She changed her mind suddenly, "It will be much ok if Morgan should be the one to tell you himself, I think." She ended her sentence with a mischievous smile, just like the one on her son's face earlier.

My father folded his arms and leaned against the wall, "There is sometehing you have to do, Ava." He stared and I sensed it was not going to be something good he was about to say.

He paused for a moment, probably finding the right way to put his words, "You are not being very much useful around here anymore. And instead of wasting away, we have decided to find something else for you to do."

Valerie was not having the way he was dragging the point so she urged him, "Ooh, for f*ck's sake!! Would you just say it already?" She snapped at him.

"You would be going to the the Shadow Pack."

There was a confused look on my face, I did not understand what he meant by that. Am I to go get something for him from the pack or what? Axel, who had been standing by and watching everything, noticed the look on my face and spoke.

"Mum? I do not think she understands fully what he just said to her."

"Let me explain further to you." Valerie started, "Just as your father had said, your income has gotten really low these days and we were just planning on how to deal with that when luckily, the Shadow Pack reached out that they are going to be in need of your... let me say, services, probably as a maid or what else would you be good for over there?" She laughed dryly at her own sacarstic question.

I stopped listening to whatever she was saying right after she mentioned that part about the Shadow Pack. My father was still standing there with his arms folded and he neither did nor said nothing. This should be a dream, my father would surely not give me off like that and certainly not to that pack that was mentioned.

"Shadow Pack", the name alone was enough to make an adult wet his pant. That is the most ruthless and brutal pack I have ever heard of; they had no side to reason with and just as their beginning, they believe in settling scores through and only through violent means. One could say that they were all really following in the steps of their Alpha; Klein, he was nothing short of brutality itself and he does not think twice before shedding the blood of anyone he was displeased with, he was not a man to reason with. And my father was ready to send me away to that kind of people? That is just as much as sending a goat to a pack of wolves.

I looked directly in my father's direction, still waiting for him to say something but he said nothing still. The thought that he was part of this and would just do nothing pricked at my heart like finely tipped needles; it hurt so much that I could not hold back the tears that were already formed in my eyes.

My body hurt from what I have been through that night, I could feel the pain in my tummy grow stronger, it was like a fire had been set in my heart and my throat was hot and dry. No words came out of my mouth even though I badly wanted to say something to him but I could not.

"You should go to your room. The Alpha will be here tomorrow, you have to get up early to receive him; we do not want to keep him waiting." My father said as he made his way back into his office, closely followed by Valerie but she stopped and turned around to face me.

"And make sure you clean up too. You should not be looking miserable on your first meetup with him. Do not be sad though, we are only making sure you do not waste away." Her dry laugh scratched my eardrums as she shut the door behind her.

I could not standup from the floor yet and I felt Axel's hands caressing my shoulders.

"I really pity you that you have to go this way but I could put a word in with mum for you. You know she listens to me and she might find another thing for you to do instead of selling you off."

Even if he did not mention it, I knew exactly what he was asking for and it just made me wish I could relieve his arms of the filthy hands he placed on me. I brushed his hands off my shoulders, dragged myself off the floor and went to my room. He said after me.

"You can not escape me."

I sank to the floor in despair as soon as I entered my room and began sobbing hard, stremas of fresh tears running down my cheeks.

"All these would not be happening if you had not left so soon mum. Why did you have to leave?"

If my mum were to still be alive, my father would not have had to take that old hag in and we would have continued to be the happy family that we were but alas, it all happened and there I was, about to be sold to a bloodthirst Alpha.

My thoughts were not enough to stop me from falling asleep even though I could not have a good night sleep because I was still hurting all over but for the period I slept, I was away from all the troubles and it felt good to have my peace; I only get to keep it when I am asleep.

The strange sensation I was feeling all over my body woke me up the next morning and I was scared with what I saw. It was Axel running his fingers all through my body where my old clothes could not cover. I scrambled to one side in fear, trying frantically to cover my body.

"What are you doing?!!!" I shrieked at him.

He grinned, showing all his teeth, "What does it look like I am doing?"

His eyes went wide as I have never seen before; filled with lust and desperation...