Alpha's Rebirth Twisted Mate

09

Vanya

The attack on the council took the supernatural world by storm. Nothing and I mean nothing like that has ever happened before.

Sure you would find assassination attempts at any of the council members but no one has ever tried taking them out all at once.

I look at the tv and listened to the reporters still discussing the matter even though it has been almost a week since it happened.

I’m not a soldier or a strategist but I think they’re all going about this the wrong way.

I don’t think whoever did this was attempting to take out the ruling monarchs and the elders. Contrary to that I honestly think they were sending a message.

Think about it, if they wanted to they would've killed the entire council that day but they didn’t.

Reports say the bomb had been infused with brimstone and that no one had even suspected it was there until it was too late.

Meaning whoever did this wasn’t intent on killing the council, not yet at least. They were intent to wound them and get their attention. It was a statement screaming, hey I’m here and I’m here to cause mayhem.

I had heard that Damien had been present which meant that Seth had been the one to go to retrieve Cassius’ heart. I hoped that he was right since it was reported that he had been injured.

My desire for him to be alright wasn’t because I was worried about him but because my alliance with the vampires depended on him being alive.

“Aren’t you going to the party?” Casey’s voice interrupts my thoughts.

I looked at her confused and puzzled. “What party?”

I didn’t know of any party that was taking place. Like I said I had distanced myself from the pack given I didn’t know who to trust and also because I didn’t even know most of the people that were supposedly my friends.

After the second day of pretending I liked these people and that I knew whatever plans we had made or what we were talking about I completely gave up.

It was already exhausting trying to keep with Casey. I couldn’t deal with dozens of pack members.

Some of them I knew from my former pack, some of who had betrayed us but the others I had no clue who they were given that they were from the royal pack.

“The party to welcome King Axel back. He’s fully healed so the former queen has decided to throw him a party” she gushed excitedly.

She was already dressed and she looked beautiful. I was happy to learn that in this timeline omegas don’t get treated like s**t.

In fact some of them had special powers like healing, foresight and even elemental powers.

Casey was blessed with both healing and foresight, though she had told me that her foresight abilities were somewhat dormant.

So now packs actually hired servants or shared the workload equally among the pack mates. The wolves of omegas might be weak but at least they were now too valuable to become mere slaves.

I knew this was the doing of Selene. She had said that Casey was important in whatever was about to go down and leaving her the way she had been in the previous timeline would have probably messed things up.

“I didn’t know there was going to be a party” I wondered out loud.

“How could you know when you have literary shut the entire pack out” she scolded me, her hands on her waist and a frown on her face

I almost laughed at her scolding me given that I was the elder sister. But it has always been like that.

Some things just never change despite the timeline we’re in. She was and still is the responsible one while I’ve always been the one to throw caution into the wind.

‘She’s right you know’ Eclipse added.

“About what exactly?” I asked annoyed that she was taking Cass’ side

The last thing I needed or wanted was them ganging up on me on any subject.

‘Secluding the pack…how are you going to get revenge if you’re pushing away everyone except for Casey? How are you going to get allies in this pack if you remain a loner? And how the f**k are you going to get any dirt on those that betrayed you if you’re not mingling? I love our runs and our quiet time, but we aren’t going to achieve anything by keeping to ourselves. That would most likely even turn more people against us because they would start thinking you’re a b***h and have a stick stuck so far up your ass that you think you’re better them’ she finished.

I know she was right but damn I hated it. How could I go out there and pretend to like them when some had betrayed us and the others stood by while we were killed for something we didn’t even do.

“Fine, what do you suggest I should do?” I asked

‘If Cass asks you to go to the party then agree…Go and mingle with people even those you don’t know. Now that you have me and you're wiser, you will be able to tell those who are trustworthy and loyal from those who aren’t”

It seemed like a solid plan and I agreed to it reluctantly. I wasn’t in the mood to mingle and get to know others from the pack but it needed to be done. Eclipse withdraws to the back of my mind once I promise to go to the stupid party.

I turned to Casey and declared that I would be going with her to the party. She seemed surprised at first but soon that was over showed with happiness.

She helped me get ready and an hour later we were at the party. It was being held at the clearing behind the big ass mansion where the royal family and high ranking members lived.

The moment we stepped on the ground I was surrounded by people hugging me and kissing my cheeks.

They were saying how they had missed me and that they were happy that I had decided to come out. I just smiled at them.

I walked around greeting people and playing with some of the kids. I hadn’t bumped into Becca nor Jason yet and I was happy about that. I continued mingling with people and soon found myself actually liking some of the friends I had.

Mia, for example. She was sweet and funny and I actually felt good around her. There was also Nathan, he was a wild card but I could tell that he had a good heart. There were others of course but those two were so far my favorite.

I had just started getting comfortable when his scent hit and I involuntarily stiffened.

“Hey babe, I’ve missed you” Jason whispered his arms going around my waist while he kissed the back of my head.

I fought my body’s reaction not to shudder in disgust. I started scanning the area hoping to catch Casey because I knew she would rescue me but I didn’t see her.

Instead my eyes landed on Becca. I don’t know why I never noticed how Jason and Becca arrived everywhere at the same time and then they would disappear sometimes at the same time.

He turned me around to look at him and his mouth descended in a kiss. I saw the move and I shifted my head so that his mouth landed on cheek instead.

“Is there something wrong? You’ve been acting kinda weird and distant” he asked me, looking hurt.

I honestly wanted to smack the look out of his face. How f*****g he dare act like the victim when he has been cheating on me? I don’t even know how the hell I had planned to spend my life with the stupid scumbag.

“It’s nothing honey…it’s just there’re kids around and some of them are my students” I lie, giving him a fake smile.

“Are you sure that’s all…Becca says you’ve been avoiding her and I’m starting to think it’s true cause you’ve been doing the same with me”

Of course he had to mention the stupid b***h. Why the hell am I not surprised?

“Becca is being dramatic. I’m just really busy and when I get free time on my hands I rest instead because I haven’t been sleeping well.” I use the same lie Casey used on Becca.

“But can’t you find time for us? We really miss you?” he pouts.

Once that would have worked on me but not anymore. Now I just find it annoying.

I roll my eyes then narrow them. “I didn’t know that you two were so close”

Before I started dating Jason, he and Becca had not known each other. So to think that after introducing them to each other they would cheat on me just makes my blood boil.

I hated them and I will never get tired of saying it. They deserved what was coming to them in loads.

“No! It’s not like that…we’re just worried about you that’s all” he nervously says.

And that right there was my que that they were still going at it behind my back. The way he spoke nervously and the way he was avoiding eye contact told me all that I needed to know.

He pulled me close and kissed my neck. He moved his head and was about to kiss me on the mouth when people began standing up and clapping while shouting for joy.

I turned around, my back to Jason to look at what the commotion was about.

To my displeasure I saw alpha asshole arrive at the party with his mother, sister, uncle and his beta.

Looking at him now I am transported back to the torture chamber when he and his beta tortured me.

I see him as clear as day as he kills my family before killing me. I see the weapon he used dripping with my family's blood, I see the sinister and smug look in his face as he brings the sword down on my neck.

I can still hear my own screams as I beg him to let my family go but instead he just laughs evilly and forces me to watch while he executes the only family I had. I try to shake myself from the memory but I can’t. It has already dug its icy talons in refusing to let me go.

“Vany! You’re shaking, are you alright?” Jason hisses while turning me around to face him.

I know that I’m scaring him with my reaction but I can’t help it. The tremors only increase when I realize that Jason had his hands on me.

The same guy that testified against us. I needed to get away, to calm myself down.

“I’m so-sorry…I have to-to go” I stammered.

I wrenched myself from his arms and fled. I could still hear the pack rejoicing that their king was back and healthy. I could also hear Jason shouting my name but I didn’t care. I just needed to get away from the suffocating energy.

I run to the bathroom and lock it then I take a deep breath. I kept telling myself that I was okay and clawing my hands so that the pain would anchor me to reality. It takes time but I manage to slow down my heart beat and calm down.

I wash the blood from my hands and once I’m sure I am stable enough I leave the bathroom. I go in search of Casey intending to tell her that I was calling it a night and that I was heading back home.

My eyes were cast down still reeling from my panic attack. I wasn’t paying attention when I bumped into a hard body.

“Sorry, I wasn’t watching where I was going” I mumbled at the same time Eclipse was screaming, “Mate” over and over again.

That’s when his addictive scent hit me. For the first time since I came back from the dead I was genuinely happy. I no longer had to do this alone and I would have someone to lean on.

I looked up eager to see him but my dreams came crashing down when my eyes connected with those of the alpha king.

Hell no moon goddess. You’ve got to be f*****g kidding me.