Chapter 6

The door was already opening as I walked up and I saw Jensen poking his head out. He smiled when he saw me, and I couldn’t help but smile back.

“Hey princess,” he said, running down the steps and kissing me on the cheek, “Glad you made it. I was sure you were going to cancel on me.”

“I said I would come, didn’t I?” I said with a smile, even though I was actually debating whether I would actually come less than an hour ago. Jensen took my hand and led me up the stairs into the main apartment building. I knew mostly that it would be empty, with it being owned by the pack, but I was still wary about other pack members being here while I was here.

Jensen led me to the apartment on the top floor, which, of course, was the biggest, and took the whole of the top floor. The building was an old Victorian one, but they had renovated the inside in a full modern look, and it was fresh and bright white everywhere. I dropped my bag by the door and headed into the living room. While Jensen headed to the kitchen. The first thing I noticed were the two wineglasses and the bottle of Sauvignon Blanc chilling in an ice bucket on the coffee table. I arched my eyebrows at Jensen as he walked into the room holding a plate of mini cheese pizzas.

“My favourite wine and my favourite snacks?” I asked, and he grinned.

“I like to think that I know you pretty well by now,” he said with a wink. He placed the plate on the table and sat down next to me on the sofa.

“Kae, I wanted to talk to you about something important,” he said, taking my hand. Oh shit! This was it. Well, best to get it over with quickly and put us both out of our misery.

“We’ve been together for a while now,” he said.

“Well, we’ve been friends,” I corrected, and he frowned.

“I think you and I both know that we are more than friends,” he said, his voice losing the charming tone a little. Last month, he had asked me to be his girlfriend. I had tried to be nice when I said that I wanted to keep things casual, but he had still taken offence and then I didn’t see him for a week.

“Jensen please,” I said and moved in closer to him. If I could distract him enough so that he would forget the topic, then we could have a good evening. I leaned in and began to lay little kisses on his neck. I felt him react as I pushed my body against his. But then he groaned.

“No Kae,” he said and pushed me away. “I need to get this off my chest.” I sighed at the determined look in his eyes. There was no getting around this.

“Fine,” I said, “Just say it,” he frowned at my tone again, but then shook his head.

“I want to petition Alpha Daniel for you to join the pack,” he said. And there it was. I knew this was coming, but I didn’t think that seeing the excited look in his eyes was going to be so hard. Again, I sighed. I really didn’t want to do this. But I knew I had to, because there was no way in hell that I planned to join the Dark Moon, or any pack.

“No,” I said with a firm tone. Jensen frowned again and huffed.

“What do you mean, no?” he demanded, and I stood up, pulling my hand out of his.

“You know what I mean, Jensen,” I said, “You know I don’t like packs or all the stupid rules you all have.”

“What stupid rules?” I could see he was getting annoyed.

“Oh, how about having to petition for me to join for one,” I snapped, “Or my favourite one. If you did petition him and your almighty Alpha allowed a rogue to sully his pack, then what would happen?” He knew what I was talking about, but just stood there, scowling at me.

“Yeah exactly, Jensen. I would be a lowly Omega, and I know what you pack people think of Omegas. You think they are there to clean your toilets and all your other shit,” I shouted. “Well, no, thank you. I have no plans to be yours or anyone else’s servant.” I could tell I was getting angry, and I hated it.

“Well, it’s still better than being a rogue,” he snapped, and my jaw dropped. I stared at him, unable to believe what he just said. I turned around and walked out of the room, heading towards the door before I started crying.

“Hey where are you going?” he called, chasing me into the hall. He got in front of me and stood, blocking the door.

“Let me out Jen,” I snapped, “I don’t want to bring you down by being near a dirty rogue now, do I?”

“Kae,” he said, his voice pleading, “Please, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it.”

“No Jensen,” I said. “That’s the problem. You did mean it. You all think such crap about rogues, and lump us all in together, but you don’t even know why we are rogues. Why don’t we just join a pack? Or why do we cling to the remnants of our old pack, despite it not being real anymore?” I pushed at him, the tears streaming down my face.

“You just think we are all thieves and murderers, and something to step on.” I flung my bag back on the floor. “You don’t even get that my Gamma rank is the only connection that I have left to my parents, or that the Scarlet Circle pack is the only pack that I ever wanted to belong to, because it was the one where all my family was.” Jensen got a funny look on his face when I mentioned the name of my old pack and for a brief second I was worried I’ve said too much. But then I guess it didn’t matter. We would be out of here soon enough.

“You’re from the Scarlet Circle pack?” he asked, his eyes widening, and I stepped back away from him.

“You know it?” I asked, and he nodded his head.

“Yeah, of course, I was almost ten when…” he trailed off and I nodded, knowing what he didn’t want to say.

“But I heard that nobody survived,” he said, and I lowered my head and kicked my feet in the air.

“That was the plan,” I said. “We wanted whoever did that to us to think they had won.” I sighed and looked up at him and shrugged.

“But I guess it doesn’t matter because it didn’t work.” He quirked his head to one side with an unspoken question.

“They are still looking for us. That’s why we move around so much. Whatever those bastards want, apparently we still have and they are still coming after us for it.” I looked him in the eye. I guessed this was the best time to tell him.

“That’s why we will probably leave in the next couple of days.”