Chapter 56: Book Two- Her Alpha Savior- Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight
Josephine
When I make my way home, I begin to prepare dinner right away, after everything that happened last night, I don’t want to set off my parents or sister today. So, I try to keep myself quiet and do as I am told. I have the markings on my wrists to show for my disobedience from yesterday when I was mean to Tiffany, she is the daughter of the Alpha’s Gama and, my dad is the Alpha’s Beta but because I don’t get why my wolf won’t let me tell my parents about her. All she tells me is that when the time is right, and I can reveal everything. Well, I want that time to be now. But she keeps telling me to keep quiet, and that the moon goddess has a plan for us.
I am treated worse than the Omegas that we have that help take care of the pack. Even the Omegas are treated fairly, they are not treated like slaves, they are given the right work in the packhouse for the Alpha for a decent wage and they get free room and board if they want and a way to earn that room and board is to also work for the Alpha, but they don’t have to do any of that if they don’t want to, but they choose to because he is a good and kind Alpha and I wish I could have the opportunity to do that, but I know my parents would never let that happen.
When my parents found out what happen yesterday at school, they chained me up downstairs in the basement and my mom and Heather had their fun beating me to a pulp, if it weren’t’ for my wolf, then I probably wouldn’t have been able to make it to school today, I still have bruises all over my back and a few cuts, When Max saw the bruises on my wrists I thought he was going to blow a gasket. I now know that he thinks something is up. I need to make sure I am more careful when I am around him.
When I finally have dinner ready and working on putting it on the table my parents and my sister walk in and sit at the table. I make my way with the last of the dinner and when they begin to fill their plates.
I make the mistake of trying to sit in the open seat across from my sister, waiting patiently for me to have a chance to fill my plate as well. But once I’m seated and I reach for the steak, my mom smacks my hand with the spatula so hard it snaps in half and instantly a red mark begins to form on the top of my hand.
Then she throws the broken spatula at me, and it bounces off my shoulder then she reaches over and slaps me in the face, and I know there is going to be a red mark on my cheek tomorrow. When I quickly retract my hand and lower my eyes because I know she is going to start yelling at me.
“What is wrong with you girl?!?! You know better than to reach for food before we are done. After that little stunt you pulled yesterday you will be lucky if we save anything else for you. You ungrateful little brat!”
“I’m sorry mother, I wasn’t thinking.”
My sister feels the need to add her two sense as well.
“Yea, because your too stupid to think about anything. You’re just a useless dumb human with no wolf. Mother can’t we just get rid of her. Have the Alpha banish her and make her a rogue?”
“Now Heather you know the Alpha won’t banish her unless there is a good enough reason. He has a soft spot for this one for some reason. Plus, if we did that, who would cook for us and keep the house clean?”
“Your right mother, as always. I guess we will have to just put up with this little brat.”
I wish I could just stand up for myself and tell them I have a wolf, and then maybe everything would go back to normal, and they will start to show me love again.
“No, we mustn’t do that. The moon Goddess would not be happy with us.”
“But why not. They would quit being mean to us and making fun of us. They may actually love us again.”
“Please Josie. We can’t tell anyone yet. Moon Goddess was even hesitant to even let us tell Sarah, but she made an exception because she has been your friend through everything. Please, just a little longer and everything will be better. I promise.”
“Okay, Fine.”
My wolf seems to believe that things will get better so I guess I need to go along with it. For now.
I think if my family finally knew that I had my wolf then maybe my family wouldn’t be so mean to me.
Maybe then they would love me again. But as of now, I am treated worse than the omegas, like a slave. I can’t wait until I am eighteen then I can leave this place and go find my mate. Maybe he will love me and care for me the way my family is supposed to.
“Your right. I am stupid, I’m sorry.”
My dad surprisingly doesn’t say anything, but when I try to look up at him, I can see all the anger and hate in his eyes for me. I know they are all ashamed to be related to me. Here I am daughter to the Beta. My mother makes a move to sit back down in her seat but before she does, she takes my plate away from me and throws it against the wall behind me and tells me to leave. So, I make my way out of the kitchen and back to my room.
At least they let me keep my original room from when I was a child, granted I haven’t received anything new from them since they have realized I don’t have my wolf. I haven’t gained much weight in the last few years like I should have due to my parents monitoring what I eat, and I try to take extra care with what clothes I do have. I have had to take in my pants a little bit here and there because of the weight that I have lost, but at least I have clothes to wear at all. I try to be grateful for what I do have, and I try not to draw too much attention to myself when I am around my parents, I’m afraid they may take everything away from me.
I did manage to get a job working for a book store just outside of the pack and I help the shop owner whenever he needs me and I get paid a decent amount, I try not to let my family find out about it, I have to keep what little money I do earn hidden from them, otherwise I wouldn’t have anything, I need to save everything I can so I have money for when I leave this place. I have to keep my money hidden in a loose floorboard under my bed.
When I am finally dressed and ready for bed, I am getting ready to climb into bed for the night when my door flies open, and I am forced to take what is coming my way. It’s times like this that make me wish I could show my wolf. Then I could truly defend myself. I knew something like this would have happened sometime tonight.
My mother comes and starts swinging something at me and she catches my forearm a few times and my shoulder, then when I turn to try and get away from her, she hits my back with whatever the thing is, I’m too busy trying to protect myself and trying to get away from her to really focus on whatever she has, I just know that it hurts bad. Before I know it, I’m falling asleep in the corner of my room and I faintly hear the door to my room close and I can’t find the strength to pull myself up, so I just lay down the rest of the way and close my eyes, maybe if I’m lucky I won’t wake up in the morning.