Alpha's first love

Reunion

After my initial shock, I realize there is no way he is going to recognize me even if he sees me. He is unchanged because he remained in the same position as before. He grew up, of course, and became painfully gorgeous, but he is still The Alpha. I, on the other hand, am now a slave, even worse than an omega. I am dirty and dressed in a rag. He won't even notice me, even if he sees me. I am a shadow now and he remains in the spotlight.

With that in mind and with the decision to sneak out of this party and go home, and of course, suffer the painful consequences tomorrow, I step outside with a plate in my hand and my eyes on the ground. I pass by pack members that don't bother to look at me or just throw me disgusted frowns like my mere presence would make them dirty. But tonight, that's a blessing.

I realize now why Luna Anna gave me that perfume, she knew that the guest is Alexander and he would recognize my smell. She knew I was going to be too ashamed to show my face too. Hate the fact that she was right.

I think for a second to go to him and ask to at least save my parents, as they always treated him like a son, but then I remember... It's been three years. If he wanted to, he would have already came to save us.

I try not to run so no one would notice and somehow I manage to get to the trees safely. The shack I live in is deep in the woods and far away from both my painful past and my horrible present.

But fate was never kind to me and it's not going to start now, is it?

Loky appears from behind a tree, catching me off guard.

"Hei, princess! Leaving so early? Is it hard to see your old lover dancing with others?" He has a disgusting smirk on his face and smells terrible. He is drunk.

I try to take a step back and go around him, but he catches my hand with such force that I let out a small scream. He immediately covers my mouth with his hand.

"Sush, princess! You don't want them to find out you snuck out. They would be very mad. I am mad too, you know. Tonight..." He struggles to speak but doesn't loosen his grip. "Carolina... She broke up with me, you know? I am just the fifth son of the Alpha and our guest right there, he is really someone. So she...that b***h dumped me through a message."

I struggle to break free but that only makes him position himself better, behind me, and grab my waist in order to keep me still. In my good days, even though I wasn't of age, I could have ripped his arm off in a second. But years of malnutrition, sleep deprivation, torture... I can only helplessly struggle.

"Anyway..." He continues undisturbed. "I thought, it's actually better this way, you know? I am a no one to her, she can get her Alpha, but I can get a princess." Saying that, he pins me against a tree, trying to rip my T-shirt off me.

I try to hit him, desperate. Somehow I manage to push him off me, but the pieces of my T-shirt are in his hand. I don't have time to think about that and try to run. If I get home, even if he is stupid enough to enter the shack, my father will tear him apart.

But I don't get to the house, Loky catches me again only in three sprints.

"You ungrateful hoe. You get the chance to sleep with the Alpha's son and you refuse?" He slaps me so hard that I fall on the ground. He throws himself over me and with one hand holds my hands above my head and with the other, he tries to take off my pants.

I cry and I beg him to stop, but that only gets me another hard slap across the face.

So...

I scream.

I never screamed before. When I was in the palace because I never had a reason and since I got here because even if I would scream, who would even care.

But this time. I scream for help. I scream because I am afraid. And tired. And frustrated. And angry. I scream at the sky, hoping the Moon Godness would hear me.

And somehow, I think she did.

I hear running steps coming from behind the trees, and within seconds, a tall shadow appears. Others come too, some in their evening clothes, still holding glasses of champagne, others in their wolf forms.

"Loky, get off that scum, you will get dirty." I hear Luna Anna saying somewhere in the background, with a disgust that sounds more like she's trying to hide the hint of panic in her voice more than anything. But I can't pay attention to her. I just stare at that tall shadow, the first one that came when I screamed.

Alexander...

He is staring at me too. Carolina tries to cling to his arm and drag him back to the party, but his eyes are so focused on me that they seem on fire.

And then the smell hits me. So strong, so intoxicating that for a second, I am not even able to think. It smells like dark chocolate and hot summer air.

And my wolf, my inner wolf that hasn't bounded with me yet even though I am already eighteen because I was not able to shift into my werewolf form at sixteen by the orders of the Alpha, finally talked.

"Mate" She screams as she looks at Alexander.