ELARA'S POV

My heart skipped a beat... no... several beats. I thought my heart had stopped for a few minutes, but it was only for a moment.

"Why is he doing this? I am of no use to him" I thought to myself.

I guess my only option was to beg for my safety, for my life.

"P...pl..please... Alpha.. Alpha Kane, I am of no use to you, I will gladly be banished from the pack and I will never set foot in here again, please let me go" i said to him, as I felt the anger rolling off off him in waves and I felt the weight of his alpha authority on me, pressing down on me, suffocating me.

I hear footsteps walking away from me, and I am relieved, thinking the Alpha has listened to my pleas and decided to banish me instead of torturing me, but then the footsteps suddenly stop and with a thundering voice he says.

"You have no right to make a request, no right to beg for anything" 

"Please, I just want to be out of your life and let you be, I promise you will never see me or smell me around your pack again" 

Smack!!

The force of the slap pushed me back. I didn't even know when he walked back and gave me a slap that had me seeing double, he must have used his alpha speed.

I lay on the ground, my mouth bleeding and my head banging from the force of the slap. 

This was what it felt like to be slapped by an Alpha.

"Take her away" he says, and I am led back to the dungeon by the guards.

Back at the dungeon, my head reels from the pain but my mind keeps wandering to what the alpha has in store for me, I know it can't be good.

"Why does he want to harm me?" I think to myself. My chest tightens with every heart beat.

"I accept the rejection, what else does he want from me?" the thoughts keep on pouring in.

Goosebumps...

Goosebumps crawled all over my skin as I felt a chill in the air, the air suddenly seemed very cold and I shivered a bit.

"But there are no open windows, " I thought to myself.

"It must be fear, I have felt this so many times", but this time, it felt different, like a presence, watching me in the darkness.

I decided to attribute it to fear, fear for whatever the alpha had planned for me.

My mind drifted to how I came here and how I started living alone...

It was about 5 years ago. I had been living with the chef that worked in the pack house, she was such a mean woman. 

When I was found at the pack border, at least that's what I was told.

I was told I had been found at the pack border and given to a chef to be taken care of until I was old enough to be on my own. She was no mother to me, she treated me as badly as she could, eagerly waiting for when I would be out of her house.

She lived alone too, and most times I would come home after a long day of work at the palace, to no food and an empty kitchen, despite the fact she was a chef and there was always enough leftover. 

She preferred to trash the leftovers or hoard them rather than feed me. I started feeding myself after that, I was ten at the time, and when I turned 13, she requested I be moved to a different place to stay alone, because she couldn't cater for me anymore.

I didn't cry, I didn't beg, I simply packed what little belongings I had left and moved to the house designated to me, the shack close to the border. I've been on my own ever since.

My thoughts drifted back to the Alpha. He was twenty four, he had been looking for his mate since he turned eighteen and he had taken command of the pack since he turned twenty.

He was ruthless, and he enforced hierarchy in the pack, the more powerful wolves always preyed on the lesser wolves, that was the way in this pack.

I was always the target, though I had always managed to be out of the Alpha's radar. But now, I was on his radar, not only on his, the whole pack had eyes on me, waiting to devour me.

The Alpha had been harsh to me many times before, but I had never directly been in his sight, had never been the receiver of his ruthlessness. This was new to me, and not in a good way.

I took in a deep breath, the air smelt like old blood, piss and dampstone. The dungeon was a dangerous place.

I was trapped in this tiny cell. I was surrounded, and vulnerable.

I had seen many people come here and never got out, and now, I wondered if I would be part of those people.

I needed to be out of here. I needed to be out of this dungeon, out of this pack house, out of this pack.

I needed to escape.

But was that even possible?

Everywhere was sealed tight. Locks on every door, guards stationed in every hallway.

I'd be found before I even stepped a foot out of the dungeon, I couldn't even make it out of my cell.

"Please, I just want to be free...free of this place...free of him"

I didn't know when tears started rolling down my cheek. I wept at my fate.

I don't know how long I cried for, but I stopped crying eventually for fear that the guards would hear me and scold me, or worse, report me to the Alpha. The last thing I wanted was to be face to face with him again. 

I drifted off into a deep sleep, far from peaceful. I could feel as though I was aware I was asleep, it was a weird feeling.

THIRD PERSON POV

Back in his chambers, the alpha paced around the width of his room, occasionally growling loud enough for his guards stationed at his door to hear him.

"Fuck!" he yelled out loud.

"I remember when that bastard was picked off from the pack borders, if i knew a day like this would come, I would have had her killed a long time ago, and maybe I would have been giving another mate" the alpha said with a growl while pacing.

He took off his button, ripped off his shirt and flung it to the ground.

The alpha was angry, in fact, the alpha was pissed at the situation. His thoughts of having a mate worthy of having his heir seemed like a mere dream to him now.

"Something has to be done about this" he said loudly, all the while still pacing and letting out occasional grunts of displeasure.

He wracked his brain for a possible solution. And then it clicked, he realized the bond should have been broken the minute he rejected her, but it hadn't broken, and he couldn't kill her just yet because it would greatly weaken him and pose a threat to his authority.

Until the bond was carefully severed, killing her would harm him and his pack.

He didn't want that. That would be an avenue for other alphas to lay eyes on his pack. He could never allow that.

"I will never allow it, never! Not while I am alpha of the Dark Light Pack" he growled.

All his words were coming out in growls and grunts now, his wolf scratching at the surface, threatening to come out and let loose his anger.

"This is unheard of and it must be something from her end, probably the fact that she is wolfless, it must be a mistake and it might affect the bond, maybe the bond between a wolf and person without a wolf was different, not to talk of the bond between an alpha and a wolfless mutt" he thought to himself

"Something has to be done about this" he repeated, calmly this time.

The Alpha saw Elara  as unworthy and as a threat to his pack, he could neither kill her and he couldn't let her go either, other packs would use it against him.

He was sure the news of him having a wolfless mate had spread far and wide now.

The mate bond meant nothing to the Alpha, his mate was wolfless and weak , and he would rather watch her die than accept her for a mate.

The wheels of his brain were turning in a devilish way.

"I will make her suffer for this," he said to himself.

His first plan was already in motion.

A knock sounded on his door.

"Who is that?" the alpha growled

He heard the sound of feet shuffling and then a voice said "Your Highness, Lady Yvette is here, she says you requested her presence"  the guard said.

"Let her in" the alpha said

"Okay your highness" the guard said and then the doors to his chambers opened and in walked Lady Yvette.

Lady Yvette strode seductively towards the alpha, swaying her hips slightly with every step, her brown curls rested on her neck and flowed down to her waist.

"Your highness " she said in a sultry tone "you sent for me?"

"Yes, I did" the Alpha said as he walked towards her and watched her beautiful frame smiling at him.

The mate bond was still intact so she would feel every pain from what he would do that night, the greatest pain a mate could feel was when their mate was intimate with another person with the bond still intact.

He smirked because he knew Elara would face unimaginable pain.

He walked over to Yvette, he grabbed her by her waist and pulled her to him.

"Oh Alpha" she gasped, almost out of breath.

Yvette was his favorite, he had many women to warm his bed and pleasure him, but he had been with Yvette the longest and she knew the right things to do and say.

She moved her hands up the Alpha's bare chest, his muscles flexed and unflexed in reaction to her touch.

His hand slid up to her neck and he pushed her onto the bed, she fell, her robe rising up, revealing the smoothness of her thighs.

"Take it off," he said.

Without a second thought, Yvette took of her robe and was laid bare before the Alpha.

He stood, towering above her, his smirk still in place and his cock rising to attention too.

Yvette moved closer to him, to try to get a feel of his cock, he pushed her back.

Then there was the sound of a belt unbuckling, clothes falling to the floor.

The Alpha climbed on the bed, looked at Yvette one more time, swiftly, turned her over so her ass was in full view and plunged into her without any warning.

"Oh Alpha" Yvette moaned his name loudly. 

That only made him go deeper, he started slow at first, filling every inch of her, every inch of his mistress.

He held onto her neck from behind, pulled out a little and plunged into her, deeper this time, she was a writhing  mess on the bed.

Yvette couldn't wait to feel the Alpha totally engulf her, deep down, she wished she could be his mate, and she knew that the alpha requesting for her after meeting his mate was a good sign and she relished in it.

Another deep thrust plunged her out of her thinking.

As the alpha's thrusts started to get faster, she started to moan more.

"Oh...my lord... oh... Alpha... please".

She had no control over her words, she wanted everything.

The Alpha plunged relentlessly and steadily increased his pace till he was going at an alarming speed.

"Elara wouldn't even be able to take my cock like this, she's wolfless" he hissed to himself.

The anger made him increase his pace one more time and Yvette continued moaning his name.

His thoughts were on how to make Elara suffer.

ELARA'S POV

I felt a sharp pain that woke me from my sleep.

I had become used to pain at this point, I experienced pain every day from this bond, but this, this pain was different.

It engulfed my whole body, bathing me in aching pain as if hot coal was poured on my body. This pain wasn't focused like the pain from the bond, it was all over my whole body.

I struggled to open my eyes and found darkness staring back at me.

"What... what's going on?" I whispered to myself in the darkness of the prison cell.

Then the realization came.

"I might not make it through this pain".

I had already been sad and mistreated for days now, enduring pain I haven't been able to talk to anyone about, and now...

"Please ....please... help me... anyone" I whispered.

I know the guards couldn't hear me, they couldn't help me.

My head was pounding and everything was just pain, blinking my eyes brought me pain, tears flowed freely down my cheeks.

I was too weak... too weak to even cry for help.

The alpha was right, I am worthless.

And this might just be how I will end.

All these thoughts just kept pouring into my head, I was trying to do anything to stop focusing on the pain, to ignore the pain but I couldn't. 

I slowly felt myself lose control of my body and I fell unconscious.

...

Ice cold water jolted me up from my sleep, but I was too weak to even react. I slowly opened my eyes, but this time, I wasn't met with darkness, there was a light flickering in the corner of my eyes.

I sat up slowly on the straw bed and saw a guard standing in front of me with a lamp and a bucket in his hand.

It clicked, he must have poured water on me to wake me up.

Standing next to him was the beautiful Yvette, the alpha's mistress. Everyone knew her, she was always by his side and in his chambers.

I kept staring between the both of them and Yvette had a cruel smile on her lips.

"Oh, you're finally awake" her words dripping with scorn.

I didn't say anything, I didn't know what to say to her so I just kept staring.

"Stand up," she said.

I reluctantly tried to stand up, my body being very weak from the earlier pain, but I stood up anyway.

She walked to me slowly, and circled around me then scrunched her nose.

"You smell like filth" she sneered

I scoffed, I hadn't had a bath in days and this place reeked, was I expected to smell like roses?

"Well, that's fitting, seeing as you are filth" she continued.

I said nothing and sat back down because my body aches from the pain.

Suddenly she steps in front of me and grabs me by my neck, my hands instinctively reach out to pull her hands back, but her grip is strong, after all, she is a wolf, I could only gasp for air and try to claw at her fingers.

"I am pretty sure you know what happened last night, don't you?" She asked.

I was confused, thinking about what happened, other than the fact that I was in pain for the whole night.

She must have guessed I was clueless from my expression and she continued. 

"Well, the Alpha had me with him all night long and oh, what a night it was, Incase you didn't know, that's part of his plan to punish you, he didn't tell me, but I guessed, when a wolf with a mate is intimate with another, it's torture for his mate, so I'm guessing you were in pain all night, the guards heard you crying"

She said and let out a loud chuckle, my mind started to reel.

This meant the pain I felt last night was from him being intimate with someone else. Tears involuntarily poured from my eyes.

"Oh. Are you sad?" She said, with a fake hint of concern, "you should be, and to be honest, I have no issues in warming the Alpha's bed, but I am deeply unsettled that it was used to punish you, because I am more than that, so I decided it was only right I punish you myself, don't you think so?"

She asked in a soft tone, she sounded crazy.

I was still gasping for air and by now her claws were digging into my throat, I looked into her eyes and saw her eyes glowing, her wolf was at the surface.

Suddenly, she flung me into the wall and my head had the first impact. I fell on the cold ground, my head ringing and pounding.

"That's about right, take it as a gift from me to you, you're worthless and you already know that, I am not even threatened by you, because the Alpha doesn't even want you" she said loudly

I don't know why, but I felt a pang of pain at her words, it must have been the bond reacting to her words. I knew deep down I just wanted to be out of here.

I lay on the floor, my head clutched between my arms because it hurt so badly and I could feel hot liquid seeping through my fingers. I was bleeding.

"I am not sure you will last long here and I will make sure of that, I could easily end you now, but now is not the right time, you should suffer a bit more" she said once more and swiftly turned and walked away.

I heard the gates to my cell close and everywhere was silent once again.

I started crying, was it just a mate bond that made me deserve all this? It was painful, I should have been left without a bond rather than face all this.

"If this is what it means to have a mate, then I wish the moon had never chosen me" I said to myself before my eyes closed on their own.