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I shifted to Blaze and let him take complete control. Once he was shifted, he ran into the forest and headed between the trees.
I went back into his mind, as I knew he needed to run to let off steam. But I needed to think; I was such a dumbass to Roxie.
All that I read kept flooding back to memory, how Naomi and most of the girls used her to get to Jason and me. But the ones who were the same age as us were at fault, even though some did things to Roxie, which made me feel the burning anger of tearing them apart. They all took it out on Roxie, and I was going to make sure they knew what they did was wrong. I knew I was never a saint. I knew I had a mate out there, but I wanted to get everything out of my system before I settled down with one person.
Naomi was the one that was the worst but looking back at the whole time. The dates in the diaries made me think back to the way she was acting at the time with me. Sometimes, I would tell Naomi to leave me alone because she was too clingy or just because I never wanted her around. I never placed it together, and Roxie never said anything. The times she was beaten and tormented, she stayed in her room. I remember neither Jason nor I would get an answer when she was there. She always made up an excuse for us.
Jason was torn when he read them, especially about one girl. His ex, not only was Naomi cruel and mean to Roxie but so was his ex. I remember telling him she was bad news, but he never listened.
“Dumbass, you okay?” asked Blaze, pulling me from my thoughts.
I couldn’t help but glare at him.
“I’m fine,” I said. “I wish you would stop calling me that.”
Blaze stares at me but doesn’t say anything.
“I know I’m a dumbass,” I said quietly to him. “I never thought anyone would treat someone like that.”
Blake stared at me for a moment but sighed. “You never had to be looked a certain way because you were the alpha’s son; everyone wanted to be with you, especially the woman. Most of them wanted to be your Luna, not for the work that came with it, but for the lavish lifestyle you could give them.”
I always thought when I became alpha, I would have to earn money as everyone else did. I never thought of it like that. I never showed my true fortune as it was never mine to take.
Blaze stared at me, pushing me forward to see where we were. And we were outside Roxie’s house.
I couldn’t help but stare out.
“Do you think she is thinking about us?” I asked him.
Blaze held a lot of emotion on his face, but I knew he was thinking the same as I was.
We stared at the house; if anyone spotted us, they would think we were a stalker of some kind.
A mind link opens up, and it’s my father. “Get back here now,” he growls, and closes the mind link.
I could tell my father was pissed.
Blaze looked back at me, “Dad is pissed,” he said.
I didn’t say anything.
Blaze moves back and runs back to the packhouse. He walked toward the house, but a scent got to my nose, making us tense and growl lowly.
What the hell is she doing out here?
“Walk around the back way,” I said to Blaze. He does as he is told, and we walk around and head into the back entrance, where we scare an omega to death. “Alpha,” she said, placing her hand on her chest. “You scared me.”
I slip past the door and shift in front of her, and quickly she grabs me a pair of sports shorts.
I slipped them on and looked up at her, “sorry,” I said to her.
The omega looks at me and smiles.
“It’s okay alpha,” she says.
I turned to walk away but started to speak again. “I don’t know what is going on here, alpha, but that woman you used to be with has been acting strange,” she said.
I stopped and looked over my shoulder. I looked at her, confused, but the penny dropped. She was on about Naomi. “What do you mean?” I asked.
The omega looks around and walks over to me, quietly speaking only for me to hear. “Well, I’m not one to gossip, but she has been receiving calls from someone, and she keeps telling them that she was working on it,” she says. I looked at her, but that didn’t clarify anything. But the omega continues. “I know it’s not much, but the person on the other end started to contact her when that woman came to the pack, the beta’s daughter,” she said. My heart skips a beat at the mere mention of Roxie.
The omega looks at me, “that girl had it rough,” she said. “I know she went through something as I caught her all bloodied one day and even walked in on three girls picking on her before lunch. They never saw me, but I heard how they talked to her. It was disgusting; I would never speak to anyone as they did with her.”
My heart sinks; even an omega witnessed it. But why the hell didn’t she say something?
Blaze was quiet but let out a snarl, realizing the same thing.
“Why didn’t you come forward?” I said, trying to keep my anger in check.
The omega looks at me, guilt written all over her face. “I would have, but I was also scared of the women too. They may not have seen me watching, but they were so cruel and mean, not just to her but anyone who opposed a threat to them,” she said.
I stared at her and couldn’t help but feel more hatred toward the whole situation.
The omega looked at me, her face full of hurt.
I sighed. “It wasn’t anything you can do, but when the time comes, will you give a full statement and even try to tell me who had done it,” I asked her.
The omega nodded.
I moved away, but she placed her hand on my arm, and I couldn’t help but look down at her. “Alpha, I will do anything to help,” she said. “I knew what she could do; a video is floating around with her fighting. No one within the pack had seen it. I have a cousin in another pack that sent it to me, and she asked if I knew her. I never told her anything about the beta’s daughter as it was never my place to say.”
I nodded.
I turned and walked away from the omega. I headed to the office to find my father. I knew I would get it from him; he loved Roxie as if she were his own child. He has always had a soft spot for her since she was a baby.
I walked past a window outside the office, but something caught my eye.
I stopped and looked out.
My eyes went wide; there was Naomi and two men I didn’t know. I watched as she pointed to somewhere, and the men went away. Naomi watched them leave, but when she turned around, I noticed the giant smirk on her face. She walked back into the pack house.
Something was off about the whole thing; I opened a mind link to the guards to search around the direction Naomi sent those men in. Once I closed the mind link down, I walked to the office door, mentally preparing myself for what was coming.
I opened the door and walked in.
My father was sitting on the couch and looked up at me.
His face was full of anger, “you dumbass twit,” he yelled as I closed the door behind me.
I looked at him.
He stared, but he turned to look at the diaries on the table in front of him.
“How the hell did we not know this was happening to her?” he growled.