Chapter 1

Alpha Jackson White was boiling with rage when he found out that his 18-year-old daughter, Camila White, was pregnant.

"Who got you pregnant?" Alpha Jackson roared at Camila as they stood in the living room of his duplex mansion.

"Alpha, please take it easy on Camila. She's only a young girl," Camila's mother, Theresa White, pleaded with her husband. As the Luna of their pack, The Eastern Wood Packs, she felt compelled to intervene.

"Don't tell me to calm down. First, I was against Camila going to the club to celebrate her birthday, but you said she's already an adult. Now look at what being an adult has turned her into. At this point in her life, when she should be furthering her education at university, she has chosen to bring shame and disgrace to our family and pack at large," Alpha Jackson said bitterly, having just discovered that Camila was already three months pregnant. Camila didn’t even know who had gotten her pregnant.

Camila knelt in her father's living room, crying. "Please, Father, forgive me."

"Shut up! And I will ask you for the last time: who did you shamefully sleep with?" Alpha Jackson questioned, his voice filled with anger. Camila was his only daughter and only child.

It hurt Alpha Jackson deeply because he had wanted Camila to marry Lonald's son in the future to help him rule the pack. Now, Camila had ruined everything with her foolishness and naivety.

"I don't know, Father..." Camila cried as she knelt, begging her father.

The last thing Camila remembered was being at the clubhouse with her friends, celebrating her birthday. There, she met her mate, Andre Mason, and fell in love with him, but she couldn't remember what happened next after drinking from the wine bottle her best friend, Anita, had given her.

"Answer me before I throw you out this minute! Who got you pregnant?" Alpha Jackson demanded, pulling off his trouser belt.

"I have been lenient with you long enough, and it seems you think I cannot discipline you," Alpha Jackson said as he rushed toward Camila and began to flog her with his black belt.

"Alpha! Take it easy on Camila! You will kill her! Camila is our only daughter! Somebody help!" Luna Theresa screamed, rushing to separate her husband from flogging Camila.

With the way Alpha Jackson's mansion was built, none of the people living around could enter through his gate, even though it was late at night. They could only hear the sound of the whip and Camila crying and wailing.

Alpha Jackson flogged Camila to the extent that her beautiful yellow skin peeled and her white nightgown tore.

"Guards!!" Alpha Jackson called out to his stationed guards after he was done flogging Camila, who was breathing heavily and crying.

"Throw her out! I don't want to see her anywhere around our pack again. Camila ceases to be my daughter from today onwards," Alpha Jackson spoke to the two guards who came in.

"Okay, Alpha," the two guards replied, immediately bundling Camila away.

"No, Alpha! You cannot do this to Camila! Bring back my daughter!" Luna Theresa cried out, calling after the two guards, but none dared to go against Alpha Jackson's orders.

Luna Theresa ran after the two guards who had bundled Camila away, each guard holding her by an arm.

"No! Bring back my daughter! My precious jewel!" Luna Theresa screamed after them, attracting the pack members who came out of their houses, wondering what was happening as they saw the Luna of their pack crying.

"Camila!! No!" Luna Theresa, dressed in a lime-colored nightgown, ran after the two guards and caught up with them, trying to pull Camila away from their hold.

Camila was already too tired to protest, and her wolf, Ivy, was too weak to shapeshift and fight the two guards to go back and plead with her father.

Camila knew that her father was ruthless, but she had never gotten on his wrong side. She had always done what her father wanted her to do: be a good girl and possess good leadership qualities so that the other young werewolves in their pack would learn from her and look up to her as the next Alpha, despite being female.

But she had failed her father, and for the first time in her 18 years of living, her father had raised his belt against her and disciplined her.

Camila felt sore as she watched her mother try to pull her away from the two guards dragging her out of the pack.

"Luna, we cannot go against Alpha Jackson's orders. Camila has been banished; please try to understand," the two guards begged, knowing how ruthless Alpha Jackson was and that he would not spare any offenders.

"You cannot take my daughter away! I haven't banished Camila yet, and she's still a member of our Eastern Pack. Let go of Camila at once!" Luna Theresa commanded, but the two guards knew whose orders to follow.

"We cannot, Luna. We're sorry," they refused to let go of Camila and dragged her away from her mother as they ran.

Luna Theresa became exhausted from chasing after the two guards as they ran fast with Camila, already nearing the exit of the Eastern Pack.

"No!! My Camila!" Luna Theresa fell to her knees and cried as her vision blurred with heavy tears.

The two guards finally reached the pack's exit gate, threw Camila out, and locked the heavy gate behind her.

"Go away and never return to this pack. Else, you know what your father will do to you," one of the guards warned Camila, fully aware that she understood her father's ruthlessness.

They turned and left Camila, walking back into the Eastern Pack gate while the guards at the entrance shut the gate closed behind her.

Camila was too weak to stand, still kneeling in front of her pack's entrance gate. Her body hurt, stinging from the pain she had received.

She didn’t know how she had become pregnant, only remembering meeting her mate for the first time and getting drunk afterward.

Tears streamed down her face, and soon heavy rain began to fall, accompanied by strong winds.

Raindrops drenched her already light white nightgown, and Camila knew she had no other option but to stand up and search for shelter. But from where?

Camila also knew that no other packs would accept her, as she had the Eastern tattoo on her right arm and the sun symbol tattoo on her forehead to indicate that she was from the Eastern Pack.

The rising sun symbol marked on her forehead was a logo to show other packs that she was a foreigner from the Eastern Pack, and many other packs hated her father, knowing he did not tolerate cheating or any sin.

Alpha Jackson was known for his discipline, genuineness, and uprightness within their pack. Now, she had failed to embody that true leadership spirit.

Camila dragged herself to move as the heavy rain drenched her body, making her way toward the path that led to the Western Wood Packs.

Camila knew the Western Packs were full of liars, deceit, and fraudsters, just as her father had always told her.

The Western Wood Packs were usually open to foreigners and welcomed them freely to live among them.

Camila made her way to the Western Packs' border and entrance gate, far from her father's pack, hopeful that by the time she arrived, they would accept her despite knowing she was the Alpha's daughter.