Is There Really A Mate For Me?

        It was a great day. There was a birthday for a pup who just turned 6. The whole pack threw a birthday party and everyone was having a blast. All the pups myself included were running around playing tag enjoying the mid spring weather. Parents and non parent pack members were all there. Including my parents, Alpha and Luna of the Dark Forest pack also known as the Royal pack. They were the king and queen of all werewolves but more special because of the extra gifts the Royal bloodline carries. When a royal has found their mate and fully marked and mated them their mate also becomes blessed with a gift from the bloodline. That day though everything changed.         I, Winter Amity Cresent, lost both my parents and became a slave, lower than an omega, all in minutes. As we were all enjoying the birthday party a large pack rogues snuck onto our territory without alarming anyone and attacked everyone. They caught everyone completely unguarded and without warning. As they started wrecking the party, my parents called out for me trying to find me in the large mess of violence happening all around. As my eyes landed on them I started running. I was no more than 10 feet from my father's arms when the rogues alpha took out both my parents at the exact same time. He shredded them apart. As I stood there staring at the scene unfolding in front of me, I watched as my parents body parts fell to the ground. Just as both my parents heads hit the ground, my father's beta and closest friend next to my mother, jumped on the alpha back in wolf form and ripped his whole head off.  Yup, my father's beta, beta Kaden Lorde, became Alpha King Kaden Lorde. Sounds great right? My uncle Kaden Alpha King? A man I've called uncle for all of my 8 years of life. If you thought yes sounds great, you'd be wrong.           My uncle Kaden, seconds after killing the rogues alpha, instantly shifted back to human form, grabbed my by my throat and dragged me to the dungeons. He threw me into a cell literally and locked the cell door until he could figure something out. His son and my best friend Quin Alexander Lorde, watched as his father threw me into the cell causing me to hit my head and c***k my skull. That day his eyes went from friendly and caring to cold and dark.            Now almost 10 years later, here I am 17 turning 18, senior in high school, 5'7" with a 120 lb thin frame. My black hair slightly dull from lack of proper care but still making my green eyes look very striking with my super fair skin. We have a school here inside our town of Dark Forest but even there I'm tormented. No one asks about the bruises and cuts. No one even cares. Not even the teachers. My former best friend and future alpha Quin tormented me in the classes we shared together and in the lunch room. Threw books, trash, tape, at me. Slammed me into walls lockers pushed me down the stairs. Pain. Emotional, mental, and physical pain. That's all I've ever felt since that day.           In a few days time I'll be 18, which is the age where we finally get to find our mates. We first shift at the age of 16 but I shifted at 15. Maybe I can be blessed with finding my mate soon. Like yesterday soon. My alarm goes off 4 am. I've literally been awake just laying here hoping to drift to sleep and catch some shut but nope it isnt happening now. I get up grab my favorite black Dcs,  pair of black skinny Jean's, black tank top, and my favorite black hoodie. I gotta hurry up and get ready for school make breakfast for everyone and be out the door before 6:30 when everyone else wakes up. Ya school doesnt start till 7:45 but I dont wanna be here when everyone gets up. So o jump in the shower and shower as fast as I can. I get out get dressed and brush my teeth and finish getting ready for school. When I'm finished I look at the time 5:20. Awesome i rush downstairs with my backpack set it on the counter and start making breakfast for everyone. Pancakes eggs and bacon fast easy and also can make more than enough for everyone. As I'm finishing up the rest of the pancakes and bacon, I can feel my wolf jumping around and acting all anxious so I look at the time. 6:10. Oh f**k. I rush washing the few dishes I dirtied. Look at the time again 6:22. Yup time to go. I do a quick glance making sure everything's up to par as I run out the backdoor. I cut through the backyard to the forest before I stop running and just walk. I learned 9 years ago that if i didnt want to ride the bus to walk. And if i didnt want to get tormented when walking cut through the woods.           See about 9 years ago i rode the bus 1 time and swore never again. Every kid picked on me threw stuff me and one kid even put gum in my hair. The next I went to walk to school and on the way their some kids that also walked hid behind some bushes and as I walked past they jumped out from behind the bushes. The grabbed my threw my on the ground kicked me, punched me, called me a dumb b***h. 1 kid even pulled out a knife with silver on the tip and cut my stomach. It took 6 months to heal.          As I am walking through the woods, I feel my wolf getting antsy again. Weird but whatever. I see the clearly up ahead which is the field on the back half of the school. I take a few deep breaths before leaving the safety of the forest and walk in the open field to the school. Making my way threw the field and around the school I spot one of the 2 buses meaning its 7:10. Meaning everyone's going to start showing up any second. I pick up my pace to get inside and to my locker before everyone else crowds the place. As I'm about to walk into the building it hit me, a scent. Not any scent though, it smelt of deep pine and sage. At the same exact moment my wolf broke the wall down and was screaming in my mind "MATE!!! MATE IS HERE WE MUST FIND HIM!!" "Ok ok chill Zatyra so I can find him" I tell her threw our link. I turn around to follow the scent and am stopped in my tracks. Looking at me as if he already knew, standing next his car, Mr. Future alpha himself Quin. As soon as I realized it was him I ran inside as fast as I could. I ran down the hallway all the way to my locker grabbed my books for my first classes, and ran all the way to bathroom. I hid in one of the stalls trying to gather my thoughts. Even Zatayra was scared. How could this happen? Why would the moon goddess give me one of my worse tormentors as a mate? Just as I was about to exit the stall I heard someone come into the bathroom and walk straight to the stall I was in. By the scent I knew it was Quin. "Winter come out of the stall NOW!" Quin said using his Alpha tone. I had no choice but to submit and come out of the stall. As I opened the stall door, I was punched in the face. Trying to process what had just happened, Quin grabbed my throat and slammed me up against the wall. "I, Quin Cole Lorde, Future Alpha of Dark Forest pack, reject you Winter Cresent as my mate."  I feel the mate bond breaking as I try and gasp for air. Instead of putting me down though, Quin threw me into one of the bathroom mirrors and started kicking my stomach and ribs. "You're nothing you worthless w***e!" Quin yelled. He proceeded to stomp on my hand grabbed me by my hair and slammed my face into the floor. "Better go home so no one asks any questions and dont you tell anyone about this or else." He said smugly with a killer look in his eyes. With that he walked out leaving me on the floor bloody and unbelievably sore. So much pain running thru my abdomen trying to get off the floor took a couple tries. "Winter we should just runaway" Zatyra said "But Z where would we go? We would also be classified as rogue." I said to her. She only nodded and went to the back of my mind probably  to lick her wounds. As much as she was right we didnt have anywhere to run. Gathering myself and my stuff I left the bathroom and headed home cutting through the field and heading straight into the woods.            As I walk into the pack house, I'm immediately grabbed by the arm and dragged straight through the house, out the door, and thrown onto my knees in the front yard. I keep my head down so it doesnt look like I'm being disrespectful. All of a sudden there's a strong stinging sensation in my back, and I can feel fluids of sorts start gushing from my back. I couldn't help to scream in pain. Looking out the corner of my eye I immediately see what caused it. A whip but not just any whip. This whip was laced with silver and wolfsbane. Then came another lashing then another. They kept coming for what seemed like an eternity. After the last one  I'm immediately grabbed by the back of my neck and made to face who ever was whipping me "You're not leaving this house for a week. Go get cleaned up then come to my office. Since you wanna ditch school you're gonna do everything I need done to have house ready for the Alpha gathering tomorrow night." Said Alpha Kaden. This is so unfair I thought to myself. I didnt even intentionally ditch but oh well. I made my way upstairs with my head down trying to hide my tears. I cleaned myself up, changed my clothes and went to the Alphas office and knocked. "Come inside now" I opened the door and entered. Keeping my eyes down I asked "What do you need me to do?" "You're gonna clean the house and start the preparations for tomorrow's dinner." He responded. Ugh. I wish I were dead. The Alpha meeting tomorrow is where every Alpha goes to one pack's house for dinner and to discuss everything from rogues to treaties. Great just great. Why cant I be dead?