Chapter One

Cyn. 

Of all the things life had thrown at me, this by far was the worst. 

Most girls looked forward to the day they would get their wolf and find their mate.

But finding my mate was not high in the list of things that I wanted to do in life. 

I watched as he signed the papers, he never once looked in my direction. It was like he was doing everything he possibly could not to look at me. 

His father, Alpha Cole was sitting next to him. I had never met him in person but the rumours preceded him. 

He was one of the most feared and well respected alpha around the globe. He was known for his strict rules and no mercy policies. No one dared cross him and if they did, they never lived long enough to tell about it. 

My father whispered something to him, it was funny. The one man that was obligated to protect me, was the one selling me out. I was the sacrificial lamb, he used me to save himself and our pack. 

My father was a huge gambler and alcoholic. He wasn't always like that though, he used to be respected and everyone wanted to be like him, kind, respected and cared about every member of his pack without discrimination. 

Then my mom died, she was the love of his life and it took a toll on him, he never really recovered from her death, neither did he deal with it, instead he tried to cope with it by drinking and gambling. 

But now he was in too deep, our pack was at the verge of losing everything, but this marriage was going to make everything okay. 

Ace finished signing the papers and slid the papers over to me. I looked down at his signature and the papers. 

I was only seventeen, soon to be eighteen. Right up until today, I was looking forward to turning eighteen and moving to a different city and studying medicine, but now all that was over. My fate was now decided for me, I was a wife now to a man I did not know up until now. 

I looked up at my father, hoping he would see me pleading with my eyes for him to not go through with this. Instead I was met with a cold stare, I didn't even recognize him anymore. 

I picked up the pen and signed my freedom away as painful tears rolled down my cheeks before I slid the papers back to my father. 

In that moment, as I gave away any freedom and right that I had, however little. I hated my father more and my mother even more for dying and leaving me with this monster. 

I had done everything he asked of me, slaved away, taken beatings for him, just looking forward to my eighteenth birthday, the day I would finally go as far away from here as possible. 

But he had also taken that away from me too. 

Ace. 

I watched as she looked around with her big brown eyes, as if hoping for someone to tell her it was all a prank, it wasn't real. Except, it was all real. She was mine now. 

I could have stopped this, I could have stood up to my father and refused to be betrothed to this young girl, but just like most people, I as well feared my father. I could never go against my father's will, besides what was the point, he always got what he wanted anyway, and what he wanted was for me to marry her and take my place in the pack as the alpha and give him a grandchild. 

It all seemed so easy right? And it would have been easy, if I didn't have a whole different life back in London, a fiancée At that. 

I looked at her again, she was silently sobbing, I could see the tears no matter how well she tried to hide it. 

'It will be over soon, and we will both go our separate ways.' I whispered to myself, I would go back to London, back to my life and she will stay here, my father would be happy, everyone would be happy. 

She finished signing the papers and slid them over to her father who immediately signed with no second thoughts before handing them over to my father. 

I hated her father just as much as I hated mine. She was just a child. I wanted to scream at him, you are supposed to be her father, you are supposed to protect her, it's your duty to protect her. 

But instead I just looked down, avoiding eye contact with my father.

I was just as much as a coward. I had the power to stop this, but I couldn’t. 

My father signed the papers and put them back in an envelope before he got up, followed by her father and they walked out. 

"I had your bags packed up and loaded into his car. This is no longer your home Cyn, you are now a married woman and you will be riding back to your new home with your husband." her father said before he disappeared down the hall. 

As soon as we were all alone, she immediately got up, she wiped her tears and was about to walk away when I held her hand. 

She looked down at me, she looked at where my hand was holding hers and I immediately let go. 

"I'm sorry." I said, almost in a whisper. 

"Are you though? Because you could have stopped all this." she fired back. 

Just a few seconds ago, she was in tears but now she had this tough girl face on. 

"You don't really know my father, I really couldn't." i said 

She just sighed out loudly and walked away. When she was about to open the door, she stopped and looked at me. 

"I will be waiting in the car, or do you actually need permission from your daddy to get up too?" she said sarcastically before she left. 

She was angry, that I got and understood that. But I was not about to let her talk to me like that or disrespect me. 

I immediately got up, heated up and followed her. I hated this just as much as she did. I had so much to loose I was not going to let her make me her punching bag. If she wanted to be mad at someone, it should be her father, he was the one that sold her off. Not me. 

"Excuse me!" i yelled at her as she ran down the steps. 

She pretended not to hear from me for a while, "I know you can hear me talking to you Cyn." i finally said catching up to her as I held her hand. 

"What? What more do you want from me?" she yelled back at me. 

"You are not going to talk to me the way you want Cyn." i said trying to control the fury rising in me. 

"Or what Ace, are you going to tell on me to your bad dangerous daddy?" she said sarcastically, and my hand got tighter around her wrist. 

"You are hurting me Ace!" she winced out in pain. 

"Don't disrespect me Cyn. If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at the man that sold you out for a business deal. Not me." I fired back, still holding her wrist, "I have a life, a fiancée so this is not ideal for me either, I hate it just as much as you do." With that I let go of her hand and I could see the tears falling down her eyes, I immediately knew I hit a nerve, I walked to the car leaving her standing there, on the steps. 

It was not like I was enjoying this either, I was forced into the arrangement, an arrangement that her father suggested in the first place. 

I might still fear my father, but she could not speak to me like that. 

I started the car immediately and she rushed down the steps still in tears. 

The ride to the airport was quiet, no one spoke a word until we got there. And I preferred it that way. 

I was not going to see her for the next three years, for now I needed to go back to my actual life and control the chaos. 

"Where am I going?" she finally asked when I opened the car door. 

"To Amsterdam, I can't really be with you, you are too young. You are going to learn everything you need to learn about being a luna and taking care of the pack and alpha. When you are twenty one, you will come back home to your duties as your wife.", I said before I walked away. 

She would be much better anyway as far away from me as possible.