Chapter 16: Would you help me run away?
Luca stared at her before bursting out in a hearty chortle. "You cannot be serious. Its impossible for you to leave the pack, Inez. You will die the second you lose the protection of the pack."
He was right. If Inez were to leave the pack, she would only have two options left in front of her. Either join another pack or live in the human world.
Joining another pack was not easy, especially if you were discarded or a runaway from your old pack. And living in the human world was even more difficult. After all, in the eyes of humans, shifters were nothing but demonic entities that needed to be burnt on a stake.
If her identity was ever found, Inez was certain that the humans would give there all to kill her. And to top it all, the Zealots were getting more active now than ever.
They were a fraction who believed that shifters didn’t belong in their world and had no right to live and breathe in their society. These people targeted the lone shifters and killed them in the worst possible way to create a sensation and fear in the shifters and among their community.
Of course, there was also the option of turning rogue. But Inez knew she couldn’t leave as a rogue—wasn’t this the reason why she had stayed in this pack for three years even though she had been treated worse than the omegas of the pack?
But now that the situation had gotten this severe because of her lack of action, Inez wondered whether there was any point in staying here. She didn’t want to die but was she even alive if she was living like this?
"You don’t have to worry about that," Inez remarked as she opened the door of the truck. "This was what you wanted anyway, right?"
Her tone was casual, as if she couldn’t be bothered with her own life and death.