Chapter 1

• LORETTA'S POV.
• ‘ HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS.’
• Whoever said those words must have been drunk when he sprouted such nonsense.
• Home was never a place where the heart was, at least, not for me. It was hell, complete hell.
• It was better to become an orphan than to have a family who treated you like a slave.
• My heart always bled, whenever Rosé sent me on an errand and my biological father said nothing.
• Hell! I'm older than Rosé by three years, but yet, she treats me less than a slave.
• I blamed it on myself and I blame it on the moon goddess who made me an omega. A weak one at that.
• An omega without a wolf? That was the most ridiculous joke of the century.
• Maybe, just maybe, I won't be suffering now, if only my mother was alive.
• If she were alive, I was sure she wouldn't let her daughter suffer and maybe, my father wouldn't have remarry.
• What was I even saying? He didn't remarry, he just brought back home his mistress.
• My father had been cheating on my mom, three years after I was born, but as the selfless woman my mother was, she never complained, even though she knew everything.
• Just a month after her death, my step mother and her three years old daughter moved into our home, and ever since then, life has been miserable to me.
• “ Loretta!” I jerked in fright as I heard the sound of my name from a distance.
• “ Holy hell! I'm in trouble again!”
• I bit my lips hard, almost drawing out blood as I scurried out of my old room, running towards the direction of my name.
• “ Were you ignoring me on purpose?” My stepmother, Rita, cocked her brows, her face red with anger.
• “ No! No! Mother!” I raised my hands in the air, shaking it along with my head.
• Her hand came in contact with my face almost instantly, and I felt dizzy for a moment.
• My eyes rolled to the back of its socket, and it took a few seconds before I could feel the aftermath of the slap.
• My cheeks stung badly, and I couldn't help but rub it slowly, tears in my eyes to ease the pain that stung my cheek.
• “ I have told you several times not to call me mother, haven't I? Your mother is in the grave!” She yelled, her eyes blazing with fury.
• My legs were wobbly on the ground and a silent cry tore off my lips.
• I didn't have the right to cry my eyes out, so I had to hold back my tears, though it was impossible.
• “ Now, take this cheesecake to Alpha Prince Conrad. He ordered for it to be brought to him by you.”
• She shoved the box at me, hissed like a snake and walked away, swaying her ass like she was in a fashion show.
• Why was I still affected by her attitude towards me, when it has become a new normal since the day she came into this house with her daughter seventeen years ago?
• Hell, I couldn't help it.
• I just couldn't get used to the maltreatment and suffering from this family.
• If I was oppurtuned, I wouldn't think twice before leaving this house and also this hell of a pack, but for the sake of my sick grandmother, I had to endure it.
• My father didn't care about his mother-in-law.
• He stopped caring for my grandma the day my mother died.
• He turned his back on our pleas, despite knowing how critical her condition was.
• Slowly, I wiped my tears and dragged my feet out of the house to deliver the cheesecake, before I got my ass into another trouble.
• With every turn as I took, I got at least four disgusted gaze filled with disdain.
• Everyone disliked me because I was literally the prettiest girl in all of Dark Hollow pack.
• It angered the females, my stepsister included.
• She always felt insecure because of my beauty and curvy body.
• Despite how tattered and battered I always look, it didn't stop my beauty from shining, and that was what earned me most of the hate I was getting.
• I was already used to their disdainful glares and hateful looks, so it didn't affect me, even for a bit.
• I was wearing a crumpled shirt and skirt, which could pass for rags and also worn-out sandals which have been saving me for the past ten years.
• My stepsister got fashion designers, while I didn't get any.
• With a deep breath, I shoved my sufferings at the back of my mind, and focused on the task at hand.
• It was a ten minute walk to the Pack House, and I got there before I knew it.
• I was led to the Alpha Prince's Chambers by one of the guards.
• This wasn't my first time here, but each time I came to the Pack House, I always brazed myself for what was coming.
• Alpha Prince Conrad always had his eyes on me, despite being my stepsister's mate and that annoyed me to the core.
• He was trying to get into my pants, but I wasn't a whore, and would never let him.
• I pushed the door to his chambers open and met him seated on his bed, wearing nothing but a royal robe.
• I was smart enough to catch on.
• He was trying to seduce me or rather force me into having sex with him, but I was too tired to even look at him.
• “ Your highness.” I bowed and dropped the box of cheesecake on his table. “ I was asked to deliver them.”
• After that, I turned around, walking towards the door, but his voice caused me to halt on my track.
• “ I have to see if it's my favourite cheesecake you brought, so come open it.” He ordered and I exhaled slowly before walking back to the cheesecake.
• I opened it and showed it to him.
• “ It's your favourite.” I said with a forced smile.
• “ Why don't you rest a little bit?” He offered, and I almost scoffed.
• He was as transparent as silk that I could see through his intentions.
• “ I'm sorry your highness, but I have other errands to run.” I declined his offer in the most polite way I could muster.
• “ I will pay you for each second you stay.” He said.
• It was a tempting offer which I desperately needed for my grandmother's surgery fees, but I knew better than to oblige.
• I would be as good as dead if Rosé found out that I was in the same room with her mate.
• Hell would break loose.
• “ No, thank you.” I smiled and walked towards the door, but he was fast to hold my waist from behind.
• I shuddered at his touch, and immediately tried to get away from his hold, but he was stronger than I was.
• Hell, he is an Alpha blood, while I was an omega.
• It was just like a rat trying to get off the grip of a lion.
• “ What are you doing, your highness? Let me go!” I begged, but it fell on deaf ears.
• “ I will only let you go, once I have a taste of your tight pussy.” He whispered into my ear, before licking my earlobe like a popsicle.
• I was irritated to the core, but I couldn't get away from him, no matter how hard I tried.
• Luckily for me, the door pushed open with a loud thud and Rosé stormed in, her eyes red with anger.
• I guessed she was informed that I was in her mate's chambers.
• The position we were in made her more furious, and without listening to what I had to say, she grabbed me by my hair and pushed me roughly to the ground.
• “ Arghh!” A cry left my lips when I bruised my knees on the ground.
• “ How dare you touch my mate?”
• She yelled furiously, invisible smoke emitting from her nostrils and the top of her head.
• “ Trust me, Loretta. You're dead today!” She said, and I knew better than to ignore her words.
• Rosé would do just as she says.
• “ I will kill you, bury you and write ‘bitch’ on your grave!” She glared. “ Maybe tonight, you will join your dead mother.”