I
could hear the pounding of my own heartbeat as the tree line got closer and
closer. I didn’t see a way out of this, at least not without someone getting
hurt. We entered the trees and walked the short distance to a clearing where
everyone stopped. “Don’t you think you are overreacting a little?” I asked
Andrew as he moved to stand in front of me.
He
watched me for a second like he was trying to decide what to say. “It has been
this way for years. It is the only way to keep the pack safe. We don’t know
what could happen if we allow these children to be born.”
“That’s
my point. You don’t know, so how can you assume it will be bad?” I asked
angrily. It seemed like they were making decisions out of fear, not because it
was actually a fact. No one had been allowed to give birth on the blue moon,
they all died. So no one ever knew what could really happen.
“Assuming
the worst keeps us safe. It maintains order,” he countered.
“It
makes you ignorant!” I snapped.
He
smacked me across the face. The force of his strike sent me to the ground. “You
know nothing! You are still a child and you wouldn’t understand because you are
selfish!”
I
glared up at him. “I would never kill anyone because I was afraid of my own
shadow.”
He
growled low in his throat and started kicking me. I was beginning to think he
decided against his promise of a less painful death. I rolled away from him and
regained my footing. I lunged at him and he looked startled when I hit him in
the chest. We went to the ground and I started punching him in the face. I felt
his nose crunch and blood spray everywhere, but I didn’t care. Someone grabbed
me from behind and threw me against a tree. I landed with a thud at the base of
the tree. I groaned and tried to regain my footing, but someone placed their
foot in my back and grabbed me by my hair yanking my head back at an angle.
Terror shot through me when I realized whoever it was, was going to break my
neck. He jerked my head and everything went black.
I
woke up and it was dark. The fear that I was dead coursed through me. I rolled
panicked and fell off the bed and landed on the floor with a loud thud. I
groaned and sat up as the door opened. The light was turned on and Micah was
standing in the doorway. I looked around and realized I was in his house; in
the bedroom he let me stay in.
“Either
I didn’t die or I am in a really fucked up after life,” I muttered as I climbed
to my feet.
Micah
smiled. “You will be relieved to learn that you are not dead,” he said amused
as he shut the door.
“I
thought that guy broke my neck,” I said quietly as I sat down on the bed and
rubbed my neck.
He
sat in a chair not far from me and watched me. “I have allies throughout the
pack. Dennis knocked you out and made it look like he killed you so Andrew
would leave you alone. Then Dennis brought you to me.”
“Where’s
your friend? Why am I still alive here? I thought you killed wolves like me,” I
said angrily. I had to leave his house quickly when Scarlett attacked. I never
got an explanation from him.
He
sighed like I was annoying him. “Haven’t I proven that I don’t want you dead? I
want to see these children born.”
“Why
so you can rule everyone?” I asked angrily as I stood. I grabbed a silk robe
that wasn’t far from me and put it on. I didn’t feel like being naked in front
of him anymore. It didn’t seem like we could talk seriously if I was standing
there naked.
He
appeared in front of me and I hesitated. He was so close to me our bodies were
almost touching. He placed his hands on my belly and I felt a surge of energy
rush through me. The babies began to squirm under his touch making me gasp. “At
this point, the why doesn’t matter. Just know I want
these children born and nothing will stop me; I can promise you that. Run back
to your pack and you will eventually die. You and these children are safe with
me despite my past sins. Yes,
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