Heart Of The Outcast

Chapter 2

Aria’s POV

“You” Kane growled, drawing the attention of everyone. “Of everyone, I get to have YOU as my mate. And for you to walk up to me, thinking that I would accept you” he burst out laughing and almost everyone joined.

That was something that escaped my mind. A mate could be rejected. No I couldn’t let Kane reject me, that would be too big of a blow in just one week. I looked at him pleadingly, hoping that he was joking.

“You looked almost unrecognizable though. I know you always reek and look dirty. You do look like something that could please a man” he added and I felt like burying myself. The responses to his remarks were always the same sarcastic laughter from everyone.

“You could try that” someone yelled from the crowd.

“I’m sure you would be a sweet little thing” one of the noble men tried to touch me, but I withdrew from his touch.

“Come on, don’t be shy. You are already cursed and insulted everyday so why don’t you make money while you are at it” another noble man caressed my cheeks and Kane laughed at me with the others.

I didn’t expect things to escalate this fast. Tears burned at the back of my eyes. I should have just been content with being the traitor's daughter. Now I would be viewed as a s****l toy too. I should have just remained in the woods. I should have never came out, I shouldn’t have even dreamt of being anything worthy.

Kane grabbed my left arm. I tried to release myself from his grasp but he was far stronger.

“Let me go. You are hurting me” I pleaded.

"It’s good you feel hurt because your father hurt us all when he killed Baba,” he spat on my face and from the grin that followed, I could tell he had always wanted to do that.

“You have no proof that he killed Baba. My father was like a son to Baba. He would never hurt him” his grip grew stronger on my arm and I winced in pain.

“Poison was found in Baba’s medicine and that same poison was found in your father’s possession” he spoke really close to my face and I could feel the saliva from his lips splatter little by little on my face.

“That’s still not enough proof” I shot back.

“The matter was handled and judged by the alpha, are you trying to say that the alpha does not have a good sense of judgment?” he raised his brows.

I swallowed. If I said yes, I would be hanged immediately, but if I said no, I would be calling my father a liar.

So I kept mute and didn’t utter a word. I wasn’t afraid of death, I had nothing to lose. What I was afraid of was dying as a spectacle to this pack just as my father had been.

Kane looked at me with so much hate and whispered in my ear.

“If not for the laws that protect you, everyone in this pack should have a piece of you buried in their land as a trophy. Everyone here wants you dead ” tears fell freely from my eyes.

“You are weak and nothing but a disgrace” he added and shoved me forcefully to the ground.

“I, Kane Davis, the beta of the beam pack hereby reject you, Aria Jones, as my mate” His voiced echoed over the noise.

“Why?” I asked clenching my chest as tears threatened to fall.

“You are the daughter of a traitor and you don't deserve anything good in this pack” he replied and almost everyone applauded while laughing. Those words broke whatever hope of redemption I had.

I quickly scrambled up and ran through the crowd.

Men grabbed me and I forcefully pulled my body from their grip, determined to get into the woods where I knew I would be safe from these monsters. I could hear Kane’s laughter as I pushed through the crowd.

Everyone was desperate to have a feel of my body. When I had made it out, I ran. I ran into the woods and I didn’t stop till I got tired. I found a large tree and sat underneath. After burying my head between my knees, I cried so hard and loudly till my lungs were begging me to stop.

Soon, my cries became gentle sobs and sniffs. I looked up at the moon and wondered why it hated me so much and I thought it responded because it began to rain heavily.

In no time, I was soaked. Since I had made up my mind never to return to that pack, I decided to end my life than to be killed by the biting cold. I got up and began to look for a rope.

After what seemed like thirty minutes of searching, I found one fitting. Next up was the tree. It wasn’t difficult to find the tree I had cried my misery out to. It was only fair it helped me end my misery too.

After finding a large rock I could stand on, I rolled it towards the tree. I tied the rope and created a loop that was perfect. In the next life, I would probably be a seamstress. I contemplated my options which were all miserable. I remembered my father and all the fun moments we had together.

He was always there to make me feel better. I remembered the long baths and delicious meals. My life had changed drastically after he was hanged. Perhaps, dying the same way he did would take me to the same place he was.

I always thought that we go to places depending on how we died. The most painful would go to the best places as it was only fair.

After staring at the loop one last time, I put my head through and kicked the rock away.

This was how choking felt like… life slowly slips away from you and you forget how to breathe. It’s disgraceful when people see you slowly leaving this world.

But I was alone and no one was here to witness my disgraceful act. I heard a s***h as if a sword cut through something, and soon, I fell to the ground, coughing as my lungs greedily sucked in the oxygen they had been deprived of.

A hand gripped my chin and raised my face to meet their gaze. It was undeniable, I was staring into the most beautiful onyx eyes I had ever seen.