02: Pain


    Sophia


    Dianne had always hated me for reasons I could not fathom. Not only did she hate me, she abused


    me and beat me at any slightest opportunity. Looking across from her, I knew she wanted the


    perfect opportunity to beat me up again.


    I took a step back from her and she followed me.


    "Your eyes are red. Have you been crying? Did the freak think herself to be important because she


    was mated to the future Alpha?" Sheughed like a maniac and I looked to the ground, avoiding her


    gaze. She was a bitch. A real one and she acts everything like it, not bothering to hide her


    disgusting nature.


    "Have you suddenly gone deaf?" She screeched and held my shirt, dragging me to her. Her


    Perfume irritated my nose and I looked everywhere but her.


    "I wasn''t crying. And I had never thought myself to be important" I whispered and red at the floor.


    Hard.


    "Good. You are trash and should stay where you belong," she said to me and released my dress


    with a hiss.


    I stumbled on my feet and made to pass by her and she deliberately moved to my way and I


    bumped into her. A pnded on my face.


    My lips trembled from the impact of the p but I didn''t utter any word of protest or cry.


    "Why don''t you cry bitch?!" She hit me again and I gritted my teeth. She always wanted to see me


    cry but no matter how hard she hits me, I never cried.


    I guessed she was pained she wasn''t in the room where I was being rejected by Alexander. It


    pained her not to see me cry. My eyes were puffy from the tears I shed from his rejection. But never


    again. These people were heartless. The little love I had for Alexander disappeared the moment he


    rejected me.


    "No matter how much you try to hide your tears, I know you are pained you were rejected. You must


    be delusional to think you would be made our Luna," she spat and kicked my knee which made to


    fall on my face. Dianne was evil. So evil I doubted if she was the real daughter of her mother. I


    wished she could fall ill and experience so much pain so she''ll know how it feels to be in so much


    pain.


    "I never thought I would be your Luna. You would never be my Luna either," I said through gritted


    teeth, while I endured the pain she was inflicting all over my body from her kicks. Suddenly she


    stopped and gasped.


    "What did you just say? Why don''t we show all the pack members how disrespectful you are to your


    new Luna." She grabbed my hair and pain erupted from my scalp and I yelped at it. I never knew I


    said thest part out. It was supposed to stay with me - in my head. But my lips betrayed me.


    She dragged me by my hair to the middle of the pack''s field where some warriors were training. I


    tried to free her hands from my head but she was too strong coupled with the grip she had on me.


    My body scraped the rough ground, leaving some scratches on my skin.


    "Hello everyone. Guess what this trash did. She challenged me to a fight," Dianne said and


    everyone gasped including me. I knew Dianne had always been out for my blood but not to this


    extent.


    "I didn''t do that. I would never do that," I tried to tell everyone but my voice only came out pitifully


    weak.


    Fear gripped my bones. I was scared of what she would do to me if she shifted to her wolf. I would


    die for real this time.


    "What''s this noise about?" Alexander came out from the crowd and stood behind Dianne before


    resting his hand on her waist. It was too painful to watch them as I turned my face away from them.


    "Baby, Sophia challenged me to a fight," she whined to him and hid her face in his chest.


    From the floor where I was seated, my hands fisted on the grass from the pain in my chest. The


    image of them together hurt so much that it felt like I was inhaling lead instead of oxygen.


    Alexander turned to me with a cold gaze. The ce quietened down, everyone watching what he


    would say. It was a known fact around the pack that Dianne was Alexander''s girlfriend. They were


    always joined by the hip. Or rather, Dianne was always glued to Alexander''s hip, marking a territory


    that wasn''t hers.


    "Challenging a pack member who is higher in status than you is considered disrespectful. And so,


    you shall be taken to the dungeon and whipped." He said, his eyes never leaving mine.


    "What? I didn''t challenge her. She''s not telling the truth. Dianne, please tell everyone the truth."


    "Are you calling me a liar?" She inquired in a fake solemn voice. "Alexander, can''t you see? Not


    only did she challenge me, but she''s also calling me a liar."


    "No, please I don''t mean to say you are a liar," I said frantically. I hated going to the dungeon. I


    didn''t heal like a normal werewolf because I don''t have a wolf. The process of healing would be


    extremely painful and slow. It is faster than that of a human.


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    "Then, what do you mean?" Alexander asked.


    "I…I…" I was tongue-tied. I stared at them from the ground - the perfect couple everyone


    worshipped. Nothing I said or do will make them change their mind. So I epted it. I shut my


    mouth as tears blurred my vision.


    I didn''t look up to know a satisfied smirk would be dancing on Dianne''s face. She had gotten what


    she wanted again. Dianne 100. Sophia 0.


    "She can''t even defend herself because she knows she''s lying," Dianne said, her hand ced on


    Alexander''s chest.


    "Sophia, why did you challenge Dianne, knowing fully well she''s my girlfriend and future Luna of this


    pack?" Alexander asked. And a low murmur broke out.


    I looked up just in time to see a smirk on Dianne''s face. This has been what she had always wanted


    - to be Luna of the pack.


    "I didn''t challenge her," I muttered to myself.


    "Sophia," Alexander warned, a low growl erupting from him. A shiver of pleasure ran down my spine


    involuntary as my name rolled off his tongue.


    The mate bond was still there as I haven''t epted his rejection yet. I don''t know what I was


    waiting for. As much as I tried to deny it, a small part of me still wanted him toe back to his


    senses, to tell me it was all a joke.


    "I''m sorry Dianne," I said, my chest constricting painfully from the shame and humiliation.


    "I can''t hear you. Louder," she said and I could detect the joy that seeped from her words. Bitch.


    "I''m sorry Dianne that I challenged you to a fight," I said again, louder like she had asked. Even if I


    was lying to save my ass, I knew I would still be punished. A lone tear of indignation ran down my


    cheeks.


    I quickly looked to the ground to avoid it from being seen by anyone. Dianne must have seen it as I


    heard a snicker from her.


    "Dianne, she''s apologized," Alexander said.


    "Fine, you''re forgiven. Only because of my baby here," Dianne said and I could imagine her saying


    it with a roll of her eyes.


    As much as I tried to console myself, the day was as depressing as the rest of my life here in this


    pack. I might as well leave and never return.


    "Guards. Take her to the dungeon and whip her fifty for challenging her superior," Alexander''s voice


    boomed without a hint of emotion.


    Two guards came in and dragged me like a rag doll to the dungeon I was all too familiar with. I was


    thrown on the dirt floor. The only pretty dress I had was ripped from my shoulders, exposing my


    bare back.


    A guard threw me to the metal table which was where I was usually tied to be whipped. I didn''t


    struggle as I found it to be quite pointless.


    The guards and the rest of the pack members derived joy from seeing me in pain, in grief. I let them


    bind me to the metal table without a struggle.


    It was cold against my skin. I bit my dress to muffle the scream I knew would eventuallye from


    me. Across my back were different whip marks from different whips. Whenever I made the slightest


    mistake, I was brought here to be whipped.


    The Alpha treated me like I didn''t exist and his son did the same until today when I saw his eyes


    ze at me for the first time since I was fifteen when I was wrongly used of killing his best


    friend; the Beta''s son. Dianne''s half-brother.


    I heard the guard take up the whip. No matter no much I was whipped, I never got used to the pain.


    Each time brought a different kind of pain and now wasn''t different as the whip came down on my


    bare back and a scream tore through my lungs. I was whipped until I could no longer scream and I


    passed out from the pain.