The Beast's Possession

**Aife

pov**

I wanted to say goodbye to Amelia and I didn't at the same time. Partly because I believed that for as long as I didn't, this wouldn't feel as real. Maybe a bad dream, yes, but not reality.

Thankfully, she listened to Delta and didn't exit the bedroom even when I walked past it. Although I had no idea if I was allowed to take anything with me, I decided it was better if I packed up a few things before he took me away. The only thing I truly feared was the possibility of being thrown into the main building as a toy for his sick pack members to play around with and chew.

Well, to be completely fair, I also feared the possibility of being forced to stay with that man. Like only the two of us.

So, there were two things I didn't want to happen, but I couldn't see any other option happening either. He wouldn't be as nice as to throw me back to the rejects anyway.

Tossing the bag over my shoulder, I mentally bid goodbye to the room I had called home for a week. Then, I walked out and down the hall.

Passing Delta's and Amelia's bedroom was harder this time. I was dying for a chance to open her door and hug her just once before he dragged me away, but right as I decided to go for it and reached for the doorknob, Delta called my name from downstairs.

I dropped my hand to my side, focused my gaze to my feet and left without saying goodbye. Maybe that was for the best. Maybe avoiding the tears and empty words would make this easier.

As I hurried downstairs, I noticed Delta at the bottom of the stairs. When he noticed me, a look of relief crossed his features and I realized he could have thought I tried to run.

Reaching him, I gently placed my hand on his shoulder and whispered, "I wouldn't run. It would harm Amelia, so I wouldn't dare to."

Delta looked like he was barely holding back the tears. Then, to my surprise, he pulled me into a tight hug and whispered, "I know. You're too good to be true. As much as I appreciate you, sacrificing yourself for others, stop doing it. Put yourself first. Please."

He let go of me as someone cleared their throat behind him. I glanced at Delta just in time to see him wipe tears off his cheeks. He didn't turn around when he spoke; instead, focused his eyes on the top of the stairs. "As promised, I will head to the main building soon."

"I'll see you around," the monster himself chuckled.

I stood there like a lost puppy, unsure of what I was supposed to do. Since Delta kept looking up, I didn't dare to gaze in the same direction, knowing Amelia had to be standing there, watching this mess unfold with tears in her eyes. "Thank you for treating me like a human being," I muttered to Delta and slipped past him.

Although I felt broken in every sense of the word, one thing I refused to do was to submit to the tyrant of this pack.

As I neared him, I made sure to look straight into his eyes and let him see the insane hatred that burned in mine. If not more, I wanted him to know just how much I despised him.

"Come along, leftover, we have places to be and things to do," he laughed as he reached his hand towards me and grabbed my upper arm to drag me out of the house.

I didn't look back even once. Doing so would be literally letting him know how close I had become with Delta and Amelia, effectively giving out the weakness I had.

One of the things my father taught me when I was a child was that our enemies couldn't learn our weaknesses because they would do anything to use them against us. In this situation, whenever he would want me to do something, he could threaten to hurt someone and I would break.

For the most part of him, dragging me after him like some toy, I didn't pay much attention to the surroundings. That is, until we got closer to the main building.

Thoughts, ran by my fear, assaulted my mind. Would he really fall that low to actually throw me to an actual pack of wolves just like that?

As much as I feared ending up with those men all over again, I felt ten times worse when Bane dragged me away from the building.

The realization struck me like a lightning bolt. He was most likely bringing me to a separate housing, somewhere private where he could do Goddess knew what.

Since my thoughts were already all over the place, I decided to act like the grown up I was supposed to be and question him. I cleared my throat and spoke up, "where are you taking me?"

"Home," he replied without any hesitation.

"Funny, the last thing I remember is you blowing up the place I knew as home. Am I to live in ruins and ash now? Not complaining, I would gladly take that over anything."

I knew I started rambling, but with my thoughts, the speed my heart was beating at and the fear that coursed through me, I couldn't stop talking even if my words were nothing but nonsense. That was what stress did to me.

Just as I admitted to myself that I made little to no sense, he stopped and I accidentally bumped into him. The impact was strong enough for me to fall back, but before I reached the ground, his arms wrapped around me and saved me from the fall.

I would rather kiss the ground than find myself in his arms like this.

"There's no need to beat around the bush and keep bumping into me, reject. If you wanted to be touched by me, all you had to do was ask. After all, I am just a man and you're not half bad looking. At the end of the day, a hole is a hole." He grinned.

The skin on my face had to have turned green in disgust. "Touched by you? I would rather eat millions of tadpoles straight from a polluted lake than ever be touched by someone as rotten as you!" I growled.

It took all my self-control to hold back from spitting in his face, because Goddess knew how passionately I wanted to do that.

Wordlessy, he released me and I fell to the ground. My eyes widened as he shrugged and chuckled. "Whatever suits you. I like my bitches with claws anyway, so you're not doing yourself any favor here. The more you refuse and fight me, the more fun this game becomes for me."

I ignored every word that left him as I slowly stood up and grabbed the bag I accidentally dropped.

His eyes instantly focused on it. Then, as he looked at me, he raised an eyebrow. "What's that?"

"A bag?" I replied in a sarcastic 'duh' tone.

One thing I had to admit was that he was fast. Very damn fast. In a matter of seconds, he snatched the bag from me and threw it away. Then, he grabbed my neck and forced me against the nearest tree, getting his face too close to mine. "Listen here, you useless mutt. You're in my fucking territory, what I say goes, not the other way around. Test me like this once more and soon, you will learn that there are worse things I am capable of than making you run around naked. Far worse things than that. Got it?"