Savior of the Wolves

Bailey’s POV

The entire pack was celebrating. We had defeated the scourge attack and Jess was alive.

And she was a fucking noble.

Nothing about that made me want to celebrate. I’ve always been told that the good of the pack should outweigh the good of a few, or one, but I was absolutely falling apart since the second that I heard that he imprinted with her. It felt as though someone had kicked me in the stomach. I immediately ran behind a tree to vomit. The sadness was crushing me and I began to shake all over.

I fled to my room, slammed the door, and crashed onto my bed.

***

The hours passed and I was oblivious to time. The only indication of time I had was the sun that began to filter into my room.

I tried to sleep so many times last night but ended up pacing the room instead. It was useless. All I could think of was her spending the night with him. I lost count of how many times I hovered over the toilet, sick to my stomach with tears drenching my face.

Nothing felt natural to me. It felt like the magic was lifted from this girl and transferred to the entire pack. Like they all became infected. The pack was cloaked. I didn’t recognize them anymore. If the cloak prevented her from being recognized, it now made my pack unrecognizable to me.

I hadn’t left my room at all. I came here immediately after I fought alongside my pack. I was the strongest delta female after all. I would’ve fought to the death last night and no one even noticed. No one even noticed that I was gone. Not a single soul has checked on me. They all know how much I love Aiden.

No one cared.

I could envision it. Cheering and laughing. The golden couple was together.

As I paced the room, my reflection passed in the mirror, and I took a long look at her. She looked broken. I felt disconnected from myself. Like I was looking at someone else. A stranger.

She was angry. I was angry. She became my only friend in that moment. The girl who suffered with me. Who lost everything the day that this fraud showed up on my compound. The compound where I was raised and experienced every beautiful moment with Aiden. That fraud didn’t even know him and now she was sharing his life…his bed.

I stared into her face and knew that this girl would go absolutely mad if she stayed here any longer. My wolf felt as crazed as I felt, and I had to do it. I turned it off. I didn’t want to be human anymore. I wanted only my wolf. I didn’t want to feel this pain. It was crushing me. I would give it to the wolf. Only she was strong enough to endure it anyway. I didn’t care if I ever felt human flesh on the outside of me again.

I relinquished my control over to her. To my wolf.

Without a second to finish my request, my wish, my thought, I had transitioned into my wolf…trapped in my room and raging with nothing but an animal’s need to escape.

I ran into the door, and it cracked. I backed up with even more aggression and took another attempt at the door. This time I nearly split it in half.

I heard a commotion coming from down the hall and could smell someone approaching. I bit into the hole I had created in the door and chewed my way out.

Splinters pierced my lips and gums, and I only grew more savage. My body was writhing in pain and this further nulled my human side.

I crashed into the hall about the time someone was at my side. I felt a human hand on my arm, and I lashed my paw out to break their hold. I heard the sound of bones breaking in the arm of whoever had the audacity to touch me. Their human cries echoed as my paws pounded the floor. I fled without ever looking back.

I cleared the hallway faster than I ever had before and my pace was such a speed that I easily charged through a side window and was out in the open.

I had escaped.

I had no need for goodbyes. My wolf only wanted freedom. She didn’t want to be tied to the pack that betrayed her. She didn’t need them either.

I could feel the adrenaline surge through my body as I increased my speed.

Noises were fading in the background. I could finally think without all the voices going on and on inside of my thoughts. My link was turned off and no one could command me to return. I was done with them. I had no family as far as I was concerned. I had no Alpha, no Luna, no Alpha’s sons. No one could make me endure that hell anymore. I did it my entire life…and for nothing.

I just wanted the memories to get out of my head.

As I ran the same trail I ran a thousand times before, I began to feel exhilarated. In a mile or so, I would leave the confines of the compound.

I knew I wouldn’t stop until my wolf was exhausted. I didn’t want them to ever find me again. I would start a new life. Away from this family that I wasn’t good enough for.

The wind seemed to pull at my fur at this high speed. A few limbs snagged my fur also. But I didn’t care. The pain was worth it. I wasn’t going to slow down for anything.

My wolf was in control, and she was making it clear, there were no regrets and no turning around now.

The level of anger that my wolf was enduring for me was distracting. She was weeding through the hurt and thoughts with primal instinct. Nothing rational at all. She was feeling pure rage and it felt so good.

My human side began to feel dazed. It was like being in a fog. It was so much better than the heartache I felt just moments ago.

I began to settle into her. I didn’t fight her aggression or reckless abandonment. I just began to feel less and less pain.

But she felt more.

She was now feral with the freedom.

My wolf howled with pure power.

And it echoed throughout the forest for miles.