Thalia's POV….
“Father, I’m sorry for whatever I may have done. Please don’t sell me off to the wicked Alpha King, please.” I begged with tears in my eyes.
“Who do you call Father. I’ll never be a Father to such helpless rat like you. Can’t you see my beautiful Serena? Doesn’t she look so beautiful? I’m proud to be called her father. She’s a strong beta, she’s courageous, she’s smart unlike you, a useless weak omega. It’s obvious you don’t have my blood in your veins. I can never be your father.” My stepfather spat with so much hatred.
“If mother was here ….” I tried to convince him further and make him feel pity for me.
“If mother was her, what would have happened? Would you Shut up your dirty mouth and do not mention your mother’s name her again? You want to guilt trip me, isn’t it? If your mother was here, she would have seen reasons why you should be sold off. Don’t think she’ll be on your side.”
“What did I ever do to deserve so much hatred?” I asked.
“Oh really? You have the guts to ask me that now. When your miserable, weak father didn’t consider his three years old child but went ahead to kill himself in some stupid savior act. Who took your mother in as mate? I did. I never wanted to take you but the woman wouldn’t go without her child. Where does that leave me? Forced with a baby to raise that I never wanted to.” He explained further, spitting more hatred in his voice.
“You forced my mother to be your mate.” I said, damning the consequences.
“I helped your mother, you mean. I should have let you both die miserably.” He continued.
“But she died afterall even after you took her in.”
“And you’ll die next if you don’t shut up and stop saying rubbish.” He warned.
I couldn’t say another word, I was left broken and in so much tears. The pain was too much for me to bear. Why was life so unfair? I laid on the floor as I thought.
“Carry your malnourished looking self away from my presence and go do something with your life, like serve the Alpha Kinga and be his breeder until he is done with you like I am.” He pushed me away and I stretched my hand for Serena, my sister to pull me up, she just looked into my eyes, smirked and spat in them.
Thorne Fenrir, my stepfather has poisoned Serena against me with his evil powers. I raised Serena after my mother died but seeing that Serena is his biological daughter and I’m not, he didn’t want us to bond so he made sure she hated me just as he did
“Ser…” I tried to call her name but she eyed me such that I didn’t have the guts to even mention her name.
I gathered the little strength I could to crawl to my corner. I couldn’t sleep all night. I kept crying, wishing I was dead or I wasn’t even born. It wasn’t my fault that my father died when I was a child, it wasn’t my fault that my mother died few years after. Why didn’t I just die too? These sufferings have been unbearable. How do I manage to still be alive. I cried throughout the night with the thought that I would be handed over to the wicked , cold-hearted Alpha Valen the next morning.
Just as I dozed off a little, I began to here some sounds. It was dawn, meaning they had come for me. My heart began to pound really fast, uncontrollably that I felt I would pass out.
“The King demands that your daughter comes with us now. Where is she?”
“You are welcome.” I could here Serena say with so much excitement.
“I’ll get her at once,” my stepfather responded.
The door opened and he pulled me up.
“Quickly put yourself together, Thalia. If Alpha Valen rejects you, then consider yourself dead.” He warned.
I entered my closet and wore something better, then washed my face and oiled my hair in a hurry.
“Come , Come. Let’s not keep them waiting.” My stepfather called out.
I stepped out and the Alpha's guards gestured for me to walk in front of them while they followed behind.
“This is for you,” One of them said as he handed a bag to my stepfather. I believe those were some precious stones.
“Thank you so much.” He grinned. He couldn’t hidden his excitement.
We walked until I was far away from home. I kept turning back to see how far we had gone until I didn’t know where I was anymore.
Thorne is the Alpha’s uncle and he wished to be the Alpha after his brother but that was not possible because the Alpha had a son and Thorne has always been jealous of the royal family. It is surprising that he would want to give me to Alpha Valen except of course he has a plan.
“You need to hurry,” they kept saying to me as we walked.
“Why are you so slow?”
“Don’t act like a weakling in from of the king or you’ll piss him off.”
All these words were sinking my heart so deep, making me realize the mess I was in already.
“That Alpha King is going to kill me in less than 24 hours. Why did he even agree to take me?” I thought as we walked.
And soon, we got to his palace. A few council members were standing outside as we returned.
“She’s here” one of them whispered to the other.
“she’s not so bad” one said.
“She looks so thin, but she’s beautiful anyways” said another.
“Will she be able to bear healthy heirs?”
They kept whispering as I walked pass each of them.
“Thalia Storm!” Alpha Valen called as he sat on a platform so high that I had to raise my head.
I was stunned by his looks. Although he had an intimidating look.
He had this wonderful blue eyes, and his hair was long and locked.
He had his chin on the palms of one of his hands as he looked down on me. And at once I bowed down.
“Welcome to my palace.” He said but without a smile on his face.
“Ain’t you going to say anything?” He asked.
With tears dropping from my eyes, ready for whatever will happen, I summoned courage to speak.
"I, Thalia Storm, reject you Valen Drake, Alpha of Silvertail pack. I don’t want to bear your children, please get someone else." As those words came out of my mouth, my heart beat was loud enough to be heard be anyone standing close to me. But I decided to be brave, rejecting an Alpha in the presence of his entire council.
I could hear their gasp and see the surprises on their face but I didn’t care. I had to be bold for myself since nobody was coming to save me.
The Alpha was a tyrant. Every fiber of my being screamed in protest at the mere thought of spending the rest of my life with him just to bare children.
"Thalia", he said and smirked. He took the stairs and began to come down. The twisted satisfaction in his eyes making me shiver.
"Poor thing, I am the Alpha. You cannot reject me except the other way round and I have chosen you to bear me an heir or should I say heirs so you are staying. It's not about what you want. You are here to serve me so it’s about what I want. I hope you understand that and never try to mention this rubbish again.”
Those words broke my heart into a thousand pieces. I tried to stand tall and brave but the tears in my eyes betrayed me knowing what the Alpha is capable of doing.
He came and stood right in front of me in a way I was inhaling what he exhaled. He touched my face with a finger and smiled.
"I am Alpha, Thalia. There's nothing you can do about it. Do you understand?"
“Yes Alpha,” I managed to say with the amount of tears running from my face.
“Good.” He said and then he walked away .
"Seize her and lock her up in the room you have prepared. I can’t trust this one not to run away.” He commanded.
The guards bowed and grabbed me immediately and I sobbed in pains.
As I was taken away, I wished I could turn the hands of time back to when my parents were still alive or my mother at least. Now, I would be locked in a terrifying cage for the rest of my life.
I could hear whispers from other werewolves as I walked with the guards.
"Oh, what a pity"
"This isn't right"
"Don't argue with the Alpha"
"We need to help her"
"Why would she not want to be his Luna?"
“He just wants a breeder, not a Luna?”
"Don't say a word about this to me."
I decided to take my mind away from their conversations and focus on what awaits me; misery, doom, pain, nothing better.
I sat in my room which is more like a prison than a room wondering what my fate would be as I awaited the next instructions from the Alpha. As the night drew near, fear coiled around my heart like a serpent, squeezing tighter with each passing minutes.
I knew he would come and mate with me at night and that was the part that scared me the most. I had never mated with anyone before and my first was going to be out of pain and torture, a day I’ll never forget for as long as I lived.
I started hearing sounds. I leaned closer to the door, placing my ear such that I could hear what happened outside.
I was right, it was him, Alpha Valen was coming to mate with me. I felt like tearing my skin apart in disgust. I sat on the floor imagining the worst that could happen, then I heard a knock on the door.
“Thalia!” he called.
I didn’t say a word, the knock became harder.
“Thalia, open the door now!”
