Posing for the Omega (For the Alpha #2)(14)

It was a female - a female luperci? I stared at my alpha and the intruder in shock. No it was worse than that. I felt like I was floating outside of my own body. This wasn’t real. How could I have not know? Why would he not tell me? Was everything we had a lie? Did he just use me? Was it just because I was an omega? His hard black eyes were looking down at the female with so much deadly intention I was afraid to have it directed at me. That wasn’t my alpha, I thought as I looked at him standing over the other luperci.

Reality slammed into me like a boulder falling off a cliff side tearing me out of my shocked trance. A whine escaped my throat as I began to panic again. Did I know anything about who I was? My own alpha had been lying to me since the moment I’d met him. He’d known what I was the entire time. I gripped my belly protecting my pups from what felt like the entire world as I stared at the wolf I thought loved me. Did he know about the blood wolves? Was he part of what they were doing?

Zora’s eyes broke away from the female quickly as he directed his eyes on me. “Ira, little one.” Zora looked at me completely forgetting about the luperci at his feet. His black eyes softened even though his form remained so threatening. “There are somethings I have not told you.”





“Why?” Why did you lie to me? Why did you let me think I was alone? Why why why why! I wanted to cry. No, I think I was crying. My eyes were leaking without me even realizing my emotions were catching up to all the fucked up events they were tangled with. “Why didn’t you tell me!” Was he like the blood wolves? Was he like Lathos? Those nightmares, all I could think about was a huge massive luperci towering over me, pinning me to the ground.

Zora shook his head violently. He looked back at the red she wolf at his feet. She clutched her throat as she took large gulps of air through her damaged windpipe. Her yellow eyes stared up defiantly at my alpha as they silently assessed each other. “Do not move female, or I will hurt you.” Zora growled a deep threatening sound that made my fur stand straight up. “That would be unfortunate for you.” Zora’s threat sent a noticeable shiver down the female's body, still she wolf bared her fangs in defiance her gaze darting over to me.

“A-another stolen o-omega.” The she wolf rasped, looking back at Zora. “Just l-like the other b-bastards. Y-you’re all the same.”

Zora growled. “My omega is my own. I do not know who you are, but you know nothing.”

“Maybe I s-should ask the omega.” The she wolf barked irritably.

“Enough!” Alpha retorted, the hairs on the back of his neck standing up as he became more irate. “You have caused enough damage today. It is in your favor that I need answers.”

“I answer to n-no fucking alpha!” She spat, teeth flashing violently. “You better ki—”

Alpha’s massive hand to the side of her face sent her to the forest floor with a audible thud as she hit, out cold. He had reacted with such speed I could barely digest the sight of the other luperci completely unconscious with just one hard back hand to the face. Fear formed in my gut like a hot rock as I thought about the power it must take to be able to do something like that. The female was almost equal to my size and she wasn’t pregnant that alone would make me a much easier target. What was I thinking? This was still my mate he wouldn’t hurt me— would he? I looked away from her and watched my alpha turn and face me. Black eyes were clouded and tense, but no different than the eyes I’d fallen in love with. But I couldn’t help but keep feeding off the fear growing inside of me. So many doubts clogged my mind I kept asking endless questions in my head: Had he kept this from me from the beginning?

“Ira, look at me little one.” His deep voice, so much deeper than my own, pleaded with me. And he was pleading, not giving me a command.

“Why?” I repeated. “I asked you why.” I wiped furiously away at the tears on my face. I wanted a damn good answer from him. I gripped my belly as I sat up against the tree I’d fallen into, groaning as I moved. Oh mother my back hurt. I couldn’t hold back the whimper when the burn blaze up my spine. Zora approached me his massive talon tipped fingers reaching out to help me. My teeth snapped on instinct, a combination of inky fear and anger bubbling up into a poisonous concoction. I didn’t want him to touch me, not right now, not in that form. Zora pulled his hand back quickly, his black eyes flat and unreadable as he watched me. “Answer me!” I rumbled. My whole life I’ve been alone, and then I find out about Vey only for him to be dead, and then the blood wolves only for them to torment me, and now my alpha only to be lied to. I’ve been an outsider my entire life, and the one wolf who could have changed that for me didn’t even tell me. I deserved an answer, and I’d fucking sit here at the base of this tree till I gave birth waiting for the answers.

Zora growled and shifted to his second form, the massive size of his body melting away as quickly as his shift between his other forms. It was practiced and smooth, as if he’d been doing it his entire life. “I was protecting the pack...and you.” He looked over his shoulder as the red she wolf still lying unconscious on the forest floor. “I have kept this secret for many years. When I first saw you I was sure you had come because of me, but it was very obvious you were unaware of what you are.”

“You’ve known I was luperci this entire time?” The anger was boiling over along with pain. He said he loved me. How could he keep this all from me? How could he keep me so in the dark about who I was if he loved me?