Chapter 2 The fat mistake

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CHAPTER 2: THE FAT MISTAKE EMMA'S POV I cried in my bedroom for hours because my father had locked me up after beating me to a pulp while everyone in the pack watched. While Ever got all the praises, love, and gifts, I received the insults and humiliation from everyone. Only Maddie saw me as a human being. And she had begun drifting away from me when others threatened to start bullying her for being my friend. After taking a shower, I dressed my wounds, but I couldn't sleep afterwards. For the next three days, I was holed up in my bedroom without food. The only time the door had opened was when they came to extract my blood to give to my sister. It was the night of the third day that I finally got off my bed. Serena had caught onto something. A tantalising scent. She was restless, wanting more of it. A mad craving came over me as it dawned on me what was happening. The Sutherland twins were in my home. I quickly placed my ear against my bedroom door. "Alpha Kale. Alpha Jayden. Welcome to the Moonbrook pack house." I could hear bits of their voices because my bedroom was on the ground floor of the pack house, in one of the rejected spaces. "Come with me. Let's talk in my study," my father said again. But Serena growled inside me. I began clawing on my bedroom door, shaking my head because I didn't want to lose their scent. I wanted out. But as I banged and banged on the door, no one could hear me. Later that night, Ever came herself to collect my blood to fill up her vial. A permanent smile split her face as she entered my room. "Dear sister, how are you feeling?!" She sat on the edge of my bed, pouting dramatically. "Poor you. Dad was really harsh." I extended my wrist. "Just take it and go." My eyes flashed to the view of the lawn outside my window. "Ugh. You are always so boring, Emma." She took out the needle and literally stabbed it into my skin. I shrieked, watching all the blood pouring out, but she didn't care. She locked my wrist in a vice grip, taking what she came for. "Ever! You are hurting me." "No, Emma! You're the one who doesn't want to stay still. Oh! You poor thing." Her wolf might have been dormant because she was not mated, but she wasn't an Omega. She had more strength. More control. She took out the needle, and I groaned in agony, applying pressure to stop the massive bleeding. "Look at the mess you're creating, Emma. Must you always be this clumsy." I glared at her. "You stabbed me-" Her face instantly changed as she hit my face. No longer was the facade of a dutiful sister up. A dark cloud went over her. "How dare you accuse me wrongly?!" My lips quivered in anger, but I went silent. If she called our father here now, I would be the one in trouble, not her. She grabbed my chin, making me face her. "Say something, you b***h!" "You didn't stab me with the needle. I did it," I said in a quiet voice, eyes gleaming with angry tears. A part of the cloth around my arm had soaked with blood from what she had done, but I chose silence. "Good, Em. I knew you wouldn't lie against me." Then she gasped as she peered at the spot on my neck where my skin had peeled off, where my clothes couldn't cover. Father's claws had scraped me when he hauled me off from the concrete ground to continue hitting me. My knees had given out, but he would only be satisfied when I lost consciousness. "That must hurt a lot." She poked the tender spot with a finger first. I drew back when she increased the pressure of her finger, and that angered her again. She thrust her thumb into the wound, causing me to scream, but Ever wouldn't stop. My screams in pain were her reason for joy. She only stopped when the wound began bleeding again. "What a hideous, fat girl. I see why our parents are so ashamed of you." I heard her mutter as she moved for the door of my bedroom. But she suddenly stopped at the threshold. "Emma?" "Yes." I croaked. "Can you believe I found my mate. My mating ceremony is in a few weeks." "Congratulations." She smiled slowly. "But you can't relate. You'll be alone forever." Her loud, evil laughter haunted me as it sprung from the hallway outside my bedroom. I staggered to the bathroom, cleaning up my wounds again. On the way back to my bed, I fell on the hard tile, too weak to get up because I hadn't been fed in three days. I was sleeping when a hard shove jerked me awake. I was still on the ground, noticing that a plate of food had been thrown beside me. I rushed for it, forcing the food into my mouth with my hands. My father was looking at me with disgust on his face once I was done. He had brought me food, and as he would say, it was because he cared about me. "Were you that hungry?" I nodded slowly, licking my finger. "Then, maybe you shouldn't have been born useless!" He suddenly raised his voice, causing me to recoil back into my shell. "If you had just been something else..." He drifted off like he always would when he talked about my birth. If I didn't see how they treated Ever, I would have always thought this was how every parent treated their children. "You can leave your room," he muttered, banging the door shut behind him. Excited, I took another shower and waited until it was past midnight, when I knew everyone must have retired to bed. I went to the kitchen, sneaking a bowl of ice cream from the fridge. My mother said I was a fat mistake. So she banned me from eating anything more than a morsel of food. I didn't always do that, though. Sometimes, I snuck around her rules and ate what I wanted when the servants weren't watching. Then I went up to the attic, which was the only other space in this house that was mine. It was neatly arranged and spacious, but the roof was so flat above me that I almost had to bend my head while inside it. Standing before the open window, I watched the full moon's magnificence, enjoying the serenity. But it was hard to avoid the view down below. Ever had just snuck out of the house. She was meeting up with someone in secret. But then, there were two of them, so I looked harder. Ever had her tongue down Kale's throat. One after the other, she was kissing them so hotly. And the twins were kissing her back. No... I fell on my arse when I realised the truth.
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