Few weeks later
Marcy stood before her brother in the Alpha's office, her head bowed.
She was covered in mud and blood and most of her hair was gone.
Alpha Damien glared down at her, his tapered fingers tapping absentmindedly on the arm of his huge throne like chair, the other underneath his jaw.
"Where did you think you were going?" He finally asked, glad within himself that he hadn't lost control and lashed out at her.
"Far away." She replied nonchalantly, her head kept down still.
"Into the Rogues territory, Marceline!!!" Damien finally snapped and hit the desk Infront of him, causing everything on it to fly to the ground.
Marcy tried her best not to be shaken, but she still trembled, forced to look down underneath his aura.
Beta Ray who stood at the corner of the room also shook in fear for the fact that Damien would shred his wife in pieces. And he knew he didn't deserve to do anything in the first place because he was the reason she ran away and accidentally ran into rogues territory. He thanked his stars that his wife was a trained female warrior. He wondered what her fate would be fighting against several of them barehand and alone before the Dark Risers's pack warriors found her half dead by the mountains.
After panting for a while, he marched over to Marcy.
She stiffened when she felt his arms around her. It wasn't like she didn't like his embrace. She really needed it infact. But she didn't expect it from him. Either way, she threw her hands underneath his waist and buried her face in the hallow of his neck, finally letting everything out.
Her cries were loud and her body shook violently at the impact of her tears.
Her snort and tears mixed up in a sadistic mess all over his shirt, but he held her tighter , his heart clenching at the pain she exuded from within.
Ray bowed his head to the ground, clenching and unclenching his fists at his sides while keeping his cool.
Her tears racked his insides In a way that made him want to kill himself for hurting her in the first place and also made him want to crush her in his embrace like Damien was doing.
He growled. It was low and deep, erupting from his chest.
He walked out of the office, banging the door close behind him. Without waiting to leave past the main doors, he shifted Midway jumping out the window, into a glorious brown wolf with chocolate brown patches to match his green eyes
Once his paw touched the grass and he felt the soothing feeling of the mushy green grass between his paws, he began to run as fast as possible, away from the mansion
Damien had Marcy in his arms, bridal style.
He carried her downstairs with ease to the Beta's floor, his feet heavy with each step he took though. Carefully placing her on the bed, he turned to go after glancing at her face for a while.
Her face was so bruised up. He wondered what would have happened if they hadn't found her in time. He squeezed his fists. Because of her absence since last two weeks, he didn't go for the full moon festival. Though he only arrived, he did it for the sole purpose of gracing the event with his presence.
Someone knocked on the door of his office and he perked up and looked at the door with a lost look on his eyes.
"Come in" He answered to the knock and in came an Omega.
"She's here" She announced, her head bowed.
"Let her in" Damien ordered, sitting up properly.
She nodded and left, returning some minutes later with another Omega, but this one was wrapped in bandages and plasters. She could barely walk even.
"Leave us." Damien inclined to the Omega who had walked in earlier, and she didn't hesitate before leaving the two.
The Alpha placed his jaw on his hand as he thoughtfully scrutinized the petite girl before him with golden brown chest nut hair and deep, unwavering blue eyes.
"Naomi, right?" He conferred; after a while.
"Yes, Alpha."
He sat properly and leaned his head forward to look at her from a closer perspective.
"I'm sure you know what happened to Daniel"
Noami knew she had to keep her head down as a sign of respect when talking to the Alpha, but she suddenly looked up and met with his eyes before saying with unshed tears in her eyes.
"He didn't deserve it. He was saving me. He wasn't supposed to be punished!!!"
Damien's brows rose. He wasn't expecting her to talk back that way, but he was amused at her defiant tone and boldness.
"You do know he shifted. He's six. You know that, right?"
"Yes…"
"And he killed someone... you know that too, don't you?"
"He was defending me."
"Why?"
"Because... " She hesitated. "Because we're best friends."
Damien chuckled before turning to her with a serious expression.
"Now tell me. What If he couldn't defend you or himself. What if Anna had hurt him …what then Naomi?"
She didn't say anything for a while but before he could continue, she cut in.
"Then I'd take responsibility of what had happened and get punished instead. But this time, he did nothing wrong and you just... and you just… Why did you do that to your own son!!! He's just six!!! He doesn't have a mother, but he needs all the parental love he can get from you and you just…."
Damien had been rubbing the bridge of his nose as she spoke, but when her words had gone out of control, he stood up in a flash and roared.
"Are you questioning my decision?!"
Voluntarily, she stopped talking, but he noticed that even under his voice, his aura emanating, she barely shook but retained a steady eye contact with him.
ɪɴᴛᴇʀᴇsᴛɪɴɢ.
He thought as he sat back down, slowly.
Wanting to change the topic , he asked.
"Today, you informed me that you had a dream… a vision? You saw Marcy lying half-dead by the cliff of a mountain…" He crossed his legs and folded his hand underneath his chin again and leaned back. "We've been searching for my sister for days, weeks; with the best pack warriors in my pack and we couldn't find her. It was hard to believe you that easily this morning, but she was exactly where you said she'd be. How come it was true. Did you know she'd run into rogues?" His tone had grown suspicious.
"No… I just saw her and I felt she could really be there." She stuttered warily.
"Do you have dreams like this often." He asked, suddenly interested in her.
She definitely wasn't a normal she-wolf.
'I keep having one and I can't understand it, but you wouldn't be of much help'. Naomi thought as she shook her head.
"Very well. Before you leave, you should know this..."
He cleared his throat as he began.
"Daniel thinks you're dead."
"But I'm not" She almost laughed In pain at the thought of Daniel being so dejected and feeling helpless at his little age because she was 'dead'. "You told him that, right?"
He didn't answer immediately.
"You TOLD him I was dead" She asked, trembling in anger and frustration. "Why??"
"Incase you've lost it kid, I'm 3 times your age and I'm your Alpha, so tame your mouth or I'll cut out that slick tongue of yours!"
"I'm sorry but…." She looked down at her legs as she admitted. "I don't really have any friends and Daniel... Daniel's like the little brother I never had, my best friend. I can't stay a day without him. It's bad enough I can't see him for a while, now he thinks I'm dead?"
Something tugged his heart at her confession, but he shook off her words almost immediately before he said.
"Know your place here. He's the Alpha's son. MY son and you're just an Omega. I noticed his obsession with you while he was here and I always brushed it off as a child's thing. But things got out of hand. He killed someone for you. He was getting out of control and as the future Alpha of the Dark Risers's pack, I didn't want his future subjects to see him as the enemy, so I sent him away. He'll be back, that I can assure you. But you mustn't let him know you're still alive".
She held back the tears wavering in her eyes as she forced herself to talk.
"So you're going to kill me?"
Damien chuckled at her ridiculous assumption.
"He's six. Just give him a few months and he'll forget about you and get used to other people. You can opt to remain here but you mustn't let him know who you are. Pretend to be someone else if you have to…"
As he spoke, she digged her nails in her palms, trying to keep calm.
"I'm doing this for the good of my people, for him and for you. Look what he did at such a little age, what do you suppose he'd do for you when he's older. Burn down the Alpha's mansion?"
"Daniel isn't like that" She defended weakly.
He sneered at her.
"I thought you knew your best friend."
She cast her eyes down.
"You can take some days off to heal, and remember all we've talked about." He said, and she left after he waved her off.
Once she vacated office, she ran downstairs, all the way to her room.
It was empty and quiet as she fell back on her blanket, her head and back placed on the cold wall as she cried and cried till she was left sniffling weakly, her heart aching.
In a room, situated in the Moon Howler's pack, Daniel sat on the floor next to his bed, his head and back placed against the wall as tears flowed down his cheeks at the thought of spending another week without seeing Noami.
He had just attempted to run away, but he was caught and locked up inside the room.
A tray of food had been upturned on the ground, spilling its content, evident that he had refused to eat dinner once again.