Betrayed and Broken: The Lycan King's Slave Mate

“Seize her!! Take her to the dungeons.”

“Thud…” The sound of my knees hitting the stone floor echoed through the pack hall as the guards forced me down.

My hands were stained with blood that wasn’t mine and my body was shaking uncontrollably.

Everyone was staring at me with horror and disgust written all over their faces. The pack members who had been celebrating just moments ago now looked at me like I was a monster they had never seen before.

How did everything go so wrong in just one night when i was supposed to be the happiest girl in the world?

My name is Ariana Nightfall and I am the cursed daughter of the pack’s greatest traitors according to everyone who knows my story.

My parents were exiled from the pack when my mother was pregnant with me but the pack council decided that I must stay behind to pay for my parents’ sins. They said I was a symbol of shame and punishment that the pack needed to remember.

I was supposed to shift into my wolf form when I turned sixteen like every other Alpha’s child but nothing happened on my birthday. The pack believed I was wolfless and cursed by the Moon Goddess for my family’s crimes. They treated me like a servant and made me work in the kitchens from dawn until midnight every single day.

But on my eighteenth birthday two months ago, something incredible happened when I was alone in the forest gathering herbs for the pack kitchen. My bones began to crack and reshape as golden light surrounded my body, and suddenly I was standing on four powerful legs with fur as black as midnight and eyes that glowed like silver stars.

My wolf was not only present but incredibly strong and beautiful, with an aura that spoke of Alpha bloodline running through my veins despite what everyone believed about my cursed nature. I knew immediately that I had to keep this secret hidden because revealing my true nature would either get me killed or cause even more problems for the pack that already hated me.

The only person who knew about my wolf was Owen Steele, the future Alpha and my fated mate who had felt our bond the moment I shifted and came to find me in the forest that night. He promised me that he would acknowledge our mate bond publicly after his father’s retirement ceremony, and finally give me the acceptance and love I had been craving my entire life.

“Ariana, you worthless girl, get up and go wash these dishes before I decide to make your punishment even worse!” Luna Margaret’s harsh voice brought me back to the present as she threw a bucket of scalding hot water over my head and shoulders.

“Sorry I will do that right away!” I said quickly while running cold water over my burned hands to stop the pain from spreading. The other kitchen workers laughed at my clumsiness and