You Never Series Book 1: You Never Knew Me
Author
Kim F.
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Invisible
LYRIC
Unseen, I dart through the pack house like a shadow, then slip behind some heavy drapes.
Alpha Marco will never look for me here.
The drapes hang alongside an entranceway near the end of a hall, overlapping the opening just enough that if someone comes looking for me, all I need to do is slide around the corner unseen.
Then exit that room into a different hall.
My hiding place also happens to be down the hall from the alphaâs office, pretty clever if I do say so myself. After all, when people run and hide, they usually try to get as far away as possible.
Just like Iâll be doing soon. But for nowâŠ
I allow myself a small smile. For now, Iâll stay invisible. After all, Iâve practically made it into an art form.
One Iâve been practicing a long time.
I dress in baggy clothes. I keep my eyes downcast, letting my long, white-blonde hair hang over my face, and I slouch so no one will notice how tall I am. I blend into my surroundings and barely speak unless spoken to.
Being invisible is easier than being present. It allows me to sit quietly somewhere and listen to what others are saying and planning. It keeps me one step ahead of the others in the pack.
And itâs how I know LeandrĂ© is coming today.
Last time that monster visited Half Moon Pack, Alpha Marco locked me in my roomâone of the only times he took note of my presence. I wonât let that happen again.
Because, you see, I know a secret. The alphaâs secret. Well, actually, itâs his and my motherâs secret. Which I guess makes it my secret too.
But not my only one.
Everyone may think Iâm a nobody, but Iâve also been hiding an amazing alpha wolf. Her name is Sadie, and sheâs massiveâand the purest silver white Iâve ever seen. It would be hard for anyone to miss her presence.
She even has the ability to hide her scent, something Iâve never heard of another wolf being able to do. She says itâs for my protection, another type of invisibility.
She takes no bullshit and gives no cares, but even though itâs been getting harder, she refuses to shift in front of anyone. Sadie doesnât feel the pack deserves her or me, and she says when the time is right, theyâll know.
In the meantime, Iâll keep pretending Iâm wolfless. Fortunately, Sadie enables me to have the extra hearing and speed necessary to move about without others even realizing Iâm there.
Thank Goddess. Itâs become my only source of fun in the last couple of yâ
Shit. Are those footsteps?
I press myself flatter against the wall, and Sadie growls inside my head. But when a scent reaches my nose, we both relax a little.
âWhew, itâs only Luna Diana. The woman might hate us, but at least sheâs not Alpha Marco. OrââI narrow my eyesââLeandrĂ©.â
Sadie makes a huffing noise. âSpeak for yourself. She doesnât know me yet!â
I laugh silently. âYeah, but we both know sheâll hate me more, not less, when she finds out about you.â
Itâs funny. While everyone else doesnât seem to realize I exist, Luna Diana knows I do. And is the one who wishes the most that I didnât.
Iâm not allowed to trainâeven though I do so privately, using human videosâand Iâm not allowed to participate in pack functions like parties, balls, and get-togethers. Luna Diana wonât allow it. She doesnât want to see me, doesnât even want to think about me.
Unless sheâs assigning me the worst chores she can think of, of courseâlike polishing the silver (though that didnât work out the way she wanted, thanks to Sadie).
But Iâm not the one who slept with her mate, who continues to sleep with him. That betrayal has affected me just as much as it has her. Maybe even more so, because no one has ever claimed meânot the pack and not my parents. Instead, Iâm always just allowed.
Per Lunaâs orders, Iâm allowed to live in a tiny room near the kitchen that used to be a storage closet, and Iâm graciously allowed food and hand-me-down clothing to wear.
Iâm allowed to serve the crowds and clean up the messes of the privileged in the pack. Heaven help them if they bend over and pick up after themselves! Iâm allowed to work for my father occasionally and allowed to tutor my half brother so he can get into Alpha College.
But I donât get paid for any of these services. Instead of a person, Iâm a tool they use so Damien can get ahead. It doesnât matter what plans I have.
When I inquired if the pack would help pay my college tuition, Alpha Marco told me pack funds would not be used to send low-rank wolves to college. That he wouldnât waste money on an omega thatâs only good for domestic work.
What he doesnât know is, a prestigious tech school in New York state has offered me a full-ride scholarship. Only one person knowsâMr. Marshall, my computer science teacher.
He was the one who encouraged me to apply to tech colleges and some of the more elite universities, assuring me that with my grades, class rank, and drive, Iâd get accepted into a human school with no problem.
And when I told him the alpha wouldnât pay and might not let me go, he reminded me I wasnât a member of the alphaâs pack.
âNeither is your mother,â he said. âTechnically, youâre a member of the Silver Crest Pack.â
So I applied. Mr. Marshall let me use his address, and the acceptance letters poured in. But the one from Rochester was the one that offered everythingâtuition, room and board, books. I immediately sent in the paperwork.
Itâll get me far away from here, miles away from this pack and my father.
Graduation and my eighteenth birthday are only a week away, and Iâm giving myself the gift of a big, fat dramatic goodbyeâto all of it!
But in the meantime, Iâll keep my head down, keep my voice down, and keep tight control of my emotions. We canât risk anyone learning about Sadie. Alpha Marco would never let me go if he knew.
And with what I suspect about his buddy LeandrĂ©âŠ
Itâs more important than ever that I get out of here.
