Chapter 1 The pack's disgrace
Samantha pov
Today is the 1st of March which means I have 26 days before my 17th birthday. I should be happy however it starts at waking up at 5 am for pack training. Yep, you heard me right I said PACK. Because the Alpha Mark Rider is one of the most well-known and powerful pack leaders in the country. He has always made sure his pack, at the very least, made the top 5 contenders every year at the pack’s worrier competition put on by the Royal Alpha of the royal pack. However, we were always number 3 for as long as I have known that he and others around this little town were werewolves. I found this fact out at the age of 5 when we were out in the back yard of our 2-story country home playing and a wolf with the height of a male deer came out with glowing red eyes. I screamed and my stepdad came running out shifting midair to take out what I later found out to be a rogue from the outlands outside of our pack’s territory.
Even though I am a rightful member of the pack and have excepted Mark as my alpha before I even knew if I had a wolf, I never got the chance to go to the competition. There was always some sort of excuse on why I couldn’t go. First, it was I was not old enough and then once I turned 15, I found out that I didn’t have a wolf. Go figure, I’m not the blood of alpha Rider even though I am the oldest I will end up with nothing. I am what most packs call an omega. Which is only do to the fact that I am in the care of the alpha that no one picks on me. Or at least not in front of him that is. I do have to do chores and a lot of them for that matter, unlike my 2 younger brothers who are only 1 year apart. Cody, who had just turned 15 and shifted for the first time last year, was in training to become Alpha and my other brother Eli, who shifted at the age of 14, which is young for someone to shift, was in training to become beta for Cody.
Waking up to my alarm at 4 am I jump up and get dressed in my ¾ training pants, combat boots, sports bras, and a tank top, run to the bathroom down the hall. Wash my face, brush my teeth put my long raven black hair in a high military tight bun and get ready to wake the boys to leave. I look at my watch as I put it on and see the time is now 430 and to make it to the training grounds before the rest of the pack, we need to leave in 10minutes.
I walk into the boy’s room after banging on the door to find Cody getting his boots on. He is 6’9 and every bit an alphas son through and through. Short black hair with piercing green eyes that have all the girls at our high school drooling over him. Both human and wolf alike. Eli, on the other hand, was standing at the door ready to go, he has always been the chipper one of the two of them. He only stood 6’5 but still carried himself like a proud alphas son even though he was to be beta. He had our mother’s darker brown hair and her brown eyes as well. Both were fit as fit could be from the endless training, they had been going threw of the past 7 months since there first shift.
“Are you really going to wear just that to training?” Cody asks looking at me as he stood up and towered over my short 5-foot self
“No, I will put a jacket on as well it's only 45 outside,” I said
“Yea but Sam your human and can’t hold temp like us boys can” Eli stated this time.
Before I could even fire back Mark hollered for us to roll out. He had already shifted into his huge black wolf as we stepped out the front door. He lowered himself to where he was flush with the porch for me to climb on his back. The boys ran in human form while dad jogged in wolf form next to them.
“Remind me again why you even come when you don’t have a wolf,” Eli asked which earned him a sharp glare from me, elbow in the ribs from Cody and a growl from dad.
“I come to these things to train just like the two of you and you know I can kick your asses in human form, I have proved it time and time again even without a wolf I will not be left defenseless after what happened to mom,” I said in a low and threatening voice. Those are memories I don’t want to re-live right now.
“Sorry Sammy I really didn’t mean it like that you know we all love you and no one in this pack thinks you are responsible for her disappearance 2 years ago,” he said with downcast eyes as we enter the open field next to the packhouse which is only about 5 miles from our house.
It was a chilly March morning as I go and join my Best friend Whitney in the line-up. As I am walking by some of the other pack members, I get dirty looks and whispers about me thrown around. People think just because I don’t have a wolf, I can’t hear them, but little do they know my hearing is still very, very, very good almost on par with my brothers.
“Why don’t you say anything to your dad about the things they say” Whit ask me
For 2 years now ever since the disappearance of mom and the packs Luna, while she was home alone with my gardening, some of the pack blame’s me for not knowing what happened while I was inside. They also say that I should have shifted, and that fact alone should allow whoever wants to yell at me to be able to. But thanks to dad he will not stand for it. Even though I am not a wolf I am the child of is destined mate and that fact alone is why he claims me as his.
I just look at her and give her the ‘I really could careless look’.
AND SO IS THE LIFE OF AN OMEGA…