Being the Alpha of the Dark Moon pack, Aaron Shaw, rules the greatest of the greatest pack. Helena Starks was always forced into finding her mate. Parents pressuring her on one side and her pack trying to get rid of her on the other, leaves Helena in a dilemma. Forced on a date with the Alpha of the Red Rose pack, she is told to meet up with her brother at the diner before the date begins. Her brother warns her that when she gets the chance, she is to run as far away from the pack as possible. That he will follow close behind. She does as he says. But what happens when she's trying to run away from being pressured to find her mate, that when she does run away, she bumps into her mate?
Lihat lebih banyak"You will do as I say, Helena!"
My eyes widened in shock. "But, Dad—" I couldn't finish my sentence because Dad had backhanded me, and I flew off the chair, across the room.
"Are you talking back to me, Helena?" He growled threateningly, ready to throw another slap on my face.
I held onto my throbbing cheek and slowly shook my head. “N-No, Dad...” Silent tears slid down my cheeks and my whole body shook.
"Dave, leave the poor girl alone!" I heard my Mom scolded him.
"I would! But, she never listens to me anymore. What am I supposed to do with her? What am I supposed to your daughter?"
"Alpha... Luna... The Alpha from the Red Rose pack is asking for permission to enter our land. Should we give it to them?" I heard one of the fighters call out.
"Of course, of course! Let them in!" My Dad said excitedly.
"Why is he here?" My mom mumbled.
"He's here to check our daughter out, don't you remember? I told you that these two are going out tonight." Dad emphasized the last three words.
I continued to silently cry in the corner.
"Alpha, Luna, you both can leave. I'll have Helena ready for the date." I heard one of the pack moms whisper to them.
"Oh, yes, please. She needs to look absolutely stunning," My Mom snapped. "I want to her to be the most beautiful woman tonight for him to like her."
"Yes, Luna, I will make sure of it."
And to think that werewolves find their own mates, not to be forced into finding them. I can't believe my parents would do this to me. Is this how parents treat their own daughter?
"Helena, dear, please come here!" It was Sandra. She was probably one of the few pack Moms, who weren't to fond of trying to get rid of me. When she saw that I made no attempt on getting up, she walked over to me and gently took my hand in hers.
"Dear, everything will be fine. . .The Alpha and Luna will come to their senses." She smiled warmly.
"But, Sandra, how long will I be forced into finding a mate? I'm so sick of this!" I cried out. "I want to be free—to choose on my own—to decide for myself."
Sandra quickly wrapped her arms around me and engulfed me into a warm hug.
"It's okay, Helena, you will find your mate soon. It always takes time." She whispered so softly. She pulled away from the hug and wiped away the tears that kept sliding down uncontrollably.
"It's time for you to get ready for this date. Come on." She clapped, smiling at me and lighting up the atmosphere.
Even though Sandra frowned upon me being forced on dates to find my mate quicker, she obviously had to listen to her Alpha and Luna.
I grudgingly sat on the chair and Sandra got to work. I almost fell asleep. Two hours and thirty minutes later had Sandra clapping her hands like an overly excited walrus.
"You look absolutely stunning!" She squealed. She turned the chair and faced the mirror.
She was right. My long brown hair was in perfect curls. My makeup was simple, yet elegant and the dress she had me slip on was perfect.
A little bit too perfect...
"The Alpha will go crazy looking at you." Sandra winked. I forced myself to chuckle.
"Is Helena ready, Sandra?!" I heard my Mothers' voice call out. "Hurry up! Hurry up!"
Sandra winced and my eyes began to water.
"Yes, Luna. Helena is ready!" Sandra called out.
When my Mom walked in, she frowned at Sandra. "The last time I asked you to get me ready, you made me look like a witch. Why do you have to make this girl look good?" My mom hissed. I bit down on my tongue to stop from crying and screaming at my Mom.
To think that a mother should express her love to her children.
Sandra frowned upon my Mom.
"What a wicked bitch your mother is!" Sandra sent through a mind link. I held back a chuckle, and looked back at my Mom. She looked completely beyond pissed.
"I'm talking to you!" She snapped.
"Sorry, Luna." Sandra mumbled.
Mom waved her hand dismissively and left the room.
"God, how do you and your brother deal with her?" Sandra hissed. I just shrugged my shoulders.
There was a rapid knock on the door and it swung open.
"Helena, your brother has told me to send you a message." One of the pack members whispered.
"Yes, what is it?" I asked, standing up from the chair.
"You are to meet him outside the diner before your date with the Alpha," he told me. With that, he waved us off and quietly closed the door.
I turned to look at a scowling Sandra.
"What did your brother need now?" she asked me, brows furrowing.
"I don't know, but I think I should head off.
She nodded her head quickly and went to grab my purse and heels.
"Here you go. Hopefully, you'll enjoy this date!" Sandra winced.
I gave her a quick hug. "Hopefully I won't!" I winked at her and left the room. I heard her chuckle even when the door was shut.
"Are you ready?" One of my guards smiled.
I nodded my head and started to walk down the steps. When I reached the last step, I saw a couple of members crowded around the door.
"Hopefully, the Alpha will like the bitch and take her away." I heard one of the pack members say to another.
I turned my head and sent a sharp glare. That made her shut her mouth but I knew she so badly wanted to talk more shit about me.
I picked up my pace and reached the door way. One of my guards came to my side and opened the door.
I walked out of it and soon walked into a black SUV.
"Helena, we'll first drop you off to your brother." The driver had said. I nodded my head and looked out the window.
I would always remember the excitement that used to roll off this mansion. But now, all everyone wanted to do was to get rid of me.
The drive to the diner was agonizingly slow.
My mind kept wandering to thoughts of why my brother would call me. I had tried to mind link with him but he kept blocking me out. That made me worry even more.
"We're here."
I looked out the window and sure enough we were right outside the door of the diner.
"Where is my brother?" My eyebrows scrunched in confusion.
"He's right there." Someone pointed out.
I quickly opened the door and walked over to him. I grabbed onto his arms and looked at him.
"Why the hell have you been blocking me out?" I growled at him.
He ripped his arms away from my hold and dragged me to a corner.
"Helena, listen to me closely." His tone was serious, something that usually never showed in him.
I waited for him to continue but he looked hesitant. "Felix, what is it? You're worrying me." I whispered to him.
"I heard Mom and Dad talking. They want to get you married as soon as possible. They don't care if it's your mate or not!" He growled, teeth greeted in anger.
I wasn't shocked about knowing the fact that they didn't care if I was going to marry my mate. I was just shocked that they wanted me to get married right now.
I had just turned 20 not so long ago.
"How could they want to get rid of me so quickly?" I asked him.
He shook his head and his eyes turned black.
I placed my hand on his arm.
"Calm down, Felix!" I told him.
He opened his eyes. His heart beat was irregular but his eyes shifted back to his green orbs. When he moved aside, that was when I noticed the two backpacks by his feet.
My eyebrows pulled down in confusion and I frowned.
"Why do you have two backpacks?"
"Do you trust me Helena?" He asked.
"Should I?" I tried to joke but he didn't even crack a smile. I quickly shut my mouth and nodded my head.
"Then you need to trust me with everything I tell you right now." He bend down and grabbed the backpacks.
He took my hand in his and started to move forward.
"Where are we going?" I asked completely frightened.
I saw two black Jeeps pull up in front of the diner and saw the Alpha walk out of one.
"Shit!" Felix hissed. He held onto my hand tighter and pulled me along with him.
He started to run dragging me along with him. Running in heels isn't the best choice I had made. He continued to run until we were surrounded by trees.
I pulled him back and stopped. My breathing was going crazy. I placed my hand over my heart and took big deep breathes. I kicked off the heels I was wearing while Felix took out a pair of Nike shoes and socks and threw them at me. He then took out some sweat pants and a hoodie and threw those as well.
I hadn't seen it coming so it hit me in the face. I looked up at him and growled at Felix while the idiot smirked.
"Go, change!" He ordered.
"Not until you tell me why the hell we just ran away from the diner!" I yelled.
"Because I don't want you to fucking get married to someone that doesn't deserve you!" He yelled back.
I looked up at him and my heart broke.
Our parents had forced him into a marriage with one of the pack members, and it hadn't worked out so well.
His mate had ran away from him to a Rogue. She said that she had found her mate and left Felix. Just like that—No warning, nothing.
Felix finally started to love her, but she just left him.
"I don't want what happened to me, happening to you." He smiled sadly.
I walked over to him and threw my arms over him. I gave him a tight squeeze.
"I love you. Take care of yourself, always." I whispered.
"I love you too. Now, go change." He gave me another squeeze.
I pulled away and went behind a big tree and quickly slipped out of the dress. I slipped on the sweatpants and hoodie. I put the socks on and wore the Nike shoes.
When I came back, I saw that he had changed into shorts and a sleeveless hoodie.
"What are we going to do now?" I asked him. I placed the dress back inside the backpack and looked up at him.
"If we run for a couple of hours, we can be far away from this territory." He suggested.
"Are you suggesting we run away from our pack?" I asked him shocked.
"If you don't want to stay here anymore, then yes, I suggest we leave."
I turned around and in the distance I could see the outskirt of the plaza we just ran away from.
Felix was part of the few people that loved me.
I turned around and faced him again.
"Where are we going to go?" I asked him.
"I've made some arrangements. But, we need to move fast. It won't be long till they'll realize you never showed up for the date." He went to pick up both bags and he started to run.
"Felix, we won't be able to get too far in our human forms." I called out. I ran after him.
He turned his head but kept running.
"We can't shift. The places we'll be passing will be full of humans. It's too risky!"
He slowed down a bit and matched my pace.
"Lily!" A voice shouted, pulling me from my sleep and forcing me to wake up."What?" I mumbled, hoping the person would shut up or just go away."You have to get dressed, I was ordered to have you ready an hour ago!" The voice exclaimed, running around the room and knocking things over in the process."By who?" I asked, opening my eyes slowly and letting them adjust to the light.Once I could see clearly, I noticed Rowena frantically moving around to get stuff in order. She held clothes in her hands and a few baskets were on the dresser. I sat up straight, yawning and trying to get myself together for her sake."Alpha Denver will have my head if you aren't downstairs in twenty minutes," Rowena yelled, throwing the clothes at me. "Here, put these on now!" She ordered, her yellow eyes expressing how scared out of her mind she is.Before I could ask her anything or even get another word out, she rushed out of the room. I like Rowena and watching her as a nervous wreck doesn't sit well wi
I woke up wrapped in the arms of another, their heat radiating off their skin and onto mine. I could feel their hot breath against the back of my exposed neck, sending chills throughout my entire body. My body was pressed tightly to theirs and the light struggle I made to move away caused a low growl to vibrate through their chest. As weird as it was for that person to make that type of sound in reaction to me moving away, it also made me feel strangely safe and warm. I slowly lifted my eyelids to take in the room around me. Darkness consumed every corner of the room, giving away nothing as to what's hiding within it. I cocked my head to the side in attempt to see the sleeping person beside me. Although the darkness hid the room, it couldn't hide the one man I've come to know oh so well over the past few days-Denver; my mate. Seeing him laying there so calm and innocent made my heart swoon for him, but I know that's not even close to the feelings I should be having. He's the man who
I can't take this anymore. I'm cut off from everyone and everything. I haven't seen Leon, he hasn't come down since before. People I don't know have been giving me food, dirty looks, then proceed to walk away. How could Denver run a place like this? You're not treated as an equal and I couldn't imagine staying in this pack. I miss my old pack, at least you were treated with respect- well, except for me of course.Why do I always have to be the person who gets crap all the time? I hate everyone and everything in this place! I must sound really whiny and over dramatic, but it's genuinely how I feel.I've been hurt so much over these past few days down here. Denver gave notice to some people that I am not in fact his 'true mate'. A guy I noticed from the meeting before came down to feed me and when I asked him about all of this, his only reply was that I've been rejected. It hurt like hell to hear that, but I guess I saw that one coming all along.I cried out as I banged my back against
I sat in the cell crying for hours. No one came around; no one checked on me. I was left all alone to sit there, crying over a man who I thought was supposed to love me. I hate to admit Timothy is right, but he is. He warned me this would happen, but I didn't listen. I hope he can forgive me, I want nothing more than to just go home.Sadly, my mate turned out to be crap. Denver thinks he can make me act and talk exactly how he wants. He thinks he controls me and that keeping me down here will give him more power. The truth is, it does. The longer I'm down here, the more broken I feel. I can't believe that my own mate played me. He talks down to me and has no care in the world for how I feel.This wasn't supposed to be like this, it was supposed to be magical. I was supposed to have a mate who would sweep me off my feet, love me no matter what and always take care of me. I guess you can't always get what you want and right now I'm not even sure I even know what I need.I just want to l
"Lily, is it true then? Did Alpha Denver leave Miss Winter for you; his mate?" Rowena questioned me with confused, grey eyes."Miss Winter?" I retorted, not at all recognizing the name."Winter, Alpha Denver fiance... The girl you just told off?" She asked, looking at me with a puzzled stare."Oh, that's her name? Well I've only ever heard of her, but I guess it makes sense..." I trailed off."Makes sense?" Rowena pressed, not liking my vague attitude.I shrugged my shoulders, not really liking the idea of going into details with her. "I don't know, it's just that with her kind of personality it's more than obvious why your Alpha left her."I know that Denver and I aren't in the best of places, but that chick is crazy! She got all worked up over the fact her Alpha found his mate. I know some people treasure power and all that, but to me it seems like a complete waste of time.Rowena's mouth dropped open at my words. Her eyes flickered to a pale shade of white, practically bugging out
LILYI stayed put in the room, afraid to go anywhere else and encounter strange and unfriendly people. I can't believe Denver just left like that, did I do something wrong? He's been gone for so long and I don't know if I should go search for him, or just hang out in here until he comes looking for me.It took me some time to calm down after everything that happened between us. I can't help but feel guilty; almost like it was all my fault he reacted that way. I'm just not ready to go that far with someone; mate or not. Denver's voice keeps replaying in my mind. Every time I shut my eyes, he's there in my head. All I see are his beautiful blue eyes gazing lovingly into mine, then switching back and forth to something entirely different. I need to see him, I need him to come back for me! I can't sit here and wait any longer. I can't just wait to see if he hates me or not; it's eating at me too much!"I'm sorry Madam, I didn't see you," A voice called from the other side of the room.I j
LILYTorin walked down many hallways with me hanging over his shoulder. Lots of people stopped to take a look at me- mostly guys. Whenever a girl would stop I would get a dirty look, but when a guy would stop, eyes of lust were directed my way. I bent around to see that my shorts had ridden up to exposed the bottom half of my ass.There it was, half of it hanging out in all its glory for everyone to see. On top of that, my white cotton shirt keeps going up from me being hung upside down. No wonder guys keep looking at me like that; I'm practically half exposed! I just hope Torin walks quicker so I can just see my brother, apologize and get the hell out of here."In here please," A voice guided Torin into a room, stepping in with me over his shoulder still. "The Alpha will be here momentarily," And like that, a pair of doors shut and left us alone.I bit my lip nervously at the thought of how this is going to go. Timothy will hopefully see me exposed, kill Torin and then proceed to loc
LILYLetting go of the tree to face the voice. A tall man stood near the trees, his long black hair shining under the moonlight. I scanned his body up and down and decided I have no chance with taking this strong, scary man on. His black eyes bore into mine and I felt frozen with fear just looking at the man."What's your name?" His question came out more like a demand with his cold, deep voice.I took a gulp, trying to get my thoughts together and open my mouth, but I couldn't. I stood there dumbfounded by him and my mind couldn't pull anything out to say. I just stared at him with wide eyes and a shaky body.He smiled at the sight of my fear and I cringed as he took a few steps forwards. "You're far from your pack Lily Shaw," He spoke, inching closer and closer to me.My mouth dropped in shock. "H-how do you know w-who I am?" I asked with a shaky, breathless voice. My body still recovering from all the uncommon exercise I forced on it.Stopping only inches away from my body, he lean
LILY"Lily!" Mabel squealed through my mind link."Ugh, what?" I asked her, more than annoyed from being confined in this tiny room that seems to grow smaller with each passing day.I've been stuck in this room for four days, ten hours and 8 minutes and I've completely lost it. I do nothing all day, but sit here and play with make up or something. I have no television, cell phone; not even a laptop or computer. Timothy thinks I'll look into something or get ideas, but I honestly think he wants me to go crazy."You found your mate?!" Mabel questioned, her voice filled with joy and excitement."I don't wanna talk about it," I mumbled back to her, hoping that's good enough for her to back off."No! Lando told me what happened, but where have you been?" She asked with worry."Look Mabel, I'm done. Love, mates, everything like that is just out the window... I give up," I sighed, losing my last bit of pride left as I explained to my best friend how weak I truly am.Mabel was silent for awhi
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