Chapter 14

I was gaping when Hayley finished her story.

Her mate is dead, her mate was killed by hunters that's why she hates hunters so much.

"Oh, Hayley" I mumbled hugging her, she sniffed "It's okay... I'm just going to my room" she pulled away from the hug and smiled at me.

But I know it's forced.

She stood up and went up stairs, when I heard her room's door slam shut I stood up and followed her, I pressed my ear against her door and heard her sobbing.

I sighed.

It'll be better for her if she's alone for a while, I'll comfort her if she doesn't stop crying. 

I walked towards the end of the hallway, pulling the short rope for the attic's sliding ladder will slide down. 

Climbing up, I pull the ladder up while closing the door. I turned on the lights and sat down on the dusty floor.

I just need to indulge what Hayley told me.

Hayley 

poor Hayley, she must have gone through that so hard.

I leaned against the wall but I leaned against a huge picture frame making it fall down from the box it was on. 

I stood up and placed it back where it was.

I placed my hands on the boxes but the boxes were empty so I accidentally placed my weight o it making the boxes topple down and the frame also falling.

I sighed.

I'm clumsy today, aren't I? I placed the boxes where they were, and I was supposed to place the frame back but furrowed my eyebrows.

It's a painting. 

I removed the white cover and gasped. It was a painting of me, but at the portrait I looked... more mature and older than I am now and... the girl at the portrait had soft features, you would mistaken her as an angel but... the girl in the portrait looks exactly like me.

The girl in the painting was wearing a gold pendant of a crescent moon.

I took a few steps back but stop when I hit a box, It was supposed to fall but I caught it, the sad part is that I was holding it the wrong way so all of the things in the box fell out of the box.

I kneeled down to pick it all up but they were picture frames and one golden music box.

The pictures were of the girl that looked like me and Ashton... I opened the music box for it to hum to a thousand years. 

Inside it was a little notebook and the pendant that the girl was wearing in the painting. 

But to point it out, the girl wore it at every picture taken.

I furrowed my eyebrows placing all of it back but the notebook and pendant. Now looking at these it looked like I didn't do anything.

Going back to the room, I placed the pendant I found in my underwear drawer with the key. But I hid the notebook in my shirt. I'm going to read it.

Shuffling to go out I bumped into Ashton "What were you doing?" he asked and I paled, "I-I was. Nothing" I murmur, walking towards the door and going out.

I went to the bathroom downstairs, locking it. 

I closed the toilet seat and sat down, opening the notebook to read the first entry.

I found my mate today, he's the Alpha! I can't believe it!

He's been so sweet to me, but the weird thing is that... I don't feel sparks or feel warm when I'm with him. But he said that those are only felt until after mating...

Well... He's coming, I can hear his footsteps. 

I'll be back. -Faith I smiled, this Faith girl sounds nice.

Flipping through the next page I silently continue to read.

We've already mated but... I still don't feel the sparks or warmth when I'm with him, he has been also quiet these days...

I'm already doubting our bond, I feel like we're not really mates...

I'll confront him about it...-Faith I furrowed my eyebrows. 

In the next chapter, it was torn and the next and the next, but I found another page that isn't torn.

He has been more violent, now he has been forcing himself on me, When I try asking for help they just ignored me! Like they don't know me! 

I've been mostly hiding from him. I'll be lucky if I pass a day hiding from him.

He has been abusing me, the punches, kicks, slaps it was awful! I tried to escape but he just locked me up in the cells for a week without food. 

I tried calling my parents' but no one answered I gasped and covered my mouth but flipped through the torn pages until I reached another page that isn't torn.

He went to a meeting in another pack. My day has been... peaceful but not nice. Why would it be nice if I'm treated as a prisoner?

Trash? 

In his eyes I am, I've been hiding in the attic because he won't look for me there, and he can't smell my scent or sense me from above... and the walls are soundproof.

But one day he found me, beaten me until I almost died because of too much loss of blood.

He looked panicked when I was bleeding too much, he was showing glimpse of what he was before, until I healed, he started beating me more roughly and now he was pushing my head in the bathtub, drowning me. 

He only pulls me up when I black out.

All of the pages are torn but the last one.

Faith's last entry. 

Today he's done the most awful thing he can do than beat the shit out of me. 

He knew I was pregnant, he knew that! But what did he do?! Kill his own child! 

He kept punching my stomach, I tried to stop him, pleading to stop because it's his child! But he didn't listen and punched me until I had a miscarriage. 

and he blamed me for it! He blamed me! 

I know someone might find this, I just want to tell you leave, run away, he's a psycho. 

His real mate died when he found her when he was eighteen, he killed her. He has mistaken me as his mate because I look like her, if you’re reading this right now I'm telling you, run! never look back! go to the council! to another pack, just escape. 

If you’re wondering who his real mate is, her picture is at the attic, a painting, she has similarities as me that's why he mistaken me as his mate.

He's crazy, delusional. Run now because after you two mate, he'll turn abusive. 

He has been doing this the day he turned twenty and the Alpha. Go now, run, before Ashton gets to you.