Taming Her Alpha Mate

Everything changes

Prologue:

Anabella Mera Caulder was an orphan that was found on the outskirts of the Red Dawn pack border. She was only a baby not more than 3 months old. She was taken in and raised by the Alpha family of the pack, not as an equal, but as an Omega worker. They didn't treat her badly; not that she could recall anyway. She was happy for the most part enjoying her life to the fullest. Ana was now 16 years old and beautiful, she had dark chocolate brown eyes. Her raven Black hair and her naturally sun tanned skin shone brightly in the evening sun, none could compare to her beauty; but one pack member was completely consumed by it, Darien Green the next Alpha and the son of those who took her in. Darien would be 18 in just a few hours and able to sense his mate. The whole pack thought that since Darien and Ana were close friends and because of his protective nature towards her she would in fact be his mate.

The Alpha and Luna threw the biggest party the pack has seen thus far for their son, as this was one of the most important milestones of his life, finding his mate. Darien was standing center stage when the hour of his birth came Lyle his wolf started chanting mate, mate, mate "Darien mate is here." Lyle told him. Darien immediately started looking around for Ana, only when their eyes locked... Nothing... This pissed him off because he and his wolf were already in love with her. He never told her that though, that was his secret. Looking around for the mate `that was meant to be his, his eyes locked on bright green eyes that belonged to Cheyenne Rose Bailey..... the pack slut and rank w***e. She had slept with every high ranking wolf in this pack including himself. Raging mad he turned and walked out of the pack house, shifted and ran.... NO, he thought, Ana...was... his, but Cheyenne was his Mate. He would not claim this bond. Ana was his and Lyle agreed.....

Chapter 1: Everything changes

Two years later

Flashback

Everything has changed since the night of Darien's 18th birthday party. After he left the party people were talking in whispered tones. Most were shocked that Darien and Ana were not mated after all. He came back from running well after midnight going straight to Ana's room. He asked her to take him as a chosen mate. " I will reject her Ana. We can be happy just as we were meant to be. You were meant to be mine. The Moon Goddess has made a mistake." He had told her, tears in his eyes. This shocked her. She had not known that Darien even felt that way about her. That he wanted to be mated to her. Sighing she carefully took his hands in hers. "Darien, the Goddess makes no mistakes, that means that my mate is out there somewhere too. Cheyenne is a good person and will make you a fine Luna. We were never meant to be more than we are now, the best of friends. I love you, you know that, but not more than a friend, a brother, you know? I want to find my own fated mate. Everyone deserves to find the one meant for them." Ana said as compassionately as she could.

After her confession about her mate. Darien only then realized, being he had another as a mate, then she did too. No, this he could not allow. So, he told her that he understood, then he left the room. ( End Flashback )

Ana couldn't begin to understand how her life has changed since that horrid night. She was now cold and locked in the attic room of the pack house which had been sound proofed, that way no one could hear her cries for help. She kept reliving that night in her head trying to understand what she had done that was so bad, that she was treated in such a way. She cut her skin to drag her mind back to reality before she could dwell on it any longer.

" It hurts more than it use to." She told Aaliyah her wolf.

" It is because we are still in pain and injured from Darien's last visit with us. We can't heal like we should Ana. The lack of nourishment to our body is keeping me weaker than I should be. Healing is taking longer than even a human should." Aaliyah explained.

It was just so hard for her to believe that the person responsible for her current circumstances, and torment was the one person she had shared all her secrets with (well almost all of her secrets, there was one she had told to no one) and told her dreams to. The one person that she thought would always be there for her when she needed a friend. When she didn't shift at 13, Darian told her that it was ok, not everyone had a wolf inside them. It was possible that she was just human, being that no one knew where she came from originally. Reminding her she was found outside of their borders. No one mistreated her though, despite her handicap. They all loved her and treated her well. The night of Dariens' party, after he came to her room, he returned a few hours later dragging her from her bed putting her in the attic, and locking the door. He told the pack the next day that she too had found her mate and run away with him. Her mate was Damien West and they had run away together. She has been trying to find a way to escape since Darian told her he'd told the pack and her friends that she had run away with her own mate. Ana had in that moment understood that no one but him would ever see her again, or hear her screams. Not being able to understand how her best friend had changed for the worst she had cried all night that first night, and many nights after. She just could not for the life of her believe that her best friend was inside the monster that had broken and tormented her almost every day for the last two years.

The jingling sounds coming from outside the door made her mind take action; becoming fully alert, she cowarded on the pallet that served as her bed now completely in the present. Because; only one person comes to see her, Darien had returned.

He entered the room looking around as he did, noticing the fresh scratches on the walls and door. Darien knew this was her pointless attempts to escape him, which made him angry. Striding across the floor to her bed he grabbed her by the hair. Snatching hard, pulling her up from the floor to face him.

Ana stifled a sob, her body trembling with fear.

"Please don't Darien." She begged.

" You are mine, understand that? Get it into your head. You will not escape me ever." He snarled at her, he was clearly maniacal.

"You have a mate Darien its not to late, please stop this. Cheyenne is a wonderful girl. You just need to get to know her. You will love her if you allow your bond to fully form. You just have to try. Darien listen to me please." She pleads.

" What did I tell you? You are mine, not that b***h. Never that w***e. You, Ana, you are mine. You are my perfect little Mate. I only hope that one day you will see that I am yours too." Darien said.

" NO!!" Ana shouted tears running down her cheeks.

Darien growled at her punching her in the face. Ana would have fallen if not for his hold on her hair. She spit the blood from her cut lip out of her mouth. His fist so large against her face that he had split her lip and bruised her cheek at once. She was definitely going to have a new bruise she thought. After seeing he had caused her to bleed once more, he let go of her hair. Ana falling to the floor in a heep winced at the pain. Due to her lack of food, it would take a few days instead of few hours to get rid of that bruise, this she knew.

Darien stood over her looking down at her. Even in this state she was still beautiful. Darien grinned ruefully, why couldn't she lose her beauty, and good heart. No matter what he did to her, she was still the brightest thing in the room. Oh well, it didn't matter anymore he had her locked up so tight no one knew she even existed. Those who knew she did exist were either dead or in this pack and they all thought she had run away long ago. Every smile and every tear Ana put on her lovely face was from that point on only for him. He smiled a little at the thought. Her face was soaked in tears and blood as she begged him to let her go. It did hurt him everyday to know he caused those tears, and the blood that now dripped from her mouth. The knowledge that she still wanted to one day find her mate pissed him the f**k off. The asshole, whom ever he was, would have all of the smiles, and laughter, HE, would have.... everything he, himself loved about her, that HE would have everything that once was only his angered him beyond his need for control. He grabbed her face harshly. A face that was no more than skin and bones due to his own personal torture of her. Thinking that if he starved her enough, beat her enough, broken her just enough, then she would no longer be beautiful. If she was an ugly sack of bones, any mate she might have once she found him, would simply not want her, but no, she was still the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. There was just no f*****g way that he could ever allow this woman to be gone from his life. NO, absolutely not. She was his. Nobody else's. Looking down, his beauty was begging at his feet to have pity for his once friend and release her.

"Darien please let me go. We use to be best friends. What happened to you. Please let me go." Ana begged over and over at his feet. Though Ana was begging him and using his name in a familiar way, she never raised her eyes to meet his own. She was always looking at the floor. Oh, how he did wish she would look at him. Look into his eyes and talk to him as though he was the lucky bastard that would be her mate, but she never did, not even when he told her to. Why couldn't she see that he loved her?

With so much disgust and anger in his voice he replied " you are staying in this room Ana. You will stay until you f*****g die. Do you hear me? No one else will have you, not ever. Stop asking me to let you go b***h. It... will... never... happen." Darien told her gritting his teeth, spacing the last four words hoping to get his point across.

"NO! Please don't do this to me, just let me out. You don't have to do this anymore. We can go back to being what we were. I will tell people that I could not love my mate, that he was cruel, so I came back home. No one will know of this. I swear." Ana looked up, though not in his eyes, never that. Pleading with him.

Anger washed through him. Why must she always beg for him to let her go. She still wanted to leave him, still wanted to find that bastard. The thought pissing him off even more. He drew back his hand slapping her so hard her face hit the floor. She screamed in pain, louder than she had meant to as her face hit, feeling the bone in her cheek crack. Her cries broke his heart, they really did. He wanted nothing more in that moment than to go to her, hold and soothe her. Why must she make him treat her in such ways? He wanted their time together to be more like a couples time should be. Not him forcing his time on her, not spent with her begging for him to allow her to be set free. He just didn't want it to be this way. He really and truly loved her. He just had no choice in the matter. He could see no other way to keep her with him. Locked in here, she would never meet the bastard destiny had chosen to take her away from him. The Moon Goddess was a cruel b***h, he thought.

"You will stay here in this room. Ana , you will stay with ME, for as long as I want it to be this way." Darien glared at her as he said this. He truly looked evil now. "As punishment for making me hit you again, you may not have anything to eat for another week." With that said he turned on his heel, and walked away. Locking the door behind him.

Ana, now left alone in her prison (A.K.A attic room ) lay crying and praying for her mate to come. He would come and take her out of this hell she now called her life.

" Mate will come." She whispered to herself and her wolf. Ana closed her eyes, with that as her last thought before she fell asleep.