Posing for the Omega (For the Alpha #2)(46)
“And I would die if I lost you.” I would. I wasn’t ashamed to admit that I couldn’t live without him now that I lived with his love. I’ve lived my entire life feeling alone but surrounded by wolves until I had him I’ve never felt like I belonged. He was my best friend, my lover, my protector, the sire of my pups and my alpha — I couldn’t live without him in my life.
“Then I cannot afford to die,” he whispered, his deep voice vibrating my bones with his promise.
“No you can’t.”
I could taste the tension in the dusk air as I stood outside our den with Zora standing in his four form beside me. In my gut I could feel that tonight would be the night. My hackles rose as a soft breeze drifted over through the trees an eerie silence in our pack. The strong scent of smoke and sage burned my nose, drowning out any other scent nearby. I looked around the quiet dens not a single wolf in sight the only movement from coming from the smouldering piles of sage scattered around the dens. This plan had to work.
“You don’t have to do this.” Koda said quickly as he moved up beside me, Alloy and Sallo at his back.
I’d yet to have to opportunity to press about the other betas closeness to Alloy and him, but I would make sure to ask after all of this was over. “Yes I do. This is about me, and I’m going to help end it. Don’t try to talk me out of it again.” Zora hadn’t even attempted to. My mate knew that it was futile and a battle he couldn’t win. Mother knows I was a big idiot who made a lot of mistakes and had not an ounce of common sense half the time but I would do this because it was the right thing to do.
“Are you ready?” Svara came to stand beside me in her luperci form. “They’re close.”
How did she know? I’d have to ask her more about our kind someday, it was obvious that there was so much I still didn’t understand about them. I felt my nerves crawl down my spine in a body shiver as I looked at the woods to the same place I’d walked through that night so many weeks ago. “Y-yeah I’m ready.” Zora growled low and dangerously. He’s had been against this idea from the beginning, but I’d known we had to do this. I had to do this. I rested my hand in his hackles letting the thick ash fur settle between my fingers. Naga stood beside Svara in her four form the alpha bitch looking as regal as always. Beside her the betas followed along with Alloy and Koda. My family, I realized as a sense of peace settled over me.
“Remember it’s important to make it deep enough they can smell it.” Svara said as she looked at me with her unwavering yellow eyes. I nodded quickly. I wouldn’t do this wrong, she had nothing to fear. Taking a deep breath I took my first step towards the trees.
“Ira,” Zora barked his black eyes hard as he watched me.
His anxiety was so obvious in his reluctance. Mother knows he was afraid and so was I, but I could do this. He needed to let me do this. “I trust you alpha.” I turned back towards the woods and walked towards the trees. The short walk felt like eternity but it was only a couple hundred yards away from where I’d started. I stopped with in the middle between the forest and my den and looked into the dark shadows of the trees as the sun slowly slipped into the horizon stealing the last rays of light. Taking in a nervous ragged breath I lifted my arm to my mouth and didn’t hesitate to bite down hard until blood filled my mouth in a warm gush. Panting through my pain I dropped my arm and felt the blood slide down my arm and drop into the grass beneath me. The scents of smoke and sage wafted around me and began to mingle with the smell of my blood blowing into the trees. I stood there in the dying light waiting for something to happen. I could feel the sensation of their eyes on me from their dark hiding places. A sharp crack of a branch caught my attention and my head jerked in that direction looking for something in the darkness. Bright red eyes stared at me from within the shadows of darkness, their intensity making my blood run cold with the same fear they had caused last time I’d saw him.
“Hmmmm my broken omega…. It seems our game has to come to an end.”