CHAPTER ONE_THE PAST

His ears were ringing, that had to be it, he couldn't have heard correctly. The goddess waters was commonly referred to as Troubled waters at this time of the year. The anger of the goddess was known to be at its highest at this time of the year. For the first time in the two years that he had become a slave,he looked his supposed Alpha in the eye. He tried so hard to find the man that he once used to see as his best friend but it seemed he had evaporated into thin air. No mortal man was allowed to barely be five meters in the parameters that surrounds the Troubled waters. it was no news that the anger of the goddess births demons that could and would drive a man mad , to ask any mortal man to be even in the surroundings of the waters was sending the fellow on a suicide mission.

      The Alpha smile could not get any wider  as he dismissed everyone. Even after everyone had left, he didn't stop smiling. Now he could rest, his plan was all coming together. He was very sure The slave would be dead by the week to come. His joy knew no bounds, this was how it was always meant to be. 

      The slave felt like he was floating for the rest of the day as he went about his duties. It all felt like a dream, he knew exactly what was going to happen. HE WAS GOING TO DIE. There was no other way around it. he had hoped the Alpha would change his mind but alas he seemed overjoyed at the order. He was absentmindedly cleaning the Alpha's inner quarters when she walked in- Luna Caitlyn, the Luna to the pack, mother of the pack and wife to the Alpha.

 He didn't have to turn around to know she was around, he always felt her whenever she walked in a room he was in. It was not exactly unheard of, it was normal for werewolves to feel their mate's emotions and always notice  them. He didn't know what grave offence he committed for him to be mated to this particular she wolf. The least she could have done  was to reject him properly, but no she was the only one allowed to reject him. He could only reject her on the Alpha's orders which doesn't seem like its going to happen anytime soon.

  It all seemed like yesterday, he could remember it all clearly. He remembered she never used to be like this. Caitlyn used to be so kind, loving, caring you name it. Or was he so blinded by love that he couldn't see the real her. His thoughts were cut off by arms circling around his waist from the back more importantly her hands. Time like this was he couldn't help but wonder if the goddess wasn't truly evil. Or probably he had done something to incur her wrath. The mate bond immediately snapped to life as soon as her hand touched his skin. His entire body down to his toes snapped to awareness. He quickly moved away from her embrace as he bowed in respect to her, heaven knows what the Alpha would do to him if he saw them together. "DALTON'  she whined unhappily almost like a child would while stomping her feet. 

Goddess that name, its been so long since he heard  his given name, it felt like there was a stranger in the room that was being referred to. The Alpha had since banned anyone from referring to him by his given name. He was to be referred to as "The slave". "Luna Caitlyn" he responded with his head bowed. She shook her head as she walked closer to him and then she  grabbed his hand and continue to cling to it. The instant her skin  touched his, the blasted bond picked up immediately. All the hairs on his skin stood at attention because of her, he couldn’t concentrate on any other thing apart from him and she knew this. H could see it in the tiny malicious smirk  on her face. He was a slave to all of her tricks, she was his mate after all, the mother of his child. He couldn’t ever bring himself to hate her, she birthed the only light in his gloomy world, but he sure as hell didn’t love her. He knew that but his body didn’t, the mate bond was still crackling with so much fierceness and fervor between them. She smiled fully at the realization that she had him exactly where she wanted him. He could never resist her, no matter how much he tried she was his mate. Deep down she knew he didn’t hate her, he couldn’t. However she also knew the only reason was because of the child she birthed him. Oh how much she hated the kid, he had taken he mate from her. Even though she hadn’t particularly ever loved Dalton, life with him wasn’t that bad. He cherished her, gave her everything she asked. Oh how he had loved  her, but that was until the child came and all the love shifted to the child. She couldn’t lie, she missed the feeling between them, the matebond made everything feel ten times better but she was finally getting a taste of it now, she thought and stood on her toes to kiss him. 

Against his better sense, he leaned down to meet her kiss and all of a sudden, she slapped him. "Get back to work slave". He looked back to see The Alpha walk in an kiss her on the lips. It felt like someone was squeezing his heart, The alpha barely looked towards him as he pulled her into their bedroom. He took that as a signal of dismissal. 

  He had barely got to his bed space when he felt it. With the sheer amount of time he had been through this in the past two years. One would expect him to be used to it by now, but somehow it always managed to hurt a little more every time. Recently, they've gotten louder and he could as well say that hurts more than the pain he feels anytime they do the did. 

One would think with the amount of shit he had been dealt within the past year, the goddess would just go ahead and break the bond but no.

  Still huddled up in pain on his bed he couldn't help but think maybe the Troubled waters would be better for him. He couldn't wait to die.