Wolf-less Omega Luna novel Chapter 26

Alana’s POV

Walking couldn’t be that hard, could it? Because my brain urged me to move. Put one step in front of the other and move. Do something. Anything. But I couldn’t materialize any of it.

Bile quickly dampened my mouth and I felt blood drain from my entire body.

How did this happen in less than a second? How did we go from being all merry and making toasts to nearly gagging to death from wolfsbane poisoning?

I looked hypnotized and felt hypnotized. Goddess, I was hypnotized.

Axel practically dragged me around from one canopy to another, remedying the damage my ignorance caused.

As Axel led the way to the house, I saw Britney from my peripheral, standing with the Alpha who was staring at me earlier. I had no idea what he was saying to her but he had her undivided attention.

She maintained her peacock pose, coiling her long hair in between her fingers, and not appearing like someone recovering from a wolfsbane burn.

As if sensing my eyes on her, she cracked her head backward in my direction, paused, waved lightly, and then flashed me a mischievous lopsided smirk.

That was when the realization dawned on me.

Of course, it was Britney.

I was a fool. A pawn in Britney’s never-ending game. An object of mockery for her. The fraud. The imposter.

She always saw me as insignificant and how could I not have known that ‘a moment of reflecting on herself’ as she said, would never be enough to make her see me as an individual?

How did I not see this? She hated me from the day she knew about my existence and I had now gotten the life she so craved for.

A moment of self-reflection could not possibly revoke the hate Britney harbored for me that made her try to drown me in the stream when I lost my pack and had just been brought to Crescent Moon pack.

A moment of self-reflection could not suffice for Britney smearing fish all over my leg while I was asleep for rats to feed on me.

It could not.

But I was so desperate to be acknowledged by an evil person that I accepted her half-ass apology and left her alone in the kitchen where the drinks were unguarded for her to mix them with wolfsbane.

Even if I tried, I could not muster any fight or rage. I just trailed behind Axel, half alive, half wishing I was dead.

We passed Coral and Axel’s parents in the sitting room as we made it upstairs and Coral dipped her head to me, giving me a sympathetic tight-lipped smile.

There was no way I was going to look at Axel’s parents after this.

How could they see me with the same eye after this? Whatever bit of regard they had for me as being Axel's mate had to be tossed in the ocean now.

A Luna who couldn’t oversee a simple party and make sure that drinks were in order.

“Alana, It’s all okay now. Come back to me,” Axel's soft voice pulled me from my train of thought as we stood in front of the room.

“I’m fine.” It was the first word I managed to mutter since the devastating sight “my” cluelessness caused me to witness earlier. And it was a blatant lie.

“Everybody is okay.” I made out from the words Axel spoke.

But was that enough? The ‘what ifs’ flooded my mind, dragging the tears that had been brewing to the surface.

If someone had died, I would have been branded the murderous wolfless omega Luna.

If someone had died, I wouldn’t be any better than the rogues who attacked my pack, destroyed it, and probably killed my parents.