Betrayal. Heartbreak. Deceit My life has been a never-ending storm. Separated from my twin sister Samantha, I was left to face the cruel wolf world alone. But that was only the beginning. Rejected by my mate, sold into slavery, and framed by the one person who should have protected me... I thought I'd hit rock bottom. Until I met Alpha Gideon, and my heart began to heal but it didn't last as I had to run, with his heirs. But fate had another plan in store - a reunion with the sister I thought I knew, now a stranger with a hidden agenda. Can I trust her? Dive into this tangled web of lies where nothing is as it seems.
Chapter 1 PROLOGUE
"Samantha! Safira! Where are these brats?" Luna Mandy's voice echoed as a roaring beast in the corridor as she approached the twins room.
The twins jerked up from the bed they had spent their night on and amidst giggles scrambled to different corners of the room in search of their hiding spot just as the door opened.
"Samantha! Safira!" She barked when she found the room empty.
Safira watched her pregnant step mom with a protruding tummy from her hiding spot which was under the bed, praying so hard that she should leave without confirming if they were really in or not. But then, she knew Mandy, she just never gave up and those pregnancy hormones made it worse.
"If you girls are hiding again, I will tear your flesh and sell your hearts out to slave traders. " Mandy threatened as she stepped into the room and began sniffing quietly while closing the crooked door behind her.
"Not today..." Samantha whispered fearfully from her own spot somewhere behind the tools that made up their dirty little store house they now used as a room.
"Show yourselves now before I sniff you both out." Mandy threatened walking carefully on the floorboard that didn't fail to creak, exposing where she was each time she placed a foot on it.
"Even though you both don't have wolves to sniff out." She added mockingly and they both scoffed together.
"Same old." Safira whispered this time and Mandy's ears immediately turned in her direction as she began walking towards her hiding spot.
Samantha seeing this, used the opportunity to run to the door, but before she could get there, Mandy had already caught her and her beating began.
"You useless wolves! You both are very ungrateful. To think that you are orphans and I am graciously taking care of you." She kept singing and screaming as she beat Samantha every spot she could find but the little teenager could only wonder how her step mom was that fast and strong despite her pregnancy.
"Leave my sister alone." Safira was quick to run out to defend her sister.
"Look at them! Wicked children that have the same face. You both are unlucky witches." She cursed getting a hold of Safira and giving her a fair share of her own beatings.
Samantha used this opportunity to run to the door and force it open before coming back for her sister.
"Let's go, Saffy! Use the door, now!" She screamed as she pulled her step mom back with all her strength giving her sister room to escape.
Immediately Safira released herself from Luna Mandy's arm and ran to the door, Samantha let go of her and dashed for the door too leaving Luna Mandy to fall on her ass to the floor.
"You wicked children will never see light." She screamed after them as she sat on the floor crying her usual crocodile tears which the twins knew would attract their father, the Alpha.
"Hey! Where are you both running too this early in the morning? And where is your mom?" Their dad asked just as they ran out of the corridor, out of breathe.
"She... She..." Safira was already crying now.
" She whipped us for not waking up by this time." Samantha finished for her sister as she held her close.
"By this time? It's barely morning. Where is she?" He barked angrily and began walking to their room but the girls did not follow him.
"Come here, girls. You have nothing to fear." He cajoled them, but they both knew what would happen when he met their wicked step mom.
She would not even allow them to talk before she bewitched him with her spells but they didn't have a choice other than to follow their dad.
When they got to the room, Mandy sat on the ground crying with her clothes torn as the girls exclaimed in surprise. A thread from her cloth had not even been missing when they left her.
"Babe! What happened?" Their dad exclaimed and rushed to her.
"Honey! Thank the Goddess you came. These two brats beat me up. I only came to wake them so they could help fetch water from the stream but they ganged up against me. I told you these two don't like that I am pregnant and will have my own child."
" Samantha!" He barked in anger as his red eyes turned to them.
"No, dad. It's not true. We didn't touch her, we didn't do anything to..."
" Shut up! You both had the guts to... Do you want to hurt my child?"
" Dad, we..." Safira whose tears had begun to cease began crying again while her sister spoke for them and held her close.
" Another word from you and I will beat you up myself."
" Baby! Help me up. Punish them on my behalf. I've been nothing but good to these girls and yet they do this everyday." Mandy cried as their dad helped her to her feet the same minutes the guards ran in, almost pushing them down.
"Take her to her quarters. As for you both, you are grounded without food till evening, I don't want to see your feet out of this room. Get guards to lock them up." He ordered and walked away despite their tearful pleas.
"Dad, please... We didn't do anything to her. Dad!" They both screamed amidst tears but he walked away despite their tearful pleas, leaving them in the hands of those merciless guards they hated so much.
They didn't even wait for the guards to speak when Samantha dragged her sister into the room and the door was forcefully closed.
They both sat together at the corner of the room crying as time passed by, till they fell asleep.
The next time they both jerked awake holding onto themselves was when the door was forced open again and their step mom stood triumphantly at the entrance smiling at them.
"Which one do you think, head guard?" She asked the guard who stood behind her and he looked from one sister to the end.
"The soft one will do." He said, pointing at Safira who was undeniably in-between her sister's arm as Samantha covered her.
"No, I want to have less trouble, so, I'd let the tougher one leave. Bring her." She said and turned away as Safira burst into tears again.
The guard walked in and pulled Samantha away from her sister.
"Let me go, you swine!" Samantha cursed and bit him attracting a slap from him while Safira cried.
"Leave my sister, don't take her away from me." Safira knelt and held onto the guards leg as she begged, as that gut feeling told her this was not normal.
"Shut up! And get off me!" He barked, kicking her away from him to the edge of the room as he lifted Samantha on his shoulder and walked to the door.
"I'll be back, Saffy. Don't cry. I'll be back, okay!" Samantha tried to console her sister as few drops of tears fell from her eyes.
"Promise!" Safira screamed.
"I promise."
Safira cried bitterly as she ran to the window and watched in confusion as Luna Mandy stood beside a few men on horses talking and laughing. Then Samantha was brought and handed over to them as she cried bitterly.
Safira watched as the men handed over a bag of money to her step mom and placed Samantha on a horse as they began riding away. It dawned on her then... Her sister had been sold and she was left alone to face the agony of her supposed father's house.
She burst into tears and began crying again as she ran to the door and began pounding on the door.
"No! No! Samantha! Dad!"
At this point, she knew she was alone in her misery and her sister had gone with a part of her.
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