Chapter 1 Chapter 1

Chapter One

Ashley's POV

I screamed so loud it felt like my lungs would burst.

“No! Liam! Stop it! What the fuck are you doing!”

The sound echoed down the hall. My bedroom door hung open. Moonlight flooded the room and lit up every horrible detail on my bed. Liam was naked on all fours, ass high.

Behind him was not just any man. It was Darius, the tall, smirking son of Alpha Thorne from the rival Silver Claw pack. The one our elders always warned us about. The enemy. Darius gripped Liam’s hips with rough hands and pounded into him hard and fast. Their bodies slapped together wet and loud. Sweat rolled down Liam’s spine in shining trails.

Liam moaned like an animal in heat, throwing his head back, pushing back to meet every brutal thrust. His own cock bobbed hard and leaking, dripping onto my sheets. But that was not even the worst part.

A thick black dildo lay discarded beside them on the bed, slick and shiny, like they had been taking turns or using it to stretch him first. The smell of sex and lube hit me like a slap.

They were kissing between thrusts. Messy, arrogant kisses. Darius bit Liam’s lip hard enough to draw blood. Liam groaned into his mouth and begged for more.

Rage swallowed me. I charged forward and started pounding Liam’s back with my fists. “Get out! Get the hell out of my room you traitor!”

Liam twisted around fast. His eyes flashed with pure arrogance. With one powerful shove he sent me crashing to the floor. Pain shot through my hip. My white dress ripped wide open along the thigh. I gasped, winded.

The scream had carried. The door burst open wider. My dad stormed in first, face twisted in shock and fury. Sarah and the girls pushed in behind. Elders. Warriors. The room filled in seconds.

Everyone stared at the bed where Darius slowly pulled out, smirking like he owned the place. Liam stood up without a shred of shame. His cock still hard. Still dripping. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and looked around at the crowd like they were beneath him.

I pushed myself up on shaking arms. Tears burned my cheeks. My voice cracked. “Why? Why would you do this? With him? With the enemy?”

Darius chuckled low and dark. He glanced at Liam. “Your call, beta. Me or the little virgin.”

Liam turned to me. His lips curled into a cruel, superior sneer. He spoke loud and slow so every single wolf in the room heard his arrogance.

“I reject you as my mate, Ashley. Loud and clear. Done.”

The bond snapped. Pain tore through my chest like fire. My wolf whimpered and howled inside me. My legs trembled.

“Why?” I sobbed. “Why him? Why like this?”

Liam laughed. A loud, mocking bark. He stepped closer, naked and towering, looking down at me like dirt.

“Because you are the dullest, most useless bitch I have ever met,” he said. “Zero skills in bed. Zero fire. Nothing. You think holding hands and studying nursing books makes you worth my time? Please.

You are only here because your daddy is the pack’s big tough beta soldier. Without him you would be nothing.

A nobody. A joke. I have been fucking Darius for months. Real power and he is going to make me an alpha king when he becomes one too.

He knows how to make me scream. You? You could never. And that dildo? That was just to get me ready for a real cock. Not your pathetic fantasies.”

The room erupted.

Loud laughter rolled through the crowd.

“She thought he was waiting for her pure little self,” a warrior shouted.

“While he was getting railed by the rival pack’s prince,” another called. “On her own bed!”

Sarah crossed her arms and smirked. “I always said she was too boring. Too plain. Look at her now. Dress torn. Makeup ruined. Pathetic.”

A girl next to her giggled. “He needed a dildo just to feel something with her in mind. That is sad.”

An elder shook his head with fake sympathy. “Nursing school will not save you, girl. You will be wiping asses while he gets fucked by real wolves.”

More laughs. Someone clapped. Someone whistled.

My dad stood frozen near the door. His fists clenched white. But he said nothing. His eyes flicked to Liam, then to Darius, then away.

Liam turned to Darius with a cocky grin. “Come on. Let us finish somewhere private. This room stinks of failure.”

Darius grabbed a fistful of Liam’s hair, yanked his head back for one hard kiss, then slapped his ass loud enough for everyone to hear.

They walked out together. Naked. Shoulders brushing. Liam did not look back once.

The crowd parted like he was royalty. Some wolves even bowed their heads in respect to the delta who just humiliated me in front of the entire pack.

The laughter chased them down the hall.

I could not breathe through the shame. I shoved past staring faces and ran to my dad’s room. I banged on the door until my knuckles hurt.

"Dad! Open! Please! You have to stop this! He rejected me! With the enemy! In my bed! Do something!”

The door opened slow. My dad looked exhausted. Older. Broken.

“Ashley,” he said quietly.

“Dad please,” I begged.

“You are a soldier! You trained him. Tell him he cannot do this. Tell him to take it back!”

My dad stared at the floor. “He is delta now. He has the rank. The moon goddess allows higher ranks to reject without consequence. I am only a soldier beta. I have no authority over him. The bond is gone. It is finished.”

“But you said he was loyal,” I whispered. “You said we were meant to be.”

“He chose power,” my dad said. “And pleasure. Over you. I cannot change that. Go to your room. Try to sleep.”

He shut the door. Soft. Final.

I stood in the dark hall. Laughter still rang from my bedroom. Whispers followed me like shadows. “Delta Liam just traded up.” “She is done.” “What a fucking joke.”

My dress hung in pieces. My face was streaked and swollen. My heart felt ripped open. The whole pack now saw me as the biggest fool alive. The boring daddy’s girl.

The useless virgin who lost her mate to a rival while he used a dildo to prepare for real cock.

I slid down the wall. Sobs shook me hard.

But deep under the pain, something dark and hot twisted awake.

If they thought I was nothing…

I would make them choke on that lie.