The Alpha King's Rejected Mate

"You are going to leave after the rejection and never set foot within my territory again, mutt!" He warned, "Is that clear?" I nodded at him and watched him do what I feared the most. "I, Lycus Dardanos." He began, "Alpha King of the werewolf community, the...

Chapter 1

This book is a dark romance, contains dark themes of abuse, mentions of sexual assault, violence, bdsm themes, daddy kink and other dark themes, proceed at your own risk.

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Nyx's pov

I hissed as the silver laced whip came down against my back. I felt my skin slash open with a new wound as the whip came down again leaving an injury worse than the last.

"Should we do twenty one?" His laugh was sinister as always, "Or twenty one multiplied by two?" He brought the whip down again and this time I yelled in pain as I couldn't keep it in any longer.

The tears I had been fighting to hold back rolled down my eyes and they stung harshly.

We are suppose to be mates! I bit back my words, why are you doing this? And I couldn't ask this either fearing for what would come next, we have a child together for goodness sake! I didn't have enough courage to say this too.

"I wonder what the moon goddess was thinking when she made us mates!" He gritted as he bent to where I was hunched over on the floor. He grabbed my head and made me face him, my own pained green eyes meeting his of grey that glinted with hate for me, "Weak mutt!" He spat.

"You should have just let me accept your rejection!" I said and instantly regretted as a harsh blow landed on my face.

"You dare talk back at your Alpha?!" His voice was filled with rage, "Seems you have forgotten what put you in this position in the first place." He reminded me, "And why would I have let you accept my rejection?" His question was somewhat rhetorical, "I want you to feel every pain anytime I have sex with another person."

"I am sorry." I muttered weakly as I remembered what had put me in this state. He had asked earlier this morning to prepare an omelette and I had refused stating that I wasn't his maid and he had gotten angry as usual and vowed to punish me.

So, here I was observing my punishment, I had never had it this bad and I wondered what the rest of the day had In store for me and what my life had in store for me.

"You know I would have been nicer if you weren't some ugly, weak, cursed bitch!" He grabbed a hold of my hair and pulled my head back with so much force I felt the strain in my scalp, "And that stupid wretched father of yours, you know why he gambled you away at such a young age?"

I kept mute as his horrid words cut through me like an actual knife.

"It's because you are nothing! A waste! Useless! A curse! You are worthless and I am hell bent on giving you so much pain to remind you how much of a letdown you are. You deserve only pain."

I whimpered at his words as more tears fell from my eyes. "And that stupid child of yours…"

She's our child, I so badly wanted to tell him, why are you this cruel?

"She's a waste just like you! Cursed and useless!" He said, "And you even have the guts to say that she's mine?" His grip on my hair tightened, "How do I know the little bitch is mine? Every unmated male has been between those useless legs of yours! Whore!"

I cringed at his words, same words I heard ever since I birthed her.

"She's yours and you know it!" I spat at him, "I am no whore!"

His grip left my hair and travelled to my neck squeezing hard restricting my airflow, my eyes bulged as I struggled to breathe.

"You can use that mouth of yours right?" He growled at me and I felt claws coming out piercing my skin as the grip tightened. His wolf was out and I felt raw fear wash over me.

"I will show you how to use that fucking mouth!" He stood up releasing his hold and I slumped to the floor gasping for air. I wasn't even given a moment to catch my breath. He bent swiftly, picked me up harshly and with long strides he reached the bed.

He threw me on it with a growl and I howled in pain as my head met with the head board, tears clouded my vision.

I looked up at him and his shirt was gone, his hands laid on his belt unbuckling it and he had his usual signature smirk on his face anytime he wanted to take advantage of me.

I closed my eyes as his last piece of clothing came off and soon I felt his weight on me and I laid there stilling in silence as I bore it all with tears flowing down my cheeks.

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I woke up to a soft hand caressing my cheek, opening my eyes I saw Amara in front of me, her green eyes looked sad as she peered down at me. She was holding her teddy 'fluffy' and her dress was stained with mud, her face was dirty too.

"Mummy…" She called, "Blood." I knew she was talking about my wounds as I saw tears glistening in her eyes too.

I tried to sit up and was rewarded with pain as I did so.

"Where am I?" I groaned trying to decipher my surroundings as I looked around only to discover that I was in the alley as expected. He always ordered warriors to drop me here when he was done as I always passed out.

"Sorry mummy." She sniffed as she dropped fluffy and flung her arms around me not minding that the blood on me would mess up her hands and clothes.

I drew her closer and hugged her back holding tight to my daughter, the only reason for me still being alive and fighting. I had to be alive to take care of her and give her a better life.

"Have you eaten baby?" I asked her.

"No." She shook her head and looked up at me, "I was waiting for you…"

"Okay." I gently pushed her off me and stood up. I picked her up once I was on my feet and made my way back into the pack house.

"Whore!"

"Slut!"

"Cursed!"

"Abomination!"

I tried not to pay attention to the words I got used to over time as I passed by the members of the pack making way to my room or should I say cubicle. Each time I heard those words I was pained, hearing them over and over again pushed me to tears but I couldn't retaliate or defend myself as I would get punished.

"Look at her…" I heard one of the ladies sneer, "Imagine she was our luna." Her wicked laugh followed, "I bet she's even fake mates with the Alpha, she's such a slut, no wonder she got rejected."

Others joined her in mocking and laughing at me but I paid no attention to them, still hugging Amara close and trying to shield her ears from hearing such derogatory words but I knew it wouldn't work, she could hear them and often times try to ask me what they meant.

You are not what they say you are, you are not a slut neither a whore, you don't deserve this, you don't deserve the pain, I tried convincing myself so as not to believe their words as I walked into the kitchen with their voices fading away.

It was empty and I let out a huge sigh of relief.

I walked to the fridge and took out some fruits with meat.

Amara loved meat a lot, would have said it was because she was a werewolf but she had a very large appetite for meat which was strange for her age.

I finished from the kitchen and walked away quickly before someone would find me out.

I followed the stairs leading downwards towards the basement of the pack house which was where I stayed. I got to it quickly and closed the door behind me as I got in before dropping Amara and the food I had in my hand.

It was dark down here, really dark. This place also served as a temporary store room where things that weren't needed were kept. In the corner of the basement was where I called home.

A thin mattress was near the wall with a light blanket thrown over it. I had a worn out sack next to the bed which carried most of Amara and I's clothes and other petty belongings.

I took my child's hand and led her to the bed, sat her on it and laid the food out before her. She immediately reached for the meat on the plate and I giggled as she lifted it to her mouth and began gobbling it down.

I sat joining her on the bed, picked up some grapes to eat and leaned against the wall, I hissed in pain as my back came in contact with the wall as my wounds were still raw and fresh.

Let me heal you! Hera my wolf growled, stop being fucking stubborn.

No! I said to her, if you heal me now, he will find out and get really angry, you know how he forbade us from healing, besides, you aren't even strong enough due to the wolfsbane and silver.

We need to get out of here Nyx! She said, we need to get out of here before he kills us or hurts our pup.

I looked at Amara at her statement and felt anger surge within me at the thought of him harming her, You know we can't run. He will find us and hurt dad, you know it. Besides are we going to be rogues all our lives if we run, what will happen? We are omegas, we can't survive out there and Amara can't survive out there and I can't just leave dad here.

Nyx! Hera growled, I could tell she was really angry, this man put us in this situation in the first place, gambling us off to the Alpha and not even caring till now, he's cruel to us and yet you bother what's happening with him.

She was right, my dad hadn't been an angel but even though he always saw me as a curse and an abomination because I was a silver wolf and never cared what happened to me, I still cared for him despite his cruelty.

We can't run away Hera, I said to her, what if worse happens to us out there?

And what if good happens to us? She countered me, we can never know if we don't try.

You have to rest Hera, we got a long day tomorrow, I said and cut off the connection.

I looked at Amara to see that she had fallen asleep with fluffy tightly clutched to one hand and a half eaten grape fruit held in the other.

I smiled at her and laid next to her with the hope that sleep will embrace me soon.

I jolted up from sleep as the pain pierced my heart. I could feel Hera howling in pain too. I knew exactly what was happening as I felt the pain again but I couldn't scream out, I had to muffle my screams so as not to wake my little girl.

He was with someone again and I couldn't do anything about it but feel pain. That was why he had forbidden me from accepting his rejection so I could feel the pain anytime he had sex with another woman.

Why is he doing this to us? Hera cried as I stood up to my feet and made way for the door, are we cursed? Why does our own mate hate us this much?

I don't know Hera, I whined as I opened the door and got out of the basement.

I struggled to keep myself on my feet as I walked up the stairs.

What are you doing? She asked me.

I don't know, I actually didn't know, I walked up the stairs and navigated my way through the pack house. It was silent as everyone was asleep. I walked through the hallways and ascended more steps making my way to where my heart led me.

I walked till I reached the door, another pain shot through my entire being this time and I felt my knees buckle.

Nyx, no! What the hell are you doing? Hera asked as I reached out and knocked on the door. I could literally hear their grunts and screams of pleasure. I knocked harder as the pain intensified and their noises increased.

I was about to knock again when the door was flung open and I immediately bowed my head in submission as the Alpha aura overcame me.

He was standing there stark naked with his eyes glowering with anger as he stared at me.

"Why are you doing this to me Titan?" I yelled in pain addressing him by his name without his title.

Before I could say Jack I was pinned against the wall, his hand with his extending claws wrapped around my neck.

"You mutt!" He growled, "How dare you question me and address me with disrespect?"

A slap landed on my face and I whimpered in pain and Hera howled at the same time.

"You asked for this!" I saw his eyes darken and I knew he was mind linking.

He dropped me and I landed on the floor with a thump. Soon enough warriors appeared out of no where grabbing me and leading me out of the pack house while other pack members came out of their rooms, murmurs and grumbles grew.

I was taken outside the pack house, standing in the open field with pack warriors by my side tightening their grips around my arms. We were soon joined by other pack members who stood on looking with confused faces wondering what was going on.

Alpha Titan came out of the pack house too, he was dressed now and he had on a very terrifying look. I was overwhelmed with fear and curiosity but mostly fear as I wondered what he was going to do to me.

"Silence!" He barked at the pack members and they seized their chatter immediately, "Today, I shall teach this Omega." His gaze was directed at me, "Never to cross me ever again!"

I whined knowing that it was my mate talking to me like this and causing me this pain.

"Bring him out!" He screamed and I saw my dad being dragged out of the pack house looking haggard as usual. They left him on the ground paces away from where the Alpha stood.

"Dad…" I screamed alarmed trying to run towards him but was immediately held back by the warriors, "What are you going to do?" I yelled at Alpha Titan. The pack members gasped at my audacity, "Leave him out of this, I am the one who angered you."

"No dear mate, No." His smirk was sinister, "I know this will ruin you more and you will live with this guilt forever."

What guilt? I asked myself as I watched him shift into his huge brown wolf.

And before my very eyes, he lunged towards my father and then I knew what he meant by the guilt. I watched as he pounced on my father, snapping his neck between his wolf jaws, the crunching sound made me sick to my stomach as blood splattered.

I fell to the ground slipping away from the warrior's hold as I watched my dad die before me, a death I had caused.

I howled in pain.

I only wanted a day which wasn't entirely happy as I knew I couldn't be happy but at least peaceful cause it was a special day, what I didn't expect was to be the cause of my own father's death on my 21st birthday.

Chapter 2

Nyx's pov

Guilt had never eaten me up this much, the first time I ever felt this way was when my now late father had constantly reminded me that I was the cause of my mother's death. She had died bearing me and now, all pack members made an effort to taunt me about how I was the cause of my father's death.

It's been weeks since Alpha Titan had snapped his neck killing him, weeks since I was left outside on the open grounds to mourn my loss, weeks since I had been beating myself up and being distant from everyone, including Amara, Hera, and myself.

Hera was in a state of mourning too. Even though she had hated him for putting us through shit, he was still our father and she felt a sense of grief knowing that he was gone.

Amara didn't know what was going on, it didn't affect her that her grandfather had died. He had been a total stranger to her and he barely even recalled her name, she only knew she had a dead grandma.

My fingers felt numb from kneading the flour repeatedly, the pack members had suddenly stated that they desired British meat pies today and scones after tossing away the mouth-watering pancakes I had made. Well, it was their loss, I would pick up the pancakes later for my daughter and me to eat.

I tried focusing on making the dough to perfection and not letting grief and sadness distract me.

I got my hands off the dough and turned to the cooker only to see that the filling for the meat pies that I had been preparing was burning. I quickly put off the cooker and in panic, I picked up the hot pot, it burned my hands and I dropped the pot immediately. It fell to the ground with a clank spilling its contents on the floor

I felt a harsh blow dealt on my back sending me to the ground, my face hit the burnt pot as I fell and I screamed in agony as I felt my face burn.

The pain was searing.

"You bitch!" A hand grabbed my hair pulling me up, "What the fuck is wrong with you?"

It was the Beta's mate, Nora. Another person who made an effort in ensuring that my life was miserable and it seemed her cruelty only heightened with her pregnancy.

"Apart from spreading your legs, what else are you good at?" She hissed, "Burning meat pie fillings?"

"Let me go, Nora." I struggled to try to pull her hands off me but my efforts were in vain. She slapped me across the face again where my skin had burnt.

"How dare you talk to me like that?!" She barked, "Do you know how expensive foodstuff is?" She asked with a dry laugh, "Oh no, you don't! You are so wretched you can't afford shit!" She said to me, "Wait till the Alpha hears of how you wasted and burnt food." She pushed me and I landed on the floor right on the spilled filling.

Let me handle this bitch! Hera growled.

Hera no! I shrieked but it was too late. She force took over and I felt her canines and claws come out.

"Stupid bitch!" She growled before lunging at a very startled and wide-eyed Nora.

Hera pushed her to the ground and was about to claw at her face when she was suddenly thrown off her.

She hit the wall and I whimpered in pain as she howled. I quickly took back control.

The Beta, Carlo was standing before me glaring down at me with furry. I was picked up by as I whimpered submissively overwhelmed by his aura, his arms were around my shoulders gripping them hard as his claws dug into my skin, I could see his eyes glowering, "How dare you hurt my mate?" He boomed.

"I…" My words were halted with a slap across my cheek.

"Oh my God, I think I am bruised." I heard Nora whine as if in pain, "She pushed me so hard, what if the baby is hurt?"

The mention of the baby and whining of his mate seemed to fuel his anger more.

"I will deal with you before the Alpha even gets back." And with these words of his, I was dragged out of the Kitchen and outside the packhouse straight to the torture center for rogues.

"Mummy…mummy…where are you going?" I heard Amara call after me as I was being taken there. She ran from where she had been playing alone and got in our way, "Leave her please."

"Get out of the way mutt!" Beta Carlo growled and kicked my child sending her to fall flat on the ground.

Tears fell freely this time around as I saw her being treated like this, I couldn't even say anything to console her and as he dragged me away, I could still hear her cries.

He pushed me into the enclosed cell-like structure and banged the door shut. I was put on a chair and strapped on it. I wasn't nervous about what punishment he would meet out on me, this wasn't the first time I had been here but with the way his eyes glinted with hate, I was a bit scared of what exactly he was going to do to me.

"When I am done with you." He growled, "You will regret being born." He cracked his knuckles and looked over me for a while and then his lips curled in a smirk, "I don't think we should use the chair." He said and loosened the straps. He grabbed me leading me to what resembled a high jump post with the bar, I could see cuffs with chains dangling from the top bar.

"What are you going to do?" I asked with great fear creeping in me. I had never seen this and it had never been used on me.

"You will see." He said and then he made me stand under it. He took gloves that were laying on a table nearby which also contained different torture tools.

He slipped on the gloves and picked up my right hand, he clamped the cuff to it and I howled in pain as it got clamped around my hand. I knew now why he had worn gloves, the cuffs were made of silver. The second hand was also fastened on the next silver cuff and then he smiled in satisfaction as my face scrunched up in pain. He walked over to where the whips were to get one to begin his torture.

I didn't know which was worse, the whip landing on my back that had silver spikes embedded in it or the burning sensation around my wrist due to the silver cuffs.

I bit back my screams so as not to give him the satisfaction but my pains and his torture increased.

I couldn't take it anymore.

Do you want me to? Hera asked.

Yes, do it, please, I smiled inwardly as I felt the wounds on my back closing, and the blood begins to dry up, Hera was helping me heal and I didn't think the Beta would mind as only Alpha Titan had told me not to heal myself while he punished me.

"Did you just heal yourself?" Beta Carlos growled, "How dare you?" The whip came down but not on my back this time. It landed on my torso whipping across my bosom and I shrieked in pain, "You seem unbreakable uhn?"

He walked over to the table and picked up a syringe, "I will break you!" He stepped back to me and stabbed the syringe in my thigh injecting its contents into my system. I felt my body weaken and my limbs were turning flaccid. It was silver and wolfsbane, another syringe was stabbed in my other thigh and I got the same reaction even worse.

The liquid-filled me weakening my limbs and numbing my senses. I couldn't fight back, I couldn't even feel Hera. He took a knife and stabbed me in my belly causing me to cry out and he twisted it in my guts.

"Let's see you heal yourself now." He laughed heartily before pulling out the knife and moving to my thighs again. He ripped off part of my skirt and began carving out words on my exposed skin. I didn't know what he wrote and I was too filled with pain to try and decipher what he was writing.

I felt blood trickling down my thighs as I struggled to keep my eyes open, my breathing increased and he suddenly stabbed the knife in my thighs again.

"I don't know why you are still kept in this pack." He said taking my jaw between his fingers and jerking my face up, "He should have gotten rid of you a long long time ago."

I had a lot of things to tell him but I bit back my words

"And then you had a child and dared to claim that it was his." He growled, "You and your useless mutt should be thrown out for the rogues to feast on." He said, "Tsk…tsk…tsk…look at you pathetic little fool, no one would want you, you and that bastard mutt of yours. Can't you see you are cursed? What type of man has a child who shifts very early? You are being punished by the moon goddess cause you are a damned weakling."

"Leave my child out of this!" I said weakly, "She has done nothing wrong to you."

"Bold of you to think that you can talk back at me!" He barked slapping me across the face, "Maybe, that's why you are jealous!" He drew a long line down my sides with the knife, "Cause you have a cursed mutt for a child, that's why you want to harm my child and my mate." He stabbed the knife into my sides causing me to yelp.

"Please, Beta Carlo, please…" I had to beg. The pain was way too much for me to bear, "Please, forgive me…"

"Oh now, you can beg?" He grinned, it was a terrifying one, "I think I have had enough with you." He said throwing the knife aside and releasing the cuffs.

I fell to the ground, hitting my head on it and I sobbed.

"Weakling." He hissed kicking me severely, "Make sure you make it back to the packhouse to prepare dinner for everyone and be by Nora's side to attend to her cravings."

He left the torture room and slammed the door hard causing me to jolt. He left me there in my pool of blood and I wondered how I was going to get out.

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I ducked as she flung the plate at me and it met with the wall breaking into tiny pieces.

"I don't want that!" She screamed, "It smells fucking bad, hell! It smells as bad as you."

I shivered as she continued hurling insults at me afraid that the Beta will walk in again and punish me for getting his mate mad.

I didn't want that.

I was still bleeding from what he had done today and I ached all over. After I had managed to crawl out of the torture house, I got to the packhouse and straight to the kitchen to prepare dinner amidst taunts and jeers from the pack members about my appearance and talks about why didn't beta end my life and how I shouldn't get blood in their food.

I had successfully prepared their dinner without anyone hitting or choking me and I managed to escape the kitchen and not fall into the hands of warriors who would use me all night as it was a norm with them.

Now, I was standing before Nora as she complained. She had specifically asked for a different dish which I had prepared and now here she was saying that it stunk.

"Go and make me some soup now!" She barked and I immediately struggled to the kitchen to prepare it for her. I finished up quickly and took it to her. She accepted the food and I stood there waiting for her to order me around when she glared at me.

"What are you doing here?"

"I…"

"Get lost!"

I left her room at her words and went back to the kitchen. I finished up the dishes and cleared the mess the pack members had made.

I walked to the basement as I was done for the day, holding messed-up pancakes I had intended to pick earlier. I hadn't seen Amara since I came back from the torture house and I guessed that she would be in the basement playing with fluffy.

I reached my destination and got in. The sight I met made the content in my hands fall to the ground as a shrill cry left my lips.

Chapter 3

Nyx's POV

"No!" I cried out as I rushed over to her with tears already falling from my eyes. I couldn't believe the sight before me.

Amara was laying on the floor in a pool of blood, her own blood. I fell to my knees beside her and lifted her.

"What happened baby?" I asked, "What happened to you?"

"It's the Beta." She coughed and trickles of blood came out of her mouth, "It was when he kicked me."

I didn't say anything. I quickly rushed to the mattress and laid her on it. I couldn't take her to the pack doctor as we were denied medical access and I couldn't heal her myself.

I smoothed her blonde hair to the side and caressed her face as I watched it get paler, she was getting weaker and she kept coughing the spurts of blood coming from her mouth. I lifted her shirt up and saw that she had a gash like wound on her torso.

How dare he do this to our pup?! Hera growled, I will fucking end him.

Calm down Hera, I said to her, we have got to find a way to get her healed first and I don't know what to do.

Hera went silent for a while and I continued gazing at Amara. She got sick often ever since she shifted at the age of three. The rigorous process of shifting had weakened her a lot and it turned out that she was just a silver wolf like me but unlike her, I hadn't experienced premature shifting.

That's it! Hera said, Tell her to communicate with her wolf to help her heal, I am sure that will work.

Let's try it, I agreed with Hera and moved to sit Amara up.

"Baby..." I said to her leaning her against the wall.

"Yes, Mommy." She smiled weakly at me, "I feel so woozy." She said, "Am I going to die? Am I going to meet grand mama up there?"

"No, baby." I shook my head crying at her words, "You are not going to die, you are going to live for me, you will be okay."

"The Beta's mate said I was going to die." She sniffed.

"No baby, you won't." I took her face in my hands, "I want you to do something for me baby."

"What is it mummy?" She asked and I smiled at her thinking of how smart she was for her age, I knew she could do this.

"I want you to talk to your wolf, Cora." I said to her, "I want you to tell Cora to help you heal."

"Okay mummy but Cora feels tired just like me."

"That is why I want you to try so you wouldn't feel tired anymore."

She nodded and went silent for a while as she talked to her wolf. Soon enough I saw her straining herself meaning she tried to heal. I raised her shirt up looking at the wound and I saw it close up gradually. My face lit up in a smile.

"You did it, you both did it." I shook her face playfully, "Now I want you to cough to see if there is blood." She did it and there was no sign of blood.

"You see..." I hugged her tightly, "You are okay baby."

She nodded at me with a smile, "I am hungry."

My face fell at her words and I looked back to the trampled pancakes on the floor, they were not edible in this state, "Love, I don't think there will be food tonight."

"I understand mummy." She lay down on the bed, "I will go to sleep now..."

"Mummy will get you something to eat tomorrow, okay?"

"Yes." She nodded, "And one day we will live in a big house with plenty of food and maybe I can get a daddy, it will be fine and we will be happy." She giggled exposing her lost tooth gap. She looked so angelic despite the grime covering her face with her roughed up and bloodied clothes.

"Go to sleep child." I placed a kiss on her cheek as she closed her eyes falling into a peaceful slumber.

I laid down next to her hoping to get some sleep too as I crossed my hand over her.

I couldn't sleep that night as I could feel that Hera wasn't settled. She had mixed up emotions of anger and anxiety. I sat up on the bed wanting to talk to her.

What's wrong Hera?

Something is about to happen! She said, I can feel it.

I don't get you...

First off, I am mad at the fact that my pup almost died because of that stupid Beta and secondly I feel anxious for a reason I know not of, I feel like something is about to happen.

Hera, let's go to sleep.

I am thirsty, She said, we need to get water.

I rolled my eyes at her and stood up. I looked over at Amara to ensure that she was sleeping before leaving the basement to go get water.

I threw the bottle of water inside the trashcan and began to exit the kitchen really happy that I have been here without bumping into someone when I felt a hand wrap around my neck, it was the Beta.

"Shouldn't you be asleep?" He whispered in my ear, "Trying to steal something?"

"Please, let me go." I shivered.

"What if I say no?" He laughed, "And kick you to the ground just like I kicked that pup of yours!"

That's it! Hera growled at the mention of Amara, let me at the bastard!

I didn't fight her this time as she took control. Her canines got elongated as her claws came out.

She grabbed a hold of the Beta's hand and twisted it. He yelped in both shock and pain. Hera took the opportunity and pushed him to the floor before pouncing on him and slashing his face with her claws creating bloodied lines.

"You mutt!" He growled releasing his powerful aura and pushing her off him with so much force. We hit the wall and Hera immediately receded giving me back control. I tried scrambling to my feet to run off but he was before me in a flash and grabbed me, "I am taking you to the Alpha." He barked.

"No! Please..." I begged as he dragged me up the stairs and to the Alpha's room.

Alpha Titan was already outside the door and my guess was that the beta had already mind linked him.

"What did she do now?" He rolled his eyes.

"Your useless mate!" He dropped me on the floor before the Alpha, "Did this!" He pointed at his face.

"I am sorry." I whimpered.

"Shut up!" Alpha Titan growled, "Get into the room and strip!"

I stood up and got into the room fiddling with my clothes.

"I will take it from here." I heard him say before he got into the room and closed the door behind him.

"Oh darling." He walked over to me turning me to face him, "You are so in for it!" He said before pouncing on me.

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I was bleeding between my legs and everywhere when he got off and grabbed the whip. The cold air blew against my skin and I shivered.

"Oh my dear, are you cold?" He mocked me before hitting me with the whip continuously and as I screamed in pain, he enjoyed it more.

"Please Alpha..." I begged, "Just kill me..." I pleaded with him as the pain was too much. I didn't think I could survive it any longer.

"Kill you and give you an easy end to your suffering? No dear, I wouldn't do that." He laughed as he came to my level on the floor. He yanked one of my folded legs out, "Ugly bitch." He read out what his Beta had written with the knife, "Worthless slut." He laughed as he read the other words on the next leg, "I must say, he did a pretty great job." He stood up.

I swallowed as he watched me with hooded eyes making me wonder what sort of torture he had next.

"Get up and lay on the bed."

I stood up as quick as I could on my weak legs and laid on the bed not wanting to anger him further. I laid there with my face pressed downwards into the sheets. I wailed in tears as I felt a knife on my back.

He was carving out words on my already open wounded back. I didn't know what he was carving. I only cried feeling the pain get more intense. I couldn't even scream, I was too weak.

"I see you aren't screaming in pain." He grumbled, "I guess this doesn't hurt enough." He stabbed the knife into my back and I screamed. He pulled out the knife and repeated the act over and over again.

"Just kill me already!" I yelled out in pain.

"No...i have one more surprise for you."

I heard the door open and someone walked in, I couldn't see who it was till I heard the voice.

"Mummy."

It was Amara.

I was alarmed, I raised my head and looked at her standing in the room clutching fluffy as usual as she stared at me and the man whom she didn't know was her father.

"What are you going to do to her?" I yelled at him, "let her go!" I didn't want him to kill her like he did to my father.

"She is going to join us in the fun." He laughed as he beckoned to her, "Come here."

She stood there watching me as if seeking my permission.

"I said come here you mutt!" He walked over to her angrily and slapped her across the face. She cried out and I had to act fast. I grabbed a syringe containing silver and wolfsbane from the bed shelf, got off the bed and immediately moved to him stabbing him in the neck with it.

"Bitch!" He turned glaring at me knowing what I had done and then he grabbed my neck.

I wasn't going down without a fight, he was already weaker now.

"I will end you this instant!" He backed me up against the wall.

"Leave her alone!" Amara cried as she ran up to us hitting his leg. He kicked her away and turned to face me again, just then I reached out to the bedside lamp, lifted it and smashed it on his head.

Alpha Titan fell to the ground with a thump.

I didn't waste time in grabbing Amara and running out of the room. I limp ran to the basement with her in my arms, I was still naked as I hadn't bothered with grabbing my clothes and the cold air kept kissing my wounds making me hiss in pain.

I kept Amara down as soon as I got there and began packing all our belongings in the sack. There was no time, we needed to get out of here before Alpha Titan awoke.

Someone is finally running away! Hera snickered.

Hera, I do not need your satire right now, we need to leave as soon as possible, can you heal?

No! Way too weak but we can manage with the wounds.

I finished packing our things, put on a simple gown and grabbed Amara.

"Where are we going?" She asked as we crept out of the pack house.

"We are going far away from here baby." I answered her as we continued moving.

We left the house successfully and walked in the thick forest, I knew we were still on the pack grounds. We moved till we got closer and closer to the borders after managing to evade the patrol members.

When we got really close to the borders I dropped Amara and the sack.

I crouched down to her level, looking at her with her teary eyes and her tiny hands clutching fluffy.

"Baby, I need you to do something for me." I told her, "I need you to shift into your Wolf, I want you to let Cora take over."

"Are we running away from this bad place?"

"Yes, baby we are."

"And we will finally be happy in a big house, with food and a daddy."

I nodded at her not wanting to dull her spirits. I didn't know if we were going to get comfort, I didn't know what the world had in store for us but I knew that we had to run.

She dropped fluffy and I helped her in sitting on the floor.

"You need to be focused and let Cora come through okay?"

She nodded and sat there. Soon, I saw her shifting, her tiny claws surfacing with pale silver fur and canines.

She wasn't screaming like the first few times and soon a beautiful pup with silver fur was standing on all fours before me.

"Cora." I smiled at her.

"I did it!" She jumped smiling happily,

"Amara and I did it."

I stood up smiling at her and then it was time for me to do what I ought to do.

"I Nyx Evander, an omega of the Coremoon pack accept your rejection Alpha Titan and I choose to be a rogue from this moment, so be it." And then I felt all connection and ties with them severed.

I shifted into my wolf immediately and let Hera take control. She walked up to the sack, "Pick fluffy Cora." She said as she picked the sack in her mouth.

Cora also did the same with fluffy.

So we are doing this? I asked Hera.

It's about time.

And with that we moved crossing the borders and running into the forest.

We were rogues.

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We kept running even though we were tired. I didn't know how far we were from the pack but I knew we had covered a considerable distance away from them.

How come we are so fast? I asked Hera.

I don't know, She said, I feel anxious, first I am faster all of a sudden and I can't keep this other feeling away.

"I am thirsty." Cora said dropping fluffy and we had to stop, "I need water."

"There is a stream not far away from here, I can hear it." Hera said to her, "We would reach there in no time."

We continued journeying till we reached the stream. There, we sat to drink water and rest.

We need to leave here now, what if wild rogues come, we would be in danger.

That's right! Hera agreed with me and she stood up, she called Cora and we began the journey again not knowing exactly where we were going just following the moon as it led us.

The night got darker as we ran and we had all began to feel tired. I felt pity on Cora as she wasn't used to this and she was still so young.

We went a little further and spotted a clearing.

We need to spend the night here, Hera said to me, we might collapse if we go any further.

Okay, Cora is so tired.

We dropped our stuff and not caring to shift back into our human form. We fell under a tree as we planned to spend the night there.

We were about the sleep when we heard rustling of bushes and I could feel Hera's excitement again.

Calm down Hera, I growled.

The rustling got more noisy and she stood up.

There, out of the bushes jumped out six huge looking wolves, they weren't rogues, I knew it. They looked like trained pack warriors and they were extremely huge. They looked at us furiously as they snarled.

What are we going to do? I asked Hera.

I don't know, looks like they are out to kill, She moved backwards trying to shield Cora away from them and Just then Hera caught whiff of something.

An amazing scent.

It filled us up and it smelt heavenly.

It smelt woody, like pinecones with a hint of lavender, I didn't even know what to describe it with. It was simply unique.

Could it be?

A huge black wolf jumped in front of us staging himself between us and the warriors. It was the biggest wolf I had ever seen, it looked majestic as his fur shone under the moonlight.

It turned to us staring at us with those gleaming black eyes and it was like the world stopped for a moment and then Hera said the word that I never expected.

'Mate'