CHAPTER 1

VICTORIA

“Victoria?” I heard a gentle voice calling my name. it was so soft and gentle that I almost mistook it for a gentle breeze from the wind.

“Victoria…” that voice again, it wasn’t the wind. I turned and I could see a silhouette of a person, a woman but I couldn’t make out who she was at first. Then I looked closer and that was when I saw her. my mother if I could call her that. but I felt like a knew her, so well, like that feeling, connection a newborn baby had with their mother.

They could be restless to someone else but when their mother held them, they would calm down and relax. That was how I felt towards that woman, for someone reason I felt like she was my mother. “Hey, it’s been a long time. Why haven’t you returned yet?” returned from where? I couldn’t understand what she was trying to say.

“Don’t look so confused now, you know that is not your place. That was supposed to be a temporary thing.” I frowned not understanding a word she was saying. She looked so much like me, or I look so much like her since she was my mother.

“I don’t understand.” Her forehead creased when I said that. she came closer to me. “Victoria, you are special, you don’t belong here. please try to remember.” What didn’t she mean, where did I belong. “Mom, I…” she started disappearing into thin air like smoke, fading. I panicked, “Mom, please don’t go.” She smiled at me.

 “Remember who you are.” That was the last thing she said before she completely disappeared leaving me sobbing. Why didn’t she have to leave me. While I was still sobbing a backet of water was thrown at me jolting me up from bed. Megan and Elisa laughed. “Damn Victoria, your life is miserable even in your dreams.”

They laughed some more; I wondered what that woman meant when she said I must remember who I was. Maybe she meant I shouldn’t sleep too much and forget that I was a slave in that pack. Slaves didn’t sleep if they got two hours of sleep that was plenty. “Harry up and get to the kitchen. We are hungry.” But it wasn’t my turn to cook.

The other omegas were supposed to cook that day and I was on cleaning duty. But I couldn’t talk back to those two, they would take it as a reason to beat me up and I didn’t want another beating. My wounds were still healing from the last beating.

 A slap across my face brought me back to reality. “Would you fucking stop standing there like a fool, we said we are hungry!” she yelled making me jump a little. I quickly got changed into a pair of worn-out jeans and a hoodie before following them to the kitchen. Getting there, I quickly make scrambled eggs, bacon, and coffee.

While they were eating, I started with my actual duties, cleaning the kitchen. Beta Tylor walked into the kitchen and looked around then his eyes settled on me. he was one person in the pack who was nice to me. “Are we not having breakfast today?” I went and poured him a cup of coffee. “What would you like beta?” he sipped his coffee.

“Why would you ask him that? since when you don’t know what we eat for breakfast in this pack?” Elisa said glaring at me. “It’s alright, I don’t have time to eat anyway. The coffee is alright.” I gave a small smiling. Megan walked around the kitchen; I thought she was going to put her cup in the sink. So, I ignored her and turned around to continue sweeping.

I felt pain at the back of my head. I touched it and I was bleeding. Megan was standing there glaring at me. “We have enough problems in this pack, including you! the beta and alpha travel everything looking for solutions, do you think it’s right for them to leave without having breakfast? You are the cause of this fucking curse, yet you are not doing anything to show remorse!” The curse she was talking about was the fact that no one has had any child in nineteen years.

 That was how old I was by the way. “Megan, stop it, I said the coffee is fine.” Beta Tylor defended me. which I wished he didn’t. That was going to make things worse for me as soon as he left. “Of course, beta. it just irritates me to think that she is responsible for our kind going extinct and she is not going anything about it, she is not even bothered. I don’t understand her.”

 I didn’t know what she wanted me to do, I wasn’t the Moon Goddess, and I never told her not to bless everyone with pups. “Tylor.” alpha Jackson’s voice sounded. Both Megan and Elisa hurried to him. I turned not wanting to see them hanging on his arms. Kissing him and being affectionate with him. yes, I had a huge crush on the alpha. At some point I thought he was my mate. But alas, the goddess made sure we couldn’t even smell out mates like before.

Well, I didn’t know how things were before, but I was told our kind could smell their mates. Now they couldn’t smell them. that was why alphas had chosen mates and many concubines. The only gift the Moon Goddess left us with was the ability to mind link. That was about it. Our kind couldn’t even shift into their wolves fully; the alphas and betas could only shift halfway. Their faces and hands. Everyone else could only enlarge their nails turning them into sharp weapons.

 That was about it. I heard that they used to shift but two years after I got to the pack no one could shift fully anymore. But still had their sharp sense and vision. That was why I was blamed for the curse. Because happened after I got to the pack, and it was not just our pack but every pack. I felt a sharp pain on my shoulder. “I told you to stop thing habit of yours of ignoring me!” Elisa has stabbed me with a knife on my shoulder. I could feel the warm liquid running down my back. Elisa was the violent one. She wanted to leave a mark every time she did something to me.

 I preferred Megan’s slaps than Elisa’s stab wounds. “You still standing here!” she pulled out the knife and stabbed me again and when she was about to stab me the third time aiming for my face, I covered it with my arms. I felt the knife penetrate my arm all the way to the bone. I screamed in pain. “Die bitch, everyone will be better off without you!”