Chapter 1 CHAPTER 01
RAVEN'S POV
I remember it as clear if it was yesterday. Our parents hid all the girls because a very powerful Alpha came to our pack and started taking all the young females. Our Alpha over months just let him. I will never forget the day they took Carla and me. We had thought they had gone. I had come out of hiding. Father linked mother they were back for some reason. Mother told me to go back to my hiding spot. I had Just got there when they knocked on the door. My mother answered it. I could hear everything if they were in the living room. I held my breath as I heard my mother open the door.
"Can I help you?" she asked the person at the door.
"Move woman, where is the girl?" The man asked.
"You were already here; We only have a son." Mom said.
"You all lie too. We know you have a daughter named Raven. Where are you hiding her?"
"You are mistaken. We just have our son Leo." Mom said, staying calm.
"The girl, France, told us about Raven and another girl. so go get her now." The man yelled.
"We only have a son. Do you see any girl thing here?" Mom asked.
"Search the house! The man said.
"You searched it yesterday. We have no daughter." Mom tried again. I heard someone fall. Then mom started to cry.
"Don't touch my mother!" Leo yelled.
"Silent tears fell down my cheeks, as I bit my bottom lip.
"Why is there an unmade bed upstairs?" A different man asked.
"My sister stays with us when her mate is on night patrol. Ask the man that was here yesterday he saw her." Mom said. It was true Aunt Linda did stay when her new mate was on nights.
"Raven, come out of hiding, or I will shoot your mother for lying." He yelled. I stood there. I didn't know what to do.
"I will count to ten. He said and started counting. Mom said not to come out no matter what. But I could not let them kill her. I opened the door and went up to the living room. Trembling.
"Take her," the man said. Mom started to cry harder. They took me out and put me in a truck, Clare was already in there. They drove to the pack house. Clare and I watched out the window. I wish I never had. Alpha pointed to my father, and they shot him in the head.
I screamed "No!"
But no one heard me that cared. I sat back down and cried trembling with fear. Clare tried to comfort me, but it did not help. Then they took us from the pack. A man from the passenger seat came into the back of the van. Clare and I were terrified about what he was going to do. He sat on the floor with us and got out a clipboard and pen.
"Girls, my name is Hawkins. I'm not going to hurt either of you. Raven, what is your birth date.”
I did not answer him.
“Don't make this harder than it is. We are not the bad guys.”
"Really, you just shot my Father in the head," I yelled.
"Birth date." Was all he said. When I still did not answer, he turned to the driver.
"Turn the van around. We will get the information from her mother." He told him.
"No, my birthday is May 15th." I said.
"Clare birth date."
"June 26th." She said right away. Thank you, both he said. Then he went back to the passenger seat. I will never forget that day as long as I live. That was eight years ago. I have seen a lot of girls come and go from here, but Clare and I have been here in this pack since then working as servants. We share a room just the two of us. Others are in rooms of four or six to a room.
"Raven, come on, hurry up, I don't want to miss one minute of our day off." Clair yelled through the bathroom door.
"Go get you breakfast. I'll be down in five." I told her. I looked at myself in the mirror, I did not look like that little girl anymore, I stood five feet six inches tall, I have the shape of a woman now. My red hair I throw up into a ponytail. I put on my jeans and pink hoodie. Slip into my high-top runners. I had just gotten from Hawkins for my birthday. I don't know why he was so nice to me and Clare, but it seemed like he genuinely cared. We had never met the Alpha or Luna in all the time we had been here. But that was about to change. Just as I got to breakfast, Hawkins came up to us.
"Sorry, girls, but Alpha wants to see you now." He said.
"Hawkins, why does the Alpha want to see us? Did we do something wrong?" I asked. He had a sad look on his face.
"Because you are both of age now." He told us as we followed him up the stairs to the second floor.
"Remember to bow your heads when you go into the office." Hawkins told us. Hawkins knocked on the door and waited.
"Enter," a deep voice said. We went into the office with Hawkins and bowed our heads.
"These are your two charges, Hawkins?" Alpha asked.
"Yes, Alpha." Hawkins said.
"I see you taught them well," Alpha told him.
"I did my best, Alpha." He said.
"They are both of age now?" He asked.
"Yes, Alpha, but...." Hawkins was cut off by the Alpha.
"You know, the law Hawkins." Alpha said.
"Please, Alpha. Not these two. They are like daughters to me." Hawkins told him.
"Then you will be a proud father seeing them mated. Not another word from you." Alpha said. A woman came into the room. He told us to bow our heads she was Luna. We did as we were told. But what did he mean mated. That is when I heard Spirit for the first time she started growling. I did not even know at first it was coming from me.
"Calm your wolf, young lady." Alpha said to me. I looked to see who he was talking to.
"Raven, stop." Hawkins told me.
"I'm sorry." I said. Luna came over and was poking at us.
"Open your mouths," she told us. Then she examined our teeth.
"They are very healthy; both should give the pack many children." She said. Then I realized why they had taken us. They were using all the women to populate the pack.
"NO! I'm not going to be a breeder for you," I screamed. Clare stood horrified. But said nothing. Alpha got up from his desk and walked over to me.
"You apologize this minute to your Luna," he ordered.
"You are not my Alpha or Luna. You killed my father and took me from my family." I yelled.