Chapter Twenty-Three #2
He laughed as I dried my hair. He finished his shower quickly. I was about eighty percent done, and just threw my hair up into a bun. “I don’t know why that is so sexy…but it is.” I laughed as I grabbed his hands and pulled him to my closet.
“I don’t know if I have any clothes that will fit you, but-” I opened my closet, and I quickly realized that my clothes were pushed over, and a new section of men’s clothes was on one side. “Interesting.” I turned and lifted a brow.
He smiled and blushed. “So I, uh, might have told an Omega to move some of my clothes in here.”
“Did you now?” I tilted my head.
“Yeah…” He looked away and I reached up and kissed his cheek.
“You are adorable.” I grabbed some clothes and turned back to him.
He grabbed my hand. “I don’t want you to think that I am pushing my way in, I just…” He sighed. “Now that I have you, I don’t want to be away from you.” He looked down, and I could tell he was worried I was going to reject him.
I cupped his face. “I never want to be without you ever again.” His head snapped up.
“Really?”
I snorted. “Yes.” I patted his cheek. “Get dressed.” My stomach growled. “I’m hungry.”
He chuckled and pulled on some clothes. “Yes, ma’am.” He got dressed and then we left. We walked hand in hand to my father’s office. I expected to see all the Alpha’s waiting, but it was only Ronnie and my father waiting for us.
There were four plates on his desk with the chairs pulled up around it. “Come in.” My father’s voice called out as we reached the door. “We have a lot to talk about.”
A few days later I walked through the halls of the Oakenfang pack house, and I smirked behind my mask.
This was as gaudy as I thought it was going to be.
The colors were white and cream. Who picks those two for mating colors?
I snorted as Meg, Shannon’s best friend, came running out of a room in tears.
“I fucking hate her.” She screamed as she ran away.
“She seems like a real peach.” A dark whisper came from behind the curtain I was by.
“You aren’t supposed to be near me.” I leaned against the wall by the window.
“I know, but how could I not be?” His voice was soft. I heard the window open. “But someone is coming. I love you.” Then he was gone.
The lack of guards was laughable. “Do we really need to wear these stupid fucking masks?” Verity’s nasally voice was coming from down the hall. I just walked. She turned the corner with a familiar man, already in a mask.
“Will you please stop whining for five damn seconds?” The man rubbed his forehead. “We have only been here for an hour and you have already given me a migraine.”
“Daddy.” She pouted.
I froze. I was watching his face, his familiar build, his voice. I was shaking my head before I even realized it. He stopped next to me, and I held my breath. He turned to me. “Excuse me?”
“Yes?” I kept my voice low.
“Where is this mating ceremony supposed to take place? We are just wandering around here.” He smiled and lifted his mask. Any doubt I had disappeared.
Verity lifted her mask. “Hello? Omega? We asked you a question.” She growled as she reached out her hand to grab my mask, but I dodged it.
“I’m sorry, we aren’t supposed to talk to the ranked wolves.
Nor are we allowed to remove our masks.” I bowed.
“It was a command.” I took a step back. “The main event will be in the clearing outside, with a meal in the main hall to follow. Right now, the men are getting ready in the Alpha’s office, and the women are down the hall to the right. ”
The man watched me. “Do I know you?”
“I don’t think so, Alpha.” I dipped again. “What’s your name?”
I panicked for a second. “Clara, Alpha.”
“Garith.” He smiled as my stomach clenched. “You can call me Garith.”
I gave him a tight-lipped smile. “Did you need anything else, Alpha…Garith?”
He chuckled. “No. Continue with your tasks.” I nodded once and started down the hall.
“Why were you so nice to that Omega daddy? They don’t fucking matter.” Verity whined as I slipped around the corner.
He growled low. “I have told you time and time again. Omegas are the backbone of our packs. They do all the hard tasks that no one wants to do. And they enjoy it. It calls to their lower nature. If you don’t treat them nicely, they will leave, and then you will have to lower yourself to get the shit done.
” His voice lowered. “You treat the trash like they’re cherished, and they will follow you to their death.
” He chuckled lower. “Everyone needs cannon fodder.”
Verity’s laugh followed. “Understood.” Their voices faded, but I was stuck trembling around the corner. Verity was my…aunt. There was no fucking way. I misheard that somehow.
“What are you doing?” A sharp voice called out, and I turned to see Meg glaring at me from a chair halfway down the hall in a reading nook that the Luna demanded.
“I was walking, and I rolled my ankle in these heels.” I wiggled the ridiculous high heels that Shannon picked out for the waitstaff.
Meg seemed to falter for a second as she held an ice pack against her own ankle. “Yeah, they are ridiculous.” She sighed as she iced her ankle a little more. “Do you know where the Luna is?”
I shook my head. “No. I saw her heading downstairs with another Omega. Did you need her?”
Meg groaned. She looked around and then seemed to decide.
“No one will believe an Omega, anyway.” I stepped closer with a limp.
“She is being such a bitch, and I am at my wits’ end.
She wants the Luna to walk with her down the aisle, but the Luna already said no.
” I tilted my head as I shuffled closer.
“Do you know what she did? She fucking threw a tantrum and pushed me, spraining my ankle. Already knowing my wolf is too weak to heal it before the fucking walk down the aisle.” She growled.
“What do you need me to do?”
She leveled me with a look. “Find the Luna and convince her to walk Shannon down the fucking aisle.” She pushed her tiny bit of power into her next words. “Convince the Luna or kill yourself.”
This fucking bitch.
I forced myself to shiver as the command barely touched my toes.
She snarled at me as I stood rooted in my spot.
“Didn’t you hear me, Omega?” She pushed herself up off the chair and growled.
She was pulling her strength to her as she hobbled up to me.
“Go find the Luna and convince her to walk Shannon down the aisle, or kill yourself. There is no in between.” I heard Nix and Megan growl, but I held it all in.
“Yes, Meg.” I bowed, even though she wasn’t ranked because Shannon demanded it of the Omegas.
I turned and left her there, on her bad leg, and stumbled towards the stairs.
Meg snickered, but she missed the smirk I had on my face as I hit the landing.
These people were too easy to fool. This stupid mask, and a fake scent, and they forget what you look like.
It’s because they never thought to actually look at people they think are below them. Even if they are looking at your face, you are an Omega, below them in every way. Nix snorted.
They never understood the truth here. Megan shifted next to Nix. They believe whatever Vince and Brandon told them, no matter how stupid.
I snorted as I turned the corner of the bottom floor and went searching.
I made my way down the Omega wing of the house, with a sneaking suspicion I would find the pair down here.
I wasn’t lying when I said I saw the Luna coming down here with an Omega.
I just was smart enough not to tell anyone that she snuck down here with her rumored lover for a quickie while her son and mate were otherwise occupied.
“Yes, Goddess, yes. Fuck me Bernard. Goddess, your cock is perfection.” I slapped my hand over my mouth as her ridiculous moans were heard down the hall.
I don’t sound like that, do I?
Nix and Megan both howled. Worried Amy? Nix mocking was first.
Fuck me, Rowan, fill me. Megan’s came next.
“Yes, pound this Luna pussy.” There was another scream from down the hall and we all froze.
“Luna pussy?” I whispered and my wolves lost it.
Okay. I will give you this. Nix snorted. You would never say something that ridiculous.
I assumed no one ever would. Megan cackled. Luna, pussy? Like it’s some magical treat, or achievement.
I snorted. “In this pack, it’s probably seen as one.” I shook my head as I made the rest of the way down the hall. I paused at the door, and waited for the couple to finish. I was not under any circumstances busting in on those two. I shivered at the thought. Gross.
I heard what sounded like a grunt and release, and then there were a few soft murmurs. That sounds like a good cue. Megan prodded me.
I grimaced as I turned the handle to find it locked. A quick whispered spell had the lock turning, and then I pushed in.
“What the fuck!” The Luna turned, half clothed, while the Omega froze in fear with his pants half on. “Get the fuck out of here.” She screamed when she realized I was dressed as another Omega.
I smiled as I stepped fully into the room and shut the door behind me. “I think not.” I surveyed the pair. The Luna’s in a slip, the white material was a sharp contrast to her dusky skin color. Her black hair was styled in a messy bun. Even a little sweaty, she looked very put together.
“I said get out.” She tried to put a little command into her words, but she had none. Not even a tiny bit.
The poor Omega was standing in his boxers, with one leg in his pants. “Finish getting dressed. I don’t want to look at this anymore than I have to.” I looked up to the ceiling while the two finished getting dressed.
“Who the fuck are you?” Her voice was confused as she looked at me.
“She isn’t an Omega…I can tell you that.” The man whispered yelled at her. “So maybe, don’t antagonize her.” He hissed. The Luna went to take a swipe at the man, but I stepped closer, head still focused on the ceiling.
“Are you both dressed?” I waited until they both said yes before I leveled her with a smile. “No. I’m not an Omega. But that doesn’t matter.”
She leveled me with a look. “What do you mean, you aren’t an Omega? You are dressed like one.” She scoffed. “Why doesn’t it matter, anyway? I’m the fucking Luna.”
The Omega moved over behind the Luna. He sensed the danger that was in front of him. “How about we don’t antagonize the woman that is blocking our exit?”
“He’s a smart man.” I grinned, and I pulled the mask off.