The Dark Side Of Fate by Karima Sa'ad Usman novel Chapter 164

~Amelia~

It was hard being displaced. I was just finding my footing in my pack when our Alpha was arrested and executed for treason against the King.

Neighbouring packs took over our lands in the western region, and we were chased out.

They did not even have the decency to ask us to join their packs; they drove us away to find our way.

I knew our Alpha was an arsehole, but what did it have to do with us? We were equally victims of his wickedness.

The King, Queen and the council did not help us. It was as if we did not matter, and that was when some of us started hating them.

My life was a colossal mess. I grew up in an orphanage. My mother took me there when I was five and never looked back.

No one adopted me because of the colour of my eyes and my breed. The fact that I was a Delta breed did not help matters either. People felt I would be defiant. Only Deltas, gammas, betas and Alphas could adopt someone like me, but I guess they never visited orphanages. I was allowed to stay until I was eighteen.

The matron, Lucy, wanted to send me to a workhouse in Gad when I turned eighteen, but I refused, so I was kicked out of the orphanage.

I roamed the streets, and many painful things happened to me in those years.

Soon I learned the ropes and became fierce.

I was a petty thief for a while before finally stealing enough to start a small food business in a truck.

It was okay. I did not go to bed hungry and had enough to get by.

Things were looking up until Alpha Moses was arrested for treason, and all hell broke loose.

Alpha Sean took over Gad after Moses was beheaded.

We were sent away from our settlement in Gad. I would have taken my truck with me, but it broke down, and the rickety thing could not travel far.

I learned we would be welcomed in the east, so I came here, but the atmosphere was just as hostile as the west, and soon I had to revert to my old ways.

I had been caught stealing severally and locked up many times. Every time I was released, they would ask me to leave the pack. That was how I found myself in Mountain.

I did not want to break into Alpha Albert's home, but I was hungry.

I was looking to steal some money to add to my stash and maybe start a food business in the east as I did in Gad, but I was busted.

I did not know why I did not hide when his scent filled my senses, but it was too sweet to ignore.

There was something earthy about it, and Aurora, my wolf, wanted to remain even in the face of danger.

"Mate, Mate," she said, and I froze.

This was unusual, and I could not believe it was happening. I was hopeful, but looking at myself in the mirror, I knew it would be hard for anyone to accept an ugly, homeless woman as their mate.

I looked unkempt, dirty and malnourished. His heart must be of gold to overlook our appearance.

"Don't get your hopes up, Aurora," I told my wolf, and he walked in.

I fought the scent, and when I realised who it was, I put more effort into it.

Seeing his eyes, I knew he would not accept me.

There was no point even trying.

Other than the mate bond, I also had to deal with the fact that I had been caught stealing, and he was the head alpha of the east.

I have heard stories about how cold and ruthless he had been lately, I knew I might not survive it, but I chose to be brave.

That was all I could do in the face of the danger that stared at me.

I tried to be strong, but I was scared.

As low as my life was, I wanted to live.

I did not know what he would do to me.

When he ignored the bond, chained me and dragged me out of his house, I knew rejection was coming.

I wanted to laugh at myself, but I dared not because he would think I was laughing at him.

It was still okay until he handed me to the bloody kappas again, and I knew I had to swallow my pride and beg.

There was just so much abuse anyone could take, and I did not want to go down that path again.

At that point, I was willing to say anything to stop him from locking me up.

I doubted he would listen, but I was surprised when he did.

He gave me a job and took off the silver cuffs.

I felt a tinge of hope in me.

When Aurora returned to me, she was hopeful, too, because he had shown us kindness, something we had never experienced in our entire life.

I was hopeful.

Then he asked for my name, and I stupidly gave it to him with ease, thinking something great would come out of it.

I should have known what he would do with it.

The moment I gave him the name, it was over. He rejected me with ease, and I found myself writhing with pain on the floor.