Booki Chapter11
“Rya, you look very pretty.” I still don’t meet their
eyes.
“Thank you, Luna Catherine.” I don’t say anything else.
“I just have one question. Why is Rya eating last? Why is she not allowed to sit with her own family?” The doc is seething mad, shaking inside his skin.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about, Dr. Valentine.”
“Rya was just telling me that she has to eat last!” Wolves turn their gazes our way with the doc’s raised voice.
“Rya, what’s he talking about?” I can hear the confusion in the Alpha’s voice.
“You never removed your punishment from me,” I say quietly.
“What are you talking about?” Luna Catherine’s voice questions her mate, not in a nice way.
“He never removed my punishment.”
“Rya, that was years ago. I only meant that to be a week.” Now it’s my turn to gasp.
“A week. You meant it to last just a week? You never told me that. All those years of eating last, not being able to eat with my family at pack functions. You just forgot to tell me that my punishment was done?”
“Unbelievable,” Dallas hisses out.
“Rya, I am so sorry. I thought I told you.” He takes my hand in his, getting on his knees in front of the entire eyes of the pack. “I thought Itold you. I thought…Please forgive me. It was a mistake.” I can see the top of his head as he bows to me.
“I can’t believe you did that to this poor female. How could you have forgotten to take her off of punishment?” The Luna’s face is inflamed with her fury. I can see canines descending in her rage.
“Please, Rya, forgive me. It doesn’t make up for it.” He’s still at my feet on bended knee.
Touching his head,I say, “I forgive you.” Quickly, I pull my hand away. I can’t make a scene again.
He gets up quickly, trying to look at my face, but I keep my head bowed. “Please-” I stop the Luna from talking any further. I can’t stomach anything else. All those years of isolation because he forgot that I was on punishment. I had to eat by myself for two years, prétending to look busy in the library with studying so no one really saw how alone I was. I was just a ghost no one cared about, all because he forgot…I was just a little juvenile whose mate rejected her. Whose pack turned on her. Whose Alpha forgot about her.
It’s in this moment I feel him coming nearer, approaching slowly, cautiously. I smell him. My knees shake, threatening once again to fold on themselves.
All this emotion brings me back in time.
His scent surrounds me almost like the first time coming into the school, smelling him, asking if I could talk with him for just a minute, alone, without her there. To just let me talk to him. When he wouldn’t let go of her hand, I started crying then. He knew what I was to him, yet he didn’t let go of her hand.
My chest is once again in a’vise, squeezing the breath out. She just stood there watching me, not saying a thing. “Please,” I cried, “please look at me.” I tried to grab his hand. I tried to make him look at my eyes, I fell down on my knees, begging him, grabbing onto his pant leg. A crowd formed around us. Some were even laughing at me. He pulled his leg back, but I held onto the material.
All it took was one word from her: “Stop.” My wolf baredits teeth, and time ceased…Hit after hitrained down on her face, breaking her jaw. I tried to crush her skull with my bare hands, but I wasn’t strong enough then. I am
now,
I’m not a life taker. I am a life bringer.
“ya.” It’s the first time I have heard my name from his mouth. I actually stagger, dropping to a knee…the tears, they just come. My whole body is weeping, and I lose all the control that I have worked years on. Everything vanishes with just my name coming from his lips, I’m full–out sobbing, and I can’t even pick myself off the ground. Why?
No one says a word..llence, complete silence.
This is not the picture 1 saw in my mind for myself. This is not how I wanted my first time seeing him to go.
Both of my hands are on the ground, clutching the earth to my flesh. I can see his shoes, his calves; they look so strong. Goosebumps ascend on his flesh where my gare falls, his thighs thick, his defined quads just peeking out of his shorts. I see their hands clasped together. This is just like a replay of ty past.
I try to get up, but I fallback down. A gasp comes out of my mouth. I watch as his hand lets hers go to try and help me up off the ground. He takes a step toward me, her hand holding onto his forearm to try and stop him. He takes another step in my direction, and she pulls him back toward her.
On my own, I get myself off the ground, standing, not looking at anyone. I hold my shoulders back, raising my head, and my gaze travels up his chest.
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He’s shaking now. My eyes reach his neck, mouth, nose. His eyes, pine green, stare hard at me. A moment passes between us…nothing else but he and I …
“Rya.” Again my name comes from his lips, again my legs shake…A hurricane is lashing the inside of my body…
I say nothing. Instead,I turn my back on him and walk away. I walk until I reach my car. Getting in, I struggle to find the right key for the ignition. Finally finding it,I drive away, not even looking in the rearview mirror for fear I will see his eyes again.
Instead, I look ahead to what’s in front of me.
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