Chapter 231: Powerless 2
HAZEL
The first girl’s eyes went wide. She dropped to her knees like soone had cut her strings.
"No. Never." Her words tumbled over each other. "A sentinel is currently pursuing her," she then pointed at her friend. "... And we found sothing he did was funny."
"The truth is, I don’t believe you."
The other girl finally moved. She’d been frozen but now she knelt too. The motion looked stiff. Unwilling.
"Of course not." Her voice shook. "We would never, O—"
Her eyes went wide before her mouth snapped shut but the damage was done.
"We would never, Luna Hazel."
Oga.
She’d been about to call
Oga.
Sothing hot and vicious surged through my veins. I charged at her before rational thought could intervene. My hands found her face. I squeezed. My fingers dug into her cheeks until she made a small sound of pain.
"You will spend the night in the dungeons for that unsightly tongue."
She tried to speak but my grip made the words co out mangled. "It was a slip, Luna Hazel."
A sentinel was walking down the corridor. Young. Probably new to the position based on how fresh and tidy his uniform looked.
"Hey, you. Co here."
He looked behind him. Then he pointed to himself with an expression that asked ’?’
I looked at him with daggers in my eyes. Only then did he start walking. His steps were asured, careful and incredibly slow. He was taking his sweet ole ti.
"Yes?"
"Throw this bitch in the deepest dungeons. Give her no food or water either. I want her to suffer for her insolence."
He hesitated. I saw the mont the hesitation turned into sothing else. Sothing that looked almost like pity.
Not for . That shit could never be for . I refused to be fucking pitied like a dog without claws or canines.
"I’ll reach out to the Alpha and Luna and will imdiately do so once they give permission."
The words didn’t make sense at first. They bounced around in my skull like marbles, refusing to settle into aning.
"What? What does that an?"
"I apologize but the path I made, I swore them to the Alphas and Lunas of this pack. No one else aside from them, the Betas and the Gammas of this pack can get
to do sothing. If any of them do, I require permission."
Understanding ca slow. Then all at once.
"Oh, is that right? Why?"
"It is the law."
My hand was already moving. Already pulling back to slap him across his smug face. Soone however caught my wrist at the last second and held it firm.
"Luna Hazel, you shouldn’t be doing this."
I turned and saw Baruch. His face was calm and he was concerned. My eyes softened despite the fury still coursing through .
"You have no idea what this monster just said to ."
Baruch’s grip on my wrist didn’t loosen. "We should go."
"And let them get away with the disrespect?"
"I know their nas. I’ll give them to you and you can report to your parents. If they deserve punishnt, then they’ll be punished."
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The words kept coming from his mouth but they felt wrong. Backwards even. I was supposed to be able to punish them myself. I was supposed to have authority. I was born with that power. The ability to make people fear
with a single look.
But it seed now that I didn’t.
I was powerless.
I dropped my hands hearing it directly from Baruch’s mouth and I just started walking.
Baruch fell into step beside .
"I know how I sounded." His voice was gentle. "But I couldn’t just let you continue to humiliate yourself there."
"Right." The word ca out bitter. "Humiliate myself."
We reached my room. I stood in front of the door and felt everything I’d been holding back start to crack through the surface.
"I used to have fucking power. Now I’m just a random girl." I laughed. It sounded broken even to my own ears. "Girl? I’m not even that. I’m the bottom of the fucking food chain. I hate that bitch Fia so much! She did this to ! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! I can only hope she’s dead already. That’s the only way all of this will be alright."
"What does that an?"
His question cut through the haze.
It made
quicky realized that I’d said too much and given away too much of what Grandmother had planned.
It was stupid of . But that wasn’t entirely why I backed away from the question. For so reason I didn’t want Baruch to see
as so kind of monster and pull away. He was the only one I seed to have in my corner right now. And I wanted to keep that. I wanted to keep him.
"I’m just in my head." I lied.
I pushed the door open and then stepped inside. The room was the sa as I’d left it but it felt different now. Smaller sohow. Less mine.
"Right now, I need to destress."
My eyes locked on his lips. On the way they parted slightly when he was thinking. On how they’d feel against my skin.
"Lock the door and get rid of your shirt."
"You just went through sothing traumatic—"
I was already undressing. The hospital gown slipped off my shoulders and pooled at my feet. So did the other modest gown under it that was now grimy.
I then stood there in just my undergarnts and t his eyes.
"I know. And I want to get my mind off it using your body." My voice ca out steadier now. More certain. "Close the fucking door and lose your shirt."
Baruch looked at
for a long mont. Then he obeyed.
The lock clicked into place. His shirt hit the floor. And for the first ti since I’d woken up without my wolf, I felt like I had control over sothing.
Even if it was just this.
Even if it was just him.
It would have to be enough.
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