Awakening The Silver Wolf

still alive

Bella POV

Three days passed. This time, I counted after Vivian's visit.

Three days of living in a daze not knowing who to blame for my mother's death.

She was killed trying to warn me against the snake I brought into the house.

If I hadn't made friends with Vivian, maybe my mom would still be alive.

It was my fault. It was all my fault.

Heavy footsteps approaching pulled me from my daze.

I lifted my heavy and tired eyes and there he was.

Hunter — my mate, my tormenter.

He stood there with his arms crossed.

“ You are still alive.” He commented flatly, no emotions showing on his face.

I forced a scoff.

“ I am sorry to disappoint you. I am very much alive. I am too hard to kill, you see.” I replied.

“ Still sharp mouthed. You still haven't learnt your lesson?” He observed.

“ What lesson am I supposed to learn? How to lie and admit to something I didn't do?” I fired back.

“ There you go again and here I thought, you'd be ready to repent.” Hunter scoffed, looking annoyed.

“ I will never repent or admit to crimes I didn't do.

No matter how many times you ask, I'll always give you the same reply.”

Hunter scoffed from beside me then pushed off the wall he was leaning in and walked towards me.

“ Tell me something Bella, do you think Vivian is crazy enough to harm herself and our baby?” He asked.

‘Of course she is crazy to do that and much worse.’ That's what I wanted to scream but I held myself back.

What was the use?

In his mind, Vivian was some saint who couldn't hurt a fly while I was the villain in their story, the killer who didn't flinch taking a life.

“ Think whatever you want. I am done explaining myself.” I replied with a sigh, closed my eyes and leaned against the cold walls.

“ That makes it the two of us. I am done listening to your bullshit.

The pack is arranging Vivian's crowning party since you ruined the previous one.” Hunter revealed.

“ I am choosing to let you walk out of here free even when you don't deserve it.” Hunter declared and I fought the urge to scoff.

Why make it sound like he was doing me some charity?

Asking me to leave the pack meant that he was banishing me. After stepping past the pack borders, I'd be a rogue and that means a life worse than death.

“ You could kill me if you think I don't deserve to be alive.” I refuted.

“ I am not a murderer like you, Bella. You could not spare a child's life but I am different.” He declared self righteously.

Different? What a joke! He was even worse.

“Besides, I am not dirtying my hands with your filthy blood.” He added.

“ I Alpha Hunter, reject you Bella Simpson as my mate and future Luna of this pack.”

I felt something snap insíde and I doubled, pain crawling through every muscle until I was gasping for air.

“ Leave from here, leave this pack and never show your face again. Otherwise, I'll kill you at first sight if I ever lay my eyes on you.” Hunter ordered.

I stared at him – at the man who was supposed to be my safe haven. Now, he was banishing me from the pack and taking the only thing I had left – my identity as a pack member.

A bitter chuckle escaped my lips.

“ Very well then. I shall leave.

I hope that the day never comes when you will regret your decision today.”

With Vivian's madness, he was bound to find himself in deep s**t. When that day finally came — and I prayed it comes soon— he will regret ever believing that snake over me.

Hunter scoffed at my words.

“Regret it? The only thing I regret is never seeing how dark and twisted your soul was and allowing you to stay in this pack.

I should have rejected you the night I realised we were mated.

Maybe then, my child would not have paid the price of your madness.” Hunter declared.

I didn't say another word. I pulled myself up, my muscles protesting from the exertion.

The pain from torture and rejection gnawed at me but I pushed myself and limped out.

Hunter had the decency of asking his guards to unchain my legs.

I walked through the pack house and everywhere I passed, the pack members turned to give me disgusted looks.

The pack was in a ceremonious mood. After all, Vivian was being crowned Luna the following day as per Hunter's words.

My presence however seemed to ruin it.

I limped past the pack house and headed to the woods.

With every step I took, I got further away from the home that never quite welcomes me.

Born from an unmated female, I automatically became an omega.

No one really cared much about an omega's life.

My mother never talked about my father. Every time I brought up the issue, she would end up looking miserable, as if something was haunting her.

With time, I stopped asking.

The only connection I had with that nameless man was the silver pendant my mother gave me on my eighteenth birthday.

She said something about being a gift from my father.

I didn't know who my father was and my mother was dead. Now, I didn't have a home anymore.

I walked until I came across the river that served as the border between our pack— or should I say, my former pack— and the neighboring pack.

Standing at the edge of the river, I looked back and let out a bitter smile.

“ Living in pain is too tiring. I can't handle it anymore.” I whispered more to myself and stepped into the water.

The cold water hit my skin but I didn't flinch, I welcomed the coldness, the numbness.

With each step, I submerged my body into the water until I was fully covered.

I closed my eyes and let darkness consume me.

*****

I woke up with a gasp, a splitting pain piercing through my skull and making me grunt.

Slowly, I opened my eyes, squinting and adjusting to the light.

Looking around, I realised that I was not in the dungeons anymore. Right! I left that hell hole before choosing to end my miserable life. But where on earth am I?

“ You are awake.” A voice sounded from beside me prompting me to turn my head to the direction of the voice.

Besides the bed stood a lady with a pair of the most mesmerising blue orbs I have ever seen. She had a smile on her lips making her resemble a fairy.

“ Thank goddess you are finally awake.” She murmured, a sigh leaving her lips. I could see the worry etched on her face making me almost choke on my tears.

Isn't pitiful having a stranger care about you when those close to you did not hesitate to hurt you and cast you aside? I didn't know when a lone tear slipped past my cheek.

“ Why are you crying? Did I say something wrong?” The lady asked with a hint of panic. I shook my head as I attempted to smile, something I knew I failed terribly with the frown that marred her face.

“ Are you not happy to be awake?” She asked.

“It's not that. I'm happy.” I replied.

Lies. I wanted nothing to do with being alive. What's the use anyway? With no family, zero friends and a mate who is disgusted by your existence ,being alive could only be translated to a life of pain and misery.

“ Who are you and why am I here?” I asked after trying to mask my emotions.

“ My brother found you washed away by the river shore and brought you back.” She replied with a smile.

“ Your brother? “ I wondered out loud. Why would someone save me? A broken and rejected person like.

The door burst open just as the lady opened her mouth to answer me and for the first time in many days, my wolf surfaced but this time, with a word I dreaded to hear.

“Mate.” She whispered. My eyes widened with terror.

“ Kiara, can you step out for a moment? I need to talk to her.” His deep magnetic voice sent shivers straight to my heart and I felt warmth pool down there. Goddess! Help me.

The man studied me and suddenly, I became hyper aware of my own appearance.

“ You don't seem happy to find your mate.” The man pointed out.