PriMate

Chapter 1

AMELIAS POV:

⠀So many days had passed since my boyfriend had not replied.

We'd had such a great time the last night we spent together..

Watching our favourite films, eating our bodyweight in doritos and m&m's.. and the steamy shower we took together cleaning off crumbs and laughter lines.

I never understood why he'd switch attitudes as soon as we weren't around each other.

It's as if the minute I'm back at work, he forgets I exist.

"Amelia, lunch break" booms Alec's deep 20-a-day voice from the break room.

It snaps me out of my intrusive thoughts and I put my rachet down in its spot in my shiny snap on box.

I hate lunch breaks here, it means sitting around the guys as they bragged about a customers looks, or how they'd flirted with them, forgetting they're married and fathers.

It meant eyes being darted over, as if to check I wasn't texting their wives to dob them in and then derogatory comments about how as a woman, I shouldn't eat so little because I'd not be able to take the graft.

I sit down my chicken pasta salad and start picking at it with my fork, wondering how I let myself become so unhappy in life.

Accepting the shitty jobs because as soon as I'd walked through the door, I was already inferior.

The only reason I had any mechanical to do was because they had to at least give me something to match my qualifications.. or they couldn't be bothered to get off their lazy arses to do it themselves.

'One day, I'll have my own garage, and I'll laugh at any of these bigots who want to work for me.

Tell them they need more muscle or that they'll be too much of a distraction to they other staff' I smiles to herself and dig in.

"What're you smiling at Ami, found a cute top on Shane?" laughs Tony.

"It's sheen" I mutter.

"Well I wouldn't know, Mrs does all that for me" and that makes a few of them chuckle to themselves.

"God forbid you do anything for yourself huh?" I add.

The room is silent, and as I look up they're all looking at Tony to see what his next move is.

"Eh enough of that lady, I'll have you on washing up duty for a week" he laughs, as do the rest of them.

I feel my blood simmering, hitting boiling point at the misogynistic comments leaving his lips.

"Wouldn't surprise me mate, not that any of you lot take shifts" I bite back.

Instantly regretting letting the hateful tone in my voice slip.

"Oohhh that's it now lad" howls Curtis.

"Time of the month eh Ami?" Tony adds, bitterly.

And then I feel it, like a bubble pop.

Could be an aneurism, but it's more than likely my temper, I feel it snapping like a poppadom under light pressure, and before I know it I'm standing up.

"No, I'm not on my period, I wash up purely because you lot clearly weren't taught how to by your mothers and even then that would be better than the shite jobs you give me due to your toxic masculinity making you that insecure that a woman might possibly do the job better than you half witted imbeciles, that you just take the opportunity away from her"

I take a deep breath and look around the room at the mouths hanging wide open, nobody speaks and anxiety takes over.

In that moment I realise I'm done, done taking s**t from the same people day in day out, so I pack my things up in a fluster and head towards to rusty steel door on un-lubricated hinges.

"I'll be taking my toolbox, and I expect this week's wages as normal unless you want me to tell HR why I'm leaving"

I lock up my box and make a mental note to get it picked up this weekend.

Goodbye job, I really won't miss you.

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I get I'm my car and try calling Brad.

"Welcome to T.T, the person yo-"

I scream into my steering wheel, the horn blares and makes me jump out of my skin.

I need somebody right now, so I try my bestie Kate.

"Welcome to E.Mobile, the person you're calling is unavailable, please leave a mes-" and that's all it takes for hot, salty tears to roll down my cheeks, I sob into my hands smudging mascara into my flushed skin, and watch it mix with the brake dust left between the creases after touching my box for a mere second"

That I'll miss, I doubt I'll find another job straight away so my pride and joy will go unused.

I figure I can't do this alone, so I put the car into 1st and make my way to Kates house.

She hasn't worked since having little Jayden a year ago, and seeing her and my little buddy will definitely take my mind off of the day I'm having.

A hot tea and some toddler giggles is the next best thing to my boyfriends warm chest since he's too busy to answer, he doesn't even have an excuse anymore.. his job is too boring to not get a chance to check his phone.

I pass the familiar industrial estate and know I'm nearly there, and my mouth waters at the thought of a sweet cup of tea.

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DEREKS POV:

The pain is excruciating, and makes me writhe underneath the wool blanket I've covered myself with to help with the chills.

Why am I not healing?

I think I've broken the bone too badly, and I might need to put it back in to place so it can heal.. if our limb is removed, it doesn't grow back.. so maybe the bone is not close enough to its break to attach properly.

My leg feels swollen and hot to touch, if I don't heal soon I'll get infected.

Running my hand over the break hurts, but I find the protrusion and with my other hand, put the blanket in my mouth to muffle the screams.

3..2..1 SNAP!

"Ugffhhhfhhh" that f*****g hurts!

Throbbing electric shocks of pain radiate up my thigh followed by slight relief as I finally feel myself healing.

This was a result of hunting deer, as a lone wolf shunned from my pack I had no choice but to move to the other side of the district and fend for myself.

No money, no interaction.. I could feel myself slowly losing my sanity.

Dissociation threatening to take over.

Too scared to go out into the real world incase I ever gave myself away or attracted the wrong attention from the Thompson brothers.

It takes a minute to get to my feet and hobble over to the fire where rags were drying off on a makeshift washing line.

I tear one and wrap it around the wound which had slowly started healing but would help keep the bone in a steady position.

I couldn't keep living like this, maybe I could go back to Tyler and see if he can forgive me for the mistake I made.. it had easily been 6 moons since I had to say goodbye to my home and my brothers.

I missed every single one of them, and we had the biggest, strongest pack on the district.

Even our shewolves being the fiercest and our rejects leading the biggest hate group toward our kind.

The Thompson brothers as they called themselves were betas, bitten by our alpha under a full moon but failing the transition.

It lead them to have heightened senses but none of the physical benefits and due to their bodies not being able to handle this, turned them cold hearted and jealous of our kind, if they found us weak and alone like I am, they wouldn't hesitate to kill us, or worse take us tto experiment on in hopes of becoming full bloods themselves.

I felt my hair raise on the back of my neck when thinking about them, Clyde with his high alert hearing but blind in one eye.

Dom, being a sufficient night looker but having misshapen bones from the failed attempt at a shift.

And the worst, Anthony.

Who was left with no formal disabilities but because he couldn't shift and didn't form his wolf, was the most evil and twisted.

He formed the Thompson Brothers after he and the others found Lauren, freshly shunned from the Saturn Moons, with the same exact condition as him- night sight, powerful hearing and alert sense of smell but no assigned wolf so no ability to shift.

Lauren had practised dark magic as a human, sold her soul to Lucifer and was cursed to be miserable her whole life after finding her riches.. bringing her rejects along with her and helping to fund their now growing, dangerous alliance.

Since then Alphas made a treaty to never create betas again, and if found guilty would be killed instantly with their current betas and brothers having to join an opposing pack.

Depressing thoughts continued to fill my weak mind as I drifted off next to the warmth of the fire.. and took me into dreams of the human life I left behind.