Chapter Two

Instead of attending the ceremony that night, I locked myself in the bathroom and showered over and over again. I was shaking, crying, scared and angry. 

"Alora, you better get out right now before I break down this door", my foster mother screamed at the top of her voice. She had never been a fan of me.

"I can't know Mum" I tried to beg her, even when I knew that she wasn't going to listen to anything that would come out of my mouth.

"Alora!! Did I just hear you right? I said" get your sorry a*s out here!!" She shouted at me some more.

My tears were rolling out just fine. I was still struggling with myself just fine.

I had just chosen to ignore her.

Until my foster mother forced the door open.

"Get dressed!" She ordered, with so much anger written all over her face.

"Why?" I asked her, while trying to wipe my tears, as she forced me off the floor.

"Are you really asking me that? After all have you done to this family? Well, if you don't know. "You should get up and get ready for the trial as soon as possible", she hissed. Inside of her was a steaming fire.

 A fire I didn't see quenching anytime soon, but I still had the right to know what exactly Hunter was suing me for.

"For what?" I blurted out, earning a disgusting look from my foster mother.

She didn't even want to hear my own side of the story, she didn't want to know what I had to say, what I experienced. Because, as always, what I say and feel does not matter, not even in the slightest.

Not only did Hunter sue me for rape, his father even sent a team of police to arrest me.

"Can you please let me go? I didn't do anything. How can I even r*pe a male, not just anyone but an alpha for that matter?" I struggled with one of the police men that was harassing me.

Well, in his defence he was only doing his job.

"Mum, please" I looked at her with teary eyes, with the hopes that for once she would have pity on me.

I couldn't believe what was happening, but my adoptive parents and everyone in the Ian family were screaming at me to go with the police so that I wouldn't cause further disgrace to Ian family. 

"You have already caused this family alot of disgrace. Are you not ashamed of yourself? We adopted you when you had no one, and here you are bringing shame on us" My foster mother's eyes flickered like traffic lights.

"But…" I tried to talk, but before I could complete my sentence.

Hunter had walked onto the scene with a wicked smile on his face.

I wish I could just pour a bucket of cold water on him. He isn't even ashamed of himself.

Of all the things he could sue me for, it had to be r*pe.

" I told you that you were going to regret your actions" he whispered, when he had gotten close to me.

"You must be the cheapest and weakest alpha in history" I spat in his face.

"Ahh" he yelled, trying to wipe my saliva from his face.

"How dare you?" He tried to raise his hand at me, but one of the police officers stopped him.

"Sir, with all due respect, if you do that now. It is going to make matters bad for you, and best for her. So, I suggest you be at your best behavior". The officer only gave him a piece of advice

I smiled at the fact that he couldn't do anything, at least I had him tied at some point.

"And as for you. You have just made matters worse for yourself", the officer dragged me out of the house.

My smile had wiped away almost immediately, not because the officer told me that my case was now worse. But, because I had become disappointed in my family, at least I wouldn't be seeing them for a long time. 

I knew my chances of winning this case were going to be limited. My family isn't going back me, and who am I to stand against Hunter and his entire family?

In the court room

Hunter sat at the plaintiff's table, looking at me with some smugness in his indifference.

He was suing me for attempted rape.

"Mr Hunter, can you please come to the courtroom, and explain what exactly happened?" The judge pretended to be interested in the case. 

From the expression on his face, I knew that he had already been paid off. I knew that he wasn't going to rule the case in my favor.

"I was waiting for her. The woman I had chosen to be my mate were making preparations for our ceremony. When she just came from nowhere and pounced on me, forcing herself on me", he explained.

"And you remained motionless, watching me do that to you?" I raised an eyebrow.

I tried to defend myself, yet no one seemed to be listening.

Maybe it was because I wasn't supposed to talk at that point, but even at that. I was still disgusted.

"Miss Alora, it would be in your best interest. "If you just remain silent, until you are called to the witness stand", the judge was so quick to correct me.

I thought I was entitled to a lawyer or something. I looked around and wondered who was going to be defending my case.

"Your honor, although my client asked her question at the wrong time. "I think her question is quite reasonable". One of the seated lawyers, who I suspected to be mine, suddenly spoke up.

"Yes, but her timing and yours are wrong as well. So, I suggest you and your client remain quiet until it is time for you to speak" the judge tilted his head to one side.