LOGINKiara’s mother was an omega, and her father the alpha of their pack. After her mother’s death, Kiara moved in with her father and stepmother, who abused her for years. Kiara turned to alcohol and drugs until she eventually left without warning. She continued this lifestyle until she sought help, leading to a significant life-changing event.
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Six years earlier I lived recklessly, indifferent to danger. I was ruthless and hostile, disliked by many. Some attributed my actions of rebellion or attention-seeking, but it was deeper than that. I was broken, seeking solace in alcohol and drugs to escape the torment and abuse of my past. People advised me to forgive and forget, but it's not easy to overcome the physical and mental pain I've endured. My lifestyle choices threaten my future, yet I still need to seek the help others suggest. Despite my pack's attempts to aid me, they eventually gave up, stating I had to want help myself. My friends abandoned me, leaving me in despair, unable to understand my suffering. When I ran, I thought I’d finally be free but oh boy was I wrong. The constant hiding and seeking shelter was much harder than I thought. Constantly running, trying to hide from my past as my father and stepmother sent teams to search for me. I knew why my father was searching, he just wanted me safe, but my stepmother had other plans she didn’t want me safe she wanted me dead. Although my father didn’t know this, I did along with many others, yet not one of them could speak up, fear of being punished or much worse slaughtered by the hands of my stepmother while my father was away on business trips. No one would be able to stop her but my father, but will he believe anyone. My stepmother has always been good at manipulating my father into believing everything she said every time I would get into trouble, she blamed it on the fact that I was raised by an omega and couldn’t handle the lose of my mother, but in all truth of the reality it was the abuse I had been suffering for years at the hands of that wretched woman. The women who claimed she loved me like one of her own, but everyone but my father knew she loathed me and couldn’t wait for the day I was dead. In her eyes I was nothing but trouble, a deception of my fathers affair and a worthless omega who didn’t deserve to be in the present of her and my twin brothers. Some days I’d hope she would have just killed me hoped for the day all of the pain and suffering would end, but no she had other plans she wanted me to suffer like she had suffered when she found out about the affair. Feel the pain she felt when my father mated with his fainted mate conceiving me. Go through the torture like she did when she was trying to save her chosen mate bond and their marriage. Sometimes I wish my mother were still alive and that my father had chosen her. I would have grown up differently I would have had a family, a mother and father who love me. Then the most important thing of all I would have never walked down the path of alcohol and drugs I would be free.The apartment feels too still.Not quiet — still. Like the air itself is holding its breath. My wolf paces under my skin, restless, uneasy, sensing the shift in my emotions even before I fully understand them myself. Wolves don’t like change. Wolves don’t like uncertainty. And right now, I’m drowning in both.Oakley moves around the room behind me, his magic humming faintly in the air. It’s subtle, like a soft vibration against my senses, but my wolf notices it instantly. She always notices him. Not in a threatening way — more like she’s aware of him the way she’s aware of fire. Dangerous, but warm. Something to respect, not fear.He stands in the doorway of my room, watching me shove clothes into a duffel bag with far more force than necessary. “You don’t have to rush,” he says gently.“I’m not rushing.”My wolf snorts at the lie.Oakley steps inside, picking up a shirt I tossed aside and folding it neatly. His magic flickers around his fingers — a faint shimmer, like dust catc
The office feels different now.Not lighter—nothing about this situation is light—but the air isn’t pressing down on my lungs the way it was a few minutes ago. Something has shifted. Something subtle but unmistakable. And I’m not sure if that terrifies me more than the silence that came before it.Colton’s words are still hanging in the air, steady and unyielding. You’re not walking into that pack alone. It shouldn’t mean as much as it does. It shouldn’t make something in my chest loosen, shouldn’t make my pulse settle, shouldn’t make me feel… safer.But it does.And that scares me more than anything else in this room.I sit back slowly, unclasping my hands before I realize how tightly I’d been holding them together. My fingers ache from the pressure. Oakley notices—of course he does—and shifts slightly, like he’s ready to step in if I so much as wobble. He doesn’t say anything, but the quiet support radiating off him is almost enough to make my throat tighten.Almost.I force
The office feels too damn quiet.Not the peaceful kind of quiet—this is the heavy, suffocating kind that settles over a room when everyone is thinking too much and saying too little. The four of us are still seated exactly where we were after the argument fizzled out: Oakley still sitting next to Kieara, posture stiff but calm; Lenox still standing behind Kieara like he’s trying to pretend he’s not invested; and Kieara across from me, spine straight, hands clasped tightly in her lap.She looks composed. But the bond tells me otherwise.Her emotions brush against me like faint static—uncertainty, tension, a flicker of fear she’s trying to bury. I don’t reach for it. I don’t push. I just sit with it, letting her have her privacy even if the bond makes that nearly impossible.I clear my throat, breaking the silence. “We need to talk about the move.”Kieara’s eyes lift to mine, guarded but steady. “So, talk.”Oakley shoots her a quick, worried glance, but she doesn’t notice. Lenox r
For a long moment, I can’t speak. I don’t even know what I’m supposed to feel. Colton’s words hang in the air between us—steady, patient, nothing like the forceful Alpha who’s been looming over my life since the moment this bond snapped into place. And that almost makes it harder. I was prepared for anger. For pressure. For him to demand something from me I wasn’t ready to give. But this… this quiet sincerity? I don’t know what to do with it.I look at him—really look at him. The tension in his shoulders has eased, his posture open instead of imposing. He’s giving me space. Me. The girl he barely knows but is somehow tied to by something ancient and powerful and completely overwhelming. And for the first time, I see the weight he’s been carrying too. The restraint. The effort. The hope he’s trying so damn hard to hide.It does something strange to my chest.“I…” My voice catches, and I have to swallow before trying again. “I appreciate that. More than you probably realize.” The wor
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