Rejected by the Alpha, Claimed by his Brother
Chapter 123: _ A Strand Of Confusion

Chapter 123: _ A Strand Of Confusion

A sudden rush of nausea hit me, the cold from his touch sinking deeper into my bones. I wobbled and my vision began ti swim.

What the heck was happening?

He caught my chin, tilting my face up to his.

"You will understand soon enough," he whispered. "Rest now, my child. You are not yet ready."

His eyes glowed impossibly bright, swallowing my vision whole.

Before I knew it, I blinked and I was back in my room, the darkness of the night thicker than ever.

I jolted awake with a sharp gasp, my body surging upright so fast I nearly flung myself off the bed. My heart was pounding in my chest so wildly, I could hear it in my ears and my skin was clammy with sweat.

My room.

I was in my room.

The air was filled with the scent of old wood and wet fabric. The familiar creak of the floorboards beneath my mattress, the moonlight casting beams through the wooden slats of my window—it was all the same.

Dios mío. It was just a dream.

I exhaled so heavily, that it felt like I was deflating. My fingers trembled as I pressed them to my forehead, trying to send away the lingering chill from that terrible place, from him.

That wasn’t real. It couldn’t be real.

What the hell was that? What sort of dream was it? I’d never had one my whole life. Perhaps, this was PTSD.

But...

I swallowed, my throat as dry as parchment. Why did it feel so real?

I had been there. I could feel the dampness of the forest, the prickle of the wind that never blew, the terrible cold of that man’s touch. Even now, the memory of it stuck to my skin like frostbite.

I shuddered and shook my head. Enough. I needed to get up, move, and do something before my thoughts swallowed me whole.

Throwing my blanket aside, I swung my legs over the bed and stood, hoping the sleep had given me enough energy to stand up properly now after the merciless beating I received in the morning.

It was crazy that I slept all through the day and was awakening at night.

"Ah..." I whimpered, yawning. "I must have been so tired. How many hours of sleep was that?"

I flexed my fingers and rolled my shoulders to feel the ache in my bones. However, I was in for a surprise.

I felt no soreness whatsoever. No aching.

I blinked. That wasn’t right.

My body had been a battlefield of pain in the morning. My ribs had burned with every breath, my arms had been littered with bruises, and my legs were barely capable of holding me up. But now...

I yanked up the sleeve of my dress, eyes widening as I stared at my bare skin.

No bruises.

I whirled toward my small mirror, grabbing it with unsteady fingers. I turned my face from side to side. The split lip? Gone. The swelling on my cheek? Not even a shadow of it remained.

Panic coiled tight in my chest.

My healing had never been this fast. My wolf had been absent. My father had cast me aside because of it. I was an Omega now. My body didn’t recover like this.

Only werewolves with wolves enjoyed the perks of being a werewolf... Like the rapid healing.

Unless...

I pressed a hand to my stomach, my heart leaping into my throat.

Does this mean... I still have my wolf?

Excitement burst through me so suddenly that I nearly laughed out loud. Did this mean I wasn’t an Omega anymore?

Did this mean—could I still be strong? Could I still belong?

Could I...

Could I still have Axel?

A giddy sort of hope swelled in my chest in a light and intoxicating way. I wasn’t cursed to be weak forever. I wasn’t doomed to be nothing.

My hands clenched into fists, exhilaration buzzing through my veins.

I pumped the clenched fists in the air, happy to be reborn. However, sad girls can’t be happy again, can they?

I felt something strange between my fingers. I looked down.

There, caught between them, was a single strand of hair.

Not red like mine. It was... Black.

A single, impossibly dark strand of hair curled against my palm, sleek and fine as silk.

My jaw dropped. Eyes widening so hard, they might pop out of their sockets.

A cold terror seized my spine, crawling up my back like a phantom’s touch.

A black strand of hair like the one the man in my dreams had.

My body moved before my mind did. I flung the hair away like it burned, stumbling back with a strangled sound.

No.

No, no, no, no.

This could not be happening.

It was a dream. It had to be a dream. How did the hair get in my hands if it was a dream?

I squeezed my eyes shut, shaking my head violently, as if that would somehow reset the world, as if that would erase what I had just seen.

But when I opened them again...

The strand of black hair still lay on my floor.

I screamed.

I screamed out in a real, full-bodied scream, like my soul had been ripped from my chest. I scrambled backward, hitting the edge of my bed, my breath coming in sharp, horrified bursts.

"How did that get here?!"

I recoiled, hugging my knees to make sense of what had just happened to me when something else happened. As if to complement my screaming, another reverberated from outside.

It was a series of screams and shouts with Loud voices tearing through the stillness of the night.

Why were there people’s noises booming from my Father’s estate in the dead of the night? It never happened. This was the base of security of the pack.

No one dared to trespass or mess around on here.

I froze, watching my terror overtaken by confusion. My hands began to vibrate, sweat streaming down my entire body.

What was going on?

{A/N}

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