CHAPTER THREE

At first, it shocked me to realize that they would ever think that I would challenge Julian, I had been with them for as long as I have been living and they just simply turned their backs on me just because of a newbie. I shake my head convincing myself that it was pure instinct to protect their Alpha.

I wait for my mate knowing fully well that he also recognizes me. What shocked me was that he went straight towards Hailey and smacked his lips on hers.

Right in front of me, right in front of the whole pack members! Was he trying to humiliate me? Was he trying to insult me by doing this? I was confused, angry, and jealous at the same time. Why would my mate kiss someone right in front of me?

I moved towards him, ripping him apart from Hailey whose whole body was flushed red from embarrassment. ‘What are you doing?’ I asked through the mind link since he had already been connected to the pack.

‘I’m your worst nightmare.’ He said to me a smirk on his face. 'Everyone… meet my mate and the future Luna of the river pack.’ He announced and I growled venomously at him. He would have to man up into rejecting me if he wanted to make her Luna.

‘Myla, do you have any problem with me or my mate?’ he smirked at me with venom in his eyes before holding her securely around her waist. I clenched my fist in anger, he was no son of my father, he was a bastard, and my father’s son would never be a stupid cowardly man like him.

I lunged at him in full speed successfully pouching him in the face multiple times before being ripped off by the park members. ‘You bastard, you are no son of my father.’ I spat venomously at him. ‘I’ll destroy you mate.’ He mind linked me a vicious smirk on his face.

‘It seems that my adoptive sister does not like me.’ He says to the pack members. ‘I will not punish you for attacking me today considering the fact that my parent raised you but I shall not allow any disrespect toward my authority.' He took slow strides towards me, his Alpha aura oozing out of him forcing everyone to their knees, yet I didn't even break a sweat.

I smirked at him, I was stronger than him, even his Alpha aura was pathetic. ‘Bow down to your Alpha.’ He commanded me.

‘You are not my Alpha and you would never be so go back to the junk you came from you bastard.‘ I growled.

'Jake! Blake! Grab her.’ He barked. I looked in the direction of where both of my most so-called loyal friends as they walked towards me. They had accepted this bastard as their Alpha and mindlessly followed his orders like puppets.

I growled at them, forcing them to bare their neck at me in submission. ‘I Myla-Rose Halls challenge you for the position of Alpha of the silver moon pack.’

The duel began and I was already winning, ‘You are no Alpha.’ I growled at him punching him in the stomach.

‘An Alpha is not weak, an Alpha is not pathetic as you are. An Alpha is supposed to be strong, an Alpha is supposed to protect his people, with your strength you will never be able to protect the pack members let alone yourself.’ I said grabbing his face and punching him. He was already covered in blood and sweat. ‘Look at him.’ I yelled at the pack members. ‘All you needed was a piece of paper and you believe that his the Alpha's late son? The late Alpha and Luna taught us to be righteous and true to our pack members yet all you needed was a mere piece of paper and you all turned your backs on me. My father would be disappointed in your behavior if he was alive. Look at him, the late Alpha was strong, do you believe that he is his son?’ I asked them all, growling angrily 

I was so focused on the pack members that I did not see Julian standing up and bringing out a hidden dagger laced with wolf's bane.

‘Myla watch out.’ Derrick screamed at me but I was a moment too late for he had already stabbed me with the silver dagger.

‘Your dead father would be disappointed in you for losing this pack to a stranger rather than being disappointed in the pack members for betraying his daughter.’ He removed the dagger and stabbed me again. ‘Welcome to your worst nightmare Myla- Rose Halls.' He tells me with a smirk.

And that was how my suffering began. I became a maid in a palace where I used to be a princess.

 A soft yet painful chuckle escaped my lips as I approached the pack brothers. I had been living in the pack now for two years as a maid, with no food nor shelter.

Every day I was bullied by people that I once saw as a friend, every day wolfsbane would be poured on me just so that I become weak, every day I watched my so-called mate have fun with someone else, every day I watched as the pack that my father had worked hard for being ruled by someone else, and every night I suffer the pain and agony of my mate mating with someone else. I'm the most pathetic wolf in the world right now.

I slowed down when I began to approach the high walls of the pack. There were six guards assigned to protect the pack gates, with every shift a period of six hours. If I go there now I’ll get bullied by them for sure, and I can‘t wait here either. It would rain any minute from now and the guards still have four hours till another shift arrives. 

‘I curse my miserable luck.’ I groaned lowly before coming out of my hiding spot and walking towards them.

'When have you ever had good luck?’ Athena sneered.

‘No need to pour salt into my bleeding wound and, instead lend me your strength. I might have to beat up some punks today.’ I tell her. I saw how she smiled standing up from the corner that she always lies in and coming forward. ‘Don’t get too happy. I didn’t say you could take over. I just ask you to lend me your strength’ I scolded her.

‘Fine, fine. I’ll just sit here while you handle them.’ She pout at me making me chuckle at her childishness.