The Change

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9. The Change
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James led me to a room in the pack house and when we entered , he had given me the courtesy of explaining everything I needed to know about my stay in the pack house, he excused himself gently but not without the look of pity he had on his face as he closed the bedroom door.

The door closing was the final blow and it was then the tears I had managed to hold back for so long descending, I collapsed on the floor of the room and I hugged myself as I cried not caring if anyone would hear me as they passed my room door.

I couldn't sleep, no matter how many times I forced myself to, I just couldn't. The bed was good, soft in fact. The room was simple and welcoming and none of these were the cause of my sleeplessness.

I was restless and was antsy, my wolf was waking up and it was itching to come out but I was afraid, I was afraid of the pain that would come when I transformed, it will be just like the first time all over again.

How was I going to deal with this, my father had been the person to talk me through my first shift but now I was all alone, Kaden could care less about my predicament, as a matter of fact he might rejoice at my predicament.

Not many wolves have had to go through a second shift, it was common during the Great War when wolves were kept captive and when they were eventually freed had to learn how to be a wolf again, the pain was said to be excruciating for some that they died mid shift and that was hundreds of years ago.

I wanted to cry again but I couldn't, my tears must have dried up from the one I rained out hours ago, I wanted to yell but I couldn't, my father was already branded as a madman in his death and his only living descendant, me would also be branded mad as well, never!.

But I wanted this pain to end , to go away, to have a moment of happiness, I deserved it, Diana was right.

After pacing around the room a couple times more, I laid in the bed again and I had no idea when the sleep eventually enveloped me until there was a knock on the door and I jerked up from the bed.

I immediately rose to my feet and unlocked the door and a red head young lady stepped in

"We don't lock our doors in this place" she spat out in disgust as her nose scrunched up, I need not be a fortune teller to know that this woman before me disliked me.

"I am sorry" I apologized meekly, She did not acknowledge my apology rather she shoved a few items on my chest which I quickly grabbed before it was able to fall to the floor.

"Get cleaned up and meet me downstairs" she added as she excused the room immediately.

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As tempting it was to spend time in the showers I optioned not to, the red head looked like she would find any slight reason to punish me and I would not take that chance, it situation were to be different she would have acknowledged me like a Luna and would have bowed the moment she graced my presence but she held no form of respect for me, even my mate as well, naming me a whore in front of his subject, I had expected this hatred but nothing really prepares you for how painful it would feel when it finally happened.

I exited my room when I got dressed and descended the flight of stairs until I reached the ground floor, there the red head was angrily tapping her feet against the tiled floor

"You are late!" She scolded

"I apologize" I simply responded, there was no need to argue even though she had not given me a time frame to get ready when she dropped the items in my room

"Follow me" she said once again not acknowledging my apology, she stormed out the building and I trailed behind her.

We passed a lot of men and wolves training as we walked around the pack, a few stopped to stare at me and whispered between themselves whilst the others just stared without commenting. The pack was indeed vast and beauty. We got to a building which I assumed would be the dining halls.

We entered the hall and I immediately wished the ground would swallow me completely. The pack members had suddenly grown uninterested with their food the moment my feet stepped into the hall, I was now a person of interest, I tried to ignore the staring eyes and just followed the red head.

The dining halls were just like the one in my former pack but bigger seeing that this pack had more wolves than RedSand. Kaden was here seated at the table on a small podium, he seemed to have noticed my presence but he made no reactions, he simply stared just like the others but now my attention was at the woman seated on his laps rubbing his chest sensually.

I knew he had women but I did not know he publicly display them, I was jealous and sad at the sight before me but I could not protest, despite the whining of my wolf, no other mate would have tolerated it but I was tolerating it, why would I fight for a man that regarded me as nothing.

Unfortunately for me, the redhead was leading us straight to Kaden, and I had no choice but to follow, Kaden is well aware of the feeling of jealousy within me though we are yet bonded as mates, he sees the glistening tears in my eyes that I am struggling to hold back.

We finally got to the table of the Alpha, the redhead bowed greeting Kaden

"I have brought her as you have requested" she said

"Thank you Ciara" Kaden says and now I have come to know the redhead's name

Ciara excuses herself leaving me alone in front of Kaden. The lady on his laps has stopped her seducing gestures and stares at me. Is this the Serena girl, I wondered

"You do not greet your Alpha!" Kaden's voice booms across the hall and I instantly flinch

"G–good morning Alpha" I bowed my head while my heart threatened to jump out of my rib cage and my body

Everyone attention was no doubtlessly fixed on us now, Kaden removes the woman in his laps as he stood up from his chair, James spared me a pitiful glance, while the blond female beside him was simply stunned at everything happening, well that would make two of us.

I know Kaden's plan, he wants to humiliate me to make himself feel better but though if that was his plan he would still be hurt, no matter the hatred he had for me there was still a mate bond between us and unless he rejects me, he would be affected too, he will feel a little bit of my pain.

"Kaden don't do this" James whispers just enough for those at his table to hear "she is your mate" he added, I smiled weakly, there was someone in this pack that cared a little for my feelings

"A daughter of a rapist and killer is no mate of mine!" Kaden yelled and if the pack had not known about my past now they knew who I was, Kaden has sentenced me to a life of scrutiny.

The tears flow down easily this time as I hugged my body with my hands

"W-what?" The blonde lady beside James asks in confusion, she truly had not known my true identity and I am sure this time, the pack had no idea as well. "What is going on brother?" She again another

"Stay out of this Serena" Kaden sternly said , oh!, this was the Serena, his sister not his lover, I looked at her carefully noticing the similarities in their facial features. If Serena was Kaden's sister that would mean that she is James mate, how did I not think of that, my stupidity was definitely topping now, to think I felt jealousy towards Serena.

Kaden's voice surely silenced Serena, I am certain it was done with his Alpha authority, he coughed before continuing "We have a visitor my fellow pack members" he faked a smile towards me and I could see the mischief and anger in his eyes, I stared at him my eyes pleading at him to save me, to set me free, to let me go than give me this life of shame, he got the message but his fake smile turned into a smirk before he turned back to the crowd.

The dinning halls were fuller now compared to when I first got here, he was going to shame me in front of his whole pack, me, his mate, my wolf is saddened, so am I  but there was nothing I could do though I wished to run and hide and never be seen again. Our mate that was meant to love, shelter and shield us is the one throwing us into the den of lions, is the one feeding us as meal to a pack of wolves, his pack of wolves.

"Three years ago, your Luna Freya was killed by a madman alongside my pup in the most brutal way and now three years has gone by and this madman's daughter has decided to trick the nature of things and the ways of the goddess" he announced, my heart sank, he blames me for the bond, did he think I planned this, pair myself with a man that would hate me, he was letting his anger and guilt for Freya's death consume him that he would say things to play me out to be the villain.

There was murmuring in the crowd due to Kaden's statement, the wolves were agitated.

"Kaden I- please don't do this to me" I fell on my knees in tears and begged

"That is Alpha Kaden to you!" He boomed ignoring my pleas, he releases a deep breath before continuing "like I was saying, nature had played a thick on us and has made this daughter of a monster my mate" he laughed in spite.

The entire hall became silent at his declaration for seconds before the murmurs continues, the pack was angry and disappointed at the turn out of things, Serena was already crying while James was comforting her , Ciara had a wicked smile on her face as she watched my despair.

I feel my body weaken, the voices in the hall zeroing out and the atmosphere changing and then I feel it, the first crack and I hear the scream that escaped my lips next.

My mind was in haywire and my wolf was scratching at the surface and then the second crack came even more painful than the first and I screamed louder and the tears descended my eyes, why now?, why did the change have to come now?. Was this how I was going to die. In the midst of my haters and in pain?.

The third crack came and it sets my legs in another direction and I cry from the pain, sweat beads forming all over my body.

I could hear Serena worried voice saying "Is she changing for the first time, we should help her"

The pack members had grown silent, the murmuring has stopped as they watched me in my agonizing pain, the crack stops and I lay on the ground moaning and groaning in pain, I have not had the chance to rest when the fourth crack is heard and I scream again, I look at the face of my mate in sadness, at least he gets to enjoy seeing me in pain since that brings joy to him.

And with the fifth crack everything goes blank.


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