Chapter 7 C7

"No," Veronica screamed as she carried Kiera's lifeless body on her lap.

"Kiera, please don't leave me. " She muttered like a crazy woman.

She sobbed, tapping her cheeks to see if a miracle could happen. Maybe she would wake up smiling at her and say it was just a prank. She could not bring herself to believe that the only person that understood her was gone.

She dropped her lifeless body on the floor and stood up. She then turned to see a rogue wolf launching at her but instead of running, she didn't run because she just wanted to die alongside her best friend. As the wolf got closer, she shut her eyes, waiting for his attack.

"Guess this is it, Veronica. You are finally going to the afterlife, but at least, this time, you'll be seeing Kiera." She said to herself

as she waited for the wolf to launch at her, but instead of being attacked, she heard a loud thud.

She opened her eyes only to see the rogue wolf on the floor groaning in pain. She saw Beck's wolf clawing the rogue wolf's body and he snapped the head off its body.

Beck's wolf advanced towards her, snarling his teeth as if warning her to run away from there but when he saw she wasn't listening to him, he transformed into his human form.

"Are you weak and stupid at the same time? Can't you run? What if he had killed you? Why can't you run, instead of standing here like a fool?" He said angrily

"They killed her. Those bastards killed her," She said, as she felt the tears coming once again.

"They killed who?" He asked her.

He looked behind her and saw Kiera's lifeless body lying on the floor covered in blood.

"And so? Is that why you are standing here like a fool and wanting to get yourself killed too?" He said, with so much insensitivity.

Veronica couldn't believe her ears, and at the same time, she could, but didn't want to believe it was true. She just wanted to die with Kiera.

"People do change, don't they?" Veronica said as tears trickled down her cheeks.

"Look Veronica, I..."

"Beck please," She interrupted him. "I just want to be alone for now."

She forced her legs to move, but they were too weak because she was still in shock. Her head was spinning like a wheel and before she could move again, she collapsed and became unconscious.

After a few hours, she woke up in a room. The gray and silver colors and beautiful paintings on the wall instantly reminded her that she was in Beck's room.

"How did I get here? Hmm, my head hurts, what happened?" She asked as she tried to sit up when a maid came into the room. She had short dark hair, pale white skin, and dark brown eyes. She immediately recognized her to be Evy.

"Good morning. Beck told me to check up on you. I heard what happened, I'm so sorry for your loss." She said looking so sad.

"Where is Beck? " Veronica asked, ignoring all that she had just said.

"Beck is in the pack meeting." Evy responded.

"Pack meeting and I'm not there? What happened?" Veronica asked, and immediately remembered what happened.

At that moment, she told herself not to cry and to be strong instead, because that would be what Kiera would have wanted her to do.

"You can't get up, the doctor said you need a lot of rest," Evy said, as she tried to stop Veronica from getting up.

"I will rest in my own home," She said to Evy and stood up.

"Beck said we shouldn't let you out of his room, and I think you should rest." Evy protested.

"I'm tired of talking, I need to go home," Veronica said and pushed her out of her way slightly, and went out of the room.

She was walking down the corridor when she heard Beck's voice in one of the rooms so she decided to eavesdrop.

"We haven't been attacked by rogue wolves in a while, so I just wondered what would have caused this." She heard one of the pack members saying.

"I think so too, our pack has been peaceful for years. I wonder who would have lured them here?" Another said.

"It's Veronica." A member said.

"You mean the omega that is Beck's mate?" Veronica heard the Alpha say.

"Yes, She is the one." She heard the same voice that accused her again.

"It has always been this weak creature. Why can't she stay in one place for once?" another member said.

"She has caused too many troubles since the day she set foot into this pack. It's like she's a trouble magnet or something."

She heard the voices of the other members agreeing to what the person said.

"Alpha, I think we all should agree that she must be punished for the bloodshed that she caused." The same member said.

"How did you know that she was the cause of the attack?" Beck asked, trying to defend her.

"Knowingly or unknowingly, cause or not, she shouldn't have gone to the part of the wood that was off limits. Now see the bloodshed she caused because she made a silly mistake."A member said.

"What was an omega doing in the forest anyways?"

" That doesn't matter right now. What matters is, what punishment are we giving to her, Alpha?" A member asked.

"I don't know for now." The Alpha, Beck's father responded

"We need to banish her from this pack before she causes any more trouble." A member suggested.

"Don't you think banishing her is a bit too much?" Beck asked.

"We understand that she is your mate but you have a whole pack depending on you. " The Alpha said.

"I will think about the punishment to give her," Beck said.

Veronica didn't know when she began to sob loudly and everyone in the council heard it.

"Who's there?" A loud male voice asked but Veronica ran back into the room she had come out from, locked the door, and started sobbing her heart out.

"Why does everyone here hate me so much? I didn't go there intentionally." She muttered.

She hated the fact that Beck watched and listened to them accuse her of being the cause of the attack when he knew very well that he was the one who made her go there, to begin with.

She soon heard a knock on the door, but she decided to ignore it.

"Veronica, open the door," Beck said, banging on the door. "I know you were listening to the meeting, the punishment hasn't been decided yet." He tried to explain.

"It has," She heard the Alpha's voice from behind Beck.

"You are hereby banished from The Sun Crest pack. Leave immediately!" He thundered.