Chapter 2 ESCAPE AND DECEPTION

AVA'S POV

"Fuck! This is just insane! Totally absurd!" I exclaimed, losing my cool alongside my regal poise.

All I had wanted was to be reborn as a vampire queen, maybe reset the time to when I had met Rowan or alter the course of events. But I got everything I never wanted, the moon goddess reducing me to a totally helpless and feeble freak, who couldn't even heal my own wounds.

"What kind of sick Joke is this?" I muttered, seething with confusion.

The face staring back at me didn't look so bad though, it was a strange yet familiar one.

'I could live with this...' I thought to myself, bringing myself to accept the fact that was staring at me.

I smiled warmly, seeing how charming I looked. For red blood eyes, I now had emerald green eyes. Winking, I muttered my words of gratitude, "Thank you Moon Goddess."

'Okay, I've got to move now. Time to do some discovery, starting with what I am, where I am, and maybe also who that old man from before was-not like it was important anyways.'

As soon as I walked out of the bathroom, the sight of the old man's corpse lying on the ground filled me with disgust.

'Okay let's try if this still works, not that I suppose it will,' I thought to myself as I touched his wrist.

Information began flowing into my head on impact with his. One that stuck the most was the fact that this ugly man was an alpha.

Alpha Cassius of Ravenwood Pack.

The pack didn't ring a bell to me at all.

'Maybe he didn't belong to my timeline.' I concluded in my head.

"Werewolves now suck blood now?" I asked confused, now sure that he didn't belong to my timeline.

I also discovered I was nothing but a blood slave, my face winced in disgust.

"Well, that would make a lot of sense with all the chubby flesh I had. How much blood do I even have?" I said sarcastically, relishing the fact that I was the lowest of the low.

But this mood didn't last for long because I had bigger things to worry about, since technically, I just invited the wrath of all his pack members when I killed their alpha.

'But seriously, you mean these people haven't even realized that their king is dead.' I thought to myself as I stepped over him.

Having gotten all the information I could get, regret suddenly washed over me. Being a Vampire Queen meant I had to be on guard always and all for love, I lost countless opportunities to realize the animosity Rowan had towards the human race, I would've discovered his ambitions and cut it off from the root.

I was still immersed in my thoughts that I didn't realize when the door was opened until I heard a clang of a tray hitting the ground.

'About time!' I muttered, turning to look at the intruder. It was a maid, she was trembling as she stared at the Alpha's body.

"Y-you... You... Killed the Alpha. Y-you murdered Alpha Cassius..." She stuttered, trying to string her words together, her fingers trembling as she pointed at me.

"Shut up or else I'll send you to go join him," I interrupted her coldly, my eyebrows slightly raised and my whole demeanor screamed of blood.

I heard footsteps rushing up the stairs, the maid had alerted them when she shouted. I would've stayed to fend them off given my power as the Vampire Queen but I was just an ordinary omega right now, a blood slave, with no power at all so I chose the easiest way out.

The window!

Considering the flight of stairs the guards were still climbing, I had a rough idea that it was a long way down.

I grabbed the window frame and down I went, disappearing into the darkness of the woods.

I must not have gone too far because after a while, I heard the fierce pursuit of the guards on my tail.

"The maid said she fled into the woods, so she must be going towards the border. Spread out across all borders and find her!" I heard a gruff voice in the distance, dishing out orders.

Dammit! I should've pulled out the maid's guts when I had the chance!

"How do these werewolves even summon their wolves?" I wondered, trying to summon my wolf based on the knowledge I had gathered, especially from Alpha Cassius's memory.

"Dammit! That old man made this appear too easy."

Seeing that didn't work, I started fleeing towards the northern territory, if I could beat the guards to it, then I reckoned I'd be safe. I didn't know how long I had ran but I was getting slower, tired but in the distance, Alpha Cassius's guards hadn't slowed down for a second.

"This only shows how useless I've become, I got a head start and I still can't outrun a couple guards who were once inferior to me. Darn it!" I lashed out in my heart, rage consuming me.

"You idiots! Have you been running around all the while? Follow her damn scent and bring her to me... alive!" Someone yelled at the rest of the guards.

"Okay, beta Marcus," another man answered.

No no no no... Not the Beta!

This information fueled me on and an idea popped into my head, an idea that was enough to throw them off track.

I pulled on a tree branch as I ran, pulling it off. Then I found an end that was sharp, to an extent and tried cutting my own skin.

The skin cut open and warm blood flowed from it, much to my satisfaction.

"I can catch her scent stronger in this path. She's this way!" I heard someone yell.

'Well it means it's working then.'

I began smearing my blood on some trees in a circular pattern, after which I licked on the cut. The cut closed up quickly this time.

'That should keep them busy for a while,' I thought, pulling off my clothes as well and throwing it to the side, whilst I continued running.

After running for a while, I didn't hear them anymore, but the fear of getting caught fueled me to carry on. Well, not until I fell down, exhausted from all the running and well very hungry. I waited and listened carefully for a sound or anything to show they were at me, but there was none.

So I decided to get some rest for a while, catch my breath, before continuing my getaway. In my head, I replayed everything right from when I woke up till now, definitely not forgetting to mentally give myself a pat on the back for a job well orchestrated.

I didn't know how long I had sat there, but suddenly, I heard some sounds coming from the woods behind me.

'Darn it, they found me so quickly?' I mentally face palmed myself, feeling so frustrated about everything. 'All that work, throw in the extra points for going naked in the woods in the middle of the night and they are still right on my heels.'

Immediately, I sprang to my feet and started running once again. Feeling invigorated, my pace quickened under the moonlight and I ran blindly until suddenly, something snapped on impact with my feet and I heard a squeaking noise.

I didn't bother to turn back to see what it was, it just made me move faster, until suddenly, I was hoisted up in a net.

"Who the fuck leaves a net in the middle of the woods?" I couldn't help shouting.

I definitely wasn't expecting an answer and neither was the answer directed at me, but an answer definitely came.

"Another Omega!" A rough male voice echoed in the forest. Sounded like he was pretty happy that his trap caught something, a werewolf to be rather specific.

'Was that trap seating here all the while, waiting for me?' I asked myself but quickly waved it aside since it didn't seem like the trap was for someone in particular.

The man to whom the voice from before belonged to, appeared all too soon, and he wasn't alone, he was with some others, who were armed in many different ways.

They holstered their touches up at me. "Cut down the rope!" The gruff looking man spoke again, must be the head of this group.

Someone moved and in a matter of a few moments, the rope was cut down and I fell to the ground rather unceremoniously.

'Ouch!'

I swallowed the pain from the fall, only showing a little discomfort on my face.

"She has a pretty good body right there, she would make good money for us if we take her to Alpha Cassius as a blood slave." One of the men said.

Alpha Cassius!?

The man I already murdered whose guards were hot on my heels.

I couldn't go back there! They would kill me on sight.

Damn it, not again!