The Alpha King & His Warrior Slave

" I used to think the worst thing in life was being all alone. It's not.The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone. " Esmerelda POV 2 days. It's just 2 days until I turn 18 and can escape from this godforsaken pack. I have nothing here, or rather, should i say, I have nobody here. There is not one person in this pack that I wouldn't like to see burn to the ground. Actually, scrap that, the Black Moon pack itself just needs abolishing. Starting with the Alpha & Luna and their god-awful son Raif. You see, in this part of the country, we are all werewolves. Humans unfortunately found out about our species three decades ago, which led to a brutal and bloody war between the two species. In my opinion, leaders of both humans and werewolves fear each other, suffer with greed for power, and generally do not have 2 brain cells to put together between them. Eventually, after devastating losses on both sides, the previous Alpha King and King Henry decided on a treaty in which the countries territory would be split in two for each species. Each must stay to their own half and never step foot across boundary lines. Although I was alive at the time of the war, it does not mean I haven't fought through battles of my own. When somebody has lived through their own personal nightmare, they understand that you can never find peace with a war raging through your heart and soul. I wipe a tear that threatens to fall down my cheek and try my hardest to maintain my composure and keep it together. I'll be damned if I shed one more tear over these bastards. I've learnt over the years that I could cry a river full of tears, but I'd be drowning in it, all alone. The waves of my sadness crashing into me, with nobody to pull me out. Not since my mama. My beautiful, strong mama. A sob escapes my throat, and for just this once, I let it. Flashback "Sweetie, can I come in?" My mama has the purest voice, like baby birds singing. "Yes, Mama," I responded. "Oh sweetie, please don't cry for me," She said as my sobs quietly filled the room. I was hiding in the corner with my knees tucked to my chest. Daddy had been mean to Mama again, and I didn't like it when he was mean to Mama. She was kind and beautiful and deserved to be loved. "Mama, why does d-daddy hit you and shout at you like that. He scares me, and I hate when he does that to you. " I spluttered out between sobs. "One day I am going to be b-big and strong so I can take you away, and he can never hurt you again, Mama." "You don't need to do that, my little cherry pie. You are the light of my life, my beautiful princess, and the reason for my existence. There is nobody more precious in this world than you, and one day soon, I'm going to take you away from here and me, and you are going to go on our own little adventure. Until then, I wanted to give you this and make sure you never take it off. " Mama handed me a little pendant chain. It had a little silver wolf hanging from it. In the place of the wolves heart was a turquoise gem. "Turqouise, just like your eyes, my sweet little wolf. Keep this with you always, and no matter what happens, Mama will always be with you. Now come cuddle up to me darling, little she-wolves need their sleep. " I cuddle into Mama's lap while she sings me a lullaby, the same as every night. Home is in her arms, where i feel safe and warm. All I hear is her sweet voice as I drift off to sleep. "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. you make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know how, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away. " End of flashback And that is how I got to where I am today. My mama and I never got to go on our adventure. In fact, I never got to sleep in her arms again after that. Or breathe in her strawberry scent, or tell her I love her because that night of my 7th birthday, the man who helped created me, killed my mama in front of me. That image will be engraved in my mind forever, haunting me until the day I die. He sliced the silver dagger through her main artery before turning it on himself. My beautiful mama, laid there with her blonde cascading locks flowing around her, in a pool of her own blood. I never did get to save my mama or take her away. How do you forgive yourself for something like that? I know I may only have been a child, but the guilt that I did nothing boils through my veins like a raging inferno. I wish more than anything in this world that the Moon Goddess had taken me with my mama. Alpha Damien & Luna Ophelia found me the next morning, curled up next to my mama, when my father - his beta - didn't report to the pack office for work. That was the beginning of the end for me. Most people would take pity on a young child witnessing the murder and deaths of their parents. Sure enough, the Alpha & Luna took me in, but not as their child, as their slave. Forced to work for pittance, humiliated and belittled by them. One day, they will see their downfall, and I will be the one to personally make sure of it. Blood moon pack is known to be one of the cruellest, archaic, and bloody packs in the whole of the southern werewolf territory. The territory as a whole is split into four packs. The Black Moon, The Crescent Moon, The Red Tide & Blackwater. All four packs are governed by the Alpha King & The Royal Palace Pack. Unfortunately for me, I was born into the Blood moon pack. Although the largest in territory size, it was by far the worst for treatment of slaves - and well, just she-wolves in general. To be honest, they are just a bunch of misogynistic pigs who walk around acting like they have a stick poked up their ass. In two days, none of that is going to matter. I'm going to be free of all these bastards.The Blood Moon pack makes all slaves work until they are 18, to pay off their "debt" for basically being an orphan and having to be cared for by pack funds. When you turn 18, the usual age for your first shift into your wolf, you can either leave to be a rogue, find shelter in another pack, or continue working here. Let's just say I'd rather eat s**t than live here another day longer than I had to. I'll take my chances of my wolf turning feral from living as a rogue, thank you very much. 'Erm, excuse me, speak for yourself. So little faith in me, Esmerelda. The feral life isn't for me, I'd prefer to be laying on the beach with a pina colada.' 'Pfft. Firstly, how are you even going to drink a pina colada. You're a wolf, you don't even know what a pina colada tastes like. Secondly, you have no hands, so what are you going to do... slurp it off the floor like a mangy mutt?' I see blaize stick her ass up in the air at me and retreat to the back of my mind. Silly wolf. Sometimes, we argue like siblings, and i can honestly say we would probably argue over fresh air. However, without her, I doubt I would even be here today. 'Enough of them thoughts Esmerelda, I've told you that you are strong, we are strong together' Although I have never shifted, blaize come to me the night my mother was murdered. Usually, humans will receive their wolves on their 18th Birthday and then can shift for the first time on the following full moon. Alpha's can sometimes shift when they are 16 years old, depending on how strong their bloodline is. It's unheard of for somebody as young as I to receive their wolf. Blaize has repeatedly told me that for our own safety, I must keep her a secret and not shift until my 18th birthday. She's fond of her cryptic clues, apparently expecting me to be able to decipher them, like I have a clue. In all fairness, though, I trust her with my life, and I absolutely believe not one person in this pack would think for a second before throwing me to the wolves - literally. I may be a slave, I may have nothing to my name, no family, and no friends, but they have yet to break my spirit or my resolve. Which I know is something that Blaize provides me with every day.