CRACKED BUT NOT BROKEN.

BUSTED

I enter the packhouse through the servant's entrance through the kitchen, and make it to the stairs thinking I made it without anyone noticing. As I place my foot on the first step the living room lights come on and there waiting is my pissed of mother. She raises from the couch and makes her way over to where I am standing scared for my life.

"So tell me where have you been you little wh××e." I try to move my lips but nothing comes out. "Don't you hear me talking to you," she asks as she grabs me by my hair and throws me to the ground. "You think since you are almost 18 you don't have to obey me anymore," she hisses and kicks me with each word she snarls out.

I plead for her to stop as I cough up bl××d, but that only seems to make her angrier. "I hear someone come down the stairs in the midst of her rampage but she doesn't stop. The Alphas scent is strong as he gets closer to my mother. He grabs her and rubs her head as she continues to try and harm me.

I see his eyes glaze over and a couple minutes later two wolves come and drag me to the dungeons, with my mother and the Alpha trailing behind them. The smell of vomit and feces hits my nose as I am pushed down the stairs unceremoniously. The sickening sound of my ribs breaking is all I can hear, but I don't scream.

The warriors pick me up and drag me to a cell with bl××d covering the floors and a bucket full of excrement. They chain my wrist to two loops on the wall and rip my shirt and claw my pants off, leaving me in just my underwear. I hear the Alpha and my mother enter the cells and tell the warriors to stand guard. "What is the crime she has committed to be in the dungeons," he asks my so called mother. "She um she has been having s=x with mated wolves and and has caused a mother to lose her unborn child from the pain of betrayal from their mate," she stutters.

The Alpha roars and the walls shake as he orders a warrior the bring his silver tipped whip. I open my mouth to protest but a voice inside my head whispers not to give them the satisfaction. The warrior returns with a silver tipped 3 tail whip. "Is this true what your mother says Salel," the Alpha growls. "NO, " I say calmly. "She has me mistaken with her other wh××e of a daughter."

With that he raises the whip and brings it down on my back where I feel blood trickle down and then a tightening on my back. I don't scream and it enrages the Alpha, so he does four more back to back. "As the person who found the betrayal I command you to finish out the rest of the 20 lashes," he tells my mom. "With pleasure Alpha" she purrs. My mom brings the whip down and I see bl××d running down my leg mixing with the poor person's who was here before me.

By the 15 th strike my head is hanging and the chains are the only thing keeping me up. " I love you Salel," I hear the voice in my head say. This gives me a burst of hope and I hold my head high with not so much as a whimper as number 19 and 20 land across my back in secession.

"Guards bring a bucket so we can see our handy work," my mother walks in front of me and says. "Maybe now you have learned your lesson," Alpha smirks. Suddenly I am drenched from head to toe with water and I hear a stunned gasp. "How is this possible " the Alpha ask in shock. My mother moves behind me and covers her mouth at the sight. "What have we done," they both whisper.

"Guards take her to her room and I will send an Omega to draw her a bath and make sure no harm comes to her." I am unchained and dropped into the arms of a warrior, and he carries me to the attic aka my rom5 where the smell of lavender soap fills the room. An omega comes and ushers him towards my bathroom where he sits me in the water. And the scream the Alpha and my mother wanted leaves my lips. After a while the pain subsides and I pass out in the tub.

I awake alone but I know it hasent been long because the water is still pretty warm. I move to get out the bath expecting pain but there is none. I grab the towel that was laid out for me and start to dry off. I remember how stunned they were about seeing my back so I walk to the mirror scared of what I might find. I pull my long hair over my shoulder and am stunned at what I see. There is a perfect heart of raised blue, purple, and red skin. Not like icky bruised colors but like tatto ink almost. The heart has what looks like barbed wire wrapped around it. In the middle is a name and I know I have heard it before FREYJA. Around the heart it looks like a battlefield of wolves at war and I gasp at the huge seen unfolding on my back.

"It's beautiful right," I hear that voice in my head say. "Are are you my wolf ," I stutter as I make my way to my bed exhausted." "Yes my child but I am more than just a wolf, I am the goddess of love, s3x, beauty, war, and death. "There is no way that can be, I'm just Seleste the packs punchingbag, I don't deserve you," I cry telling her. "Never look a gift horse In the mouth," she says. " Or a gift wolf should I say." I chuckle at this as my eyes start drifting closed. "Listen to me Salel, forgive the Alpha and your mother, and don't hold hate in your heart, there is no room for it there." "I just wanted to come heal you, but the time to reveal myself is still months away, now sleep child and in the morning wish those who hurt you well, and one of my gifts to you shall emerge, we still have tough times ahead but I will always be with you."

And with that my eyes close to a dream that felt so real. I saw me and Diamond holding hands with two figures I couldnt make out. I had a mark on my neck and so did she. I could tell we had kissed because her glossy lips had a bit of purple on the corner and I wiped it off and ran my finger across her lip. I can't remember much else but I awake hopeful for my future. Pain free might I add.