Sophia's Revenge
Sophia’s Revenge – Chapter 21

Xander’s POV

Kane and I had finally settled our differences and healed up from our wounds that we inflicted on each other. I had a long talk with my dad about his friend who might know more about Sophia. He is on his way and should be here soon. Apparently, he lives a few days away since he won’t fly or drive and will only travel via wolf form. My dad was keeping his lips sealed as to what he thinks it is and I have my own thoughts as well. I haven’t shared that with my dad either. I have only ever heard stories and if she is truly an Emerald wolf then she could be in danger, and the fewer people who know about it the better for now. It helps that she doesn’t have her wolf yet either. Once her wolf shows up, it will tell us more.

“Kane, can I come up. We need to review Sophia’s medical file so we can prepare to take it to the council.”

“Yup, I am up in my room. I keep hoping that Sophia will come out, but I have heard anything so far. I have taken her countless meals, but she isn’t really eating.”

I knocked on Kanes’ door and entered without waiting for a reply.

“Hey, leave my door cracked. I want to hear if Sophia comes out of her room.” Kane said.

“Good idea. Look, I am going to talk with her later. I am going to tell her everything and see if we can start to get to know each other and see if I can build some trust.”

“I am glad to hear that man.”

I pulled the file out and held my breath. I had seen her scars, but this was so much worse than I could ever imagine. We were looking at them and discussing how horrible it was and how she ever survived it.

“Xander, when I get my hands on this fuckers, I am going to make them look so hideous before I kill them.”

“I don’t know how she lived through this.” I said.

“I know, it’s all disgusting. Look at all of these scars.” Kane replied.

Before I could say anything else the door slammed the rest of the way open, and Sophia came storming over. This was bad, so bad.

“What the f**k are you doing? Why do you have all of these pictures of me?”

I had never seen her act like this. She was full of confidence and anger.

“When we brought you here,” I started to say, but she quickly cut me off.

“You want to know about my abuse. Let’s talk about it.” She said as she ripped her shirt off. I’ve never seen her willing show anyone her scars.

“This big one on my back is from the Alpha, Luna and Beta. They used a silver knife because the Betas daughter said I ate a piece of cake when I didn’t. They took a silver knife and stabbed it into my back and dragged it all the way down. These little ones are from the Alpha, he liked to use a whip almost daily on me for whatever reason he could find. He would make me take my top off and grab whatever was the closest to him and he wouldn’t stop until my back was bloody or my legs, wherever he felt they needed to be. He was always good about making sure they were easily coverable.”

“Sophia, it’s not what you think it is. Please you don’t have to do this.” I said.

“Do you want to know what they used to call me daily, or how the future beta would threaten to rape me daily or how he used to force me on my knees as he shoved himself into my mouth or how the Alpha would catch him, and they would blame me for it.”

“Please baby girl, you don’t need to do this. Let us explain.” Kane said,

These puncture marks, those are from Blaine, from when he”

“Listen here both of you assholes, I know exactly what you are doing, and I am going to stop this right now.” She said.

Something was different with her as soon as she said that. Her eyes started glowing and her voice changed slightly. I don’t know for sure, but I had an idea.

“Sophia, your eyes are glowing, and your voice is different. What is going on?” Kane asked.

“I am not Sophia; I am her Wolf Stella. I took over because she was about to recount the worst day of her life and she can’t handle that. She doesn’t know I am back, and I have very specific reasons for that, but I can’t let her do this to herself. Blaine raped her and got away with it. She isn’t doing very well and you, Xander, are not helping the cause. I know who you are to us and let me tell you that this is not the way you treat your mate. You are supposed to love her, and you have not done that. Either get your s**t together or get out, because now that I have pushed my way forward, the mate bond is going to get stronger and I will make myself known to her soon, but she will not know this conversation happened. She will just think she has blacked out.”

“Oh goddess, I didn’t know it was that bad there. She wouldn’t talk to me,” Kane said.

“My dear sweet Kane, you mean something to Sophia, and it will all come to light soon, but this a*s hole has to get his s**t together in order for everything to click into place.”

I looked at Kane, wanting to know what to do. I had never seen anything like this before. It was just more confirmation that there is something very special about her.

Sophia fell to the ground completely unconscious. Kane and I jumped up at the same time, running around to her. She woke up about 3 seconds after hitting the ground.

“Sophia are you ok?” We both said at the same time.

She didn’t answer, she just looked at us with big eyes and ran out of the room as fast as she could. I wanted to run after her, but I thought maybe I should give her a few minutes to get her bearings about her. I really needed to sit down and talk with her.

“Kane, I think we really need to figure out what exactly Sophia is.”

“Did you hear that? It sounded like someone fell down the stairs and I could hear someone on the first landing,” Kane asked.

We both jumped up and ran out there. s**t, Clarissa and her dumb friends were standing there. I mind linked Kane “you handle the girls; I need to go to Sophia.”

“Get away from me.” She yelled.

“Your hurt let me help you.”

“I don’t want your help” she said as she scooted further back. I wasn’t going to let that stop me, as I scooted closer.

“Please go away. I don’t need your help.”

“Yes, you do. You are hurt and I want to help you.” I told her as I scooted even closer.

“Go away, I don’t need you.” She yelled at me.

I stopped there. I didn’t want to scare her. She reached down and grabbed her hand and pulled on it trying to get it back in place. This caused her to scream out in pain.

“Sophia, you need medical care. Please let me take you to the hospital.”

She didn’t even answer, she just jumped up and ran outside. Jax was screaming at me to go follow her. I wanted to so badly, but I knew she wouldn’t even allow me near her, she was going to get pissed if I followed. I mind linked some warriors to let them know we had a girl running around and to let her be and to let me know if something was wrong or if she tried to get off pack grounds.

I walked up to the landing to see if Kane had found anything out.

“What the f**k happened, Clarissa?”

“Nothing, she came running down the stairs and just tripped and fell all the way down.”

I knew she was lying; I could feel it in my bones. I had no way to make her tell the truth about this, but it would come out eventually.

“Kane, my office now.”

We both took off up the stairs. I was fuming and needed to find Sophia, but I couldn’t just yet. She needed time. I needed her trust not to scare her and right now she doesn’t trust me.

“I am 100% sure I know what is special about Sophia.” I said.

“What, because I am at a loss.”

“She is an Emerald wolf.”

“Emerald wolves are just a myth. A story parents tell their pups to make them behave.”

“Kane, tell me something and be perfectly honest with me. I will harbor no ill feelings with you however you answer. Do you feel anything for Sophia besides the Luna pull?”

He just stared at me like I was nuts, he didn’t have to answer. The look on his face told me everything.

“I swear everything between us has been platonic. I do love her though, but I know she belongs to you.”

“No, she belongs to us, and it will all click into place after her wolf shows up and she accepts me.”

“What the f**k are you talking about?”

“An emerald wolf has two mates. Usually, people that are close because they can forge a bond between the three of them that is unbreakable. Just promise me one thing. Whatever happens, you will not mate or mark her until I am present, and I will do the same for you.”

“Dude, if you have noticed I am not gay. I am not into threesomes with another dude.”

“I am not either, but I promise this will make more sense soon. I have thought she might be one for a while now and the little I could find out about them is very interesting.”

I sent Kane away, so I could do some much-needed paperwork. I linked Jarrod “do you still have eyes on Sophia?”

“Yes, Alpha. She has ran for a long time but has now found herself a tree to lay against. She is currently just sitting there.”

“Thanks, let me know if anything changes.”

“Of course, Alpha.”

I busied myself with all the paperwork I had been putting off. I made a huge dent in it and the next thing I knew it was midnight and I hadn’t heard anything about Sophia for a long time.

“Jarrod, where is Sophia?”

“Sir she is still at the tree, she is asleep. She cried for a long time and is now asleep, but I think she is getting to cold. I was about to mind link you.”

Goddess! I jumped up and ran out to the tree line, trying to pick up her scent. “Jax, buddy I need you, where is she?”

“Let me take over, I promise to be on my best behavior.”

Jax took over and shifted and within 10 minutes we had found her. She looked so fragile, like the next bad thing would break her completely. She was also so cold; I could see her body shaking and her face was red and puffy from crying. I shifted back to my human form. I quickly walked over to her and picked her up. She was so cold. Her whole body was shaking, and her lips were turning blue. She snuggled closer to me and let out a small m**n. That m**n went straight to my d**k, making it hard but now wasn’t the time for that.

“Jarrod, we will talk about why you didn’t mind link me sooner about your Luna.”

“Sir, I didn’t know she was our next Luna, and I was honestly not sure when to link you.”

“We will finish this later.”

Once I got Sophia back to her room, I went and grabbed some pajamas for her and took her out of her dirty clothes and put her in the warm pajamas. She didn’t even wake up. I bent down to k**s her on the head before I left the room and she grabbed ahold of my arm before I could leave and mumbled “please don’t leave me.”

I couldn’t leave her, never. I pulled the covers back and crawled in next to her. She was still freezing cold. She rolled over so she was laying on my chest. I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her as close to me as I could. I would stay until she was warm.

I didn’t mean to fall asleep, but I did, and it was the best damn night’s sleep I have ever had. She was still sound asleep, nice and warm next to me. I hated to leave her but if she woke up and I was here she would freak out. I got out of bed and walked to the door. Turning to look at her one more time before I left her room.