Chapter 3.

Amber's POV

"I'm here to see Alpha Logan," Vermont said as he approached the guards standing by the side of the gate of what seemed to be my new home. "Tell him, it's Vermont."

"Alpha Logan never mentioned to us anybody of the name Vermont," one of the guards who held what seemed to be a mixture of an axe and a spear said. "Please turn back to wherever you are coming from."

"Your alpha might not have mentioned my name to you guys but I am sure if you tell him my name and my reason for coming, he will let me in," Vermont insisted. He shifted his weight from his left leg to his right as he gave a small grunt. "It is very, very important."

"Oh, really?" the other guard said as he unsheathed his two swords and held them by his side. He raised one to his shoulder and gave a small grin before asking, "And what should I tell him is your reason for coming?"

"I have..." Vermont turned and looked at me, who was now fully awake and had my eyes on the monster of a step-father, "... a very good merchandise that I believe would benefit him very well."

The guard who had spoken last turned towards where Vermont had looked and gave a sly grin after sighting me. He licked his long fangs with his forked thorn before hitting his colleague slightly on the chest and pointing towards me.

"Well, I'll be," the guard with the spear-axe hybrid said as he grinned widely and began licking his brandished fangs. "Alpha Logan sure would love that."

"Oh, I know he would," Vermont said with a small chuckle as he shifted his weight again from his right leg back to his left. He seemed to be really nervous. "So," he said with a small shrug, "are you going to tell him of me or what?"

"Yeah, yeah," the guard with the sword said with a chortle as he turned to head to the gate. Before he closed the gate, he said, "Wait for me. I won't take too long."

I flinched in the cage as the large gate banged shut. I looked at my step-father and sighed. The old man really was going through with his plans. I really was getting sold off like a slave.

"Dammit," I mumbled under my breath as I looked down at my chained hands.

When I had woken, I realized that I was no longer surrounded by guards anymore and the chains that had been used on me were now connected to the bars of the cage that I had been thrown into the first time. I had liked the silence but that same silence almost caused me to run mad. That coupled with the pain I received from her new leash.

The metal that had been used to chain me had a piece of silver jabbed in it so there was no way I could break free from it. From time to time too, my hand sizzled and hissed from the burning of the silver bits on my hands but there was no way I could cry from the pain. I just didn't have the strength to.

I turned to the large walls that stood not too far from where they had parked the cart which seemed to be what had the pack compound on its boundaries. Back at home, if I could ever call that place home, their compound was bounded by a wall too but this seemed to be twice its size. Whoever lived here must be really powerful and--

"Alpha Logan is ready to see you," I heard someone say and I turned back to the gate. The guard that had gone in to announce our presence was now out and it was my step-father that he had just finished addressing.

Vermont gave me a small smile before nodding at the guard and walking in. He turned to the car and was about to ask for his guards to bring it in when the guard whistled, calling his attention.

"That," he pointed to the cart, "is not going in until our Alpha says so."

"Wouldn't... wouldn't he want to see his merchandise first?" Vermont asked and the guard grinned widely.

"I don't know," he said, maintaining his devilish grin. "But I am sure he would have told me if he wanted so."

"Oh..." Vermont said with one of his brows raised. He glanced at me and shrugged before saying, "okOkaythen. Where can I see him?" He then turned and walked into the compound, closing the gate behind him as the guard led the way.

I wasn't surprised with this act. If my stepfather could treat his stepdaughter as an animal by dumbing me into a cage, him leaving me for the dogs should not be surprising.

With a small sigh, I looked up at the moon. I had been told stories of the moon goddess right from when I was little and I believed in those tales. But lately, I was beginning to lose my faith in her. It was only a matter of time before I stopped believing entirely.

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Vermont’s POV

The Red Fanged Pack's compound was much larger than I had thought. From what I had heard from people who claimed to have come here, the place spanned over two lands, twice the size of his. They could not be more wrong.

The place was more than four times the size of my pack compound. It could be more and I wouldn't even know. I was sure that if I claimed the tallest building, I wouldn't be able to see the end of the place.

"This is good," I whispered to myself as we passed by the compound's training field for guards. If I could make use of this opportunity and get my rat of a step-daughter mated to Alpha Logan, I was sure to receive more than half of--

"What is it, Vermont?" the guard leading me said after noticing that I had been whispering to myself the whole time. "Is anything the matter?"

"No, no," I answered as I shook my head vehemently. "It is nothing at all." Not wanting to. entering my head, the guard gave a light shrug and continued on.

We kept on walking for about three minutes before the Alpha's meeting room came into view. There was just no way that I could use to describe how majestic and beautiful it was.

Its pillars were lined with silver and the floor was designed with marble. The building itself was about twenty feet high and about a hundred and fifty feet wide.

"Holy fuckery," I said silently as we came to the front of the building. I began chuckling loudly when all of a sudden, a deep voice boomed from within the building, calling my name.

"Vermont," the voice called and I immediately stopped with my laughter. I looked inside with trembling and saw the dreaded alpha, sitting on a throne that seemed to have been molded out of gold. About ten guards stood behind him and they all had the same sly smile that the gate guard had given him.

"Alpha Logan," I said with a nervous chuckle before gulping loudly. I made to enter the building when Alpha Logan stood up from his throne and began coming towards me. "No need for you to enter, Alpha Vermont," Alpha Logan said as he continued towards me.

"Al... alpha L-Logan," I said with a stutter before falling down on my knees. I could not see the alpha but the strong aura that I could feel coming towards my direction told me everything I needed to know.

"Stand up," Alpha Logan said in his deep voice. "Look at me when you speak." With a shudder, I stood up from the floor and looked at Alpha Logan. "Better."

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Amber’s POV

"Ugh," I grunted as the guard at the gate winked at me. I closed my eyes shut and backed the gate as hot tears fell down my face. I prayed so much that it was all a dream, that the pain I was feeling right now was not real. But the more I prayed for it to be so, the more it dawned on me that it was the real thing.

I was fucked.

I was really in a cage, I was really being sold off, my life was really getting much more miserable.

"Why?" I mumbled under my breath. "Why can't my life just be normal?" This and more questions were what flooded my mind but there was no one to give me an answer.

I jerked out of my thoughts and turned my head towards the gate when I heard it creak open. I prayed to see my step-father come out with a sad face to tell me that things weren't going as planned but as always, my prayers were not answered.

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