Freeing Starr✔️

Chapter 4 ~ Run

I glanced around nervously at all the girls that were scattered around me. Their anxiety and fear was written all over their faces as they dreaded the upcoming hunt. I glanced down at my wedding outfit and frowned, tugging at the fabric to see if it was tough enough to survive this ordeal.

I didn't understand why the males didn't let us change out of our dresses. Just by looking around I could tell I was definitely not the only girl who wasn't dressed to run around through trees and mud.

I became highly suspicious that this was what the males had intended. They wanted the dresses the females wore to slow them down while running.

Nah, I shook my head at the thought. That couldn't possibly be it. Everyone knew that males were physically more stronger and faster than women. It wouldn't matter if we were in dresses or not to them. It's possible that they simply ignored it because they assumed the females would turn into their wolves to give them a better chance of escape. However, that probably wouldn't be the case for me. Right now, my wolf was calmly relaxing within my mind, with no intention of getting up and revealing herself at all. She was extremely lazy, much to my annoyance. 

I contemplated asking Zion for a change of clothing but then decided against it.

I glanced across at where he resided, talking to his first beta in hushed voices. As if he felt my stare on him, he looked up and our gazes clashed. The corners of his lips turned up slightly into a smirk as his eyes trailed suggestively down my body. His eyes clouded as they rested on my cleavage.

I blushed deeply and quickly turned away, trying to hide my anxiety for the hunt. I couldn't show any of the females that I was afraid. I was a Luna now, and that meant that they now looked up to me.

As I thought about the events that might occur once the hunt started, I began to contemplate and surprisingly, my wolf began to transmit her emotions.

She was anxious.

She began to pace at the back of my mind, whining softly for her mate. She was conflicted. She wanted her mate and yet she wasn't ready to become mated at the same time. She wanted her freedom and she wanted to have the option of finding her actual soulmate. She was happy that we got away from our father but sad that we ran into another obstacle.

I agreed with her wholeheartedly. We wanted to meet our true mate, we wanted to be courted by him, to make him shower us with love, have kids and grow old with him, not with some wild Alpha whose traditions made us feel so repulsed.

Then a thought occurred to me. Why not run away? While on the run, I could make a beeline towards the pack borders, it wouldn't be that hard.

Yeah, right. It would be extremely hard. I knew my limits. I wasn't the strongest female here, as a matter of fact I was sure most of the females here could best me. I was weak, easily terrified and clumsy. What kind of Alpha female was I?

To make it all worst the borders were always protected and my new bond to Zion would make it easy for him to find me.

I sighed and decided to just find a good place where I could hide until the hunt was over. Somewhere no one would think to look, not even Zion. It wouldn't stop him from marking me but it would prolong the mating and give me a chance to figure out how to deal with everything.

My body stiffened at the tingles that appeared across my back, causing my wolf to purr softly in pleasure. I felt his breath fan across my neck before I felt him slide his nose across my skin, rubbing it at the junction of my neck and shoulder, where my mark would be.

I kept my body stiff and erect as I was perfectly aware of the bulge poking at me from behind. He nipped at my neck lightly, startling me and causing a yelp to escape my lips as I jumped slightly in fright. My heart pounded loudly in my chest and I was sure that he could hear it and tell how nervous I was.