Chapter 12: Over it!

Tori's POV

\- 4 Years Later -

“GET BACK HERE YOU FREAK!”

Feeling fear begin to rise deep within my chest do I instantly run. Having stumbled upon Lilyanna, Dylan and Sam each moving to beat up a lowly Omega for simply bumping into them did I move to attempt to help them. For being Future Gamma meant it was my job to help protect those weaker than me.

So deciding I needed to be brave do I move to speak up, drawing their attention towards me. Not realizing that by doing so I would soon become their new personal target.

“HEY! Leave them alone NOW” I yell, catching there attention. Dylan moving to drop the Omega who flees almost instantly not wanting to stick around to see what happens.

“Well… Well… if it isn’t the freak. Still haven’t learned your lesson yet?” chuckles Lilyanna, her eyes now on me. My heart racing at what they could possibly do to me if they got a hold of me.

“Fuck you Lilyanna. Your just mad that Jake turned you down and in front of the whole pack too” I say, remembering the day she had approached him. Pawing at him like a piece of meat as my heart clenched from within. Having only been two days since the festival and our little kissing adventure and she was already trying to sink her claws into him.

“Grrr… It’s all because of you! You’re the reason he rejected me. Because of you I’ve become the laughingstock of this pack. If it weren’t for you, Jake would have been mine. Should have been mine” cries Lilyanna, her anger finally getting the better of her.

“No I didn’t. I’m pretty sure that was all you” I say, my amber eyes still watching each of them.

“ENOUGH! I heard enough of you, you freak. Dylan, Sam, grab him. NOW” cries Lilyanna. Dylan and Sam both moving to do as ordered as they both move to approach me. My feet slowly moving to back away until I’m finally able to turn and run.

The three of them now hot upon my tail, as Jake, Zak and Alex were currently all off training all thanks to Alpha Dawson. Jake having refused to take a mate like his father suggested left him with only two choices. Train under the Lycan King or take a Luna.

SHIT!

Now panicked, I continue to run. The need to get far, far away from them rising. A piece of me scared that if I was caught that I’d be in a whole world of trouble.

“GET HIM” screams Lilyanna.

Not willing to get myself caught, I continue to run. My legs carrying me in the direction that I could only hope would lead me to some place safe only to trip. My ankle now getting caught within something hard which causes me to fall flat upon my face. My body hitting the ground hard as it does.

“Ouch” I groan.

Looking to where my foot was, do I move to see that my foot got stuck between 2 roots, my foot having accidentally slipped between the thick wood while running away from Lilyanna which caused me to fall flat.

Panicking, I attempt to free my leg. Lilyanna and her spawn now close. My heart racing at fearing the worst. My foot finally free only to feel hands reach down and grab me by the arms.

“Well, Well. The freak thought he could finally get away yet couldn’t. Oh how fun this shall be” smirks Lilyanna, her violet eyes sparkling with a look that made me freeze.

Slowly approaching do I attempt to flee, but without proper training nor a wolf I was still nothing more than a weak human. Weak and pathetic as I struggled, Lilyanna finding great pleasure in harming me like she always did.

“This. This is for Jake and refusing to be with me” was all I hear as she moves to punch me. The wind being knocked straight from my lungs as she does it again. Lilyanna, like many received their wolves between 14 and 16 while I, myself had still yet to get a wolf.

Yet, now on the verge of turning 18, it was only a matter of time until I knew whether or not my wolf would finally arrive. For once midnight had come, I would officially become 18. And with that, my mate or mates too.

A piece of me still holding onto that small piece of hope that Jake, Zak and Alex were correct and each of them were my mate. Just like Jake had said that night to me within his bathroom. The same bathroom in which I shared my very first kiss and it was with the one I secretly loved too.

Jakes confession a bit scary yet deep down I wanted to believe it whole heartedly.

Could Jake really be sure about us. That in the mist of everything going on around us that their wolves might be right, and I truly am theirs? That I’m their mate? Yet didn’t know it because I wasn’t officially 18 yet?

Lost to my inner thoughts do I fail to feel it when Lilyanna continue to beat me. Dylan and Sam eventually taking over once Lilyanna got bored or because she didn’t want to break a nail. My body slowly falling to the ground once they thoroughly beat me until I couldn’t withstand it any longer.

My body now on the verge of blacking out as I try my best to protect myself until finally they decide they had enough and leave me alone. Lilyanna leaving me with one final warning as she does. “Stay away from Jake. He’s mine and once he picks me, I’ll make your life a living hell you freak.”

Whimpering I force myself to listen to her laugh until there finally gone from where they used me as a personal punching bag. A part of me wishing that Jake had been here but wasn’t.

Alpha Dawson having sent them to the Lycan King to train for the past 4 years once Jake refused on choosing a mate. Telling his son that he was being foolish and needed to think about his pack first.

A pack that Jake knew needed him, but not at the cost of hurting me in the process. So when Alpha Dawson gave them the choice, Jake took the deal to train then play match maker with his father. Zak and Alex both doing the same. Each of them leaving me behind as they did.

Jake… I whimper, my body in pain. Where are you?

Struggling to stand, I slowly attempt to do it. Ignoring every piece of me that hurt. Knowing that I needed to get home before my parents did and saw me now rising. My parents unaware that I was the packs personal punching bag and by pack I meant Lilyanna.

Why does she hate me so? I try to wonder, my body protesting with each step. I mean it wasn’t like I ever did anything to her except exist. And it wasn’t like I was trying to take Jake from her, but I knew long ago that Jake along with both Zak and Alex only preferred the company of men and not women.

A small part of me wishing that I could openly share that with my own parents. But too afraid of them disowning me to come clean. Afraid that if I did that they wouldn’t love me anymore or disown me like the pack did.

Feeling tears begin to rise do I move to let my mind wonder. A piece of me wondering if I should just leave. Save my parents the trouble of continuing to raise me. A son who was born without a scent, a son who the pack avoided at all costs or secretly called me names when they thought I wasn’t listening or the way Lilyanna seemed to recruit Dylan and Sam as her two personal bodyguards as they team up to torment me.

Letting my tears fall, I instantly feel my chest tighten. A part of me afraid of leaving behind Jake. To leave behind Zak and Alex. My three close friends who have always been my biggest support in all my life yet felt they always pitied me. Pitied me because I was wolfless.

Yet, another part of me knew that Jake had also promised me that I too would get my wolf. And even though I didn’t want to believe him another part of me did. And then that night within his bathroom when we kissed. Another part of me wanted to believe him then too. To believe that our Moon Goddess had a different plan laid out for me and that I had rightfully been given to them as a child.

Sighing, I continued to limp all the way back towards my home. My mother and father both off handling last minute stuff before my party tomorrow. The day I would officially turn 18 in the eyes of my pack. Anger now rising deep within me as I limp.

Whatever, I’m so over this stupid pack. If they want to treat me like a freak, a nobody then maybe I’ll give them what they all want. I’ll just leave and never return. I’ll pack up all my clothes and whatever else I hold of value and just leave. I can go start a new life with a pack that cares for me and without all the judgement that comes with it.

With built up pain comes bitter thoughts; thoughts I had no clue I had buried deep inside of me but knew without a doubt that they were mine. Thoughts that always simmered just below the surface until today. Because after today, I would be over it.

Over the abuse, over the lies and over the way that my heart clung to the hope of getting a wolf and a mate to boot. All of it.