The alpha's bought bride

CHAPTER 1

I woke up panting and gasping for air. I had a bad dream again. It was the same nightmare that I had been having for the past three weeks.

I was running through the woods and being chased by a pack of big wild wolves in the dream, and the worst of all was that I would trip and fall, and they would catch up to me, tearing me apart.

Fascinating enough, instead of wolves, it was people. No, not people as you think, but werewolves. My kind, my blood, and those who I called parents. Each time I remember this day, it brought nothing but a nightmare, just like my dream, because I was being rejected and betrayed by those who I called parents.

I stood up from my bed reluctantly and moved to the front of the large wooden door of my room, my heart thudding erratically in my chest as if it would break out.

I cast a furtive glance over my shoulder, taking in the familiar surroundings of the small town I had been raised in. This was the only home I had ever known, and now I was being ripped away from it, sold like a piece of property to a cold and domineering Alpha.

My stepfather had arranged the entire transaction, and I had been powerless to resist else I would be sent out of the house permanently.

One of the reasons why I was scared of the arranged Alpha was the fact that rumor claimed he was a devil. Not that he had horns, but his personality - liar, fornicator, possessive, manipulative, cold, and domineering - fetched him such a description and I was so scared of this. Worst of all, I did not dare refuse because I had been sold by the Alpha of my pack who happened to be my stepfather.

I knew how these things worked in our world. The Alpha always had the final say, and when it came to me, the decision was simple - either I obeyed, or I was sent out of the pack.

I was no longer wanted here. I was like a burden, an unwanted child of my stepfather.

I was a Werewolf, and I was just 20 years old. My dad was the former Alpha of our pack before he died. , and my mother was the Luna of the pack who had a devil as her second chance mate and it happened to be called a stepdad to me.

Since then, life has always been a little complicated because of that. I had to learn how to control my wolf form, and when to use it. But, overall, it was manageable. Until my stepfather, Alpha Charles came into the picture.

I thought having another man as my stepfather would ease my pain but all was at first, but then I realized he was only interested in me because I was a werewolf and saw me as a way to consolidate his power in the pack. And I was stupid enough to believe that he cared about me.

But, I was wrong. Dead wrong.

I moved out of my room and moved to the dining room as I heard them taking their breakfast happily. Of course, happy I was sold out.

" Please, father. Have mercy upon me" I stood in front of my stepfather and begged him.

" Why are you begging me when I have sold you out for billions of dollars" Alpha Charles, my stepfather, smirked and continued taking his meal.

" Mum, how dare you allow Step dad sell me out to that cold Alpha? I am highly disappointed in you, mum" I said, tears flowing out of my eyes.

" And how dare you question me for selling you out? You don't have the advantage of staying with us," Cecelia, my mum, said and looked away.

As I heard a knock on the door, I couldn't help but feel my throat tightening in fear because I knew what awaited me on the other side, a cold, indifferent Alpha, who would take me away from everything I had ever known and make me his own.

The door opened, and before me stood a tall, broad-shouldered man with dark hair and piercing blue eyes. His face was expressionless, and I felt a shiver run down my spine. This was the man I was to be sold to, the man I was to call my Alpha.

" My friend, Alpha Herrick, I am happy you are here" Alpha Charles stood up and hugged Alpha Herrick.

" I am happy to see you again" Alpha Herrick greeted Alpha Charles, extending pleasantries to my mum.

"I assume you're Elena?" Alpha Herrick asked me.

His voice was deep and commanding, and I felt my knees tremble slightly. I nodded, not trusting my voice to speak.

Alpha Herrick looked me over as if appraising me before stepping aside and offering me his hand.

" Turn around, let me see what you got," Herrick ordered me.

I was forced to turn around for him, and smiles escaped from his lips. " This is what I love".

" I will always get you a good bitch, my Alpha," Charles said, tossing a cup of wine with each other.

Herrick whispered to me, "Have you prepared your traveling box?". I nodded slightly, feeling as if life had left me.

" Good!" Herrick Said and called his men.

Alpha Herrick's men walked in and started lifting my bags from my room to their car while I stood right there and watched as I was being sent away from the beautiful house my father built with his hard-earned money.

" I also have gifts for you, my friend," Charles said and motioned Alpha Herrick's men to a storage room where a lot of food items were lodged.

" I appreciate this" Herrick appreciated. Herrick's men were done with moving the items to his car.

Herrick hung his hand over my shoulder and walked me out of my father's mansion just like that. I entered his car and the ride began to his pack.

CHAPTER 2

We arrived at the Crescent Moon pack in the later hours of the day, it was just five hours to the pack. I was so unhappy to find myself in this place despite how beautiful the aura was. I was so bothered about my life. I thought I would become a medical doctor with my strange gifts, but I don't think it would be feasible with this cold and domineering Alpha king. I wouldn't mind keeping my gifts to myself either. Well, I had accepted anything that came my way. Let me just assume that my life had been sold alongside.

I moved out of the car and surveyed every nook and corner of the pack as other werewolves of the pack spared me unlimited gazes. They were so surprised to see Alpha Herrick with me- a stranger. I was sure that the rumor that Alpha Herrick was bringing a mate to the pack had been spread even before now.

" Welcome, my king," Seraph, the pack doctor, approached us with crook smiles. She wore a white dress and over her neck was a stethoscope. You could tell that she had been waiting for Alpha Herrick impatiently with her gyrating body. There were also two ladies by her side who were probably her assistants.

" Beautiful, girl, welcome to our pack." Seraph offered me her hand, and I took it gladly even though I was not happy to be there. She seemed not to be happy as well and her reasons were dark to see.

" How is he? Hope he is responding to treatment?" Alpha Herrick cut in.

" The situation now is worse, my king. The illness has started to affect his brain, and I am afraid of what can happen," Seraph said with concern before she cleaned up the drop of tears on her cheeks.

I felt sympathy for the doctor. She looks so responsible and friendly from her first approach. Her trembling voice tells that what she was talking about meant a lot to her. It was a thing of shame for a pack doctor not to be able to ill a sick person in her pack so I understood why she was so emotional at this point.

" I think we should transfer him to foreign packs for treatment, or else we lose him," Seraph added, finally letting out her tears. She did not mind appearing emotional and weak before me.

" No, he will be fine; let's continue to hope the moon goddess will heal him," Alpha Herrick interjected with his baritone voice.

Alpha Herrick walked past Seraph towards his mansion while I took surveying steps behind him. One thing Alpha Herrick hated was tears. He hated tears because he believed that tears weren't meant for wolves, especially when she was a prominent figure in the pack. Seraph's tears were a thing he hated; I could see the hatred and pain roaring in his eyes as he walked in, more or less like running to his mansion.

Moreover, Seraph was bemused over Alpha Herrick's response. I guessed that was not the first time Seraph would ask him to take the patient to foreign packs but it seemed Alpha Herrick was turning deaf ears to her request. Alpha Herrick would never adhere to her request, I was sure of it.

Foreign packs had the equipment for medical operations. They also had well-trained wolves who were medically relevant like me. The disadvantage of transferring a patient from one pack to the foreign pack was that any pack that doesn't register under the foreign packs would not be attended to. Apart from that, the foreign packs requested huge sums of money before they could start the operation.

In most cases, local packs like the Crescent Moon pack would never register under any foreign pack because any pack that registers under the foreign packs was considered a weak pack. Perhaps, the foreign packs would not attend to any pack members who were not registered under them because they feel that such local packs are enough to get rid of the illness.

This doesn't have anything to do with richness. If the health insurance of a pack was determined by its richness then the Crescent Moon pack would be among the Apex of all packs in the country. Everybody knows that Alpha Herrick was a billionaire who could buy the moon with his money but he lacks knowledge about health insurance. These people were called foreign packs because of their accents and skin color.

Let me tell you that my father died after suffering from a rare sickness. We should have transferred him to the foreign packs for treatment but the Alpha of our pack insisted that he was not going to register under the foreign packs. We tried all we could and also provided the medications we knew but unfortunately, we lost him.

This brings tears to my face anytime this poignant memory runs through my mind. The death of my father had created a gash in my heart which would be rare to cure. His last words to me always hammer out of my mind anytime I encounter a situation like this. One day, my father told me that life is a place where problems hit humanity out of race, but there would always be a superhero who would come to fix it. He used to tell me this until he gave up the ghost.

I didn't understand him at first until I finished nursing school before I knew what he was talking about. I have a strange gift. I could heal any form of illness - anyone at all. I was so unfortunate to discover this rare gift after the death of my father. I discovered this on a day when my boyfriend, Alpha Dante of the Moonlight pack was stuck with a strange disease.

Alpha Dante was the only thing left for me after the demise of my father. He was struck with a disease that reduced his strength day by day. Of course, he was a young Alpha who was trying to build his little pack. It wouldn't make any sense to hear that Alpha Dante registered under the foreign packs just immediately after his father handed them over to him. Alpha Dante tried all he could to cure himself, being a medical student, but it worsened daily. Alpha Dante chose death over submission, he chose to manage the disease until death comes.

One day, just one day, I healed Alpha Dante unknowingly with my strange gift after seeking a lot of ways to get money for his treatment. I thought I had done Alpha Dante a favor; little did I know that he was going to break my heart. He left me after he discovered what sacrifices I made just to gather money for his treatment. He said it doesn't matter what it is; he prefers to die than what I did. I saw it as an act of kindness backed up with love but he saw it as a promiscuous act. Let me stop here so that you will not be carried away with my heart-wrenching past - a topic for another time.

CHAPTER 3

" Hello, young girl. Remind me of your name" Alpha Herrick said in a commanding tone just as we got to his mansion. His deep voice sent horror down my spine, but I had to remain in my state of comfort.

" Elena!" I responded sarcastically, burying my face on the floor.

" Hope you know why you are here?" Alpha Herrick asked and furrowed his brows indignantly at me.

I muttered silently before I whispered, " No". I knew my stepfather had sold me out to him, but I never knew what a brutal and cowardly man like him had to do with me in his pack.

Alpha Herrick smiled. He removed his cigarette smoke and lit up a stick of it. He puffed it onto my face, making me cough uncontrollably. I covered my nose as the smoke affected my breath; it was as if my breath had been seized. Smoking is what I hated right from time not because I was a doctor but because of my conviction about it. My dad always told me that smoking reduces one's values and self -esteem which I reasoned well with him.

" Do you smoke?" Alpha Herrick asked expectantly.

" No" I muttered and looked at him with a sassy look.

He curled his lips disdainfully as if he was disappointed in me. " Well, In case you don't know why you are here, I have bought you hundreds of silvers from your stepfather"

He grabbed my wrist and drew me closer to himself as I tried to dodge the smoke particles around him. He looked into my eyes and said, "You are now my mistress, and ......." He put one of his fingers in his mouth and completed, "My anything. I can use you for anything I want in as much as I have purchased you"

" I hate you, coward!" I spilled hot but I didn't dare to say it out. It was an expression inside of me.

I was in distant thought over his speech, sad enough for him to detect. I felt like a huge part of me had died, something inside of me had stopped breathing whenever his words resounded in my ears again. Finally, I began to feel the hardship of hell called life remaining for me.

" You may be released on one condition," Alpha Herrick said, sticking out his tongue childishly.

I finally breathed relentlessly for the first time since he had told me about me being his mistress. I thought I would be his pet forever; I never knew he would give me a chance for my freedom once again.

" What condition?" I asked quickly in my rage, expecting to hear what condition it could be. Whereas, he felt more relaxed than ever before he answered,

" You must give me a male child, once you are fortunate enough to do this, I will allow you to leave my pack to wherever you like and also a huge amount of money for compensation"

I wanted to say something, anything at all but it seemed my word was stuck in my throat. I looked into his eyes and found out how deeply he meant his words. I froze in place and my uneven breath was the only evidence that I was still alive.

Two blonde ladies walked towards us. They were looking so gorgeous in their enormous wine attires. In their hands were beads and costly pieces of jewelry dangling and shining as they approached us. I observed them from their toes to their head and gushed over their resplendent look.

" Do you like them?" Alpha Herrick asked as he caught me blushing over their attires.

His irritating voice sneaked into my ears and my chortles vanished with an immediate alacrity.

" Why did you ask?" I asked in pretense as if I never liked them whereas my feelings could not be hidden.

But before he answered, I quickly added, "Are they your mistresses too?"

" No, they are your maids! I have assigned them to take care of you till you give birth" he added surreptitiously.

Alpha Herrick sounded so caring but I could read deceit in his voice. He was up to something with all these sudden kindnesses of his. Little did he know that I had read about how wicked, manipulative, and domineering he was.

" My king!" The two blonde ladies echoed and greeted Alpha Herrick. They were looking at me, too, as if my coming to the Crescent moon pack had been long anticipated.

Tade, one of the blonde ladies cleared her throat and said, "You look so beautiful"

And just before I appreciated her deference the other lady added, "You are the most beautiful wolf I have ever seen in my life"

I blushed and finally let my cheeks wave in excitement. I knew I was beautiful but I never imagined I was as beautiful as these blondes claimed. Well, it was a drop of honey on my ego.

" Take her in for refreshments. She is my new mistress" Alpha Herrick said. Just after his statement, the two blondes made a scary gesture that caught my attention. This recent statement of Alpha Herrick harmed their body.

Alpha Herrick just said I was his new mistress. Does it mean he had some mistresses before me? If yes, why were they not with him in his mansion? Of course, I guessed his brutal and cruel act distanced ladies from him despite his position in the pack. The law of the country doesn't allow a forceful imposition. That means no he-wolf could force a she-wolf into marriage including the Alpha of the pack. The moon goddess had given us the grace to reject our mate if we don't like them and that might be the possible reason why Alpha Herrick was mateless. A he-wolf could only impose if he had purchased the she-wolf from her guardians, which was rare, unlike in my case.

All I was concerned about was why he had chosen to purchase me and chosen me as his mistress.

The two blondes seemed not to be as free as they claimed. I could see Tade's face engulfed with fear but she was trying to hide her fears. Alpha Herrick must have told them to hide his true identity.

The two blondes motioned me to a beautiful room. The room was gifted with nice interiors and designs. The bedsheet alone dismissed the knots In my belly and replaced them with beautiful roses of butterflies. I was beginning to like this place just because of what I was seeing. Even though I was yet to know the fishy reasons behind all these cares I was alert and ready for an upcoming betrayal. This was not the first time I would be betrayed and this can't be the last because his love seemed unreal. All he wanted from me was a male child and nothing more.