Two

FOURTEEN YEARS LATER

Ashley’s POV

“Ashley!” 

I jumped in fear. 

Before I knew it, he grabbed me by the neck and pushed me against the wall. 

“Ashley why the fuck is our meal not ready?!” Ace sneered at me. 

I could hardly speak. 

“Huh?! Talk to me you slut! Why is our meal not ready!” He demanded. 

“We ran out of gas and the working omegas said the gas companies were on strike. I had to go chop some firewood from the woods to cook breakfast that’s why it took time.” I managed to explain. 

But he slapped me so hard I bled. 

“Are you trying to give a fucking reason why we are fucking starving? Why your Alpha and lords are starving you fucking bitch?!“ he demanded. 

I shook my head. 

“Answer me you slut!” He barked into my face. 

“No your majesty. No.” I gave in. 

He pushed me away and I fell down back against the wall. 

Then he grabbed my face in his hand and set his hand over my breasts. 

“You know Ashley, this thing between me and you could be easily resolved. You better let me fuck you or I’ll have to do it forcefully. If I fuck you, then maybe I could talk to my father so you would not be a slave but a servant to me.” Ace sneered at me. 

There it was. 

Ace was the son of our pack leader. 

My parents had been traitors and at the age of four instead of being killed alongside with them, I was spared and made a living example of what could happen to anyone who betrayed the pack. 

Alpha Felix brought me to live in the pack but my life was far from rosy. I grew up scrubbing the floors, and cleaning after everyone. 

No one cared about me and I had grown up to realize that. 

As much as the pack members hated and despised me, I was fully aware that the men lusted after me and their Lunas hated me for that. 

There was no escaping it. 

Ace didn’t hide his lust for me. But I always managed to escape. 

There was a strict rule that forbade forced intimacy in the pack and that was the only thing that saved me. 

But it seemed that by the day, Ace was becoming more and more overbearing. 

This wasn’t the first time he had made such a proposal to me. 

If I became his sex slave, then he would treat me better, but I always declined. 

And whenever I did, he made sure that I received far more worse punishment and treatments. 

But I was already used to the abuse. 

He tried to kiss me and I turned my face away. 

A quick slap came against my cheek and he grabbed my face back and forced a kiss. 

From there his hands went around my body and started squeezing my breasts so much it hurt.

“Ashley why is the meal not ready?” She asked me. 

He stopped and turned to look. 

It was his mother Luna Rachel. 

Ace rolled his eyes, then he angrily let me go and I fell to the floor.

“Next time, you won’t be so lucky.” He hissed at me. 

He stormed out of the kitchen without saying a word to his mother. 

I shakily got up from the floor and as Luna Rachel approached me, before I could even say a word, she threw a sharp slap across my cheek. 

I let my hand go to where my cheek was already bruising. 

I had been slapped so much that morning, but I couldn’t understand why Luna Rachel was slapping me. 

“You imbecile!” She spat at me. “You are given one job! One fucking job and all you can do is try to spread your legs for my son?”

“Ace almost raped me.” I managed. 

But another slap came and then another.

“How dare you, Lay such an accusation against my son! And when you address him, you address him with the respect that he is owed!” Luna Rachel said. “Do you think that I don’t know that you have been trying to enter his bed?! So that you can climb up the high ranks?” 

She scoffed. “You’re a lowlife. An absolute Slave and traitor! You’re a nobody and whatever you think you’re going to accomplish. You will NEVER get that opportunity.” 

I felt the tears gather in my eyes, but I told myself that I wasn’t going to cry. 

If I did, it was going to give her the satisfaction of putting me down . 

I bit my lip and held my head high up. Yes I was not going to cry. 

I was going to stand strong even though I knew that I was rendered weak. 

“Do you understand me you rif raff?” Luna Rachel hissed at me. 

“Yes your majesty.” I said. 

“Now why is our meal not ready?” She asked me. 

I started explaining to her about the issue of the gas just like I had explained to Ace, but she slapped me again. 

“How dare you answer me back? Have you no manners?!” She snapped at me.

I was confused. 

What did she want me to say? 

She had just asked me why the meal was taking time and she was slapping me more? 

“But your majesty you asked what happened?” I said weakly.

She slapped me again and soon the slaps came all over me and I put my hand up to resist them and she grew in further rage .

“How dare you raise your hand up at me you daughter of a traitor! You ungrateful Beast!” She screamed in raw rage. 

Soon she was picking every and anything that was in sight to hit me and she pulled out her claws. 

But just at that very moment, when I thought she was going to tear me into pieces, a hand came in and stopped her. 

I looked up and saw it was Alpha Felix. 

I stepped back. 

“Enough Rachel.” He said. 

Luna Rachel looked at her husband and then snatched her hand from his grip. 

“You’re trying to save this tramp?! This traitor?!” She hissed. 

“I said enough Rachel.” He growled. 

She turned to eye me and then she gave me a stare that said she wasn’t finished with me. 

Then she stormed out of the Kitchen. 

Alpha Felix looked at me and I thought he was going to hit me too or worse maybe kill me like he had killed my parents. 

So I covered my eyes waiting for the blow but it never came. 

Then when I opened my eyes, I saw that he was gone. 

I shakily rose up to my feet and went back to preparing breakfast for the rest of the pack.