Betrayed by my mate, avenged by my Lycan

Chapter 2: I’ve been defiled!

~Zoe~

A throbbing headache ushered me back into consciousness. My eyes slowly flickered open and it took me a moment to recall where I was.

Camera shutters and bright lights shone into my eyes, giving the headache more power over me.

“Ouch”, I groaned and palmed my forehead. It felt like a dozen minions were dancing on it.

I looked around for my phone and found it in the bedside drawer. I turned it on and gasped when I saw the time.

10 AM? How did I sleep so deeply that I forgot to go home yesterday? My father would have been so worried…and furious as well.

I immediately dropped the phone and pulled myself up. That was when I felt a throbbing ache in the center of my legs. It felt so sore and painful that I had to look down to see what was going on with me.

I froze.

Then I gasped.

And then I screamed.

There was a trickle of blood on the white sheets underneath me, and that could only mean one thing- I’d been defiled!

Panic rose in me and my heart started to palpitate. I tried to figure out what exactly had happened yesterday and how I got myself in this position.

I remembered that I had taken wine and felt drowsy after a while.

And I remembered seeing Jax’s face as he bent over me.

Oh my god!

No!

There was no way he could have done that to me.

He wouldn’t do that to me. He wouldn’t hurt me. He promised me.

As the wires in my head were turning, Jax came into the room with a smug smile on his face. “Hello, Mate. Hope you slept well?” He placed a kiss on my bare shoulder. “Last night was so perfect”.

If my gaze could magically plant a bullet in his head, that smug smile would have been wiped off his face and his brain would have been plastered all over the wall. I couldn’t believe how carefree he felt after what he had done.

“Why…why did you do this to me?”

My voice was surprisingly calm despite all the rage and emotions that were swirling inside of me at that moment.

“Come on, babe. You wanted it too. I only made the decision for you since you were having a hard time deciding”.

“What? I wanted this? YOU RAPED ME, Jax. Why would I want my first time to be in such a horrible manner?”

I scrambled off the bed and threw my clothes on, the dull ache between my legs a reminder of a trust that had been betrayed. All I could think of was how to approach my family with this new state of mine. I wasn’t sure how they would know that it was no longer there, but I knew that I was going to buy time and pretend that everything was alright.

I took one final look at Jax and the deafening crack of shattered promises echoed throughout the room as his treacherous gaze locked with mine, shattering the fragile remains of love and trust.

“Zoe, I think you’re overreacting, seriously. It’s just intimacy between mates. There’s nothing wrong with it. Besides, I’m not going to blow a trumpet throughout the entire city, telling everyone who cares to listen that we got intimate. You’re twenty-one years old already. You should behave like it”

I stood transfixed as the words tumbled down his mouth so venomously that I wondered if this was the same man who had professed love to me and promised never to hurt me.

Maybe my father had always been right. The rival Pack exists to destroy us only.

Tears lingered at the tip of my eyes but I blinked them back ferociously. “Do you know the consequences of what you just did to me? I’m never going to forgive you for this!”

I swallowed the sob threatening to force their way out of my throat and ran out of the room.

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“And where the hell do you think you’re coming from?”

A chill flowed from my shoulders and made a nest at my feet. I froze on my tip toes and turned my head to see my father behind me.

I’d wanted to quietly get into the house and my room without getting any attention but I guess my car gave me all the attention that was needed.

I sighed and faced him fully. “I went out with my friends and we lost track of time”.

The ends of his lips quivered and I could see that he was really furious.

“I sent a call to both of your friend’s parents and they confirmed that they were in all night. So I ask you again, where are you coming from?”

“Uh…I…”

“You went to see that boy, didn’t you? After all the warnings that I gave you?”

“Father, he’s my mate. You can’t just try to separate us like that. We’ve been destined together by the moon goddess”

“Is that so? Is that why he posted naked pictures of you on social media?” he asked, putting his phone in my face.

“What?” I grabbed the phone from my father’s hand and gaped at the photo on the screen.

“He took photos of me after this?” I muttered.

“I have tried to be a father to you as much as I can but you have decided that what you will bring to me and this Pack is disgrace. And I do not need a seer to tell me that you have already given yourself to him even before the mating ceremony”

I quickly went down on my knees and grabbed my father’s legs. His eyes had turned fiery red and I knew that was a sign that he was about to make a pronouncement.

“Please, father…I can explain. It was an accident”

He kicked me off his feet with such power that I landed on the leg of a couch nearby. My head collided with it and blood trickled down my temple.

“You are not my daughter. Maybe it's time you find your real parents”.

I crawled back to him, throwing myself on his feet, pleading for him not to make the single pronouncement that would change the course of my destiny.

“You’re just a girl that I picked up from the orphanage. This is a sign that you were never meant to be an alpha’s daughter”.

He took a deep breath and continued, ignoring my cries and pleas for mercy. “I hereby strip you of all your rights and title as my heir. You have been demoted to an Omega and you will no longer be a member of this Pack.”