my mute and abused mate

Chapter 1

Scarlett's POV:

I stand on the border of my pack's territory and the neighboring pack's territory debating if my plan is really all that smart after all. Knowing how my pack, The Bright Dawn pack, will treat me if they find me out here so close to the border, I know they will kill me this time. Being the pack slave isn't easy and it comes with a lot of work, I have to clean the pack house at 5am, I have to make breakfast by 5:30am, I have to be back in my "room" by 6. If I cannot do that......I don't like to think about what will happen.  My alpha's son recently came of age to where he needed to find his mate.... turns out it was me. Silly me for thinking he would accept me, he walked right over to me and slapped me. He then rejected me in front of the entire pack. His father looked so hurt by what his son did, but given that when the alpha's son comes of age to find his mate he becomes the alpha so he couldn't do or say anything about it. After that I stopped working and the abuse got worse. But the physical pain they caused me is nothing compared to how my heart felt. Every time I would see him with his chosen mate my heart would shatters into pieces. I tried so hard to avoid them both but living in the pack house it was hard to avoid them. So I've chosen to run away from them all, what makes it worse is that I'm a mute. So all the abuse from over the years I've never once been able to scream for help. When I was young, I was playing with my older brother out in the field beside the pack house. We were playing our normal game of hide and seek, it was my turn to hide and I hid behind a tree in the forest that was close by. My brother started looking for me but he couldn't find me.... but someone else did.  A rogue snuck up behind me and before I could scream he bit my neck and tried to kill me. My brother had shifted the year before and he smelled the rogue...and he smelled my blood. He ran to the pack house to get the warriors and by the time they got back the damage was done. The rogue destroyed my vocal cords and there was nothing the pack doctor could do. My brother left the pack to find his mate, that was before the abuse started. I became the pack slave on my 10th birthday, I was 7 when I became a mute, and then I was abused if I broke a dish or didn't cook the food right.  I never had many friends but after becoming the pack slave I didn't have any. I can't stay in this pack anymore and I can't deal with the abuse. So I am becoming a rogue. I won't have to answer to anyone ever again. I step over the border line and I hear the new alpha howl from the pain of losing a pack member. I start running knowing I'm in another pack's territory and they will send warriors after me. Once I feel like I'm far enough from there pack house I find a hallow tree to sleep in for the night. Sleeping on the ground isn't my idea of a perfect bed, but when it keeps me away from the packs border patrol I will do anything. I curl up trying to mask my scent more with the smell of the decaying leaves on the floor of the tree. I start to doze off when I smell the most amazing thing in my entire life......rain and chocolate. I shoot up off the floor of the tree and look around scared. If I can smell him, he can definitely smell me. I shift into my very small white wolf with black spots on my face, having shifted at the early age of 9, my wolf came early because of the injuries, I am smaller than the other females anywhere, I start running. Running away from the heartache I know is to come, I do not want to be rejected again. I run faster and faster praying I get off my mate's land before he can reach me. I know that I shouldn't run but what else am I supposed to do?  Being abused for years makes me nervous to meet my mate because I know he will reject me. I just pray he isn't an alpha because if he is, I know he will be mad at me for running away from him. I almost get to the border into neutral territory when a large black wolf with a few white spot on its face lands on top of me. I turn over on the my back and lean my head to the side as a show of submission. I feel sparks every where the wolf's fur is touching mine. The large wolf starts to whimper and it nudges my neck with his snout and nuzzles my neck gently and starts to make a purring noise.  I look up at the wolf and I feel like time has frozen, the wolf on top of me, I now know for sure is my mate......and he is an alpha. I start to whimper and squirm trying to get out from under him so I can run again before he rejects me. But being the size of a wolf pup doesn't help my case. He gently picks me up by the scruff of my neck and i huff but given that I am in wolf form it sounds like a growl. He happily trots back to his warriors, who are also in wolf form. The instant that they see me they start growling, normal reaction for me I start to shake and whimper even more than before. My mate sensing that I'm troubled growls at his warriors and they stop growling. He must have mind-linked them telling them I'm his mate and not some rogue pup that he found in the woods. We start heading for his pack house and I squirm again wanting to be put down so I can walk on my own. My mate understands what I want and he gently sets me down but stays very close to me to make sure I don't run away. I walk slowly beside my mate and as we get closer to his pack house I start to slow down. He notices my change in pace and slows down and looks at me. He gently nudges my neck with his snout trying to show me it's okay to keep walking but I don't move. He looks at me with worry in his eyes and since we haven't done the mate bond we can't mind-link each other. I start to walk again but slowly because I don't want to be outside anymore. As we get closer to the pack house I smell something that's familiar. It smells like home but welcoming.......my head shoots up since i've been walking with it down and I see a man standing beside a lady talking to one of the pack warriors that weren't with the alpha, my eyes start to water and I whimper loudly. My mate hears me and runs to my side looking for a threat or anything that might have scared me. I shift back to my human form before I realize what I am doing. The man's head looks back at me so fast that I think he caused ME to get whiplash. He starts to run towards me and as soon as he gets to me he lifts me up in a hug and starts crying. My mate growls loudly and my brother puts me down and looks at him , my brother bows his head to my mate and speaks up " I'm sorry alpha Blake I meant no disrespect to you or to our Luna, but she is my sister and my old pack lead me to believe she was dead. I have not seen her since I was 15 and she was 7." My  mate shifts back to his human form and one of his warriors gives him a pair of basketball shorts. With my wolf being so small my clothes don't rip when I shift. I do not look at my mate at all when he is back in human form, " It's alright Nathan I understand," those few words make my legs go to jelly, "Why did you believe her to be dead? Did your old pack say anything about her that would make it seem like that?" my mate ask trying to move closer to me but I just kept moving so I was behind Nate. "No alpha Blake that's just it, they never mentioned her, that's why I believed her dead." Nate looks at me and smiles warming. "Scar why haven't you written to me or even tried to come see me? I was so sure alpha Charles would let you come and visit me from time to time." He looks down at my hands as I start to sign my response to his questions and my mate looks at me confused, "Nathan why isn't she talking?" my mate ask but his voice comes out deeper and more rough, "I am sorry Alpha Storm, my sister cannot talk at all," my brother gently moves my hair away from my neck where I keep it at all times to keep the teeth marks scar hidden from everyone's view, "she was attacked by a rogue when she was 7 and the rogue destroyed her vocal cords, she is a mute." I look down and my brother understands why, he knows the kids in the old pack used to make fun of me for the scars. I hear my mate growl loudly and he starts to shake from rage, "Alpha Storm please calm down you are scaring Scarlett," my brother says trying to get my mate to calm down while keeping me from my mates sight.  Blake looks at me from behind my brother back and looks down smiling, "Scarlett, I love it, it's perfect." Blake looks at me and gestures for me to come to him. My brother nods a little and gently pushes me forward towards Blake. I walk forward and look up at him, he is at least 6'4, spiky black hair, and the most amazing blue eyes I've ever seen. He smiles down at me and gently takes my hand. I look at our hand and start to smile, i feel a thousand sparks shooting up and down my whole body and when i look back at Blake his eyes have gone from blue to black, his wolf is out. I whimper slightly and try to back away. My wolf is telling me he won't hurt us but after so many years I don't like to be close to Alpha's when their wolf is out. Blake growls at me and pulls me into his chest, he buries his face in my neck inhaling deeply, he looks back at me and his eyes are blue again. "I'm sorry Scar, I didn't mean to scare you but you smelled like another male from the distance you were at and i knew it was just your brothers sent but I needed to make sure. Storm was angry and i scared you, i'm sorry." he looked sincere when he said it and i just nod. I turn to my brother and sign a question i've been wanting to ask, since my mate doesn't understand sign language yet, my brother will have to translate for me. My brother looks at me with heartbreak in his eyes, but it quickly turns to anger and he growls loudly. I whimper and I feel Blake slowly wrap his arms around my waist, and gently pulls me behind him. "Nathan calm down you are scaring Scarlett and I don't care that you are her brother no one scares my mate." my brother looks at the pack border and starts to walk towards it. I realize what he is going to do and i run in front of him shaking my head. "Scarlett move, i don't care what you say to me, i am going to kill every last one of them!" i just keep shaking my head at me and i look at him with pleading eyes to calm down. "Scar how can you expect me to calm down after finding out what they did to you?!" Blake walks over to us and looks at my brother than at me, "who did what to Scarlett?" Blake ask confused. My brothers eyes turn even darker and he looks at my mate "I will only tell you if you back away, i don't want you to scare Scarlett" my mate does what my brother ask and backs away. In the course of a second my mate goes from calm to feral mad. "THEY DID WHAT TO HER?!" my mate doesn't wait for an answer before he shifts into his wolf and runs over the pack border.