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Chapter 102
Dylan POV
My day was extremely difficult. I had to not only tackle some pretty difficult school work, which I hadn’t done in months by the way, but I also had to deal with both humans and lycans alike, asking me questions left, right and centre about the king and palace life.
Every single question rolled off people’s mouth so smoothly, it was evident that they had absolutely no clue on what I’d actually been through or how much every hit, or lashing or rape, played on my mind.
As soon as I stepped out into the fresh air a wave of coldness swept across my body, leaving goosebumps to rise on both my bruised and uncovered
arms.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d been cold all day after getting soaked in the downpour that enveloped the sky earlier this morning. My clothes were still a bit damp from getting drenched in the rain a few hours prior, and I could feel my teeth begin to chatter slightly as I followed the two alpha twins and their mates to the pack house.
My nerves quickly began to skyrocket as we passed the entrance to the human village. My sight wandered over to it and my legs instantly stopped moving as I stared, triggering all four people in front of me to halt in their tracks too.
“Hey, you ok?” Nick was next to me in an instant, his arm wrapped around my shoulders before a gasp left him and he recoiled quickly.
“God, Dylan… you’re freezing!” He quickly began to remove his blazer and tried to slip it over my shoulders, only I stepped back and avoided the fact material. “Dylan, come on…
…I shook my head at him and took another step back
“If I wear that he will know, He’d kill you without even asking why, mate or not.” Adrian’s shocked eyes shot to me as I spoke to my best friend. He squinted at my face, as if trying to study my reaction for any hint of a lie in my words..
“You’re scared of him aren’t you?” The male alpha twin asked me. The fact that I made no sign that I was going to respond, gave him all the confirmation he needed. It was a secret known to people with eyes and vigilant enough to see it, I was terrified of the king. Every time he’s in close proximity to me, I’m tense, just waiting for some form of physical or mental attack, and I was waiting for the one that would destroy me completely. “Here!”
The Alpha quickly took his own blazer off and held it out to my shivering form. When I didn’t take it immediately he sighed and walked behind me slipping it on my skinny shoulders.
“His grace won’t say anything about it to me. I’m an alpha, you’ve nothing to worry about. That was where he was wrong. King Josh may not say anything to him about it, but I turn down the kings jacket this morning, when he sees me wearing this one, I’ll be the one to get the brunt of his anger. Still, I couldn’t exactly say no to an alpha either and so I shrugged my arms through, and wrapped the extra fabric around my overly thin torso.
“Thank you, Alpha.” I whispered, allowing my eyes to meet the floor in front of him. I sucked in a breath as he didn’t say anything further, he just walked back to his mate and took her hand in his.
“Come on, we should get back.” Arya spoke in a tone that implied she hadn’t a care in the world, as she looped her own arm through Nicks, while I just looked at the entrance to the human village within the district. My mom was there right in that second, a ten minutes walk away, maybe less if I ran, knowing I couldn’t hug her, or speak to her in any way brought a sorrowful sigh to escape me, as I begrudgingly began to trudge behind the two happy couples.
My sight reluctantly moved from my once loving home, to the figures in front of me, both couples held a sense of love and devotion for their partners and with it brought forward a whole plethora of new feelings rushing through me.
On the one hand I was overjoyed that Nick had met someone who he was obviously completely smitten with, not only that but the fact that she herself was willing to go through with a human marriage, despite how the wolves were brought up, warmed my heart so much so that I couldn’t help but smile
at them both.
On the other hand, seeing them both together, as happy as they were sent a pang of complete and utter dejection through me. I couldn’t help but compare our situations, I would never have anything remotely similar to him. It truly was bitter sweel.
We made our way to the pack house slowly, I felt my speed decrease drastically as we approached the big house, I paused as I looked at the doors in front of me. Fear flew through my veins as I gazed upon the building. It would be my first time ever setting foot into the pack house, into any pack house. Even from the outside the buzz coming from within was loud and boisterous,
The palace was huge, but it was basically empty. The workers there kept themselves to themselves, and I was put into isolation for the most part. Here though? In this one house, every single wolf with in the district resided at some point. Sure the ones with small children, and the elderly lived in
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Chapter 102
houses within the wolf village, but every school student, every guard or teacher, every wall with a position of power, all lived under this one roof. That meant every lashing that was given, was given by someone within those walls, every punishment that was allocated was done so by a wolf who lived here.
That notion alone was terrifying.
I had to take a breath, to try to calm the shake in my hands as I wrapped Adrian’s jacket tighter around myself, praying that the fabric would give me some form of comfort, pleading that I’d receive some manifestation of protection. In the end I stepped forward and through the doors, my trembling fingers wrapped tightly around the blazer I was given only minutes before.
I stopped in the layer, and lifted my head, my eyes widening drastically at the sight that lay before me.
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