Fated To My Enemy

"Who under the Heavens gave you the right to eat without my permission?" Piper complained as she threw my plate across the room, making a mess of the food.

I'd been working all day, yet the moment I try to refuel and get back my energy, she comes walking angrily into the room like I haven't even done anything all day.

"Out, now!" Her long fingers pointed towards the door.

"But Piper, everything, everything you asked..." My voice was very weak when I spoke. That alone was enough to show you how tired I was. "I've done everyone of them."

She grabbed me by the hair and forced me out of the room, ignoring my plea.

The next moment, she pushed me to the floor in the open fields just so she could humiliate me in front of the other pack members.

I bowed my head in shame.

"This is what you get for going against authority." The pain was all over my body, causing me to scream.

Not once, not twice, she continued to whip me.

The punishment continued for longer than necessary and wouldn't just help but let out the tears that had been itching to fall.

It wasn't just about the food.

Piper always found a way to humiliate me in front of everyone, day in and day out. Many times, I asked myself if I ever did anything in my past life to make her this mad at me.

Everyone stood amazed as they watched Piper humiliate me. And no one said a thing, no one dared to plead my case. Not even my mate. Jude Blackmore. He just stood and watched me like a pest that refused to die.

Slowly, everyone began to disperse. I guess they've humiliated me to their satisfaction.

"You should be grateful I'm in a good mood today," Piper finally said before hissing and walking away.

Piper Gilbert.

I don't even recognize her anymore.

Up until a year ago, Piper happened to be my best friend. The same I shared everything with. My secrets, my clothes... Everything that could be shared. And since I never had a sibling and she didn't either, she became my sibling from another parent.

But all of that ended the day my father was punished and killed for treason without even getting a chance to be tried.

Fast forward to today, Piper's father is the New Beta of our region. And guess what her birthday wish was...

To have me as her servant.

Never did I think that I had been breeding an enemy in the clothes of a best friend.

In fact, all the people I thought would stand by me when my dad died were the ones who stabbed me, not at my back. They stabbed me right to my face.

The marks from the whip were bad; some even left me with bruises. Regardless, I was forced to continue my work.

Later that evening, while I made my way back to my room, I began to hear giggles down the corridors. That laugh was unmistakable.

Piper.

I could also hear another very familiar voice.

The Leader of the Delta warriors and my mate. Jude Blackmore.

I felt a sting in my chest at the disgusting words that came out of their mouths. I could swear that those were the same lines Jude used for me when my father was still Beta.

What a shame...

The mate bond didn't make me feel any better; it just worsened the heaviness and ache in my chest.

Goddess, please, what did I do to deserve all these sufferings?

"Shuuu... I think someone is there." Jude said, walking closer to where I was.

I ran off quickly before I'd get into their trap this evening again. I'm sure he saw me, but he didn't bother to chase me.

Back in my room, I couldn't suppress the dread I felt. I slowly watch my heart being shattered over and over again, hoping that Jude would ever choose me over her.

But of course, how could he?

Piper is everything I'm not. Beautiful, elegant, she knows how to match her clothes well to catch everyone's eyes. Of course, anyone would want her.

I'm done allowing the mate bond to hunt me for a decision I didn't make.

The next morning, I searched everywhere I knew he could be. When I found him, he was at the training grounds where all pack warriors gathered for their early morning training.

I saw that he was busy, so I decided to wait till after training, though I kept my eyes on him the whole time.

Finally, the warriors began to leave one after the other.

I summoned all the courage in me and approached him.

"Jude, we need to talk," I said calmly.

He rolled his eyes at me like he was already tired of the conversation even before it started.

"What do you want?" He sneered.

"Can we at least go somewhere private?" I pleaded.

He scoffed. "Anything you have to say, say it here."

I looked around, clearly not comfortable saying this outside. But since he insisted.

"I want you to reject me!" I blurted out. Something about those words just felt so right as they left my mouth.

The disgust on his face was clearer now.

And then the next thing that followed was a mocking laughter

The other warriors that remained there in the training ground joined him to laugh me almost to tears.

"You don't want me right," I said with an unstable voice. "Then reject me once and for all."

He grabbed as much of my hair as his hands allowed him and pulled me closer to himself.

"You should be grateful I didn't reject your wolfless ass because of the respect I had for your father. But now, you have crossed the line. Don't come back, begging for love cause a loser like you will never find love."

I didn't know when tears started falling from my eyes because of his harsh words. I'd heard similar words times and times again. But the pain never eased the next time they came.

"I, Jude Blackmore of Hillstone Pack, reject you, Louisa Thorne as my mate."

The words stung more than I thought they would, a clear reminder of what my life had suddenly become.

I gasped for air as the cold water soaked me.

"Piper!" I called, sitting up from the bed immediately.

"Get your lazy ass up from there!" Piper shouted at the top of her voice as she stoned me with the empty bucket in her hand.

"I'm sorry to announce to you, but your princess days are over now sweetie. You have to wake up early and join your colleagues in the kitchen." She barked.

This had been her anthem since the day my father died and I got demoted to a servant.

I stood up quickly as I tried to cover the bruises from last nights beatings.

Last night was a mess. It happened to be one of those nights Piper was really mad and decided to pour out her anger on me. I barely slept because I was in serious pain from the brutal beatings she gave me. And because my wolf couldn't heal on its own, I had to suffer the pain throughout the night, up until this morning.

Now she's screaming my name as if she doesn't know what she did last night.

"Join your mates quickly!" She barked, "The Alpha King would be here any moment from now, we can't let him meet us unprepared."

Without saying a word, I took my bath and joined the others.

While we were in the kitchen, I couldn't help but notice from the window the shameless behaviour that Piper and Jude were partaking in, in broad daylight.

It's been two days since he rejected me, why the heck do I still feel the pain of him with another woman? I thought it would automatically die with the mate bond that had been shattered.

The heat of the kitchen reminded me of where I was.

"The Alpha King has arrived!" I soon begin to hear some whispers from around.

The news made my heart heavy. He was the one.

The man that gave the order for my father to be killed. He was the one that refused to give my father a chance to be tried. It was all him.

Anger rose inside of me. But I stood quietly anyways, just trying to calm the pain in my chest.

The dishes were spread on the big dinning table, they were over thirty dishes to be precise. We spent majority of our day on the preparations and then we waited for Piper and her mother to approve the meals before we presented them on the dining table.

Finally, everything was set. I stood face down as the Alpha King walked in. None of the maids dared to lift their heads except they were asked to.

We formed a train, ten maids at the left side of the room and another ten at the right hand side. We were also given numbers by which we would be addressed.

The moment the Alpha King entered, the aura in the room change drastically. His aura was distinct and very different from that of every other person. It got to me even before he got to my front. Not to forget the coldness that came with this presence. It was almost as if the coldness of his heart enveloped the room.

He stopped.

Yes... Right in front of me.

The pounding of my heart could almost be heard in the whole room.

Did he recognise that I was the daughter of the man he killed?

A lot of thoughts kept coming to my mind, but eventually, he moved on without saying a word.

Pheeew... I breathed out heavily in relief.

I almost died.

I barely knew what was happening because of course my head was down, but I remember vividly how this worked.

The Pack was headed by the Alpha King, but they were Betas assigned to head each region, more like a head of state. That was what my father was before his demise.

Towards the end of each year, the Alpha King goes around the regions, and a Royal feast is always held to welcome his arrival. The feast they said was a way for him to bond with the people. But I knew it was just a part of the pack's politics.

"Greetings everyone," Came the voice of Beta Gilbert, Piper's father. "Once again we are gathered to welcome the arrival of our Alpha, Alpha Reynolds."

"Your majesty, thank you once again for counting us worthy of your presence."

"I now declare the feast open." He said after giving quite a boring speech of how he appreciated the Alpha and a lot of other things I didn't quite register in my head.

That was where our work began. As everyone took the portion of food they wanted, we served the drinks according to their preference.

As I poured the drinks, I couldn't help but notice his heavy gaze on me.

The meal had barely even started when he said. "You there!"

"18!" He specified.

My chest tightened.

"Why me?" I almost blurted out, but thankfully, nothing came out of my mouth.

My knees were weak as I made my way to meet him. "Yes your majesty..."

"Refill!" He didn't repeat himself, neither did he make his orders clear.

It was absolutely abnormal for him to give clear orders. It was left for you to use your brain. But at this moment, both his wine and water had barely been touched.

I decided to refill both, starting from the water. When I was done I shifted it closer to him. My hand was still on the glass when he grabbed both my hand and the cup.

I withdrew my hand so fast, one would think I had been shocked by electricity.

"Anything else, your majesty." I asked, ready to leave.

His eyes met mine and remained for longer than necessary. "Stay." He said softly, shocking everyone.

From time to time, he kept requesting my service. It seemed way too intentional to be normal.

The moment my eyes snapped up, it was met with the angry Piper. Her hands tightly wrapped around her fork. I swallowed hard and tried to quickly move a little from him.

He caught my arm. "Did I ask you to leave?"

By evening, I don't know how it got to the ears of people outside that room, but people were already talking about it. I didn't even know how to feel or what his actions meant, but I'm sure as hell not interested.

Immediately I rounded off from work, I hurried to my room to shower and get a good night sleep ahead of tomorrow. A good night sleep was almost impossible to ask for, but I still hoped.

"Louisa... Louisa..."

"Hmm..." I muttered, still feeling sleepy.

"Do you hear those sounds?" Mary said, fear evident in her voice as she looked towards the door.

I tried to listen, but before my sleepy brain could make sense of anything, the door fell open.

"That one!" A man pointed.

Without any explanation, they bundled me up and forced me out of the room. They forced a clot into my mouth to stop me from alerting others with my screaming.

I kicked, fought... I did everything I could do to set myself free from them, but they wouldn't just let me go.

They soon began to slow down their movements. I looked around, I was dying to ask. Why did they bring me here? But the cloth in my mouth restricted me from saying a word.

I could sense an unwelcomed presence around. More like that of the rogues.

"Oh poor Louisa," Piper's familiar mocking voice cut through my thinking. "You must be thinking, what did you do that life is so cruel to you. Even I would have thought that if I were in your shoes." A devilish laugh followed her statement although nothing she said was funny.

I struggled against the restraints.

"How did you feel having the Alpha King stare at you like something interesting?" Piper sneered.

"Instead of letting him have you... I'll sell you to your new family."

Their disgusting smell intensified.

"All hail The Rogue Princess." Piper mocked with a loud cheer.

"Wakey wakey, sleepy head."

Something cold touched my cheek. Not water this time. It was a rough masculine finger.

The Rogues.

"Time to make money."

I tried to move. My body ached really badly.

I opened my eyes quickly, but the light almost blinded me, causing me to shut them almost as fast as I opened them.

This wasn't my room or any place I was familiar with.

I looked down and realised that there were chains on my legs.

My wrists were tied as well, the ropes were so thick and tight that they were even hurting my wrists.

A man with scars across his face crouched in front of me.

"She's awake," he announced.

His hands grabbed my arms and hauled me up. I cried out in pain. Every part of my body was aching, but no one was listening to my cries cause they obviously didn't care. They dragged me outside.

The sun was too bright outside; it looked like it could burn down a forest.

"Where are you taking me?" I cried, exhausted.

They pushed me forward without an answer.

Soon, we arrived at a vast open spa, like a market. I could only see men there, dozens of them.

My stomach turned.

"Bring her here," the man at the centre shouted.

They tossed me roughly towards him, and he grabbed me by my hair.

"Gentlemen," he said loudly, spreading his arms. "We've got something special today."

The men cheered.

My chest tightened.

"This," he grabbed my chin and forced my face up, "is prime breeder material."

I shook my head hard. "No!"

He slapped me.

The sound echoed in the air. The tears I had been holding back suddenly began to fall without my permission.

"She's young," he continued as nothing happened. "Strong bloodline. Former Beta's daughter."

Murmurs rippled through the crowd.

"She has no wolf," another man called out.

The bald man laughed. "Exactly. That's why I've brought you this sweet offer. She's easy to control, untouched by any man. And most importantly, no one would lift a finger if she dies."

I felt sick.

"She'll give you pups without fighting back," he said. "And if she does?" He shrugged. "Beat it out of her."

The men laughed once again, sounding like drunk fools.

The tears continued to roll down my face despite my efforts to hold them back.

"Let the bidding begin," the bald man announced.

"A hundred and fifty dollars."

My head snapped up. Really? Is that how worthless I am?

"Two hundred and fifty."

"Five Hundred."

I stared at the ground, too ashamed to look up.

"Five hundred dollars... going... going?" Any one

"One thousand dollars!"

The bald man grinned. "Ah. A serious buyer."

I squeezed my eyes shut.

Goddess... please.

"One thousand five hundred," another voice cut in.

The crowd turned.

The bald man's eyes gleamed. "One thousand five hundred dollars going once..."

"Two thousand dollars," another man barked.

"Going once... Going twice... Going thrice. Two thousand dollars? Going..."

The crowd kept silent. I wasn't worth more than $2,000 to them.

The bald man swallowed. "Sold!"

Just as I was drowning in my sorrows, I sensed a smell. That smell.

I looked up and noticed a new person, who was covered up in a way that one couldn't see his face.

The hooded man looked towards me. Those eyes. They looked too familiar, but my brain was too tired to process anything.

"I'll take her, name your price."

The bearded man who bid the highest suddenly lost his smile.

"She's mine," the bearded Alpha snapped, throwing cash onto the platform. "If you wanted her, you should have come before the bid ended."

The hooded man turned to meet him.

"I'll double whatever you paid. No, Triple."

"She's already bought," the $2,000 man growled. "Back off."

For a moment, I thought they might kill each other right there.

Then the hooded man stepped back.

"Very well," he said quietly.

My heart sank.

The strong hands of my buyer grabbed me and pulled me off the platform. I stumbled and nearly fell.

He shoved me into the trunk of his Hilux like an item purchased.

The engine roared to life.

As the door slammed shut, I caught one last glimpse of the hooded man.

He was staring intensely, and he remained that way till I could no longer see him.

I curled into myself as much as the chains allowed.

This is it, Louisa. This is how you end.

The road was rough. Every bump caused me serious pain. I could hear my buyer and his guards discussing how long I'd last.

"One pup should be enough to send her to her grave." One said loud enough for me to hear.

I stared at the floor of the trunk in disgust.

The car suddenly came to a stop.

I didn't know what was going on inside there, but it sounded brutal. Their screaming and growls filled the air like they were being attacked.

"You!" I heard one of the men say, followed by the shocked gasps of others.

"Please don't kill me!" Another cried.

Can this day get any worse? I cried as I began to shiver where I was lying. The fact that I barely knew what was happening back there left me more on edge.

The vehicle shook with fear and the sound of unanswered pleas. The struggle between the men back there and whoever attacked them.

Tears flowed freely from my eyes. My breathing was very heavy as I struggled to roll out of the trunk. Maybe just find an escape. The chains and everything made it so hard for me.

"Goddess, please!" I cried.

Soon, the car came to a stop; the struggle had come to an end.

Still, there was no peace in my heart. I soon heard the sound of boots approaching from the back.

I closed my eyes like it could shield me from whatever was to come.

I heard the sound of the trunk opening before I felt someone pull me towards the edge.

"Please, I'm not one of them," I cried. "I beg you, don't kill me."

I finally opened my eyes when I noticed that he was losing the ropes on my hands.

It was the hooded guy from earlier.

I sniffed back my tears, though my body was still shaking. "Who are you?" I asked.

He said nothing; instead, he went towards the front of the car. When he came back, he was with the key to the chains on my leg.

"Why are you so interested in me?"

He let down his hood.

I froze.

"Your majesty..." I muttered in shock.