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The car screeched to a halt inside the pack compound. Reynold pushed the door open first, slamming it behind him. I followed a few seconds later later, my hands trembling as I stepped out of the car. The Silence between us was louder than a storm, my mind was burning with questions I can't even dare to ask.
It was him. Reynold. My boyfriend.
It turns out that he is my mate after three years of dating. I should feel joy. Relief. Anything. Instead, all I felt was fear. He reacted the way I never expected.
Inside the luxurious sitting room, his back was stiff in anger.
“What sort of nonsense is that? Huh! Are you even thinking at all?” His words pierced my heart and shattered it into pieces. “How could you open your mouth and tell me you are my mate?”
Those words shot at me like a daggers. Hot tears streamed down my eyes. I remembered the gifts, his smiles, the way he had once cared. All of it shattered because fate tied us together.
“My mate? You? Impossible!” His roar made me flinch. “I’m marrying Loara, the Alpha’s daughter of Blue Pack, in two days. You won’t ruin that.”
Two days. My knees buckled.
“You… you mean it?” My voice trembled. “What about me? What about us? You cared up until an hour ago. What changed?” I stepped closer, desperate. “ Don’t throw me away.”
His eyes burned. “ Don’t confuse it. I only kept you to warm my bed and I can't continue with a low life” His lip curled. “For you to think I would marry someone like you , you must have lost your mind.”
My lips parted, I wanted to argue and say something but a voice cut me short.
“Can someone tell me what is going on here”
It's Loara.
“What's with the strong atmosphere? Am I missing something?”
Her appearance alone shows that she is out of my standard, I can't even compared myself to her not to talk of dragging things. I only have one life.
Admist this chaos, I saw Reynold smile . “You don't need to stress yourself, Baby” he said smoothly. “Just teaching this maid her place.”
Her eyes cut to me. Sharp. Cruel. She stalked forward and yanked my chin up. Pain shot through me.
“So you’re the little brat causing trouble,” she sneered. “Listen well. In two days, I’ll be married to Reynold. A lowlife like you isn’t welcome anywhere near us.” Her spit landed on my cheek.
For the past three years, he is the man I have eyes for and he showered me with so much love. Because of his love, I forget all my pains. My low status, my miserable life. Even though I'm his personal maid, he made me feel like a woman.
Could that be a pretence? So he doesn't love me?
“I beg you, Reynold…” I turned back to him, taking a small step forward. My voice trembled, pleading. “Don’t do this. Don’t throw me away like I mean nothing. You know me. You know what we are.”
But before I could reach him, Loara’s hand shoved against me. The push was sharp, angry, filled with the venom of jealousy.
Humiliation burned hot. My body shook, but before I could wipe my face, she shoved me back.
“Loara, wait…” Reynold tried to catch her arm.
But her push was too hard. Then, I lose my balance.
My head hit the edge of the table. The pain exploded as warm blood gushed down my temple.
Blood.
It gushed out far too quickly, soaking through the fabric, painting my hands crimson as I tried to press against the wound.Through my blurry vision, I caught Loara’s startled gasp. “I didn’t mean…”
“She’s bleeding too much,” Reynold muttered.
My ears rang. Their voices turned low, frantic.
“Get rid of her.”
“What if someone finds out?”
Reynold’s voice was low, urgent, but not for me. “Quiet. We can’t let anyone know. If the pack finds out, this will ruin everything.”
“But she’s bleeding, Reynold…”
“Then we get rid of her.” His words were like ice. “Dump her outside. No one will care. She’s just an omega.”
My breath hitched, but my voice wouldn’t come out. I could only hear them as shadows closed in around my vision.
“What? That’s Impossible! What if they catch us? What are we going to do?” Loara uttered, the fear in her voice audible.‘Shussh! Don’t you love me anymore? We can't let anything ruin our marriage in two days! We need to get rid of her right now! After all, she is just an Omega, and no one cares about her existence.” Reynold voice was filled with determination.Listening to his plan, I couldn’t help the tears rolling down my cheeks. So Reynold could kill me just because I’m an Omega with no family? The Moon Goddess has always been harsh on me and the existence she granted me.
His hands grabbed me, cold and unfeeling now. They dragged me across the floor, my body too weak to resist. My head knocked against something hard as I was shoved into the boot of the car. Darkness swallowed me whole.
***
The storm woke me.
Help… someone help me…
I was so weak and tired. My body trembled in the cold rain. I need help but I couldn't voice out, I can't shout. No one could hear me.
Am I going to die like this?
Then I heard a footsteps coming closer to me.
My heart leapt with fear. Were they enemies? Or… hope?
However, I couldn't confirm before passing out.
FinalThe morning did not mark itself as final.That was the first thing Tyla understood when she woke up. There was no sense of conclusion in the light, no weight pressing the air into significance. Dawn arrived as it always had—slowly, without permission, touching the edges of the land before settling fully into being.She lay still for a long time, listening.The world was awake. Birds moved in the trees beyond her camp. Wind traveled low along the ground, disturbing nothing it did not need to. Somewhere far off, water ran over stone, patient and uninterrupted.Arthur was not there.That truth no longer startled her. It no longer arrived like a wound reopening. It existed the way gravity existed—unchangeable, present in every movement she made.She sat up, folded her blanket, and prepared to leave.There was no urgency. No destination waiting to validate her effort. The path ahead curved gently downward, disappearing between rock and scrub. She could follow it. Or she could stop he
Tyla POVThe path did not change because Arthur was gone.Tyla noticed that first—not as cruelty, but as fact. The ground held its familiar firmness. Stones rested where they always had. The wind moved through the grass with the same indifferent patience. The world had not paused to acknowledge the loss, and it would not.She walked anyway.Morning stretched itself thin across the valley as she descended, light spreading without urgency. Each step landed cleanly. Balance remained intact. Her body remembered how to move even as something within her resisted the ease of it.Grief did not arrive as it collapsed.It arrived as accompaniment.By midday, she reached higher ground where the air cooled and the view widened. The river Arthur had followed was visible in fragments below, catching light in brief, broken flashes. She stopped there, not to rest, but to orient herself—to understand where she stood in relation to what had ended.Arthur had not been a destination.He had directions .
Tyla POVTyla sensed the absence before she understood it.The land still moved as it always had—wind through grass, water shaping stone, birds cutting precise arcs through air—but something in her own rhythm no longer returned the same echo. Steps landed. Balance held. Yet the continuity she had trusted felt thinned, stretched across distance.She stopped on a narrow ridge just after midday.Below her, the valley opened in muted layers, rain-fed streams threading through darker earth. Smoke rose faintly near the western edge—too thin to be a signal, too deliberate to be nothing. Tyla studied it longer than necessary.She had not intended to turn back.Intention, however, had never been the only measure of truth.By late afternoon, she altered her course—not sharply, not dramatically. Just enough to test whether alignment still existed. The land allowed it. The path curved westward with minimal resistance, as though the ground itself recognized the adjustment.She followed.The terrai
Arthur POVMorning arrived without a decision.Arthur woke to it already present—light diffused through clouds , the river audible beyond the trees, its voice unchanged. His body registered the day before he moved: the leg stiff, swollen, uncooperative. Pain existed, but it was no longer the sharp kind. It had settled into something denser, structural. A condition rather than a warning.He remained still for several breaths, letting awareness map what movement remained possible.Enough, he decided. Not everything. But enough.The others were already awake. He heard them nearby, quiet but alert, moving with the careful efficiency that came when uncertainty replaced routine. No one spoke to him immediately. They had learned, over the weeks, to wait until presence invited engagement.Arthur sat up slowly, bracing himself with one hand against the ground. The motion cost him more than he expected. He adjusted without comment.They had planned to move today. The ridge ahead still waited. T
Tyla POVTyla woke to the sound of rain moving through leaves.Not falling hard—no urgency in it—but steady, deliberate, as though the sky had decided on continuation rather than release. The kind of rain that did not interrupt movement, only altered it.She lay still for a while, listening.The shelter held. The fire had reduced itself to warmth without flame. Morning existed, but it did not insist on being named yet.When she rose, her body responded easily. Muscles remembered yesterday’s distance without complaint. She tightened the strap of her pack, ran her fingers once along the worn edge of its fabric, and stepped outside.Mist hung low among the trees. The path ahead was partially obscured, but not lost. It rarely was.She began to walk.The land here differed from Arthur’s valley—narrower trails, denser growth, ground softened by water and decay. Roots crossed the path like old decisions, forcing attention with every step. Tyla welcomed the demand. It kept her present.By mid
Arthur POVArthur woke before the others, as he often did now. Not because of urgency, but because the land no longer allowed sleep to linger past usefulness. Dawn pressed lightly against the horizon, thinning the dark without breaking it. The valley breathed beneath him—slow, patient, unchanged by his presence.The fire had burned down to a shallow bed of embers. He stirred them once with a stick, then let them rest. Warmth remained in the stones, in the ground itself. Enough.His body registered the night in familiar ways: stiffness along his lower back, a dull ache in his left knee that had learned to speak only when it mattered. He stood carefully, testing balance, listening to what the body allowed. It allowed movement.They would move today.The rise they had climbed yesterday had not been the final one. Arthur had known that even before reaching the summit. The land did not resolve itself so easily. Beyond the valley, the terrain shifted again—steeper, less forgiving, marked by







