Chapter 14


    New Found Strength


    Talhad one hellishnd d was an


    understatement. First Lele , which she had to do some point s he could be it to her clot. Then the stars


    and whypers spiked up and some weren’t we discret about it anymore. They only stopped talking when a


    human Wild within earshet, or if I sentare their way. I also noticed that meet of the couldn’t look me in


    the trand icted somewhat sind of me. Thiri remember what Lana had said yesterday about how my aun


    was different. So maybe that was why none of them had the guts to walk up to me and ask or say shit to


    my face


    Then a hund hade out of nowhere to pull me to a


    secluded put of camps near the foresi. Talmost screamed bloody murder and attacked my kidnapper, but


    quickly recognized the irritating scent of Suzy’s perfume. I can’t even get a whiff of her original scant. It’s


    almost as she took a bathini.


    “Youak well.” She snarls at me after sizing me up.


    “Wish I can say the same about you.” i retort, dyeing her disheveled form. Her light blond hair seems


    frizzy and no longer straight like they once were. It’s almost like she has neglected to maintain it. And her


    pale skin seems droopy with bags hanging under her eyes, which are red and puitly.


    She has makeup on to cover it all, but my sharp eyes can see


    pantall the foundanblush, and m


    ale. She’s van


    dened to kill in a blue are up bustier dres that was mid-thigh. Sun’s probably being in keep up a tont, we


    though every werewolf in town know what’s going hadn’t


    e n Brad all day at school. it was he’s burying his head in shame of being deprived of the Alpha’s


    “You must feelsmu now, don’t you?” She moves back to cross her arms over her chest, giving a nice


    view of her cleavage “I’m on the verge of losing my mate, and you. you were imed by a Lycan Prince.


    It’s like everything’s going good for you while I’m in hell right new


    Ismirk confidently at her, liking the feel of finally being on top. She had made my life miserable in high


    school, especially during my senior year. She had bullied me and


    stole my mate from me. Call me a sadist, but I’m happy she’s


    in misery


    “Don’t look so confident yet, Archer.” She sneers, taking a step closer and towering over me in her five


    inches pumps. “He still hasn’t marked you, so it’s either you’re just his toy that he would discard soon


    enough, or you’re just as much a


    disgrace as you were to Brad. Brad never wanted you, so why


    would a Prince have youi He’s never to poing to give you the


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    title of his mate because you’re a disgusting. weak…”


    I didn’t let her finish belore the palm of my hand


    connects with her cheek.


    think he’d broke it. And the printo my huid is event in


    the pink alches. She blinks in shock before her


    swap


    back to m


    e with so much hatred burning in the


    My blood is boiling with so much anger. And my woliis n alet, wady to attack with fiercem . How dare


    the


    disrespect me like that. Luna ar mat, she has no right.


    “Bitchi” Her eyes glow a bright green, and her lip pull


    up in a snas she lungs for my throat.


    My wall pumps her strength into my bonds, and I counter Stacy’s attack by grabbing her wrist and


    gripping her nack instead. I’m surprised at my fast reflexes, and so is Stacy because she’s supposed to


    be stronger than me. Since she’s the next Luna in line and mated to an Alpha, she


    should have been able to put me into submission in one


    move. But it seems not as I’m the one gripping her neck and


    depriving her of air.


    Her green eyes dull of their glow and widen a fraction as


    she ws at my wrist. Gritting my teeth in imitation, I throw


    her across the air, and her back hits a tree not too far from


    us, and a sickening crack is heard. I’m once more shocked at


    my show of strength as Stacy takes in huge gulps of air. She looks pathetic there on the ground,


    couphing with tears pooled in her eyes.


    She slowly gets up, regaining herposure as she


    stares at me in disbeliel She hadn’t been expecting that


    when the thought about confronting me. She probably though mould be the weak dacile she-wolfshonte


    p


    d


    around in high school with her posse howling words


    of encounpunt behind her. There was something about


    the way she looked at me right now, something


    Sparkling in her


    seven though it’s just little Fear. She was


    scared af me, and I suddenly felt so powodul


    She blinks, and the look is gone, neplod with a spark of vengance for being humiliated. She’s out for


    blood, my blood. She balls hertise and is about to take a step towards me when someone barks behind


    me.


    “Back off, bitch!” I turn then to see Lana glowering at stunned Stacy, who’s has stoppedded in her tracki.


    Even am shocked that ihe is standing up to Stacy, her future Linna. What is the daine?


    Stacy sizes both of us up and realizes she can’t take


    both of us at once as she backs away. Her eyes are still filled


    with contempt as she stars,


    “You’re dead, Elle.” Then she diverts her eyes to Lana


    alsa, “Both of you.” She promises before stomping back


    towards the campus building, I stare at her till she’s out of


    Sight before turning towards Lana, who had moved to stand


    beside me.


    “Thanks,” I tell her as she smiles at me. “How did you


    find me?”


    She shrues, “I was looking for you when I saw Stacy drag


    you own here. And I saw quite a lot.” She prins mischiously. “Damn girl, where did you put that kind of


    strength ownlo? Even wouldn’t have been able to throw


    her as you did. She had seemed like a ragdoll you were setting rid of.”


    pale we slowly began to walk back to campus. “Even I was surprised. But you shouldn’t have helped me


    as you did.” I sigh


    “She’s our future Luna and can stir a lot of trouble for


    you, especially if she tells Brad.”


    She scalls, dramatically flipping her hair. “Well, she’s not our Luna yet. And what kind of Luna attacks her


    pack members that she’s supposed to protect just out al spite?” She hutts with a scowl on her face. I


    decide to keep quiet, not wanting to bring up an argument. I get where Stacy’sing from a bit, I’m a


    threat to Stacy’s mate bond with Brad, and her wolf is probably going crazy at that thought. No wolf can


    handle that


    “What about Gina7 You two made up yet?” I gingerly ask, knowing how close they had been and how


    fragile the topic of their big fight was. I’ve never seen them argue like they had yesterday


    She looks away, but I see the hurt in her eyes before she does. She might have acted tough yesterday,


    but she still likes Gina as her friend a lot. These two have been together


    since middle school. At least that‘s what she had told me.


    She sights in frustration as she runs Hr hand through


    her hair. She Chhoverst night and said she was sonTy. She pauses before shaking her head. “Na,


    scratch that. She only said we should put it behind us and act like it never happened. But that just got me


    all the more pissed. I mean I’ve always known her to be a snobbish, self-absorbed and impudent bitch,


    and I have lemned to ept her for who she is and only focus on good qualities, which are little. But she


    crossed a line yesterday, and I can’t keep letting her off the hook every damn time Sheds to understand


    she


    can’t always put her way.”


    Her chest is heaving by the time she’s through, and her jaw clenched in determination. Teah I knew it


    was a fragile


    topic. And it s


    ms there’s more to it than just what Gina had


    done to me


    I ce my hand on her shoulder, and she rxes her tense form. “Listen, Lana. You don’t have to fight


    with your best friend over me. I really don’t care what she thinks of me as long as she doesn’t say it to


    my face or do anything


    stupid.”


    She chuckles, but there’s Little to no humor in it. “It’s


    not just about you, Ellie. There’s more to it, and I’m tired of keeping quiet.” She announces, leaving me


    curious. I want to


    Inow what else she had done to make sweat Lana somad,


    but I knew she wasn’t in the mood to talk about it.


    “On a lighter note, how’s sex with a Lycant” She teases


    with a smirk or her pluimp lipsiswat her shoulder with my hand and hide my face way to hide my blush.


    Sheughs at my flustered expression as we make it to where students are bustling


    “Oh, stop acting like a prude. Tall me, how‘s living with a Prince.” She wies her eyebrows w oustively,


    but I only roll my eyes at her. Sitting on the ss, I flex my neck before sitting my book on myp.


    I had my next ss in about an hour, indi intend to spend it away from all the burning states. Lana sits


    opposite me with her legs craised in front, Indian style.


    “I hate it.” I suddenly say, making her arch an eyebrow at me. “I hate living with Reagan, I’m not allowed


    to go anywhere except for school. It’s like I’m grounded or held prisoner. I’m a werewolf, Lana. I’m not


    used to being cooped up inside!” I burst out before falling on my back to the grass.


    I feel hee to lie beside me on the itchy grass, but i keep staring up at the dear blue sky,


    “That sucks. I don’t know how Lycan mating works, but I


    don’t think you should be treated like some Rapunzel,” I say


    nothing as I feel her turn to her side towards me.


    “What are you going to do?” She asks, probably already


    seeing the wheel turning in my head. I smirk, still looking up


    before taking a nce at her.


    “Do you still have that sorav that make


    rema


    Shelurowertyboms, already understanding where I’m going with thi. “Yes, ide.” My smirk wklinis roll into


    my stomachi, facing her as she stilles on her side.


    Would you like to apany me to visit my aunt at Red Moon Pack?” ! grin devilishly at her. Her widen,


    and I’m not sure it’s because of the name, Red Moon, of because I’m nning en running wür.


    She abruptly stands up before blinking at me. “Rid Moon? Your junt’s from Red Moon! But that pack is


    known to be very dangerous. No one in their right mind goes there. They’re not even addressed – Red


    Moon but Blood Moon


    Troll my eyes as she keeps on rambling while she sits


    “I hear they bathe themselves in the blood of their enemies.”


    “Would you shut up?” I snap while also sitting up. Most


    of those things you hear about Red Moon pack isn’t true.”


    Red Moen Pack is a secluded pack located in Oand,


    le’s deep in the forest and cut out from civilization, Rogues


    who venture into th?re nevere out alive, and their


    Warriors are known to be ruthless. I’ve also heard a lot of


    gruesome gossips about them. But when my aunt got mated to a pack member of theirs, I realized most


    of the gossips was made up. Yes, they don’t let rogues off easily and sometimes kill them on sight, but


    this is for the protection of


    sometimes kill them on sight, but this is for the protection of


    their pack members. Most rogues are dangerous and kill


    other werewolves pack members for pleasure.


    “They’re not that bad,” I exin to her so she would calm down. “I’ve been there lots of times, and


    they’re very inviting. They just don’t like associating with non–pack members. And since my aunt is


    part of them, I‘m weed


    “Yeah, but I’m not a pack member.” She interjects while


    crossing her arm over her chest.


    “As long as you’re with me, they’re going to ept you. Trust me, Lana.” I assure her, cing my hand


    on her shoulder. Her eyes dart about as she’s lost deep in thought, contemting the whole thing. She


    bites her lip before


    turning back to me.


    “How long are we staying?” She asks, making my smile


    widen in triumph


    “Just a few days for Reagan to learn his lesson and for


    me to breath.” Red Moon Pack was the perfect pack for that.


    No one would be able to trace me there as it’s secluded, and


    I’ll have Lana’s spray to help make sure of that. I just need to


    find a way to transport out of this town without getting


    caught.