Zara's POV
"I will make you my mate once you become 19 years old," Losif said while hugging me.
"Huh! You both are here? I've been searching for you everywhere!"
As I heard that, I glanced up and saw my best friend Lyra, who is the same age as me, standing there. She is from Nightbane Pack, which is the most powerful pack. But she stays here because of me. I am her one and only friend.
That's why Losif had also become her friend. These two are my precious gems—I don't want to lose them. Because one was the first love of my life, and the other was my best friend.
"Lyra, you are here. I have something to tell you. Let's go talk somewhere else. I hope, Zara, you don't mind?" Losif asked me.
"Of course. How can I mind?" I replied.
They are also friends, so there must be secrets between them too. That's what I had thought and always left them alone.
Until one day, I saw them kissing passionately. The ground slipped away from beneath me seeing that. And for a moment, I couldn't believe my eyes.
"What are you two doing?" I shouted, which made them break the kiss, and they both glanced up quickly.
"Zara, what are you doing here? It's not like what it looks like. Believe me," Lyra said.
But there was no guilt on her face. In fact, it looked like she was happy that I saw them kissing.
"What do you mean by 'it's not what it looks like'? Do you think I'm an idiot? And Losif, we were supposed to become partners, weren't we? And you're cheating on me with my one and only best friend? Don't you feel shame?"
I was broken seeing that, but I didn't let a tear drop from my eyes. And just then, Losif stepped forward. His face was showing how much guilt he was feeling. And as he was coming toward me, I knew he would apologize now.
But just then, he came and hugged Lyra from behind.
"Your morals are trash, Zara. You didn't let me touch you before our wedding, but Lyra is open-minded. She didn't mind even if we had sex now, so I chose her instead of the beta's daughter."
I was frozen there, and no words left my mouth. Because indeed, Losif tried to touch me, but I had stopped him, asking to wait till the marriage.
I am 19 years old today. And I remembered I used to love him. He was our pack's Alpha's one and only son and the heir.
And my father is the Beta of the pack, so I was close to Losif naturally since childhood. That friendship turned into love when I was 16 years old. He confessed his love to me and told me that he would make me his Luna.
But everything was a lie. Just because we didn't have sex, he is now marrying Lyra in front of me.
I couldn't bear to see that. That's why I was about to leave from there while tears welled up in my eyes, and just then I saw bodyguards coming there with my father and mother.
"Mom, Dad," I called out their names, but before I could take my steps toward them, I saw them falling on their knees in front of everyone.
"What is happening?" I asked, and the alpha of the pack came forward. Losif was standing there with his mate and refusing to meet my eyes.
And just then, they also forced me to get on my knees beside my parents. My heart was pounding very loudly in my chest.
"Akar, so you realize what you did was wrong?" Losif's father stated, staring at my father.
My father touched his head to the alpha's toe.
"Please forgive me, I won't do this anymore. Please forgive me."
I was looking at my father because I didn't know what he did. And just then, I heard a trigger being pulled. I quickly looked up and saw Losif had pointed his gun at my father.
"Losif! What do you think you're doing?" I shouted, and in the split second, that shot pierced through my father's body, making me freeze.
But he didn't stop there and did the same to my mother. Seeing that, I was sure this was the end—that's why I closed my eyes, and a teardrop dripped from my eyes.
"Zara, your father was a traitor who actually committed treason by leaking our military secret."
As Losif's voice reached my ears, I opened my eyes and found him standing right in front of me. My parents' corpses were lying there.
I clenched onto his legs while tears were streaming down my face, and I was screaming from inside.
"Y-You... know that... my father would never do something like this! And you don't have any proof!" He kicked me in the stomach, which made my skin crawl.
"Proceed with her punishment for treason." As those words left Losif's mouth, my jaw dropped. I was still on the ground while my hand was on my stomach.
If someone committed treason, then in the pack they killed all his family except omegas. They sold omegas as slaves in the slave market of another pack, and that's what was going to happen to me now.
"Nooooo... Losif, you had loved me, right? Please save me!"
I begged with my voice and cried out, but he was only looking at me with disgusting eyes, like he had seen some kind of dirt.
I believed, in the small corner of my heart, that Losif would help—but in the end, he didn't. Guards dragged me away from there while yanking my hair, and all I was doing was calling for help, but no one helped me.
All these people used to respect my father and talked nicely with me too, but in just seconds everything changed. Lyra was smiling while looking at me, but no one's attention was on her. She was standing behind Losif, and I saw Losif and his father shaking hands smilingly.
"Finally got rid of this nuisance, Losif," Losif's father said.
Wait… did they accuse my father of false treason just to kill him? I couldn't believe it, 'cuz my father gave his whole life serving the pack that he didn't spend much time at home—and that's what he got after all that loyalty?
And suddenly they threw me somewhere, and when I saw that dark cell, I understood what was going to happen to me. They were going to brand me, and in seconds, burning iron was brought out, and the symbol on it meant "slave."
They pinned me down on the floor with their feet and pressed that hot iron against my skin.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
My scream of pain and my tears were making me feel half-dead.
"Now she has become a slave." I heard a voice and recognized it immediately. It was Lyra's voice.
"Oh, Zara, why did you try to touch what was mine? Losif—I loved him the moment my eyes laid on him. Still, you continued to date him. That's why I ruined you, your family, and your whole life."
"You bitch!" I cursed at her and sat up, but the pain was killing me. Still, when her words were ringing in my ears, I was feeling so angry.
She suddenly yanked my hair. "Don't show me this attitude 'cuz from today you are gonna become the slut who will spread her legs for any alpha that gets in her way."
She was smirking, looking at me, and I spit on her face.
"Whoever I spread my legs for, I am gonna get my damn revenge from you, bitch. I will kill you with my own hands. 'Cuz of you, my parents died."
Still, she was looking at me like nothing wrong had happened.
"Take her to the slave market of the Nightbane pack, 'cuz it would be great if my pack's people fuck you," she said, and suddenly I don't know how, but my vision went dark.