The auction

The air in the crept smelt of nothing but rotten food, sweat and molded feet.

I scratched my legs together again as my eyes went over to the girls sitting at the far edge of the room away from me even though the chains used in binding us were one.

This was the place my father wanted me to be. I had stopped crying already. My eyes felt a bit heavy from the constant tears and there were no more tears to bring out anymore.

Beta Draco whispered something into the ears of the man who dropped me and I wished I heard what he said but he wouldn’t even look at me. He hated me as much as my father did.

When the door to the crept opened a tall huge man walked in and was closely followed by a woman.

Today was the fourth day. It was either we got killed or sold.

You have three hours to clean them up the sales are starting soon.

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My hands shook nervously and I tried to put them right behind me as I stood by the girl I was the last on the line.

We had all been cleaned up and given little or no food to eat but yet most of the girls held so much hope no one wanted to be killed.

All the men from other packs who wanted wives would come here today and I just can’t help but imagine what my fate would be.

My short hair hugged tightly against my face as I stood there the man walked towards me and then ran his hands across my face before he took a deep breath and walked off.

We were all led back into a silent room all twenty of us as we waited anxiously.

For the first time I wondered what my life would be if my mother hadn’t died at birth. I didn't believe she cursed me. Maybe then my father wouldn’t have hated me so much.

My father was the Alpha of the most powerful pack ever and I was the child he hated so much and condemned to death.

After about an hour the auction started. We were all lined up and made to stand in front of the room with just a few clothing on to show what exactly these men were getting.

Most of these men I had seen in my fathers chambers and most of them during interpack meetings.

100 dollars, I heard a man say from the crowd and the crowd went silent immediately.

For whom ? The man doing the auction asked.

Silenced follows and the middle aged pot bellied man stood up as he pointed to a girl just two steps away from me.

My wife is old and weak, my daughters are getting married and I’m lonely. The least I can do is have a woman warm my bed and I would treat her well.

The crowd erupted in a loud echo again as they screamed and laughed.

Sold, the man says as the man beside me kissed the chains used to tie her hands together and led her out of the hall.

The auction continued for about a few more minutes and every minute that passed by it felt like my heart was being ripped apart.

I didn’t want to die, I knew being a concubine to any of these men was better than living in that hell that I had stayed in for eighteen years.

I watched almost all the girls get sold and as each man requested for them but each time it got to me I could hear the remarks and disdain that was thrown at me.

No one dared to look in my direction. There was this look of disgust that followed me but yet I stood there with my heart running hard against my chest.

My father knew exactly what he was doing, he wanted me dead anyways he knew no man would want me he knew that I wouldn’t be sold and I would be killed.

I forced back the tears struggling to find it way out of my eyes as I raised my head up and looked at the whole hall. I didn’t want to die.

The man doing the auction walked towards my direction and grabbed my arms pulling me forward from the remaining two girls.

This one is special and cursed at the same time and would be going for as low as 10 dollars.

The crowd went silent as almost all the men looked at me, the excited look on her face had disappeared and now they all looked at me like I was shit not worthy of being shown to them.

“The beta has promised farmland to any man who buys her,” the man says.

My fathers beta. Why would he want to save me ?

I don’t think I want to be cursed if she wasn’t so bad her father wouldn’t have thrown her here.

She poisoned her sister on her wedding day, she’s evil.

Yes, she’s”most of the men screamed.

I could now feel the tears burning down my eyes as I stared back at them helplessly.

I swallowed nothing down my throat as I looked at the crowd desperately hoping someone picked me, I couldn’t die not just yet.

Well since no one wants her……

10,000usd a voice says from the far back of the hall.

My heart almost stopped as I looked at the direction of where the voice came from.

My eyes fall on the man standing just by the edge of the door.

His unfamiliar face struck me. He seemed tall, huge with a broad chest, enough to tell me that he wasn’t from this territory and looked really unfamiliar.

“Are you sure about that?”

The man who called the price approached, his braided hair fell down as he moved and each movement made my heart skip.

When he got to where I was he slowly looked at my face and ran his hands down my cheeks before looking back at the man behind me.

“ I would take her,” he says rather calmly.

Sold.