The Omegas Heart

Chapter 35 "Wait"

I had ran the whole way, knowing I had to catch him and soon. There was traffic as Luke said so taking the car would have took much longer than I was willing for it to. I had to do it now.

A few cars looked at me like I was going out of my mind and maybe I was but I had people to see and places to be, what they thought didn't concern me anyway. This was important and I had to move now.

It took me almost half an hour to make it there, I had never ran faster in my life; not from cops or rogues or even the day I ran away from the pack house, either of the previous times.

A whole 3 seconds and my eyes landed on him. He was walking away but I would have known him anywhere.

"Wait!" I yelled. He stopped, I mean he wasn't the only one. A lot of people looked startled by my sudden shout, no one more so than him, because although to everyone else I was a stranger he recognized my voice in an instant. Despite that his face looked shocked.

Well, I'm sure he didn't expect to see me here.

Luke's eyes nearly dropped out of his head. He must have only just arrived, he hadn't even reached the check-in desk.

"I'm going with you." I told him in a firm voice.

I know what you're probably thinking. Why am I going with Luke? Why not run off to New York or Ohio, one of the millions of places I have to choose from? Good question. I considered it. Running off to a new state would have made sense, it would have been easy. It would have also been easy to track me, something I'm sure Hunter would do. Hunter.... Anyway the airport made sense. As for why Luke, he's going to Europe and I've heard that packs there are different.

I'm sure I sound like a hypocrite right now. Running from one pack and towards another. It's not so black and white. The issue is... I'm not ready to be alone again. Free, yes. Alone, not yet. After Cameron, I don't know what it's going to take to make me feel like me again. I've never really been alone. I lasted two days without Cam before I messed up. Now isn't the time to start.

"What?"

"I'll buy a ticket, and I have my passport-" I started to explain my arms moving rapidly as though that would prove every word I said to him.

"That's not why I'm questioning you." Luke cut me off, staring at me like I was a mad woman. His eyes clearly showing his made racing, wondering why I was there and what was going through my head. It took him a second to finally settle on what to say. "What about your life at the pack? What about Hunter? Leon?"

Having answered those questions to myself did not make it any easier to answer to Luke. It reminded me of when I broke my mom's vase back when I was seven. It felt like I was admitting having done something terrible. Almost like I was asking forgiveness. "I'm not a pack wolf." I tried to reason. "I can't stay for Leon or Hunter. I'm leaving for me Luke." My voice was pleading. I was pleading. Luke was one of my few friends and I needed him to understand. Maybe if he could understand so would everyone else.

"As Hunters beta I can't knowingly allow you to leave with me."

"As my friend, you can't make me stay."

There was a pause. Despite knowing that there was people all around us, there remaining to be a buzz of conversation, neither seemed to notice. It was a heavy silence, one which weighed down on me. If Luke said no I had no idea what I would do. Return? Leave anyway? Alone?

I let out a shaky breath only to gasp in another, an attempt to keep my emotions at bay. God, why did I feel like crying? This isn't you Alex, stop it. Oh hell, I don't care anymore. "Isn't Europe a little extreme?"