Alpha's rejected mate

Three straight days. That's how long I have been trying to get over with this damn work. But the more blood I got drained into it, it seemed to become longer.

Every living breathing cell in my body was screaming out in pain. My body ached and my vision replicated multiple folds of every reality before me.

And I knew that this life wouldn't stop. I was going to remain in pain over and over again till I broke again and again in the hands of my cruel Alpha Uncle, Henry.

There was only one thing that could save my now my mate.

This last thread of hope crept into my life a few weeks ago, back when I ran off into the woods from the beating that I had recieved from my uncle.

I had perceived a strange scent among the trees and a bond unlike anything that I have felt before. It was the most real thing that I had felt since the death of my parents.

For a while, I could barely think, totally captivated by this new sense and I was totally grateful to it for making me forget the grinding pain in my body.

Eventually, I came before a shirtless man my eyes resting on his face with mixed emotions welling up in my eyes.

"Mate!" I had muttered.

After not sensing my wolf even at the solid age of eighteen. Already two years late, I had already lost hope but it turned out that I had not be forgotten by the moon goddess.

"Mate!" He whispered back.

The night was cold and with this strange bond drawing the both of us together, we mated right there in the forest night.

It was the best thing that had ever happened to me since the deaths of my parents and I wished that it didn't stop.

Until that morning, he looked into my eyes and I was unable to detect any emotions in them. And then, he walked right away from me with only a few words.

"I will come get you!"

I continued to stare at the empty space that he had created. Eventually dragged back to the pack house by my Uncle for more torture. But I never forgot his face. And I needed to find him so together, we could escape from all this. Maybe run away and build a life together.

"Ding!" The loud sound of the clock clicking seven brought me back from my fantasies.

A peak at the clock was enough to boost my mood swiftly. Where else will I able to to search for a mateless werewolf apart from the the mating ball ceremony and to make things better, it was being held right in my pack. There was nothing stopping me from escaping this hellhole now.

And I was sure that he was also searching for me so it would just make things better for us.

I had to find a way and get to that ball. Find my mate and create a life with him together away from my cuel uncle and his family. This is what I have been holding on to for seven years, ever since my parents were murdered by that rouge wolf that night.

A few moments later, I was done with my work and back in my room. My heart was racing as I got the dress that I had made for myself to go to this ball.

It wasn't that classy like those that other she-wolves were going to wear for such a special occasion. But with the art that I drew on it, I was sure that whoever my mate was, he was going to love it.

While I continued to admire my handwork, the door was forced open even without a knock and my heart froze in an instant.

The party was already a few moments in and as the leader of this pack, they are supposed to be there already. The only person that was supposed to be here was the only old lady that worked with me, the pack chef but we rarely even spoke.

Thanks to the broken hinges, there was nothing that I could do to stop this. I snapped back to consciousness, quickly replacing the dress with my boss.

"How do I look stinky Elena? I'm sure that the moon goddess is definitely going to give me a mate among the Alpha for sure." I heard a voice that was difficult not to catch. It was that of Kate.

I turned towards her, her dress was glittering. The only daughter of my uncle. She was treated more like a god, worshipped by the Alpha and the Luna.

"You.. you look perfect!" I stutter trying to hide the box behind me.

But those razor-sharp eyes had already gotten a hold of it.

She walked over to me with a frown on her face. "What are you hiding."

A cold sweat broke out of my body immediately those words broke out of her mouth. I tried to protect the dress and come between her.

"Nothing! It's nothing!"

"And when did you start having a say in all of this? It's okay when I say it is, remember that!" She sneered at me, pushing me off.

My heart continued to drumroll, rumbling growing all through my skin as she made her way to the dress and lifted it.

Her eyes flashed with made anger forcing a gulp to go down right my throat.

"What Elena! You are planning to go to the ball, aren't you? You are planning to sneak out of the house!"

"No! I can't do such, I'm only trying to make a dress!" I knew it, I was more than a terrible liar.

"And so you think that I am an idiot to believe that? Why don't I take this to Dad and see what he is going to say about it." She was about to walk off from the place but I stopped her.

"Please! Don't do it!" I pleaded with her for everything.

"Don't worry, I won't tell them anything about them!"

I let out a deep sigh of relief. However, for the Kate that I knew already, I had admitted victory just way too soon. The next thing, she yelled at the top of her voice.

I shrunk knowing what was next. The worried pattern of feet ran into the room towards Kate.

"Kate dear! What's wrong? Alpha Henry inquired quickly!" With the fact that she was around, I was more than sure that he was lurking around close by.

"Dad! She was planning to run away to the mate ball! You aren't going to allow that happen right?" She let out those charming baby looks of hers.

There were tears in my eyes. I collapsed to the floor knowing that there was no essence of me trying to battle with the truth with them.

"Please, Dad! Please let me go to the mate ball!" A desperate me was stupid enough to ask.

The fury in his eyes was unlike anything that I had seen before. He walked over to me and struck a slap on my face creating blisters on my lips..

"Didn't I warn you never to call me by that name again?" He glared.

That was a mistake that I had made quite a couple of times. Maybe he was because he was the shadow twin of my late father apart from his differently styled hair.

"Do you think that you will be able to kill me? Just like you killed your parents? You must be a fool for that!" He glared.

My heart was crushed by his words, hearing those words that had been used to abuse me for years.

After hearing it quite a lot of times already. I was already supposed to have grown immune to it already. However, every single time, it felt like a stomp right on my heart.

"And if you think that you will find a mate that will want you, you must be a crazed fool! The only mate that you will be getting the chores that you will be doing for the rest of your life." He sneered.

His words hurt me but he wasn't done yet. He stomped out of the room, returning a few moments later with chains in his hands.

My heart was breaking into blisters. I heard clicks but I never thought that my uncle would want to chain me up until I saw them myself.

Large chains that were infused with the latest invention of liquid wolfbane.

"Now let's see how you are going to escape from this hell!"

He dragged me to his large tool room, dragging me by my hair until some of them were forced right from their roots.

Uncle Henry forced me to the chair. I tried to struggle but for someone who was barely fed, I could hardly breathe.

He thugged my hands tightly to the chair tightening my hands firmly to the chain with it.

"With this! You will never be able to escape!" He spat on my face before finally walking away from the place.

My heart was in total shambles, overriding even the pain that my physical body felt. A strand of tears escaped from my eyes as I remembered the perfect life that I used to have before the death of my parents.

I had been accused of taking their lives in their sleep. Sometimes, I even believed it. Waking in a blood bath and a knife with me.

Even though I could barely remember what had happened that night, there was no other evidence of anyone around apart from me.

"Maybe this is my punishment for trying to murder my parents!" A strand of tear escaped from my eyes and I shut the gates to it and the only thing that I saw was plain darkness.

This was the only means that I saw that I could escape and now that all of that was eventually gone, it was time for me to eventually gave up.