SCARLETT
All werewolves were supposed to get their wolves when they turned eighteen. But I was six days past my eighteenth birthday and I didn’t shift into my wolf.
At first, I waited for the wolf to show up or to hear a voice or feel a foreign presence in my mind that could hint at my wolf being there but just being held back by something but nothing happened.
So, it was final. I was ranked the wolfless omega yesterday and this rank was supposed to turn me into nothing but a breeder and domestic help.
It was insulting to me because I was the daughter of the royal Beta couple and I was supposed to inherit a beta she-wolf. By not shifting, I let my murdered parents down and couldn’t even take revenge on their murderer—the Rogue Lycan either.
But that was not what kept me on my toes all this time. It was rather the fear that Alpha King's heir, Rush Rivera was going to leave me now.
I admired him for a long time. He was my first love and the man I wanted to spend my life with.
I was not only wolfless but in fact, it turned out, that I was not his mate either.
This was heartbreaking for me and I instantly locked myself away for this truth was too great for me to bear.
He had just confessed his love to me, one day before my eighteenth birthday and he had told me that he wanted me to be his Queen. I was so happy and now, the fear was bigger than that happiness.
Luckily for me, Rush proved me wrong. He didn’t care that I was wolfless or that I was not even his mate. He needed me, and loved me, nonetheless. He desired me to become his chosen mate.
I didn’t waste a moment and said yes. I wouldn’t bother thinking about my true-fated mate as I might not even be getting one, given my wolfless nature.
After getting my answer, Rush convinced his father, the Alpha King Cadamus Rivera to let him claim me as his. Surprisingly, he had agreed. After my family’s murder, he had taken me in as his daughter. I was already indebted to him and by letting his son choose me as his mate, the Alpha King’s spot in my heart had become firmer.
I had a family again. Rush, Alpha King, and my friend Valerie. These three people meant the world to me.
And today, on the occasion of the full moon, I was about to make this bond stronger. A chosen mate ceremony was being held for me and Rush—the Alpha King heir of the Wolf Riverania pack.
All Alphas and their families would gather in the hall and they would watch me getting marked by Rush.
To prepare for this day, I had woken up early. Or it would be safe to say, I couldn’t sleep the whole night and only took a small nap when the day was about to start.
My nerves were all over the place as I took a quick bath and wore the white, knee-length chiffon dress Rush had sent for me with a lovely note in the box.
‘ I can’t wait to make you mine. ’ Such a short message but it meant the world to me.
How did I get so lucky? I still couldn’t believe that I was getting everything I wished for.
Giggling to myself, I sat down in front of the vanity mirror. My copper hair was half wet and my green eyes were sparkling as I inspected my figure in the reflection of the mirror.
I was happy, but a small part of me missed my parents on this important day. If Dad and Mom had been here, they would be all over the place. Dad would have been so fidgety and grumpy about it. And Mom would be helping me get ready.
A soft smile lit my lips as I lowered my eyes to the floor. I shouldn’t be thinking about them but I couldn’t get them out of my mind. Their death and disappearance from my life was too sudden. I didn’t think we would part ways so soon in life. There were so many things I wanted to do with them.
All of a sudden, my eyes snapped to the door of my room. I could hear the footsteps coming closer and I could also tell it was Queen Eva after inhaling the lingering scent in the air.
It was strange for a wolfless omega to have heightened senses and werewolf strength but it turned out, I was not all normal. I was everything werewolf, excluding the wolf.
I sighed as the door opened, revealing the face I didn’t want to see right now. Queen Eva was Rush’s mother, and she hated me with a fiery passion.
These past three years I spent as an orphan around her had left me scarred and opened my eyes to the world. She often tortured me when Rush and Alpha King were not around.
The reason for her hate was simple. She didn’t want me anywhere near Rush. And after I was deemed wolfless, her hate had only grown. She couldn’t bear her prince son mated to a wolfless omega.
“ You must be so happy after ruining my son’s happiness! ” As expected, she sneered while standing in the doorway.
“ I love him. I don’t intend on ruining his life. ” I sighed.
“ Yet you whored your way into Rush’s life. If you loved him, you should have let him go. He needed someone strong by his side. Not a filthy, wolfless whore who still cries over her parents like a three years old child! ” She gritted her teeth, sauntering towards me.
My chest tightened after hearing her words. She was always direct and harsh about my weakness.
I assessed her cruel face, her thin lips pressed together, her black hair pulled into a bun and her regal green dress flowing behind her.
My hands trembled by my side. I opened my mouth to protest but her hand was clawing at my jaw the next moment. Her nails dug into my chin, nearly drawing blood with the force.
“ You think you can become the Queen one day, Scarlett? ” She spat. “ don’t even dream about it. Once Rush comes across his fated mate, he will get rid of you. ”
I gulped. My heartbeat dropped in my stomach.
I had thought about my fated mate and felt nothing but Rush’s fated mate was another thing. I did think that he might be tempted to get rid of me once he came across her, but his love for me had helped me get over these insecurities.
He would never leave me.
“ N-No. He will never do that. He loves me. ” I cried out.
Tears brimmed in my eyes. My chin wobbled. The Queen left my face with a hard jerk and stepped back from me.
“ Tsk! Love is nothing compared to a mate bond. You will see. ” She smirked, turning around.
I exhaled a deep breath and faced the mirror. I won’t be thinking about the Queen today. I will only focus on Rush.
Nervousness twisted my guts as I recalled what Rush had told me. The ceremony was to take place in front of the Alphas and their families.
I was to be marked and mated by Rush in front of all of them so they bore witness to our union. This meant, that I had to have sex with Rush openly.
This had irked me out and I had asked Rush to do something but…he was helpless. This was an old tradition and he couldn’t go against it.
When I cried over this, he melted. He said he was going to try to do something about it even if it meant getting people on his bad side but I didn’t want that so I stopped him.
For Rush, I could do anything.
But the picture of it in my head was enough to make me want to puke. My heart was beating hard in my chest, silently protesting against the future.
SCARLETTI stood before the hall filled with different powerful Alphas of our alliance. They all were waiting for their chance to meet the Alpha King or Rush. I was as insignificant for all of them as the decoration done for this ceremony.I breathed in. Like the past three years, breathing in front of so many people hurt. These people didn’t care too much about my parents.My Dad who gave his life to protect the prince and my Mom who followed after him—Both were forgotten right after their funeral the next day by these people.It was after their death that I found out the people I thought loved me, and cared for me were just suckers wanting to suck up to my Dad so they could influence the Alpha King.The only real people in my life were Rush, Alpha King, and my childhood friend Valerie.I looked down at the screen of my cellphone. I had been waiting for Valerie to show up. I had left so many messages and voice notes, informing her about my ceremony but she didn’t respond. This had me
IZERIt felt good to be back, to get the chance to inhale the blood and destruction again. It was something I loved and craved every moment of my life.Revenge, destruction, murder, blood, despair…It was everything that made me feel alive. It was a constant rush—better than any fucking drug in this world.But this was not the reason I was here again so soon. I came because of Scarlett. She had turned eighteen and she was finally mine. I had known the truth for three years. I fucking knew the moment she ran inside the hall that day and saw me leaving. My wolf screamed at me that she was our mate and that we needed to take her but I disagreed. She was just a fifteen years old girl back then.Now, she had come of age and she belonged by her mate’s side, by my side.My whole fucking Army was onto all the cowards on the above fucking hall, slaughtering whomever they caught to keep them away from here. I was down here, in the tunnel, watching the squirming figure.I didn’t want to hurt her
SCARLETT I didn’t know how much time passed before I was finally able to open my eyes and stare at the high ceiling above me. I frowned, why was the ceiling so high? I noticed the greek designs on the corner of the ceiling with yellow neon lights illuminating them. I moved a little to feel something. Everything was a dull ache. My body was not hurting, and my senses seemed to be dead. I kept staring at the white-painted ceiling before things started to make sense again. I was attacked, and no room in the packhouse had a white high ceiling. Horror struck me. I finally sat up and looked around the unfamiliar room. There were four huge pillars around the bed I was lying in. My eyes took in the satin grey sheets and then the lamps placed on the side tables. There was only a huge oak door to my left and nothing else. Slowly, I looked at the other side. My eyes landed on the huge glass wall with greyish edges. I ran my gaze over the glass wall and finally stopped on the man standing with
IZER“ What now? How long are we keeping Luna like this, Alpha? Cadamus will find her like this. The potions won’t work for long. She needs to reject her pack bond and become one of us. ” Dixon sat down on the visitor’s chair in my office.He was my Beta and one of the two people I trusted with everything I had. The world could betray me, but he wouldn’t. That’s why he was not a mere, replaceable Beta, but also a friend. And he had the right to say irritating things. He exercised that right often, much to my dislike.“ It won’t be so easy. Your Luna is quite feisty. ” I smirked, staring out the window, at the treeline in the distance. She might scratch me like a cat if I keep pushing her. I would like that, but she wouldn’t. She was still stuck on her parent’s death.If I had known she would turn out to be my mate, perhaps, I would have spared her Mom and Dad. There was no going back now, though.‘ Nope. ’ Xandros disagreed.We would have killed her parents even if I knew they meant
SCARLETTI had to play his game, and I had to play it better than him. Because I wanted to make it out, and kill him. There was no way I could do this in these chains or this house. I had to trick him, gain power, and retreat carefully instead of acting like a fool and fighting him head-on. That’s why I gave myself fake hope. I made myself believe Rush was alive, and I would return to him. I knew this thought would not let me give in to Izer, or give up my life. I was going to fight, and give him the taste of his medicine. And I would return to the only man I loved throughout my life. So, when a new face in the form of a young girl came into the room, I didn’t act rude or selfish.This new girl introduced herself as Sophia and told me that her so-called Alpha had asked her to unchain me, let me freshen up, and change into different clothes. I wanted nothing more than to snap this girl’s redhead and poke her blue eyes out because she was one of them. But I didn’t do any of it.Inst
SCARLETTHe didn’t let me go. He kept holding me close until he fell asleep. And even after his breaths evened out, his arms remained coiled around my body, refusing to let me go.It was the worst thing I did in my whole. I let him hold me, keep me pressed to his body, and I waited until I finally got the chance to act on my plan.I had to run away from here. I had to get back to Alpha King Cadamus and get his help to rid this world of the monster sleeping behind me.The whole night, I couldn’t even blink my eyes properly. I was scared of him. What if he raped me? What if I couldn’t do anything to stop him? How would I survive if he did something so horrible?All those questions were driving me crazy and whenever he pulled me near while sleeping, I held my breath back in fear. My heart was in my throat the whole night and it only stopped pounding hard when light peeked inside the room through the glass wall.I caught my lost breath and slowly tried to twist out of his arms cautious
SCARLETTWhere was I? I was clueless.But seeing the tall trees, had my mind reeling with strange ideas. The Rogue Lycan did say that he gave me potions to suppress my scent and powers. Swallowing my saliva, I turned to the tree and started climbing it. Branch by branch. Injuring my knees and palms on the harsh surface. Damaging my clothes. And holding my howls of pain.When I reached the last branch, I sat over it and dangled my legs down. Unconsciously, I committed the crime of glancing at the ground.My heart leaped to my throat as I found the ground too far from my sight. My breathing quickened with newfound fear.My head was spinning. I hated heights. I was damn scared of them.No, No, No.I shook my head and closed my eyes. I shouldn’t look down. I should only hope for Izer to not find me he—“ Darling. What are you doing up there? ” Izer’s voice sounded in my ears, and all hope went down the drain. “ couldn’t find a better place to hide from me? ” My eyes snapped open. I loo
SCARLETT My head was pounding when I opened my eyes and found the carved ceiling staring back at me blankly. Everything was hazy in my mind. It seemed I had been sleeping for a long time and couldn’t really remember when I fell asleep. Taking in a deep breath, I looked around the room. It was his room, and I was back here. Perhaps, I had been dreaming about my escape, and then getting on top of that tree, and then falling down. I blinked, recalling the hot blood that had painted my face. It had felt so real. My hands reached out to my cheeks, patting the skin before I paused. I could reach my face now. I breathed in and sat up before glancing at my hands which were now free. It really happened. Terror began gnawing at my insides, threatening to chew all the courage I had shown when I made the dumb decision to run away. Why did I even think I would be able to get away? Tears stung my eyes as I gripped my hair, and dropped my face down. He would hurt me now. He might even assa