Twenty One

Twenty One
RAZE| 

I headed for my room, unable to contain my anger and afraid I would scare Amber more than she already was of me. I knew she was starting to warm up to me. It was hard to hide the attraction between us but I also understood how she could be scared of me, especially after I heard the reason why. 

I’d been contemplating on believing her and it wasn’t because I didn’t trust her. Heck, I didn’t care what sort of life she used to have but I didn’t expect it to be as terrible as she narrated. 

My blood boiled in anger and the only things I could take it out on in my room were the walls and every other thing in my room that I could set my hands on. It would be a lot of work for Arya to clean up the next day but she’d understand, it wasn’t the first time I got that mad. 

I could have taken it out on the prisoners in my cells if we had one. 

While I was still in my fit of anger, a knock came on my door. I already sniffed out who it was so I didn’t have to look to know it was Zane who walked into my room. 

I took a seat on the sofa in my room, opened up a bottle of my favorite whisky laying on the table and poured myself a glass. The burning sensation down my throat helped calm the raging fire inside of me. 

Zane’s eyes scanned the upturned situation of the room. 

“Arya’s gonna have a lot to do tomorrow.” He commented. 

“Why?” I grumbled, “Worried about her? Maybe do it for her now instead.” 

Zane chuckled. We were friends even if practically, I was his boss. He had as much respect as he had for me as how much he cared for me as friends. We have been friends long before the death of my parents. His father was my father’s Beta and he died months after my father died too. People said the grief of their death was too much for an older man like him who has served my father as his Beta all his life. 

Zane and I grew up together. We conquered packs together. We were like brothers despite the difference in hierarchy. 

“What’s got you all worked up?” 

He didn’t sound offended by my comment about him and Arya. Their story wasn’t one I was willing to delve into while I was still having a hard time dealing with the fact that a girl I had my eyes set on had gone through the worst treatment from the one she considered family.

“You were with Amber until a few minutes ago, did something happen?” He asked again. 

“Amber was banished from her pack.” I said. 

“I know that. Isn’t that why she can’t return? Your plan is to make her stay, why are you worried about that?” 

“She used to be intimate with someone.” Saying it left a bitter taste in my mouth. Knowing that someone else has touched her didn’t sit well with me although she already made it known in a subtle way the day she refused to put on the clothes I got for her. I wanted to break the hands that touched her, cut the fingers and toss them into a burning fire. 

I took another sip from my glass of whiskey. 

“And that makes you mad? She’s an Omega, it’s only right that she has been with someone before you.” 

“I wasn’t sitting around waiting for a virgin to give me a heir, Zane. The fucker who touched her hit her too.” 

Zane went quiet for a while.

“What do you plan to do?”

Left to me, I would bring the entire pack down not caring who it was causing my future mate and the future mother of my heir so much pain. I could conquer them like every other pack and make them rogues as I have always done. 

But I knew I couldn’t. She wouldn’t want me to do that. I didn’t want her to fear me more than she already did. She could have others she cared about in the pack and it would be unreasonable to raze down the pack for no peculiar reason. 

“That is the thing. I can’t even do anything. Amber doesn’t seem like she’d want me to do anything. Besides, what could I do? It’s not like I can take over the pack without a reason to.” 

I hated how I couldn’t even do anything about her past. I could only change her future by making the present better than the past and what she has gone through. 

“Have you told her why she’s still here?” 

Not saying anything and simply sipping from my glass gave Zane enough answers. 

“When are you going to tell her?” 

“In due time.”

“In due time? It’s been days since she got here. You should make a move already. She is an Omega. Anything can happen.” 

I flared up, “What then do you suggest I do? Tell a girl who already went through so much that I want to put a baby inside of her? And that she’d be the Luna of the pack?” 

“Do you not think it would be too much for her to take?” 

I was going to impose my will on her anyway. She was submissive and she would have no choice but to do as told but that seemed unfair now that I knew what she’s been through. 

I couldn’t do that to her. 

I couldn’t make her lose her trust in me and feel used just like her father and the bastard who did unforgivable things to her. I had the same plans for her. To make her birth my child and had been the same thing her father wanted to use her for before he had to send her away because she refused. 

I could be a bloodthirsty warrior but I knew how to treat a woman right and I’ve always waited for the time when I would find my mate. I was too old to have one now and she was my only hope. I couldn’t ruin it. 

Zane sighed. 

“She would find out eventually, Raze. The sooner the better.” 

“No, I have to make her feel comfortable around me first. Amber has to trust me first. So till then, no one is allowed to speak of this to her.” 

I already made my decision. 

“She would spend a lot of time with the other women, she'd find out one way or the other.” 

“Issue a warning to them all. Through the men or any other way, I do not care as long as they all get the memo that no one is to mention to her why she is here till I am sure she is ready to accept her fate with me.”

Zane nodded.

“I’ll get it done.” 

Zane made to leave but stopped, “Are you really just going to let her father be?” 

Zane knew me better than anyone, there was no way I would just let it go like that without digging further. 

I took another sip. 

“You will be the one to get it done. Find out who he is, what he does. He would lead us to the other fucker easily.” 

“Yes, boss.” Zane did a mock salute, no doubt having fun about the whole thing. 

“She’s got you wrapped around her finger already, she sure is a keeper.”

I flung a slipper at him, “Get out, you piece of shit.“

His loud laughter reverberated through the walls of the house as he left my room. 

I’d already calmed down and I wasn’t so mad anymore but I knew I had a lot of things to do in the meantime while making sure Amber feels comfortable in the pack. I was going to start with training her on life here, what it took to be a strong Luna and for her to not be looked down on by anyone ever again. 

I would make sure of it. That she would be so strong and powerful while side by side with me. No one would ever be able to come close to her enough to do bad things to her and by then, I would leave punishing the ones who made her suffer to her.