Prologue.

[The path of purity and salvation]

"Run!" That's all Dawn could hear as she ran without looking back. She scuttles on her barefoot as her shoes were long gone from the breathless and endless running. 

She couldn't stop! Tears rolled down her cheeks yet the wind breezed them away just leaving her face wet with her stray caramel hair color damped in it. She didn't mind the pines ripping her lower gown, slicing her tired legs. Her blood clotted up in dots but she needed to escape, to no nowhere in her mind as she had no place to go. 

The Pack warriors stopped at nothing but pursue the 16 years old Omega girl whose crime was existing. They searched through the midnight but almost got her yet she escaped again by jumping into the waterfall. One as deep as 741 feet/226 meters. A bad move to someone like Dawn who couldn't swim as the warriors stopped at frivolity to catch the forbidden breed back to their Alpha. 

Fortune Moon Pack has always been known for its strictness to worship and for respecting their laws, of course, Omegas were the uncleaned. The pack's Oracles believe in their fortune and foresee that Omegas were eerie beings whose mere existence signifies irrelevance, For a Pack that was also strict about birth control they couldn't care less about this breed with a 100% chance to reproduce. 

Right from the fateful day the Pack was established under the Moon, every Omega child, boy, or girl was slaughtered and left to bathe in their blood. The babies were taken from the mothers right from birth to be killed, in most months their blood were used to renew the altar of the Oracle who had sworn to protect the people of Fortune Moon Pack. 

For a Pack that was built on willingness and strong will, the weaker ones are not allowed to benefit. They say a thousand start from one. Now it is the biggest Pack under the Moon with every region bowing to them and respecting their decisions by the making the generation Omega Free. 

Alpha Apollo was a tyrant in the eyes of his son, Alpha Dillon but a martyr in the eyes of his people. 

No Omega has ever been lucky enough to escape death in the Fortune Moon Pack, especially since it is situated in the Central but Dawn has always been a lucky girl. Her mother died at birth and was taken care of by her grandmother, her father was a drunk and works at the borderline as one of the guards. He never came home and Dawn hasn't met him before and wasn't interested since he never cared about her. 

Living through the fear of being killed at any time made Dawn stronger with more determination to live. The Herbal Scent Petals that Dawn would bathe with helped her through the tender stage without being known as an Omega and it was all credited to her grandmother. But now… All that has changed. 

**Four Days Ago** 

After her sixteenth birthday, she couldn't be happier that she is a year older and will participate in the Pack's Test of Strength(PTS) to become a borderline Beta Guard just like her father so she can have the legal opportunity to leave the Central for good. 

It's a six stages Test and if passed you can be posted to the four corners of the Region randomly. 

She was happy and full of anticipation for the test. Ruby, her best friend, and a royal Beta so she was described as her family was known for royalty and luxury. Dawn and Ruby met by accident when they were just six years old. Ruby got lost in the woods after being neglected by her nanny and tossed by bugs. Dawn saved her from a near-traumatizing experience and lead her back to her parents. 

Until date, the two girls became close friends, very inseparable and sealant. Even though Dawn was a mere commoner but Ruby never saw her as one, Royalty meant nothing to her and she disliked Alpha Apollo like bugs even though their family was close. 

After her birthday night, she decided it was time to go back home and spend time with her grandmother as she had been away from her. Moreover, she didn't even stay with her on her birthday and she must be sad that she finds comfort in Royalty than the thatched house they share or would have a better birthday gift from them than the crafted mirror the grandmother would always give her to remind her of how beautiful and exquisite she was. 

Dawn wanted more than that. 

Finally, on her way home Ruby convinced her to stay back as she wouldn't be able to breathe alone. Dawn was confused as well but later understood when she heard the maid mumured that Alpha Apollo was visiting Ruby's house for her parents. 

They are royalties, after all, The Head Alpha respect their influence on the Pack's import and trade interest. Dawn knew how her best friend hated Alpha Apollo and decided to stay with her. He is a scary man with raw dark auras. The two girls stuck together like glue and headed to the dinning table in due time before the elderly ones arrived. 

The moments became slower and swarthy for Dawn as Alpha Apollo arrived at her best friend's home with his son Alpha Dillon. It was the first time she had set her eyes on something that pulled her heart string. Everyone in the Pack always has a good thing to say about the Alpha's son and only child. How Dillon was different from his father, in personality and character-wise. Even his deep black hair, his very sienna skin color with sky blue eyes were more than the word perfection. 

Dawn felt a stir in her stomach and sweats broke out on her forehead. Her heart began beating faster and she could feel her white wolf whine in her head, she held herself to process the feelings later when Ruby asked her enthusiastically if she was alright. 

It wasn't the same for Alpha Dillon, he was stuck in his position and couldn't move an inch. He was in a trance of twilight when the only words that came out of his mouth was 'Mate' He glared at Dawn in a way it was obvious to everyone in the room. 

He couldn't control himself! 

He mumured how much of a limestone skin Dawn possesses with her deep brown eyes, his heart was not aching anymore from the mistreatment of his father, and felt complete for the first time in his life and strolled in Dawn's direction which had everyone watching in awe. 

The more he walked closer to Dawn the more she retreated backward, she felt her stomach burning up and the bond pulling them together that her pheromones began to fill the room deliciously and her heat breaking out with force from nowhere, succumbing to the overwhelming dominant Alpha that hunted her. She began praying for the moment to pass, she has always been away from trouble and avoided being the center of attention but… This man coming towards her was her other half, her mate, and the bond was tingling her neck nape. 

She knew better than to act ignorant, there was nowhere she will be a mate to the Alpha Family. The very one that deletes her kind in a flash. 

"Tell me your name?" Alpha Dillon beseeched but Dawn looked around before answering the 21 years old Alpha. 

"Dawn Alba." Dawn retorted. 

"She is my Mate, Father, " Alpha Dillon said with excitement, his eyes sparkling with fireworks. Dawn glared at him unbelievably as to why he would disclose that immediately, he didn't even get to know her or… He just announce it like that. 

Alpha Apollo had a frown on his face at the new development and didn't immediately agree to the son's felicity as he came here today to ask the Royal family to give their daughter, Ruby, a hand in marriage for his son who is going to become the Head Alpha in two weeks to take over the Packs activity and lead the Pack to the closest future. 

Ruby was happy for the friend until she realised that the Alpha family had come for her hand in marriage yet her betrothed turned out to be her best friend's mate. The Alpha is Dawn's mate and Dawn is the next Luna, a position higher than hers. 

She couldn't believe it, she fought the jealousy that tried to seep into her. She fought a quiet battle throughout the dinner and tried to stay sane for her best friend, especially since Alpha Apollo whom she hated so much didn't seem to be in support of Alpha Dillon's fate. She couldn't help but observe the uncomfortabilty oozing from the best friend, her face so flushed and her body obviously burning up. She kept clinching on her seat and gripping to her gown, an unexpected soft scent emitting like fresh fruit hitting her nose and she wondered what the problem could be. 

Dawn never told Ruby her secrets about being an Omega because she felt it was something she had locked away and she doesn't even use her wolf often. After the Alpha Family left, Dillon promised to see Dawn again. 

Ruby walked Dawn home as usual but this time she noticed something even more unusual about the friend as she asked to rest by the tree. 

"Aren't you feeling well?" Ruby asked Dawn concernedly. Dawn continued to curse under her breath, her heat period wasn't meant to come until two weeks. Why did it suddenly happen now? Why a sudden heat after seeing my mate? 

She continued cursing herself more for not bringing a suppressant or inhibitor with her. Her grandmother would always advise her to carry it along but she never listens. She sighed out and became more worried for her best friend who just lost her betrothed to her. Not like she has plans of accepting to mate with him, she didn't stand a chance to be in such a family. 

"Are you okay with everything?" Dawn asked nervously and Ruby retorted with sparkles of sincere eyes which had Dawn confide in her about how her heat was wearing her down. 

"You are an Omega?" Ruby gasped, covering her mouth with her palm to hold it in. Dawn nodded shamefully and looked away from her best friend. They made promises to keep it safe and locked, a secret to keep at heart. 

And everything was all good, Ruby returned back home and Dawn went back to her grandmother to have a good rest and forget all the ordeal that happened or took place earlier. She believed Alpha Dillon would never find her again as she would stay away from a place he would likely see her but everything went to the trench days later when the warriors came to invade her grandmother's house. 

Thankfully they managed to escape but her grandmother was captured because she sacrificed herself as a distraction so Dawn could get far. 

** 

She began to hold her breath underwater as she tried to possibly straighten her legs to swim while at the same time trying to crawl. 

The Warrior guards are on a live or-death mission to capture her and take her back to the Packhouse. They swamped towards her as trained as they could be, Dawn, held her breath trying the hardest to swim but was surrounded by the warriors before she knew it.