The rejected Omega

TWO WEEKS LATER

*Stephanie*

Days roll into weeks while Derick and I cohabit peacefully, it was almost a dream come true. I finally got to live my life being myself, away from chores, beatings, scoldings and away from the claws of predators.

The hospital was located on the outskirt of Oklahoma, very close to the border of Colorado.

I was sure the silver lining pack would be expecting me to come rushing back or probably wish Id be dead by now. The Luna queen despises me so much that I often thought I was a threat to her but its all gone now.

Derick looked after me like I was his own, he taught me how to overcome my anxiety disorder, yet he got my pills in abundance.

Never knew there was still such peaceful cohabitation existing in the whole of Oklahoma. My ex pack and the black shadow pack were known for war and raising conquests against territories and hunts. Within the silver lining pack, every wolf was a threat to another. Whenever the full moon approaches, every wolf would be planning to overthrow the alpha, there would deafening silence prevalent within the pack.

The life I knew right from childhood was of war, struggle, and power drunken wolves. I experienced fatherly warmth beyond imagination within two weeks and I wasn ready to let go. My life was beginning to take a new shape; a positive one until Taylor fulfilled his promise of letting me in on what he knows.

It had been two weeks already and we had both been silent about it. Any time he tries to talk about it, I see signs of constrains as he struggles to let the words out. I observed he needed more time.

I had just finished cleaning the rooms, laid all the beds and sterilized the equipments. Sterilizing equipments and laying the beds every day had become more of a ritual that needs to be performed everyday even though we never had a patient, neither did we use the equipments. I was heading outside to dispose off some trash when he called me, ”Skyler ”, the voice and sharp unexpected sound almost made me jump out of my skins.

He continued immediately, ”my dear, come I have some things to say to you ”

I knew that sound; he only calls me Skyler only when it was a serious case. Immediately, I dropped everything I carried and headed towards his direction. On getting there, I read his countenance and knew what was about to happen, the empathy on his face could not have been bolder.

”He is about to let it out, the cat is about to be let out of the bag ”,

I thought to myself. Finally, he summoned courage and sat me down.

”I figured now is the time darling, come, come here, come have a sit ” he said.

I sat down facing him, re-adjusted my dress and bonded upwards my hair in preparation to hear my story. He patted my shoulder and held my hand.

”You are beautiful Steph ”, he said with a smile.

”and you look just like your mother ”.

”M mum? You knew my mum? ” I questioned impatiently.

”yes darling. I knew her well enough ” he replied.

He further continued ”you see, I used to be friends with your mum and dad, in fact you were born in this very same hospital. I guess fate brought you back to your root Steph this could be a sign ”.

”A sign? ” I repeated, ”what do you even mean Derick? ”, I asked curiously.

I couldn wait for him to spill it all out.

”Calm down dear. You see, at the time of your birth, your mother and father had a big fight, your father made a great mistake but deeply, he was a good man ” .

I chuckled, its all now getting tensed. ”Yes, he made a mistake. And not only him, they both did. They both made big mistakes of dying and leaving me all by myself! why did they have to die like that? Why?! ”

I lamented. I could feel trickles of tears running down my cheek already. Its been a while I mourned my parents, I really did a good job repressing all the memory for this long.

Derick stood up and came closer to me, he dabbed my eyes with a piece of of cloth and said,

”Im very sure Olivia would do anything to stay alive and raise her cute pup herself, but as for Jake, he is alive ”

”Jake? Who is Jake ” I asked.

”Your father ” I heard him say.

”No! that can be true, if he was alive he would have come to see his girl, you just said he was a good man ”, I blurted out.

”Stephanie, your father was indeed a good man ” he paused a bit and took a long breath. ”As I was saying, he made a mistake, when you were conceived he took care of you and your mother, he wouldn let her do anything, he was so overprotective of her because of his son. ”

”His son? ”Do I have a brother too? ” I asked at the top of my voice

, ”no you don , you father was obsessed with a male pup, he has always dreamt of his son leading a pack of his own, he wanted an alpha. ”

I listened as he spoke, tears burn my cheek as it came flowing down.

”I think I get it now Derick I have a father; a runaway dad, that is nowhere to be found or wherever he to be and doesn want me. Just like everyone else, my father doesn want me too. ”

I cried out as I wept bitterly. It felt like an engine harbored in my chest trying to drill my heart out. I felt the world crashing down on my shoulder. I shouldn have known, I preferred to live like he was dead than wallow in the agony of not being wanted by your own blood. It was different entirely, it was different from the rejections of the pack members, I could still bear the humiliation, but this, was unbearable.

Derick watched me as I soaked my dress in tears and buried my head in my palm,

”let it out Sky, let it all out. ” He said

He knew I needed my space and time to comprehend and digest the news. I raised my head up to see his face.

”I am nothing, nobody wants me. ” I lamented

He shook his head in objection,

”all these was not your fault, none of it was your fault, just that Jake believed there shouldn be a female alpha, he believes they will not be active during hunts rather slow other wolves down because their chi is belived to be weak.

”News flash! My father was a sexist!, quite a lot of revelation in one day ” I said

He was about to continue but I cut him short, I had heard enough of the runaway fathers story.

”What about mother? I thought you said you knew her too?

Tell me about her please.

”Olivia was a highly sought-after beaut among her peers, she was a very kind-hearted, very hard to find fault in; flawless. Her heart of gold and deeds of kindness were… ”

I saw him bit his lips and squint his eyes, he rubbed his palm against each other, lost in his own thought wondering if he should continue.

”Derick? Are you with me? ” I tapped him out of his oblivion.

”Sure my dear, I am. As I said, your mothers good deeds led her on to her grave.

I could feel there was more to it than he told me.

”Is that all? Where did she die? What good did she do? ” I pestered.

”Stephanie that is all I know, but if you seek to know more and find out about the where about of your father, I might have just the right person for you. But before that, I have something for you, it belonged to your late mother. ”

He stood up and went towards the shelf, pulled it out and pulled up the pearl pendant. He stared at it, blew off the dust on the surface and cleaned it with his light blue shirt.

I watched him hold it with care while he passed a silver necklace through the hole in the pendant like it was an ancient antic, he stood before me for a bit and went behind my back, he pulled my hair up and hooked the neckpiece around my neck. I held the pendant sitting perfectly below my collar bones.

”It is beautiful ” I whispered.

Derick turned back to face me and muttered ”treasure it and never lose it, it is an invaluable piece, your mother had kept in the shelf with me since you were a pup. It is a rare gem ” .

he scrambled a piece of paper into my palm.it was an address.

”Maggie has the right answers relating to your mothers demise, she also can help you in locating the whereabout of your father ”. The word ”father ” triggered some things in me, I felt the eruption of anger in me like a volcanic eruption.

”I do not want to find him, if he doesn want me, I do not need him too. ” I blurted out.

He held my hand ”Steph you need to see him, you need to make right his wrongs, correct his mistakes, but before you do, make sure you
e bold enough to. If theres any revenge mission in you, let it be that you
e showing him, to his face, that youre not a weakness, you
e a strength; his strength ”.

These realization made me dumb for a while, I stood there and stared into the thin air. It was like the world shook me by shoulders giving me a new message, like it was screaming to my ears to keep going. I looked at the paper in my hand, for a while I doubted if I was ready to leave behind the life I had with Derick, I was living well enough, what more could life have to offer? But I was determined to find out. I went into the room and started packing, folding, stacking; preparing for my journey, my journey ahead.