Rescued by the Alpha

CHAPTER3

Everything within me felt numb, all that remained were the stands of a broken bond reaching for it's missing piece, I could hear the commotion going on in front of my room, they had tried getting in several times, good thing I had locked the door last night cause I didn't have the energy to get off my bed. I could also hear the chirping of the birds outside my window, I had watched dawn that morning wishing the sun would sink back into the abyss from which it had risen. I felt empty, like I had cried out the last of me into my pillow which unsurprisingly had a full face of makeup on it.

Ughh! I needed to get up, the bakery should have been opened hours ago, there had to be customers lining the side walk at that time but for the first time I didn't care, they could all go f**k themselves. I turned in bed once more, placed a pillow on my head to drown out the sounds of argument from downstairs only to have it snatched off me.

“Get out of bed, you look like roadkill” she said. I moaned in exasperation, couldn't she just let me be.

“Get out Luanne”

“ That's funny, you haven't called me that since that highschool essay stuff, what's wrong with you?”

I grabbed another pillow to place over my head, willing her to go throw herself off the balcony already but of course she snatched that one too.

“ What? You didn't get the dicking down you were expecting last night?” She asked. “ And open the blinds up here please, goddess it smells worse than a blood suckers celler here” she went about her way, throwing open the blinds and shoving the curtains out of the way. I hissed at the stinging it brought. She plopped down on the bed next to me, shaking my midsection until I had no choice but to answer her

“You are holding out on me, I mean I told you when I had my first kiss”

“That was in middle school”

“ Same difference Rena, I'm also quite concerned about the adults downstairs.”

“We're adults too”

“ No we are young adults or something like that, don't give me an aneurysm thinking about how old I am” she replied

“Just leave me alone”

“Did he hit you? Is that what it is?.” The dam holding off the tears burst open and it all came tumbling down, I covered my eyes immediately. I hated when anyone saw me cry. The space beside me dipped and I felt her arms around me, head against mine and I don't know why but it made the tears so much worse. Luanne had never babied me, not the time I got into a fight with people twice my age and they whooped my ass five ways to Sunday and definitely not the time I got my heart broken at senior prom by that smelly human kid. her arms tightened against me and I leaned into her, my head against her nape while I cried my soul out, once again.

“I think I ruined your shirt Lulu”

“It's okay, you can ruin it some more.” Her hand stroked lazy lines down my head. What did I ever do to deserve her? When you are done, I'm gonna need you to tell me exactly what happened last night. She said so I told her everything, all I could remember. It wasn't long after that that I was summoned by my parents.

“This is not the best circumstance for a first time meeting don't you think?”

My head snapped in the direction of the voice, eyes locking with the Alpha. I averted my gaze immediately, for the first time noticing how facinating the floor board were. Lulu ushered me down the stairs and to a sofa where she sat as well, a hand causally placed on my thigh. The presence of the alpha in the room was heavy, it strung its way through my mouth and nostrils, expanding my lungs with it's cloying presence, suffocating me from the inside. Everyone else in the room had been sitting when I came down, mother and father beside me on another couch while Diana sat right in front of me, the alpha situated next to her.

“The pack is only as strong as it's weakest link, we cannot have that link be our Luna, you understand that child?” He began immediately. All heads snapped in his direction but mine, tears welled at the back of my eyelids.

“Other packs will only see this as a way to attack us, we need a strong Luna child, one without genetic disadvantages.” My heart tightened itself further in my chest and the air became too hot to take in. The hand on my thigh squeezed a few times in reassurance.

Mother said nothing, her head remained bowed as he spoke but I could feel it coming off of her in waves, the rage permeated the air, everything felt hot all of a sudden. I reached across to grasp her tightly clenched fist, it settles her for a moment.

“You will accept his rejection dear child” he continued “and so you know we bear no Ill will against your family, your sister will take your place as Luna. She has been training for the role after all.” Diane stiffened for a moment, eyes roving the entire room quickly. My head shot up and our eyes locked. The alpha continued to speak but I couldn't hear him, I was too focused on her, what she would say? I thought. I wanted her to tell him to go f**k himself, that she didn't want to be Luna, that she would never do something like that to me. Let someone else be Luna. Her eyes remained fixed on mine, she said nothing.

“You should take some time to think about it. I'm offering you so much little omega. You should take it.” He finally concluded, sounding as though he was offering me the deal of a lifetime. I mean I guess he had offered me a lifetime funding far away from the pack, away from Joel and my parents and my best friend. He clasped his hands in front of him, leaning towards me then said.

“I'm sorry it had to come to this my child.”

My heart tightened up some more until every beat became an agonizing thrum in my head. After that he left, not before speaking with my dad outside of course but the rest of us remained sitted, all watching for what would come next. It was mom who exploded first. She shot off her seat as soon as dad came in.

“You didn't defend our daughter” mother began, the alpha would have heard her if he wasn't already pulling out of the driveway. She faced my father squarely while he scrubed a hand across his face. I couldn't remember if I had ever seen him so tired, the grey specks in his beard must have doubled since yesterday, the lines around his eyes stood out against his pale skin.

“Both our children are in this, we need to calm down and assess the situation Kourtney.”

“Serena needs us to defend her, he is her mate. She would be happy with him.” Mom retorted, hair whipping against her face as she reached for the liquor cabinet and poured herself a glass of whiskey.

“What about me mom, don't I deserve to be happy?” Diane asked, her face pulled into a sneer unlike any I had ever seen. She was mostly ignored at the time.

“That child has been through so much, we at least owe her this.”

“You can't keep doing this, don't act like this” dad pleaded, she turned to my sister, a finger held out from the glass in her hand and declared

“You will not mate with Joel and that is my final decision, you will not see or speak with him for your sisters sake”

“Mom!”

“I'm not kidding Diane”

“Why does she always have to get everything, she's so fragile that I have to sacrifice for her all the time. When will it be my turn mom.”

“ She is your little sister, you should __”

“ Take care of her, yeah I got it mom, you have been drilling those words into my skull since I was three. Did you even consider the fact that oh I don't know maybe I want to be Luna?”

“She can't mate him Kourtney.”

“Neither will Diane”

“She is weak and she knows it.” Diane quipped

“Young lady I am warning you.”

She turned to me this time, bound of her seat to stand in front of me,

“ You are weak, Serena you can't be Luna. Not unless you want the f*****g pack to crumble. Joel deserves better, the pack deserves better. Can you imagine, you can't even look me in the f*****g eye.” I attempted to fold myself away from her, wishing the couch could open up and swallow me, her eyes shone with anger, a little vein in her neck ticking with every word that came out of her. There and then, I would have given anything to get away from her

“So nice that you have mummy fighting for you,” she continued.

“ Shut up diane” lulu said

“ I wonder if you would throw yourself off a cliff when she's not here anymore”

“ That's enough. To your room Diane.”

“ Now!” Mom screamed at her, giving me one last irritated glance, she took the stairs to her room. The sound of her door rattled the roof. Mom took a moment, poured herself another glass then came to sit by me.

“ My sweet baby, she didn't mean any of that. She loves you and_”

“Why do you keep treating Diane like this” dad asked.

“Her sister is fragile, she should understand”

“She is our daughter”

“ Serena is our daughter too. We will not let the alpha mistreat her.” She said. The tension between them was palpable, mostly since I could see dad grinding his heels into the carpet, swaying slightly it was his way of telling himself to calm down. Seeing them this way ate at me, I felt even worse knowing that I had caused this divide in my home, I wanted to be anywhere but with them. I felt another reasuring squeeze on my thigh.

“Rena and I are gonna go out for some air if you guys are ok with it.”What would I do without lulu?

“Sure” dad answered and we were out the next minute. I sighed finally able to take in a decent breath.

“ Wow, your mom is so badass, seems like she wears the pants in your house, my mom could never” she stated with a light laugh. She must have meant to make me laugh but I couldn't agree more.