Free Web NovelChapter 203: Chapter 203 My New Home
Kiara
It’s been three days since I moved here. I can’t believe it’s already been three days, and I can’t believe I actually joined a new pack. Damn. I feel the pack link quite strong here, which is a big surprise. I didn’t have that strong of a link with my old pack, and I grew up there. It’s also kind of a loss to be honest. I’m sad my connection to the people who were supposed to be my extended family was weaker than this.
I have been exploring a bit through the packhouse and lands outside. The weather has been nice for this time of year, so a lot of my day has been spent outside. I have eaten with the Omegas in the common dining room although Abby has told me I’m welcome in the one for the ranked members. They eat together with the whole pack on the holidays, but otherwise, they usually discuss pack matters at the table, and they don’t want to worry everyone.
I wander outside with my sketch book, finding the stream I have been sitting at the other days. One of the Omegas I befriended joined me soon after. He sits down with a big smile.
"I sort of had a feeling you’ll be here today."
"Like I have been the other days?" He nods, his eyes solemn.
"Yeah. Have you talked to Alpha at all since that first day?"
"Nope. And I am not planning to either." I confess. He raised an eyebrow.
"As in not at all? Y’all are mates, buttercup."
"Buttercup? Seriously Ryan?" I laugh, hitting him in the shoulder with the hand holding my pencil. He just smiles and shrugs his shoulders.
"Princess would be better, but I actually value my life." I roll my eyes, concentrating on the paper in my hands, sketching the stream and everything around it. There are some really pretty birds today, who I would love to get down on paper. A companionable silence falls over us, as Ryan looks on. He really wants to learn how to draw as I do, so I am explaining as I go along.
At some point I feel watched, but as I look around me, there is no one. It’s strange, but I have been having the same feelings the other days I have been out here.
Ryan sought me out the first day I was eating dinner with the Omegas. He was funny and friendly. He asked about my shifter as he could feel I was not a wolf, and when I told him I didn’t know what he was talking about, his eyes got sad. He asked if I had had many troubles with my lack of a wolf spirit and I nodded, not able to resist his charms. I told him the second day, here at the stream, what I am and he hugged me close. He then asked if the rumors were right and I was mated to the Alpha, which I confirmed. He was a little confused as to why we weren’t together, if we were mates, and I was honest with him. I do not know if I actually like Maze or not. He explained about his late mate, and I felt a pang of guilt for judging him, but only a little one. He was so rude to me.
Ryan confessed to being gay. He was not openly out yet, but he was getting there. He and his mate, James, were working on their relationship. James was fully out and supported his mate no matter what, but he did have a hard time not being able to be open with Ryan. I met him yesterday at dinnertime. He’s just as much a sweetheart as Ryan, and they both declared me their new sister. It was nice to be accepted without question and I feel like I can be me with them. They talk, joke and ask so many questions I almost forgot to be shy and introverted.
"Hey, Kiara?!" Someone shouts, and I look up from my sketch to see a trio of beautiful girls walk towards me.
"Uhm, yes?" I ask, not sure who they are, but they seem to know who I am. The leader of the three puts her hands on her hips.
"Is it true that you are mated to our Alpha?" She asks, her lips in a slight frown. I look at Ryan, who shrugs.
"Does it matter?" I ask back, trying to avoid a confrontation. I could beat all three of them if I wanted to, Winter being a lot stronger than their wolves.
"It does when his mate is a freaky outsider." One of the others says, sneering and looking like she is smelling something disgusting. "And when she keeps company of a faggot." She continues. Okay, that is more than enough! I get up from my position, handing my book and pencil to Ryan.
"Repeat that if you dare." I growl, Winter pacing in my mind. She rolls her eyes. frёewebηovel.cѳm
"He. Is. A. Fag..." She doesn’t even get to finish her sentence before she is on the ground, having thrown her over my hip. I look at the others.
"Is there anyone else who has a problem with my best friend?" I ask my voice deadly calm. The one on the ground howls like someone broke all her bones.
"What is going on here?" A powerful male voice booms over the grounds. I look over my shoulder as Maze walks towards the scene.
"Mazey! She attacked us!" The leader says in a sugar sweet and high pitched voice. The one on the ground is crying fake tears, and trying to look even more pitiful.
Before he can even accuse me of anything, I go to Ryan and take my sketchbook and pencil. I put it in my bag, ignoring his words and questions. He is not going to believe me anyway so what is the point?
"Come on, Ryan. This place is getting a bit crowded." I say, walking past Maze without a look. He growled at Ryan, who scrambles back a frightened look on his face and I had it! Maze has been ignoring me ever since that first meeting in the living room, and now he dares growl at one of my only friends. Oh hell no!
I turn on my heel, my hand slapping so hard his face snaps to the side.
"Who the fuck do you think you are, huh? How dare you growl at my friend!?" I yell in his face. His amazing eyes land on me, and they have a deadly tint in them. He walks impossibly closer so we are nose to nose.
"I am your mate and Alpha, sweetheart." He answers calmly, although I can see the thunderstorm within him.
"Fuck you, Maze! You have ignored me ever since I came and suddenly I am your mate? Fuck you and fuck that! I am not your mate and I will never accept you." I spit back. He rears back as if I electrocuted him. He keeps staring at me with wide eyes. freewebnøvel.coɱ
"Are you coming Ryan?" I ask again, and he scrambles behind me. We walk away quickly. Behind me, someone growls so the earth rumbles, but I do not spare him another look. He is a presumptuous asshole if he thinks he can just treat me like scrap and then take me back when I have another friend. Fuck no! We come back to the packhouse, and Ryan goes to find James. I can’t blame him if he never wants to speak to me again. Those are my thoughts as I enter my bedroom, throwing myself on the bed and crying for goddess knows which time. I hate it here and I hate him. But I can’t get myself to disappoint mom and aunt Abby. They are both going out of their way to make my stay here comfortable, and I did accept to become a pack member. That might actually have been my biggest mistake. I am bound to be here. I’ll have to think of a way to get away again. I sigh as the tears keep streaming down my cheeks. I have to find something to do to get my mind off of my loneliness and the fact that my mate is the epitome of assholery.
I get up, dry my eyes, and get on my way to the pack hospital. Maybe they can use me for something that could help. I am one the youngest doctor’s in the realm having taken my education early and graduating as I turned 20. So I am still new, but an education is an education.
