Chapter 6
Claire’s POV
The look on my father's face afterward, made it quite obvious that, whatever the content of the text was, it was sure to be something bad.
“This can’t be happening!” He exclaimed.
“What did you do?”
My mouth immediately went dry as my father’s glare strengthened. He took a step towards me, tossing his phone to the side.
“I said, what did you do?” He growled once again. I backed away from him knowing the outcome of being at arms reach could eventually lead to a tough blow to the cheeks by my stepfather.
“I—-I,” I stuttered.
“To think I could have at least trusted you enough to not embarrass me, and it’s certainly good to know that you're incapable of handling something as simple as that,” My stepfather yelled, nearly screaming into my face. His words gained volume, as I took a hesitant step back.
With time, he’d noticed my slightly scared look and then took a step back to calm himself. He took in a deep breath, raked a hand through his hair, and then parted his lips to continue.
“How on earth would you explain to me, the reason we're being banished?”
“And what's this about a baby they speak of?” He glared.
I swallowed nervously with my gaze taken off him almost instantly. Knowing he’d just found out about my damn pregnancy.
“D—-dad, I didn't mean for any of this to ha—-” I said but was cut off mid-sentence by my father's hand up in the air.
“You're—” He stuttered, raking his hair as he stepped away from me.
“Pregnant?”
Just then, everything dawned on me. We were getting thrown out of the pack by the Alpha king for the fact that I had not been defiled as a virgin Wolf, but was cursed with a pup growing inside of me. Which I was so certain I’d removed at the hospital.
“I’m sorry father. I had it removed already, please forgive me,” I fell to my knees, my eyes welled up. I crawled my way towards him, seeing the look of despair and disappointment crease on his face.
“I can’t stand the humiliation you’ve brought upon us, most especially me. Go get your things, we’re leaving!”
Fresh terror stabbed me in the chest bath the thought of us moving out of the book. And the thought of leaving Emily my best friend behind, worsened it all in my head.
We traveled the rest of the day through endless mazes of subdivisions. I tried to remember the way and use the sun for directions, but the sky was overcast and soon I gave up.
My leg throbbed and it was nearly dark when we came to a huge pack entrance gate. It took me a moment to realize that we were right at the foot of a different pack.
“Stay close,” My father said as we walked right through the pack gate. But to our greatest shock, the guards by the gate seemed to have noticed how exhausted we looked and instead ordered the others to have us attended to. And then had us taken into a domed building which had so many rooms.
One I presumed to be a brothel.
All night, I’d tossed and turned in bed countless times trying to find a comfortable position to sleep in. Wondering why I felt so nauseous. I let out a groan as I perked up to my feet, knowing I had to make breakfast for my father.
But just as I’d stepped out of my bedroom and headed for the kitchen, the nauseous feeling from last night returned. And this time I couldn’t hold it back in, but instead spilled last night’s food content all over the stairs and on my dress.
“Wait,” A voice came from behind me, cutting through the silence.
“You lying cunt of a daughter. You didn't have it removed!” My father yelled from behind me. I turned in the direction of his voice to find him glaring at me with both hands shoved into the pockets of his pants.
“Claire, you’re the reason any of what’s happening to us right now is happening!”
I flushed bright red in the face, knowing he’d seen all that and had probably assumed I was still pregnant. But I knew within myself that it wasn't.
‘I have to get tested again,’ I thought to myself as I stood frozen to a spot, with my eyes
A couple of hours later, I sat by the waiting room of the new pack hospital tapping nervously on my thighs. Waiting on my pregnancy test result.
“Miss Claire—,” The doctor called out, waving for me to come.
I perked up, with a forced smile creased on my face as I approached him.
“May I have a word please,” He said. Without any hesitation, I followed suit from behind him headed straight for his office.
“Sit!” He commands. Almost mechanically, I sat back down and looked at him in alarm. He sits right opposite, perfectly poised.
“According to your test result, you’re pregnant,” The doctor said with a smile.
Just then, the smile he had on earlier soon disappeared as he leaned closer to me by his desk.
“But, I’d advise you to let go of the thoughts of taking it off once again. It obviously would be threatening to your life this time,” He added.
Unfortunately for me, I knew exactly what he was talking about. Instantly worry filled me as I perked up to my feet to leave, knowing I had the same pup growing inside me.
I tried to fight off the tear slowly welling up as I stormed into the street, not wanting the others around to notice the worried look on my face.
Feeling so dejected, I wrapped my arms tightly around me trudging down the lonely road that led to our apartment when I felt a presence behind me. I paused in my track, wondering who it was following me,
The world seemed to go silent the minute I turned to find that I was surrounded by some unknown men. Who for some reason had a smile creased on their damn faces.
“Don't make this hard for any of us girl,”
“You're coming with us!”
“What do you want from me?” I yelled. Unfortunately, I got no response and instead one of them took a step towards me.
“Get away from me!”
The second I’d found the opportunity to run, I’d flung my purse at him and vaulted into the lonely road I had come from. I glanced over my shoulders, and my feet barely seemed to touch the ground when I slammed full force into a body.
It was like running into a wall. A wall that wrapped around me.
“Tired of running huh?”
“You're coming with us, I mean your father does have good taste in selling you off to us though. Look at you!” Another voice came from behind me.
“Let me go!” I cried out, trying to wrench free from their grip.
“You’re ours to keep now,” The man from earlier yelled into my face. And in that moment, I realized I’d indeed been sold off by my father.
This can't be happening!!…