Chapter 7
I look up at Galen who was holding her wrist. Kian was standing over Matthew, but he was still on the ground in pain and weak from it. Serenity was standing in front of Sarah's posse growling fiercely with Darian hovering behind her alternating between looks of fury at them and worry and pride at his mate.
Galen throws Sarah away from us. She landed hard, with a yelp, on her ass in an undignified heap. "You're a right bitch you are, calling her the slut, the real slut is you. He deserves the pain he's getting and then some, you say how dare she? No. How dare he? The goddess blessed him, and he rejected that blessing. You don't reject the goddesses gift without suffering." he says in a growl.
I'm shocked, the only other person who's ever gone toe to toe with her for me before was Darien. They had said they wanted to be my friends, and stood up for me. That makes them my friends.
Despite the pain and the slaps, I was still standing, and the redness and swelling from her hitting me would be gone in thirty minutes tops. After all the abuse they've dealt with me, my body has compensated for having a highly accelerated healing rate.
I have a small flash back to a time when my family locked me in the basement for a week as a child, taking turns whipping me until my back was a bloody mess.
As I was still just a teen-wolf, I didn't have any pack business I would be away for. The Alpha called them, having noted it, saying I was required to show up the next Monday or a Pack doctor would have to come and verify my sickness.
They didn't have a choice, they had to let me heal and go back to school, or risk a serious infraction for the kind of abuse I was suffering. Their image was too important to them, so I was given the warning I was always getting. "Say nothing or you'll regret it you wretch!" She always said it in the same scathing tone.
The pain on my face no longer registering in the wake of that agonizing memory. "Thank you Galen, other than Darien, no one has stood up to her like this for a long time for me." I tell him, my voice is still husky.
"You've gone through enough today, you shouldn't have to put up with more." says Galen.
"You're right." I say quietly, then in almost a whisper "I'm so tired of the abuse."
Kian is now with us, as is Darien and Serenity. They surround me. I look up at Darien.
"So the rumor...about you being abused...it's true." Kian asked his voice filled with horror. Galen looked just as sad and horrified at that revelation.
It was Darien who answered. "Yeah, they've been abusing her since she was a young pup. My brother and father found her half drowned and covered in mud and blood in the river once when she was still little."
Serenity gasps in horror, the twins looked angrily over at where Sarah, Matt and her posse had been. They had already slunk off. I knew what was going to happen next. She was going to cry home to mommy and daddy about how I had mistreated her, and she was going to report the boys to the principal.
I looked at the building in time to see my training master nod and head in. I knew he had seen everything, and he would report it to the Principal, who would then talk to the Alpha. By reporting to Alpha, my parents wouldn't be able to do anything to Galen and Kian. They would thankfully be out of their reach.
"Oh my." at that comment, I look at Serenity, she's looking at my face, it must be healing faster than I thought. "The marks are almost completely gone, it's like I can watch them fade." she blushes before looking down. “Sorry, I shouldn't stare, your healing is amazing." she peaks back up at me after.
I smile a little, she is just so adorable. I look at Darien and see a completely smitten look on his face. This she-wolf is going to have him wrapped around her finger.
I look back to her and say "It's all right, my healing has accelerated as I've gotten older, my theory is it's my body's response to all the wounds they've dealt me."
I look back at Darien as tears gather in Serenity's eyes. I'm confused for a moment.
"I'm used to your comments, and I'm more desensitized to your story. This is all fresh for her, give her a bit to catch her bearings." he explains.
I look at Galen and Kian they're looking at each other anger and pain in their eyes. It takes me a moment to realize they feel pain for me. For the things done to me.
"I think it's time I put Sarah in her place, I'm not going to allow them to touch me anymore." I say.
I feel the conviction fill me, put steel into my spine, my head held high. "They'll never fuck with me again."
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