Chapter 2 Raven's Pit

I woke up gasping as freezing water drenched me, my body jolting before I felt a sharp, stinging slap on my face. The pain was excruciating and I screamed out my lungs, my heart pounding wildly. I immediately got off the bed, only for my feet to land on something sharp. I cried out when I felt the glass cutting into my skin, the pain shooting up my legs. If I thought the slap was painful, the glass cutting through my feet was more than I could bear this morning.

My whole body was drenched with ice water, I blinked, trying to focus, but everything around me was a blur. I couldn't see anything. I was a blind bat without my glasses. I needed my glasses. I squinted into the haze, my chest tightening with fear as I realized I wasn't alone. Everything was blurry, but I noticed movements and eyes watching me, and I realized I was naked.

I grabbed the duvet nearby, yanking it over myself with shaking hands. Tears burned in my eyes, blurring my vision even more, and I struggled to keep it together.

How did I end up naked, what happened to me last night?

"Who is there? Please... My glasses, can someone hand me my glasses?" My voice was barely audible. I regretted not wearing a contact lens; it was so much better than glasses.

"Elara? Are you there?" I felt a sharp pain in my womanhood and more panic filled my heart.

"You blind bat!" I heard Elara's cold menacing voice. "You are supposed to be my sister but you are nothing but a whore and a desperate relationship breaker! How could you do this to me?!"

"Elara, you have to calm down." That was my mother's voice, and I felt relieved that my mum was there; at least someone would explain to me what was going on.

"Mum, please tell me what is going on. Where am I and why was I naked?" I tried to reel my mind to remember the events of last night but nothing was coming. All I could remember was running into the house after Orion engaged my sister, and then she gave me a drink. I couldn't remember anything beyond that.

I didn't want to think about the pain I was feeling down there, the thought could make me go crazy.

"Don't call me your mother! There is no way I gave birth to you! I didn't give birth to someone who would sleep with her twins' fiancé the night of their engagement. This is the height of wickedness." Her voice was cold. My parents had never denied the fact that they loved and cherished Elara more than me but my mum had never spoken to me the way she did just now.

My eyes stung as tears threatened to escape. "What are you talking about? I didn't sleep with Orion," I protested, but the pain in between my legs said otherwise.

I prayed with everything I held dear that they were wrong and I didn't just lose my virginity to my sister's fiance, the man I had been in love with for the past five years.

"Don't you fucking call my name again with your filthy mouth!" Orion growled, his voice voice was enough to make the room rumble.

"You are such a wicked being, standing there looking all innocent but your heart is filled with hatred and wickedness. How could you do this to me?" Elara said and started crying.

"Orion, why would you cheat on me with my sister? Am I not good enough for you?" Her voice became louder.

"Baby, please... I'm so sorry. There's no way I would've slept with your sister if I wasn't drugged," he pleaded. "There is no way I would have slept with this disgusting piece of trash." His words cut deep into my heart and it bled.

"What do you mean, I drugged you?" My voice cracked, trembling in confusion. "I would never-"

Before I could finish, his hands slammed around my throat, crushing any air left in my lungs. My body jerked, and I clawed at his wrists, desperately trying to loosen his grip.

"I warned you," he hissed, his face inches from mine; through my blurry vision, I could see his eyes burning with a fury I'd never seen before. "Never to say my name again, you filthy, blind bitch."

Tears slipped down my cheeks as his grip tightened, squeezing the life out of me. This was the first time I'd ever felt him this close, his breath brushing my skin, his scent overwhelming my senses. But instead of the warmth I once longed for, all I felt was pain.

And he called me a blind bitch.

I couldn't see his face without my glasses, but I didn't need to. The disgust in his voice cut deeper than his claws ever could. The pack always mocked me, calling me a blind bat. I tried to ignore it, numbing myself to their taunts, but it still hurt. Elara always laughed along with them. And now, today, he called me blind too.

The pain twisted inside me, it was sharp and burning. I wanted to scream, wanted to bite and make him feel what I felt. But I couldn't. I couldn't even breathe.

"Please, Alpha."

He released me and I slumped to the floor. "I want to see you in five minutes." That was all he said before he left the room with everyone.

I have never felt the way I was feeling inside right now, I couldn't explain it. Orion almost snuffed the life out of me seconds ago and my mum didn't do anything to stop him.

Someone handed me my contacts, and I put them on. I didn't recognize the room, my eyes landed on the bed and I saw blood stains. All I could remember from last night was the party, Elara giving me a glass of wine and asking me to give Orion another glass as she went away with the Omega. How come they are saying I drugged and slept with Orion?

The blood stain on the bed was evidence that I lost my virginity to my crush, my sister's fiance and I couldn't remember a thing.

The maid who gave me my contact helped me get dressed. I was thankful she got me some new clothes as the one I wore last night was torn to pieces and littered on the floor.

"They're waiting for you in the Raven's Pit," she murmured, her gaze filled with pity.

My heart plummeted. The Raven's Pit was a place of no return, a dark chamber where werewolves who committed unforgivable sins were dragged to be judged, tortured, and sometimes even executed. No one who has ever been punished in that room left the same way they came in if they left at all.

They were going to decide my fate there? But I didn't do anything wrong!