Chapter 2 BETRAYAL

It was thundering. Harshly.

With each thunder striking against the sky, I quivered like a leaf. With Beta Torin – The most calm and composed one of us all – seeming so disturbed as he spoke to me in the mind link, I couldn't help but assume the worst.

What happened to my parents? Are they alright?

Did an enemy pack attack them?

Did someone drop an information that needed me on the scene, as the alpha's daughter?

I had way too many questions in my head along the fifteen minute race back to my pack house. It is a huge mansion, built for the main members and elders of the pack while smaller houses surround the structure.

At the fence of our pack, territory heavily guarded by deltas and warrior wolves of our pack, I noticed there was no one. How bad might the situation be?

My teenage self was quivering. I had no siblings either, to share my emotions that I felt at that moment.

God dammit, why isn't Beta Torin answering me back!? It's been killing me!

I rushed to the entrance of our pack house, my heels breaking midway but I couldn't seem to care more about it. Panting, holding my aching chest, I saw two boxes in front of me which were covered.

"W-What-"

"Helena!" It was Beta Torin!

"T-Torin...what's wrong. What is this? I smell...blood, Torin. What is happening?" I asked him with a shaky voice. He held my arms, looking directly into my eyes.

"This isn't the time to tell you, but I'm sorry, Helena.

Your parents are no more. And I won't allow you to see their bodies. They're...dismantled in the worst way possible. I'm sorry, Helena. It shouldn't have been tonight."

My heart fell to my stomach.

N-No, Not today!

In fact, nor any other day.

My parents are dead?

But why doesn't anyone shed tears the way I do? Everyone else is occupied with something else.

What is going on?

I gasped as I felt a presence behind me.

Three cars lined after one another, each had two of our pack elders. Elders of the Crest moon pack, few of the wisest people to ever walk on earth.

I hoped they'd console me for my loss, I was craving a hug from someone. Anyone!

Shaking me back to reality, Beta Torin spoke, "Come to the meeting hall, right away. We should discuss who shall be next in power to guide our pack. It's a great loss, Helena, but you have to THINK like an Alpha right now. Come on." Patting my shoulder, Torin walked away with the elders.

"Torin, you aren't supposed to say that to an eighteen year old girl who lost her parents on her fucking birthday!"

And the elder, each of them looked into my eyes as they passed by me. They looked at me as if I was a freak. A loser.

"Silence!" The youngest elder of our pack commanded, I flinched on my toes. Looking at the ground, I hear the wise men commence the next course of action for our pack.

"There seems to be a loss in power and authority in our pack at the moment. Today also marks someone's eighteenth birthday and they still haven't awakened their wolf." My eyebrows crashed at what the elder had said.

Why was he picking on me? Tonight, seriously?

My furrowed gaze met his disappointed one. Then, as I looked around, I realized many of the people in the room looked at me with the same emotion in their glare.

Disgust.

What's happening to everyone? They were so sweet to me before everything went downhill in my life!

What is wrong with them!?

My senses were blurred to everything happening around me.

But the humiliation, it stayed in my heart forever. Whatever is happening, isn't happening for the good. Someone has been planning this. I just feel it in my veins.

"We need someone to take the position."

After the discussion, the last part of his statement falls into my ears. Before I could raise my arm, Beta Torin beat me to the action.

"I shall, elder. I'm more capable, more adverse with authority and have been Alpha Bruno Fangborn's backbone for two and a half decades. Even before our princess was born."

With the tone he addressed me with, I couldn't help but feel rage built within me. What the fuck does he mean by that?

"Please take my opinion as well, Elder. I am the daughter of Bruno Fangborn and Juliet Fangborn. I am the heir to authority for our broken Pack!" I tried to win points, but didn't know the elders would take such offense to my words!

."What do you mean by 'broken pack', Helena Fangborn? Our glorious pack could never be 'broken'. In fact, I could alter my own statement if I see you in power. That is when our pack shall truly 'break'."

I gasped, the humiliation was just too much! But I couldn't speak against the Elder at all.

"Besides, dear Helena Fangborn, you haven't awakened your wolf yet. You are uneducated, know nothing about war tactics, you are impulsive and irresponsible for your own actions. Look at the clothes you're wearing for a prestigious birthday!" The elder pointed at my clothes, and I gasped even heavily.

"What does my clothes have to do with ANYTHING related to my character?"

"Oh, it does, sweetheart. And it's now more than evident that you're far awake from being a diligent member of this pack. It should've never been you, Helena Fangborn. You're a spoiled brat in your own pack, did you ever notice your own actions."

Things could only ever go so downhill to hit rock-bottom.

Smacking my fists against the chair, I stood up forcefully.

"I cannot tolerate this anymore. If this is how you all have started treating me, then I'll leave the pack."

With a scoff, the third elder replied, "We would be grateful to you, Helena Fangborn."

Tears flooded in my eyes. And for the last time, I looked at the walls of the hall and began walking against the silence of everyone else. My gaze landed on Torin.

He refused to meet my gaze. Why, Torin? What have you done against me? You did nothing wrong against me, right? These people cannot control their tongue, they've shown their true colors to me.

I've learned their intentions... and I promise to come back ever more powerful to reclaim what I've lost.

And for now, I've lost everything.

But against the rainy clouds, I catch the ring on my left hand sparkle. Wait! I haven't lost everything. I have Merlin by my side! My fiance will help me, I have no doubt about him. He's a sweetheart, he's always been a sweet gentleman towards me.

As I fished my phone out, dialing his number I knew by heart with a smile on my face, a message popped up on my phone.

Little drops of rain scattered the vision on my mobile, but I opened it anyway.

It was tagged with a video attachment, email named: "Merlin's Secret"

Curiosity got the best of me and I opened the attachment. And I played it.

"N-No way!"

I couldn't speak because of the shock.

In the video, Merlin was enjoying his time in bed with several women pleasing his body. Each one gave him a hickey that I could have never given him. Two of them playing with his manhood, covering him like it was scripted as he took the video of himself using a selfie stick.

And a woman, rising from his manhood with his flavor in her mouth kissed him!

She turned to the camera, and that's when I lost the ability to speak at all.

She was Alexia!

The other women as the video played were Patty and Olivia!

N-No, this can't be true.

Not today, not everything on the same fucking day!

Just like that, I wailed like a child who lost everything to this cruel world and walked around the streets aimlessly. My feet hurt, my dress was torn from being hooked to a fence, my heart was bleeding and urging me to end it all.

And on the day I turned eighteen, I didn't awaken-I shattered.

I lost everything.

Gained nothing.

And somewhere in that darkness, I realized...

This wasn't the end.

It was just the beginning.

And someone wanted me broken.