Safe space
Adea
The sound of my shoes clacked against the floor with each step. I walked through the packhouse with Ethan by my side. I’d grown up here and not once had it felt like home, but it was all I had, and all I had known. I hadn’t thought of my mother in a few years but now as I forcibly walked toward a fate I didn’t want, I thought of her.
Would she have let my father go this far?
Would she have stopped him?
Or would she have just stood there and told me to do as I’m told?
All of the guests had been assigned a room for the duration of their stay. When Ethan offered me his hand as I popped my head out of the carriage, I stated at his outstretched arm. I didn’t want to take it and I didn’t want to go any further with him. He asked me where my room was and it felt as if the world stopped moving.
My heart dropped into my stomach and unease bloomed in my chest. I didn’t have to ask why he was asking. Of course Ethan hadn’t been given a room. I knew immediately that he was sharing my room with me. Not once had anyone informed me of this. I was a woman in a world run by men.
I didn’t need to know that a man who had never been in my room before would be in there tonight. I was expected to take things as they came, as they happened, as they were ordered. My duty was to do what I was told and be the perfect lady. I was expected to spread my legs for the disgusting pig of an alpha who stood by my side and pretended to be my mate.
My palms were clammy and my knees wobbled with each step. I broke into a cold sweat as we stood at the bottom of the stairs. This was the last obstacle that stood in the way of what was going to happen tonight. I wasn’t in a rush to go through it and I was even less of a rush to start assenting the steps.
My room had always been my safe place even though I knew it never really was. It was something I told myself so I could feel better, so I could feel safe from the world that had hurt me time and time again. I hated that I was leading Ethan there. He took the first step and I watched him as he walked up the stairs.
I had no choice but to follow him. Tentatively, I took my first step and force one foot in front of the other. Dread made it’s way up my legs to my lower back. As each step took me closer, the dread began to make it’s way up my back and onto my shoulders. As the stairway curved and my door came into view, the weight of what was going to happen pushed down on me.
Ethan got to the top of the stairs before I did. The guards bowed to him and laughed as they congratulated him on the union between our two packs. They didn’t look my way until I stood by his side. When they realized he wasn’t in the mood, they looked at me, and back at him. The guards told him to enjoy his first night with his Luna and I felt like I was going to be sick.
Without acknowledging them or a single glance their way, Ethan pushed my door open with force. I knew he was gone but I couldn’t help but hold my breath. For the first time in the time that I’ve known him, I hoped he wasn’t here. I wanted to laugh because I wanted him here. I didn’t want Ethan here.
When had things been switched around?
The door banged against the door and my intended walked through the door. A cold wind whooshed through the room and passed me. It wrapped around me and felt oddly like a hug. I shook my head, I’m going mad now. Ethan turned to face me, he glared at me, the vein in his temple pulsed and I got a little sense of satisfaction knowing he was mad.
I held my head high, carried myself like the Alpha’s daughter, and pushed forward. When I walked into the room, Ethan took a step towards me. I lifted my chin and stared defiantly into his eyes. He was close, so close that if he so much as inhaled deeply and exhaled, his chest would brush against my breasts. I stared into his cold green eyes as he reached for the door and swung it shut behind me.
For the first time since the day I was a young teenager when he checked my purity, I was alone with my intended. Ethan’s eyes flickered back and froth from green to gold. His wolf was present and he was either pushing forward or fighting for control. I’d not only angered Ethan, I’d also angered his wolf.
I was alone with my intended and he was very angry. I was more than ready to fight him. He was crazy if he thought I would do what he said willingly. In a flash of movement, Ethan had wrapped his arms around me and shoved me against the door behind me. My back slammed against the iron door and the air was knocked out of me. My head struck the door and my limbs went limp. Ethan caught me as I fell.
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