4. Her wicked brother

As night fell, Kiara went out of her room and from the manor area on foot. She had told Aunt Pansy that she wanted to buy some food for a while. After working hours, servants were free to go out of the manor and do whatever they wanted, so Kiara didn't have to worry that she would be wanted at this time.

On the way, she passed by the little werewolf children who were playing with their parents in the park. She couldn't help but smile at the sight. It must have been so nice to spend her childhood with her parents and family, unfortunately, she never got to meet them.

She grew up in an orphanage, no one knew where her parents were and whose child she was, it wasn't until she was five years old that Kiara was adopted by the Omega family who said they were friends of Kiara's father. Her adoptive parents then said that her parents had died when she was a baby.

The girl was walking leisurely while carrying a basket filled with warm bread and various jams. From her back direction, someone grabbed her shoulder and turned her body quickly. Kiara gasped in surprise, as she looked up at the man, he had a mischievous grin on his lips.

"Where are you going, slut?" The man asked, growling.

Kiara took a step back. Her adoptive parents had a son who was three years older than her, Leon. Now he stood right in front of her.

"I want to visit my friend's house, she is sick. I'd like to bring her this food" Kiara replied softly. Not wanting to start a fight with him.

The girl was about to leave him when the man's hand blocked her path, Leon stepped right in front of her. He grinned even wider at her slightly scared expression, as he always did.

After she turned sixteen, her parents said that Kiara should be able to support herself, and it would be great if she could give them money. Her adoptive parents weren't wicked, they gave Kiara food and clothes and a place to stay even though she is not their biological child. So she couldn't argue much when her father kicked her out.

Kiara left home and worked in a bakery where she made a friend, a human girl her age named Lana. From then on she was relieved to finally be separated from her rather cruel brother.

"Leon, let me go. Why are you always bothering me?" she have no idea what he wanted from her.

"Don't you miss me, little sister? You've got your own happiness outside that you forgot about me?" Leon sounded exactly like a sulking boy.

And with the pungent smell of liquor coming from him, Kiara could easily guess what kind of place he had gone to. Leon's bright brown hair looked disheveled and he was staggering.

"You should be glad I'm out and no longer a burden to mom and dad" Kiara replied in a firm voice, but her lips tremble. 

But that's what Leon always told her. That he wished she could disappear and stop being a burden to their family.

Leon let out a loud laugh. He leaned towards her small frame "I heard you're working at Malion Manor now, am i right sweetie? You must have a lot of money now. Now sweet sister, give it all to your brother as you promised"

He started groping her body, looking for pockets. Kiara pushed his body so hard that he staggered back.

"Leon! stop it! I don't have what you asked for."

She didn't bring the money he asked for, her answer didn't make him happy at all. He looked furious because he didn't get what he wanted, the man twisted her arm until the basket of food fell. Leon pulled her to a quiet and dark corner under a tree.

"Stop it! Let go of me!" Kiara rebelled with all her strength. 

He silenced her screams with a hard slap on her right cheek that made her head turn. Her ears were ringing from the severity of the slap.

"Now you dare lie to me little slut" He hissed in her ear "have you forgotten who has been feeding and giving you a place to stay all this time?!" He grabbed the hair at the back of her head, forcing Kiara to look him in the eye.

Her lips trembled, and there was blood on the corner "it hurts, Leon" she touched her aching cheek with her palm.

Maybe if she didn't fight he would let her go soon, he never like resistance and would only beat her harder every time she resisted. That's what Kiara experienced while still living with her adoptive family.

"But I don't have the money you want right now" She replied "I'll give it to you as soon as I have it. I promise"

But Kiara was wrong, Leon had no intention of letting her go. He grabbed her hair even harder until a sob of pain escaped her lips.

"Liar, you must have it somewhere. I will check it myself. Now, take off all your clothes!"

Kiara shook her head in fear. She gripped the clothes around her chest tightly. It was so quiet here, there was no one passing by that she could ask for help.

If she screamed, perhaps someone would come. Kiara was about to open her mouth when Leon smothered her mouth tightly, making incoherent sounds that came out of her.

"You silly little girl. You think anyone will save you now?"

He bent her body, making her half-kneel. Kiara closed her eyes as she suddenly felt a sense of deja vu remembering Leon many times putting her in this kind of position. And this would be followed by something more painful.

She closed her eyes tightly, biting her tongue against the pain as the blow landed along her back. This time he used his own hands, in the past he even used wood or something that would leave bruises. Kiara felt dizziness so intense that who knows how many punches landed on the back of her head.

"Take it! Your punishment for daring to lied to me! Tak-"

He growled before his hand landed on her head again his body was forcibly pulled away. His grip on Kiara slipped, didn't have time to see who had dared to interfere because a strong punch landed on his jaw. His body was slammed into a tree trunk, and he slumped to the ground.

A tall silhouette approached Kiara's body lying on the ground. The man lifted her body in his arms.

Dave pulled her hair away from her face, seeing her cheeks reddened and the blood on the corner of her lips, the Alpha felt his anger rising. He glanced at Leon who was not moving and about to kill him.

She mumbled something that sounded like a murmur of pain, her eyes closed tightly. Dave embraced her, and quickly he brought her back to the manor.