“Are we taking her right now?” asked Sam.
“Yes, she’s in pain. She needs to go to her pack right now,” I stressed. “The decision is final.” I have been the leader of the pack since I started it more than twenty years ago. I met Sam, an outcast on the streets like myself, and we decided to form a pack recruiting Tony and Wesley.
I looked back and saw Tony still carrying the little omega in his arms, cradling her like she was going to break. He looked up, glaring at me.
I sighed.
“The men aren’t happy with this decision,” pressed Sam.
“I know, goddamn it,” I growled. “We’re here now.”
We stopped in front of the giant mansion which held the most powerful pack on Howl’s Edge. The mansion was lined with gold, and the door knobs were also gold. Sometimes I wonder how they got so wealthy, but I wasn’t one to ask too many questions. This pack did a lot of fishy business. At the sight of the home, I felt a sinking dread in my stomach.
This was the last time I’d see Tiana.
I waved Tony over, and then Tony dumped her in my arms in vengeance.
“You can be the one to do the dirty job,” he spat out. Then he kissed Tiana on the lips one last time, and she clung to him, tears in her eyes. “Be a good girl. They’ll take care of you. You even have a mansion, nothing like we could ever give you.”
“I don’t care about material things,” she sobbed.
“Tony, you’re making this harder than it is,” I said, although my heart physically hurt.
He knew it would hurt me more if I got to touch her and then have her taken away. My annoyance soon disappeared, feeling her soft curvy bottom in my arms. Her sweet strawberry scent in my nose. I breathed it in one last time, despite her anger. She didn’t even look me in the eyes. Her face was turned the entire time, her eyes trained on the large mansion.
I wondered what was going through her mind.
I rang the doorbell. And waited.
Chapter 15
Tiana
IhatedGrantatthis moment.
There was no way I would ever forgive him after this.
“I can stand,” I insisted, even though my abdomen clenched in pain. His arms wrapped tighter around me.
“I know you’re in pain, and I know you have your pride,” he argued.
Just then, the double doors opened. A man wearing a purple robe answered the door. He looked to be in his forties, and it looked like he had dyed his long hair white. His ice-blue eyes looked crazy as he looked around wildly at us. His thin lips pulled up in a smile.
At first sight, I didn’t like him.
“Grant! After all these years,” he said. Then his eyes zeroed in on me. “You’ve brought her to me. Very nice.”
“I expect you to keep your end of the deal, Jatix,” said Grant in a serious tone. “I lived on the human lands tracking her down for years, and now I expect my property and orchard.”
I couldn’t believe him.
He was trading me in for property. This was the plan years ago. He was conniving, and he was getting riches while I was going to be the property of this pack.
Jatix couldn’t keep his eyes off me. His hands pawed my arms and my elbows, feeling me up like I was his toy. My stomach turned.
“Stop,” I seethed. “I don’t want to be with any pack.”
Jatix laughed, holding his knees.