The Alpha’s Redemption

Chapter 4

Arya's POV

"Welcome home, baby," Reece said, grinning maliciously.

"Looking to escape your punishment, huh? You think I will forget it?" He asked me.

I was too speechless to reply. I could not believe I was this stupid. Of course, there was no way he could have let me escape that easily.

I should have planned better.

"Think again, baby. You're my fun toy now. What's to keep away the boredom if I let you escape?"

He was carrying me into the house. Surprisingly, he wasn't with his beta or any guards. He had come to stop me alone.

He must be really confident. But then, why shouldn't he? Apart from the fact that he was an alpha and had more strength than most in his pack, I had not even awakened my wolf yet.

So, fighting him will surely result in an easy victory for him.

"If I had known that this was all it took to receive a free trip in your arms, I would have tried escaping long ago." I spoke in a combative tone.

He dropped me like a hot coal.

Before he could discover my trick, I bolted away. Too bad I had no claws yet, or I would have ripped out his eyes first.

I ran like my life depended on it. Because, well, it probably did. The ten years I have spent without any murder attempted on me have not quite managed to keep my mind at rest that perhaps, they just wanted only my parents to die.

Unfortunately, Reece was an alpha. He was far stronger than I was. He was also way faster.

Before I had made any real headway, he caught up with me. He grabbed me by the waist and pulled me hard against himself.

He glared into my eyes.

"I see now that I've been treating you too leniently lately. That's why you're becoming bold once again. It's time to break you once and for all."

I shuddered when I heard that.

Alpha Harry also always talked about breaking me. And what followed next was always not pleasant.

It turned out that I had reason to be afraid.

Minutes later, I was tied to my own bedpost. I was only in my bra and tights. My clothes lay at my feet.

I was shivering.

It's been a while since I was punished this way. But I could still remember the pain. And the humiliation.

Just as I was wondering whether Reece intended to leave me that way for the rest of the night, my door opened and he came in.

He was wielding a whip.

He had a sadistic-looking smile on his face.

"You know, I really miss this sport." He waved the whip through the air and talked to me.

My throat tightened as my heart jumped into it. My stomach plummeted into a hole I didn't even exist in.

It was fear. No point in pretending otherwise.

I was afraid like the little girl receiving her first punishment ever from Harry Kane had been.

The whip landed on my back with a resounding crack. The pain shot up my spine right into my brain.

Before I could stop myself, I let out a loud scream. Reece laughed.

"You know, I used to think you're so strong. Maya certainly gave you that opinion of herself. And you want to know why?"

My breathing was heavy as I struggled to keep myself from screaming again. The pain was still going in waves throughout my body.

The whip landed on my bare back again. I screamed once more.

"I asked you a question!" Reece growled.

"W..why?" I stammered out.

"Because a wimp next to Maya appears stronger than she is. You are a wimp Arya, do you agree?"

I nodded. There was nothing I could do otherwise.

"Good. Now, scream like a wimp." Reece commanded.

I looked at him questioningly, my eyes pleading.

"You need help?" He asked. Before I could reply, he has whipped me again.

This time, I screamed so loud I must have woken the whole house.

I continued screaming, even seconds after the whip landed on my back. It seemed the pains of the last one would never end.

It continued stinging me, even seconds later. Reece was looking at me. His eyes had a peculiar shine about them. Light I have seen in his father's eyes in similar situations.

It was lust.

Harry Kane had once admitted to me that watching me screaming makes him want to f**k me.

And he actually acted on it once. I felt so humiliated. He had flogged me till I screamed myself hoarse and the bulge in his shorts looked like it might burst through the fabric.

Then he has turned my face up, retied me, and took me right on my bed. I had been only fifteen then.

I shuddered to think I would go through the torture again now.

But Reece seemed to control himself.

"Not now, baby. After the inauguration."

He untied me and let me fall on the bed. He looked at his wristwatch.

"It's nearly morning." He told me. "Prepare for the ceremony. I'm hosting the coming of age ceremony together with my inauguration, and you're among those who will come of age today."

He turned to face me as he approached the door. There was that malicious grin on his face again.

"Happy birthday, by the way. Nice way to start your birthday, don't you think?"

Then he was gone.

I relaxed on my bed, and let the tears flow. I felt so humiliated. So dehumanized. The anger was blocking my chest such that I couldn't breathe well.

Who has ever heard of someone being punished for wanting her freedom?

I slept off, still cursing the Halfmoon pack in my mind.

I woke up to knock on my door. A maid opened the door. She was carrying what looked like a pile of dresses.

"The alpha said you should wear these to the ceremony." She told me. “He said nobody would look bad at his Ceremony, so don't even think about refusing it.”

I was about to turn away from the clothes. But I didn't want to put the poor maid in trouble. So I accepted them. But I had made up my mind not to wear them.

The only reason I was going to the ceremony was to get my wolf awakened.

Everyone who had not yet awakened their wolf before the coming of age ceremony usually did so in the ceremony because of a special incense that would be lighted there.

All those who have come of age would usually be put in a room, separate from where other people are. Then the alpha would light the incense. The scent would provoke the wolves of everyone whose wolf had not awakened yet.

So I wanted to go because my wolf would give me more chance of survival, or even escaping.

Assuming I had my wolf last night, Reece would not have caught me as easily as he did.

As it turned out, I just sealed my fate by going to the ceremony.

The instant Reece lighted the incense, my wolf came awake.

And what was the first thing the cursed thing would do if not identify its ma…

Who happened to be in the same room.

Who happened to be Reece.