My Cruel Mate novel Chapter 1

I felt the bed deepen on my side. There was someone in my room. I thought it was a dream but the warm hands on my body proved me wrong. I jumped up and turned on the light. It was my stepbrother, Vince. He was drunk... again.

" Get out," I growled, but he only smirked and approached me. I shivered when he grabbed my waist and pulled me to him. Vince forcefully plants kisses on my neck and I fight him, my claws digging into his flesh, but he's too strong for me. Tears flood my eyes when he grabs my neck and throws me on the bed harshly. He gets over me and pins my hands over my head.

As much as I kicked and screamed, no one came to my rescue and in a split moment, my wolf surfaced and let out a mighty growl that made the walls vibrate. Vince froze and looked at me with terror on his face. He jumped out off the bed and retreated to the door.

" You.. you. I thought you had no... no wolf," he stuttered. I always had a wolf but I didn't let them know because they would kill me. Ever since my father died three years ago, my stepbrother and stepmother have taken over the pack. They are hungry for power and will do anything to keep it, even killing me, my father's heir.

" Get out of my room, Vince," I commanded, using my alpha tone. My stepbrother scurried off and I sighed in relief, but I knew that tomorrow, they would come up with a plan to get rid of me. I was a risk to them.

....

" What do you mean you sold me to that cruel alpha!" I exclaimed, looking at my stepmother in shock. She groans, closing her eyes as if she hadn't dropped a bomb on me.

" We need money to settle our debts and you are pretty," she shrugs.

After my father died, the pack suffered a great financial loss because of my stepmother Evelyn, or evil as I call her. She is bad at managing finances as she spends pack's funds on spoiling herself with diamonds. The company also ended up losing partners and most of them refused to associate with us because of her proud and uncaring nature, so they withdrew their support, making us a target for rogues.

I glared at my stepbrother who almost assaulted me last night. He doesn't look ashamed of his actions. Vince hates me and will do anything to see me gone, even if he is selling me to the dangerous alpha, Edward Chasia, a powerful Lycan Alpha in the west region. He is said to be the Lycan king's cousin. Edward and his three brothers are ruthless killers and take overpacks that are not strong enough to defend themselves. That is how he earned the name: The cruel Lycan alpha.

" I'm not doing it," I said solemnly.