Chapter 2

Disappointment and rage grew inside me when I looked into his eyes.

I started to shake, and yet, I found the strength to ask what was bothering me.

“Is Beka your true mate?” I asked, even though I tortured myself with it.

He didn’t answer and wasn’t needed to.

His eyes told me all, and it broke me.

“You knew and slept with her all the time, just to make a fool of me?”

“Who gave you the right?!” I yelled.

“Enough!” His father shouted.

“Answer the question that Alpha Arnes asked you, girl”, he demanded.

“Arnes, you know I go to the woods every night at the same time for my herbs”, I was trying to speak calmly with him.

Maybe he will come to his senses, I thought, but there was no use.

“It’s Alpha to you”, he said with the coldest voice I ever heard him saying.

I was stunned.

Then he uncovered the body that was lying on the ground, which made me vomit.

It was Dean, his best warrior, covered in blood, with a torn heart from his chest.

“You must be punished”, he hissed to me.

“I haven’t done anything”, I tried to defend myself.

“Liar!” Beka yelled.

“You are a witch, you have no scent at all, and you put a spell on my mate!” She was furious.

“And a vampire, only they eat a heart of an enemy”, Amy said, furious, and that was too much even for me.

“Are you insane?” I asked her in disbelief.

Maybe that wasn’t a good idea, because she hit me so hard, I almost fainted.

“Take her away, to the square, she will be punished there”, Arnes ordered and walked away.

I could see on the faces of everyone how happy they were.

They needed a victim, someone, they could torture, because they were the cruelest pack in the state.

I couldn’t fight, I was just a human, and their hands gave me bruises when they dragged me to the square.

I couldn’t believe that was real.

I tried to say to myself that it was just a dream on my 18th birthday and I’d wake up soon in his arms.

Then I saw a pillar.

The big wooden pillar where tortured everyone, who was considered an enemy.

Two of his fighters ripped my clothes, leaving me in my underwear.

I was so ashamed, and I started to cry in silence, because of the humiliation.

They wanted to see me beg, but I said no, that satisfaction I won’t give them.

Not to him, not to Beka, not anyone, because I haven’t done anything wrong.

most of them knew that but didn’t want to see it.

I was a loner, a witch for them, someone’s an abandoned child that made their life harder, because Alpha had feelings for me, and not for their species.

They hated me and wanted me dead, and I prayed to God that death would come fast.

They turned my face to the pillar and tied my arms and legs to it.

He was standing over me, with a whip in his hands, ready to hit.

I couldn’t see him, but I felt every breath on me, and he was mad, which scared me even more.

But, ...my soul hurt so much more than my body when I felt the first hit.

I felt blood pouring down my back, and the pain was unbearable, and so were my screams.

Twenty...

Twenty hits and my body just hung there, only chains were holding it.

It hurt, so much, I couldn’t see or hear anything anymore clearly.

“Take her to the cell”, Arnes ordered, when he finished, but I could barely hear his voice.

“You softened son”, Leon said.

“She will stay here, on this pillar, so she will die slowly”, Leon said.

“Her punishment isn’t over”, he said and walked with his warriors toward me.

They untied the chains from the pillar and I fell to the ground, feeling every wound on my body.

“Hold her”, He said and I saw a plier in his hands.

“That’s enough, father”, Arnes warned, but Leon didn’t care.

“Weakness is something that Alpha never shows to his enemies”, was all he said when he gave Arnes a mean look.

They forced open my mouth and started pulling my fangs out.

My God, I thought my eyes would fall out of my head, and I had no strength to scream.

The pictures danced in my head, together with pain.

There was nothing to hold on to, not even one memory for me, knowing that was all a lie.

“What a sad way to die, and I didn’t get the chance to live”, were my thoughts.

That was the last straw, I gave up...

“You’ll never be able to hurt another of my warriors, you little whore”, Leon hissed in my face, when he dropped my teeth on the ground, into a puddle of my blood.

with my last strength, before I closed my eyes, I saw him, and his miserable look, like he saw a monster.

“I, will never... forgive you..“, were my last words to him.

I saw his eyes in the cloud looking at me.

Bright blue eyes are looking straight into my soul.

I felt at peace.

But who was that person?

Was I in heaven?

What person, it was just eyes, on someone’s face, but I could feel it was a beautiful one.

I felt strange like someone was holding me gently, and so my thirst for water that I felt on that pillar was gone.

My throat hurt, my mouth and my neck were burning, like a fire, and the feeling of being helpless was too much.

I could imagine my awful and tormented body and face, they were ugly and damaged.

“How could someone with those eyes even look at me, let alone hold me in his arms?” I was wondering.

Nevertheless, if this is death, I’ll gladly accept it.