The Omega's Secret

The whip cracked like thunder through the air before it hit my skin.“Argh!” I screamed in pain, tears stinging my eyes as the whip stung my back.It didn’t matter how many times this happened. It didn’t matter how many years this has been going on for. I would never be used to this level of cruelty. Not when it came from the one man who was supposed to protect me. “You useless little thing,” Peter, my father, spat at me, venomsoaking his words. “You think everyone doesn’t see how weak you are? How pathetic your wolf is?”Another strike came down on my back, and I flinched with my hand balling into fists. He didn’t let that one sit beside another one came down on my back again.“I raised you to be something,” he hissed at me. “Not some runt of a creature who has her first shift at sixteen like a cursed mistake. And that wolf of yours, what can it possibly do?! You’re lucky I haven’t thrown you to the rogues, Seraphina. Very lucky.”I bit the inside of my cheek until the metallic taste of

‎ “He rejected me,” I started to explain myself to my father as he took slow and intentional steps toward me. A part of me knew it was useless, explaining myself. There was nothing I could possibly say that would stop him from doing whatever he wanted.“You saw it, he didn’t want anything to do with me,” I added.“And he said it’s because you’re an omega. A weak one. Which isn’t exactly a lie, now, is it?” He asked me darkly.A small, rebellious part of me had the urge to snap at him and tell him he had his role to play in this as well. He was the beta who had betrayed Alpha Kaelen’s father. Even if I wasn’t an omega, it would have been hard for him to accept me as his mate anyway.I barely had any time to collect my thoughts when he exploded like a wildfire.“You humiliated me!” He screamed like a man without flaws and faults. “You stood there and exposed your weakness without even standing up for yourself!”What was I supposed to say when my mate was attacking me with hurtful words? I was