Chapter 9
Katya POV
Walking to training, I was suddenly jerked into the locker rooms as I passed them.
A gasp of fright left my lips, not expecting to be grabbed. Spinning around, I come face to face with my mother.
“Where have you been?”
“Detention, where else?”
“I looked for you. You weren’t in detention with Angie.”
“No, they placed me in the Alpha’s office.”
“What, why?”
“Because that is where he told me to go.”
“Don’t use that tone with me, young lady; now listen, today is wolf training.”
“Okay, I will tell them I am sick,” I tell her, but she shakes her head. I watch, horrified, as she pulls something from her pocket I hadn’t seen in years.
“You can’t skip it’s compulsory, but you take one of these, and we can explain away why you can’t shift,” she says.
“No, I won’t take it,” I tell her, not wanting to take the wolfsbane pill. My mother used to give them to me when I didn’t get my wolf to hide it from the Alpha at first. Then she started giving me them to build up a tolerance to them, to prepare me for when I am older. Well, until dad found out and lost it. He stopped believing the excuses about how I was ingesting the worst poison to werewolves.
“I will not throw everything down the drain for a tantrum; now fucking take it, Kat.”
“And exactly how do I explain I ingested to wolfsbane?”
“Yes, but have had none in years. My tolerance is low,” I manage to Mindlink back but barely.
“Shit, get up!” She shrieks. I was too weak to Mindlink back when I saw teeth and claws suddenly coming toward me. I close my eyes, waiting for the extra pain. When I hear a
I then hear whimpering and open my eyes. collective gasp.
Angie’s brown wolf’s head is bowed in submission. I feel something drip on me and notice an arm above me. Blood pouring onto me, and I look to see who it is only to find the Alpha standing there and his Beta. Angie bit the Alpha’s arm, and I realized he was the one who stopped her from attacking me.
“She wasn’t even shifted, Angie,” he growls so menacingly. My body trembles from the rage behind it, and Angie whimpers loudly.
“What’s the meaning of this, and why can I smell wolfsbane?” he says, reaching down and picking me up. I try to get out of his arms, but he growls at me before pressing his face into my neck and sniffing me.
“Why does she have wolfsbane in her system?” He asks again, and my eyes flutter shut.
“Stay awake, Kat,” I heard him whisper before I thought I felt his lips brush my ear.

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