Filed to story: The Omega Destiny
He clears his throat, looking around at everything but me, before turning towards me. He reaches out and pulls me close to him, resting his forehead against mine. Fighting for his life in this moment to pull away and leave. I know the feeling. I am drowning in need for his arms wrapped around me and the safety he provides. “I just want to make sure you are safe little wolf. If anyone attempts to harm you in anyway, even emotionally, I will gut them in the street and put them on display as a warning. My eyes go wide at the implication of his fierceness. He pulls back and laughs. “What? You think that I am some nice, non??onfrontational alpha? Oh, baby you are wrong. I am just a sugar bear to you. I am a dick to everyone else. Well, according to Cyrus. Sugar bear is also his term of endearment, not mine. Why do you think him and I get along so well? We both have our level of blood lust we deal with. They are just fueled by different things. Different traumas. We make a great team. So, yes little wolf. You will be safe. Kian better get his shit together before I do it for him.” he says the last part while kissing me on the cheek. He gets up and I follow him to my door. I want so badly for him to stay, but I know he can’t. I hope this isn’t a constant cycle. It has to stop at some point. Grow apart somehow. “Goodnight Ayla.” he says as he leaves, which is like a punch to the gut.
I awake the next day and decide that I will eat breakfast in the mess hall. It is time to start meeting some more people. Actually, seeing instead of meeting would be more preferable. I spent the morning talking myself up. I am worthy. I am strong. I can be around others. I can be in a pack. 1 repeat my montage over and over in my head while I head down to the cafeteria with Monica. She is so helpful with explaining all the pack stuff to me, where things are in prominent shifters, etc. I am finally convinced I have a friend. I, however, bwn and the house, who are some of the more a new fear unlocked of losing said friend. “Hey girls, sit over here. There are two seats open.” A female wolf shifter calls out, blonde, maybe mid??wenties. “That is Lisa. She has a clothing store in town. Unmated, so she lives here. She is nice, you will like her.” Monica encourages me as we make our way over with our food.
“Hey, I am Lisa. Nice to meet you. You must be the new shifter alpha Thane bought all the clothing for. He placed a huge order a few weeks back. Thanks for the business girlie.” I give her a sheepish smile. I really don’t want any spotlight on me in ANY way today. “Have you been spending time with alpha Thane? He is so hot. I literally could lick the sweat off of his arms and still be thirsty. Have you seen him shirtless? When him and Cyrus are at the training grounds I want to sell tickets for admission. The women line up to drool. I am so jealous of you.” Suddenly all eyes are on me waiting for a response and I can feel my cheeks turning drool. beet red. I start picking at my food and moving it around my plate as Monica jumps in “Ayla??an’t talk. She writes everything down and we forgot her notepad. I am sure she doesn’t want to be interrogated about alpha Thane though. I mean yeah he’s hot, but he’s waiting for his mate, so no girl here has a shot at a relationship with him anyway.” “Tell that to Della. She is running around for months now, telling everyone that will listen that alpha Thane is taking her as a chosen mate. They boink every night according to her. That has me dropping my fork on my stack of pancakes quick. I know they aren’t together every night; well, I guess I don’t know that. He could be with her after he says goodbye to me. I had suspicions that they were more there than friends, but this confirms it. “Oh, sorry Ayla. If you have a crush on alpha, don’t. Della has her hooks in him deep. She won’t let any of us near him. Childhood friends I get, but what he sees in her to keep coming back I don’t. She is a total bitch. Literally to everyone when he isn’t around. She must have a magic vagina.” The magic vagina part has the table erupting in laughter. I must admit, it was pretty funny, and I let out a small chuckle myself. I can’t say that I feel betrayal. Okay, I actually do, but I have no right to feel this way. He isn’t mine.
“Say what you want about alpha. The beta is where it is at. Hi, I am Lila. Nice to meet you. I happen to be team Cyrus. Unlike alpha, he likes to play around and a few of us have had several turns getting to know him very well.” “A few? Didn’t you three get caught in an orgy outside of the falls when Cyrus was supposedly going to do an extra scout for rogues?” Monica pipes up and I remained shocked. Maybe Kian is right about this pack judging by all the free love thrown about to Cyrus. “He was scouting something all right. All of us. That man can go all night long and we don’t mind sharing him. I will sit and wait patiently in a corner if I have to, to get another round with his tongue.” Lisa throws out and they all giggle, but I am not sure I will be able to look at Cyrus the same again. The mention of tongues has my mind replaying my night with Thane and I can feel myself getting hot and bothered. The wrong place for it. Literally breakfast.
I finish my food and pull out my phone, typing a quick note to Monica. She reads it and motions for us to head back to the kitchen. “Hey June. Ayla here is new to the pack, starting to branch out more. She is trying to get out of her shell and was wondering if you had any kitchen help openings? She is thinking she would like to get a job and doesn’t have work experience.” June flings her towel over her shoulder and brushes flour off of her hands. “You have no work experience child? Can you cook or bake anything?” I nod my head expectantly. I spent a lot of time in the kitchen when I was little. I can follow a recipe card, and I loved watching Mary bake. I think I can really give it a good effort at least. “Well, we can try you out. See how you do. I wouldn’t mind getting some help baking for the Mornings. The breakfast and supper are the worst. Everyone is starving and impatient. I will need to run it by alpha though. Be back here tonight, eat supper and then we can work on baking for the morning. Yeah?” I nod in agreement, offer a wave and leave with Monica. I am doing it. I am going to get my first job. Oh shit. I am going to have my first job. Yeah, the last thought is more frantie. I am quickly losing my confidence. I can do it. I can.
Thane
So, little wolf wants a job. I am proud of her for attempting this feat. A huge mountain to her. Do I want her working? No. I also don’t think it is a good idea to put herself around that many shifters yet, but I want her to feel worthy. Increase her self??steem, self??orth. I reluctantly sign off on the document. Fighting my urge to rush to her rooms and declare I will take care of her. I turn it over and head to the other stack to review. Never ending cycle with a pack this large. I approve agendas, new upgrades to the birthing cabins, preparations for celebrations. A welcomed knock on the door offers some reprieve from wanting to claw out my eyeballs.
Good afternoon alpha Thane. I have the files you requested on the Triad Group. Looks like they have a new business opened across state lines. They have an agreement with the Clearwater Pack. I am not sure you will like what you find in there.” Damon says as he throws a mega file on top of my desk. Great. I start perusing the documents and photos. “These idiots opened a brothel. Are you serious?” “Well, I think they are passing it off as a hotel/food establishment, but it is clearly more than that by those photos.” “Yes, Damon I can see that. Was including photos of blow jobs necessary?” “Just trying to be thorough alpha. My apologies.” “Keep a team on them. I want a small group to go in and start talking to these women. Make sure they are there on their own free will. Check for pack marks. If any of ours are there, I want you to make DAMN sure they want to work there.” “Yes alpha. “Keep following Kian. If this is the type of businesses, he is involved in I want proof.” “Yes alpha.”,
If this asshat thinks he can get Ayla working in one of these establishments I will skin him alive. Mate or not..The disease running through the shifter world that alphas can do whatever they want to the women in their packs needs to be eradicated. If these women choose to work there, fine. If they are held there, then we have a problem. I have not been notified that we have any missing pack members, and nobody has turned in any pack transfer requests, so I am leaning to the side of willingness on their part, but not little wolf. Never little wolf.
Cyrus, how is the forensic analysis of the hard drives coming along? Are we any closer to a paper trail? I send via mind??ink. Would I min??ink Ayla? Would I consider her close circle? I should probably follow up on her stance on being a pack member. At this point, she might as well. Unless her wanting to get a job is to get enough saved to run. She better not. Little wolf would regret that. I would make sure of it. Mate or not. Alissa is close to uncovering an account. All of the transfers we found from the alphas happened internally in the building we raided. It appears as though they didn’t get the ability to wipe everything out when we raided. I quickly mind??ink back Good. Keep me in the loop.
Every raid we have done, every computer has been wiped clean. Like they knew we were coming, or they didn’t do anything in house. These shifters now, either royally screwed up accepting payments through their system or they didn’t know we were coming. I would hate to think we would have a mole in our ranks, but it can happen. I will need to analyze what is different this time around. We took the usual people. All of our meetings were held the same. Same planning strategies.
I work until late in the evening hours. Reviewing this and finishing that. I grab the bottle of bourbon in my bottom drawer. Am I drinking too much? Probably, but tomorrow is the 6th year anniversary of my parent’s murder, suicide and I would really like to think about something else. Maybe I can get drunk enough to think of a way to force Ayla to accept her wolf so I can find out once and for all if I can murder Kian or not. Maybe I get drunk and do it for fun. Who knows. The night is young.
mants
I make my way back to the rools, unbutton my shirt and flop my on the couch. The more I drink, the more I find myself during at ou adjoining door. Little well could be right on the other side of that door. I wonder if the douche bag is over there. I should probably get a handle on this frustration. If he is het mate, it is undeserved on his part. I am also this alpha and don’t give a shit Maybe Cyrus is right. Maybe I am getting more dickhead ish this weak. I should probably and her a text and see how she is doing Maybe she will tell me more about her argument. Maybe she will talk to me about working in the kitchen. At this point, I just want contact with her.
Me: I got a form put in front of me today for you to have a position in the kitchens. Are you wanting a job little wolf?
Little Wolf: Yes. I talked with June, and she decided to try me out tonight since I have no work experience. Turns out I can make cinnamon rolls!