The Oath of Love

LUCINDA’s POV

The coldness of the night oozed into my thin fabric and blew my hair wildly around my face, my long and very thick hair blew into my mouth but I immediately spat it out, shivering before we even got to the mating ceremony, my step mother didn’t allow me to take a sweater along as she was rushing me to get dressed.

Now, standing in front of my angry mate who had been ranting and yelling in my face for over an hour, I realised why she wanted me here.

I was beyond surprised when she agreed with me about going out tonight to find my mate. She didn’t want happiness for me and I wondered why she didn’t put up a fight or warn me not to leave the house.. , But standing in front of my mate trying to stay emotionless to his ranting, I suspect why.

“You are just a whore! A piece of rag! And a cheap prostitute!!… Do you ever think I will settle for a liar and foolish person like you… ? your step mother and sister already exposed you and I reject you this instant!” His cold voice reached my inner brain, I circled around to look at my gloating step sister.

“Alpha Eric… please … at least listen to my side of the story, you can’t conclude without an investigation… at least … please..”, I was begging hysterically, holding the leg left of my mate. At that moment my fear of losing the only person that I had hoped would save me filled my thinking.

I would Roll on the floor if I had to, I would worship him forever if he would just have me now. My wailing increased when I sighted my step sister from the corner of my swollen red eyes. She wrapped her hand around my mate's neck and he smiled back at her.

My step sister was grinning from ear to ear, they were having an affair even before he met me, and he had the guts to call me cheap and a cheater, because he needed something to send me off with, he chose to listen to whatever rumour he heard about me.

Rossy finally spoke out, smirking as she did, “My darling … throw this dirty thing out. She doesn’t deserve you!” Other pack members around us who had also attended the mating ceremony to find their mate, were staring at us and the look of pity on their faces towards me was annoying and repelling.

“I won’t throw her out! She will stay here and work as an ordinary maid, I will make sure she suffers for sleeping with other men!….” With that said, he ordered for his guards and two of them rushed toward me, yanking me away from him.

“Please…. I’m not that type of person, my step mother and sister are lying against me… you can ask my friends about me” my eyes landed on my two friends, abigeal rushed after the guards with me, while Isabella stood still and frozen. Maybe the shock was too much for her.

Before I knew what was happening I was locked up in my mate's prison, my stepmother's victorious laughter kept ringing loud and heavy in my ears, the glare she sent my way while the guards dragged me out was an unforgettable & Stomach turning one, “I told you I would ruin you” type of glare.

I couldn’t stop crying all through the night, my life is a shit hole but I didn’t dream of ending up in a prison let alone of being placed there by my own mate, the one person I thought would save me?.

“Get ready to meet your mate … it’s tonight and I need you there very early!” My step mother's voice seeped into my thoughts again, now I realise why she was so concerned and impatient about me meeting my mate tonight. It’s because she wanted to see me in pain.

“Ahaaa… my neck!” I cried out, rubbing my stiff and red neck, Alpha Eric had choked my neck, while screaming at me, he called me all sorts of degrading names, The thought of everything that happened spanned over in my head repeatedly, hot tears kept flowing from my already tired eyes, I hugged my trembling body to comfort myself.

“I miss you fa… father, This life is nothing without you… I want to die!” I muttered to myself, the loss of my father punching harder on my gut at that moment, The realisation that my father is no longer alive to cuddle me and tell me everything will be okay shook me more than my mate's rejection, the fact that I had no one on my side.

He even kissed my step sister in my presence, I would never be able to love any man after what I have been through tonight. The guards stationed in front of my prison gate snorted loudly at me before they resumed their mocking conversation.