THE CURSED ONE

Smells. Dirt. Everything smells. Everything's dirty. Pain. Everywhere hurts.

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Waking up in a dusty, rusty cage only to find out you're being sold is the worst kind of feeling; it's something I wouldn't wish on even my worst enemy, or maybe I would if I had a dark heart.

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I still remember the taunts, the evil laughter, the pain I went through. I was never enough for them. They called me useless, but I always told myself I wasn't useless.

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I tried to be what they wanted. I did everything to fit into their perfect family, but it was never enough. "You're useless, a waste, just die already." These words were from my own mother, someone who was supposed to be my shoulder to cry on, my comforter, who regarded me as useless, and told me how she regrets birthing an abnormality.

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I knew it was only a matter of time before they sold me off. I didn't know it would be so soon. I must admit they caught me by surprise. After my own twin sister stole my mate, I felt it was all over. I wanted to die; he was all I had. I somehow thought I would have a better life with him. Still, my world shattered when, on the full moon night, he snatched my soul from me, forced me to watch as he mated and marked my sister, and then he rejected me.

  I always knew Melody had her eyes on Ryan. I didn't know she would actually go for him. It was my fault that I overlooked all the signs. She always coincidentally sees Ryan, exposing her body to him, saying demeaning words about me to him, and his family.

  But I always thought that My Ryan would never look at another woman, as the goddess mated him to me, as I was his other half, that we were made for each other. How wrong I was. I had high hopes that even though my own family excluded me from their perfect family, made me a slave in my own home, treated me worse than a Rogue, not having a wolf, that Ryan would see through those flaws and accept me because I was his goddess-given mate.

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  "You can't be my mate Laura, you can't be my luna I can't have an abnormality like you by my side I need a strong she wolf to rule beside me, I need a strong pup to take over from me, you can't give me that and I don't want to infect my lineage with a cursed being like you"

Those words fell from his mouth so easily; they were filled with so much venom, so much hate, it surprised me that Ryan, who once loved me and always shielded me from getting bullied, was saying this to me. Tears fell from my eyes.

    I half expected my family to show me some sympathy and comfort me, but all my hopes were