Love and Lies

Chapter 5

Moonbeam's POV

I ran and ran and ran. All that was going through my head was that I had to get away. I had gotten more powers, as Bracken said I would, on my 16th birthday two days ago. I don't know how to control all of them yet but I'm slowly learning. I never stopped to practice though. The only time I stopped was when I would drink from a river or lake that I found. That was only for a few minutes before I would continue running. I think I've been running for about three days and I'm getting extremely tired. In fact, I couldn't go any longer.

My knees crumbled and I fell to the ground. My snout on my paws and legs stretched out, I just laid there. I couldn't move. All I did was pant heavily. I was exhausted, my body was exhausted, my wolf was exhausted.

I could feel my eyelids getting heavier. And then, all of a sudden, I felt snouts prod at me. They were probably checking to see if I was alive or not.

I saw, through blurry vision, one of the wolves shift and walk over to me. They were saying something but I didn't know what this man was trying to say. All I knew was that here and now, they would probably kill me for trespassing on their land, and I was happy. I'm a danger to everyone and I need to be killed.

"K-killl....mee....pleaaase. " I pleaded into the universal mind link shakily before everything faded into nothing.

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I woke up with a pounding in my head and groaned. I looked around me with my groggy vision and all I knew was that I was in a cell. The bars that were stopping me from leaving looked to be silver, but I wasn't sure.

I sat up off the dirty floor slowly and stood up. I looked down to see that I had shifted with my clothes on? That's strange. I have the same clothes on that I had on when I shifted at the pack house but I'm not sure how. Usually, your clothes shred to bits when you shift into your wolf. It must be another power that I have.

I sighed and shook my head at that. Powers? More like curses.

I couldn't get my pack's screams out of my head. All of the terrified girls running away from me. My heart pounding in my chest, feet slapping against the ground as I ran away. The echoes of my name being called. The adrenaline running through my veins.

I shook my head to rid myself of all these thoughts but no matter what I did, I still got flashes of the past couple of days.

I felt tears fall slowly down my cheeks, trailing down my chin and heard them hit the cold, stone floor. I buried my head in my knees and covered my head with my hands. I didn't want to be like this.

Why me? Why did I have to be the freak with weird powers? I hope that whatever pack this is kills me for trespassing, then I won't have to worry about endangering my family, my friends, my pack, or anyone else for that matter.

I heard 2 voices come closer to my cell and their keys began to jangle as they unlocked my cell. I stayed still, not caring what they did to me.

I got a kick to the side and I flinched away, bringing my head out of my knees. I soon felt a stinging in my cheek and held my cold hands on it to soothe the burning.

"Get up, rouge." One of the two men demanded, but I didn't move.

I got another kick but this time it was to my stomach. My head whipped to the right as the other man punched me in the face.

"You dare disobey an order from this pack's Beta, rouge?!" He grabbed my hair and dragged me out of my cell.

Next thing I knew, I was slumped against the brick wall, trying to recover from being thrown into it.