Chapter one
It was not usual for a werewolf to get sick easily. However, this wasn't the case for Anastasia, the only reason being that she was a runt.
Being a runt wolf in the crescent moon pack is as good as being cursed. Even the omegas are said to be better off in power than runt shifters.
When she turned eighteen, she wasn't able to shift to her wolf due to her spirit being too weak. It was her age to meet her mate, but luckily for her, her mate found her.
Anastasia was a stammerer.
She's being mated to Gabriel the Alpha of the blue moon pack but his mate left for war the next day he found her without marking her yet.
"G_Greetings, A_Alpha G_Gabriel. I am A_Anastasia W_Williams. I am t_truly h_honored to w_welcome you." Anastasia said, pacing around her room and holding up the tears that had formed in her eyes already.
She was so nervous that she e didn't realize that she was biting her finger nails again until the Alpha of the crescent moon entered her room. Hearing his staff strike on the floor, she hurriedly hid her hands behind her back.
"G_Greetings F_father".
Alpha Xander sighed, feeling more disgusted. "Havn't I warned you over and over again about that disgusting habit of yours?"
"F_forgive m_me.."
"Stop talking you disabled fool"
Anastasia bent her head low upon hearing the cold tone of her father. Her hands, which were on her back, were busy picking her fingers anxiously.
Alpha Xander clicked his tongue repeatedly. He wasn't so sure if she liked his younger daughter. The fact that she stammers gets so much on his nerves that he has had her confined in her room since she turned three.
"You can embarrass me all you want, Anastasia Williams. But that ends here. Never in front of Alpha Gabriel. No way is he supposed to find out about your disability."
"It's not a d_disability f_ father.". She tried to explain softly.
"Shut the hell up and repeat the lines I asked you to practice. Is it just too much for you to keep quiet for an hour? What kind of man would agree to be mated to a stuttering she wolf?"
She looked up to her father sharply, her heart sank to her stomach which suddenly formed a knot. Her brows furrowed in doubt. She hated to see that Expression on her father's face but no matter how hard she tried, it always remained the Same.
Anastasia bit her lips from the inside wondering what to do. 'This is not not the time to be anxious Anna. It's time to do it right. ' Her wolf whispered to her.
"Did you suddenly go dump and deaf as well?" Alpha xander growled in frustration.
"Greetings, Alpha Gabriel. I am A_Anastasis W_williams, the p_princess of the C_cresent M_moon Pack. I feel truly honored to w_welc w_welc."
A heavy strike landed on her back, and she swallowed the rest of her words in pain. Her vision went white for a split second. The pain was so great that she could not scream.
Alpha Xander clicked his tongues again with his eyes hot red with fury. "I do not know why you hate your father so passionately. It's being over a week that I informed you about the return of your mate and you still can't memorize just a sentence without embarassing my name? I will not allow my first daughter to humiliate me out there. "
." If only you do not stammer. No. I mean, if only you were as good as your sister. I still regret ever calling you my daughter. If your mother were alive, I could at least have asked her about your real father, because obviously I am not. You cursed yourself and killed your mother even before she could set her eyes on you."
With this horrible words, Alpha Xander stumbled out of the room and banged the door behind him in frustration..
Anastasia shrugged and sighed silently. Her shoulder dropped in disappointment. For herself. She walked slowly towards the window and looked out at the beautiful city, which she had never been allowed to explore only because she stammered. Sometimes she wonders if stammering is a dangerous and transmittable disease that she was cursed with. If everyone in the world hates stammerers as well,
It was a custom that every female in the pack must consummate on their 22nd birthday with their mate. Meanwhile, Anastasia was turning twenty-two today.
"Happy birthday, Anastasia. Your next will be with our mate. Your pain is almost over. Just hold on a little bit; this too will pass."Her wolf comforted her. Apart from her wolf, no one's ever wished her a happy birthday since her mother passed away.
Being a runt, Anastasia was only lucky enough to get a home tutor, which her father even concluded that she did not deserve.
Anastasia told her wolf that there was no need to cry again. She has cried enough for the past twenty-one years of her life. Not anymore. She blinked her eyes repeatedly encouraging her self to stay strong and smiling back at the bright sun which was radiating on her glowing skin.
Evelyn, Anastasia's half sister, could be all that, but she wasn't as beautiful as Anastasia.
Anastasia's beauty was extraordinary—the kind that poets immortalized into legends. Her mother had been acknowledged as the most beautiful woman in the crescent moon, but she was quite possibly the most beautiful woman in the world.
Striking purple eyes , a rosebud mouth, Half of her hair was black while the other half was white but so lustrous it fell in a long satin sheet against her back.
Though her maid grumbled that she never put cosmetics on her face or wax in her hair to make it shine , no one could disagree that her beauty was radiant.
The sound of a fallen candle stand made Anastasia turn away from the window, only to notice Evelyn's hand on her open drawer.
"Uhhh... F_father sends for you," Anastasia clenched her fist painfully, not knowing if her sister was mimicking her or whether she was scared of her.
"H_haven't I W_warned Y_you to K_knock b_bef?"
"Save that spit, sister; Alpha Gabriel might end up leaving before you finish your sentence. Just dress up and be out quickly. Everyone's gathered," Evelyn said, leaving the room immediately.
She knows so well that the particular sentence could land her in a hospital bed if she got hold of her with her hot temper.
Anastasia clenched her fist tightly, trying to hold back the anger. She was quite aware that her sister was having an affair with her mate.
The countless letters he'd send across to her without even batting an eye.
However, she decided to ignore it. She decided to ignore the fact that she caught them in bed in the evening of the day. They found out that they were mated to each other.
After confessing to being her mate, he went ahead to have a steamy night with her stepmother.
Her only hope was that her mate would set her free and help her discover who she really is. Maybe he would change after the marriage.