Fated Mated

four

CHAPTER 4

When Elise got to her makeshift room in the palace, she sat down to apply ice on her face. She had to beg the cook severally before he eventually gave her an ice pack. She looked around her room.

It was actually an abandoned storeroom. Her stepmother, Luna Erica had ousted her out of her room three months after she was unable to shift with the excuse that Elise was a trash not comparable to even the servants in the pack.

Elise lay on the bed made with just some worn out blankets. She bursted into tears again at her miserable life. Several times Elise had asked the moon goddess why she had to have such a fate.

Oh mother, why did you have to leave me alone in this wicked world? I have no one to comfort me, she thought bitterly as she tried to suppress her tears.

Elise regretted been born into this horrible life. She had to make them see her in a new light. The cook had told her that her brother Mark warned them not to serve her dinner tonight. She was too weak and broken to argue with them. She slept off in tears and hunger.

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Elise woke up early the next day to perform her daily duties and also to avoid her family. Her cheek had healed a lot. She was not like others who had fast healing ability. She had no wolf so she could only heal as a human. But her healing is faster than that of a human.

Elise quickly made the breakfast and arranged it on the dining table. She didn't wait for them to finish eating before rushing off to the market to buy groceries. She knew before she comes back from the market, they would have left the house.

That's how Elise did her routine till three days later when Luna Erica called her to her chamber. She knew she could no longer avoid them anymore. She would surely be punished again.

Elise immediately rushed there with mixed emotions. Would she be punished again? What did Mark tell the queen? She prayed silently to the moon goddess to save her.

When Elise got to Luna Erica's chamber, she was seated on a couch with a pitiful looking Pamela besides her crying profusely.

"Mother, I am here. You called for me", Elise greeted Luna Erica with a bow.

She was met with a disgusted look from her.

"Where were you?"Luna Erica asked.

"Mother, I was with Esme", Elise stuttered. She began to imagine the punishment awaiting her.

"Princess Elise, so you had the right to hit my son's fiancee, the future Luna of the pack? What gave you the guts?"she asked, looking at her.

"Mother…I …"

"It's Luna… your Luna…I am not your mother and will never be", she bellowed in her Luna voice as she stood up in anger.

Luna Erica really hated this girl with passion. The daughter of a mistress that destroyed her marriage. She hates her calling her mother. She's not a mother to a homewrecker daughter! She reminds her of her husband's infidelity and betrayal every time she sees her.

"I…I… am sorry, Luna", Elise whimpered under the intense gaze from her. Her head began to hurt as she fell down on her knees.

"I asked once again… who gave you the right to hurt her?"

"Am sorry moth… Luna… but I really didn't hurt her", Elise pleaded on her knees.

"Are you saying I'm lying? What would I gain from lying? Mother, she not only slapped me but she also scratched my face. Look at me mother, my face is ruined by this trash. What would I tell my parents?"Pamela said as she continued crying.

Luna Erica walked up to Elise and pulled her by her hair towards Pamela. Elise shrieked from the pain. Tears keep streaming down her cheek.

"Pamela, I want you to thoroughly disfigure her face. Make sure you do to her exactly what she did to you. That's the consequences of her impertinence", Luna Erica said with a smirk.

Pamela stopped crying and looked at Elise smugly as if telling her she was nothing. She raised her hand and slapped Elise several times. Elise's almost healed face became swollen again.

Elise clenched her fist so hard that she became pale with unbearable pain. She tried not to cry but the hitting became worse. She broke down in tears again as she pleaded with Pamela.

"Please…am sorry…it hurts so much", Elise cried out as the chamber was filled with her cries.

"What is happening here?", A voice thundered behind them.

Pamela stopped hitting Elise and cowered towards Luna Erica. They didn't expect to see the Alpha here. They bowed deeply to him.

"Your majesty"

"I asked a question", he ignored their greetings as he stared at the helpless looking Elise with swollen cheek.

"She deserves it. She hurt Pamela. Who is she to hurt the future Luna?", Luna Erica spat disrespectfully at the Alpha.

"I am still your Alpha and you don't challenge my authority, woman!", Alpha Davidson growled in anger.

"You cease to be my Alpha the day you slept with that w***e and gave birth to this useless tramp!", Luna Erica responded with a growl in anger.

The Alpha controlled his anger as he walked towards Elise and dragged her up.

"Get out now", he told her as Elise quickly fled from the room.

Luna Erica screamed and threw things around the chamber. Pamela looked petrified at the Queen's anger but still tried pacifying her.

Alpha Davidson looked at her and left without a word.

Elise ran to her room holding back her tears. She had to leave this place. She had to change their opinion of her.

But what can she do? Where would she go to? She had no one but Esme. Where would she go to?

Suddenly an idea hit her.

It would be dangerous but if she can succeed, her father would surely acknowledge her and treat her well. Yes, she had to do it. Life is all about risk.

She had nothing to lose. She doesn't have a wolf or a mate. She had no love in her life. No one would miss her. Except her friend, Esme.

She had to do it. She must do it…for her father. For his love…

She must kill her father's enemy, Alpha Grande of the Night Moon Pack. If she succeeds, her father would love her. She would have all the love and care she had been lacking.

Yes, she had to infiltrate the enemy camp and kill the Alpha…for her father.