White Lightning

Chapter 88: Rules

The two she-wolves sat before him, looking anywhere but into his eyes. As they fidgeted in their seats nervously, his Beta paced behind them ensuring that neither would run and try to escape her punishment. And so, he took a deep breath and tried to steady his voice before he spoke. "Ophelia, Crimson, do you understand why you are here?"

Of course, she would be the first one to speak, and Crimson shrugged dismissively. "It's her body and her choice." She feigned a bored expression as she stared down at her chipped nails. "Did you really summon us here for this?"

Well, this she-wolf wasted no time. He focused his gaze on the fiery redhead and fought the urge to choke her. "You understand that, in helping the Luna to abort a pup, you have gone against established pack rule? Our pack does not abort pups, especially an offspring of the Alpha," he emphasized this and his nostrils flared with his brewing rage. "To say that I am livid with you would be a vast understatement."

"Like I said, it's Phee's body and her choice." The she actually had the audacity to roll her eyes at him. "You forced her to give birth to one pup, but you were not going to make her go through it again. She was terrified and, as her best friend, I helped her make a difficult decision. There is no pack member in their right mind who would agree that a she-wolf must carry an unwanted pregnancy to term solely because her mate demands it. You can try to convince yourself that being the Alpha makes you special somehow, but it doesn't give you the right to own a she-wolf's body."

The Alpha growled, clenching his fists beneath his desk and fighting to control himself. He felt a tick in his jaw, his nails throbbing, and he fought to control his raging beast who wanted to be set free. So, trying to dodge Crimson's arguments, he turned to his mate who was looking rather pale and childlike. "Ophelia, what do you have to say for yourself?"

The Luna glanced nervously down to her petite hands, and then turned to her friend who nodded. She tried to meet her mate's furious brown eyes but turned away in fear. "I don't want another pup," she stated softly, barely approaching a whisper. "Birthing that pup was horrible, and I thought I might die from it. Afterward, I told myself that I would never let you touch my naughty parts again." She paused, flicking her eyes to her accomplice. "Lying beneath you that night of the barbeque, that was a mistake. I was turned on by sharing you with Cee and I should never have allowed you to be naughty with me."

A sudden pained noise escaped the Alpha's throat at this, though he glared daggers at his mate. "You never said a word of any of this to me before today, Phee. Why didn't you come to me, why didn't you speak to me? We could have figured something out together, little she. There are options. We could have gone to Rick for birth control so that this would not happen; so you did not have to be afraid to lie with me in our bed. There has to have been a better answer than this!"

Ophelia refused to look at him, she simply gulped down a breath of courage and continued with her speech. "I spoke to Crimson," she squeaked. "She told me what I could do to be rid of the thing in me and I got rid of it. I didn't want it and I knew that you would just yell—like you are doing now."

The dam of emotions finally broke, and the Alpha's eyes filled with tears. He covered his face with his large hands and sobbed. "You killed our pup! You murdered our little she-wolf. Did you not consider for a moment how I would feel at this news? Did you never once stop to consider me, your mate, the wolf who loves you? When did you become so callous, Ophelia?"

"It's not your choice," the Luna spat with an increasing venom. "It's not your body! You don't have to carry the thing, you don't have to go through being ugly and fat, or have horrible pain in your down there parts and have your titties leak. You will never understand, Alpha. You don't understand at all! None of you wolves can ever understand!"