Chapter Three

Olive. 

"Alex is not a bad alpha. He’s always very fair, but that doesn’t mean he is easy to live with. He is very difficult, and he demands excellence. Some people don’t like the idea of working hard, so they have to leave and risk going rogue,” Liz said.

I bit my lip, wondering what the hell i was doing here, i had just escaped one hell hole and ran into another. I knew the reason I left my pack or rather Alpha sol’s pack but the more Liz spoke the more i wondered if going rogue was really that bad. 

Rumor had it that Alex was kicked out of his pack as a teenager and had no choive but to create his own pack, turning a human so he didn't go feral. I didn't know if that rumor was actually true. Turning humans into werewolves was an urban myth. I had never heard it successfully done but i also knew if anyone could, it would be Alex. He takes in the strays, the wolves that have been kicked out of their packs or banished. Everyone can say all the bad shit they want to say, but he has got a good heart.

“So, what brings you to Alex’s pack?” Liz asked me. 

I stared into the beautiful woman in front of me as we were heading towards the pack house that was Alex’s home. I had to ask for permission to be part of the pack first, i didn't want to die. Feral wolves were hunted, captured and killed. Death was not an option for me. We were created to be in a pack and i know Alpha Sol would have his men out looking for me. I needed a pack's protection.

“I ran away from my pack. They were mistreating me, beating me, the Alpha almost killed me. He broke my ribs, my leg i knew i had to get out of there before he finally killed me.” i said staring at Liz before i lifted up my t-shirt to show her all my scars. Of course I didn't tell her the full story behind my escape and why everyone hated me. It was none of her business. 

“Oh my God,” Liz said her fingers trailing overvmy scars, “What did you do for him to do this to you?”

I glanced down at my left almost broken ankle, not many people knew that Alpha Sol was actually my father. But he hated me, first because he said i killed his wife. My mother died giving birth to me and he blamed me for it. 

And then after he remarried, he had a son with my step mom, Evan. But Evan drowned at five years old and my father also blamed me for his death. Since then he denounced me as his daughter and he treated me as a slave, and also his punching bag whenever he felt like it. 

But i couldn't tell Liz all that, i saw her eyes when she saw my scars, she pitied me and i just wanted a new fresh start. 

“He just doesn't like me.”i finally said.“The pack just had no place for me and I didn't want to die there”

I forced a smile to my lips.

Growing up, i would cry and cry some more, but now unless i was having a really bad day, like the worst day, then i would allow myself to cry but not now.

“What about your family? They just let him mistreat you without doing anything?” Liz asked folding her arms, she looked pissed. 

“I don't really have a family. My mother died giving birth to me. And my father,... Well he didn't want me.”

My father knew the truth about what happened on that fateful night. When my brother drowned. I was fifteen years old and we had gone to the stream when my father's best friend and beta, Scott attacked me. He was trying to rape me but my five year old brother tried to help that's when he drowned him. 

“How old are you?” Liz said bringing me back to my present reality. 

“I just turned eighteen.” I said smiling. 

“Have you transitioned yet?”

“Yes, i just did, when I was fifteen actually.”

“Am really sorry,”she finally said.

“It's okay, were you kicked out of your pack?” i finally asked her glad to be changing the topic from me. 

“Yes, I have one green eye, one blue. They felt that tainted the perfection of their pack.” Liz shrugged. “They were already fucked up, so I didn’t see a reason to stick around.”

I smiled. Liz seemed nice, but i had been wrong before, and that had always ended badly for me. I

“I have fucking told you to never turn your back on your enemies!” The loud voice echoed around the hallway, and the hairs on my arms lifted. Liz winced. “That’s Carl. Being part of Alex’s pack comes with a few requirements.”

“What are they?” I asked a little afraid of the answer. 

“Alex has had alphas and packs come to his territory in the hope of either killing him or making him submit. None of them have succeeded, but because of the threat, he likes to keep everyone at the peak of their awareness. They must learn to fight and to fight with him, beside him.”

“What about the ones that are too weak?” i asked. “Surely there is no chance of them being able to fight.”

“Carl was kicked out of his pack for being weak, and Alex still makes him train even if it’s to save his own life. Alex doesn’t want any of us to die because he didn’t train us. Come on, you will get to see him in action.”

I followed Liz to a large room that looked similar to a high school gym. The length of the room was huge, and glancing up, i saw the windows were glass, which at night would allow the moon to filter in.

Once inside the room, there were bleachers on either side of the room, but my gaze was caught in the center. A man well over six feet tall, muscles aplenty, and one of the fiercest men i had ever seen, stood glaring at a guy smaller than he was in stature. Both of the men only wore a pair of tight shorts and were covered in sweat.

There were nearly a hundred people within the gym watching the fight.

“Why are they all watching?”

“We have to,” Liz said. “It’s what Alex demands. This is not even a full house right here. There is rarely all of us here at one time. He doesn’t do anything without a reason. You must defend, train, and prove yourself. No one will ever beat Alex, and that’s fine, but he wants you to be able to keep yourself safe.”

My gaze couldn’t move as i watched the smaller guy charge at the man. I winced as the larger man reached out, gripped the man’s neck, lifted him up, and slammed him back down onto the mat.

If they were human, the force of the impact would kill them.

“Will Carl be okay?”

“Carl has a fast healing ability. It’s why he was expelled from his pack. His ability to sustain damage and be right as rain within an hour

freaked them out. They decided he wasn’t a wolf at all but a monster.”

“Everyone that’s here, they have rejected their pack in some way?” i asked.

“Or they have gotten thrown out. We are a mixture, Olive. I hope you can handle that.”

“I don’t mind.” i folded my arms and winced as Carl yelled for time.

“You don’t get fucking time. No one will give a fuck if you are on the battlefield. You have got to learn to keep on fighting, and not give up.”

Alex charged towards the man, and Carl scurried away, and when he crossed his arms in front of him, curling up in a ball, Alex stopped.

“Please, I need time,” Carl said. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry.” He rocked in a ball.

“We know Carl was hurt a lot because of his healing abilities. Out of all of us, he is the one that is taking the longest to train.”

“Hurt?”

“They would use everything they could find to see how far his healing went. The scars on his body are the ones they gave him before he was able to turn into a wolf. After that, the scars they tried to carve into his body always healed. Those are there now, but the worst ones are in his mind. So much pain for him to deal with.” Liz looked sad, and i understood why.

I was abused for over eight years and had the scars to show it carved all over my body. 

“We will continue these sessions. You understand, Carl. This is not cruelty to you.”

“I know. I need to be strong.” Carl said. 

“You have to be. In this world, there are so many people who will want you to fail. You cannot allow yourself to do that. Not even once.”

Carl nodded and walked away.

I watched as Alex lifted his head, scenting the air, and his gaze moved toward us. 

“Who is that?” Alex asked.

I didn’t like the sudden fear that gripped me. . Alex was one of the largest men i had ever seen, and the thought of being near him filled me with dread. He was known for how strong he was, he was one of the most dangerous and ruthless alphas in our territory.