Prologue Be Grateful
Everyone says I should be grateful and by everyone I mean my father Alpha Stephan Blake my stepmother/Aunt Luna Freda Blake and my stepsisters Jada and Ally. Grateful that I’m able to live here. In the pack that I was born into even though my mother the former Luna Marie abandon our pack. They say she was depressed and that she drowned herself in the packs swimming hole. But the mother that I remember was filled with light and love. The mother that I remembered loved me, my father and this pack more than anything in the world. She would never have left us. She would have never left me and she would’ve never left him. My mom believed that the mate bond was the most sacred thing in the world she wouldn’t break it no matter what.
But that’s the story that everyone believes and because of that my father hates me because I remind him of his mate; the one that broke his heart and left him to raise their daughter all alone. That was until my Aunt Freda decided to step in more.. like charge in and change everything. My Aunt Freda never had a mate that I knew of. My cousins Jayda and Ally were 4 and 3 years older than me and though this was my home they ran it like it was theirs. When my mother died my father was quick to take my aunt Freda as his chosen mate and for the last 10 years I’ve been pushed out of every corner of my home even my father’s heart.
While Jada and Ally got be children and play and make friends with other pack members. I was told I didn’t have time to play. I was treated worse than an omega a servant. At first my Aunt Freda told my father I was jealous of the attention my cousins were getting when I didn’t want to give Jada my room suite. He made me give Jada my room and as punishment I had to sleep in the attic. Which I didn’t mind because I had the best view of the sunset from my small window seat. Then she said I bullied my cousins and disrespected her when I didn’t want to give up my mothers jewelry and gowns. They put on real tears and told my father that they just wanted to borrow them since I didn’t have any place to where them.
My aunt Freda clung to my father and faked cried “Steph she said I’m not her mother that I don’t deserve to where such beautiful things”. My Father was so angry that I upset my cousins and aunt that he hit me for the first time that night. It was open season on me after that. My aunt told him I needed to build character that my mother had spoiled me rotten and I needed to be humbled . He agreed with her and I’ve been “building character” for the last 10 years. Most pack members remember me and my mothers kind heart. Some take pity on me ; while others side with their Alpha and Aunt Freda.
The only person who truly cared for me was Beta Luke’s wife Amy. She and my mother was best friends . She always begs Beta Luke to persuade my Father to let the pack Doctor treat me after a bad beating. Before my mother died me and their son David where best friends. Now David was just like his father and my father mean and a follower. I was all alone but that would change soon hopefully. My 18TH birthday is 3 days away on the harvest moon. I will get my wolf a life time friend and maybe even a mate.