Pain

Sophie's Point Of View.

I glanced from both sides, anticipating the feeling when I finally met my mate."I want to meet him, whoever he is. I just want to meet him,"

"That's not possible, She can't be my mate. She's not fit enough," I turned around at the voice of Beta Julian

 as he moved to the center of the hall. The second light was visible right on his forehead.

Who would have envisaged that my father's Beta is my mate, and I didn't suspect all along?

I shut my eyes to see if I would experience a change in my body or hear the voice of my inner wolf connecting with me, but nothing of such happened.

Inside of me was quite like a graveyard. 

I opened my eyes slowly to see the disgusted look on my mate's face as he glared at me with anger in his eyes.

"I, Beta Julian of the full moon pack, reject you, Sophie Alphonsus, as my mate." I heard Julian's words of rejection again. This time, it echoed in my head like a bell. 

The whole pack was dead silent, waiting for my reaction. They were curious to find out if I would accept his rejection of the mate bond.

I was still wondering why I didn't feel any change after meeting my mate. Was I cursed? I think the pack members are right in calling me the Alpha's plague. 

From what I believed, no one has rejected a mate in the full moon pack, in all the years of my existence in it. 

If it happened in the past, my Father would have told me about it. 

"Or was it done in the other packs that I wasn't aware of?" I thought again and shut my eyes. How real was this curse? 

My Father arose to his feet and walked towards me. "Sophie, my dearest daughter, the entire pack is waiting for you to decide. Would you accept or reject him the same way he rejected you?"

I closed my eyes in thought. "What's the essence of being with someone who hates me? Especially when the mate bonding didn't cause any significant change in my life. I am still woofless and weak."

I opened my eyes and buried my face to the ground as I accepted the mate bond rejection. " I, Sophie Alphonsus, the Alpha's daughter of the full moon pack, hereby accept the mate bond rejection from Beta Julian. From now on, we are no longer mates." 

Suddenly, noises filled the hall.

 I looked up, expecting to see the hatred and disgust on the faces of the pack members.

I was wrong.

Instead, I saw blood spills in the air.

I also heard people screaming in pain as they fell to the floor dead.

"Sophie, run and save yourself." I heard my father's warning tone before he shifted to his wolf form to save his pack members from the enemies.

I just stood there in shock with my mouth widened, astonishing at the sudden change in the atmosphere. 

"Was I cursed and a plague to the nightfall pack and my father? Why would the enemies suddenly attack immediately after I accepted my mate's rejection?"

All these thoughts were running through my mind while the massacre of my people happened right in my very eyes. 

The worrisome scream of my mother brought me back to my present surroundings, causing me to turn back around to see what had transpired. 

I saw an arrow being shot at my father by a fierce-looking man he was fighting with.

My father fell flat on the floor, wounded and bleeding profusely as he shaped shit to his human form. 

I ran over to him, crying profusely as I held his bloody body. He was barely breathing.

"Father, I beg of you, don't die on me. 

I don't want to be left alone in this evil world,". Tears were streaming down my eyes as I held his body close to my chest.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes. 

His eyes reflected the pain he felt.

 He said to me with a voice full of pain.

"Save yourself, Sophie. Run and save yourself from him. Else, he's going to kill you" 

I tried checking for his impulse but felt nothing. At that point, he stopped breathing. 

"No! He can't be dead. Why did he heal like every other normal wolf?" I asked myself rhetorically as my voice echoed back to me as though we were in an empty hall.

It turns out my father was shot with a silver bullet and wolfsbane, two of the most dangerous weapons to kill and weaken a werewolf from healing.

Crying at the lifeless body of my father, I looked around for my mother and Beta Julian but couldn't find them anywhere in the hall. 

Some pack members were still fighting the enemies to defend their pack and save their lives.

"Where could my mother have gone? Where was Beta Julian when my father was being shot and killed? 

Why was he not protected by the pack guards and soldiers? He is the Alpha of the biggest pack in the wolf clan. And he was murdered like an ordinary wolf with the lowest ranking."

I was angry and pained, with tears streaming down my eyes.

 My father, my world, and number one supporter, is dead. I killed him with my curse. 

The pack members were right about me. I am indeed the Alpha's Waterloo.

I stood up and tried to run for safety and yield to my father's last warning. 

As I ran towards the entrance a muscular hand suddenly grabbed my waist, taking me by surprise.

 I struggled to free myself from his grip. I cried for help.

 I pleaded for him to let me go. 

 But his grip became tighter, causing me pain in my waist region.

I twisted my body amidst the pain I was feeling from his tight grip to look at the face of the man holding me on the waist.

And stare at the cold and angry-looking face of the man who murdered my father in cold blood. That was the last thing I remembered before I lost consciousness.