Fated to the White Wolf: Book 1 The Lotus Pack series

Chapter 5

***Ivy’s POV***

It has been 7 years since my family was slaughtered. 7 years of living and working in this hell whole. I have gotten used to all the physical and verbal abuse from the Pack members. It made me grow a thicker skin. I keep to myself, trying to get though my duties without any trouble, but sometimes that is a bit hard when the Alphas daughter is a spoiled brat and gets away with everything. I try my best to stay out of her way, but it’s an impossible task when I have to clean her room and do her washing every day. It's 4am and the Packhouse is still asleep. I prefer it that way, it’s nice and quiet, I get a little peace before everyone wakes up and wants something from me. I get up and have a quick shower before making my way up the stairs to start breakfast. The first week I was brought here I had know idea how to cook anything making me late getting breakfast on the table, it also didn’t help that I had sliced my hand open on a carving knife trying to cut up bread slices. Rachelle, an Omega saw what had happened and run into the kitchen to try to help me stop the bleeding, the pain going through my arm was so unbearable that I cried out, I tried my hardest to stop the tears from rolling down my face so that the Alpha wouldn’t noticed, but it didn’t help. Alpha Jack walked into the kitchen at the sounds of my cries and was pissed. He grabbed me by my hair and dragged me out of the Packhouse. He tied me to a post and told all the omegas that worked in the Packhouse to come outside and watch.

“This is what happens when you disobey me. I told you that breakfast had to be on the table by 6:30am, it is now 7am and there is still no food.” He whipped me 5 times on the back and 5 times on each leg. Once he was finished, he walked back into the Pack house grumbling, leaving me tied to the post. Thankfully an hour later Rachelle ran out to untie me and helped me down to my room. She dressed the wounds on my back and legs, I asked her why she was helping me. She smiled and said that everyone needs a little help sometimes, I looked up at her and saw sadness in her eyes. I grabbed hold of hand to comfort her and to thank her for the help she had given me. We talked for a while about her life in the Packhouse and when I asked why she had to live here she told me what had happened. Her parents had died in a car accident 10 years ago on their way out of the Pack lands for their anniversary, she was only 8 when it happened. Alpha Jack came to her house and told the sitter that was looking after her that her parents were died and that she would have to live with him in the Packhouse because she had no family left, but that was a lie, she had grandparents that lived in another Pack, but Alpha Jack would not allow them to take her. He said that it would be best if she stayed here and grew up where her family had lived. While Alpha Jack was packing up her things, she jumped out the back window and tried to run away to her grandparents Pack, Beta Luca caught up to her, she was whipped and made a slave for trying to escape. I asked her why her grandparents didn’t try to come and get her. Rachelle just shrugged her shoulders and continued to patch me up. When she had finished patching my legs, I tried to get up but she put her hand on my shoulders and told me to rest so I wouldn’t rip the wounds more, she said that she would start cleaning the rooms and I could do the rest later while she went to work. Ever since then we have been inseparable. Rachelle is like my older sister. She would do anything to protect me, and I would do the same for her. When we were in the Packhouse together neither of us would be alone, we would always make sure we were together so that nothing would happen to us. I shudder at the memory but also smile for the friend that I had made. Once I get to the kitchen I start to get out all the food that I want to use from the fridge and start cooking. An hour later Rachelle comes in and starts preparing the bread dough. Once I have finished cooking the sausages, hash browns, eggs and bacon I put them in the oven to keep them warm. I walk over to Rachelle and tap her on her shoulder. I whisper to her, so I don’t wake up the Packhouse.

”You should go and get ready for work otherwise you will be late.” I tell her. She looks up at me and smiles.

“Are you sure? I can stay back and help a little bit longer.” Rachelle smiles at me.

“Yes I am sure. I don’t want you to be late and get in trouble again.” I say back to her with a grimace. Rachelle smiles and looks down at her hands that are covered in dough. The last time Rachelle was late for work she missed out on a week’s wage and Alpha Jack locked her in her room without food. She wouldn’t tell me what had happen while she was locked in her room, but I have a pretty good idea about it. The men in this Packhouse were known for sneaking into the omegas courters without permission. I sighed and put my hand on top of hers.

“What’s up butter cup?” She chuckled and looked up at me taking a deep breath.

“Alpha Nick from the Blood Moon Pack is coming to speak to me today and I am a little nervous. Apparently one of my students from his Pack wants to start a summer reading list and he wants to know which books would best suit the student.” She said. Rachelle was a part time teacher at the middle school. She teaches English for the first half of the morning then a cooking class just before lunch. All the Packs in the area go to the same middle and high schools. I would’ve be going there as well, but I was made a slave and we don’t get that luxury, Rachelle teaches me some things as we clean and cook, it has helped me a lot and I loved her for it.

“You will be fine, Alpha Nick is not like Alpha Jack you know this. Just breath and if something happens come and fine me, we will figure something out. Ok!” I smiled at her. Rachelle gives me a hug and nods her head.

“love you b***h, have a great day.” I say as she starts to leave the kitchen, she laughs at me.

“I love you to whore.” I chuckle at her and turn back to the dough, I cut the dough into little rolls and put them into the oven then I start on the spreads. Once everything is cooked, I place it in the middle of the dining room table in a buffet style. As I walk back into the kitchen I start to hear some of the Pack members walking down the stairs. I close the door to the dinning room and start to clean all the pots and pans I had used. Once that is done, I quickly eat the bread roll I had made for myself and head back to the basement to start the washing while everyone eats there food. As I am halfway down the stairs, I hear a growl and turn around. Brittney storms into the basement and slaps me across the face.

"You b***h! Keep your slimy disgusting hands off my boyfriend.” She screamed in my ear and slapped me across the face again.

"What the f**k are you talking about Brittney. I haven’t gone near him.” I say back to her holding my face.

”You are sleeping with my boyfriend you back stabbing b***h, he told me that was the reason he couldn’t see me last night.” She growls and I look at her in disbelief. She turns her head to look behind her, I saw movement by the door and moved to the side a little so I could see who she was watching, I suck in a breath as I see Gamma John storming away from us. I looked back at Brittney with a raised eyebrow think that she has lost her mind. She turns back to face me and i quickly show no expression on my face.

“What do you have to say for yourself b***h?” She asks and I just shake my head.

”I have no idea what the f**k you’re going on about. Why would your boyfriend be anywhere near me?” I ask her confused as to what was going on. Brittney's face turned red with anger. She stepped forward and shoved me down the last few steps. I landed hard on my side and hiss in pain. I look back up at her hoping she didn’t hear my cry of pain, but she had a worried look on her face and her arms were held out like she was tying to catch me. I thought I saw a tear run down her face, but I must have been seeing things. She turned around and started storming back up the stairs. As she got to the door she stopped and turned back around.

“Stay the f**k away from my boyfriend bitch.” She says as she slams the door shut behind her. I hear the lock slide into place making me jump up to check the door. I couldn’t open it, she had locked me in. I start to panic, if I don’t finish my duties I was going to be in so much trouble. I prayed that Rachelle would be home from work soon, then she could unlock the door. I looked out my tiny window and prayed to the Moon Goddess wishing that she would granted me just this one request. I walk back down the stairs and got a cloth from the washing pile. I walk over to the bathroom and turn the cold tap on. I put the cloth under the water to soak it. I rinsed the water out and placed the damp cold cloth on my side, I hissed as I pressed the cloth into my side trying to breathe through the pain. I could already feel a bruise forming their. Once the pain lessened, I placed the cloth back down on the sink and walked over to finish the washing. When I finished the last pile, I looked out my window and noticed it starting to get dark. I started to panic, I didn’t realize that it had gotten so late and Rachelle wasn’t back yet. I really hopped she was ok. I ran up the stairs and started banging on the door hoping someone would open it. I heard the lock slide and stepped down the first 2 steps. The door opened and I came face to face with Brittney's stupid boyfriend. I roll my eyes and tried to move past him, but he stopped me.

“How did you get stuck in here?” He asks with a stupid smile on his face.

”None of your damn business Taylor. Move!” I say, pushing him out of the way and running towards the kitchen. As I get there, Alpha Jack, Luna Mary and Brittney are standing around the bench scowling at me.

”Your late Ivy, Dinner was supposed to be ready 15 minutes ago.” Alpha Jack grumbled. He seemed angrier than usual.

“I’m sorry Alpha, someone locked me in the basement and I couldn’t get out.” I try to defend myself. I snick a glance at Brittney and see that she has a terrified look on her face.

“Baby, I told you to get rid of this b***h when she first got here. She has been nothing but trouble.” Luna Mary grumbled as she steps around me and starts to walk out of the kitchen. I am so sick of this.

“Go ahead and get rid of me then, lets see how you cope without me cooking and cleaning for you. You would be doing me a favor by burning down this shirt whole.” I snap back at her. I see the shock on her face and she glances behind me, I see her eyes change from shock to worry to anger all within a second.

“You little b***h!” She steps forward and slaps me across the face. Her slaps don’t hurt anymore as I get them from Brittney frequently. I look Luna Mary straight in the face and smile at her.

”Is that the best you can do?” I question her. She makes a fist and punches me in the face knocking me to the ground. She starts kicking me in the side that I fell on earlier, then starts kicking me in the back of my head. I start to see stars and I try my hardest not to pass out.

“Enough!” Alpha Jack shouts, making Luna Mary jump back and Brittney run over to her to get away from her father.

“Get out of my sight both of you. Ivy, I expect dinner to be ready in 30 minutes, you will also be missing out on food as dinner was not ready on time. Now get a move on or you will miss out on breakfast as well.” Alpha Jack uses his Alpha command on me, the command doesn't work like it does on Rachelle, but I would never let him know that. I got up off the ground slowly and started cooking dinner. It took me an hour to get the food out on table because every time I would turn around, I would get dizzy and almost fall to the floor, I'm pretty sure Mary broke a few ribs and gave me a concision. Usually Rachelle would be helping me with dinner, but she wasn’t here and I was starting to get really worried. Alpha Jack was not happy with me and sent me to my room promising me that I would not be eating breakfast tomorrow. My head and side hurt like crazy, I made my way slowly back to my room wincing in pain with every few step. When I got to the door of my room I looked down at the stairs. This was going to hurt a lot, I took in a deep breath and started walking down, it was so painful that I almost passed out. When I got to the bottom I collapsed on the floor trying to catch my breath. I heard a small creak behind me and turned my head to see what it was but nothing was there. I whimpered and used the handrail of the stairs to help me stand. I walked into my bathroom and turned the shower on. I slowly took off my top and saw that my side was purple and blue from Brittney pushing me down the stairs earlier and from the Luna Mary kicking the s**t out of me, looked at myself in the mirror and saw that I had a bruise and a cut above my right eye, it looked like she split the skin. I had a hot shower and got into some clean clothes. I placed a band aid above my eye to stop it from bleeding and walked out of the bathroom. As I made my way over to my cot I noticed small tin on the bottom step. I looked around the room expecting someone to be here but again there was no one. I slowly walked over to the bottom step and picked up the tin inspection it. It was like the one that was left the first week i had been here, I opened the lid and saw a note.

I’m sorry for what happened today. I turned the note over trying to figure out who had written it but just like last time I couldn’t figure it out. I put the note to the side and saw that there was a sandwich, pain killers and some cookies. I was shocked. My stomach grumbled at the smell of the food, I sighed. I made my way back over to my cot. I took some of the pain killers and ate the sandwich. The pain killers started to kick in and I started to feel sleepy. I laid down and looked out of the window. Rachelle where ever you are I hope you are safe. It didn’t take me long to fall asleep my eye were so heavy, today was not a good day.

***Dream***

I was running around in the back yard with my brother and our friends. We were playing tag, Max was chasing after me trying o tag me. I was having so much fun and laughing so hard I had tear in my eyes. I looked over my shoulder and saw the boys laughing at us both as I ran away from my brother. Max had almost caught me when I changed direction and started running towards the boy. I looked over my shoulder again to see how closer Max was from tagging me when I tripped over a stick and started to fall, I shot out my arms to stop myself from face planting. As I hit the ground I heard a crack and a siring pain shot up my arm. I begin screaming from the pain and held my arm to my chest. Max had seen what had happened and had tried to catch me but was to late, he knelt down beside me and tried to help me up, but I didn’t want him to touch me. The other boys came running over.

“Ivy are you okey?” One of them asked as they got closer. I shook my head unable to speck from the pain.

“Can I have a look at your arm?” He asked and I shook my head again. He reached out and grabbed hold of my uninjured hand. I looked up into his bright green eyes in shock. I felt tingles shoot up my hand and across to my injured arm. I couldn’t feel the pain any longer. I held out my sore arm to him and saw the it was bent to wrong way. I started to panic again and tears started streaming down my face.

“Go get your mum.” He commanded. Max looked a little green as he saw my arm.

“Max now!” the boy shouted making Max jump, he nodded and ran inside to get her, the other boy that was with us kneeled down and stroked my face wiping away my tears. I looked back at the boy holding my hand and he smiled at me.

“You will be ok Ivy, everything will be ok, I’m here. I will always be here for you.” The boy leaned down and put his forehead on mine.. I felt safe and warm by his side. We heard running and he moved away from me, I turned to see Max running back out to us.

“Max what happened?” I head mum say in a worried voice. I hear her gasp then start running out to us, when she saw me sitting by the tree holding out my arm, she picked up her pace. The boy let go of my hand and moved out of the way. As soon as he let go on my hand I felt lost without him. I pulled my arm back to my chest and started crying again as the pain exploded.

“Mummy, I fell on my arm funny, now it really hurts.” I cried to her.

“Shhh, it’s okey little bug, I will fix it okey.” she wiped my tears away and placed her hand on my arm. I whimpered at her touch and tried to push her hand away, but Max took hold of it.

“It’s okey Ivy, mummy will fix it.” He said smiling at me, I nodded my head and looked back at mum. Her eyes begin to glow then I felt warmth feeling spread though my arm. She’d used her powers to heal me. She moved her hand away and smiled down at me. I sighed in relief and climbed onto her lap giving her a cuddle.

“There all better now little bug.” She smiled down at me and place a kiss on my forehead, she looked over at the boys and stood up putting me back down on the ground.

“Ivy, you need to be more careful where you are running.”

“I’m sorry mummy.”

“It’s okey. I need you all to promise me that you will not tell anyone that I have powers ok, it’s our little secret.” She said and we all nodded our heads. The boy that held my hand grab hold of me and chuckled. My heart did a little flutter and I felt tingles ran though my arms and legs, I didn’t want him to let me go. The boy smiled at me then tapped me on the shoulder.

“I will make sure that Ivy never gets hurt again Aunty Lily, but for now Ivy you are it.” He chuckled and let me go running away from me. I stood there in shock and looked down at my hands. I looked over at mum and she smiled at me.

“He will always protect you Ivy, never forget that touch. I love you my little bug. Remember him Ivy.” Her voice sounded like a whisper in the wind. Her voice was the last thing I heard when the blackness over took me.

***End of Dream***

I missed that touch. I don’t remember who that boy was but I had been dreaming about him since I was little. I told mum about the dreams and she had said it was just my brain trying to image a wonderful boy coming to rescue me, but I knew it wasn’t just my imagination. That boy was real, and I needed to find him once I got out of this stupid Pack. Correction if I ever got out of stupid Pack. I could hear someone calling my name and I thought I was dreaming still. I began to slowly open my eyes and I could feel a hand on my shoulder shaking me awake.