**Audrey’s POV**
“Fuck!” I groaned. My head, back and stomach throbbed painfully, even my ribs, they felt like they were on fire. Clutching my head with both of my hands as if to keep it steady against my neck, I sat up on my bed and winced as the pain struck me again with full force.
I closed my eyes briefly; and almost immediately I had flashes of a gory scene playing out before me. All I saw was blood, decapitated bodies and pain filled screams in the air. I opened my eyes immediately, afraid of the gory scene playing in my head.
“What the hell happened?” I mumbled to myself. I couldn’t remember what exactly had happened but I knew that a moment ago, I was at the fields with my mother and her maids, and the next minute, I was on my bed with my head so heavy it felt like it was about to fall off my neck.
I walked up to my vanity mirror, and gasped at my reflection. I know I usually looked bad, starved, but this time it was different. A distant kind of bad, I looked haggard, around my eyes were purplish looking bruises. Even my dark circles were so prominent, they looked like a make up.
Just as I was about to walk into my bathroom, my door flung open, revealing my father who barged into the room with a stormy expression on his handsome face. I was used to it. He never smiled at me. Whenever he comes in here, the only thing he would do is hit me, sometimes he would hit me untilI passed out.
Fully expecting that that was what was about to happen, I stood patiently, waiting for the next hit but it never came.
“You bitch!” He growled, looking at me with hate filled eyes. “You’ve finally succeeded in killing your mother!” He yelled in my face.
Wait, what the hell was he saying?
I looked up at him quizzically, thinking he was bluffing, probably high on something until I noticed my younger sister, Raquel waltz into the room brandishing a large whip in her hands.
“What’s happ—” I started to ask but was cut off when the sharp edge of the whip struck my face with full force. I yelped in pain. Raquel had hit me.
Tears rolled down my cheek in fat droplets as my father walked up to me and held me against my bedroom wall while Raquel continued hitting me with the whip. She didn’t care where it landed, on my face, chest, breasts, back, everywhere.
I had learned the hard way never to shout whenever I was hit, but this time; this time it was different, it was too much, they had this precision, this force that made every hit ooze of hatred; and I knew they were going to kill me if I did not try to stop them.
“Stop!” I groaned, my eyes were tearing up. My body was on fire. I couldn’t stand the pain they were inflicting on me, “stop,” I said again, “You’re hurting me!”
“You should’ve maybe thought about that before you killed your mother!” Dad yelled, he struck my face so hard that it fell limply in the opposite direction. I tasted blood on my mouth and I knew that my lips had been busted.
“I did not kill my mother!” I cried out in frustration, “I would never kill my mother!” I cried again, thrashing wildly in his hold in order to get away from him; but his steely hands held me still. I couldn’t fight against them, they were stronger than I was, way stronger.
My father is an Alpha, and my sister, my sister is just as strong as he was; and I was an omega. An omega for fucks sake! I still do not understand how fate decided to curse me like this!
A painful blow to my midriff had me sprawling to the floor. My eyes blurred as tiny black dots danced in my line of sight.
“You killed your Mother and you will pay for it!” Dad yelled, planting a heavy kick to my ribs. Kicking so hard, I knew that they would fracture. I cried out, moving away from him. In all of my torture, Raquel did not say a word, she simply stood away from me, waiting until father gave her the cue to start hitting me again.
“I do not know what you’re talking about!” I cried softly, wrapping my arms around my body as if in a bid to stop the aching. “Mother isn’t dead, she was at the field with me moments ago.”
“Mother isn’t dead, she was at the field with me moments ago!” Raquel mimicked in a high pitched voice, coming over to land a heavy kick onto my exposed chest. “Liar! You fucking liar! You think we wouldn’t see through your pretentious facade?!”
I was confused, utterly confused. I didn’t understand what they were talking about. Didn’t understand why they would insist that a living person was dead.
For how long had I been out?
“If you are not responsible for mother’s death, then explain why you were found in the fields straddling her dead corpse with a silver knife in your hands?!” Raquel yelled, coming to stand over me.
Wait what? When did that happen?
“You must be mistaken…” I cried, hugging myself. “I don’t remember doing that! I’ll never do that!”
I watched silently as Raquel squatted before me, holding my head in a very painful grip, and then she hit my head against the floor with so much force, I felt like my brain was about to crack open.
“If not for the fact that Dad has another kind of punishment in store for you, I would’ve killed you this minute and fed your irritating skin to the dogs!” She seethed, standing up.
“I didn’t kill her, I swear. I would never kill her!” I cried frantically, still confused about what was happening.
“Shut up!” Dad growled, throwing another kick to my midriff. “Get your stuff packed! You’ll be going off to blood crest pack tomorrow morning!” He snarled at me. My eyes widened in shock.
“W-why?” I stuttered fearfully. Blood crest was a total nightmare. The worst nightmare anyone would be forced to go through. It was filled with brutal people and an even worse Alpha.
“Didn’t you hear me earlier?” Raquel seethed venomously, “that’s your punishment! We’re selling you off to the Alpha of Blood crest pack as we no longer find you useful here anymore!”
No! no! No! Not the Alpha! Not that devil!
“Please, no…” I cried, “I swear I didn’t kill mom, don’t send me off to that monster!”
“I’ll make sure to inform him that you just called him a monster.” Raquel replied with an evil glint in her eyes.
No!
“Please don’t do this to me!” I cried, but my pleas fell on deaf ears as they both strutted out of my room, leaving the door ajar behind them.
I fell on my knees, sobbing. This couldn’t be happening to me. It shouldn’t. My body shook with fear at the thought of getting sold to Alpha Valentino. He was way worse than my father was; and my father was already an evil man as it is…
**Audrey’s POV**I woke up with a start to discover that I had slept on the cold tiled floor over the night with my door still left ajar from when Dad and Raquel had walked out of it the previous day.Speaking of dad and Raquel, I remembered what they had said yesterday about selling me off to become a slave to Alpha Valentino of Blood crest pack. The thought of it made my blood run cold. I couldn’t go there, I wouldn’t go there! That blood sucker of an Alpha would have me killed even before dad would ever consider killing me! I wouldn’t allow this to happen to me.My body ached tremendously as I slowly got up from the floor on wobbly legs and practically dragged my tired body into my bathroom. I didn’t try to look at my reflection today because I knew I would look way worse than I did yesterday.Closing my eyes, I quickly got in the warm shower, stood still in it until all of the blood dried on my skin had been rinsed out and got out to quickly dress up. I had made my decision. I d
**Audrey’s POV**I slowly trudged beside Robert who had his arm wrapped around me, to keep me steady as we walked out of the forest. I wanted to fall against him, to hug him, to hold him around me, but the pain in my legs kept snapping me back to reality at every step I took.“Is your house very far from here?” I asked quietly, feeling the pain on my foot slowly crawl upwards until it began to grip slowly at my knees.“Just a little bit far from here.” He drawled quietly, looking down at me with hooded eyes.“Could you walk a little faster?” I asked him, thinking that my father and Alpha Valentino could be looking for me and could appear behind us at any moment. I couldn’t help but look over my shoulders at every minute because I knew that they hadn’t stopped looking for me that quickly.“Are you running from someone, or something?” He asked, turning to look down at me quizzically. I immediately nodded my head in negation and kept my mouth shut as we continued walking slowly deeper in
*Audrey’s POV**I gulped again and again, staring into his deep dark eyes that had suddenly turned from accommodating and kind into something so beastly, it was difficult to look into them.“Robert…” I started, my voice thick with fear.“Valentino.” He corrected me. Tilting his head to the side as if trying to understand some big puzzle.“Why?” I whispered quietly, my eyes glazed with unshed tears as I stared up at him. I had nothing to say, even my brain was too mushy to form words. Suddenly I remembered that he was my mate and I gasped again. So aside from making me an omega, the moon goddess had also cursed me with a beast of a mate.“Why?” He asked, his eyes boring into mine with so much proximity, it made my knees wobble. “Why what? Why did I save you from the bear’s trap? Why did I save you from vanquishing inside that thick forest or what Audrey?”I gulped again, the lump in my throat increased at every passing second. “Why that too…” I whispered quietly, my gaze not wavering
Audrey:I remained huddled on the bed, wrapping my arms around myself. Scared, and nearly tormented. I could no longer feel the pain of his bite around my neck, but the sweet pain I had felt earlier was gone as well.After realization had hit me, another hit me again.I would never be mated to another ever again.This wasn't a life I had dreamt of, or wished for. What about the roses I always imagined? What about the glass of wine and petals of flowers scattered around the room with candles leading the way.I had dreamt of so much more, but who would have thought all my dreams would shatter into multiple pieces in a night, by a cruel, evil and mysteriously rumored cursed alpha.He had claimed me, and I was also mated to him. If he claims another, then I would be left to become a rogue, and if he decides not to reject me, then I would become his slave forever.Droplet of tears fell freely from my eyes, hoping that when I wake up the next morning, it would all be a dream, and I would be
Audrey:I took two steps backwards, one more, until I was unable to take another. I could feel my chest slowly burning up. The gory scenes began playing in my head again and I immediately yelled out in pain while holding my head tight."Please, stop!" I begged.Her painful screams stopped and I immediately opened my eyes again. I raised my head to stare at the alpha, but he still had a calm look on his face."Leave." He commanded her. Still frightened, she scurried out of the field like a Hyena who was running away from an even deadlier creature. I stared at her till she was gone.My gaze shifted back to him, and my hands began shaking immediately. I wanted to take steps away from him as he took his closer to me, but I was scared of doing so.I was scared of the fact that he might do the same to me. I was scared that he might torture me mentally, like he did to her. What kind of an alpha was he.I suddenly recalled mother had told me there were different kinds of alphas.She knew all
Audrey:Night came by quickly. I was still huddled in my room and had refused every food that was earlier brought to me. I was scared they had sprinkled something in there.I yawned hungrily, and jerked up on my feet when I heard the creaking sound of the door.I had expected another lady to walk in carrying a plate of food with her, but no, it was Alpha Valentino."You keep rejecting your meals." Alpha Valentino said.I couldn't raise my head to stare at him because I was scared of doing so."I'm not hungry." I answered."Is that so? If you wish to starve for 7 days, I can help you with it." When he said this, I raised my head to stare at him. What was I even expecting? It wasn't like he was going to be soft on me, and ask me why I was repeatedly rejecting the meals.As he tried walking closer to me, my lips trembled before they uttered something."Please stop! Don't come closer please." I begged.I could feel cold piercing through my skin, and I was almost at a point of passing out.
Audrey:I kept on running, without looking back because I was afraid to do so. My strength was slowly leaving me, but I didn't want to give up. I would call it a miracle that I was able to escape, and I thought the moon goddess was finally on my side.Something hard hit me, and I immediately fell on the soil wincing in pain. I rose up on my feet and continued running. As long as I was still in the silver Crest pack, alpha Valentino would surely find me. He would torture me, and probably kill me.His mark on my neck would keep drawing him closer to me. I hated this fact so much, but I was left with no other choice. The bushes around me were thick, and some of them had piercing edges that cut into my skin at every slight contact.I would groan in pain each time my foot stepped on something so sharp. I could endure all of this pain, but not the pain that comes with the alpha finding me.I halted when I saw from a far distance a truck coming towards my direction. I had thought this was my
Valentino:My wolf, Red and I kept running through the bushes. Once I got to my destination which was on top of a very high mountain deep in the forest, I stared up at the full moon.Red and I howled to our satisfaction and when I was done, I changed back to my human form.During this period, lycans were usually powerful and out of control. I could sense Audrey was in danger from afar and I was able to speed up in order to catch up with her and rescue her on time.I didn't mean to hurt her that way either. It was all something that I couldn't control. Those desires in my eyes were so much that I had to use her to calm them down.I remained seated, staring at the moon as the memories of the past hit me hard. When I heard a loud screeching sound, I covered my ears tight."Zale, Zale, where are you? Zale." I could hear her voice from the deepest part of my mind. I didn't want to hear it, but I had no other choice. It just wouldn't stop when I tell it too.My eyes turned blue, and I shif