Chosen By The Moon

Chapter 106

Dylan POV

The pain that shot throughat King Josh's anger was intense, and the entire room went silent because of it.

Blood quickly began to trickle from my hand onto the table cloth, and my breath halted completely as | tried not

to scream out. My right fist slammed onto the table loudly, and only a single tas an immediate reaction to

the pain, my eyebrows furrowed in agony and my lips parted, but no sound escaped me. I'd stopped breathing

entirely as | tried to focus on getting used to the new sensation of torment, my face must have been extremely

red, and a small sound cfromas 1 forced myself to breathe in. There was so much tension in my throat

and neck that it made a strained and raspy gasp escape my lips.

I looked slowly down at my now damaged hand and saw the kings fork deeply embedded into the flesh. I felt my

stomach churn slightly but swallowed it down knowing | had a hundred eyes on me. The man doesn’t think about

anything when he has his outbursts. The fork | was looking at but not completely seeing was the one he'd been

using to eat his meal, bits of saliva and remnants of pasta sauce would have been present on the prongs that

had now deeply broken my skin, | could've quite easily got an infection or worse from this stupid idiotic man.

My mind was reeling as | stared at the metal. | knew the torturous utensil couldn't stay poking out of my hand

and so, | let adrenaline take over me, and without thinking too much about it, | moved my now excessively

shaking good hand towards the object of impalement.

| grasped the steel handle and pulled it out with the strongest pull | could muster. It flew out of my flesh and

clattered on the table as my face scrunched up even mare in torture from the sensation. Instantly the bleeding

got worse and began to pour out of the wound. | pulled my hand into my chest, applying pressure by wrapping

my good hand around it, only now my right hand was covered in blood too.

“Can my mate get a napkin?” The king spoke sincerely, as if he hadn't just caused the disturbance. While |

refused to meet anyone's eyes as | finally let out my shaky breath and began breathing once again. | saw a white

napkin heing held out forin my peripheral vision and swallowed thickly before turning to the human who was

clearly assigned pack duty this week.

“Thank you.” | whispered out, my voice holding a slight tremble and a very noticeable strain. | quickly grabbed it

off the man and firmly wrapped it around my palm with a wince, instantly the white was stained red while my

breath cout in heavy pain filled pants.

It took a few minutes forto realize that the entire pack was most likely watchingwith sympathy clouding

their irises, so | swallowed thickly. again, and addressed the female alpha to be with a shaky hurt filled voice.

“Alpha Aria?” My head raised and met hers, | was right she looked horrified at what she’d just witnessed, | was

used to it. His anger most often than not, spurred out of nowhere, and | was expecting to take punishment if Erin

wouldn't. “You said something about desert, right? | think everyone around the table is more than ready for it.” |

smiled slightly, before grabbing my soup spoon and continued to eat my dinner slowly. I've found that the slower

you eat, the more full you become. I've also found out, that the smaller my reaction was to anything the king

did, the less joy he felt inflicting punishment on me.

“Desert sounds wonderful.” The king stated as his fingers snapped at the human on pack duty. “Bring it... the

poor man scurried off into the kitchen so fast I'm surprised he didn’t slip. The king then leaned in close to my car

and whispered causing a disgusted shiver to rack through me. “I might even let you have sof mine, you

took that like a champ. He placed a single peck on my cheek and | cringed as | was in front of everyone, my

mind painfully aware of what they had just seen.

Apart from what | will now refer to as the fork incident dinner went by fairly quietly. Desert cout and

everyone quickly began to enjoy their Individual slices of cheesecake in silence, unable to form any sort of words

given the situation. In honesty the king did stick to his word and offereda forkful of his, however | did not

accept it, | wasn’t going to be humiliated anymore by him today, and having him feedwasn’t exactly

something | ever wanted.

“Well, that was rather enjoyable. Now... Oliver, Alpha, | believe we have more to discuss about the new years

curriculum, shall we return to the office?” The curriculum? What was he planning in regards to education? | was

going to ask, but the throbbing in my hand madereevaluate the result of my question, and so | simply

remained silent, for the tbeing that is

Once

left

the highest ranks had left the rest of the wolves followed until it was simply everyone my age. Nick was quick to

walk up toand take my le hand in his, | winced at the movement as he slowly uncovered the wound that was

wrapped in the napkin.

“Does he do stuff like this all the time?” Nick asked horrified at the sight of four bleeding holes embedded into

my skin. | shrugged and snatched my hand away from my old friend.

“Yeah, don’t worry about it. It's nothing that I'm not used to.” | sighed as | rewrapped It in a now clean napkin

and carefully yet painfully clenched my fist and opened my hand again. “I don’t think it’s broken, Ill be fine.” |

shrugged | was really trying to show that | was ok, but | think that what lay behind my eyes betrayed me.

| turned ready to walk off and spend stjust with myself only, | cface to face with the packs young

beta, he looked at me, studying my expression carefully. | frowned at his actions, but he just nodded. | knew he

was going to say something, maybe he was going to tellit was karma, that | deserved this for bullying Erin

for so long after she was claimed by him.

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