Chapter 2 At all cost.

Chapter 2

Ruby’s POV

It was my mate, the Alpha’s son but technically speaking he would be Alpha soon, since his elder brother had died at war two years ago, and that would make me Luna by his side when he finally reveals me to the world.

He was the future leader of this entire pack, the one person who held all the power to lift me out of this misery, it had seemed the heavens had finally heard my cry and hence sending me this ticket.

Rough masculine hands wrapped around my belly from behind as soft kisses landed on my exposed neck. His touch was firm, pressing his chest against my back as I stood frozen before the cracked glass.

“Ruckus has always been an asshole, you shouldn’t take his behaviour to heart,” Liam, my mate, said and even to me his words sounded odd. I mean, he had just watched me nearly get raped and that was all? No anger in his voice, no worry for the child in my stomach nor for me, just nothing.

“You had watched him force himself on me and had just walked away… you did nothing…” I said softly, trying to keep the disappointment I would like to show hidden as I moved out of his embrace. My heart felt heavy, and it took all of me to stop my eyes from wattering.

“We have discussed this more times than necessary, all you need to do is endure for a bit longer… you have been doing incredibly well for the past eight months since my wolf found you,” Liam said, and I couldn’t help but feel the change in his tone. It was cold and bland, lacking the softness that use to be there.

But I brushed that aside, not wanting to anger him. After all, it had already exceeded my expectation that he hadn’t rejected me on the spot when he had first identified me as his mate eight months ago at the river, and I understood him.

I had no status. In a pack where bloodline and wolf strength meant everything, a girl without a wolf was lower than a servant.

My parents had been but travelers who had stood in to fight for the Redwood settlement during a clash with another settlement and had both died in that attack.

Due to that misfortune, the Luna had taken me in to stay in the palace with them, but I had easily been hated because of my otherworldly jaw-dropping looks and the fact that it seemed like I wasn’t quite like them…werewolves.

The women envied my face, and the men looked at me like piece of meat to be taken.

But I doubted even if I was, the treatment would be any different, since the Luna herself had cast me to become a slave, leaving me vulnerable to all sorts of mistreatment with my voice dubbed and claws sawed down.

They took away every way I could defend myself, leaving me at the mercy of every noble who walked these halls.

“I understand… I’m sorry,” I calmly replied as I forced a smile on my face and also pushed the disappointment I was feeling at him and made my legs move as I walked back into his embrace,

“Forgive me for upsetting you… it must be the pregnancy hormones running haywire…” I spoke deliberately making my voice as soft as a lotus, something he seemed to like very much and that seemed to work as he immediately took a step towards me, his hands flying to my well-rounded breast immediately.

“Take off your clothes… I want your body,” he said hurriedly with a growl and it took everything in me not to refuse… this was always how it was between us… it all just felt so shallow like he was using me just for my body but I knew I was just overthinking things, Liam was just not good with expressing himself sweetly and this was the only way he knew to show me that he loved me too. He didn't know how to give comforting words or touch me gently, so I had to accept this rough affection as his way of showing care.

“Be quick…” he snapped his voice low as his claws began snapping out his fingertips and shredding at my corseted gown in a hurry to have me naked for him. The sharp sound of tearing fabric filled the small room as the flimsy cloth gave way under his strength.

This is what I need to do to make a way for myself to the top… I whispered to myself as the cold breeze in the room hit my now naked body making me shiver as the remains of my gown fell to the floor.

I squeezed my eyes shut, holding onto the vision of standing beside him as Luna, where no one would ever touch me or order me around again.

“Perfect. Now bend over,” he ordered, and I did exactly that.