VALENCIA’S POV
’What is your next move?’ Aurora asked as soon as I turned back into my human form and put my hair back into a ponytail.
"Moving out," I said.
"Moving out?" Aurora asked, confused.
"Yes. It looks like I’ll have to turn into my cat form quite a lot now, and I can’t risk these humans finding this secret about or suspecting of anything that can be used against during the ti of the verdict as ntioned by the beta. It’s better to move out until this issue with the dark Callisto pack is solved," I whispered.
I walked back to my shared space where I was renting the place with Angela and pulled out my phone from the cabinet.
"I don’t think he believes ," I said the first thing as soon as the person on the other side picked up the phone.
"What is that supposed to an, Val?" Dylan asked.
I walked to my balcony before popping a chocolate candy in my mouth.
"Exactly what you hear. The alpha doesn’t believe or whatever lie you have told him. And he is onto so rogue cases that the alphas are worried about. The cat case is also involved," I said, my gaze raking all around the forest side of the city.
"Did he say sothing to you?" He asked with a sigh.
I pressed my lips into a thin line.
Did he say sothing to ? Well... He didn’t directly say anything that can be called threatening or harmful but...
After all the tis when I finally thought I would be able to find my people, my people who will accept for the way I am and I might get a shot at happiness too, things had to get ruined like this.
Moving my hand through my hair, I sighed.
For so reason, my brain was telling I needed sothing stronger than just chocolate candy. Like a cigarette or a bottle of strong alcohol to calm my raging heart and mind that were stuck in a dilemma.
"He didn’t. I have yet to et the alpha. I heard his beta talking about how he suspects and the stories cooking up around or what the council said.
He is already suspecting that you said those words to protect . So I won’t be surprised if he is planning to execute with solid evidence,"
The beta wasn’t entirely wrong though. Dylan indeed lied to protect earlier. I wasn’t here for any kind of research or anything. I was indeed breaking laws.
As soon as I ended my sentence, I heard a low snarl from the other side and a sigh left my mouth.
"No one is going to hurt you!" Dylan said.
I smiled at his choice of words before turning around to my new canvas.
"I am going to sell another painting," I said after so ti, changing the topic.
I could hear him taking a deep breath, and a soft smile appeared on my face thinking about how he must be raking his hand through his hair, a habit of his whenever he is frustrated or agitated.
"How much?" He asked.
"Probably 15k this ti. I spent 87 hours on this one," I said before looking at my wounded hand with an annoyed look.
I had yet to do so final touching, but seeing how my hand was wounded like this, and it would take around a couple of more hours to heal, I knew this painting was going to be sold just like this now.
That was how I was surviving without relying on anyone for the past 6 months. I paint. It was one of my passions before I turned into a rogue.
At that ti I used to paint just for fun. Who am I kidding? I used to paint for Tyler to see and praise .
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I always wanted to be an artist because I thought if I got the world’s recognition through my skills, my mom and dad would recognize too.
I will be called their daughter again. They will greet good morning like they did to my sister Matilda and kiss goodnight, caress my hair, and stay with when I am having a nightmare too.
That they would stand in front of when soone would curse and announce proudly that I was their daughter. That was all I ever desired from them.
I blinked my eyes to shoo away the tears that were threatening to shed again.
’Valencia,’ Aurora whispered, probably feeling bad for , but I just smiled at her.
’Don’t worry about it. I am not crying. They don’t deserve my tears,’ I assured myself, more than I was assuring her.
Who was I kidding? Even if they don’t deserve my tears, I deserve their love. The fact that I was abandoned by people who were supposed to hold and help fight against this unfair world broke in so many ways that I can’t even pinpoint.
Maybe I was a faulty piece earlier, but now I am just broken. I don’t trust people anymore, and though I am smiling and enjoying myself with the humans, was my heart really at ease?
"Will you be able to hold it there?" Dylan asked, snapping out of my self-deprecating thoughts.
After thinking for so ti, I nodded.
I won’t run away again. I have had enough of people treating like I was so kind of cursed on who should’ve died the day I was born.
I had the right to live and enjoy my life as much as every single person out there, and I wasn’t going to let anyone tell otherwise. If they have crap to say, they can just stick their mouths up their asses.
It would be hard, no lies. To forget everything and just move on. And I might not find any compatible place that I can call ho, but even after that, I won’t let anyone decide for anymore.
"Yes, Dylan. I am not going to let anyone dictate my life. It’s ti I take the reins of my life in my hands.
Also, I will be moving back to my lake house for the ti being because of my rampant shifting. It hasn’t been 12 hours, and I have already transitioned twice," I said, and Dylan sighed.
He was one of the people who knew about my transition history because of an incident and how I was almost caught by him stealing from one of the packs.
"I know you are all worked up because of the last ti you had to move out of your place because the alpha of the pack didn’t like you staying there, but I hope you don’t get into any predicant with this alpha, Val. He is..." Dylan started, and I furrowed my brows when I saw so movent in the forests.
I couldn’t help but smirk inwardly. It looks like they were here again.
"I know who he is..." I took out another chocolate candy and popped it into my mouth as I watched the group stop again.
"If this alpha tried to do anything to , I will also ensure he doesn’t find out what hit him and how badly it did," I said before walking back into my room to bring back my night vision binoculars.
I looked at the forests from behind the curtains, the group of nine n lurking around the bushes catching my attention.
"By the way, are you ready for the mission I ntioned?" Dylan asked after so pause, and I humd.
"Send the details through ssage,"
"There is sothing bigger going on here," I said after so pause when I saw them start to dig.
Since this area was at so distance from the Dark Callisto pack and near the human territory of the no man’s land, the pack borders didn’t really have any right to patrol here or stop the rogues from infiltrating this place as long as they didn’t hurt any humans.
However, sothing was definitely going on with this group of rogues.
This was the seventh night when I saw them coming here and trying to implant sothing in the grounds near the pack.
"What do you an?" Dylan asked , and I sighed before walking back inside the room, ensuring to lock the balconies because so spirit lurking in my room was the last thing I wanted to happen.
"You will know," I said before ending the call.
Without wasting any more ti, I clicked the photo of my new painting and placed it in the market for purchase with my na that nobody knew apart from Angela and Casper, since they caught my painting in the market soone else’s na once and thought soone was stealing my work.
As I was typing the credentials, I saw an email on the official classroom group and noticed so new materials were added to review.
A bitter smile appeared on my face. New assignnts again.
Seriously, this was the only thing I hated university life for.
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