SAVED BY A LYCAN

It was a really sad day for me already as I encountered the biggest embarrassment of my life. I had gone to the woods to collect some vegetables for the kitchen. I had a weird sensation all throughout my wander.

Upon my return,I perceived the smell of someone familiar even from outside. As I took a few steps from the entrance, I saw a crowd in front of the throne room.I just ignored it because I knew my presence wasn’t needed.The more I tried to look away and ignore, the more intensified the smell became.

"Oh my goodness, what the heck is wrong with me?" I could hear myself screaming out because I was fed up with the energy that was building up inside me.

Suddenly… all I heard was,"Your mate is here." I immediately turned my eyes sideways to meet the biggest shock of my life.

There stood a hot, tall, handsome man,the kind no girl could resist. He was the perfect kind anyone could die to have.

My eyes and his interlocked and I could feel nothing but hatred in his eyes. He was the perfect kind anyone could die to have.

"Mate…" We howled at the same time. Obviously, he was disgusted by that. Well, you could see by all the faces gathered that they were not happy with this. It seemed they were not all ready to welcome me, a slave and concubine, as the long-awaited mate of Alpha Darren.

With fury, he declared. " I, Darren, reject Hailey as my mate!” After this, he moved up to me, “Hey, you ugly silly girl, how dare you show up your face at this crucial moment?” I couldn’t even bring myself to reply to him when I felt a sharp pain across my face. Alpha Darren slapped me. At this point, I couldn’t stand on my feet anymore. I resorted to lying down on the sun-baked floor.

The crowd couldn’t help but burst into laughter. He kept heaping vile words on me. I tried apologizing to him, even by making hand gestures, but he seemed not to care and was only interested in humiliating me.

“I’d rather disobey the moon goddess than choose you as my mate!!”, he declared.

After this statement, my centuries of torture seemed to have come to an end. He angrily turned and took his leave.

“I’m glad he rejected her, we still stand a chance to be the Alpha’s mate”. I could hear the young ladies joyfully whispering among themselves as they shook their flat buttocks while leaving. One thing was for sure, I didn’t feel any sort of pain at his declaration, and I could tell he also didn’t experience any. “Thank goodness we’re not fated mates”, I whispered underneath my breath.

After several minutes of lying down in the scorching sun, I stood up and headed out. With tears helplessly running down my cheeks, I found myself in the forest. I didn’t mind how quiet and scary it looked and continued to shed tears. I cried my heart out when I finally sat under the big ‘Onyina’ tree.

Not long after I sat down, a young gentleman tapped my shoulder. With the sweetest smile, he asked, “My lady, who has caused this beautiful soul of yours to be this sad?”

My heart jumped with joy as that was the first time someone ever asked me the reason behind my actions! I didn’t think twice about it when I started narrating all about myself to him.

There was a special pack called The Claw Pack, it was ruled by Alpha William. What made this pack special was not that Luna had fled after giving birth but the fact that she had given birth to an Omega, the weakest type of werewolf, and this led the Alpha to believe that the child wasn't his. The child grew up like a slave in her pack and was made to live amongst the maids of the palace. This child was me, Hailey, and I'm about to tell you my story of how I went from a weak omega to the concubine of the strongest alpha that ever existed and finally to the mate of a Lycan, the strongest of all werewolves.

The maids continued to gossip amongst themselves as I did their job for them.I scrubbed the floor harder as the annoying sound of their laughter filled my ears. We were in the throne room and had all been ordered to clean it but, as usual, they just stood at a corner to gossip while I did all the work. I wasn't paying attention to what they were saying, but my ears couldn't help but perk up after hearing a familiar name, "Fangs Pack". It was the pack that my mum was supposedly from and it was rumored that my mum had fled to that pack. I paid attention to what they were saying while pretending to scrub the floor. "They are holding a festival and I heard that there is a possibility that Luna Riena will attend". I heard someone say, my face brightened up on hearing my mother's name.

I moved closer to them with the pretense of cleaning so as to listen to what they were saying, "I also heard that Alpha William has forbade everyone in the pack from going to the festival, probably to stop us from seeing Luna Riena" the girl in the middle continued, she seemed to be the main informant of the group as the others didn't contribute and just payed keen attention to what she was saying. "My guess is that he still loves her and doesn't want her to be humiliated" she added. I couldn't help but agree with what she said. After all, he had the chance to look for my mum and punish her for producing him an abomination.

The girls seemed to have noticed that I was eavesdropping on their conversation as they stopped talking and turned to look at me. I raised my head to see them glaring at me like I had done something wrong. "Is something wrong?" I asked innocently. "What do you think you're doing?" The one in the middle snapped, causing me to flinch, "i.i.i'm clean.n.ing" I shuttered. "Then why are you scrubbing my feets?" She asked and it was only then that I noticed that I had begun to scrub her feets. I quickly apologized and went back to work, cleaning the throne room.

When I was done cleaning, I grabbed a plate and joined the long queue of maids who were waiting to get some food. The girls who were assigned to clean the throne room alongside me walked in and were quick to stand in front of me even though I had arrived there before them, but it wasn't just them, a lot of other maids who arrived after them stood in front of me and by the time it was finally my turn to get my food, there was none left. Tears welled in my eyes as I realized that I would have to starve for the third day, my eyes fell on the people who caused my predicament and I wished that I could go over to them and snatch their food away from them but I was too weak to do anything.

I waited till they were all done eating, then licked off the little crumbs that were left on their plates. It didn't do much in my tummy but I was happy that I at least got to taste something. " What are you still doing here?" Someone snapped and I spun around to see the headmaid glaring at me. It was no news that she hated me and I heard that the reason for her hatred towards me was because she had always been in love with my dad but he didn't spare her a glance. I tried to explain to her what had happened but she wasn't willing to listen to what I had to say, "Shut up! Stupid girl!" She snapped, she handed me a broom and asked me to sweep the Alpha's bedroom and, having no option, I did as told.

It was while I was cleaning the throne room that I realized that I was sick and tired of the ill treatment I was receiving in my own pack. It was at that point that I decided that I wasn't going to stay there anymore. I was going to run away to Fang Pack in search of my mother.

I put my escape plan into action that night. After everyone had slept, I packed my few belongings and snuck out of the maid's quarters. I was successful in sneaking out of the palace and was about to scale over the gates when I heard someone yell, "who goes there!"