Prologue
Lets start at the beginning, hello my name is Valkyrie but everyone calls me Val. At least they did until I found out about my father after he sold me. My father is a massive Mafia boss in East Anglia but gangs from London began to make their presence known within his territory, in order to protect his territory he made a deal with a local pack. I say pack because get this- werewolves are real. I know! I did not even believe in that stuff until the day my dad sold me to the alpha in return for the pack’s protection. Alpha Mark claimed that I was his mate and I did feel attraction to him but I did not believe him, when he realized that he did not have full control over me he began to abuse me, torture me and allow his pack to just beat the s**t out of me for no reason.
About four months and my fifth escape plan fail I faced the wrath of the pack after Alpha Mark decided that he was going to give extra training to everyone and that the party they had been looking forward to was cancelled, for no reason might I add. Turned out this was just the tip of the ice berg though as the meeting held more secrets, but I tuned out for the most of it. The pack then turned their anger on me as they know that they could not hurt their Alpha, who was too powerful, but they could easily hurt me. Alpha Mark left me while I was being pushed onto the ground and then kicked, spat on, hit and I don’t know what happened as I ended up waking on the ground where I fell in a pool of blood. I decided then, with or without my brother, I was leaving the pack and heading to somewhere where they could never hurt me again. I headed into the kitchen.
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I slowly walk into the kitchen and I am met with a scene of pure chaos. There appears to be a huge fight going on, over what I am not sure. Then all of a sudden they stop, and everyone looks at me. I square my shoulders and hold my head up high. Its now or never.
"I just came to inform you that I am leaving and to thank you all for your..... hospitality?"
All of a sudden a big figure strides towards me, "You're not going anywhere kitten, and you cannot leave! You are mine!" shouts Mark.
"You left me to the mercy of your pack, and I had the s**t BEATEN OUT OF ME!" I scream, pain filling my whole body.
He then reaches for me, and I know if I do not move now then I am in big trouble and I will never be free of this man. Before I know it, my fist flies out in a well-timed strike and Mark lands on his ass looking bewildered, the rest of the pack are stunned into silence.
"I said I am LEAVING!" I shout.
I then fall against the door frame and sigh audibly, I had not realized how much that beating had affected me. I knew it was not a good idea to move after only recently waking up but I do not want to be stuck here any longer and the perfect opportunity has arisen for me to flee, I would be an i***t not to take it.
"Alex? Please can you help me outside?" I look back to see Alex striding confidently over to me while Mark remains on the floor with a destroyed look on his face as he finally realized that I blamed him for my injuries, the beatings, and the torture I have been through. It appeared to dawn on him then that it was his fault, he promised to protect me, but he left me vulnerable and alone to face the music for what he did. Alex wraps an arm around my waist and I wrap my left arm around his shoulders, laying most of my weight onto him. We slowly make our way out of the door and towards the territory boundary line where I knew I would be safe from Mark if I could get far enough away before he caught up with me as this time the punishment would be a lot worse than any already served out to me.
At the boarder of Alpha Mark's territory I limp forwards into safe grounds, or so I thought. Alex was growling in worry behind me, he had spent the last few miles trying to talk me into to staying. I must admit I have a soft spot for Alex and if it were not for the pack then I would have stayed but I cannot. I know that I am going to miss my brother but ever since he was changed into a werewolf he had to become loyal to Mark, I understood why but it hurts knowing that my big brother, my protector could no longer protect me from the one person I needed protecting from.
I knew when I had crossed the boundary as Alex could not follow me any further, this was because of the Alpha command Mark had used to keep Alex from staying with me. All of a sudden three tall men appeared out of thin air, guessing I am in their territory now. Oops. The one in front looks at me with his eyes full of curiosity and what appears to be lust while the other two appear to be horrified.
Just as everything starts to go black I see the first man lurch forward and feel myself land in his arms. The last thing I remember is seeing him smiling at me and saying, "Well hello there little one" while Alex shouts "s**t!"