Chase Me Alpha (Daria and Caleb) novel Chapter 1

Chapter One

DARIA

“Let me in. I need to see Caleb.”

It took everything in me to keep my voice steady as I spoke, Her lips stretched into a smirk.

Felicia, just like always, seemed to mock me with her presence alone. But unlike all the other times, this was the time that it really hurt.

I couldn’t stand it. Pain lanced through my belly and I had to hold back a groan to keep from showing it. I needed to speak to Caleb. Needed to tell him…

“Caleb isn’t available right now,” Felicity replied smoothly.

“Please,” I pleaded. Once I would have never begged her for anything, not when she was his lover, shamelessly flaunting her relationship with him in my face. Yet now desperation filled me to the brim.

“I have no idea what to tell you Daria, you’re interrupting our time together. Are you really so desperate for attention?” She sneered and I flinched.

“How dare you speak to her like that? She is the Luna and his wife.” Sabrina, my maid and best friend shouted beside me.

“Really? Some Luna you are.” Felicity huffed, “Are you still fooling yourself? Everybody knows that Caleb would have ever married you if not for the peace treaty and even then he had to be strong-armed into doing it.”

I flinched at her words. Not just because they hurt, but the fact that it was all true.

She leaned in and I had to stifle a shiver, bracing myself for the final blow.

“Nobody here respects you. in all honesty, I’m sure that for Caleb it will be better off if you were dead.”

It hit me like a punch to the gut. I blinked back tears right as the door slammed onto my face. Surrounding me, I saw the guards and passing servants look on with derision.

Clenching my jaw, I turned away from their mocking stares, walking away with Sabrina following at my heel. I barely felt myself moving through the hallway as her words replayed in my mind.

It wasn’t the first time, or the last time, but this time it truly hurt the most and it was all because…because..

“Daria,” Sabrina cried out as I nearly keeled over, holding myself up against the wall. Without a single soul in sight I wished I could drown there, but

“You shouldn’t have had to move in your condition. I-”

“I’m fine Sabrina,” I waved her away even though I felt anything but.

Only several minutes ago, I had woken up to bloodied sheets with a tearful Sabrina looking at me.

“I’m sorry…the baby.”

Shutting my eyes tightly, I couldn’t hold back the sobs my arm wrapped around my belly. The bump was still small. It was too early.

In the end I didn’t have the strength to move anymore as Sabrina was the one to hold me up. The pain grew numb as Sabrina led me to my room. Resting on the bed I shut my eyes tightly letting the sobs out.

Nothing could heal this pain.

Pain was all I knew. It felt like it would never end from the moment I was born.

I’d never known my mother, but I knew well enough of my father. Alpha Kingston of the Red Vale pack, the man who had abused me my entire life. Whether through his hits or screams, I had grown subject to his mercy.

And then suddenly, less than 6 months ago he had declared that I was to marry.

It wasn’t so hard to tell the reason why. Months before I learned that he had been planning an ambush attack on the Wisteria pack, the largest pack in the region held by the ruthless Alpha Caleb. Despite the elders and everyone else warning him, he was just too arrogant.

And then when the ambush failed and we were at their mercy, he had offered me up as a marriage alliance and peace treaty in order to avoid consequences.

Yet the moment I looked at him, everything changed.

Because Caleb and I were fated mates.

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