Book Chapter
“Hya, you look very pretty.” I still don’t meet their eyes.
“Thank you, Lima Catherine.” I don’t say anything else.
“I just harry on pastion. Why is Ryn eating Lest? Why is she not allowed to sit with her own family?” The doc is soothing mad, shaking inside his skin
“Thave no idea what you’re talking about, De Valentine.”
“ya was just telling me that she has to eat last!” Wolves turn their pazes our way with the dee’s raised voice
-Bva, what’s he talking about?” I can hear the confusion in the Alpha’s voler
*You never removed your punishment from me,” I say quietly
“What are you talking about?” Luna Catherine’s voice questions her mate, not in a nice way,
“He never removed my punishment.
“Rya, that was years ago. I only meant that to be a week.” Now it’s my hum to pasp
“A week. You meant in to last just a work? You never told me that. All those years of eating last, not being able to eat with my family at pack functions. You just forgot to tell me that my punishment was done?”!
“Unbelievable,” Dallas hisses out..
“Rys, I am so sorry. I thought I told you” He takes my hand in his, getting on his knees in front of the entire eyes of the pack. “I thought told you. I thought. Please forgive me. It was a mistake I can see the top of his head as he bows to me.
“I can’t bebeve you did that to this poor female. How could you have forgotten to take her off of punishment?” The Luna’s face is inflamed with her fury I can see canines descending in her rage
“Please, Rya, forgive me. It doesn’t make up for it.” He’s still at my feet on bended knee
Touching his head, I say, “I forgive you.” Quickly, I pull my hand away. I can’t make a scene again.
He gets up quickly, trying to look at my face, but I keep my head bowed. “Please I stop the Luna from talking any further. I can’t stomach anything else, all those years of isolation because he forgot that I was on punishment. Thad to eat by mysell for two years, pretending to look busy in the library with studying so no one really saw how alone I was. I was just a ghost no une cared about, all because he forgot. I was just a little juvenille whose mate rejected her. Whose pack turned on her. Whose Alpha forgot about her.
themselves.
It’s in this moment I feel him coming nearer, approaching slowly, cautiously. I smell him. My knees shake, threatening once again to fold on the
All this emotion brings me back in time.
His scent surrounds me almost like the first time coming into the school, smelling him, asking if I could talk with him for just a minute, alone, without her there. To just let me talk to him. When he wouldn’t let go of her hand, I started crying then. He knew what I was to him, yet he didn’t let go of her hand
My chest is once again in a vise, squeezing the breath out. She just stood there watching me, not saying a thing. “Please,” I cried, “please look at me. I tried to grab his hand. I tried to make him look at my eyes. I fell down on my knees, begging him, grabbing onto his pant leg. A crowd formed around us. Some were even loughing at me. He pulled his leg back, but I held onto the material
All it took was one word from her “Stop” My wolf baredits teeth, and time reased it after trained down on her face, breaking her jaw. I tried to crush her skull with my bare hands, but I wasn’t strong enough then. I am
now.
I’m not a life taker. I am a life bringer.
“Bya.” It’s the first time I have heard my name from his mouth, I actually stagger, dropping to a knee the tears, they just come. My whole body is weeping, and I lose all the control that I have worked years on Everything vanishes with just my name coming from his lips. I’m full–out sobbing, and i can’t even pick myself off the grond Why?
No one says a word silence, complete silence.
This is not the picture I saw in my mind for myself. This is not how I wanted my first time seeing him to go.
Both of my hands are on the ground, chitching the earth to my flesh. I can see his shoes, his calves, they look so strong, Goosebumps ascend on his flesh where my gaze falls, his thighs thick, his defined quads just peeking out of his shorts. I see their hands clasped together. This is just like a replay of my
I try to pet op, but I fallback down. A pap comes out of my mouth. I watch as his hand lets hers go to try and help me up of the ground. He tilos a step Amosand me, her hand holding onto his forearm to try and stop him. He takes another step in my direction, and she pulls him back toward her
On my own, I get myself off the ground, standing, not looking at anyone. I hold my shoulders back, raising my head, and my gate travels up his chest.
He’s shading now. My eyes reach his neck, mouth, nose. His eyes, pine green, stare hard at me. A moment passes between us…nothing else but he and I
“Rya.” Apain my name comes from his lips, again my legs shake…A hurricane is lashing the inside of my
body…
I say nothing. Instead, tum my back on him and walk away. I walk until I reach my car. Getting in,I struggle to find the right key for the ignition. Finally finding it, I drive away, not even looking in the rearview mirror for fear I will see his eyes again.
Instead, look ahead to what’s in front of me.
