The more I watched the mother and son, the more agitated I became. Not because of them, but because of what they had gone through… and how Mr. Beaumont and Molly only felt bad now is due to them being caught. Otherwise, we’d be having a different scenario.
A low growl rumbled out of me and I noticed Mr. Beaumont leaned back, brows furrowed as he cautiously eyed me. My wolf eyes shimmered and my jaw clenched tight. I could sense that the other pack members stared wide-eyed, glancing nervously at their current alpha and his mother.
Shaking my head, I narrowed my eyes and growled that there was so much to say in so little time but right now the townspeople of Carmel were more important.
“I had every reason to turn against this pack,” I pointed out, glaring at Mr. Beaumont and his accomplice. “I could have ignored the warning about what was coming! I could have turned the other cheek after you banished me, and could have let that damn manic she-wolf kill every last one of you!”
Murmurs from the crowd only made me keep talking. I turned to face them, shaking my head that because I cared about them, I came back to Carmel! Even when they all had turned against my family—not so much me—they were so determined to hold onto their pride instead of trying to survive.
“You might not believe me…” I looked at the wary faces, some curious. “But by the time that army gets here… it will be too late!”
Facing the alpha family I sneered, “If you don’t warn the humans now, they will die!”
Again, the murmurs erupted but still I faced the alphas. Ridge slowly lifted his head, forcing himself to get it together. His mother remained close by him as the alpha stared at me. Those green eyes unreadable with my anxiety flowing but the alpha took a few short steps forward.
Despite the trouble he was in, Mr. Beaumont frowned, “Ridge…”. His son was quick to hold up a hand to silence the former alpha. His mother even shot Mr. Beaumont a look for the man to shut his trap.
When he was standing in front of me, I couldn’t tell what Ridge was thinking from the look he was giving me. His gaze lingered on my face, brows furrowing as he really looked at me. His lips parted, irises pulsing as they looked over my face again as his nostrils flared.
Ridge’s brows furrowed more, growling as he looked over his shoulder at the doctor and asked how long until what Ridge had been taking weened out completely. The doctor swallowed hard, glancing nervously at Mrs. Beaumont then back to Ridge. He replied in a stammer that it could take days, weeks or even months, depending on the dosage consistency.
When Mrs. Beaumont snarled, eyes shimmering, the doctor stammered again with a shaky finger up in the air.
“Per-per-perhaps tonight if I can get a lock of his actual mate’s hair. She—She would not affect him as the other female had.” He says this last part quickly, hearing the mother and son’s disapproving growls. “In—instead… the suppressant would have a backwards reaction. Making—making his natural instincts— return—return to their original level.”
When the doctor went quiet, Ridge sighed, brows furrowed again. He slowly turned to me and asked, “Is… Is that something you would want?”
In the first time, in such a long time since I’ve had decisions made for me, it was unexpected to hear someone ask me what I wanted. What would make me happy. Sure, my family and friends said I deserved to be happy but it somehow always came back to me wanting to make decisions so that they could be happy. So hearing Ridge ask me, if I even wanted for us to go back to where we were… it… it was considerate… and sweet.
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Dark Shadow (Book 1 in DARKNESS DUOLOGY)
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