Chapter 41

The house was quiet until Wayne arrived an hour later after I woke up. I killed the time in the library, going through books and learning about the history of werewolves until he came. The conversation with Nora lasted for only a few minutes. I didn't question her any longer once she had told me that he hadn't hurt her, not once in the past year.

He wasn't lying. He had it under control—at least for himself.

"How are the injured wolves?" I asked him as he came inside the library and greeted me.

"They are better. The wounds heal up quick."

"And the ones that died?"

"I paid respects to their families." He answered, lowering his gaze and curling his arms behind his back.

There were a couple of deaths from last night. I wasn't sure how many but a few warriors were ripped by the monster and killed before Wayne could kill him. He only acted when the monster had attacked me and if he hadn't, he wouldn't have killed him.

I closed the book I had been reading and set it aside on the table. Standing up, I walked away from the brown couch and over to where Wayne stood, just behind me.

"I was thinking we should go to the hills," I suggested while chewing the inside of my mouth. "It's where my mother would be the closest to. She has her friends there. Maybe we could question them, see if anyone knows or if anyone had seen her."

It made the most sense that my mother would visit the hills. If she was the one behind poisoning the man from yesterday then she must've been around the hills, maybe following us while we were running around the forest. Maybe she was there the entire time.

Watching us.

I didn't know what to think anymore.

"You're right. We should go there." He nodded and agreed with me. "Let me change. I'll meet you outside in fifteen." He quickly said before turning around and leaving the library.

I returned to the couch as Wayne left the room. Opening up the book, I began reading again about the history of werewolves. There was one time when my mother and Uncle Hawk had formed a poison that could weaken a wolf and it worked.

It weakened Brian for a long time.

The plant that the poison was received from was mentioned in the book I had been reading. It was an interesting read. But nowhere in the book, it was mentioned about a man who fed on other's blood to live. It was something out of the world.

I continued reading and scurrying through the rest of the pages whilst Wayne changed upstairs.

I couldn't leave him regardless of what all he had become or how terrible it was. I was mated to him, destined with him and we had a bond that couldn't be broken. Parting ways or leaving him forever wasn't an option anymore. For the sake of my own sanity, I wanted to help him, change him back if it was possible but none of that meant that we were going to be in a happy, perfect relationship ever.

We were far from that.

There were just too many wounds in this relationship and they weren't closing up anytime soon.

We left in a car moments later with a driver by our side. He drove us toward the hills which were a mere twenty minutes' drive away. During the drive, I took a few deep breaths and steeled myself from whatever was going to come in my direction.

Yesterday's incident had caused an uproar among some of the warriors in training. Rumors were spreading and questions were rising second by second. Some of them were beginning to fear what was inside the forest even when that man was dead.

No one was going to accept a monster like him.

No one was going to accept Wayne.

I clicked my eyes to him, watching his gaze on the window, looking outside into the town and the buildings passing by.

A year ago, before everything, it was all different. I was head over heels for Wayne, hiding from my mother and hiding information from him while I was bearing his child.

It took just one night to change everything.

Wayne turned his head around, meeting with my gaze. "You're okay?" He asked.

"Mhm." I nodded my head and looked away.

I had told him that I wouldn't see him as a monster but that was exactly what I was seeing him as. A monster. I promised him to help him and be with him but now I was terrified of the future.

"We are here, Alpha." The driver announced as he parked the car in one of the markets that were on the hill.

I had been in the same market when I arrived here first. Then, I had met with an old friend, Rose.

We stepped out of the vehicle and the people surrounding us stared at us as we had been here to cut off their heads and dismember their limbs. The fear was still there in omegas even after everything had been changed. Though, I assumed there were more frightened of the Alpha than they were frightened of other wolves.

Wary glances fell on us as we made out way through the market quietly. A few minutes later, we reached at the doorstep of an omega Wayne knew well. The man who opened the door for us was an elder and his entire family was inside the house.

We walked past the children and over to a private room where Wayne questioned the man if my mother had been seen around town.

"No, it's been a long while since we had heard anything about Josie Houghton." The man replied in an old, scruff tone that resembled his age. I had seen him a couple of times around the hills but hadn't formally met with him.

"What about my Uncle? Hawk?" I leaned forward and quirked a brow at him.

The man shook his head, "I'm sorry, child," His attention diverted to Wayne and he continued, "We haven't heard about any of them. I keep track around the hills and if Josie was present here somewhere, rumors would spread about her, Alpha."

We left the house and returned to the town after getting nothing out of the trip. No one knew. I was disappointed. I thought I could find her somewhere and unleash my rage upon her but she wasn't even here to begin with. Maybe Wayne made a wrong assumption about her being present.

On the ride back home, I was flustered and heated from the top to the bottom. I could the sweat coming in, and the heat forming inside me. It was usual for my wolf to slip into heat at the worst times ever.

As an omega, even after finding my mate and mating, the heat wasn't gone. It came whenever it wished to come, even if I was in the middle of killing someone back in the city.

Once the car had stopped at the house, I quickly stepped out, grabbed my belongings and rushed upstairs to disappear into my room for the rest of the afternoon or at least until the heat was out of me.

"Where are you running to?" Wayne followed me into the house and asked.

I paused on my steps and turned slowly while quickly thinking of something. "I'm tired. I'm going to go sleep."

"I wanted to talk to you."

"We can talk later. Not now. I'm—really tired and I have a lot in my head." I repeated once more before taking the few more steps upstairs while Wayne remained downstairs, standing disheartened in front of the door.

Just as I reached my door, I heard his steps behind me. He followed me after all.

"Clara..." He trailed off.

I sighed and turned around, "Yes?"

"Are you okay?" He furrowed his brows and ran his gaze over my body.

Fuck.

I couldn't let him know.

He couldn't know.

We couldn't fuck.

"I'm fine, perfectly fine!" I exclaimed while my lungs expanded and I took in heavy breaths. For a second, I could feel my bones melting and my body growing hotter than ever. "I'm just sleepy. I'm sorry, I'll talk to you later, Wayne." I quickly said before walking into my room, slamming the door behind and locking it.

In hastiness, I knocked a couple of things from the shelf near the door and stumbled on my steps before landing on the bed. As soon as I did, I stripped my clothes off my body and laid down.

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