Running with the Alpha's Pup

Escape

I couldn’t tell how long I had been listlessly staring at the ceiling.

Maybe hours?

Angelica has been trying to get me to eat something, but I wouldn’t react or even respond to her.

I was devastated. Why did it have to be today? He had all the other days to cheat. Why did he choose to be with that woman today of all days when I had just gotten the news of my first joy?

I couldn’t explain the kind of pain I was going through, but it slowly was getting replaced by anger and something else … hate.

Angelica could tell too. She could feel those emotions flowing out from me and spreading around.

I wanted to kill him. I wanted revenge on the two who caused me to lose my baby.

Angelica left the room, and when she returned, she came bearing news.

Brian was back.

I blinked my eyes then, only reacting to this news. I stood from the hospital bed, just as the pack’s doctor entered.

“Luna, you can’t be up right now,” She hurried to explain. “You just suffered a major shock and lost your baby. You need all the rest you can get.”

Of course, I wouldn’t listen to her. I had already made up my mind when I saw that pool of blood between my legs. I already knew what I was going to do.

“Don’t tell him.” I said to the doctor, and she looked at me, puzzled. “Don’t tell anyone a word of what happened today, and I might consider keeping my mouth shut about your relationship with the Beta.”

Her eyes widened in pure shock and that was all the reaction I needed from her to head on my way, back to the main wing of the pack house and to our bedroom, where I could already smell him. His scent used to make me and my wolf come alive at any moment. Now it just disgusted me and even my wolf, Rae, could no longer bear it.

Angelica wondered what I was going to do. She tried to stop me, but I merely raised a hand for her to leave me alone. Then I whispered something to her, which caused her to be frozen there in shock as I went on into our chamber, tracing his scent into the bedroom where he currently was changing his clothes.

I stood by the door and watched him remove the cufflinks from his striped shirt before he undid the buttons and pulled it off him. Next, he unbuckled his belt and pulled down his trousers, leaving him in only his underwear and his chest bare, his muscles rippling with every move he made.

Eight hours ago, I would’ve been drooling at the sight. Now all I could see when I looked at him was the blood of my unborn baby flowing out of me.

He killed our child, and so he deserved to be killed the same way too.

“Are you done looking?” Came his deep, cold voice. “If you are, please close the door on your way out.”

Usually, I would instantly do as he said, afraid to upset him, but now, I was no longer afraid of anything.

I walked inside and closed the door behind me.

“How was the meeting with her?” I found myself asking before I could even stop the words. I saw the frown that formed on his face through the reflection on the mirror before he turned around towards me.

“What are you talking about?”

“Hah!” I scoffed. “Didn’t you meet with Alpha Dominic’s daughter today? I’m asking you how the meeting went.”

“How did you know that?” His gaze narrowed, and he had no idea how much those words broke me even more. It was true then. He had been with her. Why did I even think to doubt those pictures for once?

“Are you spying on me?” He went on to ask, as if that even mattered, if I did.

“What if I am? Do you have something to hide?”

His narrowed gaze deepened on me, slowly turning darker, his wolf trying to come to the surface, but he wouldn’t let it. “What is going on with you?”

“What could be going on with me?” I asked back, and he seemed to be confused for a brief second.

“You’re different today. You’re suddenly questioning me when you should know better.”

“Hmm…” I agreed with a nod of my head. “I am just an omega and should be pleased that I got a chance to marry someone like you, but Brian, I regret it.”

I didn’t know when a tear fell off my face, unable to control my emotions and the pain from returning. I cleaned my face, quickly gathering up my emotions and controlling myself.

“Dinner will be ready in a bit.” I forced a slight sad smile as I told him and left the room, going to the kitchen where Angelica was waiting. She had helped me dismiss everyone, so it was just us.

“Where is it?” I asked her and she hesitantly handed me a small container.

“Liv, please don’t do this.” Her eyes were sad as she begged me, but I had already made up my mind.

“Leave, Lica.” I told her, my gaze stern as she pleaded with me one more time and when I wouldn’t change my mind, she left, worried.

I entered the kitchen, looking up what to cook and decided to whip up his favorite meal. I knew how the Omega maids use to do it. I have watched them cook before, so I was sure I could do it myself.

I whipped up everything and, finally, added the purple powder to the mixture, smiling when I thought about what this could do to him.

Wolf’s bane.

Aconite.

It was the most deadliest poison to werewolves. And this particular one was mixed with grounded black feathers. Another deadly poison.

Brian came out a while later, surprised when he saw just me in the kitchen. “Where are the maids?”

“I sent them away so I could cook for you.”

“Last I heard Liv, you didn’t know how to cook.” He stared at me, his gaze suspicious, but he still went ahead to take his seat. “What was the meaning of what you said earlier?”

That I regretted marrying him? Unfortunately, he’d never find out the truth, so I ignored his last question, pretending not to hear it.

“I learnt this with great difficulty and specially prepared it for you.” Again, I forced a smile as I served it to him, as if my lashing out earlier had been something he imagined. I served it just to him, hearing his hum. I didn’t put a plate for myself but took a seat next to him, to watch him eat, and to watch him die.

“Just me?” He repeated, and I couldn’t tell if his intelligence was saying something to him, but to my own joy and happiness, he tasted the food, not just once but continuously until he had finished everything.

It must’ve been good.

I waited for it, counting the seconds in my head before his expression changed, and he vomited a mouthful of blood.

“Liv—” His cold gaze had quickly turned frightening as he stared at me, as if he couldn’t believe it. He scoffed, then he began to laugh, a painful laugh.

“Why?” He asked just as he spurted out blood.

“You should know better why, what you have done to me today!” I said, feeling my chest tightening, which must be the pain he was currently feeling since we were connected through the mate bond.

His beautiful eyes stared at me in disbelief. His lips curled, and he laughed wickedly as I went on to say it, the words.

“I, Olivia Vaughn, reject you, Brian Cole as my mate and Alpha of the Crimson Vale pack. I now declare myself a rogue.”

I felt the snap of what connected us together, followed by the explosive pain that filled my whole body, causing me to tremble on my knees, but that, of course, only lasted for a while, as Brian still struggled for his life.

He definitely would die. With the poison and the sudden rejection, he would.

I said my bye-byes to him, turning my back on him as his laugh echoed through the walls.

But you see the thing about villains…?

They don’t die easily.

Perhaps Brian had mind-linked his Beta just now because I had met him on my way out.

“Is everything okay? Why is the Alpha…” Nate asked concernedly, but trailed off when he felt the snap of my connection from the pack. He figured out something was wrong, so he ran inside to his Alpha, and I used the opportunity to run.

“Here, Liv!”

I heard Angelica’s voice, and when I looked at her, she was beckoning me over a dark path. She led me through a narrow path until we’d successfully exited the Crimson Vale territories.

“Someone alerted the pack, and now all the guards are looking for you. You need to find your way from here, Liv.” Tears filled her eyes as she ran into my arms, then kissed both my cheeks. “Promise me you won’t die. Don’t let them find you.”

“I promise.” Tears rolled down my cheeks as I kissed her hands, and that was the last I’d seen of her as I made my way out from one territory to another until I’d finally gotten to my destination, where they’d never catch me.

The human world.