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.

ELARA'S POV

I heard the sound of my cell door opening again, it never ended nicely whenever my cell door was opened.

I had started getting used to expecting pain whenever I heard it being opened, maybe today would be different, I thought to myself.

There was a guard standing there with a light and he said to me "You. Up".

I tried standing up as carefully as I could because my whole body ached from Yvette's assault.

I stood on my feet and my legs trembled, but I knew I had to be strong or it would even be worse. The guard turned and started walking, I walked behind him and tried to keep up to his pace.

"Please. How long have I been here?" I was hoping he would reply to me because he was the one that brought me bread and water daily. 

I didn't hear a word from him for a few moments.

"A week," he said. I guessed rightly then, he had given me food for 6 days, it was hard to keep track of time in the dungeon, it was underground and morning or night didn't make a difference.

He walked briskly and I lagged behind and then we eventually got out of the dungeon and we went out through the back entrance of the pack.

We kept walking for a few minutes and then he stopped. I felt relieved because I wasn't sure how much longer I could walk.

"Here, you have been ordered by the Alpha to transport these rocks from here to there" he said, pointing at the other end of the pack house.

I thought to myself "that's the whole other end of the pack house, how will I do this?"

"But...I can't do this, I wouldn't be able to do this..please" I didn't even know why I was begging, I knew my pleas would not be heard.

I knew this was a punishment from the Alpha, but I physically couldn't do this, there were a ton of rocks and the distance was so long to cover. 

"Failure to complete everything by nightfall and you will be whipped 20 times" he said strictly, before walking off.

What the hell? I physically couldn't do that, I was never too strong, I could clean and wash for as long as I could, but I doubt I would even be able to lift these rocks. 

I shed tears again, this was becoming too much, I knew it wasn't necessary but the Alpha just wanted to punish me, for what? For being his mate?

I had cried so much these past few days my eyes hurt.

I couldn't do this, but I had to try, I had been whipped before and I really didn't want to relive it.

It was a few years ago, I stole bread from the kitchen and I was caught, I was whipped just 5 times and I couldn't walk for days after that, the scars were still on my back. I was treated once a day, because they didn't want to lose the cleaner of the pack, it was hell for me. I shuddered at the thought.

I decided it would be best to try and move them rather than get whipped. So I got to work.

I walked closer to the pile of rocks and noticed some were smaller than the others, I decided to start with the small ones, there were no tools to work with, only my bare hands.

I took one look at the pile again and bent down to try and lift one of the smaller rocks, it didn't budge, I tried again and after a while, after straining every muscle in my body, I finally lifted it and held it close to my body, I slowly pulled my legs and walked to the place I was to carry them to. 

It took me a few minutes, and when I made it there, I was panting and out of breath. 

I felt someone looking at me and then I turned back and saw the Alpha in the distance, I stared at him for a while, thinking of how cruel he was and then I decided to get back to work.

I took my eyes off him and when I looked back, he was no longer there. "Even better" I muttered to myself. But other people still had waited around, watching me, this was public humiliation.

I made it back to where the pile of rocks were and I bent to pick up another rock.

Rock after rock, walk after walk, hours had gone down, I hadn't been given food or water and the pile of rocks still stood tall, daunting.

I couldn't move my legs anymore, my arms were heavy and it was almost dark. I knew I wouldn't be able to get it done today.

"I shouldn't have even tried" I said, tears started falling again. I was getting sick and tired of crying every damn time.

I just stood there, motionless, I knew I couldn't finish before time, so I resigned to my fate.

As tears fell, my knees fell to the ground and then the fear of the whipping started creeping in.

A guard walked up to me and said "you will be flogged if you fail to complete this task"

I had no words, I knelt there crying helplessly. I know I had tried my best and I tried to numb myself.

After a few moments, another guard came and picked me up. I was carried to where I would be flogged, my hands and legs were tied to a large rock I hugged.

I had been numb the whole process, wondering and thinking.

Then I heard the whoosh of the whip, slicing through the air.

Whack!!

It came down hard and unforgiving on my skin, I could feel my skin break, every bit of numbness I had fled away, I could feel everything, every nail on the whip, the coldness and hotness of the whip.

My eyes widened in desperation and I started struggling against the ropes.

"No...no please" I screamed, that was just the first whip, I had 19 more to go.

The second one came, even more unforgiving than the second.

I screamed for my life, every fiber in my body burned.

Then came the third, the fourth, up until the 10th and I knew I couldn't take it anymore.

I had lost the strength to scream, I raised my head and saw people looking at me, some of them had pitiful looks on their faces. I saw the Alpha in the distance, looking at me, expressionless.

I couldn't move, I couldn't say a word, I could only cry and my eyes hurt now.

The next whip came down on my back, and the minute I felt it, the same minute I blacked out.