It's All Your Fault

Chapter 2

Eva’s POV

   “I hope that Alpha Patrick levels this pack for what you’re doing to his children. How could you attack someone who wasn’t even on your packland? Did any of you think this through? Or did you think that they would be too scared to go against you? Their pack is twice the size of this one. They actually have strong, trained warriors in their pack. I hope the Goddess sees what you are doing and she punishes you all. It’s what you deserve,” I angrily replied.

   I’ve never been this angry before in my life. I had accepted that it was my lot in life to pay for a death that I hadn’t caused. But for Tori and Keefe to be assaulted like they were, that was way too far. They had done nothing wrong. They had been attacked even before they were on our packland. That has to be against our laws.

   I knew Donovan was only doing this to try to punish me, and I hated him for it. I couldn’t stop myself from letting him know exactly what I thought about what he had done. But he spoke before I could.

   “I don’t care if you hate me, Eva. But since you do, I might as well go all the way then. I was going to let you die intact, but I don’t mind getting a taste of you. They say sex is way more intense when you're with your true mate than with anyone else. Might as well see if that’s true then,” Donovan said with a laugh.

   “You can’t be serious, Donny. Would you actually cheat on me? She's just a dirty Omega. Why would you want to even do that? What if it causes the curse to stay with the pack?” Claudia’s shrill voice rang out.

   Donovan shrugged and said, “You’re not my mate yet, Claudia, so it’s not technically cheating. Eva already hates me, so I already know she will end up hating every minute of it. Then the warriors can take turns with her. She will suffer more if we do that before we kill her. You know how much pride she has, despite not having a wolf.”

   Claudia was pissed, but she stiffly nodded in agreement. The threat in his words was clear to us all. He was telling her to either go along with it or she wouldn't be his Luna. I don't even know what she is thinking. Donovan was no prize. If she were smart, she would walk away from him now, but she wants to be the Luna so badly that she's willing to accept a cheating mate. Doesn't she know that he's never going to stop cheating on her?

   His brown eyes flashed in excitement at the thought of hurting me, and my stomach rolled in disgust. I had hoped that Claudia would throw one of her many tantrums and stop him. Instead, she agreed to what he had planned. How could a woman do that to another woman?

   My stomach dropped at the thought of any of these jerks touching me, but Tori spoke first, “Don’t you dare touch her. I knew this pack was trash, but I didn’t realize that you had gotten to this level of disgusting behavior in the last five years.”

   “Your arm’s broken, what are you going to do to stop me, Victoria?” Donovan mocked.

   “You have no authority here, Victoria. You can’t boss any of us around. I don’t love the idea of Donny fucking her, but he’s right. She is going to hate every minute of it. She will know total humiliation before we actually kill her. It’s the perfect way for her to meet her end. She always thought that she was so much better than the rest of us. Acting all high and mighty when she doesn’t even have a wolf. She might as well be a human. She's about to become the talk of the pack,” Claudia said with a laugh.

   Donovan had approached me while I was looking at Claudia, and ripped my shirt open from the collar down. His eyes took me in as I attempted to cover myself, but he didn’t allow me the opportunity. He dragged me about ten feet away from Tori, but made sure to drop me onto the ground right in front of her and her brother.

   No, he wouldn’t do this. He couldn't do this to me. Not right here in front of everyone out here. Whether I want to be or not, I'm his mate. Are wolves supposed to love their mates? Doesn't he care about me enough to spare me this? I couldn’t believe that he was actually thinking of going through with this.

   “Don’t touch me,” I cried out in fright.

   I wasn’t going to just allow him to do this to me. If I had to, I would fight him until he ended up killing me to get me to stop. I’m going to kick him in his balls if I have to. I wasn’t just going to accept this. A jagged strike of lightning hit a tree near us, and it hit the ground with a loud thud. The growl of thunder behind it let us know that a strong storm was coming.

   “Donovan, something’s not right. There’s not supposed to be a storm. What if the Moon Goddess is displeased with what we're doing? We need to stop. Just go ahead and end her. She's not worthy of you anyway, and what if you're right? What if you're never satisfied with another she-wolf again after screwing Eva? Are you willing to take that risk?” Claudia asked.

   She wasn’t very smart, but she knew exactly how to work Donovan. He would never risk sex not being as pleasurable again. I was surprised that she basically admitted that she was well aware that he was cheating on her. I guess she's okay with it, as long as she is the Luna of the pack. I would probably feel the same way, too, if it kept his nasty hands off of me.

   Her words made sense. It wasn’t raining, but something was definitely wrong with what was going on. The air was charged, but there was no heavy humidity like there usually was before a storm. Just thunder that sounded like it was getting closer with each passing minute. The lightning kept striking the trees near us.

   She was right, something definitely wasn’t right, but Donovan had gone too far tonight to back down now. He couldn’t just let Tori and Keefe leave here. They would definitely tell their Dad, and there would be a war between our packs. He had no choice. He was going to have to deal with all three of us tonight, and he didn’t seem to have a problem with it.

   “Maybe in our next life, doll,” he told me before strolling off.

   He went over to the warriors who were standing nearby and spoke to them for a minute. They nodded and headed over to Tori and Keefe. Donovan walked back over to me and turned me around to face them. I was crying, but I wasn’t going to beg such a heartless monster. I just started praying that if there was a next life, I wanted to be the one to end him in it.

   Tori and Keefe were both silent. They weren’t going to beg for their lives. We were past the point of no return. I watched in horror as two of the warriors held them down, while the other two warriors' hands changed into claws. The warriors were smirking at me, watching me silently cry for the only people who had loved me enough to try to rescue me. The warriors bent over and dug their claws right into their carotid arteries.

   They left their bodies lying on the ground, like they were trash, as each beat of their heart brought them closer to death. I've never felt so angry or helpless in my life. I closed my eyes so I wouldn’t see the moment they died. A minute later, my cheek felt like it was on fire, and my head slammed into the ground.

   “Don’t you dare close your eyes now, Eva. You’re the reason they're bleeding out right in front of you. You dared to try to leave. Who are you to decide that? Alpha Dominic has already instructed that anyone who helps you escape is to be killed. Since they wanted to help you so bad, this is what they deserve,” Claudia stated.

   My heart broke into a thousand pieces. She was right. This was all my fault. I had pulled them into my fight, and if I had to do it all over again. I wouldn’t have asked for help. My tears fell harder as Donovan yanked me up off the ground and sat me up in front of him. Tori and Keefe lay motionless on the blood-covered ground.

   “You want to do the honor’s love?” Donovan asked.

   Claudia’s smile was sickening. These two were disgusting and totally deserved each other.

   “May the Goddess never give you two a heir. I pray that neither of you knows a moment's peace for what you did today. I hope the Goddess allows me to make you both pay for killing innocent people,” I vowed angrily, my tears spilling down my cheeks.

   Donovan held me still while Claudia's hand formed into a claw. “Die, you cursed bitch.”

   The last thing I saw was the night sky after she cut my carotid. Donovan just dropped me and left me to die alone. I watched as lightning lit up the sky in a bold display, with thunder accompanying it. I prayed to the Goddess for just one more chance at life so I could make this right. If I couldn’t how could I possible live with what had just happened to the only friends that I’ve ever had?