Chapter 3 Blind Bat

The guards dragged me to the Raven's Pit, their hands gripping my arms like iron. The pack members were throwing disdainfully at me as I was being dragged in.

"Shameless slut!"

"Blind bat."

"Betraying your own twin, this is the most disgusting thing I have heard in history."

News has spread about what happened. It's not even up to an hour and they already heard about it. Everybody in the pack loved Elara. I was okay with being the invisible twin. Chloe was the only one who ever saw me for who I was. I wonder where she is, she would definitely come to my aid as she knows me too well.

The Raven's Pit was worse than I'd imagined, dark, cold, and stinking of blood. The guards shoved me to the ground, forcing me to kneel. My knees hit the hard floor, pain shooting up my legs, but I didn't dare cry out.

I saw Chloe walk towards me. I was glad she was coming to my rescue only for her hand to swipe across my face with the heaviest slap I have ever received in my life. I fell at the impact and was roughly yanked back up to my knees by the guards.

"Fucking blind bat!" I guess there is now no reservation with who calls me that. I have indeed become a blind bat. "I told you to fucking get over your crush on my brother, but you didn't listen. You decided to drug him to have a taste of him. Did you enjoy him? Are you satisfied with hurting him and your twin?" The noise broke out from the hundreds of wolves present.

"I took you as my sister and you did this to me? You deserve to die!" Chloe's angry voice was enough to send me to the grave. "I didn't think you could be this shameless."

It's official, everyone now knows that I had a crush on their Alpha. That was a secret I shared with her and Elara years ago, and she promised to keep it a secret, I guess she couldn't hold it in any longer.

"Was that the reason you disappeared last night? To get my brother drugged so that you can take advantage of him? Were you that bittered that you couldn't take seeing your unrequited, one-sided love of five years become your sister's mate?"

My eyes burned with tears, she wasn't stopping. She was trying to mock me publicly and she was succeeding. The crowd went wild as "blind bat" filled the Pit.

"Chloe, you have to believe me, please, I didn't do anything wrong to your brother. I didn't drug him. Elara gave me a glass of wine to give to him and I don't remember any other thing that happened."

"You are lying!" She screamed, giving me another hot slap; she was wearing different rings on her fingers as the impact tore my skin, and I felt blood drop from my cheek.

"I lost something too. I lost my virginity and I don't even remember anything that happened. Why would I do that to myself?" I was desperate, I needed someone to listen to me.

"You have always wanted him for yourself. You wanted him to be the one to take your virginity, have you forgotten you told me that?"

The wolves burst out laughing while some looked at me in disgust. That wasn't how it happened, I had jokingly told her two years ago that I would love Orion to take my virginity if the moon goddess blessed me with him as his mate. It was our 18th birthday, and I was praying that Orion would be my mate, but things took a wrong turn when he announced my sister as his better half.

My hands were trembling, she tried to slap me again but her father's voice stopped her.

"Enough, Chloe!"

Alpha Cyrus, Orion's father, sat at the front with the pack elders. I had my contacts on so I could see clearly. I could feel his eyes on me, cold and merciless.

"Aurora Night," he said slowly, his voice heavy with authority, "You drugged my son last night, had your way with him and almost broke his engagement with his mate. And for that you'll never be forgiven."

A wave of gasps and murmurs rippled through the room. My heart sank. "No... no, it's not true!" I tried to speak, but one of the guards kicked my abdomen and I crumpled to the floor.

A large screen came on and it was a video of me knocking on the door of Orion's room. I handed him the drink and he chugged it down. The video wasn't complete, what about when Elara gave me the drink?

"The glass was tested and it turns out you drugged my son. This is a betrayal to the Alpha family and the entire Ravenclaw pack."

Alpha Cyrus doesn't talk much. He gave up his position as alpha to his son after he almost died at a rogue attack. His son has been leading the pack ever since and has built a name for himself.

Alpha Cyrus only comes out when the issue is grave. Seeing as he is leading my case, it's a sign that I'm doomed.

The room seemed to close in on me, voices yelling for my blood. Some wanted me banished, others demanded my death. I bit back the urge to scream, to tell them it was all a lie, but it would be pointless. No one would believe me.

Tears blurred my vision as I forced myself to look up. Somewhere in that crowd, Orion was there, watching silently. He hadn't said a word. Hadn't stood up to say otherwise. His silence hurt more than anything they could ever do to me.

Up until a few moments ago when Chloe exposed my secret, Orion had no idea that I had a crush on him, so it was understandable that he didn't know how much he was hurting me without even doing anything.

He wanted me dead, same as my parents with Elara who sat there like I was not their blood. Everyone was looking at me with hate. The fact that Chloe exposed all my secrets made everything worse.

According to the Ravenclaw pack, what I was accused of was actually a huge crime, punishable by death or banishment. Elara was given the opportunity to choose the punishment I would go through before the final judgment. I watched on my knees as my twin chose the most excruciating punishment to be meted out to me. Hatred burned through me as I knelt there.