The Heart Of The Beast The Alpha's Pawn (Sonia and Ramon) novel Chapter 8

Chapter 8

SONIA’S POV

“Hey, I’m Ivy,” the girl said, and stretched out her hands to me.

She had offered me a hand first. It may sound dramatic, but out of all the people I’ve met so far in this pack, she was the only person that had treated me with an ounce of kindness.

I was touched beyond words. Thankfully, she was also around my age.

However, my happy thoughts didn’t last for too long before the negative ones arrived.

A warning voice was projected into my head. It reminded me of Freya, and how she had betrayed me.

It was right. I couldn’t afford to be too trusting of anyone. A bitter lesson I had learnt in the most wicked way.

“I’m Sonia.” I said.

“I know,” she replied, dropping her hands when it was obvious I wasn’t going to be shaking it.

It was better for her to hate me now, than for me to trust her and she ended up betraying me. After blatantly refusing to shake her, I was quite certain I was about to see her true colors.

I took a deep breath, and waited for her to pounce on me with her words.

To my surprise, her smile only broadened.

“You must want to take a shower,” she said.

Aha! There it was. The subtle insult. Insinuating I stink.

I mean I did stink, but it was also her way of insulting me for not accepting her handshake.

I knew not to hav

have trusted her. People were too fickle. If you don’t suck up to them, they become your enemy

Even when you do suck up to them, or are actually nice to them, they still find a way to betray you.

It was best to not pay attention to anyone other than yourself. An advice I knew I could never have listened to even if someone were to tell me before. I was too empathetic to do that.

She moved closer to me when I didn’t respond, and I held my breath in readiness for her hitting me.

Perhaps, Alpha Ramon thought it would be too brutal for me if he hit me for challenging him and also throwing paint at him. Maybe he sent this Ivy girl to help him do his dirty job.

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Either way, I was ready to take in whatever she was going to do to me.

“Don’t be scared,” she whispered when she was merely breaths away from me. “I don’t want to scare you away. Alpha Ramon said I should take you to the river so you can have your bath there. But the river is usually frequented by those obnoxious wolf sentinels,” she lowered her voice some more, and pushed her mouth into my ears.

They would openly leer at you. Trust me, you don’t want that. So what we’re going to do instead is that you’ll follow me to my room, and use my bathroom How does that sound?”

She took a step back, giving me enough space to breathe again.

“What?!” I asked, totally dumbfounded.

“Oh my! Wasn’t I loud enough? Do you want me to repeat myself?” She asked in a surprisingly kind tone.

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Wait a minute, maybe I have misunderstood everything she’s said and done. She may actually be kind to me.

“Or she’s trying to get you into trouble!” That voice returned. “Think about it. Alpha Ramon wants you to bathe in the river. If you bathe in her bathroom and he finds out you disobeyed his orders, do you know the kind of trouble you’d be in?”

I nodded my head, in communication with the voice. It was right after all. I couldn’t follow these girls‘ suggestions. She was just trying to get me in trouble.

“I’m sorry, but I’ll pass. I don’t want to get in trouble with your alpha. If he wants me to bathe in the river, then that’s where I’ll have my bath

She bobbed her head after a few seconds of staring at me with a strange expression in her eyes.

“Well if you insist,” she said

She turned, and I followed behind her

I braced myself for the piercing gazes of the wolves of the bloodmoon pack as I followed behind her.

to their stares.

They were always staring. Openly, and mockingly. I wasn’t sure yet if I could ever get used to

I began to get hopeful when we didn’t come in contact with another soul as we followed a bushy part. I was beginning to realize the pack was filled with forests, and trees.

It would be impossible to escape without in depth knowledge of the paths.

“You don’t like to talk, do you?” She asked, interrupting the comfortable silence I had worn around me as a shield,

“And you like to talk too much, don’t you?” I said in my mind.

In the same breath I chide myself for being too hostile to the girl, when she was only trying to make conversation.

“Yes,” I simply said.

She didn’t bother to say anything again. We took a turn, and I saw some buildings lined up in the shape of a moon.

I saw her body language change. She went from being rigid after I basically her that I didn’t like to talk too much, to