Chapter Five
Hermione was still taking deep breaths as she re-dressed, apparently you lost your clothing when you shifted into a wolf. Of course she had seen Draco’s clothing fall to the grown when he shifted in front of her. But what had just happened to her? She didn't even know she could shift. But this new development in her body scared her.
Should she tell Snape or Loren? Neither of them were shifters. What if this was a side effect of all the stress of the week. Or should she just talk to Alpha Riddle as he was a shifter even if she had never seen him shift. Her pack ceremony was a week away on Friday the 13th. Maybe she should wait and not tell anyone. At least not till after her pack ceremony.
With that in mind Hermione snuck back into her living arrangement. Thankfully no one saw her come in. Hermione and Luna had gotten along with a few of the other employees. Pansy, who they had already met, they found out that the raven haired witch was engaged to Blaise Zabini. Fred also lived with them and with his wife Angelina but they were planning to move out soon. Then there was Theo Nott the chef of the pack he was surely their favorites. The man could cook like no other and he was also a right git but a lovable git.
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Hermione had never enjoyed cleaning a room so much as she enjoyed cleaning the Riddle library. The best part was that Loren would let her borrow as many books as she pleased. That's how Loren found her. “I see you are on the next Jane Austin book.” Hermione heard Loren say she quickly got up from one of the library chairs and nodded. “Yes ma'am I finished all my chores for today and I wanted to pick up a new book.” she replied.
Loren just smiled and nodded. “Is fine Jane like I said you can barrow any book you will like. But I do have to ask you if you could please bring me three sets of orange tea. I am expecting some friends and they just love our orange tea.” Loren asked. Hermione nodded and quickly went to get the teas and some vanilla biscuits. She hadn't even been working with the Riddles for a month and they already respected her more then the Weasley had ever done.
“Are you sure Tom's plan will work Loren…” Hermione over hears behind the door of the library. “I told you two it will and if we do are jobs right your godson will find out the truth very soon.” Loren replied. Not wanting to ease drop more Hermione walks softly with her foot and then walked into the library with her head down. Some traits still engraved into her brain.
“Thank you dear. Let me introduce you to my friends. They will be coming over for Yule this year this is Sirius Black, and his mate Remus Lupin, gentlemen this is our newest employee Jane Granger.” Loren said, pulling Hermione's chin up in a playful way.
Hermione froze at the name and then took three steps back. The two men infront of her were not strangers. She knew them, or she had heard of them. On what they had done nineteen years ago. Now she question why the Riddles were friends with these murderers.
The man with long wavy black hair chuckled and nodded. “Loren told us you came from Dumbeldore's pack. I am assuming you have heard the rumors he spread around.” the man she knew to be Sirius Black told her in a disappointing voice. “Patfoot don't scare the girl. I am sorry Ms. Granger, my husband is a little stressed out. But I can assure you everything you heard about us is not true.” the older looking man said, he must be Remus Lupin.
With a strength and bravery Hermione didn't think she had; she looked into the gray eyes of Sirius Black and asked one single question. “So you didn't kill your best friends and leave a child an orphan?” she asked without shaking once.
Sirius's eyes changed quickly at first he looked angered and then he smirked. He looked at her from head to toe. “You are a small thing but you got some back bone. You will do good in this pack and to answer your question. No we didn't kill our friends, we would have never done anything to hurt them. We loved Lily, James and especially Harry. He is my godson. Why would we kill them? But no one questioned that did they. No everyone just follows Dumbledore blindly.” Sirius told her, his voice rising at the end.
Hermione squinted at him and locked eyes with him. She saw anger and grief in his eyes and decided that he was telling her the truth. “I apologize for my assumption, excuse me Mr. Black, Mr. Lupin. I will be in the kitchen if you need me ma'am.” with that she nodded and walked away from the library.
When the door closed Sirius sat back down “I like her. If Remus and I ever had a daughter I think she would be like that young woman.” Sirius said with a chuckle but then apologized when he saw Loren's eyes water. Sirius nor Remus had ever met the pack princess but they heard how the toddler girl was. They felt the pain of their friends is how they felt when they lost Harry. They hoped one day Tom and Loren could find out what happened to their daughter. Just like they were trying get Harry back and tell him who truly killed his parents.
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Heading back to her living quarters Hermione was deep in thought on what she had overheard and who she had just met. If Sirius nor Remus killed James or Lily Potter then who did and why were they blamed for it? Also weren’t they in Azkaban prison? From what Hermione had over heard the prison was unbreakable. But so was the muggle prison named Alcatraz and a man had escaped it.
She was so lost in thought she didn't noticed when someone opened a closet door and pulled her in. Before she could yell a large hand covered her mouth and a strong large body pinned her to the wall. It was not long before she smelled that gorgeous scent. It was Draco.
In the last week she had just seen him from a far but Pansy had explained to her not to get her hopes up. Hermione had found out who she had shagged that faithful night. Pansy in formed her that Draco was their future Alpha and that arrangement had already been made for him to marry one of the Greengrass daughters.
“Trust me Jane if it was up to me I would rather have you as our future Luna. I can’t stand Daphne nor Astoria. They are primadonnas. But Draco or well any Alpha that is going to run his pack needs a strong Luna and that is more likely to be Atoria. She is rumored to become an Omega, she graduated from Bauxbaton and her family owns a few shops in town. On paper and magic she is the best candidate.” Pansy had said. No one other then the heads of the Riddle pack, Fred and of course Luna knew she was a hidden Omega.
But it seemed like Draco was suspicious of her gift too. As the few times they had crossed path Blaise or Theo had to drag Draco out of the room because of the way he looked at her. But right now there was no one there to stop him from getting his hands on her body.
Hermione could feel Draco growing hard against her and against her better judgment she couldn't stop herself from pressing her body against him. “Fuck Jane, I dont fucken know what you are doing to me but I am mad about you. Do you know? I know I need to keep away from you but I can’t.” Draco hissed next to her lips.
Soon Draco had her legs around his waist and her skirt pulled up. Hermione couldn't stop herself from kissing him and brushing her fingers threw his soft hair. “I need to be inside you. I am going crazy with out you Jane.” Draco whispered as his hands traveled down her body and rested on her knickers. She knew it was wrong that he was promised to another woman. But when he was around she lost herself.
With a simple nod and roll of her hips. Her knickers were ripped from her body and snatched away. Before she could murmur a please Draco had on done his trousers and was lining himself into her wet entrance. When he finally sinked in they both moaned. The first time they had shagged had been great but the feeling crossing threw their bodies was three times better. Soon Draco had a fast pase as he kissed her neck. He forgot all about Astoria and the role he held in the pack. Right now he was deep inside a witch that made him loose his mind all he wanted to do was keep fucking her till he nodded in her and bite her neck claiming her as his.
But of course not all is easy in this world and their fun was cut short when the door to the closet was opened. “What the fuck is going on here!” the squealing voice of Astoria Greengrass yelled making Draco spill himself inside of Hermione’s pussy. “Fuck Astoria don’t you knock.” Draco growled, pulling Hermione down and slipping out of her. He quickly tugged himself back into his trousers.
“This is not even a fucken room. I could hear your gruntings from down the hall. How could you be cheating on me with this mud…” Astoria was saying but was cut off by Draco’s finger in her face. “Don’t you even dare call her that do you hear me Astoria and we aren’t even married yet you rightly know I do not wish to marry you.” Draco spatted.
But Astoria was not put down by his words she just crossed her arms across her chest. “Well lets see what Alpha Riddle has to say about this huh?” she said. Draco just shook his head “I will look for you later okay.” Draco told Hermione and then walked away. He had to talk to his boss before Astoria did he had to fix this arranged marriage. He would be next in line and he knew no one would make him happier then Jane even if she wasn’t as magically strong as Astoria.
Hermione wanted to walk away but a hard slap across her face stopped her. Soon she felt her hair been pulled back and a wand on her neck. When she moved her next to the left she saw the angry green eyes of Astoria Greengrass.
“I don’t know who you think you are but I will tell you this only once. Stay away from Draco! He is mine, do you understand me? He is mine! We will be married in two years. I will be the next Luna. Not you, not ever. Have you looked at yourself, you are nothing, and will never be nothing. You are a fucken mudblood. You're just trying to get into Draco’s trousers. If you know what is good for you, you will stay away from Draco. He is mine and I won’t let anyone steal him from me, especially a nobody like you. Do you understand!?” Astoria warned as she tightened her grip on Hermione’s hair. With one final pull Astoria threw Hermione to the floor and then walked over her to then walk away. Astoria’s heels sounded on the wooden floor of the manor leaving Hermione on the floor crying.
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After that day with Draco in the closet Hermione tried not to be alone again. She felt his stare many nights when she served them dinner. But Draco was surrounded by the heads of the pack and couldn't make a move. But she though he was going throw the steak knife the night Marcus Flint had asked Tom for her hand in marriage.
“Flint you and your son should know better than to know we don't arrange marriages.” Loren said in her refined voice. Marcus just gave her a smile and looked at Draco. “But isn't that what you are all doing with dear old Draco? Not that you all didn't pick a fine fruit for him to eat. I just don't see why not let me have the newest price of tart.” Flint said as he felt Hermione's bare leg with the back if his cold hand.
“GET YOUR HANDS OFF FROM JANE!” Tom yelled in his Alpha's voice as he stood from his seat throwing it back. “Flint take yourself and your son away from my home and don't come back till you are ready to apologize to Ms. Granger. And if you keep disrespecting my employees you can get the fuck out of our pack. You two know how that goes don’t you or maybe you should ask you fear old friend Bardy Crouch Jr.” Tom said his eyes red and in a voice that wasn’t fully his own. No that was his wolf talking
The older Flint took his son by the neck of his shirt and dragged him out. Hermione knew the only way you left the Riddle pack was by death. That the man her boss had just mentioned had been part of his pack till he had decided to take advantage of a vela witch. They had killed him for breaking one of their sacred rules. She was still shaking when she felt a warm hand on her shoulder. She jumped in surprise and used the silver platter to cover her body.
When she looked up she saw the apologetic eyes of Tom. “I am sorry Ms. Granger, will you follow me and my wife to the library.” he said. Tom had been told by his wife how the young woman loved their library so he knew she would feel more comfortable speaking in inside that room. Loren had told her husband how she would have her wear loose clothing. Loren didn't want anyone to know about Hermione’s gift not until after she was part of their pack and was protected.
When they arrived to the library Tom shut the door behind them and gestured for Hermione to sit down. “First of all I want to ask you for our forgiveness Ms. Granger. We try our best for our men to respect the women who live in our land. But there are always strays.” Tom said disappointed. Hermione nodded but didn’t want to look up.
“Jane, we got to ask you something else. Regulus has to know this for the court case. I do apologize for what I am about to ask. Did the Weasley men ever assault you?” Loren asked softly. Hermione shook her head quickly and she heard them both take out a deep breath.
“No, Molly put a charm on her husband and sons so they wouldn't have sex with me. Not till Ginevra was married at least. But Ronald would sneak into my bedroom with out me knowing and spy on me. Other then that he would only touch me or pushed his body against mine. As that was not part of his mother’s charm. But one time when I was showering he snuck in nude and pushed himself against me and touched me. He told me that after his sister got married to his best friend he would have me and then let his friends do with me as they wished. After that day I would shower at Luna’s. Then Luna put up a charm to keep Ronald out. The rest of the Weasley sons didn't even look at me but Mr. Weasley would sneak food to me when his wife would punish me.” Hermione said.
Hermione heard a glass blow out and when she looked up she saw Tom’s eyes red. He looked like he could kill. Soon his eyes went back to light brown. “I am sorry Jane. But the one thing I can't stand is for a man to take advantage of a woman. I promise you that they will pay for what they did to you.” he said looking down and grabbing his wife's hand tight.
Hermione smiled without knowing and nodded. “I understand sir. If that is all I do have to go back to the kitchen. I have to help Theo prepare everything for tomorrow night.” she said. Loren and Tom both nodded and let her go. As they washed her leave Loren cried into her husband’s shoulder with so many questions in their minds.
Who could do that to a child? The biggest questions they wondered was ‘ Was their daughter alive? Had he killed her? Or had he taken her to one of does secret businesses they had hear Dumbledore had.’ More then ever they had to bring that old man down he had done enough damage. One simple example was Jane the orphan girl he had let his followers torture and abuse because no matter what. What that Weasley boy had done was abuse. Part of Tom regretted letting him go but he knew that was the only way they could have Jane in their land. But soon Jane would be part of his pack and have full protection.