Ruth’s P.O.V.
“What’s wrong with you today?” Asher yelled in frustration after I knocked him down for the fifth time. Titan was roaring inside my mind since we found the scent of our mate. He wanted me to search for her. She was inside the pack and we had no clue about her presence since today. Due to his continued pacing inside my mind and nagging, I was losing my temper and now Asher was on the ground. I once again beat him badly. “I am sorry, man… It’s just Titan is not in a good mood”, I said in an apologetic tone. He scowled and took my hand that I raised him to take. He stood up and cracked his neck first.
“I think… it’s not my day today. At first, that b***h knocked me down and now it’s you”, he said and I smirked. “She beat you?” I asked him in a teasing tone and he glared at me. Then he sighed and we both walked towards the table where we had kept our water bottles. “As I told you earlier. She is one hell assassin”, he said and I scoffed laughed. “She is still an omega”, I said pointing to the key point here. He nodded after taking a gulp of the water from his water bottle. “If I tell you that she never shifts during the fight, will you believe me?” he asked me and I almost spat all the water in my mouth out. “What?” I asked him in disbelief. He nodded and took another gulp of the water from his bottle.
“Yeah… this is the weird part here. She never shifts in a presence. None of us has seen her wolf. She always fights in her human form. I don’t know how, but she always masks her scent and this is really hard to track her down. She can be here any minute and then she will vanish into thin air just like this”, he again praised her but in a pissed tone. “How old she?” I asked him while thinking about something. “She is 18 now”, he told me and Titan immediately perked up. She always kept her scent masked. Could she be my mate? The mere thought made me angry. No, she couldn’t be. It didn’t matter how strong she was or how ruthless an assassin she was, she was just an omega.
“Where is she right now?” I asked Asher who looked at me while narrowing his eyes on me. “Why did you want to know?” he questioned me back and I glared at him hard this time. He was still on his feet because he was my best friend or else I was not the one to bear any disrespect from anyone. “Where is she?” I used a stern tone with authority. Asher gulped hard while looking at me with fear in his eyes as his fearful eyes met my cold one. “She will be with Queen in the afternoon. Other than this, it’s hard to tell her whereabouts right now”, he said making me angrier than I already was. “Who has to allow her to mask her scent inside the pack?” I asked him in the same tone. “It’s the Queen”, he answered me immediately and I frown this time.
I decided to give a visit to my mother first before meeting this omega girl. I walked out of the training ground towards the palace, leaving Asher behind. “You must search for her first. We can command her to unmask her scent”, Titan whined in my mind again. “Not now, Titan. She is an omega and we can’t have an omega as our Luna and our Queen”, I immediately refused him. “She is our mate and you will not reject her”, he roared, giving me an immense headache. “She is an omega, Titan”, I roared back at him and then blocked him. We were both equal and he couldn’t surpass me.
I went straight to my room and stripped my clothes off. I was completely sweaty. I headed to the washroom and stood up under the shower. My mind was still drifting towards that scent. What if she was my fated mate? The Moon Goddess couldn’t do this to me. She couldn’t choose a weak omega as my mate. She could be a skilful assassin and still remained an omega. I came out of the shower after washing my body. I wrapped a towel around my waist and came out of the washroom. “Mom”, I was startled to see my mom sitting on a chair inside the bedroom.
“Good morning, Ruth”, she greeted me with a genuine motherly smile at her lips. “Good morning, mom”, I greeted her back and then went towards the drawers to get my clothes. “I heard that you beat Patricia today during the training?” she asked me and I scoffed internally. “Why Titan is so restless?” before I could answer her, she shot the next question in a chipped tone. I rolled my eyes internally and then looked at her this time while putting my shirt on. “He is not happy over something and we have an argument”, I told her the half-truth. She narrowed her eyes on me but didn’t say anything.
“And about Patricia, she was going out of line. She is a good warrior and she has to enhance her strength as a warrior not as a s**t”, I said in a bitter tone and this time she pursed her lips into a thin line. “Okay… I got you here. Meet at the breakfast table then”, she stood up. She was about to move towards the door when I stopped her. “Mom.. I want to ask you something”, I said, and she stopped. She moved back to me. “What is it?” she asked me in a calm tone. I buttoned my cuffs and walked towards her. “I heard about an assassin in The Recruits”, I said while looking intently at her face. She immediately put a mask on her face and now her face was completely cold. She was the queen of the werewolves and she knew when to mask her face. I didn’t think that it was the time when she needed to do that. My curiosity towards her was getting stronger than it was before.
“What about her?” she asked me in a cold tone, taking me off guard. She never used this tone on me before. “Why does she always keep her scent mask?” I asked her and she knitted her brows. “She is under my command and I want her to keep her scent off. I don’t want her to find her mate”, she said in a cold tone and Titan howled in pain, breaking the wall that I had put on. I clenched my fists but masked my face too. “Why is it, mom?” I asked her in a cold tone. “She is off-limit, Ruth. Keep yourself away from her”, mom said in a cold tone again and before I could say anything, she stormed out of the room. I slumped down on the chair where she was sitting before.
“Mom doesn’t want her to be found”, Titan said in a painful voice. I couldn’t get this. Mom couldn’t do this to her. She might be an omega but she also had every right to find the true love of her life. She also deserved a life with her destined mate. I might not want her as my mate but this was brutal. If I reject her, she could find her second chance mate somewhere else. I stood up and ran fingers through my wet hair. I couldn’t talk with mom on this matter. If that she-wolf was under my mom’s command, then there was no way that she would listen to anyone else command. I needed to talk with my father about this.
I heard a knock on the door and looked up. “Why are you looking so torn up?” Asher peeked inside and immediately asked me with concern. He was looking better than I left him on the training ground. “Uhhhh… it’s nothing. Let’s go”, I stood up from the chair and then signalled him to follow up. I was grateful to him that he didn’t ask me another question because I was not in a mood to answer his question right now. “Uhhhh… Asher”, I called him while walking towards the dining hall. “Yeah”, he immediately came beside me. “Why do you think mom only recruits omegas in that team?” I asked him and he narrowed his eyes as if he was thinking hard.
“I don’t know that exact reason but it may be because of their small frame, quick reflexes, and deep desire of survival?” he answered me in a question and I knitted my brows at him this time. “All those omegas have a unique quality that makes them different from normal omegas that we have in our packs”, he explained and now I was more curious about them. “If you can delay your breakfast, then I want to show you something”, he said with a grin and I signalled him to lead my way. “Come with me then”, he immediately changed the direction and almost ran towards the back exit of the palace. “Why we are running?” I asked while running with him. “Because I don’t want you to miss the part of their training that I want to show you”, he said and I took a deep breath again.
“There are they”, we stopped a little far from the other training ground where only these recruits got their training. I was surprised to see only ten omega wolves in the middle of the training ground circled by twenty warrior wolves of our pack. Duke our head warrior was leading the warrior wolves. I was surprised to see how those omega wolves were dodging the attacks of the warriors easily. The attacks were not brutal still they could injure them. “They are really something”, I praised them after watching their tactics. They are keeping their strength and wearing the warrior's wolves. “The best part is”, suddenly Asher smirked while looking somewhere in the middle.
“There”, he said and I followed his gaze. My breath stuck in my throat when I saw a small frame of a girl, running among them swiftly without losing her footing and dodging the attacks so easily and quickly. “Now”, I was startled to hear the command of a female voice. It was so authoritative and fill with domination. “And here she comes”, Asher said while putting his finger on his lips while watching that girl. My eyes were set on the girl only. She suddenly jumped in the air and I was awestruck when she bounced over the back of another omega wolf and caught a warrior wolf through his throat. She threw him away and he crashed on the ground a little far away from the training ground. He stood up after a bit of struggle but didn’t enter the ground again. I guess it was a rule during this training.
She did the same thing again and again. It was mesmerizing to watch her swiftly throwing those large werewolves through their neck as if they were nothing but a piece of paper. Her silver hair through her ponytail was waving around her face making her breathtaking. “She is Pearl Spears. The leader of The Recruits”, Asher said in a praising tone. “Pearl”, Titan whispered her name in my mind. “Don’t ask me why but she will not shift”, before I could ask, Asher answered me quickly. “I am not able to get to her wolf too”, Titan said inside my mind taking me off guard. “Does she have a wolf?” I asked Asher.
“Yeah.. she has a wolf, but as I told you earlier, none of us has seen her wolf. This is only your mother who has seen her wolf and she only shifts in the presence of your mother”, he informed me, and I felt that my head was now spinning. This was a lot to process about this girl. “Titan… is she our mate?” I asked Titan in an anxious tone. “I don’t know, Ruth. She has masked her scent”, Titan said in a sad tone this time. “We need to touch her to know whether she is our mate or not”, he said and I took a deep breath.