The Dragon King's Mate

Chapter 1 So where does my story begin, is it the day I was born, or perhaps it is during my years as a child where I was mostly ignored in favour of my brothers as girls are apparently not as important as boys, well that’s according to my father and older brother anyway. Or it might be the moment I was taken by those awful rogues who trafficked many young women. It could also be when I was finally sold by them to that disgusting Alpha Thomas. No, as far as I am concerned, my story began the day I was rescued by Rayne, as she stepped into the room like an avenging angel and freed me along with his other captive. That is the moment my life truly began. But I suppose to understand me fully. I have to go back to the beginning, before my new life began, so everyone understands how I got here in the first place. My name is Sienna Kingston, I am the daughter of the Alpha and Luna of the Still Waters Pack. I am of average height for a she wolf at 5ft 10, with black hair and emerald green eyes. Apparently, I get my colourings from my father’s mother, who passed before I was born. I am the middle child. They were hoping for another boy, as dad only cared about males, and women were only useful for producing pups and looking after the house as far as he is concerned. So, needless to say, he was upset that I was born female. They tried again and got their second boy, he was finally happy now he had his heir and a spare, just in case anything happened to my older brother Simon, he had Stuart as a back up to pass the pack onto. My dad basically ignored me for the most part all of my life unless it was to scold me for doing something he decided was wrong. Unfortunately, he passed his values on to Simon, and we grew further and further apart as we grew older. My mum was always kind and loving to me, but she could not show too much affection in front of my father and Simon as it would anger my father. My younger brother never cared for their views and loved me regardless of what anyone said to him. On the day I was kidnapped by the rogues, it was the scariest day of my life. Despite how I had been treated all of my life, I still held out hope that they would save me. He was an Alpha. Surely, he would not let his daughter be taken and do nothing about it. After two weeks with the rogues and when I was finally sold off to Alpha Thomas, that was the day I gave up the hope that he cared at all about me. I knew I had to shut off my heart completely if I was ever going to survive this. There was another woman there who was tasked with getting me in line and making sure I knew all of the rules. Her name was Harriet. She had already been here for over two years and looked ready to give up on her life. I am not surprised that disgusting man is old enough to be our father, and he bought both of us to keep in his room and use our bodies for his pleasure. Hell, I am not even 18 yet, and I can’t shift, Harriet was taken before her 18th as well and has been given daily doses of wolfsbane to keep her from shifting and to keep her compliant. Try as I might, I couldn’t stop him from taking away what was most precious to me, the thing I was saving for my mate, my purity. Between the beatings and the use of silver restraints, he managed to get his way eventually. It didn’t stop me fighting, at least at first anyway. The first three month all I did was fight to keep his dirty, disgusting paws off of me, but no matter what I did it was useless he still managed to overpower me in the end every time. When he realised how close Harriet and I had become, he switched tactics and became even more perverse and sadistic. He started to use her and punish her as a way to get me to comply. I could take the beatings and pain myself, but seeing him hurt and degrade her more because of me was something I couldn’t take, so eventually, I became more compliant like Harriet was. It was 6 months of hell, with Harriet and I being each others only comfort, and now I had no way to fight back without causing more harm to that innocent woman. I thought that finally, all hope had been lost until I began hearing whispers. I had heard about the elite squad, and I found out that they were in the pack investigating the Alpha. I was wondering why he had stopped harassing us and started to keep us in his soundproof safe room. I prayed to the moon goddess over and over again for them to discover his misdeeds and free us. Then, one day, my prayers came true as a beautiful woman came charging in the room tiny but fierce and set us free. She absolutely fascinated me. She was so powerful and had an amazing aura about her. She was also the first woman ever to be on the elite squad. Harriet wanted to go home to her family, I understood that she had a very loving family who would be joyful to see her again and know she was alive. The same could not be said for me, as soon as I saw that woman who saved me I knew what I wanted. I asked her to take me with them and to train me to become stronger. My father had never let me train properly as it was a waste of his and others' time in his eyes. Rayne straight away organised for me to go back with them and even gave me space in her room to make me feel more comfortable, as we were the only females at the elite camp. I think the worst thing was that when I decided that I would not go home but would call my family to let them know I was safe, my father didn’t really care and couldn’t wait to get me off of the phone. He did not even ask me what had happened to me or where I had been. He also didn’t let me speak to my mum or little brother. Then I discovered that not only had he not bothered to look for me himself, he hadn’t even bothered to inform the council of my disappearance. It was a small comfort that my mum and Stuart were unaware of this and that they had asked him to look for me, and he had promised them he had and had spoken to the council. When they were told what had been happening and what I had been through even Simon had the decency to look ashamed, but that was only because he knew no one was looking for me and at the time he didn’t care. It was at that moment I decided to cut them out of my life for good, I did not need that kind of negativity in my life. I may keep in touch with mum and Stuart, as long as they do not try and push me to have a relationship with the rest of them or to visit home. Simon has tried to get in touch, but as far as I am concerned, he burnt his bridges a long time ago. For two months, Rayne trained me and let me live with her in her room so I could become stronger and more confident while getting over my trauma. Then, gradually, she started to introduce me to my new team that I would be working with when I was ready. It was a slow process to begin with spending some meal times together and having some training sessions. Then, gradually, it became nearly every meal and training session, and I finally felt ready to live with my team, who had become like family to me, the protective older brothers I had never had before. They are a fantastic group of guys as well we have Samson who is a wizard, John is a wolf and the joker of the group, Henry is the leader and more serious, but he is a lycan and they tend to be more serious at times especially the males, then we have Silus a vampire, and finally Rick who is also a vampire. They all took me under their wing and into their heart really quickly, and I couldn’t be more grateful to them and especially Rayne. She was the most happy at every achievement I had, any progress big or small, she was there to cheer me on and if I was feeling down or my confidence waned, she would always be able to get me to pick myself back up again. It was hard to go over my past, but I had to be strong and give them as much information as possible if they had a chance to stop the trafficking ring. The problem was I did not know much and neither did anyone else, Harriet was with another group of rogues than me so we knew there were several of them operating this and someone had to be organising them. It was going to be a long and hard job, and I didn’t envy Rayne and her team in their task, at least it seemed to be only in the wolf shifter kingdoms that the issue was apart from their use of a witch for their kill switch to stop any of the captured rogues from answering questions. I was glad when they finally solved it and brought down the last group and found the Alpha’s responsible, although it came as a big shock to many including me as my father and his ally from the neighbouring pack were put on trial and then publicly executed. The only small mercy was that none of the rest of my family was involved, the fact not only did my father not look for me, he was the one behind it infuriated me. I was long past the days when my father actions caused me to be upset and in pain. Anger, on the other hand, yes, he could definitely get that response out of me after destroying not only my life but countless other young girls' lives.