Chapter 2
Rhea PoV
I stared at the open door, my entire form shaking and trembling, my father had never spoken to me like that before, he always called me his angel gifted to him from the heavens. I only had two glasses of whiskey, was that really so bad? Tears formed in my eyes and I shakily got to my feet and ran from the dinning room through the omega door, through the kitchen and outside while my brothers and the beta called after me. But I didn’t stop, I kept running until I reached the forest that surrounded our pack lands and fell to my knees. I cried and sobbed into the dirt, I thought my father loved me. I thought I was special.
But I was wrong, he was just like any other Alpha, he couldn’t wait to sell me off to another pack, I was just a she-wolf. I may have alpha blood, but that only meant that I was worth more to future alphas of the surrounding territories.
It was stupid to have dreams, to wish for life to be different. I was nothing to him, just a means to an end.
I wish I was dead, I never want to meet my wolf! I wish I was mortal!
My chest heaved and I fell forward, a burning pain swimming viciously through put my body, every muscle tightening and releasing in a agonising spasm. I screamed as bones popped and moved, twisting at unnatural angles. I heard and felt bones breaking, a terrified and distraught scream ripped through my throat, I was unable to take a breath, it was as though my lungs had collapsed. I could feel my heart beating so rapidly that I thought it might tear out of my chest.
My vision blurred before the pain finally stopped as suddenly as it had started, I panted closing my eyes as I tried to catch my breath. What the hell just happened?
Rhea. We are finally one.
I heard an unnaturally animalistic voice thunder through my head and snapped open my eyes as I looked around in panic, had someone followed me? What do they mean we are one. I could feel my body, the dirt and branches beneath me, but something was different, something that my mind couldn’t fully comprehend. Everything was louder, my vision was clear and enhanced, I could smell a deer that had wondered across the territory but I could somehow tell it had been a while ago, maybe two or three hours.
I could see no one around, no one in their wolf form, no omegas, and my brothers and the beta hadn’t found me. But I was almost certain that I heard someone. Maybe a female.
Rhea. I need you to remain calm, I can feel your panic.
I looked around again, but still I could sense no one, see no one. Something was wrong. The voice was coming from inside me, but how was that possible? I couldn’t hear the pack like shifted wolves could, I didn’t have my wolf yet.
I looked down when I felt something sharp stab into my hand, only; I no longer had hands, this wasn’t possible! I gasped, stumbling backwards and slamming into a tree. I had paws, I snapped my head as far as I could to see my body as sure enough, I was covered in thick and fluffy yellow fur. Wait, yellow? I had never heard of a yellow wolf before.
WOLF! Oh shit, oh shit. How is this even possible? The full moon wasn’t for another three weeks! I couldn’t shift yet, I only had my birthday yesterday! I swayed, dizzy and light headed. I tried to slow my breathing but I couldn’t.
Rhea! You need to calm down! You are going to injure us!
Screamed the voice within me once more, causing me to freeze, us? Did that mean… did I have my wolf?
Yes I am here. But I won’t be for long if we die of a heart attack, you need to stop panicking!
You are my wolf?
I asked the being within me, doing as she said I sat awkwardly as I was unsure how to move without stumbling over my paws, taking a long breath in through my nose and out through my mouth. I repeated the process a few times, and slowly my heart rate began to slow down.
There, that’s better. Yes, I am your wolf. My name is Alora.
I smiled, that is such a lovely name. But … how is this happening? We shouldn’t be together yet. It isn’t possible.
I am here because it was time, you are eighteen are you not?
Well, yeah. But I mean, you aren’t supposed to appear until the full moon after my birthday, that’s three weeks away.
How do you know I’m not supposed to be here now?
It’s never happened before, we can only become one with our wolves after the first full moon after our sixteenth birthday. But sometimes it takes longer, but never during the day and never before the moon.
Then how do you explain me? Because the sun is up and I was woken up by your screams as we became one.
I frowned, or at least I tried to, I’m not sure how or if I managed it in this form. Then, an idea flooded through me and I shot off towards the lake on unsteady legs, knowing that no one would be around at this time in the morning. I didn’t think I could risk being seen, not yet, my father was already furious with me. Would he hate me even more if he knew? Would he still see me as useless?
Alora growled, causing me to jump and lose my footing slightly. She could see my memories as if they were her own, and I guess they might be, she is a part of me, and I am a part of her. We are one.
We are not useless, we are powerful.
I don’t think he meant it, I disappointed him, I broke the rules.
Maybe he had every right to think of me as he does, I wasn’t a boy I wouldn’t bring anything useful to the pack, I was just a she-wolf with alpha blood that would be married off. Given to an Alpha that would benefit the pack and give my father a strong alliance. I was expendable.