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Chapter 1
Aurora’s POV.
“No… Mom… do… don’t leave me alone, Mom… I. I am scared.” I pleaded with my mother while crying bitterly: She smiled painfully and cupped my small face before squatting in front of me. I saw my tiny self crying bitterly due to fear.
“Listen to me, my love… you have to stay strong and have to keep yourself safe, no matter what happens out there. Don’t come out until our alpha or anyone from our family calls you out. Will you do this for me, my love?” she asked me while looking at me with tearful eyes.
She was trying to put a strong front in front of me, but she was failing miserably. I could see how much scared she was for me right now. I wanted to scream and tell her that she shouldn’t leave me alone. No one would love me anymore if she leaves me.
“Mom….I am scared.” I held her hands while trembling hard in fear. She whimpered but blinked her lashes harder. She pulled me into her motherly embrace and held me tightly for a few seconds before pushing me away from her.
She stood up and I crawled on the floor to reach her legs as I had no strength in my body. I felt myself chained to the ground, making me unable to make me move my young body. She walked out of the room and bang the door shut, leaving me alone in that dark, small room.
“No…. Mom…. Mom… come back…. Come back…. Please…. Mom…. Mom.” I screamed at the top of my lungs when suddenly the darkness started filling my surroundings, making my heart beating furiously in fear.
Suddenly a hand appeared out of nowhere and grabbed my neck. “Mooooooommmmm.” “Auora…. Honey wake up.” I shot opened my eyes and sat up while breathing heavily. I saw my grandmother holding my hand tightly. I threw myself into her embrace and held her cardigan tightly while shivering hard.
“It’s okay, baby… it’s okay… it’s just a nightmare.” She embraced me immediately and comforted me while stroking my back gently. Yeah, it was just a nightmare… but closed to the- reality that my mother sacrificed herself to keep me safe. My mother left me locked in the cellar when the rogues attacked our pack seven years ago.
I didn’t know for how long, I kept holding my grandmother but she didn’t complain. She never
complained about anything related to me whether it was my timidness, my silence, my fear, my clinginess too her…… My cowardness…..
“Will you be okay now?” she asked me in a gentle tone after, I guess, almost an hour. “Yeah…
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I… I am okay now, Grandma…. I guess. I should go for a run.” I replied to her in a calm but h*r*
She slowly removed me from her embrace and kissed my forehead. “Go freshen up and go f*or a run. I will prepare your favourite pancakes for breakfast.” She told me while stroking my hair. I nodded to her and she stood up from the bed. I removed the duvet from my body and got off the bed too.
After freshening up and changing my clothes into my running attire, I went straight to the backyard of of the packhouse. I didn’t know why but the alpha of our pack, Alpha Adrian shifted me and my grandmother to the pack house after my parents’ death during that rogue attack on our pack.
There were a few omegas bustling here and there in the packhouse as it was still early to wake up for training. For me, well…. I don’t attend trainings… They said I am too weak to be trained but Alpha Adrian said that I needed special training as my wolf surfaced late.
“Hey slowpoke… Where are you going?” I heard someone mocking me from behind but I didn’t pay attention to them and started my running. Everyday had a same start and now I was kind of bored with all these taunts and mocks. What was my fault that my wolf didn’t surface when she had to on my sixteenth birthday.
Still they mocked me and called me and my wolf weak for an beta blood. Yeah… I was former beta’s daughter who was killed by the rogues in the last attack along with my mother, his mate, and our Luna, Alpha Adrian’s mate, Luna Helena Blake.
I entered the forest, following the path made for run for the youngsters and kept on the steady pace. The fresh early morning breeze always calmed me and gave me strength to face everything that came to my way during my day.
I sighed aloud in resignation when I reached the pack house back after my run. Now it was time to be ready to face my day again that I didn’t want to with all my will. Yet I had to because like others I also needed to finish my school before deciding how I want to contribute to the pack.
I went straight to my room which was on third floor of the pack house, assigned to Betas, g**as and deltas families. Grandma didn’t want to come back here as my family moved out of the packhouse when my grandfather was the beta of this pack. She had so many memories in our house near the border, but Alpha Adrian said it was too risky for us to live
there on our own.
“Good morning, Aurora” Betty, the present beta female greeted me with a warm smile when we met on the stairs. “Good morning, Betty.” I greeted her back politely with a slight bow. “I guess, Mariana is cooking today again?” she asked me with the same smile and I smiled
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faintly. “O how I am in love with her pancakes.” She exclaimed while rubbing her hands and ran downstairs,
I chuckled while shaking my head. Her mate, our former ga**a and present beta, Edward the beta position after my father’s death. They still lived in the pack house and that was why, I met them from time to time.
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I was glad that I didn’t meet anyone else again and reached my room safely. Our room had two bedrooms connected with an internal door and that was why, my grandmother came to my room easily every time when I had nightmares.
After finishing shower and got ready for the school, I looked myself one more time and took a deep breath while tightening my grip on the straps of my bed. “You got this, Aurora…. You can do this….. Just seven more months and then you can get out of this pack.” I gave a peptalk to me and took a deep breath once again.
I walked out of the room and stiffened when I scented him. I almost fled on the stairs to avoid meeting him. That was why, I didn’t want to stay in the pack house. “Hey, Aurora…. Where are you going? Have your breakfast first.” My grandmother yelled at me in worry when I was about to cross the exit.
I stopped and closed my eyes before taking a deep breath. My grandmother could feel other’s distress and that was why, I didn’t want to go to the kitchen to have my breakfast. “Good morning, Mariana…. It seems that we are having your delicious pancakes as breakfast again.”
My heart almost stopped beating when I realized that he was almost behind me. “Good morning, Noah…. I have made your favourite tacos too,” my grandmother chirped and I chewed on my inner cheeks. “Come on, Aurora. We will be late for school,” he called me in an affectionate tone, sending a cold shiver through my spine.
“You can do this, Aurora… you can do this.” I encouraged myself and slowly moved towards the kitchen. I saw my grandmother raising her brows while standing near the dinner table. Noah came near to me, and I stiffened, but masked my fear for him. I didn’t want my grandmother to worry about me now.
I almost screamed when he wrapped his hand around my shoulder. He was more than a foot taller than me, making me look so tiny in front of him when we both were of almost same age…. He was three months older than me.
“Hey, slowpoke… Ready for the day, my love?” he asked me in a sly, low and cold tone, making me worst than the day when I lost my parents and someone who loved me the most after my parents.
shudder once again in fear. He was the worst nightmow and cold tone,
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