novelAurora (24)
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Aurora would probably understand why she was forbidden from going to certain places or why she had to go along with Draghar's words if her mate provided a reasonable excuse for her.
Draghar was indeed her mate, but Aurora would not blindly follow anything if she didn't understand it.
Hearing Aurora's request, Draghar was silent for a moment, then he leaned his body against the back of his seat while looking ahead, where the sun was starting to set.
"In my pack, you don't become an alpha because you are a descendant of an alpha, " Draghar said in a calm voice, he still didn't look at Aurora, who was now staring at him."You became an alpha because you are the strongest among the lycans in your pack."
Aurora didn't urge Draghar, she let him take his time to tell her everything she needed to know.
"Being strong is the main rule in my place and the alpha position is a very risky position, because I will take on challenges almost every day."
Aurora knew what kind of challenge it was. The challenge was carried out because there were members of the pack who did not agree with the existing alpha leadership.
It's just that, in Draghar's pack, they challenged him because he wasn't born an alpha, even though his father was an alpha and all his siblings were born as an alpha.
"Not an alpha?" Aurora frowned."Then what is your status?"
A shifter, of course, could feel the status of other shifters, especially if you were an alpha, the dominant aura that radiated from you would be very different from those around you who were not.
"I used to be an omega, " Draghar said quietly. He then turned to look at Aurora beside him, he wanted to see how his mate would react and was prepared for the worst.
He should have said this before he marked Aurora or took her too far from her pack.
However, all of that had already happened and the bond between them had been so strong that Draghar was not willing to let Aurora go even for a moment.
Aurora was an alpha, even Draghar could feel it and to be paired with an omega, it's an insult...
Thus, when Draghar saw that neither the hateful eyes nor the judgment he always got from the people around him, was not there, he could breathe in relieved.
"Did they treat you badly?" Aurora asked. She was more focused on how those people treated Draghar as an omega in the pack. Not the status of Draghar who used to be an omega.
Granted, things like this happen rarely, very rarely, but that didn't mean they never happen.
Children who have omega status who were born from an alpha, or an omega who fought hard to raise their status, all of those things were possible.
And for Aurora it was not a problem.
However, what bothered her were Draghar's words earlier which told her that his pack held in high esteem for strength.
So with such a system, wouldn't it be difficult for an omega to live in a pack?
"Is that why you have these wounds?" Aurora frowned and bit her lip, she took Draghar's hand and rolled up his sleeves, then looked at the wounds that adorned his arm and the palms of her mate which felt very rough for a shifter who could heal themselves quickly.
How hard had his life been all this time?
"Yes, " Draghar replied, as if it was no big deal."Omega doesn't really have a good life in my pack."
"What about your father?" His father was an alpha, so there's no way he'd just be quiet when he saw his son being hurt, right?
Her own father would throw a big fuss and lose control if she was hurt, let alone someone hurt her. Aurora was very sure that even her own mother would not be able to calm her father if something this bad happened to her.
"Didn't he say anything when he saw this?" However, from the way Draghar stared at her. Aurora could see the answer."Your father had a hand in this too?"
Aurora felt deep pain and sadness for what Draghar had gone through and she couldn't hold back her tears.
Seeing that, Draghar covered his injured arm and pulled Aurora close to him. He rubbed her back to calm his mate.
"I'm fine now. I'm fine, " Draghar whispered into Aurora's ear while kissing the top of her head.
"They hurt you..." Aurora whimpered, feeling very sad to know this.
"They won't be able to hurt me anymore now, " said Draghar, he had become stronger now, much stronger.
To become an alpha, where you were born as an omega, was not a pleasant and easy journey, but Draghar did not regret it, because in the end he was able to meet Aurora.
His mate even cried for all the suffering he had gone through.
"Your heart is too kind and gentle for me and my pack, " Draghar said softly. This was something he had been worried about from the start. Aurora's kindness was incomparable to the rudeness of most of the people in his pack.
"I want to teach those who hurt you a lesson, " Aurora said between sobs and this made Draghar laugh.
Draghar had just commented on Aurora's tender heart, but in the next second, this girl actually wanted to beat up those people...
Aurora then wiped her face after a while and calmed down a bit, and that's when Draghar warned Aurora about his warning again.
"Aurora, " Draghar called her name in his deep voice."I was serious when I said there are certain places you can't go unless it's with me and don't go too far from the pack house."
Aurora blinked and a tear rolled down her cheek which Draghar quickly wiped away with his thumb.
"Please, " Draghar said softly."I don't think I'll be able to deal with it if something bad happens to you." Draghar frowned, he didn't even want to imagine it.
"What kind of places are those?" Aurora still wanted to know more before she agreed to Draghar's terms.
It's in her blood to disapprove of anything until she's absolutely sure of what she's doing, especially a warning.
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