Chapter 3: Wolfless Girl

//Raven\\

I believe that was my dad's sickening way of helping, he wanted to help me after my voice box was crashed by his dearest mate. He wanted me to have someone who was somehow like me. Someone I could relate with. Someone to teach me another way to voice out my problems without actually talking.

And Jess was the perfect person. That was the reason why he didn't kill her for crossing our borders. That was why he made her live.

I turned off the shower and wiped the water off my body. I immediately put on my maid's uniform and got ready to leave my room.

Cautiously, I opened the door and peeked outside. To my surprise, the entire pack was still sleeping and there was a pin drop silence. I couldn't hear the sound of spears and grunting from the warriors like they do every morning, which was weird.

It has been 13 years since the attack and my life has been starkly different from that day.

My life hasn't been easy since my stepmother and her two children stepped into our home.

They treated me like a piece of shit. My room was given to Giselle. I was abused both physically and emotionally and all in front of my father. And he sat there and did nothing.

I have been persecuted for something I didn't do but I kept silent and took their beatings. They hated me for no reason. They all did. They hated the fact that I was breathing. They hated my existence. They wished countless times that I was dead. That notwithstanding, I came back stronger.

I have lived in the shadows and between the walls of the alpha's house. I have been hidden from the world. I have been forbidden from the outside world. I could only see the world through the open window of my room but I never complained because I have been told by them that my life wasn't mine.

I belonged to them. My entire existence was sham.

They own me and my only purpose on earth is to serve them and kneel before their feet.

When my stepmother entered our lives, I thought she would take pity on me, take me in and treat me like her daughter. I was wrong. Absolutely!

They turned me into their very own marionette. A punching bag, they could hit whenever they felt like it.

For the past 13 years, I have lived in misery. I've been a slave by my family. To the people who despised my very existence and caused me nothing but pain.

Their actions killed me every day because I had this fantasy that we could be a happy family but that was not what I got.

They treat me like garbage as if I don't matter.

I thought living with them would be better, but no...their abuse got worse every day and I know today will not be an exception.

I shook off the negative feelings and thoughts as I entered the kitchen.

Jess was busy preparing breakfast for the elites in the clan, with her back facing me.

I slowly sneaked behind her and jumped on her. She jolted to the side, startled, causing me to roll with silent laughter.

"What is wrong with you? You scared the shit out of me!!" Jess glared.

I giggled.

" Why didn't you wake me up, Jess?" I accused her and shot her an accusatory look.

"Come off it, Raven. You looked worn out and I couldn't bring myself to wake you this morning. " She signed. "All I wanted was for you to sleep some more." She rumbled in sign gestures.

"Fine! Next time wake me up on time even when I'm snoring like the cutest baby you've ever seen." I giggled and carried on. " I don't like it when you start work before me. We need to work together.... remember? I can't have you getting sick. Who will take care of me then?" I pouted and feigned seriousness.

"And besides, you know what is likely to happen if the Luna comes around and sees me lazing around?"

"Alright dear, you win. I'll keep that in mind." Jess smiled and kissed my forehead. " Why don't you start with laundry and cleaning? I will take care of the kitchen today. I don't want you messing up. Giselle will have your head if you make a mistake on her engagement day."

"Yes ma, I understand perfectly. Can we please have breakfast before I start work?"

"No!" Jess signed sternly. " We will eat after they've had their breakfast. "

"Please Jess." I whined like a baby." I can't work on an empty stomach. Eric and Giselle will make sure nothing is left for us to eat. Please Jess. "

"No Raven, what if they walk in on us having breakfast?"

"They will never find out. We will eat fast." I said, giving her my cute puppy eyes in an attempt to win her over.

"Fine." She signed reluctantly.

"Thanks, Jess." I squealed, doing a happy dance as she laughed quietly.

After we finished breakfast, I raced to help Jess set the table for the alpha and his family, since we were far behind time.

Then, I started hearing movements coming from upstairs.

"Where is our food bitches? I don't have all day." Giselle's annoying voice rang throughout the first floor.

Crap, here comes De’devil! I stretched the first letter in my head and patted Jess on her arm before signing,

"They are awake and almost down. Serve breakfast. "

She gave a nod and I swung out of the kitchen. I slipped onto the top floor to collect their used clothes before I made my way down to the laundry room.

It took me over an hour to complete my task and when I was done, I neatly folded them in the laundry basket and strode upstairs to distribute them in their closets.

I quickly finished the alpha and Luna's room and moved to Eric's room before going to my former room, which was now owned by Giselle.

Just as I was depositing Giselle's clothes in her walk-in wardrobe, I smelled it. That reeked smell of lust and trouble.

I knew who was behind me instantly. It was the man I hated with everything in me. The man who brings me nothing but trouble. The alpha who wants something he can never have. The alpha who wants me as a possession. The alpha who has been harassing and violating me for three years.

I whirled around to see him, Alpha Chase Roland, alpha of Dark Haven Clan. The largest and most feared clan in the area, apart from River Moon Clan.

He was Giselle's chosen mate. He stood before me, leaving no space between us as he grinned and pushed himself against me.

" You have been avoiding me all day, my little barbie doll." He grabbed my throat and pushed himself more into me.

" I have missed you these past few weeks, I was away. Haven't you missed me? My barbie doll..." his grip tightened and he pressed his face against my neck, sniffing me off.

" You smell so sweet..... " he trailed his nose down my neck. " You smell..." he sniffed me and continued. " Honey, my favorite. " he brought out his tongue and ran it down my neck.

My body shuddered in disgust. I could feel him growing excitedly against me. My heart rate increased and doubled over as the emotion of fear was released from my brain.

"Mmmm...I wish I could eat you, right now, doll, but your father is waiting for me. Not to worry my pretty barbie doll, I'll have you to myself tonight when everyone is at my engagement ceremony with Giselle. " He clenched tightly around my neck and sniffed my hair.

His other hand moved down my waist to my ass.

I gasped at his disrespect as he grabbed my ass, squeezing it into him." Await my visit, my barbie doll." He slapped my ass before he released me and walked away.

Immediately when he was out of the door, I released a sigh and breathed in and out to calm my nerves. I revolved back to arrange Giselle's closet.

I know what you're thinking, that I was weak and lame but I'm not. The first time it happened, I reported the incident to my father, the alpha, but I was embarrassed and put to shame.

They didn't believe me, they believed Chase's lies over my truth. No investigation was done.

When I turned eighteen, Chase visited our clan to ally with my father and the first time our gazes met, I saw lust and sinful desire for me in them. From then, he started visiting our clan regularly. That was when he began abusing me.

He started passing flirty and dirty comments at me, and then he began touching me inappropriately.

I couldn't scream for help even when I wanted to. I couldn't tell anyone because no one would believe the word of a slave over that of an Alpha.

The only people I told were gamma Shane and Jessica. Gamma Shane couldn't do much, he was only able to keep him away from me for a short while, because to my family, Alpha Chase was a respectable young Alpha and their beloved daughter's suitor.

Luna Danica worshipped the ground he walked on and, because of his wealth, she hooked him up with Giselle, who so much wants to be a Luna.

They dated for over two years and Chase had finally popped the question. He asked Giselle to be his mate and Luna of his pack.

Alpha Chase and Giselle were not fated mates. They chose each other. In the part of the world where I lived, fated mates didn't matter to high rank werewolves.

They looked at wealth rather than eternal love. They looked at what the opposite sex could offer them. So, fated mates in the region were uncommon.

"Why do you smell like my mate?" Giselle yelled, drawing me back to the earth.

I shook my head and signed very fast, " What do you mean?"

"Don't play stupid with me, Slave. I can smell him all over you." She shrieked.

"Don't yell at me. Why don't you go and ask the bastard you call mate? I feel sorry for you. I wish you knew the kind of devil's spine you are about to commit to.."

Giselle's face was distorted in confusion. She couldn't understand a word that I had just signed.

"Speak up mute. With words I mean! " She screamed into my face.

At that moment, I didn't know what came over me... I was just emotionally stressed dealing with the main abusers in my life. I raised my middle finger at her, which meant...Go fuck yourself as I glared at her with an irritating smirk.

She gasped. " You....you just didn't!. " She roared and I felt a sharp pain surge through my hair as Giselle yanked my hair back and threw me against the floor.

Her face was full of rage and hatred.

"Don't ever disrespect… me!" She smacked my cheek. “… disrespect me again. I am the Alpha's daughter. " She gave me a hard smack. " A Luna in making." A hard slap landed on my face. " And you!....you are nothing. Just a maid. An omega without a wolf." She smacked me very hard, which left my face hurting and burning.

She growled and kicked me in the stomach. I whimpered on the floor, glaring at her.

"The next time I see you around my alpha will be the day you breathe your last." She spat on me and rained insults at me. " You stupid mute. Worthless human. You are nothing but a wolfless girl...how can you think of associating yourself with high rank werewolves? Huh!!! Aren't you shameless? Your father is even embarrassed to talk to you or acknowledge you!"

Ouch!!!!! Giselle's words hit where they hurt the most. I knew Giselle hated me for being the Alpha's biological daughter and she never failed to remind me that I was invisible. The rejected Alpha's daughter.

" Now out of my room. Get out! Outttt!!!" She barked, glaring at me with a dirty look.

I quickly rose to my feet and dashed out of her room.