Kelly POV
“Lou did you know why the Alpha called , he didn't mindlink me or any of that rather he sent you to call me” my mind was all flooded with all kinds of thought could it be this could it be that. Damn where have I gone wrong again. I trained well. I kept my meals. I scent in check. I have gone border strolling a billion times just this week. What could be the mess I have created?
I open my fur pocket hidden behind my jacket. I take those pills again to hide my scent to stay calm. The scent from last night, the one from last night and then my outrageous character this morning. All was 100% fine from my perspective but well that was it.
As I walked into the hall I could feel my dad's pressure on me. I hadn't even crossed my face with him at that instant. It downed Pixy's word with someone last night damn her. The footsteps.
“Damn Lou I'm done for it if I was caught, she must have exposed me”.
“Let's be calm first, we will know why he calls you in a few minutes. We are already about to get into the entrance,” he said as he tapped me lightly on the shoulder, giving me the courage that was needed.
My movements were all too subtle I entered the hall immediately and I felt the pressure of 4 old monsters and my dad. He was already well known to me but today everything seemed so off with no pressure from him.
“This is Light the Omega girl, you must have heard about whatever you must have heard was a lie and she will begin to stay in your chambers with you and train with you” . His words were short and sharp.
And it completely threw me off balance.
What the f*ck is this man talking about or so now you are imposing someone into my life. Make this make sense come my mind again flooded with thoughts which I couldn't control.
“ Father I never said I needed a mate beside me and elders please help me and tell father that this is…”
“Shot it, what do you know?” Elder Jacobs said immediately. “ That Omega is here to stay and she has been rescued by one of our Sentinels”
“Jacob be calm he is just a young wolf you to be so hard on him” Elder Pouf said while he turned his head slowly to me in an second he was beside me. “Young Alpha as you heard this Omega here would be staying with you because we feel it's the safest place for her to stay and grow she had been roaming around our border looking so weak and exhausted” he breathed a breath of an old monster and continued immediately “ so now you're job is to take good care of her and ensure she trains with you till we find out exactly where she is from and what happened to her”.
“Pouf that boy is no longer a pop why be so easy on him?”
“No… Jacob you don't do that.” Elder Hemel stood up to speak but was immediately silenced by an ancient breath.
One had sat there all those while he rarely spoke aged, his robes all white. His beards and hair all white. He opened his eye immediately and the hall went silent.
“ We all can't let this matter bring chaos to the court” Elder Gary turned and looked at the Alpha sitting there.
Elder Jacobs still sitting there looking to know if I would talk so he would attack immediately. He stared at me with blazing anger I could feel it. Even as he sat there I could feel him sniffing me looking trying to know of my scent was off. Trying to know if I had not walked in properly. If I hadn't worn my royal robe properly. Not like I cared so much. It was at that moment the Alpha ended the court and all the elders vanished within a twinkle of an eye including my dad.
I was left with only the Omega girl and I watched her from the shadows of the hallway. I didn't move a muscle, yet the air in the room seemed to thicken with my presence. My movements were too subtle for her Omega eyes — the slight flare of my nostrils as I caught her scent, the infinitesimal tightening.
She was standing by the fountain, the moonlight catching the silver spray of water behind her like a halo she didn't even know she was wearing. She wasn't shifting; she wasn't posturing. She was just… still. Gods, the calmness of her.
In a pack full of snarling tempers and sharpened teeth, she looked like a deep, quiet lake in the middle of a forest fire. Her elegance wasn't forced, it was in the way her fingers brushed a stray petal from her sleeve, a movement so graceful it felt like a physical blow to my chest.
My wolf, the beast I had spent years taming with pills and nameless women, suddenly went silent. He didn't growl. He didn't snarl. He bowed.
I froze, my hand still gripping the cold stone of the archway. I meant to look at her with boredom. Instead, I looked at her with a hunger that was suddenly, terrifyingly more than physical.
My eyes met with skin that looked like porcelain under the moon, fragile enough to break, yet there was a strength in the set of her shoulders that mocked my own. She turned her head slowly, her gaze meeting mine. She didn't flinch. She didn't look away like the others did. She just watched me with those wide, intelligent eyes, observing the monster in the shadows as if she already knew every dark corner of my soul.
In that one look, something I don't know died. The women I had slept with to kill the time became nothing but gray, blurred memories. They were static; she was the symphony.
I had no other options. I was the Alpha-to-be, the man who took what he wanted and gave nothing back. But as she stood there, the embodiment of a peace I didn't deserve, I realized the Elders hadn't sent me a girl.
They had sent me my ruin. And for the first time in my life, I was going to let it destroy me.