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"You don't have a choice." Dane, the new alpha says to me and it gives me the chills.

Get up or Beast here will do it for you! You may have used that threat on others but it won’t work on me. He says and I cannot believe it.

Why doesn't he fear my curse?

I am taking time to understand why he isn't scared of me when he beckons Beast to get me up but I immediately try to get up myself. Unfortunately, my knees are weak and I almost fall the moment I get up but Dane pulls me.

I push him away when he holds me. I am struggling to stand but I do not accept the help from him.

"You don't seem to have much use for your legs." Dane says and I do not want to answer him.

"I can walk." I tell him.

"Let's go." He says and the pack members all turn to begin to move by his order.

The first step I take is dreadful and I have not even taken more than one. I am holding my drenched back pack in one hand while I hope to make sense of my legs.

“Unexpectedly, Dane who I thought was walking grabs my bag from me and bends his back signifying that I get a piggy back.” I am too shocked to even reveal how appalling what he asks is.

“I just stand in my drenched clothing wondering if he hit his head somewhere to do that.” Much less...he is thinking that I will comply?

"If you don't...I will have to ask Beast to carry you." He says and I know that was not an option.

Slowly, hating this moment, I choose to go by someone who shows hesitance to kill me than one who shows abstract hatred and wants to murder me.

"Dane stands on his feet after I have climb on his back, and he carries me." My hands are around his neck for support and I remain quiet as we walk out of the forest.

I never remembered a moment where my dead mate; Alpha Max never said anything about having a brother. Well, we rarely had personal conversations so it is not out of the blue of he has one.

It also didn't sit well with me how the pack members including Beast could have immense respect for him instantly. Did the pack members really pledge their loyalty to him so soon?

There are many questions going through my head and they remain unanswered and there is nothing I can do about it. We arrive at the vehicle and he lets me in slowly as one of the pack members opens the door of the vehicle.

"Go on."

Dane says and I listen to him before he makes Beast to get me in. He gets in after me and the vehicle is started for the road. I make sure my arms and shoulder does not touch him when he sits next to me in the middle seat.

‘All the seats are taken and he just has to be right next to me.’ After some hours of driving, they stop at a motel and I managed to keep my eyes open the entire time.

I exit from the car along with them and the moment I enter into the motel, right at the middle of it are men who all hate and detest me. I can smell the air and it reeks of wolves.

This place is full of them and I cannot escape it. Dane knows them as they cast a gaze of familiarity to him as we all enter and he gives one back to them.

I overhear when Dane is speaking to his men and he orders them to lodge a room.

A double room?

It doesn't make

any sense to me but I think that is what I heard. I stay still seating at the edge and of a chair when I hear them contemplate about me. I know he looks at me when he is discussing because I can feel his eyes on me.

Later, he walks towards me and I take my eyes off the table to gaze at him.

"Come on." He says and I stand on my feet. I follow him while others who are in the motel gaze at me as if they know what I've been through and where I am coming from.

I ignore them. What else can I do if it isn't to ignore them and pretend like I do not see their discouraging looks? Dane opens the door and it isn't anything I imagined a common motel to look like.

I take a deep breath to process what I am seeing right in my face of the polished room that looks like some executive VIP room. "Of course, I'm quiet but that doesn't mean I didn't see the enthralling floor, beds, how I can already imagine the bathroom experience?"

What!

 Beds!? I look over to see a double bed in the room and it is the most shocking thing.

Why are there two beds and what is it needed for? Surely, he is not thinking of staying in the same room as me!

Dane looks at me and he smiles.

Is this comfortable? "You have been running for the longest time since my brother died." Dane says to me.

Why are you doing this? I say in the most frustrating tone and it makes me want to burst into tears at this very moment.

Why are you doing this to me!? I scream.

"I'm saving you." What does it look like?

Saving me? You fucking bastard I have not asked to be saved! You brought me here against my will; you would not even let me choose my own death.

"I fucking hate you!"

"I fucking hate this pack!"

"If you respected your brother." If it were even an atom of respect, you would let me go! I shout at top my lungs as he slams me towards the wall.

Keep my brother out of your mouth, cursed Luna! He yells back at me and growls deeply, his fingers at my shoulder are able to crush my bones in a bit.

I close my eyes at but open it in time to watch when his eyes redden.

That's it.

There you go! You've said it, I am the cursed Luna! And what are you going to do about it? I ask, taking my body away from the wall and meeting his gaze in repugnance.

What are you going to do about it!? I yell again and push him away this time with my strength.

What are you going to do about it!? I push him once again and he backs off, but it is not because I have any power over him.

He allows me to be able to do it. 

Dane releases me and places a hand on his forehead as he heads over to one of the beds. He looks over to the second bed which has a t-shirt and a baggie pant folded neatly. 

"Take a fucking shower and rest." He says, his eye commands me to do as he says but I have suffered too much. All of this has cost me too much and I just cannot take it anymore.

Why did I even keep running? Why did I come this far only to get caught once again?

I should have just waited for them to rule out my judgment. It pains me the most because I was close to leaving this stupid town, almost at Lakecity to find my cousin.

Isn't it enough that my walls came crashing down the moment I took responsibility of being a Luna to a mate that doesn’t really love me? I gave up everything to be a leader to a pack that hates me.

A pack that is trying to annihilate me in this very moment!

And? All for what?

At the end of it I am stuck here with some bastard whose eyes speak of immense pain for his brother’s death but he pretended to not feel it.

"But now, more than ever. I am sure of what must be done to end this siege of reality, this circle that never ends." I know what I must do.

I walk out of the room and into the bathroom. I shut the door behind in anger, placing my back pack on the ground. I get on my knee and remove my taser out.

"Faster, I stand from the ground and increase the shower." I turn on the taser for a short time and put it off once again when I see that it still works. A tear slips from my eyes because I am doing something I never thought I would do.

All of a sudden, it just doesn't matter anymore.

The life that my grandparents asked me to continue isn't just worth it anymore. "These people rejected me, tried to annihilate me and so far." I don't know where I belong.

I start taking off my clothes until I am naked and then, I fill the bath tub with water until it falls from the brim and begins to leak. I stare at the mirror, my red hair has not been combed for the longest, it is tangled at every knot.

I get into the tub and I sit first and without thinking too much about it. I fall underneath the end of the tub with my eyes open and one hand holding the taser. I squeeze my knuckles underneath while my other arm is ready to pull the trigger.

I put my other arm which holds the taser into the water and slowly, I turn it on.