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He stood there watching me as I hurriedly rushed to the kitchen to grab a rag.
I didn’t ask questions as I knelt and started to wipe up the dark liquid seeping into the edge of the decorative rug in the living room that my mom adored.
I focused on the mess before me while trying to ignore Alan’s presence. But it wasn’t long before the searing, blinding pain hit me. I looked at my hand and suddenly realized he was stepping on my hand with his hefty boot.
“Ah!” I screamed, trying to pull my trapped left hand away, but he crushed my hand even further until tears sprang to my eyes. When he lifted his boot, all I could see was my red hand plastered to the ground.
Pain. It was all pain with him.
I couldn’t see straight at all.
He laughed with his friends about ‘teaching his beta daughter a lesson.’ Tears flowed uncontrollably down my cheeks as I carefully lifted my hand with my other one and used my right hand instead to clean the mess. In searing pain, I let my broken hand lay limp at my side while I struggled to clean the mess.
“Clean every drop you spilled, useless beta,” he said, shaking his head. He’d always been ashamed of having a beta daughter like me. I wasn’t born with a wolf claw birthmark on my shoulder or a pretty scent like an omega.
Squeezing the rag into the sink, I let all my pain and frustration out on it using my good hand. I went back and forth between the living room and the kitchen until the spill was thoroughly cleaned up. By then, my father was no longer paying too much attention to me, and he was snoring on the couch while his friends left one by one.
Sighing, I rinsed my good hand, and the pain seemed to take over my entire body as I limped outside the front door.
I always went to my Aunt Julie if I had an injury inflicted by my dad. She was the only actual parental-like figure I ever had. Breathing hard, I brushed the sand from my face in the city of El Paso, Texas. This was the only home I’d ever known since I was born here in this small community of werewolves, and no one was allowed to leave, especially omegas like my aunt.
My aunt lived a couple of streets down, so every alpha guard standing on the road eyed me as I limped my way over to her. There was a small clinic here, but I didn’t have healthcare, despite the numerous times human authorities would investigate our secret compound away from human society.
“Oh, Bree,”my Aunt Julie cried as she dipped my hand in ice-cold water that had floating ice cubes. “How could he? He went way too far this time, that asshole.”
“Fuck,” I groaned in pain when I felt the cold hit my skin. It felt like needle pricks, but the sharp, stinging pain I felt after the assault had dimmed a little.
“Don’t curse now,” she admonished.
“I’m fifteen,” I said, gritting my teeth from the chilly water. I was finally in the safety of her home, which only had the bare necessity for an unmated omega. She preferred to live in isolation, watching out for my mom from afar. Even though she had told my mother countless times to leave my father, my mom wouldn’t hear of it because she loved Alan too much.
“He’s such a horrible man,” my aunt continued. “I wish your mother would listen to me for once. I’ve watched out for her my entire life.”
“It’s not like she has a choice, though, right? Once marked by a pack, the bond can’t be broken.”
My aunt suddenly got a glimmer of something in her eyes that I couldn’t place. And I knew that the only way to break away from an alpha pack was death.Was she implying that my mother should kill Alan?
I was shocked, but a part of me didn’t care what the hell happened to him.
“If your mother can’t leave him, then you should,” she whispered while looking towards the door. We would never know when an alpha guard was patrolling the area, and someone could be outside, listening. “You should leave this awful place.”
Fear struck my heart at the thought of going to the outside world.
“I…I can’t,” I said shakily. “What if I get caught?”
“This is no life for you to live,” she said. “I don’t care if you’re not an omega. No one deserves to live the way you do. Don’t you want to live a normal life?”
“To live with humans?” I whispered harshly. “I’ve never even seen one before.”
“They’re just like us, but without the werewolf gene,” she said, her eyes wide with excitement. “Since, obviously, my sister has chosen her path- I’ll protect you instead.”
“Protect me?”
“I’ll go with you,” she said, and my heart pounded faster with fear but also excitement.
“I don’t know,” I said. “There are guards everywhere.”
“Let me figure that part out. Just let me know when you’re ready.”
