Chapter 1
Lana’s POV
“Wake up b***h!” Cecil— My step sister screeched as she kicked me in the stomach.
I gasped as pain bloomed from the broken rib I got when she and her mother beat me up last night. I tried to get up from the cold kitchen floor but she kicked me down again.
“You lazy Omega b***h! You’re sleeping when you should be working?! How dare you?!” She screamed again.
I wanted to argue that I wasn’t sleeping, I had passed out from the pain of hunger and starvation since they had refused to let me eat for almost two days now. But I held my tongue. Years of abuse had taught me that talking back to my step sister or step mother would only get me more broken bones.
“I’m talking to you Omega! How dare you ignore me?!” Cecil yelled, delivering another kick that brought tears to my eyes. If I wanted the abuse to stop, I had to apologize.
“I’m sorry, please stop, I won’t do it again.” I begged.
“You better not! Or else we’ll throw you to the rogues or better yet, I’ll throw you to the enemy soldiers of the Crimson pack! I heard that all the men of the Crimson pack are always hungry for an Omega to use as their s*x slave. I honestly don’t know why mother hasn’t sold you yet, we could use the money to get new dresses.” Cecil mused and I eyed her in horror.
Really? She wanted to sell me to smelly, abusive brutes as a s*x slave just so she could buy a dress? Was there really no end to her wickedness?!
But to be honest, it wasn’t only her that thought that way. Weak Omegas were considered as the scum of the earth so the pack only used us as s*x slaves or maids.
Our longtime enemy, the Crimson pack was the worst of them! It is said that their Alpha— Alpha Zander is a ruthless tyrant who sees all Omegas as weak, disgusting slaves that don’t deserve to live, he and his men liked to torture them for fun, keep them as s*x slaves or throw them out to rogues.
Being sold to anywhere close to Alpha Zander was the worst thing that could ever happen to an Omega.
I was even lucky that my father insisted on keeping me as a maid in the first place. My father also hated me for being an Omega. He often reminded me how much he wished I wasn’t born. But I believed that the real reason was because he blamed me for my mother’s death.
My mother was his fated mate but he met her when he was engaged to Cecil's mother, Mrs Mona.
He chose my mother over Mrs Mona and that made her furious. Unfortunately for my father, my mom died while giving birth to me.
Out of grief He married Mrs Mona who had already given birth to Cecil by then. When they discovered that I did not have a Wolf, Mrs Mona convinced him that It was my punishment from the Moon Goddess for killing his mate.
My father has hated me since then.
I resumed cleaning the kitchen when we suddenly heard chaos outside. Suddenly my father burst into the house with wild eyes and started yelling in panic.
“The Crimson pack! They're attacking! Grab your essentials, we have to run!” My father shouted and the whole house fell into panic.
Everyone was screaming as we ran around packing what we needed. I didn’t have much but I tried to pack what little I had of my mother.
Suddenly, Cecil and her mother started throwing their things in my face, their clothes, their shoes and other unnecessary things.
“Pack them up!” Mrs Mona screamed at me. “You better not lose even a single pin, or else I’ll feed you to the rogues myself.”
I tried to gather everything up as I was running. But from my cracked ribs, to my starvation, I didn’t have enough energy to hold myself up.
Soon enough, I stumbled under the weight of the clothes and fell, fracturing the bone of my foot.
“Father, wait!” I screamed in panic. If my leg was fractured, I wouldn’t be able to run well, and that meant that the men of the Crimson pack will kill me…. Or worse.
“Lana!” Cecil screamed, trying to run back to me, but my father grabbed her and pulled her away.
“Forget about her! She deserves to die here! She’s useless to us anyway!” He growled, looking down at me in disgust.
“But my clothes!” Cecil screamed.
Of course she didn’t care about me, all she cared about was the clothes she would lose when the Crimson pack slaughtered me.
“Leave it! I’ll buy you new clothes when we get to safety!.” My father yelled as he picked Cecil up and began to run.
I watched with despair as my own father rushed to save a daughter that wasn’t even his real child.
My family abandoned me and ran for their lives, leaving me crawling on the ground.
I struggled to push myself up, groaning through the pain of a fractured leg. Normal werewolves would heal fast but since I didn’t have a Wolf, I would be in pain for a long time.
“There over here! Get them!” I heard one of the attackers yell, they were coming this way. I had to escape.
I tried to run but the pain in my leg was too hard to bear so I tried to hide behind some bushes.
Unluckily for me, they found my scent very quickly. One of the attackers grabbed me, and when I tried to shove him away, he yanked my leg, causing my injury to get worse.
I screamed so loudly that other attackers began to gather.
The man tried to grab me again, but I bit his hand which turned out to be a mistake, because he immediately punched me in my face, almost knocking me out.
“Stay still b***h!” He growled, pulling me out of the bushes and showing me to the other men like a trophy.
“Look guys! I found an Omega.” He sneered, and the other men cheered.
“Kill her!” They screamed and the man laughed.
His claws extended from his hands and I closed my eyes, getting ready for the inevitable death.
“Stop!” A deep voice suddenly shouted and we all froze. The voice was too powerful to be a regular warrior.
I slowly opened my eyes and gaped. A very tall man was standing in front of me.
His eyes were the coldest shade of blue I had ever seen. He was muscular, and looked like he could lift me up with one hand alone. I had never seen a man more handsome than him in my entire life.
“Alpha!” The men around him exclaimed, then they all bowed down to him, but his eyes never left mine.
“Mine!” He growled and I felt my whole body shiver.
“Mate!” I gasped but quickly shut my mouth.
The Alpha looked very furious in this moment, he took a menacing step forward but I quickly took a step back.
