Chapter 1

AYLA BAILORE

“So good… faster Alpha… Harder,” She moaned loudly, and in response to her demand, the slapping of naked bodies became more audible.

I held the rag tightly in my hands, rubbing against the wall, refusing to back at them. I couldn't even if I wanted to. The pain in my bones was too much to bear, but it was nothing compared to the torment in my soul.

I couldn't stop the sob that escaped my throat, and the tears that followed after.

“You take me so good,” Garrick moaned, thrusting deeper and faster into the woman he was fucking. She was just another one of them, his randoms or whores. Whichever way he decided to call it.

My hands balled tightly and I couldn't take the pain anymore. My knees buckled and I collapsed on the tiles, writhing in immense pain from the mate bond.

Yes, he was my fated mate. Alpha Garrick of the Red River Pack was the wolf the goddess decided was the right choice for me. The man who was supposed to be my better other half. Who was supposed to love me unconditionally? But unfortunately for me, the opposite had happened to me from the moment I turned eighteen five years ago and I discovered he was my fated mate.

He always tormented me. He subjected me to a life worse than any other slave in the pack. I became the pack's laughing stock as everyone knew I was the lowly, undeserving whore mated to their beloved Alpha. Also, it didn't help my wolf never awakened, so I was left with the undisputed title of the Pack's most worthless, and undeserving reject.

The familiar pain in my soul intensified for a minute and I could tell Garrick was reaching his climax. This wasn't the first time I was subjected to this kind of brutal pain, it had happened every day for the last five years. He loved forcing me to watch whenever he fucked his women.

“That was good sex, Chloe, now get out of here,” Garrick chuckled, smacking the red-haired woman's ass. She was one of the warriors in the pack and her name wasn't even Chloe. I guess Garrick didn't even care who he fucked and she didn't care if he got the name wrong every time.

She regarded me briefly with a mocking smile on her face, before grabbing her things and leaving the Alpha bedroom while I was still lying on the floor, hoping the pain would subside quickly.

A few minutes later, I could finally move my body, and I got up from the ground, casting a glance at the bed. Garrick was still lying there, completely naked, watching me with a sly smile.

“After five years, the pain still doesn't get better for you. What a weak little thing,” He got up from the bed, while I continued cleaning, determined to get out of his bedroom as fast as I could.

Suddenly, he gripped my neck, pushing me to the wall. “I know you wish you were the one I'm fucking on that bed. I know you wish you were the one calling out my name so lovingly,”

No. I’m actually so grateful that I'm not.

The words were almost at the tip of my lips, but I didn't dare to say them. I'd be punished if I did and I wondered which punishment he'd subject me to this time. He'd always been so creative with that.

The last time I'd been stripped naked and whipped 100 times in front of the pack members, my body hadn't still recovered from the pain. The other time he'd had threesomes at the same time and had me sit and watch. The most recent he'd done was have my sister Emily whipped because I'd glared wrongly at Karen, his soon-to-be Luna.

So I wouldn't dare fall for that trap. I wasn't eager to find out how his creative mind worked today.

“You have nothing to say whore?” He tightened his hold around my neck.

“I'm sorry Alpha,” I whispered in tears, but I wasn't truly sorry, if anything I wished I could give him a taste of his own medicine. If only.

“The goddess must have been so stupid and damned drunk making us mates,” He gripped me harder. “Your face alone disgusts me, Ayla. Even your wolf was disgusted to have a weak human like you that's why she never came,”

Tears blurred my vision. That insult always cuts deeper than anything else. Even I saw my wolflessness as a curse, just like everything else that had happened in my life.

“If you feel that way, then why haven't you rejected me. Cut all ties with me already after all your Luna ceremony with Karen is tonight,” My lips moved stupidly on their own, even shocking me, but I couldn't take back the words.

Garrick's eyes burned with anger and he slapped me before throwing me across the room and I crashed harshly against the night table and lamp.

“Stupid, little weak Ayla thinks she could talk back to me. Feeling so brave now?”

No, I wasn't. In fact, I wished the ground would open and swallow me before he dished out my punishment for speaking out of line. Tears poured from my eyes as I got on my knees.

“Please just reject me Alpha. Please,” I begged but he just watched me like I had lost my mind. Well, maybe I had. I really didn't care anymore since I'd be punished already. I met Garrick's gaze, my lips trembling and they opened to speak the words I had always wished to hear from him. “I, Ayla Bailore, reject you…”

I didn't get to finish my sentence before he gripped me by the throat again, his eyes blazing red telling me he was sharing control with his wolf, and his nails had extended into claws, sinking into my neck.

“You will not reject me, little whore. I am your Alpha, your owner. You live to exist for me. Without me, you're nothing, Ayla. Nothing!”

More tears ran down my eyes as I cried for my pitiful fate.

Garrick pressed his naked body against mine and I could feel his cock against my belly. “I thought real hard for the perfect punishment for you to remind you of the worthless runt you are and I knew just the best punishment. I'll give you what you want, Ayla. I'll fuck you so hard tonight that you'll scream my name just as you've always dreamt of,”

My eyes widened at his words, and I shook my head. That wasn't what I wanted.

He smiled wickedly down at me. “And that's not all. I haven't even gotten to the best part yet. And when I'm done with you, your little virgin sister will be next. Two virgin pussies in one night is just the perfect gift for the occasion tonight, don't you think?”

I paled instantly, my legs turned weak as I stared back at him, frozen. “Please, no,” I shook my head. “Not Emily. She's just sixteen, you can't do that—”

“I can and I will,” He growled. “Because I'm the Alpha, your owner. And don't pretend you give a damn about the brat. You're not even real sisters,”

He was right. Emily and I didn't share the same blood but that didn't make her any less my sister. “She doesn't deserve this,”

*No, but because of a worthless, wolfless orphan girl, she now does,” He snarled and I could see the raw hatred in his eyes for me.

I was truly worthless. An orphan. A wolfless girl. With so many flaws, why had the moon goddess still created me?

Hot tears rolled down my eyes as I swore internally to protect Emily at all costs just the way her parents protected me. They had taken a nobody like me in. I was only five when they found me in the woods, wounded with no memory of who I was. Yet they saved me and welcomed me into their family.

Emily was born a few years later, and we were all happy together until the fatal rogue attack thirteen years ago that killed them both. I was ten, and Emily was just three. Since then it has been just us, and I wouldn't let anything happen to her.

“Take a nice shower, Emily, too. Because after tonight, you both will be mine,” He laughed darkly, walking into the bathroom and leaving me frozen.

It took a second for me to realize what must be done and without a doubt, I knew we had to leave. The last time we tried to escape the pack we were caught and I was heavily punished for it. This time it would be different and with the Luna ceremony tonight the security at the border should be less. It was better to become rogue than to have Garrick defile my sister and make me watch.

I did my work hastily and left before Garrick came out of the bathroom. As soon as I entered the room Emily and I shared at the maid's quarters, I pulled out a small bag and started to pack the necessary things we needed for our escape. We were going light, escaping with just a few clothes and as much food as I could get.

“Ayla, what are you doing?” I turned to find Emily standing at the door, staring at me with confusion.

“Shut the door,” I urged her, pulling her to the bed. “We're leaving Emily. Tonight. We can't stay in this pack anymore,”

“Why? You know what happened the last time, we were caught,”

“This time will be different,” I insisted, resuming my packing.

“Did that bastard hurt you again?” She yelled, and I had to cover her mouth, she was too brave for her own good.

“Yes and no. We just have to leave Emily, tonight, because once the ceremony is over he'll be coming for you and me,”

“Why would he be coming for…” She paused before her eyes widened in realization. “He's going to force us to have sex with him?”

That wasn't much of a surprise, everyone knew that about Garrick. There was hardly any woman in the pack he hadn't fucked. He considered every she-wolf in the pack as his. Only mated she wolves were probably safe from him. And still, I couldn't understand why the pack was still loyal to such a scumbag alpha or why every woman considered it privileged to be fucked by him. There was something really wrong with this pack.

“Fine. I'm with you. Let's leave and I hope to the goddess we won't get caught,”