Chapter 5: Save me

I wouldn't live past my 23rd birthday.  I would never have the joy of bringing pups into the world, and see them have pups of their own. I had accepted my future. Death is all waiting for me and never wavering from it.

Once the water had finally heated, I stepped inside the shower. I gently cared for my injuries, I slowly and lightly began lathering my body.  Cleaning away the human first aid kit’s smell from cleaning my wounds. 

My touch became feather-light on the areas of my body that were most tender, wounded, and bruised. I hissed when I accidentally clawed my wound. 

Finishing up and tenderly tapping my body with a bath towel, I reached into the top drawer of my dresser and searched for something to wear, wide and wouldn't have too much texture for my wound. As soon as I opened the drawer, my hand came into contact with the only item that I owned that connected me to Knox. Lifting the heavily faded grey sweatshirt that had once been black. I pressed the fabric to my nose, wishing to smell the wood and pine smell it had once held, but knowing it had been long since Knox's scent had disappeared.  It was a souvenir I only kept. 

I wore his shirt with my underwear, excluding the bra. I raised my thin comforter with my hand and slid into the cool sheets of my bed. Sighing, I was hoping that I would find peace in sleep.  But I was never that lucky.  

As soon as I was about to be crandle by sleepness, I felt the stirring of a burning sensation I was all too familiar with begin deep within my abdomen. I knew what was coming next as I forced a piece of my sheet into my mouth and clenched my teeth down and tried to stifle my own scream but to no avail, it was then the most intense pain that I have ever felt. A loud scream escaped my mouth, enough to wake up the whole pack members, and after that, I found oblivion in the form of losing consciousness at the peak of the inferno.

“What do you mean she’s dying!?” I heard my father scream at the pack doctor when I woke up and tried to open my eyes but I couldn't see anything. I closed my eyes and opened them again but to no avail. I couldn’t see anything. It’s pure darkness. I tried to calm myself and open my eyes again. I was finally able to see.

“What was that?”

“I’m sorry,” my wolf replied. “It’ll come so soon and there’s nothing I can do a-anymore.”

“So soon?”

“Yes…”

“I tested her blood sample, Isaac,” he said. “I found traces of Wolfnip. She has been taking the substance for two years.”

“What!?” My mom started to cry. “My baby’s taking those dangerous drugs? No…no..no. why? What’s the reason?”

I heard John sigh. 

“I heard about this drug. It has various kinds ranging from any shifter kind of pain. It was made to deal with intense pain. There are dealers in the human settlement. Maybe November got it from there,” he explained. 

“Pain of what? And why the hell would my daughter visit a human settlement? Why?”

“Pain of rejection,” John said, made my mother scream in agony. 

“No! No! You're lying! My daughter hasn't met her mate yet!” my mom screamed.

“Unfortunately, based on the bruise and the wound, I say she already found him but he rejected her. The bruise was already spread all over her body and the wound seemed like it had been there for too long. Her wolf was too weak to even heal it. I’m sorry, John, Pearl.”

“No!” My dad yelled. “Who the hell was her mate? How could he do this to my princes? Why? Why? What did she do to be treated this way?” I heard my Dad’s voice crack, trying to prevent his cry. 

I opened my eyes. My mom was the one who saw me awake first and she ran and hugged me so tight. Her tears soaked my hospital gown. 

“Novy, love. What happened to you? Why did you keep everything secret from us?” My mom imprisoned my face between her hands and gently looked at me, tears flowing from his eyes. “Who is it? Who was your mate?” 

I looked at her brown eyes and the tears I had long to hold flowed. 

“Don’t try to cover him. Please. Your father and I are begging,” she added. 

“It’s…it’s Knox,” I whispered, barely heard by everyone. 

My parents, the pack doctor, and my brother gasped. 

“T-The Alpha?” my mom said, her hands were trembling as he pulled me to hug me, trying to comfort me.

At that moment the scent of Knox, Emerald, and some other man entered the clinic and my brother, his best friend lunged at him. 

“Bastard! You’re killing my sister!” He yelled and punched him right in the face. 

Knox didn’t fight back. Everyone was demanding an answer from him and even looked at Emerald who was clueless all along. 

“I decided to choose Emerald. She’s the love of my life. I’m sorry,” he said. 

My wolf cried at what he said. 

“For what cost huh? Killing my sister!? When did you know? When!?” June was fuming. 

“Two years ago, during November’s 20th birthday.”

“Fuck you! Fuck you!” He yelled and wanted to punch him again but Dad stopped him. “Start finding your Beta, Knox because I’ll quit your pack. I’ll take my parents and November away from a monster like you!” 

“I’ll save her,” came a familiar voice. The man who I couldn’t smell due to my wolf’s dying state stepped closer to me. “I’ll bond with her and possibly save her from dying,” he added. 

The man was no other than Zeus. What the hell was he doing here? 

“Who are you?” My brother yelled at him. 

“I’m Zeus, the Leader of the Hybrid herd,” he said which made my parents and everyone’s eyes widen.