Mistaken Identity

CHAPTER 1

Kaitlin's P.O.V 

I thought the whole world was against me.  I am the only female in our whole pack that hasn’t shifted for the first time and so I’m seen as the weak link. For the past twelve years of my life I have been the slave of the pack copping beatings if I don’t do the job right the first time. I don’t attend any school because my parents think that it’s a waste of money for me to get any kind of education seeing as I’m never going to need it throughout my life.

I was in the middle of washing up the dishes so I could start cooking the packs dinner when the most excruciating pain hit my head, it felt like my whole body was on fire. This feeling is worse than the ones that I get from my beatings after I had been admitted to the pack hospital. The pain got so bad that I ran up to my room and curled myself in a ball on the floor waiting for it to pass, but it didn’t, it kept spreading over my body until I nearly passed out from the pain. It was only once I heard my bones breaking that I knew that I was shifting for the first time. It is more painful than anyone told me it would be, most likely due to the beatings that I have received causing my body to become fragile.

It felt like it took hours when it actually only took a few minutes for my form to change into my new one. My new wolf form, I was smaller than the size of a normal wolf probably due to the inhuman ways that I was brought up even though I have Alpha blood in me. My coat was a unique golden colour that I have never seen before. It was in that moment after I saw the colour of my fur that I decided not to tell anyone that I shifted.

After my shifting I was really tired and sore but I knew that if I didn’t do my chores before the rest of the pack got back from work and patrolling then the beatings that I would receive would be ten times worse than normal. I decided to finally get up off the floor and go finish cleaning the kitchen and cooking the dinner so I might be able to go to bed earlier than normal so my body can regenerate from the shift.

Two hours later and I have just finished cooking the dinner and putting it on the table when my brother-The Alpha of the pack-and the rest of the pack come in and sit down at the table and eat. Of course I took my plate and went to sit in my little corner that I have to eat at because they see me as a disgrace to the Alpha family.

As I eat my dinner in silence I hear my wolf start to talk to me, “Hello Kaitlin how are you coping after the shift?”  “I am still quite sore but I am managing, what’s your name?”  “My name is Delilah, I am a rare wolf that must never be told about to anyone apart from our mate ok”  “Yeah sure but why?”  “That is something you will have to figure out on your own young one.”  And with that she withdrew from the conversation.

 After the conversation with Delilah I ate the rest of my meal with an empty mind. It had been an eventful day, shifting and all so I decided that I would retreat to my pile of bed sheets for an early night. As my mind started to wonder off into the abyss of sleep I thought how great it would be to get out of this pack and find my mate, I decided that in five days I was going to break all connections that I had to this pack and hightail it out of there.

 As my alarm went off at 5:30am the next day, I grudgingly got up, got dressed for the day and went down to the kitchen to start making breakfast for everyone. When I was half way through putting the pancakes on the 395 plates of all the pack members, I heard the distinctive steps of the Alpha and Beta waking everyone up for breakfast. When they stopped at the kitchen door and looked at me-covered in flour- the Alpha gave me a disgusted look and continued walking to the table. I was silently counting down the days that I would have to stay in this hellhole until I could escape. After breakfast the pack left to go to work and school. I was the only person left in the house after that so I decided to get to work cleaning the house for when they arrived later this afternoon. As I started vacuuming the floor on all four stories of the house my wolf Delilah surfaced from her slumber and started talking to me,