Chapter 1

- OLIVIA

It was a bright Saturday morning when I woke up in my room on the last floor of this white mansion and decided to inform my foster mother, Nancy George, about my interest in gaining admission into the pack's university to study medicine so I could help the pack members.

As a seventeen-year-old girl, I had seen many of my pack wolves fall sick, and this sparked a desire in me to study medicine and help them.

When I got out of bed, I was wearing a long white nightdress, so I put on my black slippers and breathed out heavily.

I knew I had to try my luck with my foster mother. She could be cruel to me sometimes because she pampered her own daughter, Emily. But I had to try. It was my only hope and chance of gaining admission into the pack's university, which was expensive.

Nancy worked as a nurse in the pack's hospital, and her husband, Wren, was a lawyer for the alpha's family, even though they were delta wolves. They were rich from working and taking care of their two children, Mark and Emily, and they spoiled them.

Mark was a twenty-four-year-old guy and hardly at home. Recently, he had returned home because he was a basketball star with his own money, but he was spoiled and had several girlfriends whom he often brought home.

His mother would never reprimand him for it, but she encouraged him not to take any of those girls seriously and to wait for his fated mate.

However, I couldn't blame Mark; he was rich together with his parents' wealth. The young ladies in our pack, the Starfield pack, loved him.

As I walked down the corridor, I noticed the clock showed 8 a.m. The day was bright and sunny, with warm light flowing through the corridor.

When I approached the living room door and opened it, I heard Emily's excited voice saying, "Mom, I still cannot believe that Daniel Ryan, the Beta's son, is asking me to be his girlfriend."

My heart clenched when I heard Emily say that. Daniel had previously asked me to be his girlfriend, but I told him no. Well, he didn't give me a chance to explain myself; he spat in my face and pushed me to the ground.

"Who would want to date a useless omega like you? I was only doing you a favor," he spat in front of many of my high school friends.

I felt so embarrassed, and Emily came rushing over to meet Daniel. She held his hand and told him, "Daniel, you can be my boyfriend, and don't waste your time on this bitch."

My heart ached, but I pushed the hurt aside. They were good for each other, I thought, but Daniel glared at me. As the Beta's son, my rejection made him feel bad. But I tried to avoid him. After all, he wasn't a student in my class. He had only come to the school for his younger sister's graduation ceremony.

Shutting my eyes against the painful memories, I clenched my fist and moved into the living room. The air thickened at the sight of me, and the family at the dining table stopped eating as they sensed my presence.

"Good morning," I greeted them with a forced smile.

"Morning, Olivia. What do you want here?" Nancy asked as she picked up a glass of water and drank. She sat beside her husband, while her son and daughter sat across from her.

Seeing their eyes on me, I spluttered but decided to go straight to the point.

"Um, Aunt, I want to further my education at the pack university."

"Hahaha!" Nancy laughed as she peered at me. She wore a light blue nightdress and was fair and beautiful for her age.

"Why should you further your education? You're wolfless, and you don't have to think of going to the university. You should serve as our maid as repayment for all the money we spent feeding you to this size. Isn't that right, honey?" She shifted her gaze to her husband, who nodded.

"Yes, my mate is right," Mr. Wren declared.

"Olivia, you are to quit your ambition of going to the pack university and serve as a cleaner here," he said.

"No! It's been my dream to create a medicine to help our pack members become better. Please—" I knelt before my foster parents, grateful they had adopted and fed me, but I had to further my education.

Emily rose from her dining chair as she wore a long white nightdress and rushed up to meet me.

"You bitch! Didn't you hear Mom say you're not going to the university? You're to become a servant here in our home and clean the house. Got that?" She smacked me across my left cheek and sent me falling to the ground.

"That's enough, Emily!" Mark yelled, his icy voice making his sister jump as she turned to look at him.

"Mark, are you taking this bitch's side over me, your sister? Mom, Dad, Mark is favoring Olivia!" Emily cried and pointed at me. The atmosphere in the dining room grew thick as my foster parents looked at Mark suspiciously

"What has come over you, Mark?" Mr. Wren demanded. "How can you defend that worthless girl? We only adopted Olivia to give Emily a younger sister, and since Emily doesn't want Olivia anymore, you are not to favor Olivia or see her as your sister. Now, apologize to Emily!"

Mark peered at his parents' faces. His jaw tightened as he rose to his feet and said, "Mom and Dad, you both are wrong. I cannot sit here and watch you bully Olivia just because she doesn't have a wolf. If you guys don't want her present anymore, take her back to the orphanage. I'm out of here."

Mark walked away from the dining room without sparing a glance at me, and my jaw dropped at his blunt words to his parents.

"Mark! Mark! Come back here!" His parents called after him, but he had already left the house. The sound of his car starting in the garage filled the air as he drove off.

"You slut! What did you do to possess my only son?" Nancy yelled as she rushed toward me and descended on me in the living room.

Her fist connected with my face as she smacked me continuously until I fainted.