Chapter 3 Discoveries

Jasmine's POV

I ran to and fro, from the corridor to outside where I slept. My bags and clothes were outside. I had to get them to a dry place. But the more I tried to shove the boxes out of the rain, the heavier the rain fell.

At some point droplets of rain, felt like huge boulders that hit at my back. I felt the pain of each drop ad it hit my back. Leg, head, face.

Thunder clapped and the lightening illuminates the place. I flinched and left every bag I was carry and ran to the corridor. To the little shelter, it could provide. I sat on the ground, and my teeth chattered. I grabbed a cloth and draped it around me. It was when I saw the material, tears began to pour from my eyes.

It was mum's shawl.

If only she was here.

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"Your highness!" Someone tapped me and I woke up.

"Yes" my eyes were wide open as I tried to take in all that was going on around me. "Scarlett?"

"Yes" her face had worry etched all over it. "Did you sleep here?"

I nodded. "It's alright"

She frowned. "No it's not, how can they treat you like this!" she whispered harshly.

"Sshhh" I darted my eyes around and jumped when I saw a maid behind her.

Scarlett's tuned around and frowned. "Breakfast is set downstairs" the maid said in a voice that seemed angry before she turned around and left.

I raised an eyebrow. "What was that?"

Scarlett shrugged. "I have no idea your highness"

And so we went downstairs and had breakfast. Alone. Just I and Scarlett. I didn't find it strange owing to the way, the heir alpha treated me. Only God knew what was going on happen next. After breakfast, Scarlett helped me dry up my clothes. Up until afternoon, I still had no room and I was getting worried. I was the next Luna. Was this what my life would be?

My next line of thought when a nice looking lady appeared at the door of the corridor. She wore these rich looking wool and smiled. She had a nice smile.

"Oh my God! Is this where Lucas asked you to stay!" she put her hands on her chest

I and Scarlett stood staring at her. Who was she?

"Sorry for not coming to the wedding. My name is Emilia Thornton, I am the Luna of the pack"

Emilia Thornton? Luna? That's Lucas's mother.

Immediately I and Scarlett bowed. "Your highness" she tried to stop me from bowing.

"No no" she smiled. "You don't have to. Please call me mother" het voice was deep and classy. Aha. Finally a kind person amongst all these monsters.

I smiled. "I'll sorry... mo....mother" I said exchanging a look with Scarlett. It was sort of hard calling someone mother, few days after my mother's demise. The Luna of clapped her hands in Glee.

"Good, we are family now, all these titles make us seem distant, and don't you think?"

"Err... I...I -"

"It's alright Jasmine" she gushed. "Oh what a beautiful name you have" she pulled me in for a hug. I stared at her with wide eyes. Was she always like this?

"Come on, I'll show you to your new room" she pulled me by the hand and we walked up stairs, war got to a room and she smiled before she opened it. And there it was. A room befitting of me. A Luna in waiting. It had gold and purple curtains. The bed was in this deep mauve. The bed was queen sized. Like the one I had back at home. There would be a bathroom and bath tub.

"This will be your room, Jasmine, you will have maids assigned to you immediately"

I looked around with a huge smile.

"Do you like it?" The Luna asked.

"No" I shook head and saw her face fall like a pack of cards. "I love it" I hugged her and she chuckled.

"You silly girl" she laughed. Before she left my room, maids were already getting lined up. She warned them to treat me well or they will have their heads cut off the next day.

My clothes were brought you my room and I settled in. That night, the Moment my body felt the tender hands of the bed, I immediately zoomed off to sleep. Only waking up to my alarm.

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It's been 2 Weeks of living in the Silver moon pack. Life was hard. I saw how people were threatened with death and people were killed within a twinkle of an eye.

I got closer to the Luna. She was just like an angel sent to me. Who knows maybe my mother had sent her. The only thing was that her son didn't see me as person worthy of communication

All I heard about him were his sexcapades with the maids. Even though I didn't like him, but he insulted me by sleeping with the maids. I still had no allies or power in the pack since I had no child and to do that, I had to sleep with Lucas. But Lucas wouldn't even look at me.

Then one time a maid flipped her hair in my face. She was immediately reported to the Luna by Scarlett.

The Luna ordered that her hands be cut off.

Every time I saw her, I felt sort of guilty but Scarlett told me she deserved it.

I bonded with the Luna. She told me how she was also dragged to be the Luna and even though she had stayed long in the silver moon pack, she still wanted to go home.

I felt pity for her. Her husband was just like Lucas. A philanderer. I saw my life in hers and I knew that if I was going to stay long here, we had to stick together.

The only thing the Luna did was sleep, wake up, attend ceremonies, read novels, joke around with Logan, her godson, and son's best friend and then go to sleep. She was closer to her godson than to her son. Logan was more of a son to her than her son. It was indeed a pitiable sight but she always put up a smile.

But then something happened that changed everything.

One night, days before Lucas's coronation as Alpha, I was told he wanted to see me. I prepared myself just in case he wanted to do more than just talk.

I got to his chambers and asked the guards to announce me but he said I should go in, since the alpha had been waiting for me.

I took in a deep breath and just as I put my hand don the knob, I began to hear funny sounds. Like sex. I frowned and was about to leave but I stopped. I didn't know why.

I opened the door just a crack. There was something beyond the sounds of sex. I opened it more and walked in.

In Lucas's inner chamber, in the room those disgusting sounds were coming from, I could hear him talking with someone.

"After my coronation, we will attack the Blood moon pack and kill the remaining ones "I clasped a hand over my mouth.

"But you made a marriage pact" a voice said.

"Well let's just say I don't keep my promises" It felt like I had punched in the gut.