Chapter 32
Chapter 32
Liliana
His chest rumbled with a growl when he threw those scalding words at me through clenched teeth and his low and sharp fuming voice pierced me right through my chest.
I stood there frozen, staring at his glowering eyes and seething jaw with trembling lips and a pacey heartbeat.
I couldn’t believe the words I heard for a millisecond but the raging storm of emotions boiling inside me gulped those words down their throat and went spiralling out of control, filling up my whole body until it was there on the tip of my
tongue.
The many countless words I wanted to say back but I couldn’t. My whole body shook and anger coursed through my veins but I swallowed the shame and walked out of there without sparing him a single glance.
I didn’t hear him calling out my name when I was speedily walking down the stairs, only the tapping sound of my wedges accompanied me till I reached the lobby.
I was furious.
I wanted to go back and yell at Damian but he isn’t worth it. He doesn’t deserve me talking to him, he has crushed my heart and I won’t show him the pain he has caused.
I won’t give him the contentment he seeks.
However, the wrath in my body didn’t leave me alone. It was still there breathing and roaring, itching to get out and burn everything but I needed to suppress it.
“Adolf!” but it slipped.
My voice came out restless and furious. I was desperately trying to hold back angry tears and the pathetic trembling of my lips. I clenched my jaw and Adolf quickly came to my aid.
“Luna, is everything alright?” He asked, worried and I glared at him.
Nothing was alright. Your Alpha has cruelly pierced my heart with his monstrosity. I was dejected and hurt but moreover, I was angry because anger resolves everything.
It washes down every other emotion, giving you a chaotic piece which prevents you from breaking down under the weight of your agonizing feelings.
I need to reign it all in until I am standing in his office, till then, I can’t see anything but red. I can’t let the hurt swim above and wreck it all. I won’t show him the pathetic tears and a dejected back because he is watching me.
I can feel his gaze on me from the window of the room we were in seconds ago. It’s unbearable even through the glass.
“Take me to the mansion right away”
“Yes, Luna” Adolf quickly bowed and told Oliver to ready the car. I marched outside the building before the traitorous slipped out of my eye and sat inside the car without a glance at the building or him who was watching it all.
The car reached the mansion smoothly and no one asked me anything until I was inside my room. I managed to engage both Julia and Anna with a fake smile and the things I brought.
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But I didn’t do that to cry alone in my room.
Why am I crying? Shouldn’t I be angry? Then why is my heart aching? How dare he say that? That obnoxious jerk, barbarian monster and…
Tears fell on the dishevelled half–naked pillow and I threw myself against the mattress, burying my face in the pillow, embracing it.
How can he be so cruel and stone–hearted? I said that because I was worried for him. Why isn’t he making them his subjects and ruling their packs as his territories?
Why isn’t that jerk bothered by all those rumours about him!? Won’t that make him less frightening and more man? Or what if he really is a…war–crazed monster?
I shot up from the pillow and sat on the bed with my chest heaving, feeling my heart accelerate.
If he is just like how the rumours make him be, then does he really enjoy killing innocent people? Wasn’t he just…
My heart was thumping and fear was being wrapped around my chest choking me. I felt an overwhelming urge to run away and leave him but I stopped.
I stopped when my feet touched the ground. I crumpled the bedsheet in my hands helplessly.
Where will I run away? I have been cast out from my birth pack and there is no other place that will take a runaway Luna of BloodCalw pack as their member.
I can’t go to my sister’s pack as well and living as a rogue will get me killed right away… Damian might slaughter me himself.
The thought sent chills down my spine and I shivered. Soon, tears started pouring out generously and I held my face in my hands, shaking with despair.
What do I do? Am I cursed because I am a half–blood?
The question sent me to the night of the pack festival where I danced with him, the words he told me that night, the passion with which he held me.
All of it bled my heart and my crying grew louder.
‘So? Why does any of it matter? You are Damian Edward’s wife and I am the strongest and the most formidable Alpha of the south. You only need to know this and nothing else‘
Why am I remembering these words? Why did he say that then and why did I feel my heart sway when I heard him…now there’s only ashes left of those embers which drove me crazy that night.
I was upset and terribly hurt. Staying in this room reminded me of him even more strongly.
The faint scent of Pine and cedar was lingering on the sheets suffocating me. I stood up and walked outside on the balcony overseeing the vast expanse of lush green.
There’s a forest behind our mansion, serene and enchanting. It always seems to call out whenever I stand here.
‘Syl, I need you‘
‘Lily, I am here. Shift and I will take you through the woods‘
Only Syl can help me calm down. I need the sensation of the wind caressing my fur as I run and skip the dirt with my paws.
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I turned around, ready to go outside the walls of the mansion which held no meaning for me except for him and suddenly, I remembered what he told me the other night after we spent the night together, rolling in sheets until dawn.
‘Do you like that forest? You are watching it intensely‘ I looked at him when he kissed the end of my hair strands and nodded.
I chatted with him excitedly, telling him how I wished to run among the tall–standing trees of that forest. They looked like Pine trees to me from afar.
My heart skipped a beat when I mentioned that because of his Pine scent which always distracts me and then he pulled me closer to his chest, obstructing my vision of the forest by turning me towards him.
‘Don’t go there by yourself. It’s not safe‘
I shut my eyes and bit my lip after I was done reminiscing. The memory made my decision to run even stronger. I quickly opened the door and quietly descended the stairs which opened into the greenhouse.
I crossed the greenhouse and went to the back of the mansion, feeling closer to the forest which embraced Damian’s mansion.
I walked to the apple tree in the backyard which was in its dormant state because of the off–season. There were no guards near the tree because it was time to change the shifts.
I quickly stripped, dropping my clothes at the foot of the tree and shifted into my wolf form.
I felt my bones snap and deform as I turned into a wolf. Fur sprouted on my body, my hands elongated into claws and my canines sharpened into fangs.
I itched to howl but I kept it in because I wanted to leave the mansion without any ruckus. I felt my tail sway gently when I gazed at the forest a little far ahead.
I then jumped over the fence stepping into the lush green expanse, running towards the tall trees.
The wind tickled my mane and combed my fur, teasing my tail before it came to meet me again with another leap into the air. I kept running, trying to empty my head and fill it with nature instead.
I howled once I was standing amidst the canopy of trees, I desired to see. They were Pine trees just like I thought. I turned around and stared back at the trail from which I had come running.
The mansion was far away from where I stood. The situation was reversed.
The mansion looked like a toy from afar, small and blurry. I turned around swishing my tail among the heaven on Pine trees. I have come to love the scent of Pine but right now all it was reminding me of was him.
I gritted my teeth and growled when his face came to my head and I left that place. I walked a little deeper inside the forest and while trotting against the grass, I saw two gigantic trees’s canopies almost touching each other.
I went closer and saw numerous vines hanging from their branches and creating a vibrant green curtain as if hiding something behind them. I quickly stepped through them and felt my tail swish back and forth when I saw a beautiful lake in
front of me.
Its crystal–azure water rippled gently with the wind and I couldn’t stop myself from walking closer to it.
I hissed when a sharp branch pierced my paw when I was walking closer to the lake. I stopped licking my paw midway when I saw my reflection in the pond.
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A wolf with a chestnut mane and hazel eyes stared back at me with its tongue stuck out. I pulled my tongue back and continued staring at my reflection.
The lake was serene and the breeze was gentle. I settled down near the lake because it felt calming.
I wondered whether they had found out that I was not in the mansion. Will they be worried? Julia or Anna must have found out that I was missing first and then they would have told Adolf and he…
He must have told him.
Will he worry about me? Or let me be?.
I was suddenly feeling so lonely. I whimpered, huddling to myself for warmth.
The lake suddenly became desolate and lonesome but I didn’t want to leave. He would be there and I didn’t want to see him.
I didn’t want to share the bed with him and have him touch me ever again!
My heart panged and I stopped. The mate bond inside me must have been hurting. Sylvia was in low spirits.
My ears have perked down and I have become a pitiful wolf.
The sun was about to set soon. I couldn’t stay here. I gathered my spirits and tried to break free from the melancholy.
This won’t do. I can’t avoid him forever. I have to make up my mind. I decided to escape the state of misery and go back. However, as soon as I was about to stand on my paws, I heard a rustling sound coming from my left.
My hackles rose and I grew alert.
‘Rustle‘
Again.
The same sound was louder this time. Someone was here but who?
My question was answered soon when six wolves stepped out from behind the trees and scattered bushes.
Who are they?
I grew defensive when I noticed the ferociousness on their faces. They growled as they watched me, all of them, baring their fangs as they kept coming closer to me.
All of them had a hostile air around them.
Were they rogues? Feral? or is it similar to the car ambush incident?
They were all larger and more robust than me. I alone wouldn’t be able to fight them. I was a small but fast wolf. If I could dodge them and run towards the mansion, I might be able to save myself
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