BOUND TO THE BILLIONAIRE ALPHA

Chapter 1: A HORRIBLE MISTAKE

Elara

I never thought I would lose my innocence in the most horrible way, and to a man whose face I barely remembered.

I was turning eighteen tomorrow, the age when one finally meets their wolf and shifts for the first time. But I found my mate tonight and to my greatest joy, he turned out to be Jace Ethon, the Beta's son and my long-time crush.

My case was rare. Not everyone got to meet their mate before they came of age, I must have been very lucky. That was new because I happened to be the most unlucky person in the entire world.

Jace was the love of my life, the only person other than my best friend Lori, who was nice to me in this pack. But all my dreams of having a happy ever after with a mate who loved me were flushed down the drain the moment he dragged me to this kitchen and told me his plan.

My mate wanted to poison the Alpha and he wanted me to help him do it.

"I can't do this," I whispered, glancing between Jace and the opened door.

We were standing in the middle of the pack's kitchen which was three times the size of the small and shabby closet I called a room but beads of sweat were rolling down my forehead.

I could think of a million ways how this could go wrong. If anyone walked in and saw us, we were done for.

"Jace," I whispered a little louder, tugging at my mate's sleeve.
"Don't make me do this, please. Let's go—"

"Here," He handed me a small bottle as he glanced at the door. "Add a little of it to the food you'll be serving the Alpha's family tonight."

I shook my head. "I cannot do it. I can't poison my own family."

"Your family?" Jace almost growled as he grabbed me by the arm. "You are forgetting the same people you consider family have done nothing but hurt you. I'm the only one who stood by an illegitimate thing like you all these years!"

I winced at his words.

Illegitimate thing... I've heard that word every day of my life yet it stings every single time.

For the past seventeen years of my life, I've been treated worse than trash, worse than the lowest-ranking omega in the pack under the watchful eyes of my father.

I was told my father, Alpha Asher, brought me to the Nightshade pack when I was just a baby. Although I was the Alpha's daughter, I was never treated as such. The entire pack hated me, I was a mistress' child after all.

An unwanted child conceived out of wedlock.

I was a mistake, a horrible mistake as Luna always called me, one that should have never been made and she made sure I never forgot that.

Father never cared to look at me after bringing me here. To him, I was nothing but a disgrace and a reminder of his affair.

I was forced to grow up all alone, enduring the never-ending torture of his family alongside the hatred of the entire pack.

"I'm sorry." Jace let go and cupped my face instead. "Look Lara, your horrible family will never allow us to be together, neither will mine. I am the Beta's son and you... they treat you lower than even the omegas here. If you want us to be together, you will have to do this for me... for us."

"But Jace—"

"Once we get rid of the Alpha, I can become Alpha and you will be my Luna. I'll make sure no one will ever mistreats you again, I promise. So don't mess this up, I beg you." Jace dropped a small kiss on my forehead before walking away.