Chapter two

LIANNA'S POV

 Afterwards, I tearfully went back to my room to pack some clothes before Ethan sent me out with only the clothes on my back.

 As I shoved clothes into a duffel bag I came across a photograph taken of us at our mating ceremony. I picked it up and stared at it, I looked so happy with Ethan standing by my side not knowing what I was getting into.

 When I looked at Ethan's face it confirmed what I had always suspected, he never loved me at all, he was just pretending. 

 While I was smiling at my new husband he was smiling at someone else, the waitress who appeared in the background of the picture.

  Tears began to gather in my eyes, even on our wedding day he would rather look at someone else and pretend I didn't exist.

  I put the picture aside and finished packing, I grabbed the duffel bag and went down the stairs where Ethan and his mistress were waiting for me.

 I kept my head down and tried to walk out the door but Ethan stopped me.

 "Come back here you cunt." I stilled in my movement and turned to him.

 "What do you want?" I asked with a shaky voice and he threw something at me, I flinched and moved back, this wouldn't be the first time he threw something at me.

 I looked down and saw that it was a bundle of money. It looked like it was up to a hundred thousand.

 "Everyone knows what you wanted from the start," Freya said, caressing Ethan as she sat on his lap and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. "You're lucky he is so generous. Go ahead and thank him." She sneered.

 "I don't want it." I would never stoop so low to accept money from them after the humiliation I went through.

 Even though I had very little money and didn't know where to go I walked out of the house leaving the money on the floor.

 Since I didn't have any other option, I decided to go to Annalise's place hoping she would help me.

 When the bus I took dropped me in front of her house, I went to the door and knocked but no one answered.

  So I waited since I had no choice. It was eight PM now according to my wristwatch and it was getting dark. 

 But Ethan didn't let me own a phone so I had no choice but to sit on the floor outside the house and wait in the cold.

  An hour and a half passed before Annalise came back. She was in wolf form but I could tell she was surprised to see me. She ducked behind a bush, shifted back to human and put on clothes she had tied around her paw.

 "Lianna?" She called out my name in surprise.

 "Hi, Anna." I stood up and smiled weakly.

 "What are you doing here?"

 "My husband kicked me out, please I need a place to stay."

 "What? The Alpha? What did you do?"

 Tears threatened to spill as I remembered how badly I tried to save the marriage.

 "I didn't do anything, please help me."

 "I'm sorry, Lianna. You have to find someone else's."

 "Please Annalise, you're the only friend I have."

 "I'm not your friend, I was just being nice to you because I pitted you." 

 She started to sound angry. "Leave before I call the howlers." The howlers were the human equivalent of police for us since the humans had their areas and we had ours.

 I got up sobbing and left, so no one cared about me, I was just a burden to everybody.

 I had to get a job quickly to be able to pay for a night at a hotel and even though I studied business administration my certificate was still at Ethan's house and I couldn't go back there.

 I took off my clothes and shifted to my wolf form. I ran to a nearby bar holding my clothes between my jaws hoping to get a job as a bartender.

 When I got to the bar, I started to look for the manager but I was interrupted.

 "Well, well, well. If it isn't the slut herself." Two blonde girls stopped in front of me.

 "Makes sense that she'll be here looking for a man to whore herself too." The other one said.

 "Who are you?" I was confused. Why would they be saying such things to a stranger?

 "Miley and Riley. We're friends of Freya." Miley smirked.

 "What do you want from me?" 

 "You thought you got away with stealing Freya's man, you bitch?" Riley spat at me.

 What were they talking about, Freya was the one who stole my husband.

 "Please just let me go." I pleaded as I tried to go away and they pulled me back.

 "Hey everyone!" Riley called the attention of everyone in the bar.

 "We want to introduce you to a man-stealing whore tonight." She announced loudly and everybody turned their attention to us.

 I tried to get away again but they shoved me roughly to the floor.

 "Come on Riley, you can't blame her," Miley pouted. "After all she's just following in her mother's footsteps." As everyone laughed my blood turned ice cold and embarrassment washed over me.

 My mother was an omega from a neighboring pack and she mated with the beta of the pack then. Everyone had regarded her as a golddigger who seized an opportunity even though my father loved her.

 "And of course, the Alpha has rejected her. Who wouldn't after finding out what a gold-digging bitch she was that tried to force herself on our Alpha." 

 I wasn't sure which one of them said it as I knelt on the floor, tears dripping from my eyes even as I tried to stop them. I wondered how they knew that. Was it so obvious?

 I moved back quickly as a man came close to me and tried to touch my breasts. 

 "Why are you pretending? I know you like it." He sneered.

 I couldn't take it anymore. I got up and ran out of the bar still crying as the words replayed in my head. I kept running till my legs got tired and I fell in the middle of an empty road.

 I was barely conscious when I heard a voice.

 I opened my eyes and saw the man from the bar. I swallowed painfully, had he followed me here?

 “Well if it isn’t the pack’s slut.”

 I wobbled onto my feet and started backing away from him. “Stay away from me.”

 “Why should I do that? I’m getting a piece of you tonight one way or the other. Maybe when I’m done fucking your pussy I’ll find out if you have a virgin asshole.”

 “I am your Luna. You will not touch your queen.” I mustered with all the courage left in me. And when he replied.

  “ I’ve always wanted to fuck a royal pussy. And it’s a good thing the Alpha sent me.” 

 Hearing that Ethan did this to me, something inside me died. 

 He grabbed me and started to tear off my clothes while I screamed and struggled till my throat was raw. And then suddenly he was gone. Everything stopped.

  As I scrambled to cover up my body I saw my would-be rapist on the floor getting his face smashed in by a muscular man with blond hair. My saviour.

 “Stop! You’ll kill him.” I started to yell as I saw that the perpetrator was no longer moving.

 “If he dies I’ll yank him back from the claws of the devil and kill him again for touching you.”

 I knew that voice as well as I knew the back of my hand.

 “Sebastian please stop.”

 He froze midway but didn’t move away from the man as though he was trying hard to restrain himself. I tried to stand and I was stopped by a sharp pain in my abdomen. I gasped.

 Sebastian left the motionless body on the ground and came to me.

 “ Are you okay?” He asked.

 “Is it you?” I looked up wondering if I had passed out or was hallucinating. It was my husband's elder brother and the former successor to the pack throne.