Chapter 1 It wasn't her...!

Scarlett's point of view...

He moaned in a tone so fierce it could make anyone shudder in terror, "Do you know what you did wrong, slave...!!" I heard the sound of a whip hitting the ground. It was his common action that he does before starting everything.

"I... I hid...myself..." Catherine stuttered her response, and my fist clenched against my messy gown.

It was not her...! I muttered under my breath.

"Ugh...!" She was whimpering and screaming and shivering from the agony when he began his maddening torment.

My heart was racing and my eyes were overflowing with tears.

These cries were not unusual in this pack, so it was not the first time I had heard them.

Because this disgusting pack's Alpha does not believe in that pure bonding, we do not have a luna.

He views women as nothing more than instruments of gratification, deserving neither respect nor love.

to use them as their breeders when necessary, and to play and torture them. This pack does not contain any Luna concepts. The vicious Alpha must have the female give in to his playfulness first, regardless of whether any pack members claim to have found their true love.

Like the other little girls, I am a slave; in this pack, I am essentially a body collector.

Absolutely, I do gather the ripped, or occasionally beaten to death, corpses from Alpha Xian's bed, that monstrous Alpha. He never shares a bed with them. He discards them after abusing his partner to the point of no return, and it is my job to clean up after him.

just because he finds the smell of blood repulsive and it keeps him from sleeping soundly.

What a disgusting bastard!

Not just me, but every girl under seventeen who has not received her wolf yet is one of his slaves. Aside from gathering the ripped bodies of the females who serve the Alpha, our other responsibilities included cleaning the entire pack house and laboring like robots in the kitchen all day.

However, it was far easier to be their slaves than it was to be their women.

Here, women are treated like tea and coffee for his guests, who can even enjoy torturing them. In this pack, being born a female is a curse in and of itself.

I cursed myself for being here to witness those women's anguish every time I heard them whimpering and screaming.

It serves as a reminder that at some point, I may find myself lying on my deathbed. I get chills just thinking about it, and it feels like my blood is being drained out of me.

Alpha Xian resembled a raptor. He uses a special whip with silver knuckles that, when struck, can protrude a large amount of flesh.

It is quite awful. It pleases him when the women in his bed scream. Monstrous...!

There are no adequate words to describe him; he is neither a human nor a beast. His presence is a never-ending nightmare.

I never got used to hearing those cries, no matter how long I heard them, but today it felt like a hundred needles piercing my heart every time I heard a cry or scream.

Every whipping sound I heard caused me to experience physical pain as well.

That beast on its bed, thrashing and torturing his victim, was none other than my sister Cathrine. I could not stop cursing my life, even at the thought of what she might be going through now.

"You are brave enough to stay hidden and out of reach." With a high-pitched, ominous voice that suggested he was straining, Alpha Xian moaned. No word from Cathrine reached my ears.

My thoughts nearly stopped. What happened to her?

Did she...!

I felt like my heart would burst with terror. A million thoughts ran wildly through my mind as to what might have happened to her. And what will he do to me once he grasps the truth?

It was all my fault.

I caused her this trouble of hell. It wasn't her fault at all, it was me who was supposed to be under that beast right now, being assaulted to death. It was my fault that I let my scent out.

Why the hell did I even do that...?

I regret it. I regretted it to the core...!

Today I am seventeen years old and for the first time, I felt my wolf's existence in my mind. But before I could shift, Catherine stopped me. She said I should not do that until I find my destined mate and get out of here.

I know she was right but I truly wonder if the one, 'Destined mate' really exists in this world. But she believes that there should be one, made for us.

I took out the divine locket in my neck for just a few seconds, to try out the new change in my body but it turned out to be a nightmare as Alpha Xian caught the scent at that very instant and started searching for me.

Grasping the danger, Catherine hugged me to catch my scent and put the locket back on my neck to cover things up.

At that time, I didn't figured out what was going on until I saw him staring at us desperately from the corner.

He came closer and sniffed us. Before we could do anything to save ourselves, he dragged Catherine along with him by her hair, mercilessly. I trembled in fear.

Running behind them as fast as I could only to be stumbled and fall. My useless effort was of no help.

What can I suppose to do to a strong Alpha of almost double my size and a hundred times stronger than me?

I was locked outside his room door whereas Cathrine was hauled in by him.

It was the very first time I saw that man of a monster, Alpha Xian so closely.

Though I had been working here from my childhood, I was merely a down grade slave who was not allowed to serve the upgraded members of the pack. I was here only to do dirty jobs for them.

My body was immature and fragile and I reek of disgusting smells and maybe that was why they never doubted that I was seventeen already.

I heard about him before, that he is dangerous, but I never saw his dreadful self other than today. It was said that we were brought here right after my father's pack was wiped off.

I don't know who my parents were as I don't remember any traces of them in my mind. Though Catherine do remember somethings from the past.

Alpha Xian is the Alpha of the Redwood pack which is known for being cruel. They kill people for fun, wealth and desires.

We had been serving him as slaves for nearly seven years, Cathrine is a year older than me. She got her wolf last year but had been successfully hiding it from the monster all these days.

There was a rule in this pack, that any female who got her wolf would serve the Alpha on the bed. That could be called that she would be assaulted and ripped by him no matter who her destined mate is.

To tell the truth, I never heard any female from our pack had ever ended well, finding her destined mate, a blessing to live well. These were not our things.

Females of this disgusting pack can only carry cubs when they are used up, I mean when no other male wants to mate them anymore. And at that stage, even if they give birth to a cub, they either die miserably or end up disabled.

Catherine had always believed in what our mother said, that every female had a destined mate and would be loved and cherished by him. That was the reason why Mom taught Catherine to make a special kind of pill.

We take those pills to halt the body's growth and wear that divine locket left by our mother to hide the wolf scent. It is like a shield spell.

However, I don't know the why. When I asked Catherine, she said we were special.

The divine bloodline...!

I hung my head and my hands were still trembling as I did not hear anything from Catherine for so long.

Did he killed her... I am so useless...! I couldn't help her.

It was just after a few more minutes that I heard some rustling sound from inside again after that dreadful silence.

He sniffed before a loud thud. He threw her away...!

Is she dead...!

I was shaking from head to toe and my heart was beating very loud.

Something was wrong inside. How I wished I could go take her away. I thought I could rush to her once he left but the next words dragged my soul to my mouth.

"It was not you...!" he groaned and my heart skipped a few beatings.

"No...! It was me...! I swear" I heard Cathrine scream mustering all her strength but in a shaky voice. I was staring at the enormous shadow dancing from behind the door when I heard his footsteps approaching the door.

"Run...!" my eyes grew wide as Catherine sensed a connection with me mentally. It was my first time experiencing it too.

But why was she asking me to run?

"Scarlett, run...! Save yourself" I can hear her voice getting low as if it was her last breath.

"No" I screamed back, "We will leave together..." I can't leave her here to die, after knowing what will happen to her. Never.

"No...Cathrine, I am not leaving you behind..." I yelled back.

"Don't waste the chance...! He won't kill me. I can't hold on anymore, just run don't let all my struggle go in vain"

I was shivering as I heard the door knob jiggling.

What should I do?

What...!

"You must not get caught...!"

Why...?

How could I leave her behind?

Even if I run, can I escape from his hands?

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