CHAPTER ONE

MELISSA

“I, Alpha Kayden Williams of Bloodmoon pack reject you Melissa Wilson, I have never wanted you….”I let his words wash over me as I sink the knife into my wrist, they are words that have broken me even more than my step mother’scruelty ever could. Life is no longer worth living. A feeling of euphoria washes over me as I feel my life’s blood drip away.Soon, I’ll be no more, soon, I’ll be free.I wrap my bloody hand around my six month pregnant belly. “I’m so sorry baby, Momma would always love you,” I whisper to my unborn baby as my own blood stains my clothes. I love my baby so much, but I have realized that the world would treat this baby just as cruelly as the world has treated me, or even worse. The baby would grow up a child of a rejected omega, fatherless, and with the entire world against it. It was time for mother and baby to finally be free from pain, from the sorrow that never goes away. “Melissa! Melissa! Where’s that dumb bitch when you need her,” I hear my step mother holler, and a smile perversely. Soon, I'll be free from her too.Someone starts banging on my door, and after sometime, they start kicking at it. I hear the door splinter from its hinges, and I will myself to die faster.The door is thrown open, and my step mother stands glaring at me. “What nonsense is this? Did you think anyone would pity you for faking a suicide attempt in other to draw sympathy? Get up! The Alpha wants you!”I stare at her. Her words almost give me hope, but then, I remember, this woman would never want what’s good for me. The fact that she was the one giving me this news means nothing good can come out of it.Ever since my father’s death, my step mother and step sister have made my life hell. If not for the pack’s rule against kicking out family members who have no other home, they would have kicked me out a long time ago, now they blame me for being stuck with them. My step mother, and Evelyn my step sister have sabotaged every single chance I have ever had at happiness. I would not be surprise if I find they have a hand in my mate rejecting me. Ever since I told them I had a mate bond with the Alpha of our pack, my relationship went downhill, till he finally rejected me. I shake my head. A lot of my blood has already pooled on the floor, in just a few minutes, I would be unconscious, in a few more minutes, I would be dead.My step mother walks over and slaps me hard across the face, and then she grabs my wrist, and ties it up with a cloth. “Get up,” she says pulling me up herself. She easily tears off my clothes, and grabs a fresh gown from the wardrobe and throws it at me. “You’re going to see the Alpha.”As soon as I am brought before Alpha Kayden, the little hope I have that he wants me back fizzles away as I watch him pacing the living room angrily, no, actually anger is an understatement, he looks furious. I close my eyes and wish my step mother had let me die. What new disaster is awaiting me now, I wonder. My whole life is a disaster story, and just when I think it would be over, something new comes up. “You,” Alpha Kayden shouts as soon as he sees me. “You murderer! How could you do this?”“Murderer?” I repeat in confusion. My eyes take in his entire appearance, the way he is shaking with anger, and something else – hurt. His eyes are blazing red, and I realize that if it had been a lesser man, he would be crying by now. “Kaydee what is the problem, please talk to me,” I say immediately, walking up to him as concern for him outweighs the sorrow I feel inside. The fact that he said he never loved me does not mean that I ever stopped loving him. “Don’t call me that!” Alpha Kayden snaps, grabbing me by the throat and pinning me against the wall. “You lying, scheming bitch. I thought all I had to do to get rid of all your lies was to reject you, but did you really have to kill my little brother?”“Davis?” I ask in shock as tears fill my own eyes. Davis was just a boy, and he was the only one that had ever shown me true kindness, even after Kayden rejected me. “Is Davis okay – Davis can’t be dead no…” I stammer in pain. Alpha Kaydee lets go of me and I crumble to the floor. “you’re still denying it when I have proof?” He snatches my left hand, holding my fingers up to expose the place my step sister had demanded a claw from me as punishment for breaking her favorite plate. “Your claw was found deep in Davis’s throat. You lost it when you murdered him.”“No! No…… that was not how I lost my claw,” I cry out, still reeling from the news of Davis’s death. Kayden smiles, and it is a cold smile that doesn’t reach his eyes. “Go ahead, deny it. Let’s see the stupid tale you will cook up since you have failed to realize that I am unto you and your lies.”“I did not lose my claw by committing murder,” I whisper, looking into his eyes, trying to see traces of the old Kayden, the one that had held me once under the moonlight, whispering endearment to me. “my step sister, Evelyn cut off my claw because I broke her favorite plate.”His face was livid. “How dare you accuse my chosen Luna of having a hand in any of this? Look at the bizarre tale you wrung up just to implicate Evelyn. Evelyn is lovely, she’s kind hearted, and she is loved by me, things you would never be even in your wildest dreams. How could you lie so maliciously against someone who has shown you nothing but kindness, honestly, Evelyn and her mother should have kicked you out of the house a long time ago, you ungrateful wretch.”His eyes suddenly caught the binding on my wrist. “What’s this?”I lower my gaze, unable to look at him as I fight back tears, still reeling from all he had said. “Oh – when she heard that you summoned her, she immediately slit her wrist to make it look like a suicide attempt in order to draw your pity,” my step mother lies. Alpha Kayden laughs darkly. “You’re too dumb to realize your time of manipulation is up, I’m grateful to Evelyn for showing me the light. Melissa you killed my brother, an innocent boy that did nothing but show you kindness, and all to retaliate the fact that I rejected you. I would make sure I make you feel a hundred times the pain he felt, welcome to your new hell.”“Guards!” he shouts, raising his voice to his warriors that stood guard around the pack house. “Whip this murderer, a hundred strokes. I want her crying in pain before I decide what to do next.”