The Omega Princess

Chapter 5

The ceremony had been blunt, there had been no time to recuperate from the decision made. Somehow I had managed to complete the ritual, repeating obediently after the elder, lifting my hand up to be tied to his. I was thankful that my heart had returned once more to its normal rate, no longer spiking in irregularity. My mate reminded me almost playfully that my emotions would be so easily read because of my heart.

The thought scared me, I did not want to be any weaker than I already was. To be an open book would only cause me more casualties.

Slowly we trudged up the long hill to the Alpha House. From the distance even I could see that it was grand and much more than a house. Brilliantly white with gold detailing it was a nice change from the dredging grey that had coloured the majority of my life. I was told that it had twenty-five different bedchambers and that I would be allowed to choose any of them as our private chamber.

After Tatiana had made her choice of course, seeing as she was the soon to be Luna.

“Would you like me to carry you?” Dale asked

I was moving painstakingly slow and every bone creaked and ached with each step but I could not allow him to carry me. I shook my head. It would not do to burden him any further.

“You are in obvious pain” he stated

I stopped for a moment, breathing deeply. I still could not believe that he had willingly chosen me to be his mate, when he stood in front of me I had thought like Kai he would come to his senses and pick someone more suitable but he did not.

Instead he took my hand and led me to his side.

“You should not have picked me” I said simply looking at him

He stared at me his concerned expression changing into one of seriousness

“Why not?”

I looked away in disbelief

“I am wolfless, I am shameful. I will only be a curse to you and your family. It is not too late to change your mind”

Like Pietro had done earlier Dale began to laugh, I stared in confusion once more. Was there something wrong with this family? All the misfortunes I suffered were like petty jokes to them.

“In the Red Moon Pack, status is not the prime of any mating. Were I to have come from another part of the Kingdom I would have never have chosen you, but here your status means nothing to me”

“If status means nothing then why is it we were told of your ranking?”

Dale smiled, moving towards me and taking my hand

“Tradition, that is all.”

“Tradition?” I repeated

Dale nodded and lifted me, holding me like a mother would hold their child. My entire body relaxed much to my dismay and I could not find the strength to refuse his help.

“You must know that you are special, the Goddess sees you”

I frowned

“If she saw me I would not be the way I am” I murmured

Another laugh erupted from him but it did not last as long as the previous one much to my relief.

“Kai never hesitates. He is guided by the goddess herself but… he hesitated with Tatiana he did not go to her first. He went to you”

I shook my head.

The Goddess did not see me. She had turned her back on me and never once looked to ease my suffering. She had made me an outcast, left me to rot in humanity alone. I could not look to my kind because I was not one with them. As they shed their skin and became one with their true forms I suffered in this wretched skin, stuck never knowing what it felt like to be run free, to howl at the white disk in the sky, to be a part of nature.