Prologue
Prologue:
Tanya Miller stared blankly ahead of her as she could not believe what her father just told her, just because she was the youngest daughter of Alpha Thaddeus Miller and just because she was not a shifter like her sister or brother’s didn’t mean that he could do such a horrible thing to her, didn’t he care for her like a father could in his own personal way it was all hope that he did but they did not care for her feelings at all, she tried to block out the demands and the screams thrown at her but could not do so as her father’s cold eyes bore into the crevices of the family link demanding her to look at him and listen or else she will feel his wrath.
Her father was a cruel man to the outside world and in her own world, but to his other children he was the epitome of a generous father and friend. She wondered what her mother saw in him, when he took her as his third wife for his mate passed on after giving birth to her brother Thahiri Miller a spitting image of the man she calls father or alpha, same dark brown eyes, facial features height and one difference his hair color instead of the chocolate brown her brother had golden blonde locks whom she believed to be inherited from his late mother, he then married to a woman who was cruel as they come, Margaret could put Cruella Deville’s antics to shame she bore her father two devil spawned children twins Gregory Miller and Sylvia Miller they only inherited the eyes but the rest was just like their mother red hair and legs that could go on for miles as well as her ways.
“You will marry Owen Banks!” Margaret’s voice invaded her thoughts “Or else, your father and siblings will see to your punishment!” she continued and then sauntered toward her, then slapped her the slap could be heard throughout the quiet foyer, Tanya held her now stinging cheek and then she let out an exasperated scream as her hair was being pulled back and she was staring into the eyes of her father and wanted to regurgitate her meal as the man spat in her face before continuing with his demand of her being his daughter she needed to do what he or anyone said.
“Do you hear me, you good for nothing whore?! You are a piece of shit that was not even supposed to be born, you can hardly shift but being the nice people, we are, fed you clothed you and gave you a roof over your head after your mother decided to kill herself, so you will do as we say. Do-You-Hear-Me you pathetic child” she screamed the last words and then shoved her so hard she fell to the ground, and then pain after pain could be felt as each member began kicking and punching her.
She looked up and stared in the loveless eyes of her father and sluggishly got up, she then took an deep breath, even though it was becoming hard for her to breath, but knew that it will be healed in a few hours, as her wolf was healing her wounds she then stared with determination at everyone in the room as she opened her mouth to voice out her words.
“Yes, I heard you all! For the past 20 years of my life, you are rubbing in my face that I am worthless and that I was the reason why my mother killed herself, well I don’t believe any of your words – “she then took another deep breathe for she needed the courage to say what she meant to say for her whole existence.
“ So let me say this and you all will listen and heed to what I say: “ So let me say this and you all will listen and heed to what I say: I Tanya Roselyn Miller will never accept any request or do what you ask me to do again, I am 22 years of age and i am way more better than any of you in the brain capacity, so I hereby reject your offer of me to marry a man you accuse of being my mate and I formally reject Benjamin Whither as my so-called mate, as I am glad you took my sister and you two are good for each other” she shouted hoping everyone in the household hears her and continued
“And the Owen thing of us being mates, we all know it is bullshit and it is and never will be true. You all are a despicable bunch calling yourselves my family and but you treat me indifferently like I am poison to your good standing in the wolf society-“
“That is enough! Your an ungrateful child!” her father spoke and let some of his Alpha tone through, but she will not bow down to him or any-one ever again, she will make her own way and create her own destiny, she didn’t need his or her family’s permission. She then looked at them all and smiled a sinister smile, before stepping up to the man she called father and punched him so hard his head rolled to the side, “I will not do as you say anymore – “ a loud growl could be heard as her father held her gaze and she could see his wolf was trying to take over. She looked at her so-called family and saw that they had their heads down, maybe he her father commanded them not to intervene.
She then felt a large calloused hand grab her by the throat, she then clawed at this hand hoping it will release her, but it only grew tighter until she passed out. Thaddeus had enough of his youngest daughters antics, he could not believe she defied his orders and then had a nerve to punch him, he had to fight his wolf from shifting and ripping her to shreds like he did her mother, when she defied him by running away while pregnant and only to find her years later holed up in a small cottage not far from his territory with two infants. She reminded him a lot of her mother, it is like her mother was reborn within her to defy him at every turn. She was of his blood, but a weakling and his pack didn’t need a wolf less she-wolf. He then dragged her unconscious body out of the main Packhouse to the court yard, he then summoned his pack to the court yard to witness her end.
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An excruciating pain scourged through his body as he fell from his bed, howling for the pain to stop. This was no ordinary pain but a pain of losing his mate, his mark was fading the same way her life faded
“Drake, Baby? – what’s wrong?” a female voice asked as she got out of bed to quiet him down
“Make this pain stop!” he screamed at the woman, whom he shared a bed not too long ago,
“Kate, is dead” he said out of breath as the last remnant of the pain receded and he then held onto the female beside him as he cried for the loss of his mate and unborn child.
“I can’t, be here with you” she said and stood up from where she sat and rummaged about the room in search of her discarded clothes
“You are leaving me?” he asked as he grabbed her arm and looked at her menacingly into her crystal blue eyes.
“Yes, we can’t be seen like this” she pointed at their state of undress and ripped her arm from his grip,
“Drake, you just lost your mate while we were making love and you are not even mourning her the way a wolf should mourn the one made for him” she continued
“To your people it will not seem right it will seem as if you planned her death” with that she turned from his intense gaze and dressed hastily before she could leave two muscular arms encircled her and made her turn around to face him once again, and her heart didn’t feel the sadness he felt but the knowing that finally she will be a queen and no sister there to stop her.
She then looked at him and waited for him to say those words to her.
“Deena, I know of the consequences once all is done you will be my Luna as it was always to be. You know Kate was never my true mate she was your sister whom I loved and marked, never the one to warm my bed as you do. I love you and never her” he finally spoke and told her what he felt. This made her wolf and her howl in silent happiness, but what he said next made her halt in her actions.
“I don’t know where my true mate is, maybe she is dead who knows!”
“But what if you meet your true mate, will you still claim to love me and then mark her as well” she spoke and then traced her long finger nails on his face as she said those words which left a vile taste in her mouth, he then looked her in the eyes and closed them before saying the words his wolf never wants to ever say or hear
“I will reject her for you!” and then captured her lips in a passionate kiss, he could feel the revolt his wolf felt towards her and her wolf.
A while later he got up and collected his discarded clothes, leaving a barely clad lover sleeping. He had to get home and pretend the loss was mutual and put on a show of a grieving Alpha. His wolf was being a pain and scolding him for his actions towards his choices that he took or was about to take.
