Jax was talking and smiling, and then he sniffed the air and looked over at me.
I had never seen such pure rage on his face as I did in that moment, his eyes promised violence, but it wasn’t for me, I actually worried about the packs’ safety for a second.
As quickly as I’d seen that rage, he just as quickly hid it behind an unreadable face. He carried on playing the part as if he had no clue who I was.
If they knew one another, then surely they knew whose pack territory they’d taken me from?
“Oh Jax!” The alpha said as Jax sat down on the sofa. “Did you know you had an omega roaming your territory?”
He was testing out if I truly belonged to the pack or if I’d stumbled upon their land.
Jax replied, “oh really? What were you doing there?”
“We were just on the outline hunting as per the agreement with your alpha. We brought her back here, I don’t think she was yours, was she?”
I think he was trying to save his a.ss by making out he was just caring for some weak little wolf he’d found or something, so that if Jax did say I belonged to their pack, the alpha could feign innocence like he knew none the wiser.
“No, she’s not part of our pack, we’ve never seen an omega before.”
Why didn’t Jax say that I was part of his pack? A sinking feeling hit me, maybe they had changed their minds and didn’t want me anymore? But then I’d seen the rage in his eyes?
The alpha grew excited. “Ah, well then you’ve got to meet her, omega, come!”
I quickly went over to him and the alpha put an arm around my waist, pulling me in against him. “She’s a good omega, does as she’s told, don’t you?” I gave a nod and kept my head down at the floor.
“Why is she covered in cuts and bruises?” Jax asked.
“Ah, you know how the wolves get, they have frustrations and have a tendency for violence, I find it a safer option for the omega to do what she was made to do for the pack and take the frustrations and violence instead of them going out and accidentally killing any humans or something equally dramatic.”
“So, she’s your maid and a punch bag?” Jax asked.
“Not just that, she’s taking over from our w.hore Kaitlyn, you can be the first to try her out if you like, a gift for your alpha’s kindness in letting us hunt next to his land. Just don’t have s**x with her, I want to take her virginity, but you can do whatever else you want with her.”
He pushed me towards Jax and I was so battered and bruised, feeling weak, that I fell into his lap. He caught me and made me straddle him, keeping up the pretence. “Is that true, baby? You going to pleasure me?”
I gave a very soft nod and the alpha laughed, “she’s very shy, but I promise you she will do whatever you want her to, if she doesn’t, you have permission to punish her until she does.”
I felt Jax’s body tense, I could feel him trying to contain his rage. Keeping under control, he looked at me and said, “don’t worry, I’ll take good care of her.” To me, he said, “your p*****. will be aching for me, baby.” He laid a featherlight kiss on my lips and then nudged for me to stand up.
He stood up and asked, “is there somewhere private I can play with her?”
“Of course, upstairs there’s a spare room, you can use that, and then we can finish discussing business.”
“Come on, omega,” Jax said, and as soon as we were in the spare room he pulled me into his arms. “I’m so sorry, Rose, I’ve been f.ucking searching for you everywhere. Everyone else thought you’d just run away, but I knew you hadn’t. Only Fenris believed me and tried to help. Dad sent me here to talk business with the alpha, I can’t f.ucking believe you’ve been here the whole time, talk about fate bringing me here and finding you,” he smiled.
I wrapped my arms around his waist tightly and sobbed into his chest. “Shhh, it’s ok, I’ve got you, darling.”
He pulled back and stroked my hair away from my face, I’d never seen him so tender before.
“You stay here Rose, no matter what you hear, don’t leave this room.”
“Jax?”
He opened the door and shut it behind him, locking me in with the lock that had been on the outside.
“Jax!” I hissed.
I didn’t hear anything for a while, and then I heard a blood-curdling scream. No way could he take on a pack of werewolves, including the alpha, could he? He was an alpha wolf himself, but there were twenty werewolves here and only one of him.
Chaos erupted, I could hear crashing and screaming, people running. I knew Jax was on a killing spree, but I couldn’t see how he’d survive himself against so many.
It went on for a long time, but finally, I heard the door to my room unlock and Jax opened it.
He was covered in blood, both his own and other peoples. He was bruised and bleeding all over, but he grinned at me as if it was the most fun thing he’d ever done.
He scared me like this, and I took a step back.
Dropping the grin, he came in and said, “don’t be scared of me Rose, I would never hurt you, you know that.”
“How did you?”
He knew what I meant and behind him Fenris walked in along with a female werewolf.
“He had help,” Fenris said.
“Take her back to the pack while I clean up,” Jax said. Fenris gave a sharp nod.
The beautiful blonde female who looked like Carrie right now with all the blood, looked at me with sadness, they didn’t like me as an omega, but clearly their pack didn’t tolerate this level of abuse.
Fenris looked at me and said, “you look like death, it’s going to hurt, but you need to change into your wolf to heal at least some of the damage.”
They gave me privacy to do so and it took me almost an hour, it really did hurt a million times more than normal.
I limped out to them when I was done, and the female gasped when she saw me. Jax dropped to his knees in front of me and held my face gently. “What the f***k did they do to you?” He whispered.
I whimpered softly and Jax let me go. “Sorry darling, I don’t want to hurt you.”
Fenris knelt beside me and very gently he checked me over. “They’ve t.ortured her in wolf form too, so she wouldn’t heal when changing. I didn’t even know this was possible. Her wolf form is more injured than her human form.”
I knew what they meant. I was bruised all over in my wolf form, too. I’d also been burned, as well as attacked by dominant pack members in their wolf form, I had chunks of flesh missing and a chunk of flesh was hanging from my side.
“You f.ucking look after her,” Jax growled at Fenris, anger taking him over again.
Fenris stood up and put a hand on his shoulder and said, “I will, just do what you have to do.”
“Come on,” Fenris said to me and limping I slowly followed him outside.
It felt so good to be outside in the fresh air, I could taste the freedom, and I was so happy my tail wagged softly.
Fenris caught me and I saw his usually cold and unreadable face show sadness, like it broke his heart to see me looking happy in such a distressing situation. He quickly hid the look and opened a black car door for me to climb into.
I tried, but in the end he had to gently help push my backside up, and I lay down panting from the pain. The female Wolf got in beside me and actually allowed me to lay my head on her lap.
She stroked my head softly, and I knew that wasn’t normal werewolf behavior, they were violent and aggressive in nature when dominant, and she was definitely a dominant wolf.
It felt nice, but I noticed when looking at her face it seemed to be therapeutic for her, even Fenris looked at her in the rearview mirror and asked, “what are you doing May?”
May looked up at him almost dreamily and only said, “hmm?”
“What’s up with you?” He asked again.
She frowned like she was waking from a dream, and then looked down and realized what she was doing. “Oh, um, I didn’t even realize I was doing it. It’s strange, stroking her feels really soothing, even her scent this close relaxes me, is it an omega thing, do you think? Because I’ve never felt it with the submissive wolves.”
Fenris looked intrigued and pulled over to the side of the road. He got out of the car, and opening the back door, he leaned over me so close we were a hairbreadth away from touching.
He sniffed me closely, his nose touching my fur. He jerked back suddenly, making May ask, “you felt it?”
He cleared his throat awkwardly and muttered, “yeah, I felt it.” He climbed back into the driver’s seat and didn’t say another word on the drive home.
There was something else going on with him, but I didn’t know what.
They both led me inside the pack building and everyone stared at me in horror. I truly did look worse in wolf form. They’d abused me worse in this form as I’d sometimes tried to use my wolf form to heal or rest or keep myself safe.
Romulus came over, usually he hated me, but even he looked appalled. “What happened to her?”
Fenris grabbed his arm and said, “I’ll tell you later, but right now, we need to talk.”
Romulus frowned at him but nodded.
Fenris leaned down beside me and said in an emotionless tone, “my father is in his office just down the hall in that door there.” He pointed down the end, and I gave a slow wag of my tail in acknowledgment. “You’ll be safe now, no one will hurt you here.” He said the last bit loudly as a warning to anyone who thought to try anything that they would be sorry.
I limped down towards the alpha’s workroom and pawed at it softly. It was his Luna who actually opened the door, Savannah, and I whined softly at her, letting her know I’d missed her.
“Rose…is that you?” She asked horrified.
She didn’t wait for a reply, she got onto her knees and pulled me into a gentle hug. I wagged my tail softly, I couldn’t hug her back in this form. I felt my fur grow wet with her tears, she was crying for me?
The alpha, Romeo, came over to see what was going on, he was the only one who managed to keep his face mostly unreadable, he knelt beside his mate and gently pulled her away. “I’ll take care of her, honey.”
She reluctantly got up and Romeo focused on me. Looking me in the eyes, I quickly dropped mine, but he gently made me meet his again. “Its ok hon, let’s go clean you up, and then you can rest until you are ready to talk. Ok?” I licked his nose in response, not thinking of how that might offend him, but he smiled softly at me and stood up.