The Howl of Claim | COMPLETED

Catina ( C h a s t e \ I n n o c e n t )

My head throbbed and my body felt heavy as if tons of stones were placed over it.

A grown escaped my lips as I struggled to squeeze my eyes open.

After finally succeeding, I opened my eyes to see the empty ceiling staring back at me. The old wood of the shed looked back at me.

I blinked a couple of times.

I turned my head to the side after gathering my energy that was in bits in my body and looked at the window.

It was almost sundown.

How long have I been out? Was my heat over?

I hope so.

After taking a few deep breaths, I finally sat up and rubbed my eyes and temples that throbbed painfully.

I looked around the room once again.

Darius was nowhere in sight again, or that female for that matter.

I sit a few more seconds in the same position and just as I am preparing to stand, the door of the small shed open, and the female - I had started to hate her - that I had seen in my room a few hours before my heat appeared.

She was a Lycan.

"What day is it?" I grunt as she gets closer.

"It's the last day of your heat." Her voice was firm. Confidence oozing out from her.

Last day. Finally!

I can live my life in peace till my next heat - and away from Darius.

The stoic female watches me as I nod and stand up.

I walk to her, more like limp, and grab her arm. She was surprised but didn't do or ask as to why I was holding her and now started dragging her towards the door.

I pushed her out of the shed and slammed the door close.

My wolf and I just didn't like her.

I place my forehead against the door and exhale. Twisting my head, I glance out of the glass window once again.

The sun was ready to hide behind the curtain of darkness once again and the moon was ready to take the throne that the sun once sat on.

I groaned, dreading the pain that was yet to come.

It was time that I left.

Because Darius would pull me away from this very shed the second my heat ends and I could not let that happen. I will not give into him.

If he takes my pack away from me, I won't let him have me. No matter how much my wolf yearns for him.

I dreaded the future where I would be forced to be with him.

No!

I was my own salvation.

And with that thought in my mind, I escaped through the square window and ran.

I was thankful that the pain was not noticeable.

If I escaped from the southern border, there are fewer chances of Darius suspecting my escape.

The south border had a river that can easily erase my scent.

But the south border is further away. A lot further and I think my heat would come back by the time I reach it.

It was worth the try.

And with that thought, I sprinted.

Sprinted as fast as I could.

"Gamma, Beta! I am leaving - I need you both to take care of this pack while I am gone. Understood!"

"Alpha! You cannot leave!" My Beta growl through my mind link and I am baffled for a moment. My speed decreasing for a moment.

He snarled! At me!

"Know your position Beta! Never snarl at me!" I get no response and fear struck me.

"Respond Beta!" No response.

Why did he not want me to leave? What if he told Darius? Is there something wrong? What is he not telling me? Is it something regarding him and my Gamma were worried about?

"Beta! I asked you something!" God damn it! Once again I got no reply.

But it was too late.

I was not stopping anytime soon.

I ran as if my life depended on it, a weird feeling spreading in the pit of my stomach but I ignored it. I had no time for it.

This was my last chance.

The sun had disappeared in the sky and the moon was high up, shining.

That was when the worst started.

An aching pain started from my core and I immediately fell down. I struggled to stand up and try running a few more steps when I meet the face of the ground once again.

I looked up to find myself A few feet away from the river. A river that stated the end of my pack. The southern border.

I had to get across it.

But the pain was too much.

A lot more than the first day.

I dragged my body closer to the small Channel as much as I could. My Core begged something to fill it but I could not let it happen.

No matter how much the lust clouded my eyes, I would not give in to the desires. Not when my pack and freedom were at stake.

A scream left my throat.

A howl resounded through the woods but it felt deaf on my ears. The howl was shushed under my scream.

I was in pain.

The heat of the last day was to stay for a small period. Minutes but it was the most painful. My heart, head, and body ached. My muscles cramped and my brain stopped making sense.

I would've passed out if it was not for the pair of hands that wrapped around my writhing body.

Relief washed over me but lust took its toll.

"You will be okay, love."

A grunt left me before I turned around threw myself at him. Only for the relief. I reminded myself.

A sigh of content released me when coolness skimmed my body and I closed my eyes.

A growl made his chest rumbled,

"Mate." He was having a hard time controlling.

I didn't know how much time had gone by but a sudden clench of my core made me pull away from him.

"Ahhhhh!" The scream emerged from my throat and I felt liquid coating my legs, traveling down to my ankles.

At once, the pain subsided and I clenched my eyes.

My body fell in peace and I allowed it to thump on the grassy ground.

It was over! Finally over!

It was then when someone slowly lifted me up and lowered my legs into the stream of cold water.

Feels good.

It felt brilliant as the cold water skimmed over my warm legs, washing away the liquid from my knees and below.

I opened my eyes to find myself sitting on the edge of the ground with my legs down in the stream.

I raise my head to see Darius climbing down in the river without breaking a sweat and walking in front of me.

He placed his large palms in my knees and spread my legs, I didn't stop him.

I too looked down my thighs to find them coated in blood.

The blood of the child that I could've birthed.

My eyebrows knotted and my heart pained. Why did I feel bad?

If I did not feel bad then what was I feeling? Whatever it was, I did not like it.

"Its blood." My voice was hoarse and merely a whisper. All thanks to my dry throat.

"My blood."

My erasthai looked up at me in the eyes and gave me a look that showcased guilt. Did he felt bad for putting me in so much pain or for not fertilizing my egg, causing this?

My eyes filled with water every time I would dare to look down at the blood, but I could not let myself to get a glance of the blood.

My hormones were making me feel sad.

Darius started wiping the blood off my thighs from a cloth that he just pulled out from his pants pocket. He had dipped the piece in river water and now softly wiped on my skin.

Cleaning the dirty blood away.

All the while, I watched his face that was busy looking at his own hands that were cleaning.

I could not look at the blood.

My last hope - chance - to leave him was gone now.

Now all I could do was to pray for him to make a mistake so that I could run again, but then I would have to face this heat all the time. Every year, several times - I would be writhing in pain just like this.

I was pulled out of my thoughts when his fingers tucked at the bottom of my romper - which was coated in the blood - to tear it off. Before he could've torn them, I had pushed his hands away.

"No." I know this word made him angry, but I did not care.

I pulled away and stood up on my shaking legs, I turned around and started to walk back to the packhouse with a red blotch of blood covering my bottoms and skin.

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