Chp 1 Pt. 3 The Slave

 Haley

I watch in horror as wild rogues break into our cabin. Wild rogues tend to lose their humanity after being in wolf form too long and kill without a second thought. My father has shifted into his wolf, Max, fighting them off to give my mother time to save me. My father is bleeding in several places as the rogues continue to sink their teeth into his skin. My mother picks me, rushing me upstairs and I watch with tears in my eyes as my father disappears from view as he cries out.

My mother is emotionless as she locks her bedroom door, pushing her heavy dresser in front of it. She quickly throws my winter boots and a winter coat on me. She jumps from the banging at the door and hearing the growls from the rogues.

“Haley you must run and don’t stop!”

She is opening the bedroom window and ushering me out into the cold winter forest. It’s pitch black out with no moon out tonight, making it difficult to see since I do not have my wolf yet. The trees are bare of leaves and a white blanket of snow covers the ground.

“Mom, don’t make me go alone!”

“I will hold them off as long as I can Haley. Run towards the beach and find the witch, Hope. She will help you, now go!”

Mom shoves me out the window just as the bedroom door is torn down. I yelp from the fall as I land in the snow and see my mother being outmanned by the rogues.

“RUN!” My mother yells through the mind link. I turn, with tears in my eyes, towards the dark forest.

I sit up in my bed, sweat dripping from my forehead. I scan the room to find everyone else is still asleep. I rub my eyes as I sigh and grab a drink of water in the glass next to me. The same dream has plagued me for almost six years. I was twelve years old when the wild rogues attacked my home, ruining my chance of a happy life with my parents.

It had only been a year since we left Red Moon. I tried to make it to the witch’s house, but I ended up on the Red Moon pack’s territory by mistake and border patrol brought me to Alpha Jake. He has never let on he knows what I am but I am sure he knows. He decided to make me an omega slave and I’ve been here in the pack house ever since.

I look at my alarm clock to find the time is four in the morning. I have to be up in an hour to prepare for the day, but decide to start now since I am already up and there is no way I will be able to go back to sleep after that nightmare. My room is in the basement, along with all the other female slaves that work in the pack house. The men have their own quarters outside the pack house. I head to our little shower we share and get ready to start my day.

Jake Miller is a cruel Alpha with a sick sense of humor. All his female slaves wear little French maid costumes for his pleasure unless we are working a special event or party. I braid my hair down my left shoulder to hide my birthmark and head upstairs to begin cleaning. I figure I can at least get a head start on dusting since that allows me to remain quite.

I head to the library first, putting away books that got left out and stack papers together. I freeze when I see the words blood red wolf scribbled on one of the papers and recognize the writing as belonging to the Alpha. I glance at the open page in a book next to the papers and begin reading.

‘The blood red wolf is always the first born female of the Drexel bloodline. They have no scent which makes it difficult to track them, however a birthmark in the shape of a crescent moon behind their left ear identifies what they are. Last known blood red wolf, Hannah McKay. Mated to Henri Lavigne of the New Moon Pack in France. Hannah disappeared after Henri died. Cause of death is unknown. New Moon pack no longer exists, members whereabouts are unknown. Upon Hannah’s disappearance she was known to be pregnant, gender unknown.’

I jump at the sound of footsteps heading down the hall. Warriors must be up for their training. I close the book and recognize the symbol of this book, it belonged to my mother. I rush to put everything away and make a mental note of where I put it so I can steal it later, it belongs to me anyway. I stack the papers and continue dusting. I wonder why the alpha is looking for me. Now I know he definitely knows what I am.

I promised my mother I would not tell anyone about what I am and I plan on keeping that promise. It looks like I’ll need to find a way to escape this pack before I turn eighteen. I don’t know what this curse really is and I don’t now how it benefits Alpha Jake, but I don’t plan in sticking around to find out.

“You are up early.”

I turn to find my best friend Ashley walking into the library. Ashley is two years younger than me and was bought to Alpha Jake six months ago from the rogues. She and her sister, Samantha, were kidnapped from their pack and I plan on getting them home.

Slavery is frowned upon in some packs, but there are still some that use slaves. This is one of the few businesses that the rogues have used to survive as keeps them from losing their humanity by keeping busy. Some join human communities and live normal human lives, but others join this business of treating wolves like cattle. They kidnap wolves and sell them into slavery, with Alpha Jake as their top customer.

Ashley is quite pretty, though her time here is withering her away. Slaves are not fed well and Ashley has lost a bit of weight since being brought here. I hope her stay is not long and I can get her and Samantha out of here soon. No one deserves to live this kind of life.

“Did I wake you Ashley? I’m sorry.”

“No worries Haley. Was it the dream again?”

“Yeah, I can’t seem to get rid of them.”

Ashley looks at me with sad eyes. After waking her a few times from my nightmares I finally talked to her about it. It’s been nice talking to another girl.

“Want some help? Maybe we can end the day early if we finish our chores ahead of schedule.”

I smile and nod my head as she moves to the other side of the room and begins dusting. Together we are able to finish the first floor rooms, besides the Alpha’s office, before everyone else begins to wake up. The other slaves begin cooking breakfast and doing the laundry while Ashley and I head to the Alpha’s office. He’s not a very organized Alpha. He has papers throw across his desk and he left a whiskey glass with a little whiskey left in it.

“Should we move his papers so we can dust his desk,” asks Ashley.

“I’d rather not touch it and just dust what we can. I don’t want to make him angry if we move them.”

I head to the desk to dust what I can, while Ashley dusts the bookshelf. We both jump as the office door is thrown open and we find ourselves face to face with Alpha Jake. He’s tall, like a typical Alpha, with pale skin and dull blue eyes. He has short brown hair and I swear there isn't an inch of fat on him anywhere. I guess going to the gym daily will do that to you.

We move to stand in front of Alpha Jake, next to each other and bow our heads. We place our hands together in front of us and wait for him to give whatever instructions he has for us.