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TRIGGER WARNING: This chapter contains physical and sexual abuse. Kindly proceed with caution.

EZEKIEL

Eight years ago..

“No, I won't apologize.” I grumbled walking away from my father's office.

"EZEKIEL!"

Clenching my fists, I stop in my tracks and make a hundred-eighty degree turn, facing my dad who

shot me a stern look from his office table.

"What?" I ask, biting back my own tears and frustration as I stared at him.

Dad wants me to apologize to that fucking bastard. Tyler.

I was going to kill him, but my father had suddenly appeared and shielded that lucky pervert. When

he should've been there protecting me.

My father didn't see it but even if he did, I doubt he would actually do anything to help me anyway.

Tyler was my friend. Until one day, he invited me for a drive, saying he wanted to introduce me to

some of his friends. He drove me deeper into the forest. I wondered why but I kept quiet. After all, I

trusted him.

An hour and a half later we arrived at a run-down house where I met ten more of his so called

“friends’. Turns out he didn't take me there to party.

He took me there so he could fuck me with his friends. They each took turns on fucking my ass

while four people held me down ass up on the ground. Before they did it, they injected something

in my body and I fell on the ground. I wanted to shift, I tried, but couldn't. Whatever they injected in

my body, it weakened me to a point I can no longer fight back.

Tyler planned it all. That piece of shit who promised my father to protect me as my future beta.

It was nothing but a big, fat joke.

"Of all people, why did you attack your own fucking beta? Were you planning to kill him?!"

“YES! Yes I wanted to kill him, but that's because—"

"ENOUGH! Tyler told me everything he learned about you. You like boys, huh?”

My eyes widened and I glare at him right after I fully understood what's going on.

“Dad, listen. That's—"

“That's why when he rejected you, you decided to beat him up, correct?”

I gritted my teeth and just stopped talking. What's the point? He wouldn't listen. He never does.

I look at him straight in the eye and asked, “You believe him?”

"Drop it, Zeke. There were TEN witnesses. How could you do that to your own future beta?”

Staring at him with ny mouth agape, I clenched my fists by my sides. My face burning in pure,

burning hatred.

“If you like Tyler so much, why don't you ask him to be your son?” I say in a sarcastic manner before

whirling around and storming towards the door.

However, the moment I took a step forward, my father appeared and blocked the door with

lightning speed.

“All I'm asking is for you two to get along. You're taking over the pack in less than ten years. How

could you lead the pack if you can't command your own beta just because you're gay?” He grabs

my shirt, but I immediately pull away.

“You'll never understand.” I growl, wanting to shove him away and get the hell out of his office.

No one will understand. Tyler's betrayal had turned me into a brutal, cold person I never was before.

He'd made me realize there is no such thing as kindness in this cruel world.

Only hatred.

“If you don't accept my terms, then I no longer have a son.” He spat and I froze.

My eyes are burning in rage and hatred for the man who calls himself a father. Not even knowing

the truth about what had happened.

“Fine.” I say coldly and left.

"DON'T YOU EVER COME BACK! You'll never become Alpha, not as long as I am here!” He spats

behind me.

I smirked and marched my way out of the room.

Three years later, I've been living my life as a rogue. It was hard, I can tell you that.

I've learned more things about rogues than you could imagine. First, rogues aren't really that

aggressive, or should I say, wild. They live alone in the woods either because they were banished or

chose to leave their pack. Some of these rogues were molested like I once was, some were forced to

leave out of their will because of danger or threat to their lives, while others simply didn't get along

with the rest of the pack.

They were shunned and became outcasts, but packs continue to label them as rogues.

The rogues helped me quite a lot. From sharing their food to the clothes and shelter, they gave me

a fresh new start. And it was when I met Coby and Zack that I finally felt safe with someone I could

truly trust.

I told them what had happened to me and about Tyler. Their eyes had turned pitch black as their

faces darkened on the verge of shifting into their wolves. They wanted to kill him, and that's when I

found my true beta and gamma for my pack. Coby and Zack showed me true friendship and proved

to me what it's worth starting over.

That is why asking them to be part of my pack became nearly impossible. But eventually, I won their

trust and promised them the security they want. As I did with the other hundreds of rogues who

pledged their loyalty to me as their new Alpha.

Seeing that we have all been cast to the shadows and stripped of our right to belong, we named

our own pack, Shadow Blood Pack.

In the business world, I succeeded and managed to place the second richest to Alpha Alexander of

the Red Silverwood Pack. He knew we were a pack of rogues, but he didn't interfere nor did he

ridicule my pack like any of the others.

With Coby and Zack's continuous support, we increased our resources and built our own empire.

We bought a huge piece of land and built everything a pack needs from scratch from a constant

supply of resources. In a matter of time, the Shadow Blood pack rose to be one of the richest packs

in the United States. Our territory was the second largest to Alexander's Pack.

It was then that I found out about my father looking for me, saying he wanted me back.

I smirked. Unfortunately, I never wanted to see his face again. He had his chances, yet where was

he?

It was raining heavily that day. My head was pounding, and my wolf's been itching to get out.

I gave in and went outside.

“Zeke!” Turning around, I see Coby rushing over towards me.

“I'm off for a run,” I say and shifted into my jet black wolf.

I'm coming with you!" He mind links, shifting into his big gray wolf. His wolf was big, but mine was

bigger.

We ran through the woods endlessly until we saw a group of four werewolves gathering around a

tree. It appears they had just shifted back into their human forms

I ordered Coby to stop and stay back while I see what was going on. Instead of doing that, the

stubborn Coby followed close behind me, shaking his head

I sighed inwardly and let him follow me. I lowered my breathing and kept quiet best I could.

"Hehe, Mike really thought he could keep a jewel like this to himself just because he’s the beta” One

man cackled, crouching down the ground as he inched closer to the tree.

My brows furrowed when I saw a young girl who seemed to have lost consciousness on the ground

She wore a blue knee-length sleeveless dress. A blue ribbon pulling her hair up to a neat, high

ponytail. Fair and flawless skin, her lips pink and plump.

“Wake up, princess” The redhead twitters at her face as he reaches out to grab her hair.

The tall, blonde man immediately snapped his hand away from her face and scowls.

"Don’t wake her up, you idiot! Haven't you heard the rumors?” He hisses.

A rumor?

I furrow my brows inwardly, inching forward to hear them whispering suspiciously.

“The night Alpha Victor declared his daughter wolf-less, someone heard—"

“Mmmnnn” The girl groans, opening her eyes making me gasp inwardly at the astonishingly rare

sight.

Blood-red eyes agape before the four men hovering above her.

My heart thumped wildly against my chest in an instant.

“Should we help her, boss?" Coby nudges my side.

I don't answer and continue to stare at the girl who sat up abruptly from the ground.

Her wavy, raven hair flowed down her chest, lips pursed tightly, and hands trembling violently.

She was an innocent lamb. Small, but beautiful.

“Glad you're finally awake” Two men chuckled as they each crouched down in front of her.

“Whe-where am 1?!” She stared back at them in horror-filled eyes. Her body shaking in absolute

fear.

Two men lunged straight at her and grabbed each of her pale, white wrists.

The other two snatched her legs, spreading them wide apart. I wondered if she’s gonna break.

“Boss?

She began to squeal the moment the redhead covered her mouth with his filthy hand.

She's struggling, and I can smell drugs lingering through the air.

“No!”

“No!” Her voice blended with my own, screaming the same word I had been shouting on that very

night. That dark, painful memory I had shoved deep down in the shadows of my heart suddenly

came rushing back.

As if by instinct, I launched straight at them and bit off one of the men’s head clean off. The sound

of his head landing on the ground with a thud and my thunderous roar grabbed their full attention

as they staggered back facing me.

I growled, staring down at the arseholes's shocked faces.

"W-who the fuck are you and why are you in our territory?!" The bravest-looking one stuttered,

even daring to glare at me.

My beta growls and takes the remaining men down in one simple move.

“Finish them’

Coby immediately followed my command and killed each one of them before my eyes.

The piercing sound of the dirty perverts screaming and wailing in pain was music to my ears. I

reveled so much in it I hadn't noticed the girl walking over towards me. My wolf growls, but her

sweet, lavender scent instantly eased my body, helping it relax.

We locked eyes when she suddenly ran her fingers through my fur.

“You're pretty.”

My wolf groans, surprised at the word she had used to describe him.

Realizing she was wolf-less, I had to carry her on my back and bring her back to her house.

With her help, I managed to get in and out without being noticed. I left her right outside their pack-

house when she said, “I'm Eleanor. What's your name?”

I didn't want to shift back, knowing I'd appear naked in front of a thirteen-year old girl.

I shook my head, locking eyes with her once more before turning back into the woods.

Present...

When my father died, he'd asked for me to take over the pack. After all these years, he's been

looking for his son. In the end, he apologized because right after I left, he found out the truth when

his beta retrieved a video of Tyler and his friends raping me in the woods.

I couldn't bring myself to hate him anymore, so I did what he asked me to and merged my pack

with the Dark Moon Pack.

I went on a run with Coby and Zack early in the morning. I don't know why, but something was

telling me to run back into the woods.

Only when I saw little pieces of shit running around my territory did I realize why.

Here I am again, finding her in the same situation she’s been in five years ago.

“Take your fucking hands off her!"