Rogue Wolf

Ch 69 aftermath

I stopped the older omega from following our old alpha when I dismissed everyone.

"Tonight all you omegas are with me," I told him, which got me thinking. "Leah, why don't the girls have a sleepover tonight in your room. Have the other two been in the stores yet? No? Well, go enjoy yourselves this afternoon. Check the place out, play some of the games. The guys won't bother you."

I got a head bow from all three of them. They headed over to the stores and I soon heard giggles. Girls! Go figure. The pregnant one was the only one who didn't seem happy, often moving to the edge of the store to look down the omega hall.

I was getting more and more impressed with Nathan though. He directed the guards to different areas to keep the girls mostly surrounded, then made rounds himself, checking on things, encouraging the guys. He gave me odd glances now and again. I couldn't decide if they were favorable or not. I think he was trying to figure it out himself.

Michael had his hand on Luke's shoulder. Chad was kneeling behind him. The older omega was fiddling around the snack bar, I think just to look busy. Becoming the actor was becoming a full time job around here! I straightened my shoulders and headed over to Michael, putting a smile on my face. It was hard, swallowing down the sick feelings my behavior with our old alpha had caused in me. It was just as hard reining in the elation I felt at his submission to me. I wanted to go somewhere and be alone to just curl into a ball like I used to do under my desk back at my Mom's. I wanted the time to just cope with it all. I was Beta, though, and didn't have that luxury.

"Hey guys," I said quietly as I approached them. "Hey Chad. Come on, come over here and stand up. Think you guys can handle wearing shorts?"

Chad said nothing, standing with his head down. Luke kept barely looking up nervously between Chad, Michael and me, then looking back down. None of them said a word.

"Is it too much for you guys? I wanted you to visibly be part of the pack by wearing clothes like everyone else. You should have been wearing something all along, honestly. I can't do it for the older one. He's a prisoner of our pack. It's gonna be our alpha's choice what to do with him. Kinda puts you guys in a weird spot," I said, voicing my sudden thought. "He's been your only pack all this time."

They still stood silent, fidgeting. Stupid, I told myself, yet again. I jumped the gun, doing things on impulse without thinking them through. When was I going to learn? If Chad was who I think he was, he'd rather die than be part of our pack, especially when you consider how our pack treated him and his brother. I wondered if they even really were brothers. I was betting the older omega would put pressure on Chad at least, if he could, to keep him from integrating with us.

"Why don't you guys run around as wolves for a bit," Michael suggested. "I ain't seen you guys wolf out yet."

Michael gave me a bit of a smile with a raised eyebrow and a bit of a shrug. He was trying to help me, which went a long way to dispelling my nervousness around him. He'd gotten a glimpse of the monster in me and was still on my side. I smiled back, feeling almost like crying with relief. I'd hate it if I'd totally screwed things up with the one real friend I had here; not counting my Max. With Michael I could be myself... mostly.

"What do you think guys, wanna wolf it up, give Michael a chance to see you in action? Me too for that matter. Only time I've ever seen you guys as wolves is when a... our old alpha commanded you to shift, and then all you did was just stand there, or crouch there."

They looked up at me, then at each other, still not saying a word. It was so frustrating how conditioned everyone around here was. They weren't allowed to talk most of the time, other than to say 'yes lord'. That was going to have to change.