Filed To Story: The Omega Destiny
“Ssshhh….I don’t know all the answers right now little wolf, but I know that you deserve them and I will get them for you. Okay, look at me. I will do whatever it takes to get you the answers, but I think you should stay here now that the game has changed. I can’t bring you with me if he could be there. I can’t risk him getting his hands on you again.” “No, I need to be there more so now than I did before Thane. I know what you are saying, but I need answers. I need to see him.” That puts my wolf on edge and drives up our protective instincts. “No, I am not going to walk my mate into the hands of the man that took her in the first place.” “I just can’t understand this. I can’t understand it. The warden had to be lying. This has to be a misunderstanding. I think I am going to be sick.”
I bolt up to grab a trash can while little wolf heaves her stomach into it. I couldn’t imagine being a daughter and trying to comprehend your father getting rid of you like garbage and not caring about the unspeakable things happening to you. Worse yet, not caring and being the boss of all the alphas that tortured you. I am greatly concerned that this could set little wolf back in her progress. I don’t think the full magnitude of it will hit her until much further down the road.
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“When you are feeling better, I need to know everything about your old pack and your childhood. Maybe there is some in go with missing. Maybe this isn’t as it appears, but I won’t know until I get there and I will need your help. I am not saying yo me, but it is just as helpful providing me with information, especially if he isn’t there. We will still need to find him, to get you answers.” I continue to rub her back as she slumps into my chest and I hold her. This is such a cluster fuck of a situation and it puts the whole mission in jeopardy having too many unknowns and new variables. We can’t let little wolf’s father know she is here. She won’t be safe with him still breathing, but she doesn’t realize that in her denial right now. I am not even sure she could let me kill him, then what? I started this whole movement to find him and destory him. She thought she lost her entire family and finds out there is one left. Could she look at me the same if I kill her father? I couldn’t allow him to live.
“We need to have some serious conversations little wolf.” I kiss her on top of her head. “I know.” she whispers while sniffling, wiping away tears. “I just want to have a normal shifter life.” “You will little wolf. One more thing to figure out and then you will, I promise. I make that vow to her and I mean it. 1 leave out the “After soon. Ronan is sending me mental images of him ripping the arms of “Soon. We will have a normal Ble soon.”
slaughter your father” part, but we will cross that bridge the man in the photos while he screams and begs for his life.
Thane
I have taken little wolf to the waterfall where we had our first romantic encounter. I am hoping the calming environment and meal I had prepared for us will help settle her mind a bit so I can ease her to opening up about her history. I haven’t pushed it. Honestly, we are mated and she is my forever so the fact we are going slow leaning about each other doesn’t bother me, because we have forever. However, in light of recent events, I need to speed up what we learn about each other. It wouldn’t be fair for her to bring up memories, relive events, bring up feelings gs if I am am not willing to do the same. We both have past trauma and pain, and if I expect her to delve into hers, then I need to be willing to do the s same. That doesn’t mean I want to, but I can for her.
I lay out the meal spread as she starts making plates. I have noticed he makes me one before her own. Not necessary, but it is more of her omega nature surfacing and it always makes me smile. “You ready to answer my questions little wolf?” I ask and find myself dreading it more than I realized. I don’t want to put her through pai, but damn it, I need to know. “Yeah..I mean not really, but 1 am.” she sighs “Where do you want me to start?” “Start from the beginning. Where does your life start?” I say in between bites of my sandwich, not surprised to see little wolf shoving cake into her mouth first. “I was brought up in our pack hidden within Gore Mountain Range. It is the coldest territory around, or from what I was told. There was snow pretty much all year around. From what I understand, our pack had to be hidden because we were all descendants of white wolves. I know my great??reat grandpa put us into hiding because of the eradication of our kind. It seems so weird to me that we can be gifted, but still succumb to attacks, but my grandpa was the last known white wolf that I am aware of. No others were born in the pack. My dad was the alpha. We lived in a large estate that I used to joke about being a castle. It was massive. We kept to ourselves.” “What about your how you were raised? We’re there a lot of shifters in your pack? Anyone with ties to the other shifter territories to do business for goods and trade? That sort of thing?” I ask while sliding my piece of cake over to her.
Vam not sure. We were not really allowed to leave the estate. My sister and I, I mean.” “You didn’t have any pack ceremonies or traditions?” “If we did, we were not allowed to go to them. My father always said it wasn’t safe to leave our home. There were a lot of pup deaths and some young shifters went missing. I remember there no being a lot of children or I guess I remember hearing about children getting lost in the forest or outsiders finding them.”
That piece of information is a giant red flag. One I am sure little wolf doesn’t realize. “You were secluded though. Hidden. Who could take the children?” “I don’t know. Maybe they wandered too far away and were found. Maybe rogues found them. I just remember my father saying that the high number of shifters missing because we were cursed by that fates for some reason. He said that was why there wasn’t any white wolves being born anymore. I know if there were, the staff would have been talking about it. My mother never said there were any born.” “Did he say why he thought the pack was cursed?” “No. Just that the fates turned their backs on us and that was why everything happened.”
“Do you think it is odd that the man in the photo looks like your father and is involved with the abduction of shifters and that there were a lot of shifters that went missing in your hidden pack?” I try not to be too straight forward, but there is no beating around the bush. The evidence is alarming. “Well, looking back on it, it is very strange that shifters went missing. We were really well hidden. I mean you have never heard of the area have you?” “No, little wolf, I haven’t. It has to be very far north, deep within the wilderness. Those mountain regions are some of the coldest, harshest climates. “It was, but we also had natural hot springs and the forest around those was amazing.” She smiles, reliving memories. I take her hand and bring it to mine and kiss it. “I think that there is no cure little wolf. Maybe the fates skipped your father because he was not worthy of the gifting and you are. If that is your father, there is no telling what he could do with power at his fingertips.” “I know that is him.” she says in between wiping away- tears. “It makes so much sense now, looking back. Not being able to leave, mother seemed to be on the verge of tears often, the missing kids. My father really was a monster. He was rarely around. assumed he was doing alpha business, but I guess with no stores, pack house, or ceremonies, there really wasn’t a lot of business. Heck, he didn’t even go on hunts. I feel so stupid.”
I drag her close to me and hold her. “None of that explains why he would give you up. Why or how he turned into this. I will get you answers, but the past is the past. It doesn’t define you. You are proof of that.” I bring her chin up so she can look at me and give her a soft kiss on her lips and then her forehead. “I want answers for you Thane. It doesn’t bring your family back or mine, but I want you to have them too. I am so sorry.” she starts breaking down and I pull her into me. “Don’t worry about me, little wolf. My mission. shifted when I met you. I went from wanting to slaughter them all for me to wanting to slaughter them all for you. It turns out, the bad guy isn’t who we expected, but the ring needs to end. He needs to be punished.” “I know he does Thane. If my father is involved, then he isn’t my father. I could never forgive him, he sniffles as I continue to rub her back.”Who was there for your first shift?” “My father and my mother. My father looked shocked, my mother looked frightened. Now I understand why.” “How about we eat some more and I will answer questions you have about my family?” I offer her. “I would like that very much.” I proceed to tell her the start of my life. Hoping we can get through this meal without either of us breaking down
Ayla
Answering Thane’s questions was pretty terrible. I have spent the last few hours sitting in front of our fireplace down stairs reliving memories. I can’t believe my sister and I were so blind to the things going on, but how could we have known that mother’s quick to be submissive demeanor and constant flinching were probably the result of our father and his behavior. She would always tell us to not worry or that she scared easily. I can’t remember the last time met a jumpy shifter. She was most likely abused and hid the signs well. I wonder if the whole pack was in on my father’s trafficking ring? I would hope not, but I have no idea at this point. There are so many unanswered questions. The main one being the reason why. I don’t know if I can move on without knowing.
Thane has been a rock for me. The voices of self doubt and whispers of my past are planting wrong thoughts that keep flaring up. “You think Thane will love you after he gets his answers? Your father killed his sister. One look at your father and that is all Thane will see when he looks at you. He will leave you. You are broken and worthless. You ruined his entire life. You are the reason he has no family.” It just goes on and on. I am trying to keep my emotions in check and the bond smothered. I don’t want to alert him that I am over hear drowning. I don’t want to add to his. I have felt sadness more than once in the bond since we have had the picnic. Right now he is working out in the gym, dealing with the past and emotions in a more effective way than tam.