SWNOVELS Escaping my arranged marriage with Alpha Prescott Chapter 1
Under attack
Matilda
I muffled a sob, clamping my mouth fiercely with my hands as I heard the soft giggling of Isabel, followed by a moan along with my mate’s groan from inside the kitchen.
“Aah, yesss… Oh, my God, Gaby.”
“Yes, baby. Just like that, ride my d*ck,” said Gabriel and I couldn’t take it anymore so I ran away from the kitchen.
They were getting intimate again and the next morning, my b*dy would be left with the new scars because my mate was cheating on me with his mistress.
“Why, Goddess? Why me?” A painful scream escaped my l*ps as I let my frustration out. I was suffering in silence here because of the mate bond while Gabriel was enjoying his life with Isabel.
“Hurry up, b*tch,” Lena, Isabel’s best friend, barked at me. “It’s been two years since you came here. You should get used to this. They love each other and you’re nothing but a burden on Gabriel which he should have gotten rid of long ago. You know, he is the future alpha, who are you, then?”
All of the pack members mocked me because I was no longer the daughter of the Alpha King. Hadn’t I given up on my royal title for him, they wouldn’t even dare look me in the eye.
“Line up all the food on the dining table, sloth. It’s my daughter’s birthday, I’ll skin you alive if you slack off or leave any spot d*rty in the whole packhouse,” Alpha Vincent growled, scowling at my shivering hands.
I lowered my head and kept my mouth shut even though I shouldn’t endure their bullying.
Vincent was the Alpha of the Lunar pack while I was the Alpha Princess, the daughter of the Alpha King but I was being treated worse than the omegas.
Two years ago, when I loved Gabriel at first sight, I loved him so much that I escaped from my arranged marriage with the most ruthless Alpha, to come to live incognito in my fated mate’s pack.
That day, I became a speck of dirt from a royal Alpha Princess. I gave up on my royal title and everything else, just hoping to be Gabriel’s Luna – as he had promised.
My younger sister, Avery, foretold a prophecy that the man I would choose to wed would betray me.
Her vision wasn’t that pronounced so I didn’t trust her prophecy which was the biggest regret of my life.
It turned out that my fated mate pretended to love me only because he wanted to take revenge on my father. My father, being the Alpha King, had ordered the execution of Gabriel’s father when he was found guilty of some crime that I didn’t even know of.
I was unaware of my mate’s past and trusted him blindly. He promised to marry me but when I came to his pack, I got to know about his hidden agenda and his mistress who left no chance to make my life a hell in her pack.
From the diamond adorning a sovereign’s headpiece, my existence had descended to being a stone on a d*rty road, kicked by everyone for their own rapture.
“Gabriel is going to propose to Isabel tonight.”
“Aww. They will finally get married.”
“They will make a lovely couple.”
The omegas who worked with me whispered while carrying the food I made alone since the morning and I gasped, the tray of cupcakes falling from my hands as their words engraved in my mind.
My wolf howled in agony in the back of my mind. My mate was going to marry someone else.
“You f**king bi*ch. I knew you would try to ruin my daughter’s special day,” Luna Penelope landed a sharp slap on my cheek, glaring at me furiously.
I looked at my mate who had his hand wrapped around Isabel’s waist in the hope that maybe he would come to protect me but like always, he turned a blind eye toward my bully.
Gabriel didn’t mark me or mate with me so I didn’t have a mind link with him. Alpha Vincent didn’t take me as a member of his pack so I didn’t have the pack link either. I was just a personal maid for my mate’s mistress and had the status of lower than an omega’s.
“I’m sorry,” my voice broke as I cleaned the floor.
“Reject her, my love. She always tries to ruin my happiness,” Isabel pouted, looking at Gabriel with her puppy eyes.
“Isabel, I will, but not now. I’ll reject her, publicly, right at our wedding, good?” Gabriel Gently comforted her.
“What are you looking at, filthy wench? Go back to the kitchen and clean it,” Lena spat venom, crushing my hand under her feet.
Suppressing my l*ps hard, I bit back a cry and dashed toward the kitchen. The physical pain was nothing compared to the agony I was feeling inside me after hearing the word- reject.
Please, don’t reject me, I murmured to myself, letting the tears fall down my cheeks once I was alone in the kitchen.
If he rejected me, I would be declared a rogue.
And the rogues always ended up either dead or being slaves to the Alphas which was a far worse situation than I was already in.
I couldn’t go back to my pack. My father would hate me for betraying him and running away from the marriage.
“Girls like you aren’t born to cry in the kitchen, girls like you are born to cry in my bed,” a deep husky voice made me jump in my place.
Wiping the tears off my face, I displayed a stoic expression on my face. I wouldn’t let him see me as a weakling. I knew what he wanted but I would never give in to his d*rty attempts.
“Leave me alone, Cole,” I told him coldly, not even looking at him. Cole was the son of Alpha Vincent and his mistress who died while giving that piece of shit birth.
“You have the audacity to deny the Alpha’s son, b*tch,” he locked the door and I turned to see lust floating in his dark green eyes that checked me out shamelessly.
I hated that bastard. Every time he tried to hit on me, I got punished by Isabel for seducing her half-brother.
“Be my whore, Princess. You will be my Mistress, have my protection, and will be entitled as this pack’s member,” he offered, grabbing my hands and pulling me closer forcefully.
Gathering all my strength, I pushed him away when I heard everyone singing the birthday song for Isabel.
“Everyone is celebrating your sister’s birthday out there. Why don’t you go and join them?” I reasoned, taking a few steps backward.
He let out a dark chuckle. “The celebration will be over soon. They don’t know what’s coming for them.”
And the next thing I heard was the screams of people from the garden where the birthday celebration was happening.
Before I could find out what happened, Cole received a mindlink and left immediately.
I hurried over there and found everyone running and crying.
The Lunar pack was under attack which they hadn’t anticipated. All the warriors were trying to fight off the wolves who assailed the pack members but soon, the wolves outnumbered the warriors.
The garden that was smelling of roses now smelled of metallic blood as the dead bodies of the people surrounded the ground and all the decoration for which I stayed up late last night was eradicated.
The Alpha and Luna were nowhere to be seen when they should be the ones to lead the pack in such a situation.
I could smell the cedarwood scent of my mate but I couldn’t find him anywhere.
“Isabel, run,” Gabriel’s voice called out for her name and I found him killing a wolf with a dagger.
“Go away, hide, Isabel,” he shouted again when our eyes locked with each other but he quickly looked away.
Even though he had seen me, he still chose to call Isabel’s name.
My heart was bleeding. He didn’t care about me, and this was obvious.
The howling of the wolves came from the direction of the woods, from behind me and I could feel them approaching me with hunger. Being the Alpha Princess, I had the power to see in the dark and smell the wolves from miles away.
Although they bullied me and abused me, they couldn’t snatch away my powers which I was born with.
“Gabriel,” I shrieked at the top of my lungs for help at the same time as Isabel whose voice came from the opposite direction.
She was glued to her spot, scared of the wolves who were sprinting toward her.
We both were surrounded by the wolves and Gabriel could save either of us as we were in completely different directions..
And there was no doubt that the one he chose not to save, would die.