Chapter 24: A pawn in the game of power....

SELENE POV

FLASHBACK

Tears streamed out of my eyes, as I overheard the heartbreaking conversation between my dad and his friend. My heart raced with fear.

He hates me. I muttered underneath my breath, closing my eyes as I could visualize the intense hatred in his face.

"She can't be my daughter. A wimpy little brat as a daughter is a curse. I will get rid of her no matter what it would take me." my dad swore, his voice laced with seriousness and bitterness. I felt a surge of adrenaline gushing through my veins.

"Vezora, you need to leave. Don't listen to him, he will surely come around.." A familiar voice said, I turned and Lita, my stepmom , was standing beside me looking at me with a sad expression on her face as she hugged me tightly.

I nodded, and walked out heading to the Alpha's palace where he had thrown a ball as he wanted to find his mate. I didn't want to go but Lita had encouraged me to do so, pointing out that I might be lucky to be his mate.

An idea which I scoffed at.

"This way ma'am." The guard at the door said, gesturing to a door and I smiled, heeding his directions. I entered a huge ball filled with beautiful ladies clothed in expensive dresses that made me less of myself.

I knew then and there that I wasn't going to fit in here, walking to the exit when I heard an animalistic growl behind me.

A scent waffling into my nostrils intoxicating me and my wolf Zira. But I couldn't turn back as I wasn't ready to meet her.

The whole hall silenced and I turned wondering what happened when my eyes got in contact with Tristan, the handsome young Alpha of my pack.

"Mate!" He snapped, and my wolf danced in excitement. The whole crowd were staring at me with shock and I felt conscious of how I look.

He walked closer pulling me to his hard chest, shivers ran through my body with my heart beating in an ecstatic rhythm.

Two weeks later, I was living with him in his palace and he was never home. An arrogant and cheating monster was Tristan, I couldn't believe I would be stuck with someone like him my whole life.

I prepared some sponge cake taking it in a tray in a bid to get his attention, I was let in and he scoffed immediately upon seeing me.

"What are you doing here?" He asked, not even sparing me a glance. My heart clenched in pain, but I would not let him see my tears.

"I just wanted to give these to you, I'm sorry." I said, dropping the tray as I turned to leave.

"I didn't ask for it. Take it back." He said, and I whimpered turning as I picked the tray and left ignoring his insults.

I was sure I hadn't done anything wrong to him, he should have rejected me without letting me go through all these.

I locked myself up in my room for days till I couldn't take it anymore so I decided to confront him about his actions.

Opening the door to find Lita in his bed, they were naked with their hands fondling each other. I winced and looked with a smile on their faces.

I turned to leave as I couldn't take all this anymore, he was going too far and this was the height of it.

"Don't you dare leave. Sit and watch." Tristan said, his voice filled with warning and threats. I was hurt by Tristan's betrayal as we were mates but I was shattered by Lita's.

They had sex in my presence while I sat down watching them as Tristan would carry his threat out if I didn't obey him.

My heart clenched in pain. Zira was shocked and silenced.

"I, Tristan Blackwood, reject Vezora Sinclair as my mate as you are unworthy of the role." He growled,

"And I take Lita to be with my mate and Luna." He said, and Lita smiled.

All her pretences were all a facade and she was showing her true self.

I was stunned, feeling very weak and foggy as I staggered back trying to keep myself up. I was annoyed with him for treating me like this.

Running out, going into the woods to kill myself as I couldn't go back as my father would add the frustration making my life more diffcult.

"Shush. Don't let her see you else she would get away." I heard leaves rustling as I perceived rogues coming closer.

"Let me go." I screamed out, thrashing as strong hands held me while stuffing me into a bag.

I passed out from suffocation, when I woke up next I found myself tied to a stake.

"Good, you are awake now. Let the bidding begin." I heard, and men gathered round.

"Ten thousand." A man said, and I looked towards his direction. He was too old and I looked down regretting why I had left the pack to get into a more terrible situation.

"Twenty." They went on.

"A million." The crowd cheered looking at four men who had bidded the same thing, and I could identify the handsome werewolf as an Alpha.

"Sold. They will sort among themselves." The leader said, grinning from ear to ear.

I couldn't believe I have been sold to four men

How did that happen?

"What would we do with her?" The vampire among them asked, looking at me with his nose turned down with disgust.

"I won't share her with any of you, especially this cold-blooded being." The Alpha said, his hands already running through the hems of my dress.

"She's delicate and I can't wait to wreck her." A young man said, licking his lips in a way that disgusted me.

Feeling a pair of eyes staring at me with h

is green eyes piercing through me. I shuddered only at his look, he hadn't said anything but his presence was dangerous.

"I'm taking her. She would pay for her father's sin."

What did my father do?

FLASHBACK ENDS