Chapter 5

Rose POV

After I ran into my room to avoid my mate, I began getting my “clothes” and bar of soap together for my bath in the pond, when I started to hear footsteps storming towards my room and that meant only one thing. Someone was angry and they were coming to take it out on me. I stood there waiting for my door to be ripped open, to take the beating so I could move on with my day. I wasn’t really surprised to see Jackie open my door, I was surprised by the words that came out of her mouth.

“HOW DOES A NO GOOD, WASTE OF TRASH KILLER LIKE YOU GET AN ALPHA FOR A MATE!?!?!?!?” She was screaming at the top of her lungs as she cocked her left fist back and connected with my jaw making it pop.

“What are you talking about?” I asked, fighting back the tears.

“Don’t play dumb with me! You are nothing. You wear sacks for clothes and sleep in a shoe cupboard and everyone’s bitch. How could the moon goddess give you one of the most powerful alphas around?” She yelled out.

After that, her punches never stopped coming. I could feel the blood oozing from my nose and around my eyes. After the fourth punch, I could no longer stand and collapsed onto the floor. I knew my jaw was broken and I probably had a broken eye socket but those would heal after a day or two. She grabbed me by the hair, pulled me upwards, and went to knee me in the face when out of nowhere she was ripped away from me followed by two of the loudest growls I have ever heard.

A strong set of hands caught my head before it made contact with the ground. The contact sent a bolt of electricity down my spine. My eyes were completely swollen shut so I couldn’t see who it was but I knew just by his scent, it was my mate. But another scent caught my attention, pine trees mixed with the ocean. This scent set fire to my soul. Who is he and why does his scent make me feel this way? I have a mate already, it doesn't make sense. My thoughts were cut off by the voice of the delicious scent.

“What the fuck do you think you are doing? I should kill you right now for putting your hands on my luna.” The venom in his voice and his aura could not be missed.

“She doesn't deserve to be a luna!! She killed out last luna, her own mother!!” Jackie screamed back at him.

“You don't know the truth, you only know what your pathetic alpha has told you! You best apologize to my mate for attacking her and the vile rumor you speak of!” My mate stated as he slowly cradled me to his chest. His aura was rolling off of him in waves and made me squirm in his arms slightly.

“Are you alright love?” Alpha Damien asked as he brushed my hair out of my face. I wanted to answer him bu the pain in my jaw was far too great.

“Damien is she alright?!?” The other male asked worry was laced in his angry voice.

“Her heart is still beating but she’s in bad shape. That whore broke her face, I don’t know how bad. I knew for sure her jaw is broken. She’s unrecognizable. She needs a pack doctor.” Damien said through clenched teeth. Jackie started to cackle like a madwoman.

“Good luck getting him to treat her.” Jackie stated with triumph in her voice.

“Why wouldn’t he treat her? It’s his job as pack doctor to treat those that need medical assistance.” The other man asked, I can feel the anger radiating off of him, it was like a hot flame waiting to burn someone.

“Alpha Maximus had given him orders to never treat her or he would torture his family in front of him. She isn't worth dying over.” She spoke with amusement. Two seconds later I heard a scream and a loud cracking sound and the breaking of glass.

“Jackson, you need to calm down, we need to get her out of here. Go fetch the car. I’ll meet you out front in five.” Damien said.

“You got it.” Jackson said as I heard him start to walk away at a very fast pace.

“Don’t worry my love, we will get you out of here and you will never have to come back.” Damien spoke with gentleness in his voice. He stood up with me tucked snugly into his chest and headed for the front door.

“Where do you think you are going with my property?!?” Maximus bellowed out.

“Your property? She’s a living being!! You lied to everybody and the truth will come out. I’m taking my mate home with me and I will be going to the elders about!! You better start counting your days. And if they do nothing to you, I swear on the moon goddess I will come for you.” Damien said as he stood up, with me cradled in his arms to walk out the front door.

“Wait! If you’re her mate then we can form an alliance to increase our numbers! We would be unstoppable!” The excitement in Maximus wasn’t unnoticed, but I heard the worry in it too.

“After what I have seen the treatment of my mate and the state of her physical health, I would rather die than have an alliance with this pack. You are a pathetic excuse for an alpha and your pack members are no better.” With that, Damien kept walking but he was trembling with anger. He climbed in the car and pulled me into his lap then shut the door.

“Get us the fuck out of here before I start tearing off heads!” Damien snapped

“Gladly! They are lucky I didn't burn this whole packhouse to the ground!" He pushed the gas pedal almost all the way down, flinging rock and dirt all over the front of the packhouse.

“How can they treat someone like this? I don't think there's an inch of skin on her that doesn't have bruises or scars.” Damien asked with utter confusion and anger.

“I don't know man, but they all deserve death.” Jackson stated with an angry tone.

“They will not get away with this! Mindlink Kate and have her get the pack doctor to the packhouse and be ready when we get there." The venom in Damien's words made goosebumps rise on my arms.

“I already did, she said she will be set up in your room before we will even arrive." Jackson said with a hint of matter of fact.

“I hope she will be okay, I can't lose her before getting to have her.” Damien trailed off.

"She will be okay, she has to. Our pack has waited too long for their luna." Jackson spoke with a pang of sadness. I wonder what he is talking about.

“For everyone's sake, I hope you are right." Damien spoke with something in his voice that I couldn't figure out. Sadness maybe?

“How old are you?” Damien asked while he reached over to move my hair out of the way so he could, I’m assuming, look at something.

“I just turned 18 today.” Talking made my jaw burn hot with pain. His touch slightly soothed it. There was a long pause before the tension in the air changed to confusion.

"Uh, Jack?" Damien asked, his voice a mix of confusion and worry.

"What's wrong? Is she still breathing?" Jackson's panic was ringing throughout the car.

"She has a blue eye and the other one is silver." Damien whispered.

"What do you mean the other one is silver?' Jackson asked in a tone of deep thought.

" She has a silver eye just like you do when both your dragon and your wolf come forth." Damien said in a tone of disbelief.

"That's not possible. My sister and I are the only ones that are half-werewolf and half-dragon. All the others were slaughtered." Jackson said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"I'm telling you, dude, she has a blue eye and a silver eye! How did we not know about this?" Damien asked.

"Her parents must have hid it to keep her safe. But if she's half-dragon then that means her mother must have been a full dragon. But how did their pack not know?" The confusion in Jackson's voice was clear as day.

"I heard luna Jane was from a pack overseas. It was said she never shifted in front of the pack because her wolf could not handle the change of climate here all the time. And our summers still were not warm enough for her here so she would fly home for a week every couple of months to let her wolf out." Damien spoke like her was trying to convince himself what he was saying was true. But is it?

Is what they are saying true? Why wouldn't my parents have told me? I never would have said anything to anyone. But it does make sense why mom always went away for a week every few months. Dad would always go with her but I wasn't allowed to. I always stayed with alpha Maximus when he was the beta. All of this was confusing me and out of nowhere my heart started to pound so fast , blackness consumed me.