Chapter 4

Ariel

"This is a dream and somebody really needs to wake me up from this, how can my mortal enemy be my mate?"I thought but this time, not shivering with fear but anger.

How could the moon goddess do this to me?" I yelled in my head. "Or no, it can't be, this is all a mistake, it's someone else in the hall," I thought.

"If he was my true mate, he is supposed to have perceived the scent a long time ago. My weak wolf must have mistaken my mate for someone else, that's the only explanation to it," I thought in my head trying to calm myself down.

Soon, Alpha Charles was surrounded by a handful of pack guards but I wasn't the slightest bit surprised, I knew his weak ass would not be able to go anywhere without them.

"My lord, we are very sorry for the disruption, we won't let it happen again, you never knew you were one of our audience," Mrs. Victoria apologized quickly from the depths of her heart and I could see her visibly shivering.

"I came out from the pack house to relieve myself from the pack duties just for a single while and this is what I got? A disorganized gathering," he thundered at the height of his voice like that day when he yelled father.

"We are very sorry Alpha Charles," everyone in the hall apologized quickly shivering hard in the hall, knowing too well that they could all be executed on the spot if Alpha Charles decides to.

"As for the little girl," he said walking gradually towards me and he tried to touch me but I fell back quickly as though I was frightened to be touched by Alpha Charles.

But in the real sense, I didn't want him to come anywhere near me with those filthy hands, soiled with the blood of my parents.

"Why would you do that when Alpha Charles attempted to touch that stinky body," Mrs. Victoria growled angrily at me.

"I can see that you are a very stubborn one so stubborn that you fooled two masters without their knowledge. But when I am done with you, you will be as humble as a bush rat," he threatened me but I continued to stare at him eyeball to eyeball without a trace of fear, just hate and disgust.

My audacity provoked the Alpha so much that I could see him clutching his hands to control his rising anger.

"Weren't you told that you aren't supposed to look at Alpha Charles straight in the eyes?" He growled at me.

"I am sorry my Alpha," I said with a slight bow with my lips twisted with anger and irritation.

"Just wait until I start unfolding all the plans I have for you, then you will experience the true meaning of pain," I said in my head.

Once again the hall became as silent as a grave yard, waiting for the decision of the Lycan on the matter of their lives.

"I Will have her," the Alpha noted quickly breaking the annoying silence in the hall.

"How much does she owe, I am buying her to be my slave forever," the Alpha noted.

I waited for what they were going to say next. If my greedy bosses were going to give me to Lycan for free or ask for payment.

"Don't pay for her my lord, she is already yours," both parties noted still bowing slightly.

"Just watching them canvasing for my life doing nothing," I gasped with so much hate.

"I insist, I will have her for a price," the Lycan noted with a dark frown hanging on his face.

"But we can't give you any price Lord Lycan, you have been so good to all of us," they noted.

"She is more priceless than gold, that sigh on her chest her born with special healing abilities, she might be able to heal me of this curse," he said to the two people who fought for me life.

"What curse was he talking about and what has my birth mark got to do with him, the cruel beast," I thought angrily in my head

"Okay, I will pay five hundred thousand wolf dollars to have her, Back want her to be all mine," I noted.

"Now you will come with me fool," he said. "My servant will bring the money first thing tomorrow morning," he noted and that was how I became the Alpha's Slave.

One of the pack guards dragged me along with them with a dark frown hanging on his face.

"Stop pushing me, I have legs," I fired angrily at him unable to fake being an humble servant anymore.

I could take the shit from Alpha Charles itself but not from one of his lowly guards.

We got into the car and our journey to the pack house began.

A few minutes later, we were in the pack house, the place where I was supposed to be queen.

"So after eighteen years, I finally step on this soil," I said to myself.

Remembering the way my parents were brutally murdered, I could feel tears already gathering at the corner of my eyes and cold shivers ran down my spine.

I went into the completely different pack house, now littered with the status of the brut Alpha. As we passed, the people can't on bowing before the Alpha.

"Now that we are home you will have to do the job I brought you hear for," the Alpha said with a dark smile hanging on his face.

"And what is that my Lord," I said with faked humility.

"A night with me of course. You are now my play toy forever," he said to me and drew closer to me, trying to run his hands through my hair.

"Stop it," I half yelled. I wasn't going to have sex with him, not even my revenge was going to make me do that.

The guards attempted to come closer to me but Alpha Charles stopped them with his hands raised into the air.

"Don't worry, I will deal with her soon," he said to them.

"Did I just hear you right?" Alpha Charles growled at me.

But I could not give him an answer right that instant. I had to think about something that would not jeopardize my plan but I still wasn't going to bed with that slut.

"Did you hear me talking to you stubborn daughter of a bitch," he fired angrily at me with his face twisted with so much hate and disgust.

"I don't have sex with people twice my age," I growled at him.

At the Sound of the word, the guards around us drew closer to me to treat my poor ass up but the Alpha stopped them with his raised hands again.

His lips twisted with hate and anger as he stepped towards me.

"Slap," a thunderous slap landed on my face making me spit out the blood that had formed in my mouth.

He held my mouth so tight that my jaws ached. "I don't want to force you though I have the power to but you will accept me now or it would be the end of your miserable life," he growled at him with his hands still on my neck.

"I can't Lord," I replied in between my breath.

"Slap," another slap landed on my slave.

"You are a very stubborn fool but I will make you as soft as flesh soon enough," he said to me.

"Take her away," she fired at me.

I could feel my heart beating hard against my chest as though it was going to burst out but I had to be strong for my parents and my pack which this fool was ruling over with such an iron hand.

"Come with us," the guards dragged me along with them while I struggled to break free from their tight grip but they were way too strong for me.

I was taken to a dark room and thrown to the ground. "I wonder what they are about to do to me," I said to myself.

In that room, I let out all the tears that had always been in my eyes. Renewing the tears that I shed on that fateful night.

Finally, the door parted open and a group of men walked into the place with whips in their hands.

"After this, you will learn to bow whenever you see the Lycan king," one of me shot a glare at me.

Before I could say a word, the first stroke landed on my neck, drawing the life out of me and making me scream out in pain.

"Whip," another stroke landed on my neck.

Somewhere deep in my heart, I wanted to plead for forgiveness but it was just too early to.

I wasn't going to behave like a coward just as I did that night.

"Be strong Ariel, be strong," I said to myself still trying to absorb the pain from the strokes.

Blood gradually gushed out from my body mixing up with my salty tears. And when I could no longer take it, I passed out on the spot.