ALPHA SHE-WOLF

Oh so you think you are someone important just because the alpha’s son gave you a little attention?” my step-sister barked at me, the venom in her voice made me shake.

“I didn’t mean it like this, Silvia, I am sorry,” I apologized even when I knew I had done nothing wrong.

“Oh, shut your smelly mouth, you low-bred mutt,” she spat back, her aura and aggression making me cower backward toward a corner.

“So you do have the nerve to speak back at me now? Huh, Mira?”

I kept my head low, I didn’t have time for this, and I wanted to avoid as much of her anger as possible.

“Now you see yourself as too big to reply to my questions?”

“I’m sorry Silvia, I don’t just want to offend you. I am really sorry.”

She scoffed and then spat in my face, I blinked and jumped back as the saliva lodged itself just above the top of my nose. “Good for nothing waste of space,” she turned to leave.

I breathed a sigh of relief but it was too soon to claim victory.

Her older sister who was my younger step-sister came into the living room, drawn by the noise.

“What is going on Silva? What has the hag done this time?”

“Oh, Mave, can you believe that this good-for-nothing mutt had the nerve to order me to give her a plate of food?”

My mouth flew open in shock and I began to protest, “That is not what happened.” I said.

Mave spun around and gave me a powerful slap across my face that sent me flying to the ground.

There was a sharp pain in my cheek and it felt like my cheek was on fire. “Ah!” I shouted, holding my cheek and rolling on the rug.

Mave walked over to me, grabbed me by the neck, and rose me up easily. It was at times like these that I wished I was as strong as my peers, all these would not have happened.

“Take it easy,” Silva whispered to Mave, “You don’t want to do anything that will anger the alpha’s son.”

Mave made a face and then looked down at me who was already in tears from the pain of her powerful slap. She dropped me and I fell flat on my face.

“So that’s what is giving you the nerve to order Silva around? You really think you are going to get to be the chosen mate of the alpha’s son at the ceremony in two days?”

A rough laugh came out of her throat as she walked over to me and joined her sister.

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A worthless pup like you stands no chance, you are too weak and pathetic to be the chosen mate of the alpha’s son, enjoy your little affair or whatever it is that is going on while it lasts, in two days, one of the two of us will become the Luna of the clan,” Silva said pointing at her sister.

They both walked off laughing and I was left on the floor, in aches and pains, feeling useless and worthless.

I rose to my feet and cleaned the tears away from my eyes.

I just had to endure this abuse for two more days and it will all be over. Caleb – the alpha’s son loved me.

He had told me so himself, we were chosen mates and he was no doubt going to let everybody know during the ceremony when the time came.

I decided that it was better if I left the house in the meantime, I was hungry, and my stomach was roaring like a lion so I went to my aunt’s place.

Aunt Cynthia was the only living relation of my late mom and the only person that actually cared for me, outside of Caleb.

“Let me take a look at your face,” she said jumping out of her seat when she saw the handprint across my cheeks.

“It’s okay aunt, mind if I stay here for a bit?”

She sighed, “Do you even have to ask? I have been begging you to leave there since your father died but you have remained stubborn. They will kill you in that hell hole.”

I sat down on the mat in her living room, “it’s my mom’s home and my dad’s home too. I won’t leave unless to move to my mate’s home.”

“You are as stubborn as your mother, I don’t want you to end up like her.”

“Aunt, you’ve started again, I know that my stepmom Emilia is bad but she did not hurt my mother.”

“You’ll never convince me otherwise,” my aunt said getting up, “You hungry?”

I nodded gratefully and she went to her kitchen and got me a plate of beef soup.

“I’m worried about you Mira, you are risking your life on a maybe.”

“It’s not a maybe, aunt. Caleb will not disappoint me.”

“How can you be so sure?”

I leaned in closer and so did she, “I am carrying his baby!”

****

“I am really worried Mave,” Silvia said to her sister as they sat upstairs in her room weaving her hair, “what if the alpha’s son does declare that smelly pup as his mate? It’s not unheard of.”

“Oh please cut it off, Silvia. How can you even ask such a weird question?”

“It’s not unheard of, it can happen.”

“It won’t.”

“What if it does? If she becomes his Luna, we are screwed, you, me, mom and big brother Sty.”

“It just won’t happen okay. That hag is nothing more but the alpha son’s current fling. You know how he is with the pack girls, she doesn’t mean anything.”

She reassured her sister but a part of her was scared too. They had treated Mira like absolute garbage since their father died, 3 years ago. If she became the clan’s Luna, they would get their payback, tenfold.

“We should have killed her when we could.”

“Since we can’t kill her now for fear of angering the alpha son, should we not try to befriend her?”

Mave spat angrily, “Befriend that lowly mutt? Never! I would rather take whatever punishment she wishes to give to me should she become Luna but I know she won’t be, there is no way that worthless thing will be chosen as the alpha son’s mate over the likes of you and me, calm yourself down, sister.”