Alpha Markus and Celeste novel Chapter 1

Prologue – Celeste

Celeste P.o.V. ~11 yrs ago~

I pushed through the chaos of the crowd. I could hear someone screaming my name, asking me to stop. I couldn’t. I needed to see for myself. I had felt the break of the connection through the mind link but I needed my eyes to confirm what my heart refused to accept. It couldn’t be him. He was invincible.

I made it to the front of the crowd. As I pushed past the last of the crowd, my knees gave way at the scene in front of me. The tears running down my face.

In front of me stood the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack looking at my mother, holding the head of my father. I felt sorrow and anger. I tried to get up and push forward but was grabbed and pushed behind my father’s gamma.

‘You can’t, Celeste. He can’t know it’s you.’ He mind-linked me. I swallowed a sob and held onto his leg with all of my might. I could still see my mother on her knees crying. Alpha Geoff was laughing, kicking my father’s head like a hacky sack.

“Your mighty Alpha didn’t stand a chance, Luna. Your pack now belongs to me. You belong to me.” He smirked and laughed again. My mother looked over the crowd of our pack. My father had been challenged and by werewolf law, what he said was true. We now belonged to the Blood Moon Pack. Her eyes made contact with mine. I could see that her heart was shattered. Alpha Goeff pulled my mother up by the arm and squashed her to his side.

‘I have failed you my people. I’m sorry’ I heard her say over the pack mind link. As Luna, she could project to everyone in the pack at once. Still looking at my eyes, her breath hitched. ‘I love you Celeste, my little piece of sky. I hope you can forgive me one day. Don’t let them know how special you are. Don’t look pequeña(little one).‘ she said to only to me. My gift pulled me forward then and I saw a flash of future. But there wasn’t enough time to prevent it. I saw the same image of what my gift had shown me play out in front of my eyes. I sobbed as I saw my mother grab the bloody knife from Alpha Goeff’s waist band and flash it across her throat. A pain burst forth in my head. I buried my head to the leg that was holding me up.

I heard the Alpha’s roar “Stupid b***h!” He kicked the lifeless body of my mother over my father’s.

“Grab all the unmated females and baby males. Kill the rest” he screamed. I heard the snarls of his warriors and the screams of mine as his orders were carried out.

I was lifted and carried through the crowd. He didn’t stop until we reached the cliffs behind the Packhouse. I could still hear the screams of my pack as they were ripped to shreds.

“Look at me.” My father’s Gamma, Lucian, said. He shook me a little when I didn’t obey. “Look at me little Celeste!” he said urgently. I looked at him. “I can’t take you with me little one. I don’t know if I’ll make it out of alive. You have to lie. You have to lie about who you are. You understand?” He said.

“I have to lie.” I said.

“What’s your name?” he asked. “If they ask you, what is your name?”

“I don’t know” I said, crying again. All I wanted to do was wake up from this nightmare.

“Your name is Celeste Pierce. You are the daughter of deceased Gamma, Lucian Pierce. Say it.”

“My name is Celeste Pierce. My daddy was Lucian Pierce. Daddy’s g- Gamma of Alpha Cory” I said.

“Good” He said, giving me a hug and a kiss on my forehead. “I would be honored to be your dad in name.” he said. “I have to go little one. I will look for you. You hear me. I will find help and look for you. I will get you out. I want you to repeat what I said over and over until it feels natural ok? Until you no longer want to say your daddy’s last name. You can’t let them know who you are. Bad things will happen if they know. Promise me Celeste, promise me you will say the right words?” He said.

“My name is Celeste Pierce. My daddy was Lucian Pierce, Gamma to the Alpha” I said.

He gave me another tight hug “Good girl. I will find you. Flourish and live little one” he said and I saw in horror as he jumped off the cliff. He shifted half way through the jump and dropped into the river. I heard a yelp as he hit the water. I stared for what felt like hours waiting for him to resurface, but I saw nothing. I sobbed and fell to the ground. Curling into a ball.

“My name is Celeste Pierce. My daddy was Lucian Pierce, Gamma to the Alpha” I said. “My name is Celeste Pierce. My daddy was Lucian Pierce, Gamma to the Alpha” I sobbed into the night. “My name is Celeste Pierce. My daddy was Lucian Pierce, Gamma to the Alpha” “My name is Celeste Pierce. My daddy was Lucian Pierce, Gamma to the Alpha” “My name is Celeste Pierce. My daddy was Lucian Pierce, Gamma to the Alpha”

After what felt like forever. I passed out on the edge of the cliff, not waking until I heard footsteps coming near me and feeling someone pick me up.

Chapter 1 – Celeste

Celeste P O V ~Present~

“DON’T DAMAGE THE MERCHANDISE!!!” I heard the Beta scream.

They’d sent all of us little ones to work at the Packhouse. In the 11 years since, I’d had basically become a slave. Although legally speaking, they were no such thing as slaves, we were not paid, we were starved, beat, and molested. We had to cook and clean for the warriors and the Ranked families. But time was running out. Out of the 40 children that had been taken from the remains of my Pack and sent to the Packhouse, several had started to go missing as they reached 19. There were rumors of them being raped and murdered, or banished. It was always after the next full moon. The ones that found mates left the Packhouse, the ones that didn’t were the ones that disappeared. I had a feeling that once the Alpha was sure his warriors had a chance to get a mate, then he would cast them out to become rogues. They were never seen again.

I looked in the reflective surface. Thanks to the fact that they starved us, I was too thin and too small. It was easy for them to believe I was only 17. That I was yet to get my wolf. I had bought myself an extra year and half. I shifted in secret, letting Kara, my wolf, get strong.

Damn right we’re strong – Kara smirked in my head – We’re destined for greatness you know.

I would settle to be destined to live past next year. – I scoffed.

Soon Celeste, soon we will make them all bow down to us. I swear this to you.

Sure, sure. Let’s just keep practicing for that back up plan. We need to get out of here before they discover you or realize I’m not mated to anyone here. We need to get far away from here in case they kill us instead of turn us into rogue. – I said, placating her.

I wish you would have more faith in us and our gift. Maybe then, we would be able to control it. – Kara said as she went to the corner of my mind and lightly blocked me.

I sighed, I didn’t like it when she blocked me. She was my best friend. The only one that knew about my sight and how broken it was. I was never able to train it, so my premonitions would come only seconds before they came true and usually too late for me to stop them. It was frustrating, specially because they gave me splitting migraines after. Everyone thought I was weak and they weren’t really wrong. My “gift” could cripple me, but thankfully, being basically a slave, no one gave a crap and I was not allowed to go to the pack doctor to get it looked at, so my secret was safe.

I sighed again and tried to wash myself as well as I could. My small room was basically a half bath that no one used. My bed was under the sink and the toilet was on the other end of the “room”.  The few changes of clothes and a wash rag were neatly hung from the side of the metal slab that I used as a mirror. The sink was broken, the tap hadn’t worked in years. So I used a pot of water for washing.

I fiddled with my raven black hair to make the bun secure and sighed, time to get to work.