99 Ways to Survive Happily With an Alpha's Mate!

"It hurts, Mom!" Shouted a 22-year-old girl who was currently being beaten by her stepmother.

Since the death of her biological mother, her father had married a woman not too far away from her. Only 8 years apart in age. For some reason, when her father went out of town to work, her mother turned into a very mean stepmother. It was different when his father was at home. She was like an angel who was always kind to her!

Like this time, Clara Beatrice was severely beaten just for breaking a plate while washing dishes.

Her body was helpless, as her stepmother beat her with a rattan. It was so painful!

"Tonight, you can't eat!" Even worse, she was locked up in a room that even her deceased mother forbade anyone to enter. For whatever reason.

And now, her stepmother locked her up in that room.

While crying and enduring the pain in her body, Clara could only curl up on the floor.

Today, it's snowing. Imagine how cold it is today!

Unable to bear the cold, her eyes glanced at the closet, the only thing in the room.

Clara smiled bitterly. At least, she still had hope to warm up her body. She hoped there were warm clothes in the closet.

Even though her legs were difficult to move, because they hurt too much, Clara still tried. She walked to the closet and opened it.

As it turned out, the closet was very wide. "Or should I just sleep in the closet?"

Maybe it was one of God's instructions. She did what her heart told her to do. She smiled again and again when she saw the warm clothes hanging in the closet. She put them on immediately. And walked little by little into the closet.

Until unknowingly, something made her fall.

"Aaa!"

Do you know what surprised her? Like a dream, Clara was suddenly in the wild, where it was snowing.

Lots of trees were covered in snow. That made her even more confused!

"Oh my gosh, where am I?" Out of curiosity, Clara stood up. She began to look around in various directions.

The scenery was so beautiful, even more beautiful than where she lived! Clara was willing to bet!

"God, if this is just a dream, please don't wake me up too soon from this dream," she said, hoping God would listen to what she had to say.

Feeling intrigued by the place, Clara's feet started walking eastward without her realizing it. Because in her mind, she was in a dream.

There was no way she would get lost. After all, soon she would wake up from her sleep!

"Who are you?"

The voice from behind made Clara startled. She immediately turned her body 180 degrees out of curiosity.

The person who spoke earlier turned out to be a girl who was probably not too far from her age. The girl had a tall posture, exceeding Clara's height. Her face was very cute!

"Hm ... I'm Clara. Are you the friend in my dream that God sent to interact with me?" Clara guessed. She still thought she was dreaming.

"Hold on ... A dream? What dream?" The girl asked back.

"Aren't we dreaming?" Clara asked again.

Both their faces showed confusion.

"I'm not dreaming. I mean, I'm real."

"Real?" Clara was quite surprised to hear that. She shook her head.

No, this can't be real! Clara asked again.

"So, where is this place?"

"We are in the middle of the forest. Which direction did you enter the forest from?"

"The forest?" What the hell, this was getting absurd!

Clara had told the girl to come with her, to show her the way when she first came to this place!

"From here," she pointed, pointing towards a closet filled with plants.

"Don't tell me, you came from the magic closet?"

"Magic closet?"

Just as Clara was about to ask, there was a sudden sound of a woodpecker beckoning the girl.

"My name is Jasmine. Now, you must return to the closet immediately, before Alpha finds out where you are!" Jasmine's face suddenly turned into panic as she heard the woodpecker's voice!

"Hurry up, Clara! If you want to survive, you can't come back here!"

Clara got carried away. She nodded her head and ran back towards the closet. Before she got into the closet, she said something to Jasmine.

"Can you be my friend?"

"I want to. But, maybe I can't. Because the Alpha won't allow it," Jasmine replied, with a disappointed face, "quick, Clara, come in. I don't want your whereabouts to be known by Alpha." Jasmine told her again.

"Alright." Clara nodded her head and she began to step into the closet again.

The atmosphere was back to the way it was before. There was no more beautiful scenery.

It felt empty again. Clara let out a long breath. Was what she had just seen real?

Then, there was the sound of a door from outside. Clara immediately opened the closet door.

She saw her stepmother who was looking at her with a face full of hatred! She doesn't even know why she hated her so much!

"Tonight, your father will suddenly come home! Take a quick shower and change into something nice!" said the stepmother in a loud voice.

"Alright, Mom," replied Clara, who could only obey. She didn't want to feel the pain of being constantly beaten with the rattan.

"And remember, you must never complain about anything to your father. If you do, you will suffer the consequences!" she warned again.

Honestly, Clara felt hurt, it would be a lie if Clara wasn't hurt by being treated like an animal by her stepmother!

She walked to her room and cried in her room. Lamenting the bitter fate she had to live with.

Night fell, but there was no sign of her father. Clara and her stepmother, who was already seated in the dining room for dinner with her father, were anxious as to why he had not arrived.

Then, a few minutes later, the doorbell rang outside. Her stepmother, thinking it was her husband, immediately walked excitedly to the door.

Clara followed her stepmother's lead.

When the door was opened by her stepmother, it turned out that what was seen in front of her was not her husband. Instead, it was a friend of her father whom Clara knew very well.

"Good evening Mrs. Steven, I have an assignment from the office, if I have to deliver news about Mr. Steven. Mr. Steven was in a car accident and is now in the operating room because his condition is very critical."

Like a thunderbolt in the daytime, how shocked Clara was to hear that news!

It was like deja vu. When her mother died in a car accident.

Would her father's fate end the same way as her mother's?

She had to swallow the bitter truth. Being abandoned forever by the person she loved, of course, made Clara depressed. Her father was pronounced dead and all the funeral processes had been completed.

None of her maternal or paternal relatives expressed their condolences to her. It was as if they didn't care about Clara's mental state.

Before all the mourners left the house and her stepmother turned back into a monster, Clara wanted to escape from this house. She didn't care about the legacy left by her parents.

It was certain that her stepmother would control. Therefore, Clara thought hard about how she could escape from this house before her stepmother realized it.

It was better for her to live alone. Instead of being tortured by her stepmother every day.

Instantly, her mind drifted towards her mother's secret room.

That magic closet, right? Could Clara run there?

Without thinking and without thinking about the risks, she immediately ran to the second floor and opened the door. She closed the door tightly.

Now the big cupboard was visible in front of her eyes. Clara closed her eyes and prayed, "Father ... Mother ... Sorry, Clara has to do this ... I really can't stand living under the same roof with a monster like her!" Clara said silently.

After praying, she started to open the closet door. And sure enough, if she went in there, something good would come her way.

Although, that cute girl had warned her!

"Aaa!" Clara fell to the still snowy ground. Yes, she had entered the closet and was now in another world. Did Clara call it another world? Or was it more like a fairy tale world?

She woke up and started walking towards the east where she met up with Jasmine. She hoped to see her again.

Walking for about fifteen minutes, Clara was amazed by the scenery.

Snow-capped mountains, birds flying around, and even a blue lake caught Clara's attention.

Like a child, Clara ran excitedly towards the blue lake.

"Wow, the water is so beautiful!" she said, blinking her eyes.

Her smile widened at the mere sight of such beautiful water. Even in London where she lived, she had never come across a lake this beautiful!

"Are you Clara?"

A voice from behind her distracted Clara. Was that voice the girl she met yesterday? If it was, Clara was very happy, because God heard her prayer!

Clara immediately turned her face towards the back. However, what she saw was not what she expected.

A white wolf was standing and staring at her with green eyes.

"Aaaaa! Please leave me alone!" Clara shouted. However, the wolf kept walking towards her.

Afraid of falling prey to the white-furred wolf, Clara backed away, not realizing that right behind her was a lake of unknown depth.

"Please, I don't want to die now. I just want to see Jas–"

"Watch out, you'll fall!" Just as the white-furred wolf warned her, Clara was already falling out of the blue lake.

One thing Clara realized was that she wasn't good at swimming.

"Aaaaa help me! Anyone, help me!" Clara shouted.

Maybe this was one of God's wills if soon she would die and meet her parents.

"God, it turns out you want me to meet my parents." Since Clara couldn't swim and the lake was quite deep, she started to drown.

Meanwhile, the wolf was panicking! Should he act now? Did he have to save the girl?

If he didn't save her, Jasmine would be very disappointed in him. Since last night, Jasmine had been constantly talking about Clara.

Forced to do so, she transformed into a human. Then, without thinking, she went straight to saving Clara.

Wait ... Wait ... Why did the wolf turn into a human? What is this place exactly?

After bringing Clara back to the mainland, Clara's body temperature was extremely cold. The weather was cold and the lake water was very cold.

He was forced to bring her back to where he lived. No, not his residence. That is, he was going to take Clara to Alpha's palace.

After fifteen minutes of walking towards the palace, the guards who were there immediately approached him.

"Harry, where did you meet this human?" asked one of the guards called Omega.

"It's a long story. I want to take her to the hospital for treatment. Because her body temperature is very cold. After that, I'll talk to Alpha."

Omega just nodded his head.

As he was treating Clara, a voice from outside the door suddenly startled him.

"What did you bring a human here for?"

Harry turned his body and saw Alpha standing there looking at him sharply. Of course, Alpha didn't like it when he brought humans into his territory.

"Louis, I'm sorry, I can't let her die in the blue lake. She drowned there."

Then, the Alpha who turned out to be named Louis Altezza, walked towards Clara who was still unconscious.

Instantly, Louis's eyes rounded perfectly.

"Harry ... Is my nose okay?" he asked with an incredulous face, his eyes still staring at Clara.

"What does that mean? Isn't your nose fine?" asked Harry confused.

"Let's go outside." Louis pulled Harry's arm out of the medical room. Then, he spoke again in a slight whisper, "I smell her scent if she is my mate!"

"Your mate? No way, Louis. Didn't you say that your mate is Selena?"

Louis didn't answer. He was completely confused by this.

However, the fact that Harry should know, if he and Selena have realized, Selena is not Louis's mate. However, Louis who was already in love with Selena, one of the she-wolves in this region, he and Selena were forced to lie to the wolf pack if Selena was Louis's mate.

Did the Moon Goddess deliberately send Clara, so that Louis would know who his real mate was?

"I'm just ignoring the fact that Selena isn't my mate," he replied to Harry.

Hearing the answer from Louis, Harry was surprised while looking at him with an incredulous look.

Until the sound of coughing made them both turn their eyes toward the medical room.

Louis and Harry re-entered the medical room. Clara had woken up.

"Where am I? Who are you, are you the guardian angel of heaven?"

"We should be the ones asking you ... How did you know about this place?" Louis asked Clara back.

The look in his eyes was very cold. Although in his heart, he wondered, could his scent this time on 'Mate', not be wrong?

"I ... Hm ... I'm from–"

"Clara!" A voice from the doorway startled the three of them who were starting a conversation.

As it turned out, the girl Clara was looking for was smiling broadly at her while walking towards her cheerfully.

"Jasmine!"

The two of them embraced each other. This confused Louis. Why was Jasmine so familiar with this human?

"Louis, I'm sorry for not being honest with you ... She is Clara, she and I met yesterday by accident. However, I didn't tell you about her whereabouts. Because I was afraid of what would happen to her," Jasmine explained honestly. Jasmine and Louis are siblings.

Louis let out a long sigh, then his gaze turned to Harry. "Did you know about this too?"

"Hm ... I ...."

From the look on Harry's face, he could already guess that Jasmine was just telling Harry. Knowing if Louis realized there were humans in the wolf pack, it would be a long trouble!

However, Louis has now met Clara. Proof that she is safe, right? Or has Louis not made up his mind about Clara's fate yet? Probably, Louis won't punish her, because he smelled his mate's scent on Clara?

He don't know, it made Louis very tired to think about it.

"You shouldn't be here. This is a dangerous place. You better go back to your place," Louis said, apparently still denying that Clara was his mate.

Hearing Louis's answer, of course, Harry felt confused. Why did Louis let go of his mate so easily? Of course, the Moon Goddess wouldn't allow that!

"It doesn't matter, how dangerous it is here. If here I can have a friend. In my home, everything is a mess. My mother is dead. And my father just died last night. I don't want to live with my stepmother anymore. She's already made me hurt."

For the first time, Clara was able to be honest with others. Usually, she kept all her problems to herself. After all, no one honestly cared about what she was going through. All her college friends, no one cared about her.

Clara was completely isolated, ever since her mother's death. Because the media spread misinformation. If the death of her biological mother was due to Clara's selfishness, who at that time forced her mother to pick her up at the tutoring center.

No one ever expected that to happen.

"That's not our business. Everyone has their problems." Louis replied with a haughty tone. It was as if he was not touched by Clara's background.

In his opinion, all humans were very troublesome. He didn't want humans to disturb the wolf pack and make a scene in this beautiful forest.

"Louis, why are you so rude?" protested Jasmine who didn't accept her brother's rude answer.

Later, Harry asked Louis to come out, he wanted to have a one-on-one talk with him.

"Remember, Jasmine ... Don't get too close to humans!" Louis warned, speaking silently. Using his mind link power.

Jasmine who heard him was silent. She had to ignore her brother's words this time.

Meanwhile, Louis and Harry were back outside the medical room. This time Harry's face showed a look of disappointment.

"Moon Goddess has given us a clue, Louis. We can't ignore Clara's whereabouts. You must remember that the dark witch warned us to be careful because, at any moment, she and her army will attack the wolf pack again! If you unite with your mate, your strength will increase!" Harry told Louis.

As a Beta, he was one of the werewolves closest to Alpha. He didn't want Alpha to get lost just because of a misstep.

"Then, what should I do, Harry? I want to hug her, somehow my instincts have forced me to hug her and soothe all the sorrows she has suffered all this time. But, I can't, Harry. I love Selena so much. I can't dump her." Louis leaned his body against the outer wall of the hospital.

This time, Harry understood what Louis was feeling. He patted him on the shoulder.

For decades, Louis and Selena had a very romantic relationship. But the bitter truth is that Selena is not the Alpha's mate.

According to the rules, every Alpha must be with his mate who has been chosen by Moon Goddess.

"You have to let her stay here. And you will get used to opening your heart to her. You should also explain to Selena about this slowly."

At times like this, Harry always gave Louis advice. And that was exactly what Louis needed.

For a moment, Louis thought about Harry's words. He pointed his feet again towards the medical room.

Then, he looked inside, Jasmine and Clara were talking to each other. Never before had he seen Jasmine talking to Selena with such an excited expression. The difference was obvious.

Louis looked at Harry, and Harry's response was only a faint smile.

"Hm ... Jasmine ... I want to talk to Clara. Just the two of us. Can't you come out first?" asked Louis.

Jasmine had a worried look on her face. She was afraid that her brother would hurt Clara.

"Louis, please, don't hurt Clara. She's a very nice girl," Jasmine whispered as she stood next to Louis.

There was no reply from Louis, he just told his sister to get out.

Then, the door was closed. Was this conversation so sensitive that the door had to be closed?

The chair on the side of the bed, she chose to sit there. It was obvious that Clara's scent was Louis's mate.

"Are you going to let me stay here for a while?" Clara started the conversation.

For some reason, instead of answering, Louis couldn't focus on Clara's eyes which had a beautiful blue color.

"Why did you choose to stay here? You have other options besides staying in your house. You can live independently without having to live with your stepmother. Why did you choose to live in the middle of this forest?" Louis couldn't keep looking into Clara's beautiful eyes. It would weaken him even more.

"I don't know, everything has a meaning. Even I don't understand why I suddenly chose this place. I don't even know which side this place is on. However, I felt comfortable when I set foot here. Like there will be happiness present in my life. Especially when I met Jasmine. So, let me stay here for a while," Clara explained, not a hint of lie in her words.

Louis who heard Clara's explanation was even more moved.

It was true what Harry had said. Clara's presence here was indeed a clear sign from the Moon Goddess.

Then, will Louis accept the fact, that Selena is not his mate?