Out Of The Shadows; Rise Of The Fierce Luna

Alyssa

"Someone help me!"

I cried out but my voice could barely be heard.

The warehouse was on fire, but my body was too weak to move. Someone sprinkled silver dust which trapped my wolf inside me, and I was also drugged.

Smoke clawed at my throat, forcing a series of painful coughs from my lungs.

"Please."

I pleaded to the universe, hoping for a miracle before the fire gets serious.

My head whipped to the side when I suddenly heard footsteps, it was Sasha, my sister.

She is walking towards me with a mask over her face.

"Sasha, help me"

I let out when she got near me.

But when I reached out for her and grabbed her leg, she kicked off my hand.

"Don't you dare call my name. How does it feel to be trapped? How does it feel being unable to save yourself?" She sneered.

I couldn't believe what I heard.

I was the real daughter of the Dark Blood. I was accidentally kidnapped by rogues as a child and only recently returned to the wolf pack. It was only after returning that I learned my parents, desperate for me, adopted a daughter just like me.

I've always treated her with all my heart, treating her like my own sister. I even used my rare blood type to save her when she was in danger.

And yet, she's so cruel to me now?

"You thought you had it all now that you return to the pack?"

She laughed wickedly while I coughed and stretched my dry throat trying to make sense of the things my supposed sister just said to me.

How can she say that when our parents and brothers all favor her, while I am always pushed to the side and ignored.

"I want you dead! Once you die, my life will finally be mine alone! I want you gone you leech!" She continued.

She yelled at me and kicked me hard on the stomach causing me to roll over in pain. Tears fell from my eyes as I struggled to get up.

My hope was once again raised when I heard more voices. Sasha heard the voice too because she suddenly took off the gas mask she had been wearing.

I have a bad feeling and I was proven right when she suddenly ripped off her blouse and pulled out a powdered substance which she poured and rubbed on herself before lying down dramatically. It all happened so fast and the next thing I knew, she was screaming.

"Somebody help me, Alyssa has gone crazy!"

My brothers and parents rushed into the room. They were all wearing masks.

You would expect at least one of the seven people who entered a burning warehouse to actually care about me but no one cared and they all rushed to Sasha who lied on my name.

"I don't know what has gotten into her. She drugged me and started the fire."

She lied while coughing dramatically and crying fake tears that my family believed. One of our brothers carried Sasha up and I watched my family turn to me in anger.

They didn't try to help me up when I reached out to the nearest person who turned out to be my mom, she just kicked my hand away and spat out.

"Rouge is always a rogue. I regret the day I let you into my house! You have been a thorn in this family's flesh since you came in and now, we are over it! You are no longer a member of our pack!"

I couldn't believe what I was hearing from the woman I called my mother for five years.

"She has never been a member of the family and our pack! Now she is banished from the Dark Blood pack because I won't stand and watch her constantly try to kill my princess."

My father added and even my brothers cursed at me. I watched my family walk out of the place without helping me out.

I cried for them to come back and save me but not one of them listened. Moments after they left, the fire intensified as if someone had added gasoline to the already burning. I couldn't even cry anymore as the fire surrounded me and my body started feeling the heat!

I couldn't breathe anymore and didn't even have the will to fight for my life because what's the point? I am not wanted and there's no way to save myself when I am trapped. Just before I blacked out from the heat and smoke, I could have sworn I heard someone run into the place.

Alyssa

"You shouldn't be stressing yourself too much, your body hasn't fully healed."

I forced a smile at the pretty healer and continued walking.

I know I shouldn't be stressing myself since I woke up from a coma days ago but I was tired of staying in the room assigned to me all day long.

I still couldn't believe that I made it out of that fire alive. Someone saved me when I had already given up all hope and that person even paid for my treatment.

"My daughter needs attention right now!"

My eyes widened at the sound of a familiar voice. I looked around and spotted my parents.

I was about to avoid them, but Sasha next to my mother turned around and saw me first.

"Sister, you are still alive?" It seems that she was very surprised.

My heart skipped a beat when I heard the voice.

"I didn't expect that I would encounter bad luck when I took Sasha to see a doctor.You look like a hot mess! Why didn't you just die?"My mother step forward

"Bad luck?"

The one who is supposed to be my mother called me bad luck?

My eyes go through my mother ,and then stopped on Sasha, I couldn't get over the fact that she almost killed me.

"Why did you look me like this?"Sasha hid behind her mother, as if I was deliberately bullying her.

"Enough! You want to kill my beloved daughter, and you even frightened my beloved daughter now! You need to apologize today!"

I couldn't believe the words that were coming from my mother's mouth! She wanted me to apologize to Sasha when it was she who wronged me?

"Apologize to her right now!"

My mother yelled at me and raised her hand to slap me but stopped when someone else appeared.

My face lit up when I realized it was Ryan who was supposed to be my mate but my smile fell when he walked to Sasha and pulled her into a hug.

I couldn't believe he would hug her. Before the fire incident, I found out he was my mate.

"Ryan? Why are you hugging her? I am your mate."

I let out as my heart started aching again. This time it was a whole different kind of pain. It was heartbreaking to see my mate hugging the one who tried to kill me.

"Mate? I am not your mate! I rejected you after you were banished and Sasha is my mate! I love her and not you!"

My jaw dropped and my heart sank. He really rejected me?

"How could you do that to me, Ryan? How could you get along with my sister?"

"I am not your sister! You are no longer part of the Dark blood pack and our family."

Sasha yelled at me. The tears I tried to keep away rolled down my face.

"Look how ugly she looks, baby."

Sasha said and they all laughed. My father, the head of the Dark Blood pack walked forward and threw a necklace at me.

It was the necklace that led me to them five years ago. Father had collected it from me and told me that it's what links me to the pack but now, he was giving it back to me.

"That's the only thing that connects us and now we are going to pretend that the connection between you and the Dark blood pack never existed! You are no longer part of our pack, if you come near us, you will be arrested and thrown in the dungeon."

I swallowed the lump that formed in my throat. More tears threatened to fall from my eyes but I held back. I couldn't continue giving them a reason to mock me.

"Let's go, daddy, I don't want to be near her anymore."

Sasha said in her cringy voice and just like that, everyone listened to her. I watched as they all left the room.

It hurt so much but what hurt the most was seeing Ryan be all loving with Sasha. Even my wolf sobbed within me at the sight of our mate's betrayal.

My heart hardened. I refuse to continue like this. I refuse to remain heartbroken and in pain while they have all the fun.

"I am going to make them pay for what they did to me! I am going to get my revenge!"

I let out in determination. This isn't the end for me...

Alyssa

One week later

"Congratulations on your finally discharge. Are you going to attend your sister's mating ceremony?" The attending assistant asked me.

I swallowed the lump that formed in my throat at her question.

I was a loner with no family, no pack now because my family threw me out!

And my so-called sister tried to kill me and even took my mate just like she stole my place in my family. She took everything from me.

My mate has also betrayede me.

They all just forgot about me and moved on with their life. They never really wanted me to be a part of them and they found the perfect opportunity to throw me away.

"I don't have a sister."

I told her and picked up my backpack heading out of the hospital.

I still don't know who saved me and paid for my treatment. The healing center is the biggest and most expensive in the whole country. Only elites. I will forever be thankful to whoever it was and I hope someday they will show themselves.

I lifted my head to the sky when the sun hit me. I felt empty but the sun felt good on my skin. I don't know what awaits me but I hope I can get back on my feet soon.

"Alyssa! Over here!"

I looked around at the sound of my name. I saw a car and some woman was waving at me from it. Even though I had no idea who it was, I still ran to the car. She called my name so she knows me.

"Get in!"

She let out when I got near the car but I didn't do as she told me.

"My name is Vera and I am Jace Carter's secretary and he asked me to come get you!"

My eyes widened at the name she mentioned.

Jace Carte? As in the Jace of Carter Group? The heir of the empire of the richest family in the country? The alpha of the biggest pack in the country? What would he want from me?

Or maybe it's another Jace Carter because Jace Carter won't even want to associate with me because six months ago, one of my older brothers hurt his sister badly so the old feud between our packs started again.

Oh wait, I am not part of that pack anymore. Still, it couldn't be that Jace, right?

"Who the fuck is Jace?"

I asked her and at first, she looked shocked that I didn't know. It's not that I don't know Jace Carter, it's that I wasn't sure it was the one I know.

"The Jace Carter of the Carter Group. Alpha of the Wildheart pack."

Wow, it's really him. Now it's my turn to be shocked. I just couldn't believe he would ask to see me.

"Get in and I will explain to you!"

She called out again and without thinking twice, I got into the car with her.

"My boss was the one who saved you from the fire and I was ordered to bring you to the Wildheart pack once you get discharged."

My jaw dropped at her words. Was it really Jace who saved me? It was hard to believe that a man like that would save me. Why? And an even more pressing question is why does he want me to go to his pack? We were nothing to each other and after the way he ignored me the one time we interacted and talked to my former sister instead and after what happened to his sister, I couldn't trust him.

"But he saved us."

My wolf whispered and she was right. He did save us so the least I could do is go and see him and at least thank him. I don't know what he wants from me now but I do know that I owe him a thank you and that's the only reason I agreed to go see him.

My eyes widened when the big gate opened and Vera drove into the Wildheart pack. From the entrance, you could tell that this is the most elite pack in the whole country.

It was greatly different from the pack I was banished from. The Dark Blood pack was nothing compared to Wildheart. Yet I wished so much to be welcomed in that pack that I gave them my all only for them to toss me away like trash.

"We have arrived."

We stopped in front of a door and she tapped it twice before pushing the door open.

"Sir, she is here."

She announced and just like that, my heart started beating in a not very normal way. I didn't think before but now that I am here, I realized that I wasn't ready to face Jace.

Did I forget to mention that the man is very intimidating? He has an aura that leaves everyone in the room grasping at straws.

"You have done well Vera, you can go home, I will take it from here."

His voice. Did I mention that he had the deepest, crispest voice ever? Yes, he has so many good traits and that is why he is the most wanted man in the country. I watched Vera walk away and had to hold back the urge to run after her and be gone from his sight.

"Take a seat."

My heart skipped a beat, my wolf blushed within me and my face turned every other shade except my natural skin tone. I swallowed and took a seat even though all I wanted to do was run away.

"I am glad to see that you are okay now. I wasn't very hopeful when I got you to the healing center. You are a fighter and very lucky."

I didn't know what I expected from him but this certainly wasn't it. Why is he being so soft-spoken towards me? It doesn't fit the daredevil, no-nonsense, vile person that I hear about from people who closely interact with him.

I forced a smile.

"Thank you for saving me. It's all thanks to you that I am here today."

I meant it because the man really saved my life. If not, I would have burnt to death and my body would have probably been left to rot in that warehouse because my supposed family doesn't give a fuck.

"You don't need to thank me."

He said and paused which left us in an awkward silence. My eyes wandered everywhere in the big office space as I tried to distract myself from the man in the room with me.

"You must be wondering why I wanted to see you?"

My heart skipped a beat when I realized he got up from his seat and was now seated not very far from me which wasn't good for my already abnormal nerves.

"Y-yes"

I stammered.

"I am not one to beat about the bush so I am going to tell you why you are here but before that, did Vera tell you that you will be living here?"

I nodded.

"She mentioned it but I am not sure why you would want me to live with you. I am not a member of your family nor am I a member of your pack."

I already owe him my life, I don't want to owe more when I am sure I can't pay back.

"Because, I want you to be my Luna."