Chapter 2: Price of Sin

Eloise's POV

“What the hell are you doing here?!” Hannah shouted so loud, that it made me feel deaf. My body was already shaking, in fear, and betrayal. I do not know what to say… 

She’s right, what am I doing here? Taking a peak from her lustful activity, I deserve to be punished.

I turned my gaze at them and stuttered hard as I explained. “I have only intended to clean―

“You’re from the girl last night.” The man coldly says that made me feel anxious. No, he cannot say any of those. If he does, Hannah will end up beating me and burning my skin until the last bits turn red and bloody. He cannot speak… about the night we’ve had.

“Do you know her?” Hannah said in a flirty tone of voice as she cuddled with him. Their nakedness was right in front of my eyes and I could not breathe.

“Yes. I fucked her.” He straight said. 

Suddenly, I felt like the gates to hell have now opened itself for me.

Hannah’s gaze changed, I could see her burning desire to kill me. I am frightened, deeply scared that she might choose to act impulsively and kill me right in front of him. 

I gathered myself together even if I was hurting inside. “I do not know what you are talking about, I haven’t even met you,” I whispered.

A smile escaped from the man’s lips and all I wanted was for him to just stop talking. He will just put me into his misery, won’t he? 

“I am quite sure of it.” He laughed. Hannah was already moving away from him, slowly walking up to me. I feel the need to step backward as I meet her face and her greed to skin me alive. 

“I memorized every bit of your scent like it’s mine to keep.” He said that made my face turn red. 

“How dare you… under my law, mate with my man?!” Hannah grabbed my hair relentlessly, refusing to release it, and pulled it so hard, I felt like my scalp was being torn into pieces.

“Hannah, let me go…” I whispered in the air as I held my hair and tried to get away from her. “You’re hurting me!” I shouted as she released me, never taking a small pause and her palms landed on the right side of my cheeks causing it to make me feel strained.

“How dare you steal the alpha from me?! You are nothing but a maid, an omega, you should be thankful we saved you from scraps! All we did was raise you, put some roof over your head, and feed you and this is all how you repay me?!” She shouted, deliberately making me feel like it was all my fault. 

That I should be thankful I have been her slave for twenty-one years. That I should be thankful, I am the wall that always receives all the pain and never gets to fight back at all. That I should be thankful that they are hurting me, punishing me for absolutely no reason, and almost killed me back when I was just ten.

I should be thankful that they made me suffer. I should be grateful they raised me to be their workhorse―I should be thankful that every night, I cry myself to sleep, thinking why an omega like me always has to be on the bad side of fate.

She kept on pushing me hard using her index finger as tears flowed down my eyes. “I did not know you were mated with the alpha… I swear, I did not know!” I shouted. 

I kneeled on the floor, held her hands, and watched her slap it in the air. “I am very sorry, Hannah! I swear, it isn’t what you think it is!” 

She kicked me off, purposely making me fall flatly on the wet ground. “Everybody’s right, omegas are the worst. Low-life people, you shouldn’t have been born at all. You are a curse, no wonder your parents died.” She mocked me, laughed at my situation, and included my family.

“Do not… speak of them like that.” I sniffed. I wanted to fight back, I wanted to stand for what I believe but I cannot. 

I stared at the alpha and realized he was just smoking while watching me get physically harassed by Hannah. 

“What should we do with her?” Hannah asked the man. It was a provocative question that made me feel exceptionally scared. 

As if… there was only a limited response that I could get from it.

I breathed heavily as I pleaded with Hannah to stop. “Please… I swear, it is not what you think it is. I am not stealing anyone from you!” I tried giving her my side.

She laughed at my state as she spat on me, “Pathetic.” It was a huge insult that I was ready to swallow just so she would not drive me out. I… need this job. 

“Whatever you want,” The Alpha spoke coldly while his eyes looked bored. 

My heart shattered into pieces upon hearing him. “I’ve had my fun already and she’s just an average slut to mess with.” He slowly walked up to me.

He stood up in front of me and looked down at my state. “I know we’ve had the mating bond but you are a humiliation for me.” He reasoned out.

“What are you talking about…” My voice cracked as I felt a severance of a mating bond happening right now.

“I, Kent Cedrick Ashford, the Alpha of Crescent Moon pack, rejected you as my mate.” Those sentences… 

Tears swell up my eyes as I listen to their mocking laughter echoing in my ears. They both went inside the room and continued the sin that they were doing. I am deeply hurt… I felt like I had been cheated on yet, I have no right to claim that I have been tortured because again…

Omegas like me are born to be this way. Mate less, disgusting, and unworthy of love.

Why am I born this way? Why am I tormented just for living the life that is given to me? Why did they save me?!