Shannon
Austin came into the car then started it and we drove off, I kept quiet and looked out the window. The trees looked like they were moving back as we drove forward, I wished that I was like those tress, moving back to a place I was once happy, I place where I was not a slave and Austin was my brother.
‘Goddess, is it because I am human? Is that why you don’t answer my prayers? Because you are a Goddess of the supernatural not humans?’ I asked the Moon Goddess, I was not expecting an answer because she never answers me. Let me try God one last time, he is the God humans worship so, he should be helping me because i am human too.
‘Dear God, it is I, Shannon, your child I believe, well I am not sure but please help me out. I don’t want much, I just want for my brother to stop hating me so much, I don’t want to leave the pack because this the only home I know. I just want things to go back to normal.’ I sighed after saying that prayer, this is the last time I am praying to either of them, am done now.
“Your birthday is next week.” My eyes popped, he has never cared about my birthday, just last year when I turned twenty, he acted like he did not remember, Sandy gave me a card written go to your kind, while everyone else acted like they did not even remember and that includes him.
‘Goddess, are the one doing this? Because I know that the brother I know now doesn’t care.’
“Yes, it is alpha.” I answered bitterly, the lump on my throat grew as the silence filled the car, why is he asking me that now, does he want to give me more chores so that my day passes without me even realizing that is was there? “What would you like?” the devil must be the one at work here because I don’t believe the Goddess would answer this quickly.
“Nothing, alpha.” I don’t want anything from him, everything I have now I got because I worked for it, what will I have to do for whatever it is that I would ask for? “Come on Shan, you will be turning twenty-one, you must have something you want.” Now I believe that Austin is bipolar, this man wanted to murder me not so long ago for someone I just met and now he wants to get me something for my birthday?
What’s the catch?
“I really don’t want anything.” He holds the steering wheel so hard that his knuckles turned white, he is angry I can see from the way he is clenching his jaw. Sigh, see, I told you that he is bipolar because there is no way a normal person would have mood swings like this. “Do you always have to piss me off or is your boyfriend doing something for you?” now I don’t know what to say to this.
I meet someone once and now he is my boyfriend. Then he might as well take me with because I am tired. “Lucas is nothing to me alpha, as I said, we only met today and nothing happened between us.” This is the last time I will be explaining myself about this and if he asks again, I will keep my mouth shut and wait for my punishment.
“Nothing happened besides being cosy together.” He commented and I kept my mouth shut. Its not my problem if he doesn’t believe me, what matters is that I told him the truth and it up to him if he wants to believe it or not. Also, he has been acting funny these days, asking me to look at him, what is that?
was he not the one who did not want me looking at him saying that I disgust him? Now he wants me to look at him, am really tired and I wish I was with mom and dad when those people killed them. At least I would have been at peace by now and I wouldn’t have to deal with the likes of Austin.The rest of the drive to the pack is spent in silence and I am more than happy. I have nothing to say to him now, I still have to be the best slave when I get there and have those unmated alpha’s trying to make a deal with Austin to have me for the night. Sigh, I guess I must thank him for never agreeing to that but they never stop and I am afraid that one day he will just give in and agree.
I don’t want to imagine what that day would be like, for now that it has not happen I will keep thanking whoever is out there looking out for me. When we get to the pack we are welcomed and shown to our rooms. Of course, I am sharing with Austin, a slave shares a room with the master and sleeps on the floor so that he or she can be able to take care of his alpha’s needs whenever he needs them to. They must even think that I am sleeping with Austin, maybe that is the reason why they keeping asking him for a night with me.
After packing I had nothing to do while Austin was standing at the balcony on a call. A knock sounded on the door and I went to open. “Slave, tell your alpha to meet the others in the dining hall for dinner in five minutes.” I hate this guy, he is only a messenger in this pack but he thinks that he is better than me and always calls me a slave.
I give him a polite smile though and nod. I don’t want to embarrass my alpha or the repeat of the Golden Moon will happen. Well, a few months back we went to Golden Moon pack, the alpha there was hosting a birthday for his daughter and invited Austin and other unmated alpha’s. The alpha’s daughter called me a slave and I told her that was not my name and that my name was Shannon. I wouldn't have answered her but it was that time of the month and I was moody with my hormones all over the place.
She made a fuss about it and went to report to both Austin and her father. The Golden Moon alpha ordered his warrior to whip me fifty times and by the time they finished I had passed out. I woke up three days later back at the pack with Aunt Nancy taking care of me, but that was not enough, when Austin heard that I had woken up, he ordered me to return to work and even gave me extra work to do.
After a month of doing the extra work and only getting four hours of sleep he reduced my workload and told me never to disrespect him again. After that, I just smile at jerks like this one and swallow my pride. They say a slave doesn’t have a pride, so what right did I have to think that I still had mine.
“Who was that?” I jumped a little startled by the sound of his voice. “A messenger, he says that everyone is meeting in the dinning hall in five minutes for dinner.” I repeated what I was told. “Alright, you have two minutes to change then we can go.” He tells me and I don’t wait for him to tell me twice. For as long as we are here I will be on my best behaviour.
When I was done we walked together to the dining hall, my job when I get there is to dish for him, then stand right behind him with one hand on his shoulder as he eats and converse with the others. I have to be quiet and only speak when I am spoken to. Even then, he has to give permission for me to answer whoever had asked me a question.
When they are done I have to see him to the room then come back and help with the clearing of the table and washing of dishes. Then I can eat when everything is done and go back to the room to sleep. But that only happens if I find him sleeping when I go back to the room. If not then I have to stay up, in case he needs anything, no matter how tired I am, I can’t sleep until he does.
That is my life in these events and that is why I hate them. When we got to the dining room I scanned the room and I saw all the familiar faces that I always see in these events then on the last chair I saw a new face, one that I didn’t think I will see again. I felt Austin tense next to me and I prayed harder than I ever did for him not to make a scene.
I know that I said I will not be praying again but what choice do I have in such a situation? “Alpha Austin, you made it, welcome.” The alpha greets him with a smile then points to where Austin should seat. He goes and tokes his seat then I stood right behind him. I see Lucas’s face harden when he sees me standing behind Austin, maybe finally registering that I am a slave.
He looks between me and Austin with a hard face but I paid him no mind. I don’t want trouble but I don’t think I can avoid it either, Austin is sitting right in front of him. “I want you to sit right next to me today, don’t worry about my meals I will dish for myself.” I wanted to react but I couldn’t, I had to hold myself from even showing the slightest kind of reaction.
“Yes, alpha.” I opened the chair next to him and sat. all this while Lucas is looking at me making me feel uncomfortable. “Is there a problem beta Lucas?” asked Austin, you could hear the hostility in his voice. “Yes, actually…” he looked at me and I slightly shook my head. “Yes, actually what?” asked Austin probing for him to answer and I couldn’t help but shiver as fear crept into my heart.
ShannonI could feel Lucas’s eyes on me but I kept mine on my hands, on the outside am calm and collected but on the inside, I am falling apart. One mistake from Lucas and I am done for. I can’t even imagine the punishment Austin is going to give me should Lucas say something stupid. “Are you going to answer me beta Lucas?” Austin probes some more.Lucas averts his eyes from me then looks at Austin and smiles. “Well, what I was going to say is, long time no see old friend, it’s been what, six years?” I found myself releasing a breath I was holding; he may just have saved me this time but I want these two days to be over so that we can go back. “We are not friends beta Lucas and we never will be,” Austin says and Lucas nods.“I thought that we had moved on from things of the past, we are old now, we can’t keep grudges from when we were in school,&
ShannonI did not sleep a wink that night, Austin kept to his side of the bed when we first sleep, he did not try anything funny, he just turned to the other side and gave me his back then slept. But I could not sleep, being with him in bed was too much for me and I have never shared a bed with anyone, he knows that.In the middle of the night, he pulled me close to him, his face was right on my neck with his breath fanning my face. I tried to wiggle myself out of his grip, but he held me tighter, we stayed like that till morning then when he woke up, he acted like nothing happen and left me in bed going to shower.The days we spent there were fine, and Lucas did not try anything after our talk that evening and we went back home. Today is my birthday and I woke up early. For some reason I was feeling light as if a load has been lifted off my shoulders, maybe it is the fact that Austin had been acting strange and asking me to look at him
AustinI hate that I hit her, but she just makes me so mad, how can she even think of leaving me? I know that it’s that damned Lucas that made her want to leave, he is the one influencing her, but I will not let him win, he will not be getting her. Shannon is mine and is not going anywhere!I did not want her birthday to turn out this way, I wanted her to be happy today and I even got her a necklace as a gift. But I had to hear that she wants to leave me, why would she want to leave? I have been treating her well lately and she has no reason for wanting to leave.Damnit Lucas! This is all his fault; he is the one feeding her nonsense! I swear that I am going to kill him with my bare hands should Shannon leave this pack. My door opens while I am busy pacing up and down in my office. “I heard that you hit Shannon, on her birthday, look I get that she is your slave and all but to hit her on this day of all day’s man is cr
Austin Austin did not wait for his friend to say something, he simply left him there and went into the packhouse calling Shannon’s name as he went up the stairs taking two at a time. When he got to her room it was empty, he looked around then sat on the bed. ‘I warned you time and time again to stop mistreating her.’ His wolf Blake was angry.He had been warning him to stop mistreating Shannon because he liked her, but he would not listen and now she was gone. ‘I will find her Black, I promise.’ He said to him then lifted his head when his beta Eliot came in. “I see that she is not here, I will go and call the council, maybe they will have some information that could help us.”He told him then turned and left. He too warned Austin from the beginning to not take out his anger on her, but he did not listen and he was alpha. He could do anything and no one would say anything. ‘Alpha, there i
Shannon“What are you doing in my land?” I jumped a little then turned, three men were standing there looking at me, I did not even hear them coming, I was so consumed by the beauty of this place and my freedom that I forgot that I am on someone’s land. “I am just passing, my apologies for resting on your land.”One of the men sniffed the air then gave me an evil smirk, he crosses his arms on his chest then asks. “So, which pack are you from then because you don’t smell like any that I know of and you don’t smell like a rogue either. So, which one is it?” he tilts his head to the side looking at me.“I am from the one you don’t know.” That came out more like a sarcastic statement than the truth, he lets his power flow may be to intimidate me, it works for a moment but when I want to submit Lucy spoke in my head ‘We are royalty Shan, and we bow to no one. Feel
AustinIt’s been a week since she disappeared and I have found no leads to her whereabouts yet. I have looked everywhere and I could not find her. Now the only person I can think of that might know where she went is Lucas, he has to know where she is, they have been close and he did not like how I was treating her.He is the only one that might have helped her escape. “I still don’t think it is a good idea to go to the crescent moon pack guns blazing, you might start a war that we don’t need.’’ My beta tries to reason but he doesn’t understand what I am going through right now. The man might know where my mate is and I don’t care about the war.The only thing I care about right now is finding my mate and Lucas might know where she is. “I know care about war, if they want war then it’s war they will get. Right now, I need to find my mate and Lucas might know where she is.”
Eliot did not know what was happening to his alpha, he placed him properly on the back seat then went to the driver’s seat and drove off. He was going back to the packhouse so that Austin can be seen by a doctor. He kept looking back to see if he was still okay. He was driving like a mad man going back to the packhouse.When he was close enough, he mind-linked the doctor. ‘Alpha fainted, get ready I will be there with him soon.’ ordered Eliot as he crossed the border gates into their pack. The warriors who saw him were worried, they just saw then leave not so long ago and now beta Eliot was coming back alone and driving like a madman.They felt that something was wrong, ‘where was their alpha?’ they did not see him sleeping in the back seat and Eliot did not have time to stop and explain to them what happened. Soon he was stopping in front of the pack hospital and the doctor was already waiting. Sandy saw as she was passing when they were
Back in Africa in the vineyards of Stellenbosch. It was harvest season and most of the pack members were in the fields working with some human workers that were hired by the pack. Shannon wanted to help out so she was also in the field with everyone harvesting grapes.She started feeling hot all of a sudden and she stopped working then adjusted her sunhat. She drank some water then resumed working. But then the heatwave came stronger followed by pain in her chest. She stopped and tried to breath through the pain but it intensified making her feel weak.She tried to breath through the pain again but it got worse and she fell on her knees. She placed a hand on her chest feeling the excruciating pain but soon her vision blurred and she fell on the side. One of the pack members ran to her side and saw that she has fainted. She mind linked the alpha and reported the situation then carried her back to the packhouse.As soon the pack member got to the packhouse with he