Chapter 3 Sold Out

• Jocelyn’s p.o.v.
• I was barely six when the first kidnappings happened and my Brother stayed close to me, after the first rumors started to surface.
• He was never far away and I always felt a lot saver with him around. My best friend, Indigo, would make fun of it at first, that was until her Brother heard about the rumors too and then we both had a bodyguard.
• Our family moved in with Indigo’s family, because they were living closer to the Pack-house and it was a lot saver to live there.
• Our days consisted of classes at the Pack-house, instead of going to school and after that we stayed home. Someone was always waiting for us after class and that person stayed with us for the rest of the day, it was the same for every unmated female in our Pack.
• It became our new normal, something I thought I would never get used to. I grew up with running around the territory and then one day the fun was over, back then it didn’t make sense to me at all.
• On my fourteenth birthday, my parents explained what was going on and why other Packs tried to kidnap unmated females. I thought they were exaggerating, until the day the war started and I witnessed a female being marked forcefully, before she was taken across the border.
• That was a wakeup call for me and Indigo, a day neither of us would ever forget. It was also the day we stopped trusting a male, because it became clear that any male could give in to the urge to claim a Mate.
• Indigo and I got into a routine of our own, after dinner we would go to our room and only speak over the mind-link. It was saver that way, no one would know that we were there and at first we had thought we were silly to do this in our own home.
• When Indigo and I were sixteen, we were moved into the Pack-house and we hardly ever saw the outside again. Only on rare occasions would the Alpha gather enough Warriors around the backyard and that allowed us to spend a few hours in the sun.
• Our eighteenth birthday came and went, neither of us finding a connection to one of the Pack-members and we knew that it meant that we would eventually have to choose a Mate.
• Our Alpha had decided to leave that up to the females, after all we held all the power and anyone that tried to defy the Alpha’s orders would face death. No one was allowed to forcefully mark a female and a female was to inform our Alpha of her choice, not her parents, siblings or friends.
• He believed that if the Goddess no longer paired us together, it meant that we were to choose for ourselves and for that reason he made us pick our future Mate.
• Indigo and I had talked to our Moms about the males in our Pack and I still remember the growls of our Dads and Brothers at certain names, Mom even gave us a few names that she knew would piss those guys off.
• Looking back, Indigo and I are grateful we made that decision, it saved our lives.
• It is a week before my twenty first birthday, the war has been raging for five year and everyone is expecting me to announce the male I want to take as a Mate. Indigo and I had gotten through the list within two weeks and there are only a handful of males still on the list.
• They are the most decent males in our Pack and will probably be the best choice. Indigo and I even entertained the idea of choosing the other’s Brother, but we had seen them treating females like crap over the years.
• I am going over the names on my list and I remember the encounters I had with them over the past few years. Those memories formed the base of my decision, but the times I saw them in the past month is what will help me make my final decision.
• Indigo is sitting next to me, going over her own list and both of us strike a name of the list at the same time. We just look at one another, we don’t want anyone to know that we snuck onto our balcony and we both smile as we each hold up three fingers.
• “You know we will have to act soon, your Sister will inform the Alpha on her birthday and then it will be too late.” We hear Indigo’s Brother say and we look at each other with furrowed eyebrows.
• “The night before Jocelyn turns twenty one, we will sneak into their room. I already asked the Alpha if we can stand guard on their floor and the fool believed my excuse. The room is soundproof, so we can forcefully mark them and after that they will obey us.” We hear my Brother say.
• “I am going to kill him.” Indigo says and I don’t care which one she is talking about, because I will kill the other one.
• We listen to our Brothers plotting to forcefully mark us and I am about to link my parents, “It’s a good thing that our parents are on our side, it will make it easier to fool the Alpha.” My Brother says and I know we will get out of the territory tonight.
• “Once they are gone, we will go inside and pack a backpack. We are leaving tonight, our best bet will be White Mountain Pack.” Indigo says in my head and I nod my head.
• I am still trying to wrap my head around the fact that our parents sold us out and in the meantime we are both packing our stuff.
• We have had enough time at the Pack-house to see a pattern in the patrols and we knew that we could get past those guards and out of the territory.
• The only thing left in our room after we leave will be a note, a note to our parents: You sold us out.