Beautiful Omega

Five

I trailed after Cole into the dining area, where a massive oak table dominated the center of the room. Large wine red drapes were pulled back from the windows to allow sunlight through, but I could still see the golden crest of a full moon flanked by two crescents emblazoned on the fabric.

The same symbol had also been carved into the wood, inlaid on the marble wall that separated the dining area from the kitchen, and engraved on the necklaces that some wore. Their packs emblem.

I had to admit that their symbol choice was beautiful. The moon was one of the more sacred aspects of wolf life, it was the entity that nurtured us and guided us throughout our lives. The moon was important enough to be revered as our omnipotent goddess. My own relationship with her was a bit more frayed than others, but I still knew her importance.

Smith's pack had gone against the normal by using the sun as its symbol, even going so far as to depict a wolf leaping over it. I had known others of the pack had been disgruntled by the change, but they dared not raise a tongue against him.

Reflexively my hands drifted up to my arms, grazing the skin that likely would have been bound right around now had I been left there.

"Did you hear me?"

I snapped back to attention, seeing Grey giving me an expectant look.

"I'm sorry?"

A smile played on his lips.

"Your seat is here, between me and the Beta, Blake-", he said, turning expectantly. "Who seems to not be here."

"He said he was going to help patrol the border for the night," Cole piped up.

Grey nodded, but I could still see a furrow within his brow as he took his seat. I followed suit and seated myself into the chair in the center of the large table, with Grey at one end and the Beta's empty seat at the other.

My eyes drifted over the pack, seeing so many different faces. They were all different in size and race with some being muscled while others were a bit slender. Their styles and appearances and personalities all seemed so different, and yet they all sat and joked comfortably with one another. This was an entirely different world than the one I had left.

As I surveyed all of the members quietly, I came to realize something surprising. There were no female members here. The smile on my lips faltered, perhaps they were not entirely different as I had thought.

I wondered if they kept them elsewhere in the house, and then wondered why they had allowed me here. I had heard other packs even kept their female members in cages or controlled camps, and now I wondered whether they were the pack those rumors had surrounded.

Was this all bait, a tool to get me to submit myself to them so they can enslave me as Smith had? I shuddered at the thought.

"I'm going to check on Saad and the food," the male beside me said.

I turned to see Aaron at the same time he turned in my direction to rise from his seat. Our eyes locked and a mischievous expression blossomed on his face.

"Kiari's coming with me."

Reflexively I turned to Grey, and then scolded myself. Was I so eager and pathetic to immediately look for the approval of another Alpha? I held no idea of why Smith would have released me, but I was free now and my focus should be on keeping it that way. It's hard, but a wolf can survive without a pack.

At the sound of Aaron's announcement, Grey looked to us before he locked eyes with me. I felt something near my heart flutter.

Quickly I glanced away and focused on the surface of the table in front of me, but the intense feeling did not leave me. I had felt the same feeling with Blake. What was this?