ACE'S POV The only thing that kept going on in my head was the fact that my whole world was in my arms. Karla was the love of my life. Always has been. I would have done something about it if what happened hadn't happened. I sped through the pack at a speed that I had myself prohibited in the pack unless, of course, it was an emergency, and this was the father of emergencies. My mate was losing blood in my arms, and I couldn't get to the pack clinic fast enough. By the time I reached there, she had gone pale from the blood loss. "Doc, get in here now." I barged into the clinic with her in my arms, catching every single person in there off guard. To the doctor's credit, he dropped all he was doing instantly, delegating it to someone else. "Alpha, what is the situation?" He asked calmly as the nurses behind him cleared a bed so I could lay her on it. "She has lost a lot of blood." I could barely breathe with how worried I was. "I think." "Put her down and stay outside, Alpha. W
THIRD PERSON'S POV Aiden. No! No! No! She pinched herself until it hurt as the footsteps drew closer. Karla abandoned all the training her father had taught her. How to stay calm in every situation so she could come out on top. To be fair, she had been doing that before that pleasant, horrible smell. She grabbed the bars and shook them loudly, hoping they would somehow give way so she could escape. Zeal was not helping matters, she whimpered in pleasure and chanted for her mate. Had she seriously forgotten what he had put them through these past three days? Karla wondered in frustration. He was the reason they were in so much pain and starving too. How did he even manage to find her? She was far away from Blue Moon Pack. What did the moon goddess have against her? All these questions raced in her mind. She realized that there was nothing she could do in this moment other than to try to get as far away as possible, so she drew to the back of the cage, ready to attack him. To her gr
KARLA'S POV Managing pain and survival was something I never thought I would have to do. Not even my father's training would have prepared me for the sheer pain in my heart. Even with the knowledge that it was Aiden, it didn't make it any easier. I gasped and ran. I found a small shed, and I limped towards it. I needed to catch my breath, or I would collapse. That was the last thing I needed right now. I needed to catch my breath for a second, and I hid my scent. I don't know how I was able to do that, but I did. The best option for me right now was to turn into my wolf, but Zeal wasn't even remotely up to the task, broken bond and all. I was trying to connect with Zeal when I heard footsteps behind me. I froze and sunk deeper into my shadow. "Find her." It was Alpha Aiden’s voice that made Zeal whimper, sending a fresh wave of pain rolling through me. What the hell did he want with me? "How dare she walk away from me?" He fumed. I would be appalled by his arrogance if I wasn'
KARLA'S POV Lance had given me thirty minutes, enough to find my mate if he truly was here. Considering how filled up this would be, everyone who was eligible would be here. I hung back in the dark trying to find my friend, Layla. The last time I saw her was shortly before I found my wolf, and I was desperate to see what her wolf ranked. Despite having limited time, I was hesitant to go mingle for fear that someone would mock me for my weak wolf. After ten minutes without seeing my friend, I decided to join the party when a delicious smell wafted up my nose. Zeal, who had been moody all morning, perked up. "Where was that delicious smell coming from?" I swooned. It suddenly clicked in my head that it might be coming from my mate. Promptly, Zeal whined, "Mate." My pulse leaped in excitement at the prospect of finding the one person in the world that was made just for me. Seeing as the scent was so deep and strong, it must be a beta. I wouldn't dare dream that I would mate with
KARLA'S POV I perfectly understood why my father was so violently opposed to the thought of having a child be an Omega. I was now the weak link in the family. In the pack, our family was one of those families that was one calamity away from being reduced to a lower-class family, and my father would rather die than become one, which was why he would rather die than have one of his children be an Omega. He had succeeded with my two brothers so far, so he had concluded that the problem had to be from me. "I won't have an omega in my home." He had boomed. I was still in so much pain that I didn't register the pain as he dragged me to the basement himself. Later that night, after I eventually changed back to my human form, I heard my parents arguing loudly, to be fair, it was more like my father yelling at my mother. "You are the cause of this." He spat. "You were the weakling of your family, and now you've passed it to your daughter." "There has never been an omega in my family,
KARLA'S POV My entire household was buzzing with an energy that we could all feel, but we couldn't quite describe what was in the air. My mother, a small prim, and proper woman who would rather get caught in a fire than run, because running was not very proper. One could easily mistake our family for a royal family instead of an average family in the pack. The only exception to the prim and proper image my mother tried so desperately to portray was the training my father put my two brothers, Lucien, Lance and me through. "There is no space for a weakling in my house." My father, Richard, would say while eyeing me, as if I was already an embarrassment. It was not my fault that my brothers had already beefed up and now towered over everyone in the house. What my father meant by a weakling, of course, was an omega. In our world, being an Omega was the worst thing that could happen to you. Omegas were treated like a blemish in the society. "Will you snap out of your daydreaming and