High Hopes

Chapter One - More Than I Love Myself

To whom ever this concerns,

  I've been thinking about this for a while now but it is only until now that I make this decision. I am running away, from all of my problems and pain, away from all of the name calling and beatings, away from the guy that rejected me. By the time you have finished reading this letter I will already be off pack grounds; most likely I will be miles away from you all. To my mother, I love you; even if you never loved me, never forget that. To my sister and brother, I love you as well, I know I never let you in my room but you can go in there if wish to now. This pack was never my own and it never was the paradise I wished it to be and what it should have been. I hope my tormentors never forget the things they have done to me, and I hope my mate never forgets the pain he has caused. I wish for my family to never forget that I love them but I want for them to forget that I was ever theirs.

                                               No Longer Yours,

                                                                            Aurora Bambino Cunnings    

  This is the letter I wrote to my pack, my family and my mate; it is probably on my bed or someone is reading it. I am currently fifteen miles away from the border of the Riverside Pack; fifteen miles from the place I once called home. As howls filled the air I felt the separation from my mate and pack set in; the last thing I heard through the pack link was this:

  “I will get you Aurora if it’s the last thing that I do,” Alpha Declan growled.

  I ran faster as I heard angry growls fill the forest behind me. I know that they are looking for me but I also know that they won’t go past the borderlines to get me. For that is the one thing I am sure of, I will never go back there, they have caused me too much pain.

*FLASHBACK* (Earlier that evening)

  “Aurora, get your ugly behind down here and clean up this mess!” My father yelled from the bottom of the stair case. I scurried off my bed and down the stairs; I was almost to the bottom when I tripped over my own two feet. I groaned in pain from the small tumble down, I looked up to see my father and the alpha looking like they wanted to kill me. My father grabbed me by my hair and dragged me from the stairs to the kitchen and then threw me on the floor. “What is that? Hmm, is that a juice splotch on the floor? Is that what I see?”

  My wolf whimpered as he yelled at us. I just kept my eyes casting downwards and got up off the floor cradling my elbow. “It wasn’t there when I finished cleaning, Sir,” I whispered.

  “Then why is it here now?” Alpha Declan growled back.

  “Well obviously someone spilled some juice and didn’t have the effing decency to clean up after themselves,” I snapped without thinking.

  “You little witch!” he shouted before back handing me into the refrigerator. I tried to pick myself up but I just received a kick to my stomach and a punch to my face. “Don’t you ever disrespect me again, I am your Alpha!” he said as he laid blow after blow to my body. My father joined in and kicked me in the skull a couple of times before I lost consciousness.