Still Arabella’s POV
The Alpha and Luna stood at the steps waiting for my arrival along with Richard, Lisa, and the rest of their group. They would never miss out on a chance to watch me get humiliated.
The guards flung my bloodied body before the Alpha and Luna. I could hear as the Luna sneered in disgust while Lisa hissed loudly.
“She never hides her hatred for me.”
Although I was in so much pain, I still struggled to kneel before our Alpha and Luna. Failure to do that will be considered as insubordination and the result would be severe punishment.
My wolf is sound asleep and my mom is dead. Am covered in blood and my whole body hurts because some parts of my skin were peeled off by the tiled roads while I was being dragged here.
For a girl with no Wolf, more punishment would simply send me to an early grave, and trust me, I don’t want to die yet.
I know that I don’t have any friends and family but I still believe that the moon goddess has not forgotten about me.
She has a plan for me, and just like mom said, the moon goddess knows why she gave me this huge responsibility. I just have to live one day at a time and who knows,
“I may actually find love someday.”
“You stinky traitor, I could kick you in the face until your teeth fall off to the floor. You made me miss breakfast today and am not letting that go easily. You had better explain yourself before I beat the crap out of you.” Richard roared at me furiously.
“I told you all that she stayed back at home on purpose. She’s been acting up these days. I’ve caught her snubbing her chores before and one time, I heard her talking alone and she had actually said that she need some time off.
That’s why she stayed at home today, she’s taking some time off without the permission of the Alpha or Luna. She had said she will do it and as we can all see, she just did it. She has no respect for anyone, not even the Alpha and Luna.”
I couldn’t help but widen my eyes in shock as I heard Lisa’s words.
“What did I ever do to this girl???” I asked within me as she told all these lies against me. I kept my head down as the tears flowed freely down my cheeks. Mind you, am not crying because of the way they are treating me,
No!!!
These tears are tears of anger. Am angry at mom for leaving me right after suppressing my wolf. If only I had my wolf, I could have pounced on that witch and ripped her into shreds.
It’s fine though. I’ve managed to survive without my wolf all my life. I can still continue without her. I just have to behave properly and avoid anything that could earn me some punishment until I devise a means of escape.
“Why don’t we send a message to the king and tell him that she’s becoming a nuisance in our pack. Maybe he’ll finally allow us to end her miserable life, along with her mom. Am so tired of seeing her every day.” Our Luna said in an angry tone as she hissed in anger.
“You Mongrel!!! I know I should have chased you out of this pack along with the other traitors. I don’t know why the king asked me to keep you close but guess what, am tired of getting negative reports about you and your stupid whore of a mother.
Now, you have only ten seconds to tell me why abandoned your chores or I rip your head right off your shoulder and I’ll stage it off like a rouge attack.
Where the hell have you been you foul???” He roared angrily with his Alpha aura flowing right out of him in waves as he suppresses me with his Aura.
“Wait a minute,
The Alpha is using his Aura to suppress me but I don’t feel suppressed at all. Whenever he uses his Aura on someone, the person is compelled to do exactly what he or she is ordered to do.
I know how it works, believe me. Which is exactly why I know that it ain’t working on me right now. I mean, I can sense it that he’s using his Aura but am not suppressed.
Wow!!!
This is so awesome. This simply means that Phoenix is stronger than I thought. Although she’s fast asleep, her Aura is still strong enough to overpower our Alpha’s Aura.
This is amazing!! It means that one day, Phoenix would rise again and my wolf would wake up from this long slumber that mom put her in. I need to be far away from here before she wakes up fully.”
I still remained in my kneeling position with my head hung low in submission,
“Am sorry Alpha, I woke up this morning and found out that my mom is dead. She had a bottle in her hand that suggested that she had taken a potion to end her own life. Am so sorry Luna, I didn’t mean to miss work today, I wanted to come in and explain to you but I was too sad that my limbs wouldn’t move. She’s all I have and she’s dead.” I said sadly as the tears rolled down my cheeks.
“I don’t care about your mom’s death you stupid girl!! My family and this whole pack had a late breakfast because of you and you’ll have to pay for it. As for your dead mother, I want her taken out of this pack’s territory before midnight. I don’t care how you do it but I want you to take her corpse out of my land before midnight. No traitor will be burned on my land. Nobody will dare witness her cremation but you alone because you are both traitors and that’s what you both deserve. And, One last warning Arabella, her ashes must not be brought to my land or I’ll make you eat it. ” Declared our Alpha as he turned around and went back inside, leaving me with the Luna and the other devils. Am not mad at the fact that he said no one will witness my mom’s cremation because I know that nobody will show up even if he hadn’t made that proclamation.
“And as for you, don’t even think that you’ll get away with what you did today. You starved my family and this pack for hours until I found someone to do your stupid job.
Go get your stupid mother’s stinking corpse out of this pack. First thing in the morning, you report to the guards for your punishment.” she instructed me before turning around to head inside too. Just before she got to the door, she turned around and said to me,
“Oh, Arabella, if you need a potion to end your own life, I’ll be too happy to help you out with it,” she said in a mocking tone as she sauntered into the packhouse.
When the Alpha and Luna left, the others also turned around and left also but Lisa stayed behind to mock me a little before running along to catch up with her mate and friends,
“Poor poor Arabella. How on earth do you plan on moving that stinking corpse. I guess you have to drag her on the floor just the way you were dragged in here today,
That’s what you get for being traitors.” She sneered at me before turning to go away but she changed her mind and turned back to me with a curious look on her face as she said,
“Something seems strange about you today. You are glowing and I can sense a strange Aura around you.”
I was so shocked at her words but I didn’t react in any way, I simply kept my head hanging low and kept mute. She stood there for some minutes then she said,
“You are hiding something Arabella, but trust me, am going to find out, and when I do, you are going to be so sorry.”
After threatening me, she turned around and left me to solve my problems. I stood up and ran home immediately. Mom still lay on the floor exactly where I met her this morning. I lay beside her and sobbed to my heart’s content before getting up to find a way to take her out of our pack’s territory. I was searching for something I can use to wrap he so I can move her easily.
As I searched around our little cottage, my eyes landed on my dad’s trunk that mom had never allowed me to touch. Then it dawned on me that mom had written about it in her letter. She had finally permitted me to open Dad’s trunk. She even said I could the content of this trunk when I want to leave this pack.
I could empty the contents of that trunk then I can use the trunk in dragging her out of this pack, then I can drag it back after burning her body.
With mom gone, I can start saving to escape from this pack. I would go far beyond the king’s borders, far away from our kind, then I’ll be free to live a normal life.
With these thoughts in my mind, I moved to my dad’s trunk and pried it open. It was filled with a lot of worn, smelly clothes and some newspapers and other stupid, old stuffs that needs to be in the trash.
The contents of this trunk are totally useless to anyone. Although am just a useless omega with nothing but her working clothes, I still can’t make use of these things.
But why did mum say that I can use what is in this trunk?? I guess it’s been a while since she opened this trunk, hence the decay and rust.
All the same, I still continued pulling everything out of the trunk so I can use it to pull mom’s corpse away from this property. I need to finish her cremation before midnight, otherwise, I would be breaking the Alphas rule and I’ll definitely be punished for that.
“What the hell is this??” I asked myself as I stared at two briefcases that lay at the bottom of the trunk. One was much larger than the other. I lifted the two of them out of the trunk and open it up.
To my greatest joy and happiness, I found out that the big briefcase contained big, fat wads of cash. I’ve never seen such an amount of money in my whole life.
The second box, the smaller one I mean, it contains documents to some landed properties and statements of account to some foreign banks.
What this simply means is the outside of this pack, I am a very wealthy young lady. I’ve got enough money to see me through school.
I’ve never been inside the classroom before in my entire life. A year after Dad’s death, when mom was still a little okay, she had pleaded with the Alpha and Luna to let me go to school. They grudgingly accepted but I was not allowed in the class with other children so I had to peek in through the window.
I kept peeking through the window until I managed to finish high school last year. After high school, I was stopped from continuing with my education. but am still grateful that I was given my high school diploma.
With my high school diploma and all this money, I can continue my education and get a better life for myself.
I don’t need to come back to this pack after my mom’s cremation. I’ll put back these boxes in the trunk, then I’ll put in mom’s corpse and every other thing that I will use to burn her corpse. The border guards must have been informed of my mom’s death and am very sure that they won’t come close to my trunk to check out what I have inside.
After burning mom’s corpse, I’ll pack the ash and flee from this territory. I’ll run far away, nonstop. I’ll keep running until the next day, then, First thing in the morning, am taking a flight out of this country to a faraway land where no one will ever hurt me again.