A MATE'S BETRAYAL

Daring

The grip on Nyx’s chin tightened to levels surpassing discomfort, but still it wasn't enough to warrant a different type of reaction from her. Unwillingly, her eyes drifted beyond the angry Luna's shoulder and once again landed on Rowan. She wanted some sort of reaction from him besides the regular glare because wtf?

"Speak! You damned- !" Nyx's attention was brought back to Luna who seemed just a bout ready to rip her - now throbbing- chin off her face.

Behind them, Mrs. Hawk cleared her throat in an attempt to reduce the tension building up in the room like smoke.

"If I may, Luna." At her words, Luna dropped the hold she had on Nyx.

"We have been monitoring her and I think I have an explanation."

"You think? Or you have an explanation." Luna snapped, carrying on the conversation as if she hadn't just been about to bite Nyx’s face off.

"She has a recessive wolf, she may never fully transform into her actual wolf. Claws and fangs may appear, her eyes may change color, hair even. Who knows with these recessive types." Mrs. Hawk spoke and all Nyx could do was stare in disbelief.

These types? Was that all she was, a type? She wanted to laugh, given the situation couldn't get any worse. Recessive wolves were considered the weakest link in the pack. There was no way she was a recessive wolf. But the only other option would be that she was a …

"Just our luck, we are stuck with a broken- Does this explain why their bond did not break?" Luna asked, still carrying on as if Nyx hadn’t just realized her life was practically over.

Wait… what bond?

"Yes, Partly. With recessive wolves, mating is more of a... complicated pairing, I am afraid. They are somehow connected rather than bonded. Until either of them awakens their true wolf. That or either of them needs to bond with a different wolf. " Mrs. Hawk was speaking but all Nyx could hear was the word bond repeating in her head over and over.

"What- what do you mean, somehow?" Nyx found her voice from deep within her confused mind. There was just too much to take in.

"My true wolf won't appear until I inherit the pack. As for the bonding part,what I want to know is if she has been having the same effects as I have. " Rowan finally spoke up, nothing but spite coating his words.

“Why is everyone acting like I am not here?And why are my parents not involved? ” Nyx had had enough.

"Because this is partly their fault. How did they not know they were raising a defective wolf. For now, we will deal with one thing at a time. We must get rid of those migraines. You are coming with us, someone has to pay for the inconvenience your family has caused mind" Luna said, throwing an accusatory look Nyx's way. If looks could kill.

"She can't lea-"

“Like hell I am. ” Nyx said, this time she walked to the door, anger rolling of her tense body like water. Who did these people think they were?

“How dare- ” There went Mrs. Hawk with the threats again, lucky for her, no tasers were around.

“I have had enough of your insults and abuse in the name of ‘Waking my wolf.’ You were the one who broke our bond. And now that you are suffering you think it's my fault? And to answer your earlier question, no. "I have not suffered any side effects .” Nyx looked at everyone in the room as she spoke her mind, the last part directed to Rowan. By the time she was done speaking her chest was heaving and her body trembling in suppressed anger.

How dare they treat her like she was a mere object? Her body was still shaking, just coming down from the anger induced outburst.

“This, is not my fault? I wasn’t the one that initiated the rejection. Whatever is going on, that’s on you. I will not be leaving this place, not without my parents.” Nyx stood her ground, channeling her missing wolf to give her the courage she needed or sheer will.

“What makes you think you have a choice?” Luna asked, seeming to have found her annoying voice again. “This may not be your fault but it certainly isn’t my son’s either. If anyone should be blame that should be your parents.”

“No one bonds to a recessive wolf. Why I would I choose a weak mate to lead my pack with.” Rowan said, his body moving- involuntarily- towards Nyx, by now his head ache was gone completely and he knew just how f****d up the situation was for him.

“How about you come back, you parents will have no issues with you joining my pack. Once we figure out how to completely break our bond or whatever remains of it, you can be free to go wherever.” Rowan added, hoping no one would sense the fear in his heart. This was a stupid idea, but he couldn’t achieve his Alpha status with the crippling migraines that attacked him.

“Rowan, I don’t think this is a good- ”

“I am not going anywhere with you.”

Mrs. Hawk and Nyx spoke at the same time but it was Luna that spoke next.

“All you have been doing is thinking, all this time. You had one job. Or do I need to remind you of what happens to people who don’t do their job?” She turned to Mrs. Hawk, eyes practically blazing.

“And you. Unless you want to see your family banished, suggest you come with us while I am still being nice.” She added, her fury fully addressed to Nyx whose heart nearly stopped beating. Banishment?

“Why would my family be banished?” Nyx asked, confusion and fear taking over, nothing was making sense and she wasn’t sure just how much more energy she had in her to continue this verbal and mental fight she was having.

“You can ask your parents that when you see them. We are leaving. Send me whatever report you have, I can’t stand the stench of this place any longer.” Luna said and headed for the door, rowan shadowing her. They didn’t even look back or wait to see if Nyx would follow. Nyx now had two choices.

One, to follow the deranged pair and two, make a run for it and hope that she could survive in the wild as a lone, recessive wolf.

Both choices daring but all she knew was that it was her last day at this wretched place.