2: Protective of an Omega

Ryan stared at me like I was an idiot. My heart beat fast where it sat. There was nothing I could do if this man forced himself on me.

He looked in the direction of a small barrel that was sitting next to the fountain and I followed his eyes. "Fill the tub with more lilies. That barrel is full of them."

"Oh." My cheeks burned a bright red out of embarrassment. How could I have been so stupid to think he wanted anything to do with a lowly omega like me.

The barrel had wheels so pulling them to the tub was not an issue. Ryan dipped himself further into the tub until only his head was visible, leaning against one edge of the tub. The silence hurt my ears as I slowly packed more lily flowers into the already sweet smelling warm water.

I was one handful of lillies and ready to pour them in when he held my wrists without warning. I flinched with a loud gasp, my chest rising and falling in fear. "That's enough." He commanded, still keeping his eyes closed.

"Yes sir," I bowed my head and dumped the flowers back into the barrel. I wanted more than anything to be back at the omega quarters. Why would he call me here if he wasn't planning to kill me? Not that I wasn't grateful but the suspense was making me feel worse.

"What do you mean you're a virgin?" He asked and by now my pale skin must have turned completely red. 

"I- I..." I was lost for words. The question had taken me by surprise. 

He opened his eyes and turned in the water, so he was facing me. His dripping hand reached for my chin and he gently pulled me towards him so that our faces were only inches from each other. His dead eyes stared into mine while I tried to look at anything but him, holding my breath so I wasn't breathing on his face. "You don't want me to touch you?"

"No sir." I shook my head fast.

"Hm." One corner of his lips pulled up into what could have been a smirk, the closest thing I'd ever seen to a smile on his face.

I didn't think it was possible anymore but he was inching even closer to the point where I could feel his hot breath on my skin at this point and I closed my eyes, not knowing what to expect next, when the door swung open without warning.

I retracted from Ryan with a gasp, thinking I would be dead if someone saw me that close with a high rank, especially the future alpha but Ryan wasn't phased. He didn't let go of my chin, just averted his eyes towards the distraction.

It was Doe Hackman, the only person who didn't fear Ryan. "Ryan, it's here, they..." she trailed off, realizing my presence in the room as she looked between me holding on to the edge of the tub, crouching and Ryan holding my chin.

Doe and Ryan were best friends. The two had grown up together. Doe's father was Mark, the beta and healer of our pack and she was honestly just as scary as Ryan.

"What is this filth doing in here?" She scrunched her face in disgust at me.

I backed away from Ryan as Doe came closer to us. She had the face of a goddess, blue eyes and shoulder length, straight blonde hair. Her lips were coated in bright red lipstick and I thought for a second, she was going to hit me across the face but as she took steps towards me, Ryan reached for her wrist, pulled her back, and shook his head.

He nodded once at me and I didn't know what to make of it so I stood there blankly.

"It means get the fuck out of here!" Doe snapped, causing me to flinch and hurry out of his chambers, with my head lowered.

"Ugh, these omegas piss me off, dull and daft..." I heard Doe say as I disappeared from their presence. As soon as I was out of there, I ran to the omega quarters, not believing I was still alive.

All the omegas off duty were back in the quarters. It was like a small village of small huts, enough to fit one person but some omegas who had chosen to get married to each other and have families shared the huts. 

There was a central bathing room by the lake, the men's part was separated from the women's with a wooden demarcation built by the men.

I headed straight for there to wash my face and calm my racing heart.

"No way you're not dead!" I heard Stacey's voice as she hurried to my side where I knelt by the lake. I unraveled my waist length, curly brown hair from its bun and soaked it in water as well before turning to look at her.

"Well, here I am." I smiled at her.

"What did he do to you? What did he say? Where did he take you? Did he show you his dick? Ariel told me he's a man whore and goes after anything in a skirt even though he is the big, bad, scary wolf!" She drooled at the thought of it. 

I smacked her shoulder, "cut it out. None of that happened." I rolled my eyes at her, intentionally leaving out details of how I might have almost kissed Ryan. Aela melted at the remembrance of it and for an omega, she was such an active turned on wolf.

"Are you okay? Did he hurt you?" This time it was Casper Wand, probably the hottest omega ever. He was older by three years and had been my protector ever since he was demoted to omega. He used to be a warrior of the pack and no one knows why he was demoted but most omegas still gave him the respect of a high rank. He was built strong and muscular, his hair was always in two braids and he had tattoos all over him. Others saw him as a hottie, to me, he was the older brother I always wanted.

"I'm fine Casp, thanks." I shrugged.

"They made the announcement while you were gone, we are working on the arena starting tomorrow!" Stacey announced to me and we both squealed in joy.

The arena was where the festival was held every year and this was going to be our first year participating even though we had decorated it for two years now. It was the biggest festival in our world. Other packs were invited and even one or two humans showed up.

"I can't wait, let's go to bed early so we'll have enough strength tomorrow!" I yanked Stacey out of there, "bye Casper, see you Tomorrow." I left him standing there and headed to my hut with Stacey. 

*

We were all woken up early by the head omega Hilton. I was one of few who was excited to be working in the arena. Stacey and I dragged ourselves to the dusty arena with our cleaning tools and started work right away. An hour later, it had become too exhausting but we had to keep going on.

Some of the high ranks poked in for a minute or two to check out what was going on, give a few orders and then leave. 

"Nadeline, Stacey, leave those pictures and clean those goddamned statues!" Hilton barked at us. He wasn't very liked by most omegas. 

"This is the statue of the first bloodmoon alpha." Stacey said, wiping the dusty concrete statue with her rag, "so hot. I just want to know what he was like in bed." She whispered and I rolled my brown eyes at her.

"Hn, fuck me sir." She chuckled. 

"Are you in heat?" I raised my eyebrow at her and knelt by the foot to wipe the shoes of the statue.

"I di- woah Nadeline look out!" Stacey yelled.

"What?" I knitted my eyebrows and then looked up to find that the statue was leaning towards me. It had lost its balance and was going to crash against me. In utter shock, I stayed glued to the floor, using my hands as shields as if that would do anything to protect me.

I closed my eyes and when I opened them next, I'd be swooped away and the crashing sound shook the arena. There was dead silence as I tried to figure out what was going on. I was in Ryan's arms, held bridal style.

I was still in shock, staring at him until Hilton popped out of nowhere. I hopped out of Ryan's arms, "I'm so sorry, I had no idea how it fell." I apologized in a panic.

"You bitch, do you know the value of that? You are-" Hilton raised his hands to hit me, and I closed my eyes to brace myself for the impact when out of nowhere Ryan's claws popped into view and he scratched Hilton's face.

"Don't you dare fucking touch her!" He growled.