Chapter 2

Chapter 2 

Phoebe's POV 

As we stepped in, I saw my father pleading to a man.

"Please just give me time. I will send her to you myself" he said and I wondered who he was going to send to them.

Never have I seen my father plead before but there was a look of panic in his eyes. I moved closer to them. 

"No, if she doesn't go with me today, I am closing down all your streams of income until she gets to the Alpha King's palace" he said firmly.

His face was cold and what he said made me halt my steps. I looked at my mother. I seem confused at what the man said.

"Please don't do that. If you do, everyone will starve to death" my father pleaded.

"Mom, what is going on?" I asked my mother.

Her face was already swollen from crying.

"The Alpha King asked his men to lock down every company that generates money for the pack. For three weeks now, nobody has been buying and selling in the pack. If anyone does, they would face the wrath of the Alpha King" she replied.

Anger swells from within me. I know that the Alpha King is a heartless man. What does he expect our pack to survive on if he does that? I was so angry. 

"That is barbaric!" I spitted out.

My voice was loud and it caused everyone to look at me. My mother quickly covered my mouth but I still gave those standing an angry look. 

"Are you trying to challenge me, pup?" The man who was talking said.

Looking at his bulky and firm face, I knew he shouldn't be someone to toil with but I don't care. I will fight anyone that dares to bully my family. 

He was moving away from my father and coming towards my mother and I. I was supposed to be afraid but I wasn't. I was more than angry.

My mother was trying to hide me and she was pleading with the ugly looking man coming towards us. With the way the man was looking, it was sure that he had lived all his life fighting war.

"Sorry sir, she wasn't talking to you" my mother said, quivering.

"Yes I am" I countered my mother's words.

"Phoebe!" My father shouted.

I could see fear in his eyes. I didn't know why my father was afraid of this guy. I can't smell that he is a ranked wolf, so he shouldn't be more powerful than my father.

"Interesting," the man said with a sinister smile. "Pup, how do you intend to challenge me?" He asked me.

I released my hands that my mother held and I moved closer. 

"Don't you dare hurt my pack!" I growled at him.

He burst into an annoying laughter and I felt like breaking his nose and making him scream. I spread my legs as someone who was ready to fight and I gave him a daring look.

"Phoebe Wesson! What the heck are you doing?" My brother, who hasn't spoken a word to me since I came, shouted.

He too looked very scared. Those cowards. I ignored him and glared coldly at that bulky man.

"You really mean to fight me?" The man said, giving me a haughty look.

"I just want to bash your ugly looking rat face for bullying my family" I said to him.

The insult got to him that he rushed at me to hit him but then, I was ready for him. I gave him a huge punch on his nose. That was so unexpected. He screamed out in pain and stumbled back 

Everyone there was so shocked at what I did. I didn't train for ten good years for nothing. The man recovered and came at me. I wasn't even gazed. I didn't even let him get close before I gave him a drop kick and he fell to the ground. 

I know it wasn't the effect of my kick that made him retreat but the shame and disgrace. I walked up to him and I could see fear in his eyes. 

"Tell your king that I don't give a f**k about him," I gave him a disgusted look.

"She's the bride. She's the bride!" One of the men screamed.

I wondered who he was calling the bride. I looked around me and I saw sadness in my family. They were not even trying to scold me for hitting the Alpha King's men.

"Look at her tattoo. She's the one they've been hiding for years," that same man said.

The one who fell to the ground stood up with a smirk on his lips. He wasn't even ashamed anymore.

"Now we found her," he said, wiping his face.

I wondered what was making him happy. My father rushed to guide me.

"Please, she just returned, let me have a brief word with her," he pleaded. 

I was so confused. I didn't even know what to say and I was trying not to think because I knew the outcome won't be good.

"No! I'm taking her…" The man almost choked with his words because of the way I sent him a glare. "Go ahead," he said.

My father bowed to him and I was dragged away.

"Dad, what's going on?" I asked bewildered.

I looked at my father then at my brother and mother who were wiping her tears. My heart starts to beat faster. I just returned home and something was telling me that I'm not going to stay.

"Listen Phoebe, I don't have a choice here. The Alpha King and our great-grandfather had a bargain that every first female child in our family will be married to the Alpha King. And for centuries now, you are the only female in our family and now they have come to take you. You know no one can defile the Alpha King" he said to me.

My eardrums went blank all of a sudden and I stood there like a statue as it was done to me the reason my father told me to come home. Not because they love me. Because it's time for them to sacrifice me. 

I looked at my mother and she was already crying. So this was the reason she was crying that I thought it was because she was so happy to see me.

Sadness spread through my heart and I felt like it would disappear. I was trying hard not to cry but the pain was just too much. I couldn't just imagine how I was going to become the wife of a man who is even old enough to be an ancestor to my parents. Even his great great great grandson would be way older than my father.

My father isn't in his hundredth yet and he wants to throw me to a man 6 times older than him?

"Dad, did you forget that the Alpha King is over half a millennium?" I asked him.

He shook his head. It was as if I saw a flash of pain in his eyes but it's just my imagination. It wasn't even only that he is old, that man is a villain. He is as brutal as the devil himself. The history about him said he had conquered so many packs just to become the Alpha King. No one would dare to go against his order except he wants to see the hades. No woman could stay with him because they won't last a day before he kills them for his entertainment.

"Dad, have you also forgotten who that man is?" 

Now the tears on my cheek wouldn't stop flowing. Why did they hate me so much? I looked at my brother who had a frown on his face. 

"You are not marrying the Alpha King. You are marrying his great grandson" he said to me.

I don't know if that was supposed to get me excited. As if he didn't know that the great grandson is the worst of all. Even before I left the pack, news about how he inherited the Alpha King's brutality was a hundred fold and was flying all around. 

"Father, that man single handedly killed all his family because they went against him. How much more me?" I shouted.

Yes, the Alpha King's grandson had killed all his family because they scolded him for drinking the blood of the pack members. That grandson didn't even care about who they were. Whenever he is thirsty for blood, he picks anyone and sucks them dry.

"He is practically a demon dad! I'm going there to die? It will be better for you to sell me off to slavery than to send me there. At least, I have more hope of escaping from slavery than to go there" I said sniffing hard.

"I don't have a choice here Phoebe. I have successfully hid you for ten years but now the pack is being attacked. Please save us," my father said sorrowfully.

I was so dumbstruck. How am I to save them at the detriment of my own life. What my father did gave me a heart break. Knowing there was nothing for me, those people already saw me, I went back to the man I broke his nose. 

"Let's go," I said to him.

I didn't even look at my father or my brother. I only looked at my mother and then walked out of the pack's hall.

"Phoebe," my father called me.

I looked back at him with a cold look and I saw that he had a tender apologetic look but I wasn't moved by it. I was sure I was going to sacrifice myself for the pack. Right now I'm a sacrifice and a sacrifice doesn't smile.

That was the end of my family. I was led to the airport where the jet had the Alpha King's inscription on it. 

All through our flight, I didn't even say a word. The one whom I beat up was giving me a malevolent look but I wasn't afraid at all because I knew he wouldn't dare touch me. I was offered food but I did refuse it.