Mate ...s ?!?!

[Orion’s POV]

I wanted to seriously run back to the Alpha’s house and hide under the blankets. I had no problems in the first two classes of my day. I had my boys with me in both classes and Cassie was with me in the second class. So far so good.

I wish my luck had lasted.

However, it did not.

Third period came around and I was sitting in my normal seat in the back of the class day dreaming about my Mates when I was shoved from my seat. My head met the wall harshly and I looked up to see a very familiar angry face.

Cara Lopez. She has hated me my entire life. Kin, told her that I had killed Kelani, that it had been all my fault she was dead but that wasn’t the truth. However, Cara believed Kin and she had tortured me every day.

Why you ask? Because she loved Kinder. She wanted him to be hers beyond anything else. She had seen me as something in her way or just another tool to use to get closer to Kin. When Kin had made it very clear to her that he would never be what she wanted she still beat on me, just to please him and herself. She had become just as twisted as Kin himself. Cara had come over to the house just to join Kin in on beating me because my mother found it amusing.

With her standing there now, I was terrified. There was nothing anyone was going to do either. Just because Jace and Jax were with me and Cassie did not mean anything. The announcement had not been made yet and I was not connected to the Pack. Not fully. Cilla and Justin had never claimed me as their son so technically I was not part of the Pack.

I had not taken that responsibility on just yet. I needed some time to accept the ability to hear others. I was going to be the Lunos and I needed to be a kind one. Even when the ones I was going to be ruling over had done nothing to help me when I had needed it. Just like now. They all stood by watching as Cara looked at me with evil eyes and malice in her gaze.

Cara had snickered at me, kicked me in the ribs, breaking a few in the process and going back to her seat. I was thankful I had learned to block my emotions from the boys. They would have been in the room instantly.

By Lunch I was exhausted and Rain was still trying to heal our ribs that had been broken earlier by Cara. We were eating more food so it helped that Rain had the energy to actually heal us. Jace and Jax were sitting on either side of me while Cassie was sitting across from us, they were all trying to get me to talk to them but I was trying not to do a lot of talking at the moment.

I really needed to concentrate on breathing evenly and if I talked too much it made it hard. That’s when I got a sudden chill run down my spine. I looked up to Cassie to see a look of death on her face and instantly knew that my nightmare was about to get a thousand times worse.