AWAKENING DREW

PAIN

This will be a violent chapter with abuse . Please don't continue reading if you can't handle it!!

Drew's pov

"Oouch! s**t that hurts soooo much. They should just kill me already, I can't stand the torture anymore." This pack is straight from hell. No, it's worse than hell. Hell was when my parents threw me away and this idiotic pack took me in. For whatever reasons I don't know, they should have left me there to die.

It began with chores when I was three years old. Since I used to live with omegas, I thought it was a normal thing. To help around the pack, first I ran little errands like fetching things. Then it advanced to delivery services. I was the messenger boy and the starving began.

At seven years old, the beatings began. On my tenth birthday, children my age were shifting for the first time and Drew over here didn't shift. Oh, alpha Wollet of the Black Den pack grew another idiotic head and ordered that I be tortured every year on my birthday if I didn't shift.

The worst day of my life was when I turned fourteen years old. Instead of being tortured, they sexually assaulted me. I always fall down and cry when I remember that day. Nightmares haunted me every day, seeing their faces over and over again. I've never been the same ever since.

I was transferred to the pack house to do all the work, from washing to cooking to being a punching bag. My worst tormentor is Alex Wollet, the alpha's son and next alpha of this goddess-forsaken pack, and his girlfriend, Anita Black, the w***e of the pack. I believe her brother, father and I are the only men she hasn't f****d.

Though sometimes you will find her ogling her brother, that shameless brat, and thinking that she is from a strong beta line. I think she dropped right from hell because I don't think someone could give birth to that. Whoever her mate is, I pity him or her.

Yesterday was my sixteenth birthday, the day I'm supposed to find my mate and get saved from this awful life. The beatings began a day earlier and I was thrown into the dungeons. I was tortured the whole day and assaulted by three men. The alpha finally ordered for my release, "I want to see who will be mated to this low-life wolfless weakling!" He roared out laughing and looking at his pack with amusement.

Though nobody came forward to claim me as their mate. I mean who would? I was taken to my room in the basement and was locked in. Darkness consumed me.

I was running through a long hallway. Something big and dark was chasing me. I almost tripped over holding on to the wall to keep my body from falling. I dared to look back and saw paws, and is that fur I see?

Oh my goddess save me, why does everything bad happen to me? Did you just send me on this earth to suffer? I could hear the paws hitting hard on the hard tiled floor. I ran into the next room that was open and hid in a corner. Trying to calm down my erratic breathing.

Silence follows and I know that the beast is gone, so I look up from where I'm hiding, only to meet with it. Its golden eyes are bright and sharp. It's enormous, standing at 7'4, with black silky fur, golden paws and a golden crescent moon on it's chest. It's magnificent!

"Damien, do not fear me, I'm Apollo your wolf." I gaped at the beast in front of me, how can it be? I thought the moon goddess cursed me to walk the earth wolfless! " No Damien, Selene loves you and I'm sorry I came this late." " Where have you been all this time?"

" I have been undergoing training. Training for royal wolves takes time and appears on the fourteenth birthday of our humans. You are fourteen, right?" Okay, now this wolf is lost because I'm no royal and I am not fourteen. " Pfft you are lost Apollo, you came to the wrong Damien because I just turned sixteen and I am the pack slave."

" I know about you being mistreated by these stupid wolves. I've been helping you heal most of your wounds. I just didn't know I was two years late." Apollo whimpers and looks down in shame and regret. Is that pain I see? I felt sorry for him and rubbed my hands on his muzzle to calm him.

I smile and say a little prayer to the moon goddess for such a beautiful gift. I accept Apollo as my wolf and he accepts me as his human. We got to know each other and hit it off immediately.

That's when I wake up sweating like it rained on me, pain shoots up all over my body wishing I was dead and then I remember my dream. I, mindlink Apollo to make sure it wasn't just a dream. "Apollo, are you really there?" Silence. " Pfft it was a silly dream." Feeling so disappointed.

Suddenly, all my wounds begin to close up and heal, my bones are rearranged in perfect formation. A rush of power hits me like a tornado and I fall back on my bed breaking it. Well I guess it wasn't a dream, " It wasn't a dream Drew, I am here to stay. We have to find our mate and leave this pack immediately. We can't stay here any longer."

"Okay, let's go start on the house chores as we look for our mate and you have to hide your scent. I don't want anybody to sense the change in me, even our mate." I told Apollo and I saw him nodding his head and then he disappeared, to the back of my head.

I walk with a limp just for appearances, doing my morning routine, trying to hide my smile and happiness. When I'm done setting the table, I ring the bell to announce that breakfast is ready. Pack members swam in to take their seats and they all wait for the alpha, Alex and his slut.

They come walking hand in hand and that's when that sweet scent hit me, but it's mixed with something rotten like a dead carcass. " Yes Drew , that is our mate and the rotting smell means that she is not pure and not worth it." Apollo said sneering and leaving me to deal with whoever that is.

I look for the owner of that scent and I end up locking eyes with none other than Anita Black. I refrain myself from laughing out loud, moon goddess, you really know how to try us. Anita notices I'm staring at her, she smiles and walks over and busts out laughing.

" My goddess, you paired me with this s**t of a weakling, I can't hold it in. Alex come hold me before I fall from laughter." She says loud enough to gain the attention of the whole pack and everybody laughs at me. Even the alpha finally comes in to watch this unfold.

" I, Anita Black, reject Damien Walker as my mate." She says it so loud you'd think she's performing a song. I smile inwardly and kneel down crying in pain holding my heart," I-I D-Damien Walker accept your rejection," I say with tears in my eyes and rolling on the floor. I look at the slut and I see no remorse in those eyes, this crazy b***h is happy.

The pack enjoys the show, laughing and clapping. The alpha calls his men to come for me," Take this useless being, strip him naked and throw him in the same forest we found him when he was a baby. He won't survive the night, he is so weak that rejection will kill him. If not, rogues will finish him off."

I am glad he is throwing me out, making it easier for me. I won't have to run away and get chased like an ex-convict. Apollo is laughing like a crazed wolf. I can see tears, wait! Are those tears of joy! The pack cheer as I'm being stripped and they beat me up, kicking my stomach and back. Typical Black Den pack and its stupid alpha Wollet.

After crossing the border, I feel the pack link and connection break. I am free now and my heart is light and happy. They dumped me in the forest and left me for dead. I lay still whimpering in pain until they made it back to their borders. Apollo comes forward and heals me immediately. Getting my strength back, I stand and run for it.

I run feeling free and leaving all the pain behind. Thank you moon goddess for that mate. She was my ticket to freedom. I just ran like a crazed man in a forest in the middle of the night. My two feet are going as fast as I can. Apollo told me I would shift on my eighteenth birthday. Apparently, he hadn't matured enough. So I have two years to learn how to read, write and train.