Alphas’ Biggest Mistake Novel – When I was ten, my mother chose a Second Mate, the Alpha of the Dark Forest Pack. My new stepbrother, the future Alpha Kieran Astor, would kick and hit me whenever no one else was around. He mocked me for being a parasite without a wolf, kicking my face, my ribs, my chest, and once shoved me down a staircase. He stared coldly as I lay in a pool of blood.
“Don’t think you and your mistress mother can squeeze your way into the Dark Forest Pack. I’m going to throw you out sooner or later.” He tore up my homework, scribbled on my dresses with markers, making sure I was humiliated. Even though I never fought back, his cruelty never stopped. Not until his best friend Merrick Allen confessed to me in college. From that day on, Kieran stopped picking on me.
For the first time in my life, he didn’t treat me like something under his boot. I believed Merrick was the one good thing that had ever happened to me. On my eighteenth birthday, I slept with him. The next morning, I accidentally overheard him talking with Kieran. “Did you get her first time on camera?” Kieran’s voice was dripping with malice. Merrick chuckled. “Of course.
Full HD. I’d never touch a girl like her if I wasn’t helping you get even.” My hand flew to my mouth as tears streamed uncontrollably. My so called salvation had been nothing more than Kieran’s revenge. I turned away and never looked back. … Inside the private lounge, Kieran took a drag of his cigarette. “With her reputation ruined, let’s see how she clings to the Dark Forest Pack now.” “What if she can’t handle it and something happens to her…” Kieran shot him a look and laughed. “What, getting soft? Don’t tell me you’ve actually fallen for her.” Merrick quickly denied it. “No way. I was just playing around. Lope’s coming back soon.
I don’t have time to waste on her.” Standing outside the door, my heart felt like it was bleeding. Lope Omelas had been their childhood sweetheart, Merrick’s first love. Kieran believed my mother’s arrival caused his own mother’s suicide, and he funneled all that hate into me. After Merrick and I got together, Kieran still didn’t like me, but he stopped tormenting me the way he used to. I thought he’d finally accepted me.
I thought I finally had a brother. I wanted so badly to have a normal relationship with him. I never imagined things would get even worse. They had always shared the same loyalties since childhood. How could I ever have believed Merrick truly cared for me? I had overestimated myself. I swallowed the bitterness in my throat and ran like I’d lost my mind. Rain poured outside. I was soaked through by the time I got home.
The first thing I did was text my professor. [Aurelius, I accept your offer. I’ll join you for the international research project.] He was my mentor during the Pack Science Competition, a leading figure in smart pack technology. For years, I’d worked myself to exhaustion trying to be someone my family could be proud of. No one ever cared, not my mother, not even Kieran.
The project required secrecy, and participants were not allowed to leave the research institute for three years, so I had originally declined. But now none of that mattered. Maybe because of the rain, I curled into a tight ball. A nightmare startled me awake. My fever was raging. Ever since my wolf failed to appear at sixteen, I had always been weaker than other wolves and lacked self-healing. I pushed myself up, planning to look for medicine, when the door slammed open. Before I could speak, my mother threw a stack of photos at my face. “Fenrisa. You’re barely an adult and already sleeping with men? Are you that pathetic?”