3. Getting tortured

"She's going to die if we beat her more than this now." One of the guards said to his partner while looking at the heavily injured omega of their pack.

Faith was her name and just like her name, she had full faith on the moon goddess that she wouldn't do such injustice to her.

Faith was chained and hung up with her hands above her head. Her feet could barely touch the ground. The old clothes she was wearing were torn, and the wounds caused by the whipping could be seen. Some of the blood had dried, forming a dark red stain on the clothes.

"What a shameless cunning bitch! She is dying but still isn't telling the truth!" Another guard snapped at her while looking at her in disgust. He looked as if he wanted to kill her. He spit at her.

She couldn't flinch even though she wanted to. She didn't have the energy to flinch. She was numb. She couldn't feel her limbs. She was hardly breathing and she felt as if her ribs were breaking into pieces with every whiff of air she was getting inside her lungs.

"She is a betrayer! She deserves to die anyway." The first guard said, having the same murderous glint in his eyes as his partners.

"But we can't kill her. The alpha has given a strict order that we cannot kill her." The other one groaned in frustration before whipping her one last time.

Her chains made rattling sounds as her numb body shook like the last leaf of winter. But she didn't make a sound. She couldn't make a sound. She didn't have the energy to make a sound.

"Yeah, whatever. Let's leave her like this for now. We will come back again a few hours later and see if we can get anything out of her or not." The first guard said with a roll of his eyes which were filled with hatred and venom and no sign of mercy.

They both left the cell without giving her another look and locked the door outside. Soon the sound of their footsteps left the corridor of the basement and she was left with nothing but silence which occasionally filled the cell with her ragged breathing and coughing.

Minutes might have turned into hours. She didn't have any idea when she lost consciousness. But when she came back to sense, the numbness was gone. She could feel her whole body aching and burning.

"He...help... Help... Wa...water... Le...let me go…" She cried out with a lot of difficulties as her tears mixed with the blood coming out of her mouth and fell on the ground. But her cries were hardly heard. It was so weak that even a werewolf with great hearing ability wouldn't be able to hear her from one feet away.

How much she wanted to wish at that time! But she couldn't! She couldn't ask for death because she has to live for Echo. She has to live to prevent another Faith growing up in the Blue Moon Pack.

Blue Moon Pack…

Her once home and current hell. And she was the one and only 'taken for granted' omega and punching bag of the pack. This omega had another respectable identity once but it's not valid anymore.

Faith was the only daughter of the alpha of the Blue Moon Pack. She once used to be the princess of the pack. Those two guards who were beating her and wishing for her death a few hours ago were ready to sacrifice their lives for her once. But it all changed on one fateful night.

Eleven years ago when she was only twelve years old, their pack went under an attack. Everyone told her that the Lycans attacked them. She was too young and too much in shock to remember anything about that incident. All she knows is that her parents, the Alpha and the Luna of the pack, were killed that night.

Since then, her life has completely changed. In a blink of an eye, she was stripped from the position of being the alpha princess to the omega of the pack. Her father's second in command, John, and second lady in command, Lina, as in the beta and beta's mate of the pack became the next alpha and luna of the pack. She was too young and weak to challenge him to keep her position to herself.

Her miserable life started that day. From being pampered by everyone, she became everyone's easy and only target of bullying in a heartbeat. The Luna, Lina, was the most evil. She started to beat her, torture her and make her do all the chores of the pack. Faith never imagined the woman who always used to adore her was so evil and everything was just a facade. Slowly everyone started to pick on her and she started to accept her current life.

But her living nightmare was Jackson. She felt a shiver run pass through her spine as soon as she thought of his name.

Jackson always used to do something weird to get her attention. May that be by teasing her or by beating any boy talking to her. As they grew up, he put on this absurd claim on her. He claimed to… love her. But actually he's a psychopath! He loves to see her in pain!

As if life wasn't unfair enough toward her, she was welcomed with another tragic news on her eighteenth birthday. Werewolves usually shift on their eighteenth birthday and meet their other half, their wolf. But she didn't shift that night. She didn't shift the next year and the year after that. She didn't shift till this day. She doesn't have a wolf.

So, as a werewolf, it's not easy to be killed by physical torture but an omega's recovery ability is very slow. And the fact that she doesn't have a wolf is not working in her favour at all. That's why after a night of whipping her nerve of pain is almost paralyzed.

She couldn't take it anymore. She just wanted it all to stop. She wanted the moon goddess to forgive her for whatever sin she committed in her past life.

She looked at the ground which was welcoming her dripping blood drop by drop. Even her blood was accepted by the dusty ground but she wasn't accepted by anyone.

The sweat-soaked hair stuck to Faith's forehead and cheeks. The mixture of sweat, tears and blood almost blurred her eyes when she vaguely saw someone walking toward her. She lifted her head with a lot of difficulty to see who it was and her breath hitched.

The man she feared the most in her life was standing in front of her. Her alpha. Alpha Jackson. The maniac who loves to see her in pain and loves to see her tears was standing in front of her. Her current state must be a treat to his eyes. She feared what else he's going to do to her now.

The man stood very close to her and softly cupped her face and lifted her face to make her look at him but she didn't dare to meet his eyes. She let out a whimper the moment his hands touched her face, not out of pain but because of fear.

"Faith, just tell me which direction he ran. I promise, it will all stop and I will never let anyone touch you ever again." Jackson's soft and assuring voice almost made her believe him that she met his eyes in surprise before quickly looking down again.

She felt her whole body getting cold because of the look in his eyes. His eyes were filled with...pity and sympathy? He looked...as if he really wanted to stop this torture. What was that look? What is he planning to do?

Faith wanted to speak, but her throat was dry and she could only make some faint sounds but they were dead inside her throat as well.

"Ahhh..." Suddenly the whip lashed heavily on Faith's tattered body and she screamed hoarsely. She didn't realise when some other people entered the cell.

She started to shake heavily in fear when she realised her current alpha, former alpha and former Luna were standing inside her cell. It was Jackson's mother, Lina, who whipped her just now.

So, this is the moment she dies? Just like this? But if she dies, what's going to happen to her....

"Alpha... I...I...don't know..." She cried in desperation while looking up at Jackson. Because at that moment Jackson's fake pity seemed safe to her compared to her vicious former Alpha and Luna who had murderous glints in their eyes. They looked as if they couldn't wait to kill her.

"You opened the door of this same cell to let him go! And now you are telling me that you don't know where he escaped?" Jackson's fake soft voice suddenly was full of anger and it was that moment when she realised no one will be able to save her now. "Tell me, Faith. Just tell me once where he went. I promise. I promise, they won't touch you again." Jackson spoke up sweetly once again.

His tone was filled with desperation and that moment she understood where he was being 'so sweet' toward her. That man who she released was a threat to him. Jackson is scared of him and he wanted to torture that man to death but he couldn't do so because of her. That's why he's so restless and anxious.

"Please…please trust me… I…I don't know… please don't beat me anymore… please… it hurts so much…" Faith's tears fell from the corner of her eyes as she begged for her life to be spared.

"Did you hear this bitch?! She dares to beg us after betraying us like this!" Lina shouted and raised the whip to beat her again but Jackson caught it at the right time and glared at his mother. He didn't like people defying his orders. No matter who it is.

"Listen to me, Jackson. Bring this bitch's precious daughter here and beat that filth as well! Only then she will open her fucking mouth!" John, Jackson's father snapped, making her look at him with pure terror. She cried out loudly as she struggled to come out of the chains.

"No! No! Please no! Don't do that! Please! Trust me, I don't know where he went! Please! Beat me as much as you want but please don't hurt her!" She cried out loudly as she looked at Jackson in desperation. "Alpha…alpha, please… Please don't hurt her. You promised me that you won't hurt her!" She begged while looking at Jackson. She never felt this helpless and useless ever in her life.

"Put her down first, she will tell the truth to me. And no one will do anything without my order. Understood?" Faith heard Jackson order the guard next to her. But the moment the guard untied the chain, Lina spoke up again.

"Do you have pity on this traitor, Jackson?" Lina spat at her in a venomous tone.

"You were almost beaten to death by that beast, Jackson! Now we had finally poisoned and caught the beast, only If this bitch hadn't let him go, we would have our chance for revenge." John said with gritted teeth while looking at Faith with rage.

"We still have a chance because the beast cannot shift into a Lycan as he is poisoned by wolfbane. As long as he is found, he will be killed." Jackson said and looked at Faith who looked up at him with widened eyes the moment she heard the word 'Lycan'.

John, Lina and the guard left the cell without uttering another word and closed the door behind them. The room's temperature dropped immediately as Faith looked at Jackson fearfully.

"L…Lycan…?" She stammered in fear as she looked up at him for an explanation.

"Yes, princess. A Lycan. He is a Lycan, the current Lycan king. His family was the one who killed your parents and destroyed your life. I wanted to take revenge for you and me but you let him escape, princess." Jackson said in a menacing tone while putting a strand of her blood soaked hair behind her ear. She shivered at his touch and wanted to move away so badly but couldn't.

"No…no…" Faith whimpered as the realisation of what she did hit her.

"Yes, princess… Now you better pray that we find him. Or else, I might forget about the promise I made to you." Jackson said in a cold tone before walking out of the cell as well while Faith sat on the floor lifelessly, drowned in thoughts and regrets.

"What have I done?!"