Jasmine's Revenge: A veil of Betrayal.

Jasmine's POV

"Jasmine! Jasmine!" my door was yanked open. I sat up in bed rubbing my eyes. What could it be this time?

"What mum?" I whined.

"Quick we have to leave the palace!"

"Why?" I leapt out of bed almost falling on the floor.

"Can't you see? It's on fire!" She dragged me out of my room and we ran towards the entrance. People were really running in all directions. I coughed countlessly. The fire was filling the whole place that it was getting harder to see what was before us. My heart pounded in my chest.

"Hey! Use my shawl and cover your nose Jasmine "mum pushed the cloth into my face as we struggled to reach the door. The once long distance to the gate I always admired as I walked around the palace irked me bad now. It seemed like it was longer than the river Nile.

When we got to the gate, the guards and maids were at the gate trying to get out too.

"Can't you open the gate?" A guard yelled.

"It's locked!" He replied.

"How can that be?" Another person said. They kept trying to open the door but it just wouldn't budge. "Push harder" the same guard yelled.

Mum slapped a hand on her mouth. Her eyes wide. It looked like she was about to cry. "Mum! Mum! What's it?' I turned to her.

She turned to me wiping a tear off her eyes. "It's the silver moon pack"

"What?" People around turned to her.

She looked around quietly. "My husband-

"He's the beta right?" An old man interrupted and mum nodded quickly.

"Jonathan left when he got a call" mum's voice was shaky. I could literally see the fear in her eyes. Her hands were cold and they shook like it was vibrating but, she still my hand. Tightly in hers.

"They had attacked and set some houses on fire" immediately what followed suit was the blast of and we all flinched.

"Oh my god we all are going to die" a robust woman who walked in the alpha's court announced.

"Shut up Anna with your non sense" mum spat. "We will get out of here alive" the murmurings increased as people talked and screamed.

They were still pulling at the door but it just wouldn't budge. I stared at my mum and swallowed. Her hands were shaking and I could imagine how crazy her heart was beating but there she was being hopeful. But what was there to hope for. The pack was on attack in the middle of the night. They were likely to win.

Another sound of silver bomb hit the roof and people began to scream. They were trying to run away from the door and pushed me, separating me from mum.

"Jasmine!" She yelled.

"Mum!" I screamed admits the chaos. I looked ahead, sideways but I couldn't see her.

"Jasmine!" I saw her. I she stretched her hands towards me but the more I tried to grab it, the harder it was. Suddenly someone pushed me and I lost my balance. By the time I tried to stand, I could find my mother.

"Mum!"

People were running away from the new fire on the roof. The Chandler was on fire. The roof was threatening to fall. I searched for her but I couldn't find her. The worst part? I hadn't still seen my mother.

"Mum can you hear me!" Tears began to drop from my eyes. Suddenly I felt my throat tightening. I couldn't breathe. It reminded me of the moment I was lost in the market and I couldn't find her.

"Mum where are you!" I cried out. Nobody cared about me. I was getting tossed around while I weaved through that crowd, looking for her. I was sobbing. Suddenly I felt a hand on my arm. I immediately turned and there she was. I grabbed her hands.

"Come on let's go" she yelled. This Time I held unto it. People wouldn't have to literally kill me to be separated from her again and that was what happened.

The next blast happened and it shook everywhere. People were coughing and smoke filled everywhere. Suddenly the door fell apart. I saw it.

"Mum the door is open!"

Immediately people began to move toward the exit. I held mums held like it was life and finally we left the palace.

We were presented to a burning pack. Everywhere was up in flames. People were scattered everywhere like leaves as they ran in all directions.

"Mum I know of an exit behind the wall" I togged her hands but she wouldn't move.

"What's wrong?" I looked down to find her leg with a deep wound.

"I can't walk with this" she groaned.

"I'll carry you, come on!"

"No... It's of no use"

"Why! Mum come on let's go"

She shook her head. "No it's too late, I wouldn't be able to make it. " I looked at her wound and tears pooled in my eyes.

"Now you go! Go be safe! Go find your father!"

I stared at her and I furious wiped tears off my eyes. "If I ever leave here, calm me a fool" I sat beside her on the floor.

"Jasmine!" She warned in that shaky voice that broke in the end. I just stared at her, frowning. Hot tears falling from my eyes.

"I'm not going!" I cried out as I wiped my roughly wiped my tears. Mum looked down at me and smiled sadly. And so she gave me her shawl to cover me from the cold.

We watched as people ran everywhere. I always thought about what my last moments would be and I never envisioned something like this. In all that chaos I closed my eyes and slept off.

The next thing I knew I was rudely shaken. I opened my eyes to find Dad.

"Dad!" I wrapped my arms around him. "Mum is woun- I turned to find her beside me. Her eyes were closed and when I touch her, she had already gone cold.

Jasmine's POV

"Dad! They are taking mum away!" I cried out. I tried to reach for her but dad stopped me. "Dad wait I need to -" he held me as I watched them carry mum's body to where they had kept the others. I wept like a baby. I was inconsolable. After a while I wiped my eyes and began to look around

The pack was a shadow of itself. The buildings had turned to debris, everywhere was just a mixture of stone, ash and slowly burning smoke. The high rise buildings, the cars and most especially the people were gone. Burnt with the ashes.

"Put out all the fires" Dad instructed some guards and so they tried to salvage the remnants of the war. I watched as people wept. Some people had lost everyone in their family. I still had my dad and for that I was grateful.

Dad gathered us all together for a briefing. We were not much remaining but we were still a pack. We were the blood moon pack. I looked up at the eat id left of out pack town square. Where my dad was standing and tears ran freely down my cheeks.

"We are deeply sorry for not being able to protect you" He began with a shaky voice. And then just like one body present, absent minded I listened to dad.

".... We lost 1500 lives including the alpha, his wife and his heir..." people burst into fresh tears and dad spoke. At the end of is spend, I ran to him and wrapped my arms around him. Even though he was now the alpha, who had great responsibility on his shoulders, he was still my father and he too lost his wife.

After we mourned and buried the dead, we began to clean up. We were very exhausted by the time we were. I walked into our now house, only to hear sniffs. I narrowed my eyes. Who was it?

I made my way to the sitting room and there he was. Crying. Something snapped in me. Seeing my father, the pillar of the house cry. There was always something heartbreaking seeing the strong cry

"Dad are you okay? Tell me what could it be?" I wiped his eyes, and as I did that, I knew I would do anything in my power, to never see my father like this. Daddy wiped his eyes and then calmly tells me that the silver moon pack would be back tonight.

"What?" I whispered. He nodded. What sort of heartless people are this? I swallowed. "Dad is there anything we can do to stop the fighting?"

Dad went quiet. He looked at his hands and back at me. Instantly I knew what had to be done.

"Alright dad, I know I have to marry him"

"Thank you sweetheart for saving our family and the pack" he wrapped his arms around me and I nodded. "You will go with Scarlett.

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"All done" said the makeup lady.

"Thank you" I muttered. I looked into the mirror and staring back at me was a girl I couldn't recognize. Hollow eyes. Puffy red eyes.

All was set for my wedding with the son of the alpha of the silver moon.

To quench the war between us the blood moon and silver moon pack, they demanded some things which included a marriage between the two packs. The alpha and his daughters were dead and as the daughter of beta, it fell on me to do just that. To go from mourning and straight into celebration was something I never thought was possible. I looked around and grabbed the shawl off the chair. I sniffed it and tears pooled at my ears. Mum would never ad allowed me get married now. She would always tell dad that there was always other ways to do this. If only she was here. If only.

A knock sounded from the door.

"Come in" I said in a croaky voice as I hurried wiped my face clean.

"Your highness, we are ready to leave" it was Scarlett, my personal maid.

"I'll be out in a minute" I replied.

She nodded and left the room.

I tried to fix the mess my tears had done. When I was through, I think I was quite presentable. The ride to the silver moon was a short one. Because we were literally neighbors. By the time we arrived, the party had already began.

"We've been waiting" Robert, the alpha gave me this spooky smile. I nodded. Then the wedding began.

Lucas, was a young devilishly handsome man. I hoped he was way better than he looked. I nursed that thought until I saw him shove a maid aside and she fell.

As we went round at the procession ground in the dark, it began to rain. It was perfect to hide my tears. 2 hours later, I was married. The ritual quick. Sterile. Say a few words, repeat in the appropriate places, and ten Lucas slipped a ring on my finger and brushed his lips against my cheeks.

The elders and royal family offered their congratulations before Lucas ushered me from the building and into the chambers.

"I'll be right back" Lucas said with a tight smile. I nodded.

My heart pounded as I awaited what would be my fate. Horrendous stories of first nights rang fresh in my head but absolutely nothing got me prepared for what I was to face.

I took a seat by the wall waiting for Lucas. I stared at the 3 carat gold on my finger and went numb. And just like that I was married.

The banging of the door made me jump. I turned around to find Lucas. He had a stern expression on his face. I couldn't tell what he was thinking.

"Get out!" he spat

"What?"

"Don't let me repeat myself"

I turned around to find guards outside the room, ready to throw me out if I dared to disobey.

And so I walked with my head bowed low and went to stay outside, directly under the moon. I made a little pillow with my jacket and used my mother's shawl and covered myself.

Just as I took in a deep breath, ready to close my eyes, thunder rumbled in a distance and it began to rain.

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.