Chapter 1: Wrong Decision
(Elvera POV)
Pain…The only thing which I could feel at the moment was pain. It was so excruciating like my soul would leave this body any minute. I tried to open my eyes but my body didn’t have enough strength. I soft whimper escaped my bruised lips. Silent tears started flowing from my eyes. I wiped my tears with the back of my hand and quickly I realized that it was a stupid move because another wave of pain shot through my body.
After what seemed like hours, I gathered my strength and tried to get up. I don’t want to live this life. My life was not like this from the start, but one wrong decision of my parents leads my life to this living hell. I couldn’t go anywhere because he would never let me do that. I looked towards the slightly ajar door and a sob escaped my lips. I got up from the floor with great difficulty and entered in the bathroom.
I quickly finished my daily routine and then started washing my face, but I had to look at all the bruises which he gave me last night. I looked towards my reflection and my grip tightened at the sides of the sink. My face was covered with several blue and black marks. My one eye was swollen and blood red. I remember he punched on this eye. Tears started rolling down my cheeks and I started feeling pain in all my marks. I closed the door and double-check the lock before lifting my shirt up to check all the damage done to my body last night. My once flawless skin was covered with belt marks and several other marks.
I looked towards the mirror when a sudden wave of nausea hit me. I throw up all the content which I had at dinner.
“ This morning sickness is started increasing with each passing day,” I thought, then a thought popped up in my mind and my feet froze to the ground.
“No! This can’t happen. I couldn’t afford a pregnancy and in this condition,” I whispered to myself slowly before walking towards the cabinet where I saw the pregnancy sticks. My heart was thudding in my chest like it would explode any minute.
I read all the instructions with shivering hands and then peed on the stick and put it on the side of the sink after covering it. I started pacing back and forth in the bathroom with my aching feet. My hands turned sweaty and I rubbed them slowly with my dress and went towards the stick with shaking legs.
“There were two red lines present,” I felt like my heart jumped to my mouth in fear. I covered my mouth with my shivering and cold hands.
“What will I do now?” I questioned myself. I don’t want to get pregnant because I don’t want the baby of that bastard,” I panicked at this thought.
“but it will be our baby too,” Sky said, and I nodded in agreement.
“I have to run from this hell hole to save the life of my child,” I said to myself and came out of the bathroom after discarding that stick in the dustbin and washing my hands. I walked towards the dining hall. Sabrina, Head of omegas, served me my breakfast. I slowly ate it while my mind was still stuck on the fact that I discovered a few moments ago.
“Luna! Are you okay?” She asked with a sympathetic smile and I could feel her concern in her tone.
“I am alright, Sabrina,” I said to her with a forced smile on my face.
“If you say so,” She said and entered in the kitchen.
I looked towards the garden and I wanted to walk a bit but I also knew that he would not allow me. I came back to my room with limping footsteps and sat on a recliner. I closed my eyes and started thinking about the time when I enjoyed the best few days of my life.
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Three Month Ago
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"You can't do this with me, Mom!" I cried and looked towards the two most important people of my life, my mother and father.
"Honey! We are not doing this with happiness, but we have no any other option right now. Our pack needs protection," Mom tried to give me a reason but my mind was not accepting anything else.
"So, you want to sell your daughter to the demon to save your pack. Is it how you are going to save your pack?" I asked and she pressed her lips in a thin line.
"We are not selling you, but it will be a proper marriage. Why are you saying this?" My father's domineering voice boomed in the office, but I didn't want to back down.
There was a time in my life when I cowered back by just hearing his voice, but that time was long gone. This voice can't affect me now… Not today, when they were trading me like a thing to their enemy pack.
I hear a lot of bad things about their Alpha. Many of them said that he is a demon in the human form. He didn’t forgive anyone and sometimes, He killed innocents for fun. I heard a lot of bad things about him and I will not accept it like that.
“Yeah! You are not selling me but trading me. I will not accept this deal and I am not going to accept him as my chosen mate,” I yelled at them and my father clenched his fists at my burst out.
I ran towards my room and ignored the voice of my mom when she was calling my name. I will not accept this. I will not surrender without a fight. I am Alpha’s daughter and I will fight for my rights. They can’t force me into a marriage when I am not ready to accept it.
I closed the door of my room and threw myself on the bed. I will turn 18 tomorrow and they wanted to get rid of me on the very next day. I think they never loved me and always loved Declan because he was a boy. He was a very supportive brother, but now, he is away on training and I can’t contact him with a cell phone or anything because any gadgets are prohibited in that place.
I have no idea. How will I survive this? I also have no idea when he will come back. All the things started pressurizing me. I walked towards my wall-length mirror and looked at my reflection. My bottle-green eyes lost their shine and looked a bit swollen. My once fair and flawless skin was looking dull and pale. My hair was also looking like a truck wreck.
Tears welled up in my eyes as I looked towards my reflection. How will I live my life with demons and why are they forcing me into this marriage? I thought my head would explode with all this tension and thinking. The door of my room burst open and I looked towards the intruder with anger, but when I saw the face of my best friend, I ran towards her.
“Marion! Look, what are they doing with me? I don’t want to get married yet. I have plans for my future, for my career, and for my life. They are forcing me to get married to a Demon. He will kill me. Please! Do me a favor. Help me to run away from this place,” I said, and her face was also covered in tears.
Marion was the daughter of our beta, Davidson. We trained together and spent most of our life together, but now, we have to go different ways. I will leave this pack soon.
“I have already talked with them but they are not listening to my explanation. I tried my best to convince them but they are not ready to budge a bit,” She said and her voice was hoarse as she was crying before it.
“I wanted to be an entrepreneur and I wanted to help my father, but this marriage will not only ruin my life but will also ruin my dreams,” I said while wiping my tears with the back of my hand.
“Be brave! You can do this, Evy,” She said to me and I shook my head in denial. I don’t want to do this.
I nodded because I had already thought about what I had to do now. I will not tell anyone about it except Marion.
“Marion! I need a favor. They will tie my knot with that Demon on the day after tomorrow. I wanted to live one remaining day of my life, as I want,” I said and she nodded with her tear-filled eyes.
“This is the least which I can do for you,” She said that I hugged my only best friend. All the other friends didn’t know about my situation. I have a total of three friends other than Marion, but all of them are not allowed to meet me in the Packhouse. My father thought of me as a shameful thing, like to be born in this pack was a mistake. My curvy figure just added salt to his injury because he can’t use my marriage for his business benefits.