25. Savage☠

Chapter Soundtrack:

Incubus - Pardon Me

Nova

I stared at Grace with an evil running through my bones i could not tame. All i wanted to do was show her how things worked around here when Alpha wasn't around to save her.

Savage..

That is how i felt at the moment, the embarassment she tried to cause along with attempting to get me punished.. i was ready to eat her face off.

"Excuse me?" I growled low, snatching the underwear from the table to remove it from my brothers appalled expression as the others stared in shock. Deacon however just glared up at Grace, his face going red with anger, jaw clenching.

Grace puffed up slightly, "you heard me! You're a slùt! You slept with Zaryn! I have the proof!" She held up a tissue in a dirt covered ziploc baggie, opening it. It reeked of Zaryn's scent.. his arrousal. It filled the room causing a few close by wolves to gasp and cough at the stench of soured male arrousal.

My eyes widened before the thin strand holding my sanity together snapped.

My wolf felt the blood lust, snarling and angry inside my mind. She wanted a peek at this wolf who couldn't shift because of the pregnancy.. wanted a taste of her blood. I let her come up, allowing her to look out through my eyes as they turned dark.. a black stare .. twisting fury as my hackles raised, teeth elongating and claws extending.

Partially shifted.

Which happens when someone really pisses you and your wolf off at the same time. Or your mate arouses you..

You allow them to surface, like when I was in the tent with Zaryn.. the emotion takes over and you dont shift fully into the wolf.. just partially.

She gasped, backing up as all the wolves stood in unison, giving us some space.

"Grace! What the fùck do you think you are doing!" Zaryn growled, an anger in his words that had my wolf looking up, meeting his eyes.

She liked his anger at Grace.

I took a slow step forward, a rumble in my chest vibrating outwards into her body.

"Nova. Stop! Leave, Grace! Go! What the hell are you thinking!?" Nic roared.

It was too late for me to stop. She stood her ground.. afraid but wanting reprocussions for what she had assumed i did.

Before Grace could take a step back, my hand shot out, grabbing her by the throat, the long claws from the wolf gouging into her skin as my wolf and I, together, doled out her punishment for being in our lives.

Blood trickled down my hand as my nails dug in, her screams being cut off by my strong right handed grip, her eyes wide with hysteria.

She never thought i would do anything? Even after all my attempts?

The wolf wants what it wants.

And right now it wanted her.

Slamming her back into the wall of the dining hall, i bared my sharp teeth at her.. my breath hot in her face. After her wounds healed in one day, here she is asking for more of my wrath. My insanity pouring out into her..

My hand came up, backhanding her in the face, my claws taking some shreds of skin with her. She couldn't make a sound as the blood streamed down her face.

I could feel Zaryn's wolf trying to come towards me.. to stop me. But the rest of the wolves here surrounded him, blocking his path to me.

"Nova! Stop!!!" Nic screamed, flipping the table to lunge at me. He was held back by the 4 males that had sat at our table as well. I continued with the show they so desperately wanted to see.

Removing my hand slightly, Grace sucked in air as if she had been suffocating. Tears streaming down her face. I leaned in close.. my eyes wildly searching her as i snarled.

"My wolf and i dont like you, you little bìtçh. If anyone is the whøre its you. Spreading your legs for a male who isn't your mate and getting knocked up. Your daddy must be so proud! " i spat. She flinched at my words, eyes looking away.

"Your bæstard baby in there is going to die. I know you tricked Zaryn into screwing you.. we all know that. Believe me when I say that your little secrets are going to unravel, exposing you for the dirty whøre of a mate stealer you are. And lets get one thing straight... Zaryn is my mate. Not yours. Remember whose wolf he marked. If i wanted to fuçk him i would. Nothing you or anyone else could do about it. When that baby dies, you'll go back home to your daddy.. no virtue and no alpha.. what will you do then little grace?" I seethed into her face.. hot and angry. Her lip started to tremble at my false words of screwing my mate and revealing her secret. She seemed to shake.. terrified of the pain i could rain down on her without even touching her.

Avoiding Grace and ignoring her just took a backburner to destroying her life. No matter if i didnt want Zaryn, i wouldn't let this female get away with any of her schemes.

"Now im going to teach you a hard lesson. Learn something from it this time." My voice rasped.. sounding so unlike myself and more like my wolf.

I let go of her neck, only to take her by the wrist and jerk backwards as hard as i could. She screamed, falling to her knees as a sickening cracking sound echoed through the almost silent dining hall. I had put pressure on her elbow, forcing it inwards at an awkward angle.. snapping the connecting bones. Her bone ripped out of her flesh, jagged and bloody in the crease of her arm.. the wrong angle of how it looked slightly making me sick.

The room had been so quiet aside from Zaryn's wolf's growls .. him being held back from shifting due to the other wolves holding him. His wolf wanted no harm to come to his pup.. not caring of what harm came to Grace. The wolf knew that the human side didnt care either way, which is why the wolf always intervened.. Nic on the other hand was fuming.. screaming at me to leave her be.. throwing two wolves off him.

Looking back down as she screamed on the tile floor, thrashing her legs at the pain, my wolf let out a laugh through my form.. sounding feral. Remembering the panties in my hand, i reached down and stuffed them into her screaming mouth as she gagged.. wanting to throw up at the smell of my soured scent on them.. tasting my taste.

The wolves were all silent yet doing nothing as Grace lie on the floor begging for help. I glanced over at Eden, nodding my head at her shocked gaze as i walked past them all, shifting back to full skin once I walked out the door.

The adrenaline pumped through my body.. my wolf yipping happily .. proud she could show her who has dominance over who. Grace wouldn't try that again.

There was one place on my mind now that my wolf pushed me to go to. Unable to handle all of her powerful surges, I quickly hid behind a tree once I got to the forrest on the mountain side, stripping my clothes as to not ruin another outfit.

Once fully naked, i charged up the mountain, leaping as i let the wolf come out so she could run off the energy from the high of the adrenaline rush.

She ran as fast as she could like a gazelle up the mountain side. The rocky forrest hills being no match for my lithe yet powerful wolf, she bounced off each high surface with the agility of a bunny. Her excited bark rang through the trees as animals scurried away from her.

Once she reached the peak of the mountain top, my clearing by the waterfall coming into view, her heart sped up, running faster to cross the meadow and rush into the forrest behind it. She came to a hault at the tree that held the hidden tree house in its branches above, whining as she pawed the earth.

She wanted me to check.

To see if our mate had left a note for us.

That was the last thing on my mind at the moment. I didn't care about his notes. I didn't want to see them. Whatever he had to say would be irrelevant because it wouldnt change my mind about him.

Whining in a high pitch tone, she cried out to me.. voicing her want and need to satisfy her soul.. to calm her down. Sighing internally in my mind at her antics, I surged forward, shifting into my skin with a crackling motion before climbing up the treehouse angrily.

This would be the last time she begged me for anything.

Opening up the hatch, i smelled Zaryn's scent in the tree house fully. He had been here recently ..

I hadn't wanted to think about him after last night.. I even shoved the locket back in the wooden box he made me that sat atop my bedside table before i shoved it in a drawer.

Walking past the matress, smelling the scent of Zaryn's recent tears.. i didnt let it shake me as i tore off the piece of wood angrily and snatching the awaiting note out, unfolding it with an urgency so my wolf would stop whining to me, increasing the pounding on my head.

I scanned the paper, reading quickly.

Nova,

Im sorry for everything.. sorry for my wolf protecting our pup and humiliating you.. sorry for marking you. I wish i coukd take that back. It was a mistake that my wolf marked yours.

Everything i had ever told you was true.. how i felt about you. But upon recent events, i see how miserable i make you. I make you hate me and i know theres no coming back from this..

With that being said.. i think you should move on.. find someone who loves you and has no baggage, to mark and mate you. I cant live like this anymore with everyone breathing down my neck. I need to be there to support Grace through her pregancy.. if the puo doesnt make it.. im going to mark her regardless.

I hope you understand.. but she has lost her virtue to me and no alpha will have her after me. I do love you but its time i make things right.

Sincerely,

Zaryn

My jaw dropped as i read his letter.. my wolf crying inside our mind. She cried for her mate.. to love her. The bond had already began to call to her.. but then another emotions came through as i scanned the letter again..

It was fury.

How dare he tell me he loves me and will chase me even if I wasnt available after all this was over. I wasn't going to wait on him anyways but this..

This was the icing on the proverbial cake. My chest ached as i thought these things, the bond ravaging my soul to feel what my wolf was feeling but I couldn't sympathize right now. If ever. She could learn to be angry like me.

He could have her.

He wasnt worth my time and I wasn't going to chase after him.. or wait for him. The scene in the dining hall was all for nothing other than the fact that it pleased me to no extent.

I felt anger.. tortured.. my trust for him gone in just a page of written words. Tears wanted to fall but my soured savage side wouldn't let them.

This was my closure.

I folded the letter up.. as my eyes closed. Breathing in and out in attempt to chase down my red hot fury.

This didnt sound like Zaryn at all.. but i am officially done. No more worrying about his life. Or mine. I'd be rid of this mate bond the moment he marked Grace and i wouldn't have to see him again. I could transfer out.. let him lead both packs with Grace and the pup that probably wouldn't make it. At least it would have a chance once i was removed from the equasion.

But i hoped they endured pain...

Standing naked in the tree house, i withered the emotions that had had so much control over me for months.. i let it all go.. focusing on my hate to fuel my fire.

I was numb now.

And not in the bad sort of way. I was numb to everything to do with Zaryn. I just don't care anymore.

Not now.

Wolf, i hope you are happy...

I chuckled to myself... my laughter sounding slightly crazed as my head fell back, my hand rubbing my mark in disgust.

Im young.. and I have plenty of time.

Now its my turn to not give a fūck..

I checked out in that moment.

There wont be another chance for Zaryn... He is gone from my life for good and i wished someone would tell me differently.

I took the folded letter with me as i descended the treehouse in my nudity.. he would get nothing from me again. Ever.

With my new found sense of no fucka given, i walked the path back down the mountain side, not caring if anyone saw me nude. The emotionless blank stare in my eyes, looking forward as i thought of the one person i needed to vent to.

Let my new life begin...