact, knowing asking me would only call for a punishment other than being whipped.

Angrily I stormed out, heading towards my chambers. It was too much to wrap my head around. I…? This wasn’t right. So why was I still thinking of her? About those huge eyes of hers… about how she shivered when I had traced the birthmark carved into her skin by my brother, her father.

"Alpha Theron."

Derek my beta called out. A bitter frown stretched on my face as we locked gazes. I wasn’t entirely in a jolly mood and he could probably tell.

"They are here to present their new daughter to you," he explained, bowing slightly. F**k… I.

"Cancel it. I'm busy," I blurted out coldly, marking a tone of finality. I'd be damned before I meet that devil's spawn again.

"I'll relay your message, Alpha," Beta Derek spoke again, dipping his head in another courtesy bow before walking away. Aeron had a child. He kept it hidden from us. From me, his only brother. And it was all her mother’s fault.

The woman who had seduced him. The one who caused me to break bonds with my brother. She made him abandon the family and move out of the pack. Aeron who was rightfully the owner of all this had it passed down to me. Responsibility I never asked for. Anger churned in me. He was off having a happy ever after? And well, guess whose daughter was back around. What sort of monster did he think I was, keeping the existence of a child away from me?

My c**k did the stupid thing again, jutting between my thighs, earning a groan from me as I tossed my head backwards, spreading my thighs apart. Shit. Why on earth was I acting like a pup in heat? I'd never cared much for sex. It was mostly the same cycle. F**k, c**. Discard the lady, choose a new one next time.

"Anyone out there?" I called out. The door pushed open several seconds after, the tapping of feet approaching me as an omega bent forward on her knees, not daring to look me in the eye, and I preferred it that way.

"Get me Astrid. Is she in?" I questioned.

"Yes Alpha, she's in her chambers right now," she explained. I nodded, waving her off as I stood to my feet, heading towards the door. Derek halted in his steps, his eyebrows raised up in a questioning manner.

"I’ve reported as you deemed me fit. They’d be returning now. And the daughter… she's old enough to train with the pack warriors starting tomorrow according to pack rules. She’ll be moved to the dormitories for the Gammas as we speak," Derek explained, although his tone still held curiosity toward them. He’d kept his questions to himself.

I tried hiding my amusement and also curiosity. Did she look just as weak as she was? Or did she inherit a lot of her father’s wit and strength?

“Dormitories?” I asked, my brain cutting off all circulation. But Derek nodded again, like I’d asked the most obvious stupid ass question, which I seemed to have.

“Have her placed in quarters. Hers. Not dormitories along with every other one. She’s new and weak. She’ll be bullied. And we can’t have that going on now, can we?” I asked, not caring for Derek’s response as I continued to walk towards Astrid’s chambers.

Truth is I didn’t want her with me. She belonged to my brother. She was his child. I’d murder anyone who dared to look at her wrong. And if she went around getting herself into trouble and kept batting those eyes of hers like that, she’d be getting into a whole lot of trouble.

“Let me go!”

A voice echoed, solid and familiar. I tilted my head in the direction, and I felt something snap in me. She stood back to the wall, caged between two arms. I’d recognized Erebus. A Gamma who had risen in rank over the years to be a pack warrior, one who led his division. He had the infamous popularity of being a manwhore—not that I indulged in gossip of the younger ones in my pack.

But I’d never wanted to snap someone's spine in two. I’d never wanted to rip someone’s head so fast apart like I did right now.

Erebus’s gaze snapped to me. My muscles locked for a moment, everything in me going numb. She needed my help? She wanted me to… help her? I’d almost laughed. A sinful smirk twitched on my lips. Erebus seemed to have noticed her staring in my direction as she stared my way.

I made a show of letting my eyes drop between both of them before walking past them. She could be my brother’s daughter, but she was the very same reason our family broke apart. I wouldn’t be her guardian angel. I don’t pay attention to weaklings. And she… she was a disaster.