The doctors left leaving along in the big empty room. She couldn't sleep so she kept on twisting and turning the whole time. Giving up on sleep. She got up from the bed removing the drips. He feet touch the cold floor, and she liked the feeling that made her feel grounded. She walked out into the empty dark corridors. The dark is not so scary, it's just the dark always had shadows for her.
With careful frightened movements. She rested her hand on the cold concrete as every silent step she takes, takes her closer to freedom. She opened the door to a dark sky a frosty temperature and that made her feet sting, but she was free... That's what life will be like when she leaves, it will be unknown to her, but she will be free of this madness.
This madness is infectious... Enough gaslighting, manipulation and trauma is a perfect remedy for broken omegas. One injection of the remedy made her almost give into the hopelessness. She hates living but if she dies who has she ever helped? She clearly does not want to live for herself, but she can be codependent in an environment with a minority of shifters.
She graduates in two months', but she will stay another one or two to get all her papers, identification in her possession. She sat on the cold roof freezing her ass off, she looked up that the night infused with snow. She held one flack in her hand, and she remembers doing the same thing with her father. She remembers catching flacks with him and playing in the snow. Now she's alone, with just a nightgown and her loneliness.
"Father, please lead me to my fated mate. I am not strong enough to survive this world on my own. Stop Alex, you've never had anyone, and you will continue surviving on your own."
She dropped her hand. She will fulfil her purpose if it means her life, besides what is this life? She got up from her position and faced the scary night once more.
"Father, I pray my fated is nothing like my father, stepfather and pack. Please make sure of that, I will ask for nothing else. Good night."
She closed the door and snuck back inside. A nurse passed her, the steps were deadly quite her movements as cunning as her request to freedom. Her senses were on high alert, she can't blow her cover before she develops a plan to escape. She stalked slowly till she reached the door. When she got inside, she was met with Parker to pinned her against the door.
"Shh."
Hell no. She wanted to scream but nothing came. Her throat burned with the effort, but silence clung to to her like a curse. She turned her head to the side just in time to vomit only to see blood. Her blood. Panic set in. She looked up at her assailant just as her body began to convulse, the seizures hitting with brutal, mind-numbing force. She couldn't speak. She couldn't move. She couldn't even cry for help. Her body was on fire no, worse. It hurt so much it felt like something was clawing its way out of her, trying to tear through skin and bone. She'd chosen silence. That was hers. But this? This was a punishment for crimes she never committed. Hands gripped her jaw, forcing her mouth open. Her head snapped back painfully and suddenly; her fangs tore through. Large. Vicious. Otherworldly.
"Alexandria!"
The voice echoed—not in her ears, but in her mind.
She cowered deeper into the corners of her consciousness, retreating... until she saw it.
Half of her pitch-black wolf.
Its form wrapped around her like a memory and a warning. She stared at it, and for the first time, she felt almost... comforted. This was the darkness her father told her to tame. Wait. If she was here, then that means...
.
She was certain she had shifted. Her wolf had come forward, not out of rage, but out of protection. But something else lingered in the corners of her mind. A shadow with wild amber eyes. It was different. Not her wolf, not her fear. Focused. Ancient. Tempting in a way that made her bones ache with curiosity. She tried to move toward it but couldn't. Her wolf, sensing something, slipped away from her side, and suddenly she was left alone.
Alone with the darkness.
"Damn it, Parker! You said you just wanted to apologise!"
A new alpha stormed in rage shifting his body before her very eyes. His wolf burst forward, all dominance and fury. Alexandria felt it. The disrespect. Her hand burned. Literally burned. She looked down to see the skin glowing with unfamiliar heat, and when she looked up. Two alphas stared at her, confused. And the night nurses? Terrified.
And then there was him. Parker. She locked eyes with him. And he knew. Today would be the day this monster finally realised the magnitude of the soul he'd tried to crush. She wanted him ruined. To taste his blood. To watch him suffer. To tear him apart and throw him into a pit of lions.
'Yes. Let him feel it. Yes. Let him suffer. Yes. We. Need. Him. To. Suffer.' The shadow the tempting darkness coiled like a snake, seducing her into revenge. But if she took his life, no matter how justified... She would become like him.
The darkness fed off her trauma. Her pain. Her buried rage. It offered her power but at the price of her soul. No. Her father taught her better. He taught her that strength isn't just power it's control. And right now, she needed that more than anything. She looked at Parker one last time. And she screamed—not for help, but to expel the monster threatening to take over.
The pain in her side struck suddenly. A sting. An injection. Sedative. Her wolf returned, silent and protective, curling against her like a shield. Then... the other presence did too. The shadow didn't feel evil anymore. Just... ancient. Watching. Waiting. Respectful now. Hours passed. Her wolf rose. Slowly. Cautiously. And padded toward the dark corner she had feared. Then, her eyes opened.
"Thank fate, you awake. Bring forth every single nurse that was responsible for my daughter's condition!"
The doctor bowed terrified, and it hit her. She shifted on the bed, but the mother just held her down. The six nurses she saw yesterday trembled before the Luna. Behind her mother she saw her stepfather failing to meet her gaze. With that she pieced what story was fed to her mother. Pissed, she defied her mother and stood between her mother and the innocent people.
She didn't say anything, she didn't have to. She felt more put together, more confident and that was evident by her packs mate's sudden submission. She hates her pack, but these nurses and doctors were innocent for whatever crime they were being crucified for. Her mother smiled at her which broke the tension of wills and she hugs her tightly. It was as if she was excited to have that carefree little girl she officially killed with her last absence.
"Why do you call them?"
"Oh honey you speak?! They are responsible for not taking care of you properly. Last night Parker-"
Her mother confirmed everything. She faced the cowardly and smirked at the pathetic, pitiful man.
"They did nothing wrong. If you want to take out your frustration, at least be just and take it out on those who deserve it. Or yourself, if not let it go."
She faced her stepfather with another smirk because of her mom's confused expression. The story they fed my mother must be one missing all the side dishes. She nodded to the people to leave, and they followed her silent command. Yes, an omega was able to render such fear from those who saw her breaking point.
"Fine. Let's go home, we need to have a family meeting. Honey, is Parker all healed?"
Parker? Ugh. Parker the bane of her existence. The infection she couldn't cut out, the rot she'd been forced to breathe in for far too long. Anyways... what happened to him? Her head throbbed with the remnants of rage, but her soul. Calm, almost eerily so. Like the eye of a storm that had finally passed. Flashes of the night before danced in her mind—the heat, the pain, the temptation. Her wolf had been ready. She had been ready. But at the last second, she'd pulled back from the brink.
She'd stopped her mind from craving a body. She could've ripped him apart limb by foul limb and the world would've called it justice or executed her for self defence. But she didn't. She chose to let him live, and that fact alone should keep Parker up at night.
Whatever happened to him? He deserved it. Every scream. Every broken rib. Every shattered illusion of control. She didn't need to remember the specifics her soul knew. He should be counting his lucky stars he's still breathing. Because mercy? That wasn't weakness. It was her power. And he? He'll never touch her again.
"No. But his alpha, he will walk it out. Honey, please get their discharge papers."
Her mother nods clearly proud of her change. She hates her mother more than she does this man whose mouth utter absolute garbage.
"I do honestly apologise for yesterday. Here, this is a token of me and my family's deepest apologies."
He hands her a black card and she felt absolutely disrespected. This man is not used to this side of her and is evident by the way he looked at her in curiosity. She took the card and moved to sit on the bed.
"I won't say anything. But..."
She enjoyed keeping the enabler on his toes the way his eyes flicked with uncertainty, the hesitation in his breath. Last night changed everything. She'd faced the worst and survived, and now the darkness inside her was no longer a threat it was a companion. A source of fearlessness she hadn't known she had. Not long ago, she would've tried to please the alphas. Smiled. Nodded. Stayed small. But now? Fuck it. Fuck the titles. Fuck the power games. She had her own.
"Keep that monster away from me for as long as you live. Whenever I leave, don't try to find me or track me. Lastly, take care of my mother as a mate... not an alpha."
He nodded, agreement trembling off his lips, but she wasn't done. The dark inside her stirred, calmly now, like a waiting storm she could command.
"This is a blood oath."
She didn't entirely understand it, but her shadow did. And when the words fell from her mouth, she felt the bond seal in her bones. The man's silence and swift exit confirmed it she had finally flipped the power dynamic.
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