Posing for the Omega (For the Alpha #2)(15)

“How do you know about the luperci?” Zora asked quickly his eyebrows drawing into a deep furrow. “You did not know of them before.”

I sneered, baring my teeth in an angry snarl. “Secrets are beaver faced bitch when they aren’t yours.” I snapped, feeling all my anger and pain filling my words. We stared at each other, both with anger at what I could only assume on his part was fear. I was afraid — Mother, I was terrified that I wouldn’t like the answers to my questions.

Zora opened his mouth again to say something when the sounds of barks and yips shattered the silence. It was the sounds of the pack, coming after they’d heard a disturbance no doubt. Alpha looked back at me, his beautiful face tense. “Ira, you will not mention this to the pack, do you understand. I know it is unfair of me to ask this of you, and I swear I will explain, but for the safety of the pack I need this to be between only us.”

My muzzle clenched and I felt the fresh stab of pain his words caused me. “Does Alloy know?” Does anyone know? Right then he felt like a complete stranger to me. I thought I’d known him only an hour ago, but in that moment I was completely unaware who my mate really was.

He nodded. “Yes. He is the only one.” The sounds were getting closer as we spoke and Zora’s tension was rising.

“What about her?” I nodded towards the female luperci still unconscious a few feet away.

“I will handle the female.” He kneeled down in front of me, keeping a solid three feet of distance between us. “There is much we need to talk about, even so, nothing has changed, I am still your alpha.” Zora’s black eyes scanned over me, his body vibrating as he held back. He wanted to touch me, to see if I was hurt, to reassure me, but I didn’t know if I wanted him to touch me at the moment. No I did, but I didn’t. I was so angry and scared, and confused I didn’t know what I should do.

The sounds of the pack became deafening as they rounded the corner and became visible through the trees. Zora stood and waited as his beta’s, Sallo, Geb, Hert, Vod and Shy, were all led by Alloy into the pathway. They all stopped and stared in amazement at the female luperci stretched out on the forest floor.

“Are you both alright?” Alloy asked looking between the two of us.

Zora nodded. “Ira is sore, otherwise we are unharmed. The wolf attacked us before we made it to the pond. We will take it back to the dens and figure out why it attacked.”

Alloy nodded. “Hopefully this will give us more answers about the blood wolves.”

Zora looked at me as he spoke, his black eyes assessing. “Yes, we require answers.”

I looked away from them, unable to meet their eyes. What was I going to do? What did all of this mean for me...for my pups? I clutched my belly as I watched the beta’s shift and restrain the luperci female who was still dead to the world. Even with everything going on with Zora there was still her, a female like me. Overwhelmed. I was so overwhelmed and I didn’t know where to even begin to pick myself up. Never in my whole life did I feel more alone than I did right that moment.

“Ira.”

I looked up to see his black eyes staring down at me, his hand outstretched. I looked at the offering and at the pack members and Alloy who were busy picking the she wolf off the ground. I wanted to take his hand, I really did, but I was so angry and...and… scared. His hand clouded in my vision as my eyes began to water, tears burning as they forced their way back down my cheeks.

“You do not have to forgive me, but you can always trust me.” He put his hand closer. “Please, Ira. Do not be scared.”

There were so many lies floating around us, his— and my own. I wanted….I wanted….I wanted my mate, no matter what. No matter what I had to trust him, love him. He loved me. Everything that had happened since I’d met him hadn’t been a lie. I just know it hadn’t. I looked at his offered hand waiting so patiently for me. “I don’t forgive you.” And I didn’t, but I still grasped his hand.





“Omega….omega…..pretty little omega.”

I panted as the deep voice crooned from within the darkness. Everything was dark, I couldn’t see except for two feet in front of me. Where was the moonlight? Why was I alone. I clutched at my massive belly, my pups moving anxiously in my womb as I listened to the sounds of the forest all around me.

“Telling lies….little one.”

I shivered and spun around still unable to see where the voice was coming from. Where was my alpha? Where was my pack. A shiver raced up my spine my fur standing on end as I tried to see anything in the absolute darkness. “Why are you doing this? What have I done to you?” I hadn’t asked to be the way I was, why wouldn’t they leave me alone.

“My omega…..Ira, you cannot escape who we are.”

The smell of blood filled the air, clogging my senses as it became overbearingly strong. I didn’t understand. Nothing he said made any sense to me. Escape who I was? I didn’t want to escape anything I just wanted to live in my pack, with my alpha and pups. I wanted to be normal— A massive ash foot stepped out of the darkness and I watched as a luperci with ash fur and black eyes came out of the darkness.

“You cannot run my omega.” Zora rumbled.





“NO!” I panted as I looked around the familiar space, no longer surrounded in darkness. The smell of blood was gone, replaced with the warm scent of my den. I was in my den, it had been a dream. It had been a horrible, bloody squirrel balls, it has been so horrible but it wasn’t real. “It’s not real...it’s not real—” But it was, part of it was real. Zora really was a luperci, he was like me but so much bigger and stronger and worse he’d kept it from me. I curled back up in my pelts. Have you ever just wanted to pretend the world didn’t exist and go back to sleep? I was really contemplating just going back to sleep and pretending all of this didn’t happen. That wasn’t what I needed to do though. I needed to get my hairy ass out of this den and demand answers from my mate.