DALEIA

Rude Awakening

This time when I wake , the burning sensation is gone completely and all I have are patches of skin that a lighter shade than the rest of my body, I guess that's were I had the burns , it's weird when I look at it really , I looks like the burns didn't scar just left me slightly pinkish in some parts. Maybe my wolf just took a little longer to react my time in the clinic ended shortly after I woke up and I saw that the were blotches on my skin were changing color and starting to look more and more like bruises , I knew something was going on but I wasn't in any pain and I hadn't had a vision in a long time , I was told to see the alpha right after I was discharged and so I did, his office was on the second floor of the pack house dark and cold was the atmosphere much like the man after I had my first vision, the last time I had seen him he told me to go back home and work hard to limit my time spent near any of the pack members and the pack house.

 As I stand there he assesses me , scans me as if he could find a way to figure out what was happening with me by merely taking a look at me ,

" Daleiah " he says staring lazily at me , as if my presence was an inconvenience to him, he stands to his full height walking around his large desk slowly , he halts in front of me . I keep my head down

 "alpha... "

 " no don't talk just listen..." this was the second time I had no opportunity to get a word out

 " I need you to be a little more discreet with the way you act around us do you understand "he wanted me to be decreet? like i had any control over what was goig on with me ? unbelievable .

 I nod

 " we do not need you bringing attention to yourself in this manner , I asked you to keep a low profile didn't I , I asked you not to cause any trouble and stay in your lane did I not my dear"

 I nod 

" we wouldn't want to push me to banishing you and turning you into a rouge right " 

I shake my head . this wasnt the first time he threatened to turn me into a rouge but i was the first time he had said it so outwardly, i was on thin ice.

 " good , now go home Daleia " I keep my eyes down,  nod and turn on my heel and leave .

I head straight home only then remembering what Luna had said to me about this being just the beginning of my life, I knew what was happening to me... what had been happening to me wasn't some bizarre thing, something was up and she knew what it was, and if she knew, the alpha knew and they wouldnt give me an answer as to why I had been removed from pack society in such a cruel manner. When I get home all I had bought is sitting on the table in my kitchen, I silently thank the kind soul that did this for me and move further into the house to the bathroom to inspect myself in the mirror. my usually dark brunette hair had started getting weird whiter highlights and my naturally brown eyes were lightening up as well ,the harsh colored bruises covered a good amount of my usually clear skin and my whole demeanor had a dark feel to it... gaunt even I felt like I was dying and I sure as hell looked the part, he weird feeling of something bad about to happen didnt really clear up my frustrations.

As I took a shower I knew the only way I would be able to get answers is if I talked to the Luna again and the probability of that happening was rather faint at that moment. I had to come up with a plan. Something to get some information into what the hell was going on. But all my plans all seem to end with me being banished. I walk out of the shower and into my room and as I put on some comfortable clothes I catch a scent. It's faint but it's there so I bring my wolf forward. We never did communicate a lot but that was a mutual thing... we'd be there for each other when it counted. I stealthily walk down the stairs but sigh in relief when I realize that it's just Luna sipping tea in my kitchen.

"Luna, what's going on why are you here?"

 I look on the table and see that she had a dress in a covered clear bag on it. 

"The alpha made a last minute call my dear" 

My face contorts to one of confusion.

 "What call?"

 "the beta of the lotus pack in the East lost his mate a few years ago. The pack is without a beta female and the Luna is struggling under the stress" 

I look at her warily my wolf and I not liking at all what was being said
"he's here my dear, you two are to be mated, and after that you will be moving to the lotus pack as the new beta female."

I was stunned, why were things happening so suddenly today I had not taken a calm breath in my house in the last three days I had spent in the clinic and I was being forcibly mated to a beta so far away from my home... from my parents... I had spent so much time living like a zombie and now they thought they could easily move me as they pleased? No.

"No. im not going anywhere with some man i dont even know , Luna please this is my home , i may have a mate out there what am i supposed to do when i find him? "

She stares blankly at me , was she serious ? was this all i meant to my pack now , i thought she was on my side.

 I move backwards trying to get enough distance between me and her. Is this what she had meant...? But it couldn't be, she said it was a last minute call .....unless she was lying to me... Was she lying...? I don't realize I've reached the stairs until my foot makes painful contact with the bottom stair and I hit the ground hard on my behind ,falling with a loud thud. They were taking my freedom now. I get up fast as the thought occurs to me running in the opposite direction. I get upstairs, reach my bedroom window and jump out without hesitation shifting mid air and landing in wolf form.

I gain quite a distance. That is till I hear the thuds of pack warriors chasing behind me. hunting me... I never thought it would turn to this. My pack chasing me like the rouge I was about to be, the pain of being separated from my home tearing at my heart.

 My wolf is small but clever and agile so it does not take long for me to lose them in the trees but when I get to the border I hesitate , and that hesitation costs me my freedom as I feel the force of a wolf tackle mine in the side. 

The alpha

He looks at me with hate and distain and I can practically feel the disgust when he realizes I would rather be rouge than mated to a beta. But he does not understand... the beta lost his mate. I hadn't even found mine. Although I wasn't looking I also wouldn't disrespect something as sacred as a mate bond. He shifts back commanding me to do the same.
I'm promptly escorted back to my home were the Luna sits with her tea cup waiting for me.

" You can't run from this Daleia"