Chapter two

The problem with leaving this place though was if you got caught trying to leave without permission you were punished. Shockingly. 

Also with no paid job we could not save any money up so what would I do for food or shelter? These are the only reason that I am still around here. Now that I am eighteen I want there to be a chance of finding my mate even if the chances are slim. 

We sort the breakfast out and it is taken out by the servers. 

"Joseph since it is your shit food that you tried to give the Alpha, it will be you that cleans it up off the wall and when you are done you can get straight to your other chores with no breakfast." His head droops at that words no breakfast. 

"Yes Nora." he replies to her though and makes his way to the wall.

We all finish the rest of the cleaning and have the scarps of food that is left. I slide a plum into my pocket and I will try give it to Joseph if I can later. 

I am mopping the corridor when all the wolves leave the room where breakfast was just served. The Beta Jacob walks straight down the middle of where I had just cleaned leaving big dirty footprints. I don't make a sound but he turns to me and says 

"What was that?" 

"Sorry Beta what was what?" 

"What did you just say to me?" I looked at him confused, I hadn't said a word. 

He walks over to me and pushes me on the floor with such a force that my ribs hurt on my left side as they hit the floor. He then picks up the mop bucket and pour the now cold and mucky water all over me. 

"That is what you get for talking to me." He sneers and walks away. All the other wolves had stopped to watch what he was doing and not a single one of them help they just stand there smiling and laughing. They all start to walk away as I lay on the ground not wanting to move just yet. 

I finally try and attempt to stand up but I am in pain and wince as the shooting pain rocks through my body. Then I feel a small hand hold onto my arm and help me up. I look to see that it is Julie she was trying to help me. 

"Thank you, but you shouldn't have if you get caught you will get punished." 

"I didn't like seeing you and not helping, my Mummy always used to say to me that it takes a good person to help someone in need no matter the cost to you." 

"Well thanks again, you go to where you need to be before you are caught." She runs off. 

I look down at my self and see my tattered clothes are now mucky and wrinkled. The plum that I had put in my pocket for Jospeh was now squashed in my pocked and the juices were leaking down my leg. 

"So much for me helping Joseph out." I mumble to myself. I spend the rest of the day doing my usual just in pain today and then I make my way to our room. There is about ten of us that share this room. The only thing we have is our bed, a blanket and two sets of clothes. I lay down onto my bed and wince at the pain and just go to sleep with the hope that I won't be in as much pain tomorrow. 

I am woken up by Nora, but when I open my eyes the room is still pitch black and I can't see anything. 

"Lexi, get up now the Alpha and the Luna want to talk to you."

What had I done now? Did the Beta tell the Alpha what happened earlier? I wasn't looking forward to this at all I had no idea what I had done or what they wanted with me. I get up quietly not wanting to wake the other girls up and make my wasy out of the room over the creaky floor boards. I follow Nora to the Alpha's office and she knocks on the door. 

Through the door we hear the deep voice of the Alpha 

"You may come in." 

Nora opens the door and we walk in. I had never been in his office before and I look around the room and see that it is very basic really. Cream walls with a comfy chair in one corner with a side table. The other side of the room held shelved filled with files and his desk in front. The Alpha and the Luna was sat behind the desk looking at me. The Luna has the same coloured hair as me just cut a lot shored just above her shoulders and her eyes where very similar blue to mine, however she had a more full face from the fact that she ate when and what she wanted.  

They then looked at each other and began to whisper to each other so quietly that even with wolf hearing I couldn't hear them. 

"Nora you may leave us now." The Luna spoke.

Nora made a hasty exit not wanting to be around them any more than anyone else does. 

"Now I bet you are wondering why we told you to come to us in the middle of the night." 

I nod to him not wanting to ignore him. 

"Well what we say now stays in this room and if you tell anyone, anyone at all I will kill you do you understand?"  I just nod to him again.

"I SAID DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" He yells

"Yes Alpha." I managed to squeak out.

"Good, now we have chosen you to do a very special thing for this pack. You see my Luna here can't conceive children, but we are wanting a child. Now with your looks they are very similar to that of hers and no one would probably know that the child wasn't biologically hers. So you will carry our child, you will stay in a room for the months of which you are pregnant and for a week after the birth and then you will return to your work. We will tell the pack that she is pregnant and that the baby is ours. You will never tell a soul of this." 

I didn't know what to say to this. I didn't want to do this at all. When I get pregnant I want it to be between me and my mate. I want to hold my own child not hand it over to the savages that is the Alpha and the Luna. 

"I can see the look on your face and can see your not too happy about this. Let me put it this way, if you don't do it I will make your life a living hell and you will wish you were dead."

What choice do I have? I hold back the tears. The Luna then calls for Nora to come and take me to my new room. I follow her through the pack house up to the attic when I walk in there is a proper bed and a tray of food on the bed. 

Of course there would be food they need me nice and strong to carry their child. As soon as Nora walks out of the room, the tears fall from my eyes like a waterfall. Nothing I did would stop them from falling. How could I get out of this without being killed? I spend the rest of the night just crying until my body is so tired that it falls asleep.