Chapter 1
Ariel POV
I fidgeted with my fingers as I watched myself in the mirror, but staring at me was a helpless wife with no single love from her husband.
Slowly, I raised my hand and I felt disgusted at myself as my finger ran across the long scar that smeared across my skin like an identity.
“You b***h!” A voice yelled from outside, causing fear to rush through my entire system even when I hadn't seen him. I lifted my head towards the door the moment it flung open, panic grew in my heart as my husband, Alpha Lucian, barged into the room with a horrified look in his eyes.
Before I could utter a word, he grabbed me by the hair and pushed me down the floor. “How dare you drug and seduce me when you knew I would be getting married to Sally tomorrow!”
Pain surged through my body when he moved closer to me, and he gave me a hard kick to my stomach, face, and every part of my body that his legs could have contact with.
“Lucian, why are you so cruel to me? We have been married for over six months, and you have never once visited my chamber. And now, you're planning to marry another woman when you have not even consummated our wedding.”
Bitter tears streamed down my eyes as I remembered how hell of a marriage this has been since I was married to Lucian, the son of Alpha King Augustine, the most powerful Pack in the entire kingdom.
“And is that the reason why you drugged me?” He spat out, his voice filled with repulsion as he reached out to me.
“Fine, I will make sure your wish comes true.” He jerked me off the floor by the hair and threw me roughly on the bed, my head almost hitting the bedpost, but Lucian cared less about it as he came on top of me immediately.
“Lucian, please!” I cried out when he reached for my clothes, and he pulled them down, exposing my boobs for his perfect eye consumption.
I shook my head and tried to wriggle myself away from him, but alas, I was no match for him. He had me pinned right exactly where he wanted with his hands pulling down the remaining part of my dress that covered my body.
“Why are you stopping me? Didn't you want me? Is that not the reason why you drugged me?!” He yelled angrily to my face, followed by a hard smack.
Yes, I couldn't deny the fact that I drugged him so he could spend the night with me, but I didn't want him to go too hard with me just like he's doing now.
“I will give you what you want, but I don't want to see your face. It disgusts me!” He spit out with so much venom in his voice then he reached out for a piece of clothes and blindfolded my eyes with it. Covering my vision of seeing his vicious face.
“L… Lucian…this is my first time, please could you be gentle?” I pleaded with a cracked voice when my struggle became pointless.
Instead, Lucian grabbed me by the throat and even pinned me harder on the bed like I was some kind of enemy that he couldn't wait to get rid of.
“Drop the act, Ariel! You and your father set me up and forced me to marry you, and now because I'm taking a second wife with the woman I loved dearly, you're being jealous and acting all innocent. I would rather be gentle to a w***e!” He spat to my face.
Tears streamed down my eyes underneath the blindfold and once again I hated my existence, I hated myself for loving this man. Love is such a b***h!
Even though I couldn't see his face, I was sure that he was beyond angry at this moment. He pressed harder on my neck, almost breaking my spine. With tears-stained eyes, I placed a hand on his chest and tried to push him away, but it was impossible as he had his entire weight pressed on me.
“Lucian, if I can't even compete with a w***e then what am I to you?”
“You're nothing to me!” He growled with so much hatred in his voice, then he stood between my legs and slid my thighs apart, creating an entrance to my wall.
I have always waited in my room and wished for the day Lucian would come to me and make love to me, but not in a brutal way like this.
This is too much.
More tears flowed down my eyes as I felt his organ at my entrance and, without prepping me or trying to ease the tension, Lucian plugged his hardened phallus into my walls and I let out a loud scream that vibrated through the entire room as I held the bedsheets for my dear life.
He didn't wait for me to accept him properly before he moved out of me, and he plugged in deeper again, resulting in a shrinking cry that flowed out of my throat.
The pain was unbearable, I couldn't take it. It was like a razor-like object was moving in and out of me at every movement that Lucian made.
It was painful.
It was horrible.
It was brutal.
So I closed my eyes and imagined another world with Lucian, a world that can only exist in my imagination as I pictured his face with a bright smile, a caring husband who's making love with his wife, not the beastly reality of him and, surprisingly it works. It was able to reduce the pain a bit until the lasting torture was finally over.
A few minutes later, he was done, but the pain didn't subside.
“Guards!” Lucian called out the moment he came down from the bed.
I removed the blindfold from my eyes as I lay down in tears while a guard walked into the room.
“Tell the maids to prepare bathing water, I need to wash away my dirt.” He declared with so much irritation in his voice as he quickly stood up from the bed and wore back his clothes.
“Yes sir.” The guards bowed and walked out.
“Lucian, am I really nothing but dirt to you?” I cried out as I watched him make his way out of my room without giving me a second glance.
“Yes, I'm only disgusted by you and I hate you with everything.”
The door closed behind him with a loud bang as he said those horrible things to me, making my heart shatter into a thousand pieces.
Even after sleeping with me, he still sees me as nothing but dirt when this is my first time and the moment I had hoped to cherish most in my life turned out to be a bitter sad moment.
More tears dropped from my face like a closed pipe as I buried my wet face in my palms.
“It's not your fault, Lucian. I was too naive, I thought you would be different from everyone, but I never knew that you would dislike me because of the scar on my face.” More tears dropped from my eyes as I stared at my ugly face in the mirror. The long faded mark that ran across my face glared back at me and reminded me of the criticism I had faced in the pack due to this mark.
No one respected me, everyone mocked me and, worst of all, my husband hated me.
Gently, I got down from the bed and wore back the garment that my husband had stripped me of a few minutes from now.
So long I have this scar on my face which was my identity, and it's highly prohibited in the pack. I will continue to live in misery, so I think it's better to end the pain now.
With those final thoughts in mind, I went out of my room and climbed the bridge. I looked at the mansion which was standing before me for the last time and, with a shattered heart and teary face, I jumped down the bridge into the water and I let it swallow me up.
“Help! Lady Ariel is drowning!” Those were the last words I heard before darkness covered me.