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Chapter 22
Chapter 22
AMELIA’S PO.V
After I left the building, I didn’t know where else to go. Clara had told me that she would be back to pick me up in the evening but until then, I decided to roam the pack and try to sort out the multitude of thoughts that were swarming my brain.
I walked down the streets and I passed an ice cream van. I wanted to get some but I realized I had no money and it brought back to the forefront of my mind that I needed to get a job. I need to be able to do things by myself without depending on anyone. I am no longer at home where my status could get me little things. Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.
I let out a sigh as I realized that life as I know it had completely changed. I would probably never see Blake again. Just thinking about him brought a pang of longing to my chest. Regardless of everything that happened, I still miss him and want him around. He did warn me about everything which means he must still have some feelings for me.
If he truly didn’t care for me then he would probably have never warned me. He would have allowed them do whatever they wanted to me but he didn’t. He wanted me to get to safety and he risked everything to tell me that warning. If Brittany or father had found him. warning me, he would have been in serious trouble.
Even
though he rejected me for Brittany and left me I couldn’t help but still feel some sense of longing towards him. He couldn’t possibly have just left me like that after everything we had been through together. What if father held something over his head? A week ago, I would never have considered
this to be a possibility but after father had sent men to kill me, I wouldn’t put anything past him. It is possible that Blake only rejected me because he had to.
of me
A part of me felt I was being delusional about the whole thing but another part couldn’t help but hope that I was right because the only other option would be that the man I had spent my life loving left me without a second thought. He didn’t care enough about me to stay and was ready to give me up without a second thought.
If he could do that then what hope do the others have? Clara and her family have been nothing but nice to me since I arrived but when does that end? I can’t live with them. forever or maybe they might get bored and tired of me. I also cannot leech of their supplies and I would need to pay them back for everything they have done before leaving.
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The thought of leaving terrified me because I didn’t want to be alone. I have never been. alone in all my years of life and the idea of doing it now is scary. I would be solely responsible for myself and everything around me including my schooling. The thought sent shivers down my brain and I tried to push it out of my head.
I didn’t realize how far or how long I had walked until I looked around me and realized that I didn’t know where I was. I looked around trying to see if I could make out where I had came from but all I could see were unfamiliar buildings and the entire road was deserted. I couldn’t see a single person for as far as I could look.
I decided to walk further a little and see if I would find someone to talk to. The more I walked, the more I thought I should turn around but for some reason I kept going forward until I heard a chorus of shouts. I decided to follow the shouts until I got to the edge of a forest. There were men around the forest and they seemed to be deep in conversation with themselves.
They were all wearing the same thing and they seemed to be engaging in some form of play fighting. Merely from looking at them, I knew they were the border patrol and I must have walked very far to have gotten to the border.
I started to leave when one of them noticed me and he started tapping his guys and soon all of them were staring at me. I felt very self conscious and uncomfortable but I swallowed down my discomfort and walked over to them in hopes that one of them would guide me back to the office so I could wait for Clara,
“Hi, I think I’m lost,” I began as soon as I was within earshot. “Can one of you guide me on the way back to-,”
“Aren’t you the little mouse that crossed our borders a few days ago,” one of them teased. and I felt my cheeks heat up in embarrassment as I nodded. “Well damn, now I understand why the Beta was so insistent that you cross peacefully. He must have known that you were. one fine piece of ass.”
Embarrassment and shame heated my cheeks as I took in their words. I could see that they were all staring at me in a way that made my skin crawl. They ran their eyes over me like they were slowly undressing me with their eyes and it made me feel sick. I have never been looked at like this before. Back at home, most people hated me too much to even look at me more than once and I found that I preferred their dismissal and dislike of me to the way I was being looked at now.
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“Can you help me find my way back?” I asked hoping to change the subject but they didn’t seem to bear the same thoughts as I did.
“I heard she’s staying with the Beta,” another guy piped up. “I can totally see why. You must be paying him back in kind for letting you cross the border. You know, I wonder if the beta is against sharing.”
“Sharing what?” I asked and they all laughed. I could see them taking closer steps towards me and I cleared my throat. “I think I’ll find my own way back.”
I turned to leave but I felt one of them grab my arm. I tried to push him off but he was too strong and another person came to my back to hold me in place. The men swarmed me and I heard them laughing as I tried and failed to fight them.
“The little mouse thinks she can beat us,” one of them mused. “I enjoy watching you squirm. Why don’t you fight harder?”
I knew they were mocking me but that didn’t stop me from trying my best to push them off. I was getting weaker but they were still holding me down and I felt tears begin to prick the back of my eyelids. I had started to accept what was happening when I heard a high pitched sound and an eagle swooped down and scratched one of them on the arm.
“The f**king b*tch’s pets,” I heard one of them scream as the eagle came back.
It attacked only them and while fending it off, they let go of me. I wasted no time in turning on my heels and running away. I don’t know how long I ran but then I saw Clara’s car approaching. She stopped in front of me and I let out a sigh of relief as I got in,
Once the door shut, the weight of everything came crashing down and tears started to fill my eyes. I hated how easy it was for them to hold me down and do what they wanted ad if Clara hadn’t come to my rescue, who knows what they would have done to me? I have never felt as weak as I felt in that moment and it fully dawned on me that I couldn’t defend myself if I tried.
“Thank you for saving me,” I whispered without meeting her gaze because I didn’t want to see the pity in them. “I should have just waited for you in front of the building.”
“Are you okay?” Clara asked and I nodded but I could tell that she didn’t believe me and I didn’t blame her. My nod was very non convincing.
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“I should have been able to do something,” I said after a beat of silence. “You probably would have been able to defend yourself if you were in my shoes.”
“That’s true but I was brought up on a training field,” she said softly. “Both of my parents were warriors and I started learning to fight the moment I could walk. You can’t compare yourself to me when we both had vastly different upbringings.”
I chuckled dryly to myself. “I always wanted to train but my father said I was too weak. He would never let me anywhere near the training field.”
I couldn’t help but feel some sort of resentment and anger towards father. If he had simply allowed me train when I had asked him then I would have had at least the basic skills needed to defend myself from those boys. They would have never been able to hold me down like that and I wouldn’t
have needed Clara to save me from them. I would have done it all by myself and I wouldn’t be feeling the way I do right now.
“Do you want to train?” Clara asked and I turned to her. “If you’re going to start from the basics then you might have to train with the children but do you want to?”
“Yes,” I said without hesitation. I would train with infants if it meant that I was going to learn how to defend myself.
“Then it’s settled.”
I couldn’t help the feeling of pride that rose up in me. I wouldn’t be defenseless for long. As I thought about it, I suddenly remembered Kaden’s words from the office and I muttered a small curse under my breath. I saw Clara glance at me out of the corner of her eye.
“Kaden said there is a test I need to take, a physical test to determine if I can be on the patrol team,” I told her and I saw her eyes widened slightly before she laughed softly.
“He’s right,” she said with amusement lacing her tone.
I wondered why she was smiling so much. She was trying and failing to keep her laughter in check and after a second she sighed and turned to me.
“You need to take that test soon and learn to defend yourself because those guys are going to be your university classmates.”
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