The Pack Outcast (The Fae Omegas, #3) [SAMPLE]

Chapter 2

Amelia

It was late in the afternoon as I trudged back to the pack from the woods.

After saving a dying dove's life, I was in a good mood, but it disappeared as soon as I saw Cassie standing at the edge of the woods.

I didn't know what she wanted, but I knew that when a member of Evelyn's crew was grinning the way she was, then I was in trouble.

But that seemed impossible because I had stayed away from my pack members all through last month. I didn't even go for Sawyer and Evelyn's official mating ceremony and the after party. All I did was sneak into the pack for food every day, complete my pack duties, and then disappear back into the woods before anyone could accuse me of doing something I didn't do.

"Amelia, the Alpha wants to see you in his office."

My good mood was gone in the blink of an eye and I just nodded as I walked to the Alpha's house, apprehension filling my heart.

What had Evelyn and her mother planned out again? And what was this incident going to cost me?

Hadn't they taken everything from me? My parent's home, the money my parents had saved for me, my reputation, my peace of mind and even my true mate.

I was pretty sure I had nothing more to lose, but fear still made my heart beat to a discordant tune as I received my Alpha's approval to enter his office.

Unfortunately, he wasn't the only one there. Members of the pack council were also in his office.

Whatever Evelyn had planned out might get me thrown out of the pack. That was one of the few reasons why the pack council members ever gathered together, other than their monthly council meetings and emergencies.

Contempt and disgust colored their faces as I swallowed and walked into Alpha Vincent's office.

"Alpha . . . you . . . you asked for me?"

As I stood in front of Alpha Vincent, I noticed some of the pack council members move away from me quickly, as if they could contract a deadly disease by standing close to me.

Alpha Vincent looked up and stared at me, contempt overflowing from his eyes. The force of the contempt and hate from everyone around me made my legs as limp as noodles so I held onto the edge of my Alpha's desk.

How had my life gone so wrong? Ever since my parents' deaths, I had gone from being the little gifted prodigy warrior of the pack to becoming a pack outcast.

And even the Alpha who used to like to take me around the pack, calling me his little prodigy, was the same one staring at me this way without asking me if I had actually done whatever I had been accused of again.

"Do you recognize this?" Alpha Vincent pushed a silver rectangular-shaped box that I had never seen across the table to me.

"No?" I replied skeptically.

Alpha Vincent sneered, but before he could say anything, Claire, Evelyn's mother and my aunt, started speaking. "Oh, don't pretend not to recognize your Moonshine device, Amelia. I saw it in your room where you stashed it."

So this time, Claire was courageous enough to come at me head on? She wasn't setting me up through her daughter anymore?

I would have laughed on another day with another accusation, but this accusation made my legs almost buckle under me.

A Moonshine device. Used with the deadly Moonshine drug that had been all but declared a criminal substance and drug.

This kind of accusation could get me thrown out of the pack as a rogue. It could also make me lose my eligibility to attend Camdine Academy.