Filed to story: When The Moon Hides Crown
Two.
Three.
Still they came.
A punch split against my cheek-sharp, stinging. I hissed and snapped my leg upward, landing a brutal kick into Cassius’s chest as he tried to recover. He crashed into a rusted crate with a guttural groan.
Another strike, Reed again. I half-shifted my arm and rammed my knuckles into his nose. Blood gushed. I followed with a kick straight into his gut, launching him back into the charging Alphas.
They fell. Scrambled to rise.
I didn’t give them a chance.I shattered their rhythm-broke their bones, cracked skulls, left them gasping on the floor.
“FUCK!” Reed roared, clutching his ribs after I drove an elbow deep into his side.
He staggered.
Growling like a maddened beast, he forced himself upright again.
Then-
Cassius lunged at me from behind.
I turned to counter him, only for Reed to move like a shadow behind me. Too fast.
Something glinted in his hand.
Metal.
A rod.
I pivoted-just barely.
It slammed into my forearm instead of my skull.
Agony flared white-hot. I gritted my teeth.
I didn’t stop.
I surged forward, driving my knee into his gut.
He folded.
Spat blood.
Still, he grinned through it.
“You’re nothing but a weak link,” he growled. “I’m going to kill you today, you fucking freak!”
My fist disagreed.
The room spun with motion. Broken breath. Scuffling boots. Grunts and snarls and the dry scent of rage.
I was all ready to turn it all towards the end when suddenly something slipped from a pocket.
It hit the floor with a soft thud and rolled around.
Something round.
Black.
Something familiar, a smell.
No.
I froze.
1 knew that smell.
My eyes widened as I bent down, heart lurching. I plucked it from the cracked floor, squeezed it open and the scent nearly knocked me to my knees.
My heat.That scent mixed in cologne. The one Ronan wore. The one that made everything worse. That made my body scream for things I couldn’t have.
This berry’s smell exactly.
The one that made my body betray me. The one that made me ache, burn, crave.
This wasn’t a coincidence.
This was deliberate.
looked up.
Reed.
The bastard stood there, feigning confusion-but his lips twitched with something else.
“You…” My voice came out hollow. Shaking. “You did this?”
He blinked, feigned innocence.
Cassius chuckled behind him. “Oh, now he gets it.”
Reed paled, just for a moment, then grinned. An ugly, victorious grin.
“Yeah,” he said. “I mixed it. You were supposed to go into rut. Lose control. Parade your pathetic little self around the arena-naked, desperate, fucked senseless by Alpha Ronan because he was wearing it and should have been affected too and lose his senses enough to understandgender and just fuck you.”
My chest constricted. And once my eyes met with Ronan’s calm ones I realised he knew about this berry mixed in his cologne.
“You were supposed to be humiliated. Ruined. But you got lucky. It didn’t work. Too bad.”
He tilted his head. “Guess I’ll just kill you instead.”
My whole body froze at the revelation and all I could see was them laughing. They thought I would go into rut but I actually went into heat. Their plan had actually succeeded and my whole future would have been ruined and sealed with the fate that my father had prescribed for me. I was about to lose myself, my existence and my everything. AlL because of…them.