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Chapter 1 — The Sanctuary
Rachel's POV
His moves were reckless, absolute and devoid of mercy.
I had lost track of the hours since his wolf had pinned me down. My body ached and vibrated with a suffocating heat.
Alpha Daniel Vance knew exactly how to break me. He mapped my vulnerabilities with precision and deliberate touches.
"Cancel my council meetings for the upcoming week and secure two VIP passes to the Silverwood Echo Sanctuary." He stood beside the bed with his body tense as he pulled on his tailored shirt slowly.
Shifting my bruised hips, a sudden hope sparked in my chest. "You’re taking me to the sanctuary?"
Daniel's eyes flared with anger. "I am going with Elena."
The smile on my lips withered. "Understood, Alpha Vance!"
Seeing my distress, Daniel spoke again, "Rachel, look at yourself. You are a broken Omega with no lineage. Your bloodline is compromised. You can never bear the Luna title."
I forced myself to look up with a bitter smile. "I never asked for your mark, Daniel. But now that Lady Elena’s previous bond has been dissolved and she has returned to Crestwood, shouldn't we terminate this arrangement?"
Daniel stepped toward the bed and dragged his heavy hand through my hair before tossing a black titanium card on the nightstand. "Buy whatever pleases you."
"Alpha, I don't want to be your dirty secret anymore." I held his gaze as a stubborn defiance flickered through me.
I wasn't blind, I already knew the pack elders would eventually force him to claim Elena Cross as his true mate.
"You are overstepping," Daniel warned and his Alpha aura suddenly flared and filled the bedroom. He cast an icy glance at my shivering form and walked out.
As the door slammed shut, a high-pitched ring filled my ears and I plunged into a world of absolute silence.
I was a ghost within the Crestwood Pack, an orphan relegated to the very bottom of the social hierarchy.
During my initiation year, my striking looks had provoked the wrath of Cassidy Vance, Daniel's sister.
Cassidy didn't stop at petty bullying. In a fit of rage, she shifted and hunted me down.
The savage mauling cost me the hearing in my left ear. My right ankle was shattered beyond perfect repair and a jagged scar was left across my cheek.
To make matters worse, someone captured the entire assault on video and broadcast it among the whole pack.
The elders convened an emergency tribunal just to defend Cassidy’s honor. Daniel, her older brother and the new Alpha, also stepped up.
Daniel approached me in the aftermath. The first words he ever said to me, "Do not weep. No one in this territory will ever lay a hand on you again."
Weak. Desperate.
I fell entirely under his spell. At my lowest point, Daniel played right into my desperate daydreams of finding a protector.
For years, I saw him as my savior. But reality had finally caught up with me. He didn't love me, his wolf simply enjoyed dominating a broken thing like me and he wasn't ready to grant me freedom.
At the Central Packhouse, I set a cup of blended tea on the desk in front of Elena. "Lady Elena. Your tea."
Elena glanced up with a sweet smile that didn't reach her eyes.
She was a descendant of pure Alpha lineage, a perfect match for Daniel. Elena carried herself with the innate grace of a true Luna. Her powerful scent alone was enough to send a wave of submission into my inner wolf.
The battle was over before it even began. A true Alpha would never view an Omega as an equal. To Daniel, I was merely a pastime.
Leaving the cup behind, I practically bolted out of the room.
I had nothing left to fight with. My orphan status, the shattered lineage and my physical deformities, every part of my identity branded me as prey for the elite.
"Did you hear? Alpha Daniel and Lady Elena are leaving for their courtship retreat tonight. The elders have already drafted the mating contracts. The ceremony will happen the moment they return."
Down in the packhouse kitchens, the lower-tier staff were busy gossiping and their chatter buzzed through the air.
Distracted and overwhelmed by the noise, my hand slipped and hot water poured directly over my bare skin, scalding my hand.
The ceramic I was holding, slipped and shattered into a hundred pieces on the floor. Gasping, I rushed to the basin and plunged my burning hand in water.
It was official. Daniel and Elena were bonding.
Which meant my time as Daniel's pastime was over and so was my endurance for life in Crestwood.
"Rachel, the Alpha ordered you to prep the transport. You’re driving him and the Luna to the private airstrip at eleven sharp," a Beta enforcer barked from the threshold.
I managed a hollow and mocking smile. This was a calculated humiliation. There were over fifty trained drivers in the pack, yet he chose me.
He wanted to remind me exactly where I belong, to crush any hopes that I might be harboring.
In the end, Daniel and Cassidy were cut from the same cloth. They just broke their victims differently.
One had shattered my body and the other dismantled my soul.
Pulling a burner phone from my pocket, I stared at the screen for a moment before dialing the number I blocked months ago out of loyalty to Crestwood.
The call connected.
"Alpha Silas," I whispered with my voice cracking as my heart hammered violently against my ribs. "You once made an offer... that if I accepted your mark, you would fund my training in the Northern Glades. Is that offer still on the table?"
"Have you finally grown a spine, little wolf?" the older Alpha’s voice boomed through the phone. "Be at the Dawson compound on the 13th at twilight. We will formalize your claiming."
The 13th?
I had just eight days left.
Chapter 2 — Trapped And Dying
Rachel's POV
"Hey, Rachel."
I had hardly dropped my phone back into my pocket when Elena called out softly behind me.
Turning around nervously, my inner wolf shrank back as I faced her.
Standing there with a soft smile, her dominant Luna aura made me feel suffocated.
"Lady Elena, what can I do for you?"
"I just remembered I still need to pick up a few things for the retreat. Could you fetch them from the apothecary for me?" Elena handed me a handwritten list.
I scanned the list and froze. One item hit me like a silver bullet.
Knotting suppressants.
"Thank you. Keep it between us," Elena whispered with a wink. "You know how Alphas get. I just want to make sure my body is fully prepared before we try to get an heir."
After nodding awkwardly with my throat tight, I practically fled the pantry.
I was just 19 during my first heat with Daniel. It was my birthday. He snuck into my quarters with a frosted cake and filled my room with jasmine to mask our scent.
As an orphaned Omega that had never been celebrated before, the little cake and the illusion of a mate's affection swept me off my feet. Instantly, I surrendered my throat and my body to him.
Bitterly, I smiled at myself.
Female wolves needed the protection of a strong pack and a high-ranking family. Otherwise, a single sweet gesture would be all that was needed for a dominant male to trick them into submission.
Four years in Daniel's bed, yet I had never picked up suppressants. His wolf hated them as he wanted raw control. So, after every encounter, I was forced to drink bitter tonics to ensure that I wouldn't bear his pups.
But for Elena?
Of course, he couldn't let his future Luna swallow bitter herbs. That would be too harmful for her.
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On the way to the border airstrip, I stayed silent with my grip tight on the steering wheel of the SUV.
"The moon is rising and we're tight on time. Drive faster," Daniel ordered from the backseat with his Alpha tone.
"Yes, Alpha." I nodded and accelerated.
We were passing the outer settlement when a young pup in mid-shift suddenly darted right into the middle of the road. Swerving hard to avoid crushing the child, I sent the heavy SUV crashing straight into the concrete median.
"Elena!" Daniel’s protective instincts flared. He threw himself over Elena to shield her entirely with his muscular frame.
Luckily, we weren't going at top speed. Only the driver's side took the brunt of the damage and the reinforced metal crumpled inward.
The airbags deployed with a violent hiss and the crushed frame pinned me tightly against the seat. My left leg was trapped under the dashboard and the sharp pain blurred my vision, causing my wolf to whimper.
"Daniel..." My voice trembled. "Help me..."
I was afraid of being trapped in tight spaces. My wolf couldn't handle it.
Back in the days, Cassidy shifted and dragged me by the hair before locking me in a silver-lined transport cage. No matter how hard I screamed, clawed or howled, no one came.
The crushing pressure and the burning silver against my skin with the suffocating air made it a pure hell.
If a passing patrol hadn't noticed the scent of my blood the next morning, I would have died in there.
"Daniel!"
As Daniel kicked the passenger door open and stepped out, I panicked, forgetting that Elena was right there listening. "Don't leave me…"
"Let the border patrol and the medics handle it." Daniel stepped out onto the asphalt and pulled Elena with him. He checked her over for injuries with his face dark.
"She's still in there." Elena glanced back at the wreck with her brow furrowed in suspicion.
Low-ranking Omega weren't supposed to call the Alpha by his given name.
Daniel pulled Elena tightly to his side and shot me cold and warning glance despite being trapped.
He checked his watch. "No time to waste. The crash wasn't bad. We'll grab a passing patrol vehicle to the airstrip. The guards will dig you out."
Daniel nodded and glanced at me with his eyes devoid of any bond. I watched him as he walked away from the smoking wreck.
I pounded my fists against the cracked window while my inner wolf thrashed wildly against my ribs. But Daniel never looked back.
I knew why. He was afraid that Elena would suspect him.
Watching his broad shoulders disappear down the road, my control finally shattered. I sobbed uncontrollably and my fangs lengthened as hysteria set in. "Daniel! Help me. You promised that your wolf would never leave me!
"Liar! You're a liar, Daniel! You said you would protect me!"
My breakdown spiraled quickly. The despair and the rising panic sent me into a frenzy.
My physical injuries wasn't life-threatening at first, but now I was tearing my own skin against the jagged metal without realizing it.
"Let me out! Let me out!" I screamed with my voice cracking.
The old trauma of the silver cage clouded my mind and I couldn't think straight. Then, the acrid smell of smoke and fuel from the engine filled the cabin.
Fire. The one thing that every wolf feared instinctively.
"The engine's catching fire!"
"Stand back! There's no one in the back. I saw the Alpha leave!"
Voices of arriving pack members reached my ears but they kept their distance from the flames.
I remained trapped with my energy spent. I closed my eyes as the smoke thickened while I counted under my breath just as I had done all those years ago.
"One, two, three, four..."
The night Cassidy locked me in that silver box, I counted all the way to 7000 to keep myself sane.
As I felt the heat rising, I wondered, how many number I would count before my wolf would die this time.
Chapter 3 — Alpha's Plaything
Rachel's POV
I guess my wolf was just too stubborn to die. Thankfully, a passing patrol smelled the smoke and pulled me out of the wreckage before the fuel tank blew.
When I woke up in the pack clinic, it was already the next morning.
"Fractured right arm, mild concussion and multiple soft tissue tears from the metal," the pack doctor looked over my chart. "Your wolf's healing is sluggish. Anything else uncomfortable?"
I shook my head as my good ear strained to catch his words. I picked up my phone and checked. Not a single call from Daniel.
Daniel that had never shared anything personal for once on the PackCircle, a private social feed for high-ranking members, had just posted a photo.
The focus was on Elena. She was wearing a Bohemian dress that flowed like water, her elegance made her look more radiant.
Four years in Daniel’s shadow, and what was I to him?
Nothing but a temporary fix.
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I returned to my tiny apartment in the Omega quarters after my discharge and took a heavy dose of pain-relief herbs before falling into a dreamless sleep.
After sleeping through a whole moon cycle, I finally felt like a functional wolf again. I dragged myself back to the Vance Group headquarters.
I needed my internship stipend. Without pack credits, I couldn’t buy my way out of this territory.
"Did you see the Alpha’s post? He's totally claimed! He never shares his private life, but he made an exception just for Lady Elena!"
"I know! He’s the perfect Alpha. All these years, he kept his distance from other females. He was clearly just waiting for his true Luna to return!"
The moment I stepped into the office, the gossip filled the air.
Daniel loved Elena. But "kept his distance from other females" That was a joke.
"Ms. Vance, this is a restricted work area…"
Suddenly, the scent of aggressive pheromones flooded the floor and my blood ran cold instantly.
Cassidy had arrived.
"Get out of my way!" Cassidy stormed in and walked straight up to my desk.
I shrank back with my head down and my neck exposed in a forced submissive posture. The shadow of her freshman year cruelty never really left me.
"Rachel, Daniel’s coming back today," Cassidy whispered in my ear and her voice dripped with venom. "He and Elena are finalizing the mating bond. It’s over."
She let out a mocking laugh that made my wolf whimper. "Four years ago, I told you that the day Daniel get tired of you is the day I will finish what I started..."
I froze. Four years had passed but Cassidy's hunger for my suffering hadn't dimmed.
Smack!
In front of the entire office, She backhanded me across the face. Her Alpha-blood strength sent me stumbling against my desk.
I didn’t fight back. I didn’t even growl. I couldn't as she held a higher rank. The pack laws were stacked against me.
I felt like sinking my teeth into her throat and take us both to the grave. But I have to survive until the 13th.
"Remember that slap?" Cassidy sneered. "Back then, Daniel disciplined me because of you. The first time in my life my brother ever laid a hand on me!"
She grabbed a lukewarm cup of coffee from a nearby desk and poured it slowly over my head.
"You think being the Alpha’s plaything meant you had won? Look at you. An orphaned Omega. That’s all you’ll ever be. Do you really think he’d ever put a Luna’s mark on your neck?"
She shoved my head down. "Get out of the Vance Group. If I see you here when Daniel returns, I’ll leak the footage of your 'initiation' from freshman year to the entire pack and everyone will see the 'virgin' Omega in all her glory."
I kept my head down.
The "initiation." When she and her friends had pinned me down, stripped me and mocked my lack of a scent before my first shift. No one in the office dared to speak up. Cassidy was the Alpha’s sister. To cross her was to cross the bloodline.
After Cassidy had left, a coworker cautiously whispered, "Rachel, how did you get on the wrong side of the Vances?"
I forced a smile and wiped the sticky coffee off my face. "Just old drama from our school days."
In the restroom.
Hiding in the last stall to fix my clothes and mask the scent of my distress.
Back in my freshman year, I would’ve howled at the moon about the unfairness of it all. Was it my fault that my parents died in a rogue raid? Did having no pack lineage mean I should be bullied?
My phone buzzed. A notification from the pack bank. Daniel had wired 50,000 credits to my account.
The scene Cassidy caused must have reached his ears already.
Wow. Fifty thousand credits for a slap. That was the going rate for my dignity these days.
"I already spoke to Cassidy. She’s been reprimanded. Go buy yourself something to help you heal."
His voice message came right after. The same dismissive tone he used for the wounded scout.
"Thank you, Alpha Vance."
I accepted the transfer. I earned every single credit through blood and humiliation and I would need it for my flight.
I stared at our chat for a moment. A foolish part of my wolf was still sniffing for a trace of concern. Hoping he would ask if I was okay after the crash. If I was scared when the car caught fire.
But there was nothing.
I shut off my phone and walked straight to the Office of Pack Affairs to file my resignation. Since I was just an unranked intern, the process was a mere formality.
Tomorrow is the 13th. The night I would meet Alpha Gabriel Silas at the Dawson Estate.
I would finally get out of Crestwood, out of Mia's and Daniel’s reach.
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