Page 69 of A Second Chance for the Beta
Am I fucking bleeding out of my eyes!?
The ringing in my ears gets stronger, my lungs constricting as I feel fear gripping every fiber of my being.
“Don’t worry.” The luna’s calm voice reaches me. “It’s not much blood. You are going to be fine.” She keeps talking to me, telling me how as wolves we don’t really get sick and how this whole shitshow probably has something to do with me getting older and my wolf getting stronger.
Her words calm me down a bit until…
“Wow,” Austen says all of a sudden. “Your eyes… are they purple?”
The view in front of me clears up again, the bleeding stopping. “A mirror,” I call out. “A mirror!”
“Here,” Luna Annie hands me one out of her bag and holds it in front of my face. I look out of a horror movie, blood smeared over my face, but what catches my attention is my eyes. There are strings of purple going through them.
“Is this normal!?” I ask. “Does this usually happen to werewolf kids?”
The luna shakes her head. “Not necessarily, but it doesn’t mean it can’t happen. You tested beta, and I’m sure Ella told you what that means?”
I nod. “Something about me having a gift.”
“Yes, and this might be part of it,” she says.
“Might?”
“We will run a few proper tests,” she says. “But I’m convinced it’s not a sickness.” Her voice sounds so secure and confident that I can feel myself calming down.
I mean, there are worse things than purple eyes, right? Besides, they are just purple-ish, not full purple.
I look around a bit. “Wow,” I mutter when my gaze wanders to the window. “I’m seeing so sharp all of a sudden. It’s like… everything is in super HD.”
“This has to be your gift!” Gisela emphasizes. She and Annie help me clean up slightly before the others return to my room. “Something like supervision.”
“I wouldn’t mind that,” I say, suddenly feeling much more at ease. If this weird condition gives me superpowers, it can’t be that bad!
“Do you think it’s her gift, Luna Annalise?” Livia asks.
“It’s a possibility,” she answers. I get the feeling she is being a bit evasive, but adults are sometimes weird, so I try not to think about it too much. Gisela, Austen, and Felix meanwhile try to come up with cool names for my bettered vision.
The mood gets all lighter again when Ella comes. I instantly notice her worried expression and wave at her. “I’m fine,” I tell her. “I just have supervision!”
Ella and Luna Annalise exchange a gaze. “I fill you in later,” the luna tells her.
“And she has purple super-eyes,” Felix adds.
“I kind of want purple eyes too,” Gisela says.
“So, I don’t look too freakish?” I ask my friends.
“Not at all,” Austen reassures me.
“You have to be very close up to notice,” Jazz adds.
“Actually,” Felix says with a beaming smile. “You still look hot.”
Man, he is really something. The funny thing is that he never sounds sly or sleazy; he just sounds genuine. I’m sure if I didn’t have that encounter with Rob, I might have gotten a crush on Felix too. But I’m really done with boys for the next couple of months.
twenty-three
The Trap
