My Enemy Is My Mate

Chapter 2

Kimberly

I opened my eyes immediately, blood gushed out at the edge of my lips.

“Al-pha” I muttered in shock and pain.

“I can't breathe, alpha” I shuddered and kept struggling with his hands that didn't leave my neck. He was trying to kill me and not make love to me.

“What manner of disrespect!” He howled and forcefully pulled out the knife from my stomach.

I screamed out loud, it was as if my body left my soul.

“How dare you try to kiss me with those filthy lips?” he snorted coldly and I felt his insurmountable aura pressed against me, making my body shudder in fear.

Although I heard he was a short-tempered person, I didn't know he would be this violent because of what I'd done.

He raised me against the wall, and I could feel the force of his claws. I felt weak and I could die any moment from it.

“I'm so-rry” I pleaded weakly, my eyes were red as I could not stop breathing heavily. My stepmother had landed me into a bigger hassle.

“I will make sure I teach a low life like you a lesson,” he angrily howled and moved to a mini table, my eyes widened as I spotted all sorts of iron blades and daggers of different sizes.

“Please don't kill me Alpha, I will never think of doing anything stupid again,” I gasped for air as I spoke.

He would mercilessly squeeze life out of me with that Excalibur dagger and nothing would happen.

He unsheathed the dagger and firmly placed it on my arm.

I closed my eyes with tears rolling down as I felt it pierce through my skin.

I sobbed out at the sharp pain I felt, Heavy Blood dripping down my hand to the floor.

He did the same to my other hand, and slit it upward to my shoulder. He shifted his hand from my throat and pulled my hair.

“Urgh agh please spare me, pleaseee” I painfully groaned. He was cutting and playing with my body, it was a method that signified he wanted to take my life slowly.

I coughed out blood instantly and buried my head, unable to look at his face that was burning with fury.

Just when I thought I was going to die, he released his grip from my hair and I crashed hard on the floor with a loud bang. Without looking back at me, he left the room.

Heaven knows where he headed to, but I had to run for my life as soon as possible before he came back.

I gathered every ounce of strength in me and checked if there was an escape route that would lead me outside his mansion without his guards noticing me.

“Thank goodness,” I breathlessly whispered as I jumped down a newfound narrow hideout that would lead me to the en route of Mrs Lyn’s dormitory.

I sneaked into the house like a walking dead, one hand on my red bony neck, the other one on the largest wound, trying to suppress the blood that was gushing out.

I climbed the upper room window to avoid who had put me in this mess. Today was not the day to hear my punishment for another failed task.

I got into my room and collapsed on the floor, leaning on the wooden part of my bed for support.

My whole body felt heavy and numb, I needed a doctor, I was losing lots of blood. I might die before the next morning if no one came to my aid, I had no one, to begin with.

“Damn it, f*****g damn it”

A hundred emotions ran through my soul as I limped to the opened window, and stared at the blue sky, the half-moon like a crystal amulet against the intensifying darkness, Only if my life could be as beautiful as this skyline.

With the littlest hope in me, I folded my hands, closed my eyes and prayed to the moon goddess.

“I wish that you grant my heart desires this time, please end my suffering and give me a nice mate as I turn eighteen tomorrow.”

The next morning, a loud and unpleasant knock made me spring out of bed.

“Oh my goodness,” My whole body felt sore and discomforting, I had sneaked into Miss Nana’s room yesterday night to help me with whatever help I could get, she wasn't much of a doctor but she had a little experience with her first aid box after spending two weeks in the nursing aid Occupational hazard in a medical school in Weicity.

She was my father's assistant when he was still here, she was always good to me but now I could not just trust anyone or their deceitful smile.

She nursed my wounds last night. I would have not made it till this morning if I hadn't gone to her for help.

I glared at my room and stood up as the knock on the door intensified.

“It's 10 am, Kim, get your ass out of bed and do some chores”

I stuffed my ears with my pillows to Mrs Lyn’s scary voice.

“Alright ma’am” I lazily said.

“Open the goddamn door you little witch,” she shouted.

I immediately ran to the door lock with my chest beating heavily. Mrs Lyn had created a type of fear in me, her presence and her voice made me shake at every moment.

“Good morning Mrs Lyn” I stuttered and bowed like her little maid.

“Nothing is good about the morning” She frowned at me and entered my room, ignoring the sight of my wound, not caring what happened to me.

“What about the Alpha? I hope you were able to seduce him?”

“I failed” I blurted out loudly, my right hand hanging on my red cheek.

“You good for nothing quack beta!!!” She screamed, raising her hand in the air to hit me.

A slap landed me on the ground immediately.

“I’m sorry Mrs Lyn,” I wept.

“There’s nothing to be sorry about, you have proved your worthlessness,” she disgustingly glared at me.

“After the moon ritual banquet tomorrow night, you will receive your punishment by walking barefoot on the hot coals of the ember,”

She wickedly laughed.

“The hot coals?”

I requested in a bitter tone. That was the most cruel punishment I have ever heard of in my life. Most people that went there never came back alive.

“I’m your daughter’s husband, don’t you have a bit of affection for me?

What did I do to deserve such hatred from you?”

I looked into her eyes, trying to understand the level of animosity she had towards me.

“Question me again and I will break your limbs, you are of no use to me, you could not even get alpha Gideon on my side”

She fussed and walked out of my room.

I broke down on the floor, all I could feel was despair.

A few hours to the end of my birthday, After the day's work, I tiredly mopped the last Weicity floor hall as ordered by my stepmother.

I was feeling sick and out of it, My hands began to shake beneath the mopstick, it dropped from my fingers and my chest started to pound more than usual.

I fell to my knees and immediately stood upright as though I was being controlled by a wand, instantly there was a power outage, bulbs in the hall went off, and the glitch made my eyes dizzy as all the fluorescent bulbs turned off roll by roll.

“Is anyone there?” I asked nervously.

I felt a sudden urge and energy to run. Breathing heavily already I gave in to my impulse and my legs started to sprint out of the house.

I was sweating profusely as I super sped into the forest, my body hitting the big trees, my eyes not being able to focus on where I was running to.

I hit my painful chest to get control over myself. I felt a sharp pain in my body, certainly, not from the alpha and Mrs Lyn’s beating and stabbing, it was something I had never experienced before.

My whole system was moving abnormally and I realized what it was. My wolf was emerging, I could feel her energy and force vibrate through my spine, at the speed of light.

I let out a scream and was moving rapidly, my body breaking into pieces, the more it cracked the more crazy pain I felt.

My heart started to race, my bones began to ache, a deep almost unbearable pressure building beneath my skin. My body features began to contort as I experienced transformation in pain.

After running uncontrollably from corner to corner, my wolf took a while to reconfigure and there I was standing in a new form, feeling extraordinarily different.

My wolf crept up to the river, she dipped her head into it and shook off the water in an exciting manner.

She glared at her reflection for a while. It was the most beautiful thing I had seen in my whole life.

White furs and flawless paws, showcasing a significant combination of my parents’ black and blue eye colors.

With a deep resonant breath, she filled her lungs with the crisp night air, letting out her first howl. It was raw and haunting echoing through the stillness of the forest.

After a few minutes, I transformed into my human form. It felt weird and cool, but I would enjoy getting familiar with it.

The moon goddess had given me a glimmer of hope, waiting patiently for my mate.

After impatiently pacing in my room for two hours.

“Don’t tell me you gave me my wolf without a mate, do you despise me too?”

I pondered frustratingly.

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I watched as well-dressed Alphas and their Lunas matched up in nice outfits and colourful masks

I and other maids in our Brown and white serving uniforms bowed to them as they came closer.

We were to welcome a specific number of 200 guests before the remuneration into the Maniway hall.

If my mother was alive and my father was here, I would undoubtedly be slaying one of those outfits as their beta daughter and my father would have been introducing me to the guests and teasing me to find my mate among them.

A ray of sadness swept through me as I lowered my head again to them.

“Prepare to leave this night”

Mrs Lyn whispered to my ears amidst the darkwave music in the background by a scary-looking band.

Dressed elegantly with her maids behind her.

They gave me silly faces as they passed me.

“No f*****g way I’m going to Weycity to burn my feet and die in the process, instead of dying a painful death, I better just commit suicide peacefully or run away,”

I held a tray of champagne glasses in it to serve the guests, lost in my thoughts to flee after the banquets, taking my own life was not an option.

The thoughts of heavy security at the border gate and how I would raise money to start a new life hit me.