betrayed but wanted

ChapterTwo

Hello, my name is Haylee Johnson. I'm seventeen years old and about to turn eighteen tomorrow. Tomorrow is supposed to be the day that I get to find my mate and leave this pack for good. After my mother's death when I was ten, nothing has been the same. My father found his second-chance mate and married her then brought her and her daughter to live with us. Even though we are the same age, everyone waits on her hand and feet and gives her everything that she could ever ask for even my mother's necklace that she left for me. My stepmother and sister threw me in the attic with no bed or anything, just the clothes that I had on. As I got older I had to find things in the lost and found to wear and half the time they didn't even fit me right they were always baggy. I was way malnourished. They even made me the maid and housekeeper of my own home, even beat me when they could. My father, the beta, did nothing. I don't know if he didn't know because they always hit me where you couldn't see it or if he just turned a blind eye to it and didn't care. The alpha didn't even know I didn't want to bring unwanted attention to myself when I didn't need to because I knew if I did, worse would come my way and I really didn't need that in my life with everything else. I knew that I could fight them off, but I couldn't show them my wolf or my abilities or what I could do at least not yet. The gamma once saw me limping to the pack house and when he stopped me I fell and my shirt lifted, that's when he saw all the bruises and mark's they left on my body. I had to beg him not to tell anyone, but he told me he wouldn't, but only on one condition if I let him train me every day in the woods by the lake so that one day I could fight back and leave this god-forsaken place. Shacking my head, I turned around and looked at myself in the broken glass mirror that hangs on my wall, looking at my long brown hair and piercing blue eyes, but I was on the shorter side of the shifter community and that kind of helped me with hiding my wolf, but not only that I was seeing how dull they had become over time. As I looked away, my door swung open with a loud bang, introducing my stepmother and sister.

"Remember tomorrow when you find your mate you must reject him" my stepmother, Ava, walked in screaming at me.

My stepsister Daisy smirked like she had just won a million dollars. I just nodded my head yes, praying to the Moon goddess that they would just leave me alone and let me go to sleep. She wanted me to reject my mate because nobody would want a broken and damaged mate, especially one like me but luckily they didn't know about my wolf or the fact that I was going to leave tomorrow night with or without a mate. We had the moon ball, and it was the perfect way for me to leave. They held every year. Every pack will be there, and they get a chance to find their mates or choose a chosen mate. It is also the day that the alpha's son comes home from the alpha training camp. He was always nice to me and stood up for me when others would bully me he knew how it was to lose a mother. He lost his the same night I lost mine when the rogues decided to come in and attack our pack. You could say he was kind of my knight in shining armor, at least until him and Daisy started dating in our last year of high school. That is when he forgot about me. "Slap" I wake up from my day dream when Daisy hits me across the face, and of course it doesn't stop there. Both Ava and Dasiy start hitting and kicking me like their life depended on it. I fell to the floor and they just kept kicking my in my stomach.

Finally, after what felt like hours of kicking and punching and begging for help, they seemed to have had enough and left me. I laid on the floor of my makeshift room until I heard them walking down the stairs and out the front door. I finally stood up limping down the stairs to the bathroom. I locked the door behind me, trying to save myself from any more beat-downs, at least for tonight, so I could at least heal a little bit. I slipped off my clothes as I walked by the mirror. I caught a glimpse of the horrible bruises that have started to form because of them. That was one downfall of getting hit everyday my wolf didn't have enough time to heal the bruises from the day before.

I felt movement in my head and looked back and Harley my wolf was pasin back and forth like a caged animal. "I am a caged animal", she snarled at me.

"What would you like me to do then? Let you out so that you can kill them and cause more problems? or have someone see you? huh? I cant afford to loss you, you are all that I have left. you are my bestfriend" I asked back with some snarkyness.

"No, I know we have to stay hidden and protect ourselves. That is why we have been trained in secret by the gamma, but I wish you would stand up for yourself. You know how to fight, you know you can take them on and win" she replied. I just shook my head and got in to the hot bubble bath. It stung a little, but it felt better than not having anything. "You know that Ava says we have to reject our mate if we find him tomorrow night, right?" I asked Harley.

She snarled in my head and replied, "Yes, I know, because they think he won't want us. They have seen to that with their own hands. They think we are powerless and damaged goods, but what they don't know is he will help us grow stronger and fight off what is coming.

"What do you mean by "what is coming"?" I asked, but she wouldn't answer me. How could she say something like that and just drop it.

I ignored her and put a block up on her. If she didn't want to tell me what was going on, then she couldn't talk to me at all. I went back to my bath I knew what they wanted but that wasn't what I wanted or needed. At that point, Even if he didn't want me I would try and beg him to take me even if I was just a maid for him or if he dropped me off at another pack I didn't care. As long as I got out of this pack, it was a win for me. I lifted myself out of the tub and dried off. I knew my birthday would be in an hour and I wanted to go for a run while everyone was asleep or gone so no one would see me. I got dressed in a long night dress because I knew I would be taking it off so I could shift, so I walked down the stairs and out the back door and headed in to the woods, so I could start this birthday on a positive note before it turned to sh*t.