Chapter 5

Katia pov

It's been two years now since I arrived here as the new Luna of the Blood Meadow pack. Alpha Thomas is determined to mate me or kill me. I have fought him for two years with the help of my beta gamma. I say my beta and gamma because when we first arrived here and I refused to obey my new Alpha, my beatings here began. After the first one and they had to help with putting me back together, they swore their loyalty to me. We have created our own little pack of three.

My life here is not much different than the first ten years with my parents. I am beat, starved, and work as punishment for any indiscretion the Alpha feels I've committed.

Alpha Thomas has a terrible temper, and he cannot control it. One day, he will kill me, and I will welcome sweet death. Mark and Kelp keep telling me to hold on they'll figure some way to get me out before he succeeds in killing me. He will have to kill me because I will never mate with him.

I should have known my parents would never love me, and when I realized on my tenth birthday that they had sold me, I finally understood I had no one who cared for me. Oh, no matter how hard I try not to, I still hope I find my fated mate and he will save me, love me, and help me to heal.

But for now, I have my Fishy and X. What I call them when they are irritating me. When Mark first introduced Kelp to me, I found his name hilarious. He finally told me that during one of the times he was taking care of me after a beating, his mother and father named their children after things she liked and pregnancy cravings. I thought he was kidding until I met his brothers Poach, Dragon, Siberian, and sister Cherry.

The pack is really a very good pack of shifters. They fully accept me and try to help so the Alpha won't be so angry with me. What they do not understand is that Alpha Thomas is always angry because I will not submit to him. He is not the one fated to me, and beyond that, he makes my skin crawl.

Since we arrived here, he has made watch what he likes to do to women and young girls. It's nothing but rape, what he forces them to do and what he does to them. He doesn't care if he damages them for life. The fight he gets from them, and the fear turns him on.

I refuse to show him or give him anything. I refuse to speak to him or look at him as if I see him. It makes him angry to the point that his anger is out of control. He has punched, kicked, stabbed, cut, and whipped me almost to death several times now. I am covered from head to toe in scars because I don't have my wolf to help heal me. However, I am proud that my spirit has not broken.

"Luna, Alpha is on his way. He is back from his trip." Mark mind links me. I pray to the goddess that he is tired and just goes to bed. I am only 12, but my moon cycle started while he was away this time. He will smell it if he gets near me.

No such luck. He is behind me, wrapping his arms around me. "So, my little Katia, you are finally a woman." I freeze barely breathing. "I can now mate and mark you. You will be carrying my heir in no time."

He spins me around, so we face one another. "Little Ghost, look at me!" I continued to stare, looking through him not at him. Katia, did you hear what I said? Answer me!" He pins me to the wall by my throat. "You will answer me, or I will take you outside, tie you to the whipping post, and use my new toy on you." I say nothing.

Thomas drags me through the pack house and out to the whipping pole. He ties me to it and strips me. I stand there in the middle of the training field, waiting for the whipping to begin. The wolves who were training and almost everyone else gathered around in shock.

"Oh goddess, what is he thinking? How can he treat her like this and still expect her to mate with him?" I hear someone in the crowd ask.

Suddenly, I hear the woosh, and crack of the whip, as the most excruciating pain I have felt yet rips through my body. I hear his unsettling laughter behind me, "Tell me my little ghost, how did you like that? My new toy has little tiny knives on the end."

I still say nothing as he hits me again and again. Each hit rips chunks of skin and meat from wherever it hits on my body.

Once I am a bloody mess and have screamed and screamed in my head, he throws the whip to the side. I am staring at my poor gamma, who feels everything his Luna feels. Tears are running down his face as he watches his Alpha walk up behind me and whip out his hard cock and press it between my legs.

I realize he is going to rape me in front of the whole pack. The pain I am in is unbearable and him touching me trying to shove his cock into my pussy makes me feel strange. As I hold Kelp’s gaze to keep from screaming out loud my wolf comes forward and forces my first change.