CHAPTER 27–Make it two, two Scents. ALPHA REX“Are you sure we have the right place?” Logan and I have been out for days, working extra harder than we always have just because I needed to get to the root of the situation fast and get rid of the Omega. The thought of her left a brooding feeling inside of me. Even without meaning to, my thoughts would always drift over to her and then I would have to fight to replace it with something else. “Yes, I am certain this is the place. He owns the club.” Logan and I had just driven my car to a spot across from the said club. Its was heavily guarded by two hefty men and the music roaring from inside the club was loud enough to reach my ears from where I sat in my car. I snorted at the tacky name of the club brought to life by the green neon light thart flickered on and off. “When did this one open?” I asked, totally unaware of when a club opened up in my pack with a name taken out of the name of the pack itself. From a distance, I could sen
CHAPTER 28–One hurdle at a time. EUDORA. A piece of paper with some silly writing on it.It was all I was worth this time around. It was all it took for me to be tossed away again like I didn’t breathe the same air everyone else breathed. Like I wasn’t every hit as alive as them all. Zena betrayed me and left me to deal with dangerous men. The realization still caused a shuddering feeling to rock my spine at how stupid and naive I was. Stupid to think anyone stronger, anyone of higher rank would actually be my friend. The Rogues dragged me away from the busy part of the club and into a darker area where a door was opened and I was tossed into the room whose lights were also kept low and dim. I couldn’t put up a fight. Not anymore. There was not a time when I fought back and won. This moment was just like every other. It was just like every other thing I’d been through. I huddled in a corner of the room—the darkest. I couldn’t fight the men off but I could at least hold off my woe
CHAPTER 29–Zena+Eudora=Friends. EUDORA We didn’t stop running. We raced across rough terraces, biting shrubs and slippery grasses just the same way we did on paths that were as clear as day. Zena’s grip on my wrist was tight, her slim hand holding on to my plump ones like her life depended on it. In a way, it did. Both our lives depended on how far away from here we could get. The familiar path back home was dark and I had my own sharp eyesight to thank for how swiftly I missed dashing my feet on rocks along the way. Zena had no eye sight yet she was the one pulling me along, maneuvering her way through the obstacles bent on slowing us down. It only reminded me of how she’d read whatever was in that paper with her fingers and knew just what it was. She was a mixture of danger and fascination, both deadly thrills to man. Crazy how both things were responsible for us running for our lives. The fascination that made me follow her and the danger that was posed to me because of her.
CHAPTER 30–Nothing but trouble. ALPHA REXI didn’t know why I stood there and just let them run past me but what else could I have done? How fast could I have come to terms with the fact that my sister—might I add, who was very much blind—had been fighting off rogues while the Omega I thought I thought I had in check clung to her? How was anything supposed to make sense to me in that fleeting moment? Nothing made sense right from when I regained consciousness and was told an Omega was just across my room and I was the one who brought her back to my pack with me. Even now, as I sat on the couch in the room and watched as Logan beat the answer out of the two rogues bound on their knees in front of us, nothing still made sense. “Enough.” My words stopped another one of Logan’s punches on Tyron. His fist hung mid-air only for a second before he slowly brought it down and kicked Tyron forward. He landed just a few feet away from me, coughing up blood as he did. Tyron was a bloody mess
CHAPTER 31–A wet mess. EUDORAI ran right into a wall-like figure while making my way back to my room in the dark and it made me lose my footing. I braced myself for impact, clenching my eyes shut as if it would reduce the pain that was going to come with my butt hitting the floor—hard but it never happened. A hand had shot out to grip me by the wrist to stop me from making a mess of myself on the floor. Instinctively, my free hand landed on the wide plane of his chest, gripping onto the thin material of his shirt to further steady myself while I stared into a pair of silver eyes that were at their brightest in the dark and lonely corridor. They made my breath lodge itself in my throat, making the first few seconds of impact with him hard for me to breathe or think straight. The Alpha. “You.” One word from his lips and I came right to my senses. I jerked away from him like he was hot coal and he burned me badly. The movement made me lose my footing again and this time, there w
CHAPTER 32–I was once like you.EUDORA. With slow and uncertain steps, I entered Lillian's room while she held me to herself. The old Gamma didn’t care that I was wet all over or that I could ruin her clothes. Even though I was cold from the rain that had mercilessly beaten me, her kind heart provided momentary warmth. It took my mind off Alpha Rex and everything else that has plagued me. I knew that those things weren’t easily forgettable, they would haunt me the moment I’m no longer in Lillian’s warm space but I lived for little moments like this and wanted them to happen often. If I could have at least five minutes of warmth in a day, I’d use the seconds found in each minute to fill up the rest of that day if it turns out cold and terrifying. Especially if it turns out cold. Ten seconds for when I come in contact with Alpha Rex and he seethes at me. Five seconds for when I sit at the table to eat with them. Ten seconds for when I am alone in my room. Lonely. Afraid for my fut
CHAPTER 33–Just one more week. ALPHA REXThe news of my appearance at the Banes Club spread like wildfire across the pack. Along with it was rumors of the presence of an Omega in the pack, the first in the last six years since I took over the pack. The rumor wasn’t anything I could avoid, unless I’d acted like myself and silenced everyone who had been present at the club. The rumors would only remain a rumor as no one could confront me. I didn’t think it wise to get more blood on my hands because of an Omega. It would be reckless to ruin the peace of my pack just because of her. More so, I would be getting rid of her soon. If there was any blood I’d be getting on my hands, it would be hers and if I didn’t have any justification to kill her before other than for being one of the species I hated the most because of the effect they had on me, I had one now. She knew too much already just by breaking my rules and going out of the house with Zena. About our parents. The Omega would be
CHAPTER 34–Grounded!EUDORAAsk him, she said! He won’t turn down a polite request, she said! The Alpha is just…a little different from others when it comes to expressing his feelings, she said! Why had I let Lillian push me into this?He’s different alright. Every other person, notably my bullies has said pricking me with a needle would cause me to deflate and float in the air like a balloon but Alpha Rex would be the first person to think flattening me into a book would be better. And what’s worse? I believed it because I knew it wasn’t just any threat. I have seen firsthand what the Alpha was like(well his alter ego as Lillian barely explained but it doesn’t change anything). I’ve seen what he was capable of doing and I wanted no part of it. I wiped the tears from the corner of my eyes, making sure to hear the usual bang of the door to his room before I slowly raised my head to return back to the table where I’d been eating. I already lost my appetite but I also knew better tha