Crystina is the pack's outcast. This is because her father was the murderer of their last Alpha. She was brought into their pack as retribution. She was to pay for the sins of her father and despite their Alpha's hatred for her, he couldn't stop noticing her tiny smiles, and her pretty face. When Luka thought he would get over it, he realized she was his mate. How is he supposed to love the daughter of his father's murderer? How is he supposed to accept this fate? When he couldn't find an answer, he left just to avoid her. Now, Luka was done running. He's ready to claim Crystina as his mate but unfortunately, her heart already belonged to another.
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“I heard the Alpha is back,” A voice whispered and I turned, suddenly at alert as fear suddenly descended on me.
“There she goes, weirdo” A male voice quietly mocked from behind me as I stood in the hallways of Moonvalley high school. I didn’t need to turn to know who it was or if they were referring to me. I know that was for me and it wasn’t the first time. Everyone has different nicknames for me; weirdo, dumbo, sicko, and every other awful word that ends with an ‘o’. It’s not like I care about what they call me or what they think about me, in all honesty, I can’t stand them either.
I’m just an ordinary girl in the powerful Moonvalley Pack. Nobody cares about me being bullied or insulted by a group of spoilt high school brats. I’m so sure only a few of the people who live in Moonvalley pack knows my name or even know that I existed. Since I was brought here ten years ago, nobody looked at me twice except for Alpha Luka anyway. Well, no one would really care about the daughter of a murderer.
I opened the locker and screamed before taking a step back. I stared in horror at the dead rat that was sitting inside my locker and on top of my chemistry textbook.
Everyone around me was laughing. I bit on my lower lips as I tried to keep the tears off my eyes but I didn’t think that was going to work today. The evil triplets walked towards me, laughing just as my best friend, Paige stopped beside me. She peeped into my locker and saw what they did and groaned.
“You guys need to grow up,” She warned. Brandon, the oldest of the evil triplet who had made it his mission to terrorize me shunned her by waving his hand in her face, telling her to shut up.
“How was our little present, freako?” he asked, smiling.
“The last one was better, Brandon. This is way below your regular prank standard. Shouldn’t you have done better?” I asked him. The smile slipped away from his face and was soon replaced by a frown.
“You weirdo!” Breston spat. “You think you’re so smart, right? Let’s see if you’ll survive the next one,”
“Do you know what’s going to be weirder, if you guys are still standing here trying to bully my best friend in the next ten seconds, I’ll rub this dead rat all over your face and shove it down y’all throats,” Paige threatened while holding up the dead rat. I hadn’t even noticed when she brought the rat out of my locker.
“Oh, God!” I groaned as the stinking smell hit my nose. Paige, on the other hand, wasn’t bothered, she could care less about it as she was grinning from ear to ear.
The ‘B’ triplet moved back from her with disgust plastered on their faces. Breston looked like she was going to throw up while Brandon could only scrunch his big nose. Billy, wasn’t impressed as well.
“This isn’t over, Crystina and her crazy friend,” Brandon warned as they turned, ready to walk away.
“Of course, it isn’t over, idiots. You are the ones walking away now,” Paige yelled after them. Soon, they walked away from the hallway, and the little crowd that has gathered to watch the show slowly dispersed. Paige was the blonde while I was the brunette. She has a dimple on one of her cheeks and she was so beautiful I could hardly believe she was a friend to plain Jane like me.
“Show is over, everyone should mind their business now,” I said as I glared at the remaining few. They rolled their eyes before walking away. “High school is hell,” I groaned.
Paige threw the rat into the waste bin down the corridor and walked back to her locker. Her locker was beside mine and it has always been that way since we were in junior high. We didn’t bother talking about what just happened. It wasn’t the first time it would.
“Where’s Nico anyway? Did he finally get lost in the dark forest?” I shook my head in disbelief. Nico was our third friend. He and Paige have never been on the good side for twenty-four hours straight.
“He won’t be around today. He said he was busy with something that I shouldn’t tell you about”
When I turned to look at her and saw her glaring at me, I couldn’t help but laugh. “Let’s get to class before it’s too late” I advised.
“Yeah, I really don’t want to be in detention by the end of the day, that place makes me sick to the stomach,” We held hands as we walked together to the class.
We were lucky to get there ten minutes before the teacher. We quickly settled in our usual spot and waited in silence. I’m not the type who loves talking in class and I’m glad Paige understands even though sometimes, she doesn’t care especially when it’s something that she wants to tell me about badly.
During lunch, we could hear some girls gushing about someone in the cafeteria. Lucky enough for us, we were sitting behind them so we could hear their dark fantasies and bullshit.
“He’s so handsome and beautiful at the same time. How’s that even possible? He’s so unreal,” A girl gushed. Both I and Paige shared a look of confusion before turning to the girl. She wasn’t alone, she was surrounded by a group of other girls who were busy staring at something on their phones.
“Alpha Luka is the nicest person I know. Do you guys know that Alpha Luka just donated some money from his personal account to the school?” The Principal daughter asked. Her friends gushed, shrieked and even a girl let out a cry.
“No way!”
“Yes! My mom just told me about it. Guess what, he’s back in town. My mom went to meet with him for a meeting,”
As soon as she said those words, the other girls all brought out their makeup kits while I slipped back into my seat. The cold bread in my hand dropped into the tray as anxiety enveloped me. I could feel cold sweat breaking from my forehead as I clasped my hands together.
He’s back. Alpha Luka is back!
He’s been gone for three years, why was he back now? What am I supposed to do?
I’d thought he would be gone forever and never did I expected to see him again or hear about him again. My life has been silent for years and now, he’s back for what exactly. Alpha Luka was the leader of our pack, the only surviving son of the late Alpha. His father was friends with mine until he was accused of killing Luka’s father.
Luka brought me back to the pack to live with him and his people when I had no one left to take care of me and ever since I got here, he made my life a living hell. Not only did I become an outcast but I was also treated like a slave.
AN: FOUR MORE CHAPTERS FOR TODAY. I'LL UPDATE THIS BOOK WITH FIVE CHAPTERS EVERY THREE DAYS. LEAVE YOUR AMAZING COMMENTS AND CRITIQUES, I WANT TO READ THEM
Paige's POV "I didn't expect to see your face again or even see you marked by my brother," I rolled my eyes as I decided to ignore Carter no matter what. Gabriel and I together with Azel arrived at the palace two seconds ago and I'm so unfortunate the person who came to meet us at the door was no one else but mother fucking Carter. "Hello to you, Carter," I said with a fake big smile. "I know that smile is fake, Paige. You can't fool me," "Maybe you should stop stressing the girl out so much," Azel advised. We hadn't even walked into the palace yet because of Gabriel. Gabriel was speaking to a woman on the far end side of ours. "Aww, don't get too jealous, Paige. He marked you already, he can't jump to another woman just like that," "You're a pandemic," I told him. He wasn't just an arch nemesis to Gabriel, he was a problem to everyone around him except Azel. I've been thinking of so many ways to get rid of him and I just couldn't come up with something that'll kill
Paige's POV"Do you want me to come over there?" Crystina asked from the other end of the line. I shook my head as if she could see me.After several days of mopping and locking myself in my room, I found the courage to call my parents and I asked them to tell me the truth and not leave any stone unturned. Even though they were both adamant at first, my mother cracked first. She told me she had begged my father not to do it but he didn't listen. My father didn't talk to me even after I was done talking to my mom and I didn't care. They lied to me all my life, they made me hate a different person, they almost made me leave Gabriel and made an innocent person apologize for the sins his father didn't commit. I asked them not to contact me anymore. I told my mother she should be rest assured that I'll be fine because it's obvious I'll be safer with the Lucien's brothers than with my own family. "You don't have to. Moreover, we'll be leaving for the palace in a day," I replied Crystina
Paige's POV "Lucien didn't do it," Carter said. He picked up a grape from the fruit bowl, ate one, and offered me the next one. I shook my head. "Who did?" He shrugged. "I wasn't really particularly interested in the story because it would've been more interesting if they'd said my father did it," I clenched my teeth. His answer wasn't what I wanted and his words were beginning to piss me off. "Carter, who did?" "Why do I think you're angry? I can smell your anger," "Because I need a fucking answer," I yelled."It was you, right? You're the girl in the story," "That's none of your business, I just need an answer," "No wonder that bastard hasn't marked you yet. He's probably stalling from marking a wolfless bitch," I clamped my lips together, forcing myself to swallow whatever it is I wanted to say. "Listen, Carter. You can keep the tale, I don't want to know," I turned, ready to leave again. "What happened to you was tragic," It was his game and the little time I'd spent
Paige's POV"Someone looks ready for training," Gabriel teased as I walked down the stairs. I was in my training gear already excited for the training. How could someone be so excited about getting exhausted and sweaty? That someone is me by the way. I know it's going to be hard but I'm ready in every way. I've been training for a month already and I get stronger each time. "I guess," I shrugged. I walked past him to pick up a bottle of water from the fridge. When I turned back to look at him, I caught him staring at my ass. Since the last time, we haven't made an attempt to make out not to talk about having sex. It's not like the spark died because I could still feel the sexual tension between us but I believe something else changed in Gabriel. I can't know what's going through his head but it's a lot sometimes and he acts on it. He thinks I'll break if he touched me. If I want him, I have to pull him in myself. "Quit staring at my ass, commander," He gave a small smile and looked
Paige's POVI tried to wrap my head around what Gabriel meant by his words and I couldn't bring myself to find an answer to that. I was shocked by his words and I couldn't understand it. I've been playing with Azel because he was too busy to have my time and I didn't want to be a bitch by demanding his attention every time. "What are you talking about, Gabriel?" He clicked his tongue. "You don't want me around you. Don't try to deny it, Piage," I had to interrupt him at that point. "That's not true, Gabriel. You've been busy and I didn't want to be an additional problem by complaining," "You've been giving your attention to Azel. You don't even look at me when I come home either in the day or at night," "That's because you don't stay for more than five minutes when you come home during the day and at night, you come home late. I try to stay awake and wait for you but you just never come," He stared at me, ran his hand into his hair, and slumped into his chair. "I stay for five
Paige's POV"Get off my path, you demon," I yelled at Azel as I tabbed the game console with more anger. He was growling, yelling back at me. "Move your ass, you're not a snail for fuck sake, Princess," I snarled at him and he winked. I still don't understand how I get so worked up about these games and Azel can still compose his shit to look like gold. Two weeks have passed since Gabriel and I declared how important we were to each other. He's been busy at the Pack, rarely having time for me. Still, I always wake up to breakfast that he made while the chef he hired fixes dinner for me. Most times, when I wake up in the morning, he's gone and I don't even have the privilege to see him before bed. I miss him so much but I didn't want to complain and act like a clingy mate so I shut my trap and let him do whatever he wanted. Sometimes, I would sneak into the training ground in the early hours of the morning to watch him train with the others and when I'm satisfied with his looks, I'
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