Our Wounded Souls

Chapter 3

ENJOY!! **************************

My lungs were on fire.

After my little incident in the meadow I had done the only things there was to do.

I ran.

Hard and fast. I couldn't get the sound of everyone laughing out of my head but that wasn't the worst of it. I could still hear him.

No. He'd said.

What did he mean 'no'?

We were soulmates. He must know, he must have felt it. But for some reason he had said no.

And when everyone had started making fun of me, neither one of them had done a thing to stop it.

I couldn't decide on one feeling to feel as I ran up the stairs to my room. I was confused and embarrassed and- completely out of my character- I found myself angry.

I was angry that after so many years of waiting, keeping my chastity as others gave it away like nothing. After so much hoping and so many prayers, the one day I had been looking forward to all my life was quickly becoming a nightmare.

What did he mean 'no'?

I still couldn't grasp it. I tried to look inside myself. Maybe I had been wrong. Maybe I had seen two gorgeous pieces of eye candy and my hormones had gone crazy, but I knew. I knew they were mine.

I groaned into my pillow at my thoughts. There was a thought that was rolling around my head causing destruction. I couldn't help when my lips moved to voice what I'd been thinking ever since he told he wasn't my mate.

"They don't want me." I whispered sullenly.

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"Winny! "

I startled awake when I heard my mother calling me from downstairs. It took a moment for the events of the day to hit me and when they did, I whimpered and pulled my bed covers over my head. I wasn't ready to face reality yet.

"Win!"

I huffed but got out of bed and made my way down the stairs emphasizing my lack of enthusiasm.

The moment I was in my mother's line of sight she was off. I couldn't hear her at first only because I wasn't fully there but then I started to make things out, things that had my blood boiling and my heart breaking.

"How could you do this to me?"

I stared at her shocked.

"What?" I asked quietly.

"Oh don't look at me like that. You do this on purpose don't you? Don't you?"

I winced as she dug her nails into my arm. I could not help my whimper as my vision swam.

"You embarrassed me. In front of the whole pack." She sneered.

I sputtered.

"You? You were embarrassed? They laughed at me. Everybody mother."

"Well that's what you get for claiming The Alphas as your mates"

I waited for her to take it back. To say she didn't mean it but she gave my arm one last brutal squeeze before walking away from me.

I gasped at the pain in my chest. My mother had always been distance, cold even, but never had I thought she hated me but in that moment I was sure I had seen pure, unadulterated loathing in her eyes.

I barged out of the house and shifted.

I ran but I couldn't seem to outrun the skeletons after me. I finally exhausted myself and laid down in a patch of wood just at the border of the pack. We couldn't stop whimpering and whining. The pain from our mother's behaviour was just too much on top of everything that had happened.