The Gamma's Daughter

Prologue

Mercy

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Pain. Betrayal. Lies. Three things a girl never thought she would feel when she wakes up every morning before going about her day. She never once rolled out of bed thinking this is going to be the day that I will get so hurt and feel so broken that I will never be able to look at someone that I spent the last two years of my life with.

Two years. That's 730 day's filled with love, emotion, fighting, make up's, birthdays, and holidays. Two years suddenly gone with one word spoken by the man you thought you were going to spend the rest of your life with. One word!

Mate. The day he turned 21, I thought for sure it would be me. That I was the one meant for him all along. I truly believed the Goddess had some sort of love story planned out for us. Childhood Best friend's who turned lovers, turned Mate's until the very end. Sadly, that wasn't the case and it wasn't even the worst part of our story.

He promised me if I trusted him enough to give him my innocence that we would spend forever together no matter what. He would reject his Mate for me and I for him. Except, I know now how much of a lie that was. How could I have been such a fool?!

I know that was a lie because I'm watching the person that I believed to be the love of my life.. my Best friend load his truck up with all of his belongings to move to his Mate's Pack.

Originally, I thought it was to get away from me. The potential future issue for him to learn to love her without me getting in the way of that. However, my Mother confirmed otherwise.

He wanted to get away from our Pack. Away from our sorry excuse of an Alpha. I can't be mad at her for finding him and living her forever with him. I shouldn't even be mad at him for it. Yet, here I am so full of anger, hurt, and bitterness.

He lied to me and for what? So I'd be a bed warmer until he found her? I fell for it and became a place holder, but what hurts the most..

What hurts the most is that he did it to me. ME! His Best friend of 17 years. We met when we were only three and four in daycare. He was the one I went to when a boy was pulling my pig tail's and I was the one he came to when a girl told him he had cooties.

We were always Best friends up until two years ago and even then that was his choice to pursue me in a romantic way. Yes, I agreed. How could I not? I had always loved him. How could I not? He was Ruben. My Ruben. My protector, my confider, and my shoulder to cry on.

So, no. I'm not hurt at the fact he found his Mate. I'm pissed because how he could make me love him and make all these unkept promises just to leave me and not even tell me bye like I was just some one night stand? He should leave! Not because of me, no. He should leave this Pack.

Our Alpha... He is not the kind of man that should hold such a respected title. Alpha Grant is a horrible man. He neglected our Pack's needs leaving us to fend for ourselves all while he and his late Mate lived the high class life with expensive taste.

Apart of me wants to believe she didn't know of how he treated us, but then again she was the Luna. The Mother of our Pack. It was her job to know.

His son is no better than him. He knew the Alpha position was rightfully his so he didn't need to work or train for it. That mistake costed him his life when a Rouge attack happened. After the death of our future Alpha, the Luna went mad.

She tried to attack any pregnant female due to the pain she felt every waking moment without the only child she has ever birthed. The Alpha eventually made the mistake of leaving her alone for a little too long one night. He returned home finding her hanging in the air with a rope around her neck in the living room.

To this very moment, he loses his mind a little at a time by the day. That was five years ago. Since then he has become cold and bitter. He even believes one of his people did such a horrific thing to his Luna because in his mind she would never do something like that to herself. To him.

When nobody came forward due to the fact we all knew it was suicide from a broken heart, the punishment began. The Beta of our Pack, Walsh tried to talk some sense into him and for that he has been locked in the cells for the past five years.

I feared for my Mother's life, but Alpha Grant knew he needs her. He hates that he depended on a woman and for that she practically works for free. It's not that he doesn't pay her because he does out of the respect for my dead Father. She just spends what little of her money she does get on secretly feeding the young and old who can't hunt for food themselves.

He stopped paying the Pack the money he was supposed to pay them. It's like accommodation pay. We live here and help him keep his title all the while working for him. We have Doctors, accountants, businesses, warriors like myself, and every day people that do little things around the Pack like lawn care, daycare, gardening, and maintenance.

None of us are paid anymore. He selfishly keeps all of our money to himself never be to seen again. You want to know what the worst part about all this is? No one is coming to save us.

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