CHAPTER TWO

‘Look at yourself Myla! You are no longer the beautiful daughter of the beloved Alpha and Luna, rather you are just another unwanted pack member that is yet to be rejected or worse, killed.’ My heart hurt like it was being stabbed a thousand times at how harsh his words were, yet I knew he was telling the truth, no one wanted me. The people I loved were all gone, I’m all alone in this world now.

‘Look at yourself Myla, look at what you’ve become.’ He shouted angrily at me.

Taking a deep breath, I sighed helplessly before opening my eyes.

To say I look horrible would be an understatement. I look far worse than horrible. My eyes were swollen and red from constant crying and I had huge eye bags under them from lack of sleep, the dark circles were large too.

My once beautiful chocolate brown hair was now the unattractive color of mud, looking a little bit down I saw that my clothes were all worn out and had blood stains on them. I lift the once royal blue shirt that had now turned a pale blue and white color from washing it too often, I gasped, horrified at the sight before me, I was all bones and no flesh. I had really let myself go.

Even my once radiant and smooth skin looked rather paled and rough. Tears brimmed in my eyes as I stared at myself in the mirror.

I was a mess!

Maybe he was right, I am no longer the beloved daughter of Alpha and Luna Halls but a pathetic Alpha female that couldn’t even stand up for herself.

I closed my eyes again, willing myself to forget what I looked like at the moment. ‘Eat up Myla.’ Derrick says after a while passing me the the bowl of soup.

I sat up and collected it from him eating it as fast as I could.

I could feel his eyes on me and I knew he wanted to say something.

Something he knew I wouldn't agree to.

‘Please stay Myla, at least until you recover.’ He held my hand in his looking me in the eyes.

‘Thank you, Derrick. I appreciate all that you have done for me but I cannot just leave my pack because of a little suffering and bullying.’ I forced him a smile before withdrawing my hands from his.

With tears in my eyes, I walked out of his house. I knew if I stayed a little longer he might actually succeed into making me reject my pack.

I could feel him staring at my back, literally boring a hole in my mind. His sadness was all over the place as I left.

I love Derrick. I really do and I would have preferred him to be my mate over Julian.

Derrick was the child of the betas of our pack, after his parent died during a rogue attack, he moved in with me and my parents.

My parent loved him like a son and so did I. Living with us meant that he would be seeing me every day, going to school together, and doing everything together.

We eventually grew into loving each other and I prayed silently in my heart every day that the moon goddess makes him my mate. When he turned 18 I was a little bit disappointed that he didn’t recognize me as his mate but that didn’t stop me from loving him, with the hope that he would be my mate by the time I got my wolf. But as time passed by I knew he was never going to be mine so I gave up on the idea of loving him. 

A little after my 18th birthday my mom got murdered by some rogue making my dad go rampage at the loss of his mate, he began to investigate the death of my mother saying that it wasn’t just a rogue attack, that she was murdered. Two years into his investigation, he got a clue and he left the pack in search of her murderer, but he never came back alive, his body was brought back to us by the council members, who claimed that he was attacked by rogues on his way. 

I was heartbroken and shattered, my life made no sense. How could a strong Alpha like my dad be killed by a rogue?

I felt devastated and lonely, everything was happening so fast. A month later a DNA test result was found in the Alpha’s room, and the DNA claimed that I was not his daughter. Everything was confusing to me. How could I not be his daughter? I’ve been living with them all my life and they treated me as their own so how come I wasn’t his daughter?

Inside the same file was another document that stated that the Luna had actually given birth to a baby boy and that the pack rightfully belonged to him.

All my life was a lie, I have been living a lie all along, and I just couldn’t believe that all of those things were happening, if I wasn’t their child then why did they treat me with so much love? Then why did they love me?

I couldn’t just accept the fact that they were not my parent. I still remember the love in their eyes anytime they looked at me. If anything else but the eye does not lie, right?

The pack members went out to search for him and even though I was heartbroken and shattered I went to the gates that day to welcome him, that was when an intoxicating scent hit me, ‘mate!’ Athena growled. It was my mate, looking around only to realize that my mate was no other than Julian. My parent’s biological son. 

The pack members confused my growl as a challenge towards their Alpha hence blocking him from my view, growling back at me.

Ready to pounce at me.