TAMING THE LYCAN KING

JOCELYN’s POV…. Sitting on the floor as tears streamed down my cheeks, I felt my heart ache as like a spear been passed through me, I looked towards the picture of my mother on the wall. Slowly crawling to it, I caressed it as I sniffled. “If only you were here, mum. Truly, a mother’s love can’t be compared with any.” I muttered as I held the picture close to my heart. As I hugged the only picture of my mum I had left, I suddenly felt someone hit me hard on my back and I yelled in pain as the picture came out of my hand, immediately. Turning, it was none other than Aurelia ma, my step mother. Seeing that stick in her hand, I stared at the scars I already had. Weren’t these enough for one day already? “Ma, please. I…” “I’ve told you to never call me ma.” She screamed as she started to hit me hard, throwing me against the wall as I screamed in pain. Everyone heard me cry, they knew what was going on in here and none of them bothered to come save me. It was how they were. It wasn’t like they ever minded their business, but whenever it came to me, they always recalled that privacy was very important. Seeing the blood that was starting to come out of me, I fell face first to the ground as I placed my face to her feet. “Please, spare me.” I begged her, tears streaming down my cheeks as I coughed and gasped in pain. She bent to my level as she grabbed my hair, making sure I looked her in the eye. “You want my love as a mother, huh?” She asked me and I nodded, tears streaming down my cheeks. She chuckled as she wrapped my hair around her hand even more, causing more damage to my skull than ever before as I gasped in pain. “The only time you’ll get it is when you’re dead, Lyn, so please, die! Stop cursing us with your existence and die already!” She screamed as she banged my head against the cupboard in the room. The moment my head came against the wooden cupboard, I felt my whole body bolt in pain as I fell to the ground. I couldn’t cry anymore. My throat was already clogged from the pain and I knew this was bound to be my fate. I watched as she left the room, throwing the stick that now had my blood to me as she scoffed and I whispered in pain as I sighed. Crouching my knees to my chest as I grabbed my mum’s painted picture that I had managed to put in some sort of frame, I closed my eyes as I let my memories grow distant from all the pain I was feeling. In no time, I drifted to sleep and of course, in my dream, I saw nothing but images of me smiling, living a happy life with many good people around me. Something I knew could never happen. “Hey, get up!” I heard someone scream from afar and following that scream was a hard hit that caused me to jolt out of my sleep and doing so, all the pain that had been inflicted on me by Aurelia ma seized me as I gasped in pain. “Wh..who are you?” I tried to ask, but before I could, I was grabbed from both sides, taken out of the room as I struggled, screaming in pain. Each of their hands made contact with none other but the parts of my body where Aurelia ma had just beaten the hell out of me like she did the other days and it was eating through me. “Ma! Ma!” I screamed as they dragged me past Aurelia ma who raised her hand, causing them to stop as my legs shivered. She walked to me as she chuckled. “I am done with you, Jocelyn. I am tired of having you around, so I am sending you to where they would have better use for you.” She told me as she grabbed my hair, causing me to scream in pain as I felt my throat hurt from all the crying. “You’re going to the Golden crescent pack now…” hearing this, my heart sank into my stomach as my eyes widened in shock. “Golden crescent?” I screamed. Considering how weak I had been from all the torture and starvation, I would have never believed I would ever react that way, but hearing that of all places, she had sold me to the Golden crescent, the pack that was known to have the most ruthless, reckless and powerful Lycan Alpha of all time, I knew that she wanted nothing but to kill me. Following my scream, my right cheek was gifted with a slap from her and her ring filled hand, and the pain and shock from it resonated through all of me. She sighed, continuing like it was nothing. “….and you’re going to be working as a maid. You’ll be a slave there because Amara will be getting married at any time and I don’t want the witch in you cursing everything.” She told me and I fell to my knees immediately even though the hard floor caused me more pain. “Ma, please. I beg of you. I will be better, I won’t do anything…” I had never done anything wrong my whole life to her, but I was always punished, but it didn’t matter now. I was going to do whatever she wanted~ I always had, not like I had a choice, but whatever it took to remain here and not go to the Golden crescent pack, I was willing to do it. “Take her away.” She ordered without paying attention to any of my screams. I did my best to struggle as I was taken out of the tent that was our home, but it didn’t help. We got by the market and I screamed, hoping that for the first time ever, someone would help me, but it was all hopeless. No one would ever help me. Getting to the edge of the market, close to the stream that served as the borderline, there was a boat waiting for us. Seeing the water and recalling that my life was now bound to change forever, my legs gave way as with all the pain travelling through me, I lost control of myself, letting darkness envelop me as the last thing I recalled was hitting the ground. . Opening my eyes finally, it was to being thrown to the ground in a certain tent that had other girls of my age, if not slightly older. From the way the girls stared at me with disgust, I didn’t need anyone to tell me they had already picked my omega scent and coupled with how blood stained I was, they had every right to be disgusted by me. “This is Jocelyn, call her Lyn. She’ll be in this tent with you girls as she is the newest addition to the pack. You can treat her how you want, Madam Athena will be here soon and she’ll take care of the rest. In the meantime, get ready, the Alpha might call soon.” With that, they left. I grabbed the little sack of clothes that Aurelia ma had prepared already as tears streamed down my cheeks. Was this how I was going to end finally? As nothing but a slave in the pack of the most ruthless Alpha? I closed my eyes, muttering slowly to myself. “Selene, goddess, I know you’ve never taken time to listen to my prayers or grant me any of my heart desires, but please, in the time I will be here, please don’t let me cross paths with the Alpha. Please.” As I said my prayers, a stone was suddenly thrown at my head and I gasped as I fell backwards. “You disgust me, Omega.” One of the girls said as she spat at me. I clutched on to the bag I had with me. I could do this. I had to. Later that day, Madam Athena, a middle aged woman with blonde hair that stopped a little lower in her back, came in and she distributed chores, giving me the most work that I was bound to never finish in a day. My work included going to the kitchen, getting water from the stream, getting wood, cleaning the tent and more, but in all, I was grateful for one thing. At least none of them involved meeting their ruthless Alpha who for some reason, these girls seemed to be excited to go to. I spent the whole day, even though in pain, doing all my work even though I knew I would break down at any time and as much as I wanted to break down, I kept up. Finally, I was done with all my work and I heaved a sigh of relief as I made my way back to the tent. It was already very late at night and I was the only one in the tent alongside Erika, one of the girls, who seemed to be upset. Soon, another girl, whose name I found out to be Abigail walked in, sighing. “Don’t tell me you were rejected too, Abby?” Erika sighed as she stared at Abby who walked in, dejected. “I’ll try again. I am not going to give up. Alpha Kyros must have me. He must. How else is he supposed to mate with me?” She whined as she walked to the bed and I turned away as I crawled my knee to my chest on the cold floor. Seriously? While I was praying to never cross paths with the man, they were dying to meet him? Oh, Selene. These girls didn’t know what real problems felt like at all. While they giggled, talking, I couldn’t help but be in tears as I recalled my mother. It had been over a decade since she left me, but I still couldn’t get her out of my mind. She was everything I needed, but couldn’t have. I wished I just knew where she was, even a hint, maybe I would be less miserable. The rest were getting ready to sleep, but I wasn’t. My stomach was rumbling, my body ached from the beatings and I missed my mum who I hadn’t seen in more than fifteen years. “How do we sleep with this omega in the tent? Isn’t she cursed or something?” I heard Erika ask Abby, loud enough so I could hear and be hurt by it. They murmured about it and just then, the same man who’d brought me in here walked in and I buried my face in my legs as I shivered in fear. He had another girl on his shoulder and he placed her down, slowly. Staring at her, I realized that she was hurt, she looked flushed, drained, and tired. I could also notice some scars on her. “Gabby?” Erika and Abigail called as they rushed to her. She seemed to be wounded slightly, but not so badly, but whatever condition she was in, I felt bad for her. “Alpha Kyros… he’s… he’s rougher than you think.” She gasped and that was all she said before she fell unconscious. “Hey, Rona. Why does she get to be here?” Erika turned to me as she looked away almost immediately, disgusted. “Her scent irritates us and we can’t sleep.” He turned to me and from the way he stared at me, I didn’t need anyone to tell me what he meant by it. Without even letting me get up, he grabbed my hair as he pushed me out of the tent, to the cold of the night as I winced in pain. “You shall never go into the tent unless to go get dressed.” He told me and with the coldness of the wind kissing my cheeks, my heart sank into my stomach as my wolf, Lyra, winced in pain. He told them some things before leaving me there, outside the tent, for me to die in the hands of the night cold. ‘Lyra, fear not. We can do this.’ I told my wolf as I gasped. Life here was going to be worse than I imagined. I could feel it already.