Being the alpha's daughter and being treated like an outcast by the same alpha that's supposed to protect you, not just as his child but also as his pack mate means you're often left at the mercy of your sister's goons; both the guys that want to sleep with her to beat their chests as cavemen after successfully sleeping with a prestigious female like my sister means that I am often the butt of a lot of jokes and I cannot even retaliate so as not to make my family look bad.
It doesn't also help that because my father has essentially cast me aside, other males in our pack and their fan girls wouldn't see me as an easy target which tends to make my already stressful life harder than it already is. This is why I often have to time my work out sessions either absurdly early in the morning or very late at night so as to prevent jerks that get off on beating someone weaker than them from messing with me.
What hurts most of the time is that my sister is often around when they're whaling on me and the more she smirks at my suffering, the more they want to hurt me more to get her to bestow her attention on them which they covet so much that if it weren't at my expense I would have laughed them out of existence.
The only reprieve I seem to get is when I go to the pack clinic to assist our pack physician, Mira. Seeing as my physiology is somewhat of a mystery to her and our pack is growing in numbers from children being born into the pack almost every few months, which translates to more work for her, she seems like she sincerely appreciates the assistance I give her.
"Hey Mira", I say as I walk into the clinic to find her poring over one of the folders of our many patients in the pack. "Hey Celeste", she smiles in greeting but frowns when she sees me wincing while I try to close the door that leads into the hallway in the clinic. "Seraphina's goons at it again?", she asks and I bravely nod my head, trying my best to keep the tears from falling down my cheeks and when she sees how watery my eyes are, she rushes to me instantly.
"I'm so sorry baby girl", she coos at me like I'm a child but I appreciate it immensely seeing as my mum is too busy crawling up my father's ass to see that her younger daughter is being turned into a punching bag by her elder sister's fan base. "What happened now?" She asks. "I was still in the pack house when Seraphina came out of her room and she has told me before that she doesn't want me to spoil her morning by showing my disgusting, latent face".
Mira's eyes soften as she takes me in and guides me to a chair so she can apply a pain reliever on my arm that's hurting like a motherfucker. I do have fast healing but because I'm not able to access my wolf, my healing is considerably slower when compared to other werewolves which can I tell you sucks big time. Because I have to walk around with a shoulder sling for a few hours to let my shoulder heal properly.
I honestly cannot wait to meet my mate, I have been praying to the moon goddess to help me get through this without doing things that would make my dad decide that I'm not worth the hassle of being around and bringing shame to his name by being latent, giving him the excuse to throw me out of the pack before I am actually ready to leave. Surviving as a rogue latent wolf already has me at a disadvantage so I'm just saving as much as I can so I can leave this god forsaken place with some dignity and easily move to a city dominated largely by human and find my own place in the world.
Thankfully, Mira pays me some sort of stipend and she has helped me open a secret account under a different name that nobody in my family knows I have because I'm sure if Seraphina finds out, she'd take that little slice of freedom away from me too. I honestly am not sure that I would look back with fondness at this pack if I ever manage to leave without one of my plans failing catastrophically as seems to be my lot in life.
My only hope right now is that I at least meet my mate in this upcoming ceremony so I at least don't have to spend the rest of my life alone. Because my father has threatened to exile me from the pack if I don't meet my mate at the debutante ball and he never fails to remind me that he is being gracious to let me attend for all the shame I have supposedly brought him because of the latency of my wolf.
I am very sure that the reason he hasn't thrown me out on my ass is because of the alliances he wants to foster with other packs by having Seraphina and me be presented to the visiting alphas in the hopes that one of us would have an alpha or at least a high-ranking wolf as our mate. Making it imperative that the pack is protected, not just by our warriors but by the warriors of the packs we mated into which is customary as no mate in their right senses would leave his mate's family unprotected.
However, in a way I am kind of glad that my dad isn't hiding how he truly feels about me because my mum is worse in a sense. I would take outright hatred or dislike any day rather than love covering the apparent disappointment I am to my mother.