My Accidental Alpha

I took deep breaths in an attempt to calm myself and focus on what had just happened, what needed to be done, and to formulate a plan. The sun shone in through the cracked window where he had thrown my phone. He had aimed for my face, but I had ducked, and it had smashed into the window with an ear splitting shatter, making him ultimately more angry. The sunlight illuminated my bruises, the cuts drying up and the blood turning a deep brownish colour against my blue bruised skin. He'd gone too far this time. He always went too far, but this time, something had clicked inside my head it was time I needed to leave, I needed to get as far away as possible to end this torture. Now was my best chance, possibly my only I knew what had to be done. Rico was my first love, my only love so far , we had met when I was just 17, and he was 19. Everyone was sure we would be mates once we came of age and they rooted for the power couple. we were Rico and Becca, inseparable, so in love and made for each other. We were so happy. Rico had no siblings he was next in line to be Alpha, taking over from his father Keino. This made Rico happy knowing that once he was of age and mated that he would be alpha, thinking that he had already found his mate in me it was just a case of us both coming of age, becoming mates and the rest would fall into place for him. As the years passed, Rico was starting to see that his dreams weren't as aligned as he once though, when he turned 21 I was 19 and we still weren't mates. This started to anger him, he believed it was all my fault and became very violent and abusive towards me. It started out with harsh words "useless b**ch" ect, then he started laying his hands on me firstly just shoving me out of the way and that worked its way up to full on beatings whenever he was mad. Everything was my fault, Always. The beatings became more frequent and just part of normal life for me. I learned to stay out of his way and try my best to not trigger any sort of response from him, it wasn't enough he was relentless. With no family of my own I was trapped, no-one to help, alone in the pack house. Luna Diana and Alpha keino were too wrapped up in their own lives to notice or even possibly care about what was happening between us. on the odd occasion that Luna would notice a bruise, cut or mark she would jump to Ricos' side, telling me how I shouldn't anger him and making excuses for his behaviour. I was trapped, Rico knew it, and I knew it. This was my life I hoped every day that we would suddenly create the mate bond and things would change, they never did. Each day that passed was a reminder to Rico how useless I really was and things just got worse, leading us to today.