Running For Her Life

chapter 4

Chloe

I am getting sick and tired of my cousin and his girlfriend. I am tired of serving this ungrateful pack. Lately, I do not even get to eat, I must get food at school, and I do not always get to eat it before Varek takes it or tosses it to the floor. I want so bad to kick his ass.
I decide to skip my last class and go to a small Café to eat before heading back to the packhouse.
I enter the Café and find a booth, whipping open the menu.
“Welcome to Molly's what can I get you?” asked a small little older lady. she looked tired I could smell she was human.
“I’ll have 2 double bacon burgers with cheese large fries and an iced tea to drink please”
“Sure, thing sweetie
As I am waiting for my food, I look through my phone, all the phone numbers I have, belong to dead people now. I clear out my contact list. One day it will be full again.
“Here you are dear, anything else I can get for you before I take my 15-minute break dear?”
“No, I’m good thank you, please enjoy you're break”
I smile at the old lady and dig into my burger.
My god, this is so good. I might have to make this my go-to place to eat. I finish my first burger and fries, and I am halfway through my second burger when it is taken out of my hands.
“What the hell do you think you're doing, mutt?”
Oh, hell it is Varek
“I’m eating what the hell does it look like loser?”
“You eat when I say you can eat, how dare you sneak off and eat, wait till my father finds out you're eating”
“Wow really? I intimidate you all so bad, you have to starve me and degrade me”
“Wait a minute, Pinky pie, how can she afford to eat out?” Asked Rachel
Damn stupid bitch
“Good question, how are you affording this? Are you eating and running out on the check?”
“Yeah, that’s right, you got me, I just go around eating and dashing” I roll my eyes at him
Varek slams his fist on the table
“How are you affording to eat mutt?”
“I have my own money ok”
“What? How much?”
“That isn’t any of you're concern loser, it’s my money my business”
“Will see about that bitch, I’ll have that money by tonight"
“I don’t think so jerk, you will never get your hands on my money”
“I bet she stole her parent's money, I bet she killed her parents for their money,” Rachel said
I stood up and punched her in the face, at this point I did not care.
“How dare you say that you bitch, I had never hurt or kill my parents you whore I spat at her,
I walked over to the till and paid my bill and walked out.
“Hold it right their mutt, how dare you strike Rachel"
“Really, how dare she say those things”
“You do have access to your parent's money don’t you though?”
“Why do you need to know? Why do you care about my parent's money?”
“I… I don’t I just want to know how you have money”
“I Had a job, ok plus I have a trust fund, satisfied?”
“You’ll pay for this bitch, believe me, now drive us home”
“Where is you're car?”
“I don’t have one ok, now drive me home, so I don’t have to take the bus”
“No why should I?”
“Because I said, so that’s why?”
I unlock only my side of my car and get in; Varek tries to open the other door, but I keep it locked and drive away. Like I had ever let him in my car.
I pull up to the packhouse and my uncle is standing outside with his beta Thomas.
“Well, what do you have to say for you're self Chloe?”
“I’m not sure what you mean, UN… Alpha”
“My son just called me, you punched Rachel and left my son stranded”?
“So? She accused me of killing my parents, and he’s nothing but mean to me so why should I give him a ride”?
“I told you, you do anything to either of them you would pay and pay you shall. Thomas take her to the dungeons and chain her up”
‘You can’t be serious? You can’t do this to me”
“SHUT UP, I'm THE ALPHA I CAN DO WHAT I WANT”
Thomas grabs my arm and pulls me with him to the dungeons, no matter how I tried to get him to listen to me and let me go he would not go against his Alpha. He chains my hands to the chains hanging from the ceiling and rips open the back of my shit.
Moments later my uncle enters and puts on a pair of gloves, He picks up a sliver whip with claws on the end.
“This will be so satisfying,”
“You can’t do this uncle Victor your little sister was my mother”
But my words are ignored, for the next 2 hours he whips me, cuts me, and injected me with a little wolfsbane, not enough to kill me just hurt me.
Finally, after the two hours of torture, he tells Beta Thomas to clean me up and let me down. I was not to see a doctor; I was to go dress and report to the kitchen for dinner duty.
“I’m sorry you had to go through this Chloe,” Thomas says to me.
“Yeah right, you did nothing to stop it, and it was your daughter who was in the wrong,” I say back to him
“Believe me I know, I already talked to her mother she will get a whipping of her own”
After changing my clothes and cleaning myself up, I head down to the kitchen. I had to keep holding in my tears, the pain was so bad, I do not have a wolf to help me heal, and the Alpha will not let me see a doctor.
“Hey, there you are,” Claire says all cheery slapping me on the back.
I cry out in pain
“Oh my God Chloe, I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to hurt you”
“It wasn’t you Claire it’s ok really”
Claire turns me around and lifts my shirt exposing my back.
“Oh, dear God, Chloe what happened? who did this to you?”
I fill her in on everything, from lunch to the Café to the dungeon.
“That’s just so wrong, how could he be so cruel to you?”
“Chloe?”
I turn around, the head omega is looking at me
“Take this tray of coffee up to the Alpha's office now, then return to finish cooking”
“Yes, master right away Master," I say picking up the tray and heading up.
When I reach the Alphas floor, I saw the office door is open a bit, I stop and was about to knock when I heard them talking inside, so I listen for a moment
“I’m telling you, dad she has the money, how else can she keep buying lunch at school and cafés?”
“Maybe she did save from a job, I can’t see her having access to their millions,” my uncle says
“Look dad I’m just saying we have to find out, you and the rogues haven’t found any of their files or bank stuff, maybe Chloe has it all”
What why is he looking for the files and banking information, and Rogues? What?
“Maybe Varek is right dear, maybe she does have it and that’s why we can’t find it. “?
“Maybe, if only she had died that day to like it was planned”
“Dad I can take her out”
“No, I hired those damn rogues to kill my sister and that pack, why couldn’t she just had stayed home a while longer”
“Look, after dinner we will search her things, I will have her off doing more pack work, if she has the files and the money, I'll torture her till she hands over the money, I didn’t kill my family and an entire pack for nothing, I need that money"
“Can I help torture her this time dad?”
“Why not, you’re an Alpha in training it’s part of the job”
They all laugh.
Tears are running down my face, they killed my family, and my pack over money, I was supposed to die that day too. How, how could they. How could he kill his own family? His sister.
I put the tray down and run out towards my cabin, I gathered all my belongings. Good thing I never had time to unpack. I loaded everything as fast as I could in my car making sure I did not leave anything behind. Double-checking I have the bank boxes, and files.
I get in the driver’s seat, I whence in pain from my back. I start my car and there is a knock on my window, I jump and jerk my head to see who it was, it is Beta Thomas.
“Where are you going, Chloe? aren’t you supposed to be cooking?”
“Oh, Alpha Victor gave me permission to run and get my laptop from school I forgot, I need it for homework.
“Oh, ok, well drive safe then see you later"
I watch as he walks away then I let out the breath I was holding. I put my car in gear and take off. I do not know where I am going, I just know if I stay here, I am dead.
Alpha Victor
I open my office door and see a tray laying on the floor,
I was wondering where my coffee was, why didn’t they bring it in?
“Come on dear and son let’s go eat” I take my wife’s hand and head down to the dining room
“Ah roast beef, potatoes, carrots with the fixing how delicious," I say
“I have to say dad as much as I hate Chloe, the cooking has been so much better the last few months she’s been doing the cooking”
“I agree, maybe she’s good for something after all "
An hour later I am pushing my plate away.
“Very good dinner tonight ladies” I compliment them
“Thank you, Alpha”
“Oh, will you please have Chloe come out here for a moment, I need to speak to her”
“I’m sorry Alpha, but she never returned from bringing up the tray of coffee for you, I assumed you had her do something else”
“WHAT?”
“Alpha Victor, I ran into Chloe about an hour and a half ago, she was in her car leaving, she told me you gave her permission to go retrieve her laptop from school,” said Thomas
“I did no such thing” I growled
Damn it, so she was the one who brought up the tray, and that is why it was on the floor, she must have overheard us talking,
oh God, which means she knows, she knows I had her pack and parents killed.
I must think of something and fast.
“Thomas gather the warriors right away"
“Why Alpha, what’s going on?” he asks
“I was informed today, that it was Chloe who had her pack killed, she had them all wiped out that’s why she was the only one who lived,” I said
“Oh, dear goddess, I'll gather the warriors right away Alpha”
“What the hell dad? What is going on” Varek whispers to me"
“Chloe overheard us talking, she knows we’re the ones behind the murder of her pack and parents, she must die before she informs anyone of the truth."