The Omega’s Twisted Secret

CHAPTER4

THEIA

Alpha Arlen, along with the pack members who didn’t have pups to protect, shifted into their wolf forms and all raced towards the wolf who had attacked the pup.

I ran in the direction of the injured child and his mother, who held him in her hands and cried out.

“Here,” I encouraged her, taking the pup and running behind a tree to hide as more intruder wolves started to run into the field. Alpha Arlen’s soldiers also started to make their way into the field, and it turned into a full and wild battle.

I quickly tore off pieces of my shirt and tied tourniquets all over his injuries.

“Is there a pack hospital?” I asked his mother, who only cried out for her son and chanted for him to not die.

“Please, pull yourself together!” I pleaded with her, taking her child in my arms and peeking beyond the tree to see if we could run past the exit.

The image was now mashed, I couldn’t tell who was an attacker from who was a defending soldier. I took the risk and buried the child in my arms as I ran as fast as possible towards the exit. I could find someone who was willing to take or point me to a hospital or somewhere close enough.

I heard a loud growl behind me, and I stumbled, making sure to turn and fall on my back so that I wouldn’t hurt the child any more than he already was.

The wolf that had growled behind me lunged at me, but his attack was stopped as another wolf pounced on him, tearing him apart.

One look at the wolf who had saved me and the child, and I could tell that it was Alpha Arlen.

He used his head to gesture at the exit, a quiet communication for me to get that child out of that field and towards the hospital immediately.

I got off the floor and rushed outside, Alpha Arlen clearing the path to the exit for me just as he had done at Alpha Draven’s party.

As soon as I was in the clear, I found someone running away.

“Hey!” I called out to her, but the last thing she did was look back. If anything, she picked up her pace. “Hey! I need to get this child to the pack hospital, please!”

She stopped running and turned around, gasping when she analyzed the situation. She took the pup out of my hands and started to run forward.

The mother of the pup caught up to us, crying and begging for her son’s life to be saved.

We finally made it to the pack hospital, where the child was immediately taken in.

I rushed back out of the hospital and towards the field, but as I got halfway, I found someone running towards me and screaming something. He was inaudible at first, but I soon started to make out his words.

“Go back!” He shouted, waving both of his arms to grab my attention. “The Alpha says you should go to the Packhouse. Now!”

“You!” I heard someone else’s voice.

Only when the soldier who was telling me to go back got closer did I see that there was someone running behind him – Alpha Corey of Moonshine Pack, who had wanted to take advantage of me at Alpha Draven’s party before Alpha Arlen had beaten him to a pulp.

“Just who I’m looking for!” He said out loud, running towards me with a vengeful look in his eyes.

I turned on my feet and ran back. The soldier who had warned me to go back, finally caught up to me and grabbed me by the wrist, running forward and encouraging me to boost my speed.

Not long after he started to run with me, he grunted and let go of my hand as he fell abruptly. I turned around to see that Alpha Corey had thrown a knife at him, and the knife was now sticking out of his back.

As I turned around to keep running, Alpha Corey caught up to me and pulled me by the hair.

“Well, if it isn’t the girl who let Alpha Arlen embarrass me in front of everyone around,” he accused.

“Let me go!” I struggled against his grip, but it only took a toll on me as his grip on my hair only tightened even more.

“Argh!” I screamed as he slapped me right across the face too many times to count.

“You little slut,” he laughed. “You claimed not to give services like this, but the moment someone acts like a knight in shining armor for you, you follow them right to their pack. Isn’t that just interesting?”

“f**k you!” I cursed vehemently, still putting up a fight and earning myself more slaps.

“You little—”

Before he could slap me one more time, Alpha Arlen’s wolf burst out of nowhere and took him down. Because Alpha Corey’s grip on my hair was so strong, he pulled me down with him, and I gasped for air as it was knocked out of my lungs.

I freed myself from Alpha Corey’s grip and punched him right in the face as Alpha Arlen snapped his teeth at him, but he put up a good fight by keeping Alpha Arlen at a good distance so that he couldn’t bite him.

In an attempt to help, I grabbed Alpha Corey’s shoulder and pulled it down away from Alpha Arlen’s snout, giving Alpha Arlen an opening to bite him in the shoulder.

Alpha Corey let out a scream of agony and pain, trying to free his hand from my grip to protect himself from Alpha Arlen, but I transferred all of my weight and put it into pinning his hands down.

“I surrender!” Alpha Corey shouted out loud. “Enough! I surrender!”

Alpha Arlen finally stepped away from Alpha Corey, and I leave his hands. Alpha Arlen watched Alpha Corey in suspicion, waiting and watching, just in case he made a smart move on us.

Alpha Corey held on to his shoulder, covering the injury.

“I’ll leave. I’ll round up my soldiers and them with me,” he breathed, standing up and rushing towards the field with me and Alpha Arlen hot on his tail to make sure he went through with it.

“This all happened because of you – never forget it,” Alpha Corey said to me with so much bitterness in his tone as he walked away with his soldiers behind him.

I stood in the middle of the field, watching people mourn over their dead loved ones and taking the injured people to the pack hospital.

It was all my fault, but – somehow – I couldn’t tell how exactly it was my fault.

I heard quick and heavy head in my direction, and I gasped as someone pulled me by the shoulder, only for me to come face to face with my mate. His nostrils flared in frustration as I looked at him.

“Maybe none of this would have happened if I hadn’t brought you here.” He raised his voice, causing everyone to turn around and look at the scene playing out before them.

“I’m sorry—”

“Save it. That’s enough. You’ve apologized enough.”

There was silence in the air, and I went still as he stared at me with so much bridled anger that I almost shivered at the thought of what would happen if his anger exploded.

“I, Alpha Arlen of Blackmoon Pack…”

Collective gasps came from everyone who was witnessing it. We all knew what was coming, but I stood there in denial as I believed he was not about to do what he was about to do. He couldn’t possibly...

“…reject you, Theia of Silvercrest Pack.”