Chapter Three

LILY

“Lee…?”I murmured in disbelief, backing away from the somewhat unfamiliar look of disgust from the man I called mate.

A stroke of pain lanced through my body and I felt like I had been hit by a truck doing fifty miles per hour on the highway. There was a brief squeezing pain in my chest and a weird tightening in my throat.

How could this tremendous grief happen to me? Being rejected by my long expected mate on the first day of 18 year old…

However, Lee didn’t answer me at all like what he just did was nothing more than a spit.

I turned to look at the other person around, my sister Lisa. I thought it must be some misunderstanding so I explained in haste: “You know me Lee, I didn’t deliberately change the drink back at the party, I…”

“Shut it Lily” Lee growled, his face flashing with anger.

I stared at Lee in disbelief. In the short time he had been my boyfriend he had never talked to me this way.

“I know the truth about your identity. Your sister Lisa heard everything and has told me.

Instantly I realised that the noise I heard earlier while I had been down in the cellar had been Lisa eavesdropping on Luna Sallys conversation with me.

From where I stood I heard Lisa make a choking noise before starting a fresh wave of tears. I knew she was p-laying the victim card, with each fake tear that she shed Lee was hating me even more.

“What kind of a mother did you have? She was such a bitch.”

I stared at Lee in shock. It couldn't be that the words that I was hearing were coming from the mouth of Lee.

“Now I understand everything. It must be your mother who made my mother mad when she’s pregnant, and thus lead to a difficult labour. If it wasn’t for your mother, I wouldn't be as weak as I am now” Lisa suddenly said from where she sat looking up at me with a tear stained face.

She bent her face into her palms again as she continued crying and as I stood there watching all that was unfolding in front of me Lee walked over to Lisa, squatted to her height and threw his arms around her comforting her.

At that moment it felt like my world had shattered into a million pieces. The room swam a little bit and my knees buckled as the pain I felt in my heart intensified. Lee, my boyfriend, was hugging my step sister.

“Lee, '' I called out, hating how pathetic my voice sounded.

Lee comforted Lisa for the last time and then turned to look at me with pure disgust etched on his face.

He grabbed my hand and dragged me outside the door.

Finally it’s just us, I tried my last time to explain:”Lee, I didn't know this before, I didn’t mean to hide…”

“You bastard!” He shouted, after confirming nobody else could overhear us: “I planned our elope on the basis that you are an Alpha's daughter, with your alpha blood, we can start our own pack after we elope.”

What?

"But you stupid bitch has ruined that bright future. You’re a bastard. Not the alpha’s daughter anymore. We cannot join any rogue pack and I cannot become the rogue king. You have no value to me, you're as useless as a log of wood.”

So the whole elope plan was just a mistake?

His words were like daggers, each time they left his mouth they stabbed into my skin creating waves of pain across my body. I was blinking furiously, trying to stop the tears from falling.

Everything was hurting. I couldn't take it anymore.

I could feel Casey howling in pain. Her pain was my pain and since it was coming from both of us it was magnifiedI finally let my wolf push through, it hurt so bad, hurt so much that I knew if I stayed as a human I was probably going to pass out. She took over and moved further deeper into the woods, away from Lee away from the pack.

I didn’t care where we went, all I knew was that I just wanted to get far away from the things that were haunting me.

You have to be strong Lily.

I couldn’t be strong anymore; I had endured for so long and this was the final straw. It was bad to put all my trust in one person, to love one person so much but I didn’t care because Lee had been there for me since day one and now, I had lost him.

I was a wreck, what was I going to do, I was only going to run and run and run until I couldn’t anymore. That was all I could do.

Suddenly I could scent something in the air, a strange type of smell I had never smelt before and when I looked at the surroundings around me, I was aware of the fact that I had crossed the border. To my left I could hear a bunch of rustling leaves; ducking behind a huge mahogany tree I caught sight of what was producing that strange smell.

Wolves.

By the dark fur on their skin, I knew they were rogues and from the direction they were heading I knew they were moving towards the pack. The Betas hadn’t done a border patrol today because of the party earlier.

“We should go warn them” I said, starting in the opposite direction that would take me straight to the pack and faster.

“We shouldn’t, there is no need for you to help them. Think about yourself for once “my wolf chastised.

Maybe she’s right. I shouldn’t go warn them. After all, who am I to care about them? They had never loved me…

But not all of them are bad. I recall those omegas, the slaves like me, they had always been nice to me.

From the number of wolves, I could see trooping towards the direction of the pack. I knew that if they didn’t get at least some kind of warning a bloodbath would ensure.

“No, we have to do something “I disagreed.

Just before I could move, I was aware of a sharp pain in my neck just below my jaw and “when I looked below, I could see some kind of needle sticking out. 

I hit the ground darkness taking over as I realised I had been shot with a tranquilliser.