Chapter 3
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IVORY PACK
Inside the throne room of Ivory Pack sat a man who would probably pass as the most handsome Greek god in any competition, but unfortunately, he wasn't a Greek god, rather he was….
A devil!
His piercing gaze swept towards his Beta, Kelvin, his sharp jawline and chiselled features radiating an aura of ruthless power.
“ When is the auction?” His dark eyes seemed to bore into souls as he stared at his beta, who didn't dare to meet his gaze.
“ In two days time, Alpha. The auction will begin.” Kelvin replied, his head hung low.
“ I'm anticipating to find my next prey.” His thin lips curled into a cold smile, striking fear into the hearts of those around him.
“ Has Kaine agreed to sell the land to me?” Alpha Damon asked.
“ No, he is playing hard to get.” Kelvin replied.
“ Playing hard to get, huh? Should I just invade his pack and kill everyone before he sells it to me?” He smirked darkly.
“ Permit me to say…” Kelvin was caught off.
“ If it is about stopping me, keep it to yourself.” Alpha Damon replied, rubbing the golden ring in his index finger.
“ Sorry, Alpha.” Kelvin apologized.
……..
HALLOWS HIGH PACK
Emory remained in Alpha Kaine's chambers until the pain of rejection subsided and she could walk on her own.
She dragged her feet as she made her way home, but unfortunately for her, Louisa had told her stepmother everything, and she was certainly going to get punished.
“ Where are you coming from?” Mrs Hardin who has been waiting for Emory like forever, asked.
“ I went out.” Emory managed to speak up.
“ You wanted to seduce Alpha Kaine, right?” Mrs Hardin smirked as she stood up from the sofa to confront Emory.
“ I never did any of that, I swear.” She muttered.
“ Speak up!”
“ I never did that. I found out that Alpha Kaine is my mate but he already closed Louisa over me.” Emory narrated, causing Mrs Hardin to burst into laughter.
“ Were you expecting him to accept you as his mate?” She mocked, her voice filled with sarcasm.
Tears fell off Emory's eyes.
Once again, she was being discriminated against.
“ Enough with that crocodile tears of yours, go prepare dinner for my daughter. She's hungry.”
Mrs Hardin said and returned to the sofa to continue the series she was watching earlier, while waiting for Emory.
“ Yes ma.” Emory muttered and dragged her feet towards the kitchen.
“ Where do you think you're going?” Mrs Hardin asked, glaring at Emory who turned around with confusion written on her face.
“ I'm going to prepare dinner for Louisa.” She replied, her voice weak and barely above whisper.
“ Don't you know you stink? Go get washed up before you use those bacteria-infected hands to prepare dinner for my precious daughter.”
“ Okay ma.”
“ Don't you know that her life is ten-times more precious than yours?”
Mrs Hardin added, and her words sounded like needles being pricked into her heart.
She said nothing and dragged her feet to her room under the mansion to take a bath.
Her room was nothing short of slavery.
Her bed was already worn out and the woods supporting the bed could break at any moment.
Her wardrobe was just the same with the bed.
Everything in her small room was screaming old and worn out.
Emory let out a heavy sigh before taking off her clothes and headed towards her bathroom.
Today has been a series of unfortunate events for her.
She was almost r***d today and she also found her mate but he already chose her step-sister over her.
After taking her bath, she dressed up and headed towards the kitchen to prepare dinner for Louisa.
Emory returned to her room with her own dinner as she was never allowed to sit with the family at the dining table.
She returned to her drawing which she had abandoned in the morning when her stepmother called her.
Emory was still engrossed in her drawing when she heard Louisa scream from inside her room.
She rushed out of her room towards Louisa's own, only to find her spitting out blood and her face pale as if she had no blood left inside her body.
“ Louisa!” Emory's eyes widened as she rushed towards Louisa's side to help her.
Her parents also rushed from their room after hearing their daughter's screams.
“ What happened to my baby?” Mrs Hardin shouted in horror as she rushed towards Louisa's side.
“ She…she…poisoned…my…food…” Louisa said, pointing at Emory, whose jaw dropped to the ground.
“ Did you poison her?” Mr Hardin turned his gaze towards Emory, whose tongue got lost as she had no words to say.
“ Speak up!” He yelled, causing Emory to flinch in fear.
“ I didn't poison her! I also ate the same food she ate. I swear father!”
Emory tried defending herself but Mr Hardin slapped her across her face.
“ So you did as he promised, didn't you?” Mrs Hardin gritted her teeth.
“ Huh?” Tears already blinded Emory's eyes.
“ You said you will poison Louisa at the pack house, didn't you!”
“ I did say that out of anger, but trust me Ma, I can never do such!”
Despite Emory's pleas, she was dragged out of the house by the pack’s guards sent by Alpha Kaine.
Louisa was rushed to the pack’s clinic and was responding to the treatment.
Emory was thrown into the pack’s dungeon.
She couldn't stop the tears that left her eye continuously.
“ I didn't poison Louisa.” She whimpered, her soft voice echoing in the dark dungeon filled with dried bones of humans.
The dungeon was scary, causing Emory to wrap herself in one corner.
“ You did poison my mate, didn't you? But I warned you Emory.” Came the deep and angry voice of Alpha Kaine.
“ I swear on my late mother's name, I didn't poison her. I also ate the same food she ate last night.” Emory said in a whimpering voice.
“ You will regret ever messing with my mate, “ he grabbed her chin roughly and dragged her up.
“ Please! Please!”
Emory pleaded but her pleas fell into deaf ears as she was dragged out of the dungeon by Alpha Kaine.
“ I, Alpha Kaine Zayne, banish you, Emory Hardin from my pack.” He said, his eyes filled with nothing but hatred.
Emory felt another pain grip her as the pack’s bond got severed from her.
“ Banish her! Banish her! Banish her!”
Came the loud chorus of the pack’s members as they threw different trash at Emory.
“ Sell her off at the auction, the money gotten would be given to Louisa once she healed up.”
Alpha Kaine said to his Beta before leaving for the Pack's clinic to meet Louisa.
Emory was dragged towards the border of the Pack where she was sold to a big brothel in Ivory Pack.
She didn't argue or try to fight with them.
Since the moon goddess decided to play with her fate, she, Emory, was ready to play along.
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