Chapter 1

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Bailey's POV:
I will find you, his voice ran through my head. Believe me...I will. I still didn't stop. He told me that when I first tried to escape. I was terribly beaten and he told me I could never escape him. That he would always find me. He wants to mark me. He wants to mark me when I turn eighteen. That's tomorrow. He wants me to be his mate, to be his Luna.
​Never.
​I will never be with Alpha Jason. I'm not his mate. At least, I hope not. I'm praying that my mate is someone else. Someone kinder. Someone who cherishes life. Someone who will love me unconditional. Someone who will protect me, always.
​I continued to run through the forest, completely ignoring the pain in my legs. I passed the boundary of the pack, feeling a pull to turn back. To not leave the place I grew up in. Even though it was complete hell. My own instincts to not become a rouge. Someone who will always be hunted.
​I immediately shook the feeling out of my head. I would rather become a rouge than get continuously raped an beaten by a man who is four years older than me. By the same man who always tells me that he loves me, however still beats me and hurts me twice a day, every day.
​I ran and ran and ran until my body couldn't continue. I slumped to the ground with silent tears falling from my eyes as the dew from the grass got into the deep cuts from the whip on my back, on my arms, on my legs and deep cuts from a silver knife on my cheeks.
​I looked up to the navy blue sky with the shining stars and bright crescent moon that lit up the whole forest.
​My legs were numb, my body was pale and my skin was attached to my bones. No muscle. No fat. My hair was a messy tangle of knots to the mid of my back with blood and dirk in the locks.
​"Help," I whispered before I fell asleep, seeing the moon pass the center of the sky, indicating that it was midnight, my birthday. The day I'm supposed to shift, meet my mate. However, the day I was supposed to be forcefully marked by Alpha Jason and become his Luna. Thank the goddess I got out in time.
​I slowly flickered my eyes closed and I was out like a light.
*
​I immediately woke up to the sound of growling. I didn't know what was going on until I saw the bright green grass I was laying on and remembered running away from the man who caused me so much pain.
​I looked up to see a man, maybe nineteen or twenty who I could sense had authority. But not as much as an Alpha or a Beta. He must be a Gamma. I pulled my knees to my chest and sunk farther into the ground. I peered behind the man and saw a whole bunch of other men standing there with either sweatpants, jeans, or shorts on, meaning they must have just recently shifted from their wolves.
​"Well, well, well. Look what we have here, boys. A little, fragile rouge trespassing on our territory. She doesn't even have the right clothes on, poor thing," he venomously cooed to me. My eyes naturally widened in fear as the men all laughed and started to close in on me. He kneeled down beside me and put a hand on my cheek. "So soft. She might be a good girl for us to have some fun with wouldn't she boys?" he asked to the others behind him. They all nodded and grumbled in agreement with him.
​He then flung me over his shoulder, but not before he could slap me in the face, yank my hair, and open a few of my cuts that had already scabbed over.
​I whimpered in pain as he would toss me around to some of the other men so they could play with me as they walked and I felt as if my whole body was clothed in blood and the little amount of innocence I had left was gone and ripped away from me.
​I was crying by the time a loud, booming growl went across the forest and shook the ground. I lifted my head up as far as my exhausted body would let me to see from the corner of my eye a man who looked around the same age as the Gamma with sweatpants on. I could sense his authority from where I lay in the dirty arms of the Gamma, who one of the warriors gave me back to. The man was clearly the Alpha.
​I started to lose consciousness and my eyes started to close. Before I blacked out I could smell the most wonderful smell, sea salt caramel and felt my self being ripped out of the Gamma's arms.
​"It's okay babygirl, stay with me. Stay with me. They can't hurt you anymore. I'm right here. Please don't leave me. Please don't leave me," this man cooed into my ear as he ran through the woods. That's when I lost consciousness.   

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