It was the third day of my first year in college, also the third day after my 18th birthday, when I found my mate and when everything started falling down.
Me and my wolf Stella, were both so nervous when i stepped out of the car in our pack territory, trying to smell my mate's scent. I just arrived back to the pack from college, hoping to find my mate right away. I sniffed the air, shivers went down my spine, when a smell of wood and cinnamon hit my nose. I stood for a few minutes, just sniffing the ravishing scent of my mate. Slowly I started walking, folowing the scent to the pack house.
I stopped few meters away from the door. Trying to figure out what to do now. My nervous mind was blank, my wolf howling to be let out. I was shocked when I heard heavy stomps really close to the door. Before I could do anything the door flew open and I looked up to see the most beautiful pair of dark blue eyes, full of lust, love and something that I couln't recognise.
"Mate."
Husky voice came out of the god before me and pair of strong arms apeared on my waist, my stomach full of butterflies just from this contact of our bodies. Yanking me into his torso, I cried in happines.
"Mate."
My voice came out as a whisper, making him shiver and growl in approvement. I looked up to meet the dark blue gaze of my mate, slightly frowning when I finally recognized his familiar face.
"Alpha Michael?"
I almost fainted when he groaned, tensing up after hearing me say his name. His eyes were dark, almost black, leaving me missing his blue eyes, that made my knees weak. He cupped my face in his strong, musculiar arm.
"Call me Michael, my beautiful mate."
"Michael."
I whispered, his eyes black as night, as he bowed and kissed me. My heart started pounding on my chest, my knees weak as a jelly. I felt Stella howling inside me, trying to get out and mate with him. It was hard to not let her do that.
Michael pulled away from me and smiled, I on the other hand was blushing, red as a tomato.
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The rest of the day, we spent together, getting to know each other more. I felt so special when he carried me in his arms, kissing my cheak, whispering sweet words to my ear. It all dissapeard a week later, when everything fell down, without me knowing why.
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"Sweetheart you look good, don't worry, he would think you look beautiful even if you would wore some bag."
I laughed when my dads tired voice came from behind me, when I started to question my fashion choices. I was wearing a blue knee-lenght dress, that had white dots on the skirt and a white pair of simple heels.
I wasn't even suprised what my father said, after all this was probably the fifteenth dress I was trying on. We were supposed to go on a diner with Michael and his parents, so he could tell them about me, and plan about my nomination as a Luna. I was so scared that his parents wouldn't like me, so I spent almost the whole day trying to find the perfect dress and shoes. My dark brown wavy hair was in a high ponytail with a little staple that i got from my dad when I was five.
The staple was white with a little heart and my initials. I loved it, and wore it almost every time since I got it. Even after those thirteen years it looked the same. I once even thought there was some spell on it, because it once fell out of my hair on the ground, when I was on a roller coaster and there wasn't even a scratch on it. I looked once again in the mirror and smiled at myself, trying to calm my breath I turned to my dad. His eyes were full of tears, but his face holded a proud smile. I giggled and hugged him. His warm body was pressed to mine in a calming gesture.
After another fifteen minutes a knock came on the door and my nerves calmed down. His smell hit my nose and I sniffed the air. Every time I smelled his scent, my mind went blank and the butterflies in my stomach started flying again. I smiled when the door opened and his handsome face came into my view. His eyes found mine and I froze, something was different, there was no love, no admiration like I was used to. I tried to hide my concern, but I knew he saw it in my eyes.
He came to me and kissed my cheek, I almost whimpered as his kiss was too short for my liking. His lips were cold and I could't shake the uneasy feeling in my heart. Micheal excused us from the house and took my hand into his. I tried to enjoy the moment, but once we were outside of the house he took his hand out of the hold. I didn't know what has got to him, but i didn't wanted to destroy this night with my annoying questions.
I knew he had a temper, and to be honest he really scared me when he got angry, but that was before I found out he was my mate, now I wasn't afraid of him anymore, I knew that he would never hurt me. I trusted him, but his cold stance made me really anxious. We made our way towards the car and as we sat in our seats he started the engine and rode us to the reastaurant. The whole ride was quiet. I knew it was not wise to question him at this state, but I had to knew if there was a way for me to help him calm down.
"Michael, I....is everything alright? You seem really weird...."
There was no response from him, it made me feel more uneasy. When we parked before the restaurant, we sat for some time in the car. Then Michael sighed and looked at me, his eyes were full of sadness.
"Micheal...."
My voice broke down and a the lump in my throat got bigger.
"I'm so sorry Aurora, I know an apologie won't excuse what I did, but I hope you will understand one day and maybe forgive me."
Before I could say something the door on my side flew open and a pair of strong hands yanked me out of the seat. I tried to scream, but the man hold his hand on my mouth, not letting me speak. I tried to get out of his strong hold, but I couldn't do anything. I looked at Michael and saw him hugging my ex-friend. Betrayal could be seen in my eyes. 'What is going on? Why is that bitch hugging our mate?'
Stella was screaming in my mind, trying to get out and kill that bitch that was hugging OUR mate, but I couldn't do anything, I was just staring at him, not caring about the tears falling from my eyes. Then I felt the pain in my neck and a liquid going through my veins. I somehow manage to smell the air and felt my eyes widen, I couln't smell anything. My eyes were too heavy, my body too weak and i drifted to sleep.
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Warning! There will be some violent content if you are sensitive to this type of thing, scroll down to the second warning. There it will end.
A silent scream escaped my lips as a sharp pain on my cheek woke me up. I tried to open my eyes, but closed them right away as a bright light almost burned my eyes. My body was tired and weak, but I still tried to get up. The problem was, I couldn't, I was tied up to a chair. Another slap on my cheek made me open my eyes.
Everything was blurry, but my eyes quickly got used to the light and I saw something what I will probably never get out of my head. I was sitting on a chair in front of a tall man in the torture chamber that was used to torture the worst criminals. I could smell the sickening smell of blood, I could see parts of flesh and vomit, on the ground. My stomach twisted and I felt like I would vomit too.
I could smell the scent of death everywhere, my ears picked out screams from the cells that were around the chamber. My mind went blank when I saw a chair very similiar to the electric one used in prison, next to it was a table full of knives and weird looking things that were covered in fresh blood. My stomach couldn't handle it anymore and all my internal fluids came out on the ground and some even got on my dress. What was I doing here? Where is Michael? Questions flew through my head like a swarm of hornets. I was so scared I could feel my hearbeat in my ears.
"That was kinda rude, don't you think little wolf. But anyways would you mind telling me what is your plan with the roques?"
The man before me asked in a sickening sweet voice and I gulped. My throat burning from the fluids that left me few seconds ago. I had to cough to get the unpleasant feeling out of my throat.
"I don't know what you are talking about."
My voice was quiet and cracking, the man before me frowned and handed me water. It surprised me, but I drank it anyways. My throat calmed down a little bit, but something in the water made my stomach protest, coughing I repeated my answer. That wasn't that much of a good idea. My answer obviously didn't make him happy and his fist met my face in quite a brutal way. I screamed in pain, falling backwards from the force of the punch, but he caught my chair and placed me back.
"Okay little one, we can do this the nice way, or the bad way, the decision is yours. I will ask you for the last time okey? What plan do you have with those roques?"
"I don't even know about the roques you are talking about."
I whimpered, trying to get out of the chair. 'What is going on here?' I screamed inside my head and felt tears starting to fall out of my eyes. The man before me chuckled and took my hair into his fist.
,,So the bad way."
His hand made its way into my face again and i felt my head starting to hurt. I almost screamed when he picked me up by my hair and tossed me to the other end of the room. The chair I was sitting on broke when I made contact with the hard floor. I lied on the floor, trying to breath when I saw the man coming to me, he crouched right infront of me and crookedly smiled at me.
"Don't forget wolfie...this was your choice."
Tears were felling out of my eyes as the man draged me to the chair in the middle and sat me on it. He chained me to the chair with silver chains that imidiately started burning my skin. Once he made sure I wasn't able to move he picked something from the table and cut my dress to pieces, I tried to stop him but my body was too weak to move. At the end I was left only in my underwear. The man smiled and reached for another object. Once it got closer to me I strongly inhaled and prepared my body for the pain. He was holding a 5 inch knife and without a warning he stabbed it into my palm. I screamed from the pain and tried to ignore his laughter.
"If you scream like this from a mere butter knife, I wonder how it will sound once I get my actual knife out."
Out of nowhere he pulled almost identical knife and stabbed it into my other palm. My eyes bulged out of their sockets and I gritted my teeth.
"So are you ready to start the real fun little wolfie?"
Warning! The violent content ends here.
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I don't know for how long I was here, but I didn't care, all I wanted was to finally end this and to tear Daniel apart, yes he was so nice that he told me his name and I quote "So you can know who to thank later for those scars, my name is Daniel beasty." A man walked into the room and Daniel bowed. The bulky man took my chin and made me look up, I didn't recognize him but it might have been beacause my vision was blurry and eyelids so heavy I could barely keep them open. The man let my chin go and my head fell down again.
"Take her to the court room...and be carefull."
The man left and Daniel came to me and uncuffed me, helping me stand up I almost fell again thanks to my weak jelly like legs. Daniel slunged me over his shoulder and I almost threw up again from the quick movement. Daniel started walking somewhere, but my eyes were too tired to look around, I was so weak i couldn't even reach Ferox.
I was so stressed from this situation, I felt like I was going crazy. Not knowing anything, why was this happening, what did I do, what was happening with the roques and why the hell could I only think about my need to pee. 'You're crazy' I almost chocked on my saliva as Stella made her way into my mind. 'How am I able to talk to you?' Stella only growled and I finally registered that we stopped and Daniel was talking to someone. I tried to concentrate on what they were saying, but I was sent on the floor again. 'Ugh my poor ass' I whimpered when I fell on my already sore butt.
,,Aurora?"
I heard my dads voice call out to me and I looked around. Once my eyes landed on him I started to get up to run in his arms, but Daniel shoved me back on the ground. I growled at him and tried to get out of his hold, but my body was too weak. I stopped fighting once my mind finally proceed, that I was too weak to even do anything to him, let alone get up and run to my dad. Sighing I sat on the floor and looked around. Trying to calm myself down, I tried to absorb the situation I was in.
I was sitting in front of Michael that was sitting on a 'throne', in our pack house. This room was something like a court, here we judged and punished wolves that had killed or did something against the law. My head was spinning as I saw my mom smiling at me, my dad almost crying, trying to get to me and Michael sitting with Keyla on his lap. Keyla my ex-friend that left me because she thought that I stole her boyfriend. She was and still is a bossy, ugly bitch, that I wanted to tear apart. My heart started aching at the sight of them two. Ferox was furious and fuming inside my head, I on the other hand was crying and tryign to find out any sadness in his eyes, but there was none. I clenched my hands into fists and sighed.
,,Welcome everyone, I'm really thankful you came. We are here today to judge one of us, Aurora Winter. Aurora is sentenced with betrayal and cooperation with the roques that tried to attack us two weeks ago."
I gasped as I looked around the room, trying not to take those judging and disgusted faces too personally. Michaels face expression was cold as ice. He was not letting anyone see what he was feeling. I knew that what he was saying was all a lie, but my heart still ached as I watched him. He didn't trust me, he didn't believe me and I was sure he wouldn't let his love get into judging this. No one, except my dad looked like they disagreed with Michael.
,,Do you have something to say for your defense Aurora?"
I shivered at his cold and angry voice, I almost whimpered.
,,I didn't do anything that you are acusing me of Alpha Michael, I wasn't here for almost a month because I was in college. I couldn't do anything like that, my parents can confirm that."
Michael looked a little relieved, but his face was still stone cold. He looked at my parents and they came behind me. My father assuring hands were on my shoulders as my mother stood closer to Michael.
,,Yes Alpha Michael I and my wife can confirm that our daughter was gone for almost a month. She would never do anything to hurt this pack."
Keyla smirked at me and I frowned. 'What is this bitch trying to do?' I felt as Ferox was getting angrier and angrier every moment. I tried to calm her down, but there was nothing that could calm her, other than Michael.
,,Hmm so what are you saying is, that there was no possible way for Aurora to do something like this?"
,,Yes."
My father answered him with strong voice, but I coul hear the fear he was feeling. He was scared that I would get hurt.
,,Yes Alpha Michael, we can assure you that our daughter didn't help the roques. Well not when she was gone, but.."
I looked at my mother, not believing the venom I could feel when she talked about me. 'What does she mean by that but?' Ferox growled inside my head and I whimpered.
,,What do you mean?"
,,I think my daughter helped the roques before, when we were attacked almost a year ago, and half of our pack was massacred."
Everyone in the room gasped, including me. I whimpered as I looked at my mother and tears started falling from my eyes.
,,Mom what are you talking about, you know I was almost killed that day. I couldn't be on their side if I was attacked and almost killed by them."
My voice was cracking and I felt more tears falling on the ground. My mom looked at me in disgust and sighed.
,,But what if it was all planned, you were hurt a lot to make sure that no one would suspect you, so you could help them after that too? Don't you think it all seems like a possible truth?"
I couldn't breath, my heart was falling apart as I saw my pack, my family slowly fading away from me. Leaving me in the dark all alone. I could hear people whispering around me, slandering me, making up stories to make me look like a monster. But I wasn't a monster, I would never hurt my pack, I would never hurt people I grew up with. This was so absurd I almost started laughing. My brain was slowly shutting of when I heard something, that destroyed my heart to ashes.
,,It seems like there is no other chance, we will vote. Who thinks Aurora Winter is guilty?"
Everyone except me and my father stood up, I looked at my father and saw tears falling from his eyes. I took his hand into mine, his sad eyes full of disgust looked at me. Small smile apeared on my face and my dad sobbed. I looked back at my mate and sighed. This was it, no one believed me, no one trusted me and no one stood behind me. I was all alone again. I was destined to be alone, I was destined to die by the hand of my mate and my own family.
,,Well there is nothing left then my verdict."
Everything went quiet again and I looked at Michael, pleading him with my eyes not to do this.
,,I Michael Dawon, Alpha of the Crescent Moon Pack, reject you as my mate."
Everyone in the room got guiet. My father stood behind me, his fingers deep in my arms as he tried not to tear our Alpha apart. My mother on the other hand, was looking at me with disgust in her eyes. Her voice in the room sounded like a thunder.
,,Come on Aurora, accept it already, don't you see your Alpha is getting angry?"
Tears were streaming out of my eyes, my wolf howling in pain and my chest burning as i said those words, words that changed my life forever.
,,I Aurora Winter accept your rejection."
Pain erupted in my chest as a vulcan and I fell on the floor, tears streaming down my face, silent screams escaping my lips.
,,Aurora Winter I as the Alpha of Crescent Mon Pack pack, expel you from this pack and forbid you from entering our territory."
I felt my body shivering, I felt my heart falling to the pit of the darkness and I felt my sanity leaving me in the hands of my own betrayed mind. I stood up, my legs were trembling, but I didn't care. I bowed down and left the pack house. Everything inside me was empty, my heart was in ashes, deep down where I couldn't reach it. Ferox was gone, I knew she was hiding inside me, trying to get through the pain we were feeling. There was nothing that could help us anymore. I stopped at the opening of the woods. My ears were picking up my dads voice behind me as he tried to catch up to me. His strong arms wrapped around me and I whimpered.
,,My little poor girl, I'm so sorry, I didn't know what to do. I should have said something, I should have stopped your mother from saying those disgusting lies. I should have..."
Dad sobbed so hard I felt like I was dying and wanted to be alone with my own mind, but I knew this was our last time together. I knew I had to get out of this territory before the sun gets down or I will be killed and I knew I had to tell my dad how much I care about him, how much I love him, but I couldn't.
,,I'm sorry dad."
I whispered and pushed him away. Not looking back I shifted and started running, leaving everything behind me. Leaving my old me behind, hoping that I could someday forget the pain I was feeling. The pain that was eating me alive. Crossing the borders of my old pack made me howl in pain, every single one in my pack now hated me and thought I was a traitor. But I wasn't. I wasn't.....I think I wasn't. I couldn't be, no there was no way I would do something like that. I howled again letting tears fall, with my love to my old pack. To my old life.
And I left, I left everything and started runnig in hopes to run away from the pain, but I knew that there was no saving me anymore.