Escape

I turn to the stove, I put the Cornish hens in the roasting pan. I spread the mixed vegetables and potatoes in the roasting pan. I add some water and chicken stock, onions and garlic to season it. After everything is in the oven, I walk through the kitchen, around the L shaped counter towards the formal dining room where she is sitting on the floor. Currently right now, she is sitting in the middle of the dining room where a dining table will go once I buy one. I kneel down and pull her into my arms. She shaking, she’s rocking back and forth. Her mind is no doubt going crazy with worry. I wish I knew what happened and how to help her. Suddenly, I realize this might be the opportunity that I need to bring her back to my pack. I can at least ask her as a friend. I know I just met her but, it seems like she wants to get away from this life. She would be safe in my pack.

I hold her letting her calm down.

“I’m damaged goods!” she says broken.

“Why would you think that?” I ask her shocked by what she said.

“I am, I can never go back home, I can never face my real pack again!”

“What do you mean?” I ask her, feigning ignorance. Hoping she buys my bluff.

“I am not originally from the onyx pack. My parents moved  there when I was ten. My father was the top warrior red creek pack. One day, Alpha Lucius, who met us while at a pack meeting in our pack a few months earlier, had requested my father to join his pack. He said that he’d heard of my fathers cunningness and abilities as a warrior, said that he was impressed. Gave my Alpha a large dowry for my father to join. My Alpha thought it was suspicious but made father promise to act as a spy and report the doings inside the pack. Alpha Corbin was suspicious of Lucius, cause the Alpha kept looking at me every time he would come for Alpha meetings when our pack hosted them. Father was furious, he said Lucius was eying me with hunger. We did not know what to make of it. Now, I know.” She said as she wept.

“It was after we moved to the pack, when he welcomed us all. Only he continued to stare at me when my parents were not looking. Attending school there was so different. She-wolves were taught normal academics but, also the proper behavior of a submissive obedient she-wolf. We were told “independence” was a myth, we were taught the males had independence cause, they would be leaders and warriors. The women were to be submissive servants to a male, in the household by cooking etc. but, also in the bedroom. We were not to question a male, especially the Alpha, it would be death. I have seen she wolves die cause they were defiant and outspoken. I didn’t want to die, I just prayed for my parents to take me away from there. When I go to be in High School, I was getting close to the age of finding my mate and having my wolf. I was ordered to move into the pack house. I was assigned to be Travis’s companion; I was also Lucius’s companion when he would sneak into my room. I was ordered never to disobey the Alpha. I remember the first time, they threw a big party, we drank, and were forced to pledge our loyalty to whichever male they assigned us to. I was assigned to both Travis and Lucius, so I had to pledge my loyalty to both. I had to do it or I would be banished from the pack or killed. I drank the wine they gave me. I blacked out, when I woke up, my neck hurt for some reason, and I was getting fucked by both of them.” She said as she hung her head in shame.

“Minerva, that pain in your neck, have you ever looked in a mirror?”

“I was ordered not to and always wear a scarf why? This is actually the first time in years I have not worn a scarf”

“Minerva, go to my bathroom, look  in the mirror at your neck, precisely at the mating vein of your neck.” I told her. She looked at me in horror and ran to the bathroom. She was in there for several minutes before I heard her screaming.

“WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!” She screamed. I walked up behind her and placed my hands on her shoulders.

“It’s a brand, it means you’re their property, it’s strategically placed there so if you ever met your mate, I am assuming he would see it and no that you can never be claimed. I am not sure what might happen if you were, it could activate a curse or poison.” She turns to me in tears again with horror in her eyes. Suddenly I hear a loud pounding on my door. I look through my video door camera. Travis and one whom I can assume is Lucius are pounding down my door. They’re trying to break it down.

“What’s happening?” She asks me freaked out.

“Your Alpha’s are here” I whisper

“Oh God!” She says in fear! “I am not assigned to you, they’ll see it as a betrayal, they’ll kill me!”

“Weren’t you the one who said you were meant to show companionship to Alphas?” I said sarcastically.

“That was flirting and sarcasm, I am only allowed to that if they give permission. My actions at the school must have set him off!” she said still in panic.

“Not to mention, I was supposed to meet him after school to discuss something, instead, I walked off with his bedwarmer” I said in mirth. Fucking Luthor Alpha’s I am firming my belief that they’re all a piece of shit!

“Minerva, they won’t find you if you comje with me right now!”

“Where there’s nowhere safe!” she said almost screaming

“Yes, I will protect you in my pack, my whole pack would! They’ll protect you but, you have to go now!” I tell her as I open a portal she looks at the door, when we hear the door break down stairs and footsteps charging into the house, she dives through the portal out of fright. I join her and seal it shut before they reach us. Just as the portal closes, I see their footsteps walking down the hallway not noticing our exit. Minerva clings onto me and cries as I take her and pull her through the other side of the portal into my pack lands. She lets go, looks around at my Georgia pack house estate like she’s frozen in shock