Caught together
"What the fuck do you think you are doing?", Bane's expression was livid.
Mortification ran through me that he would speak to me like that, particularly in front of strangers and guests. But more than that...
I was furious. How dare he?
He rejected me, got a new girlfriend and now he was here furious.
Alpha George interrupted with a raised eyebrow, "Whoa, hold on, young alpha. Do you have a claim on her? I thought you were with the strawberry female as your future luna?" He nodded toward the new girl I didn't even know her name. She was standing behind Bane not looking happy at all with his interference.
Bane ignored Alpha George and spat scornfully, "He's near twice your age! All he wants is for you to spread your legs for him!"
I recoiled. It felt like I'd been slapped.
George's features turned hard and he glared at Bane.
"What if that is all I want out of him?!" I balled my hands into fists and thrust my chest out, hissing at Bane.
Bane hesitated, stunned at my response. I continued ranting, "You don't get to decide who I spread my legs for. You lost that right when you rejected me and chose that bitch as your future luna!", The word bitch came out of my mouth unknowingly.
"Wait! He rejected you?" Alpha George asked incredulously. "You are the true Luna?"
I didn't answer that question because it hurt too much.
Bane didn't like me at all and I will never be a luna.
"No wonder I felt so much power coming off of you." George went on.
I was too caught up in the moment, to wonder what the hell he meant by that. I just forced my tears back then turned my eyes to Bane. "You rejected me! You're going to mate her! Next month!"
"Bane," The strawberry haired lady whined, tugging on his arm. "Just leave them alone. Who cares what that disgusting tramp does?"
Both Bane and George growled at her words, causing her to snap her mouth shut and stare at them with wide eyes.
"What is the meaning of this?" a powerful voice demanded.
Oh, no! My heart sunk- my father. And from the look on his face, he was furious. I shrank back as far as I could go into the tree.
"Your daughter is here whoring herself to the alpha of red moon pack", The bitch replied before anyone could answer.
"What?", My father snarled out in anger.
"I've got it handled," Bane hissed surprisingly trying to defend me. I didn’t know what he was up to.
My father just growled, "No, clearly you didn't. She was whoring herself. I will not tolerate any insolence, particularly from a cursed daughter of mine." He focused his fearsome attention on me, "I recall telling you to never embarrass me again. I want you to learn a lesson this time. You won't embarrass me again", He hissed out.
"Father I was......",
"Take her right now. As a punishment whip her ten times", He cut me short in mid sentence and turned to the guards.
"Whip me?",
I couldn't help the loud gasp that escaped my lungs. I trembled. My father and my mother have always been beating me but he has never ordered the guards in the pack to whip me just like they whip the omegas who disobey.
"That's not necessary!" Alpha Bane interjected. The moment he did my father turned the full force of his authority on him and growled, "Are you questioning me, are you telling me what I should do on my own daughter?"
"She is your daughter but still those fucking whips are not necessary", George spoke.
My father just ignored him and gripped my hand.
I couldn't breathe. I couldn't seem to remember how to force air in and out of my lungs. I'd been the unfortunate recipient of many physical altercations with members of the pack and had received less severe punishments from my father, but I'd never been whipped before.
Just as my father was tugging me forward, Bane moved in front of him. It was probably not him but his wolf Alex feeling sympathetic.
"You can't do this. Don't get her whipped. It's all my fault",
I was surprised Bane interjected on my behalf. Maybe he thought it would help, but I had no hope my father would change his mind. I knew better.
Exactly as expected, my father spat, "She is my daughter, no one tells me what to do or not. She is well aware of the rules of this pack but ever since she led to the death of her sister she has been more than a curse to me. I'm tired of her embarrassing me. She needs a learn", My father's words were totally bitter. I knew my father. He totally didn't like me.
I felt hurt that I didn't realize that a small crowd had gathered around us.
The wolves.... guards, beta and gamma of Alpha George were standing behind their Alpham
"If I may ask, what was her crime that made her to be demoted in such a manner?", Alpha George asked.
My father looked down his nose at him in disdain. "She's not your concern. She's no one's concern, She is my daughter", he sneered.
Tension rolled through Alpha George, the muscles in his chest pulled tight, his veins corded against his skin.
"Her punishment is a direct result of her conversation with me, let me take the stripes for her." Shock flowed through my body when I heard his next words.
What? I stared at him in confusion.
Why would he do that?
His request only seemed to infuriate my father's anger further. "Only a mate can stand in her place, and she has none." He made a point to emphasize the last word as if I wasn't already acutely aware that the male the Moon had intended for me, wasn't mine at all. He'd chosen another one.
My father actually didn't know that Bane was my mate.