Episode 1

I woke up with a terrible headache, and on top of that, soaking wet. Sometimes life brings us moments and situations where we become stronger, that's what my mother would say before any situation, but I am not my mother.

"Wake up, servant_", my brother said, throwing cold water on me.

I got up as best I could and a groan of pain escaped my lips, my whole body ached and my ribs were fractured from the beating they gave me the night before for spilling juice on his bi**h's (sorry, fiancee). I have to say, it wasn't my intention to get her pretty, delicate clothes dirty, but I did enjoy seeing her angry face.

"And the next time you hurt my future wife and Luna of this pack, I will make you pay with your life," said my brother, leaving the room where I was lying.

I decided to take a quick bath, with cold water because in this room, there isn't even a decent shower. And who cares about the shower? That's the least of my problems, because nobody could spend a night in an old cot with sheets thinner than a curtain, the kind that are thinner than a nightgown. The beating they gave me hasn't killed me "yet."

Are you wondering how I'm still alive?

Well, the thing is, being a female wolf, my body hardly feels the cold, but the nights are usually very long, since most days I spend my time with blows and fractured ribs. I don't know how my wounds heal so fast if my wolf hasn't even woken up yet.

Well, let me introduce myself, how rude of me.

My name is Jazmin, I am 17 years old in human years and in my wolf form I am 117 years old. I have a normal appearance, black and wavy hair, a body thinner than a smoked herring. Not because I want it, but because the food I receive doesn't let me have enough meat in those required areas.

At the age of five I lost my mother, because of a war, some rogue vampires and witches who attacked the pack. She died protecting me, when a witch attacked me and she defended me and ended up killing the witch and shortly after she died. Since then my life has been chaos, my dad and my brother punish me for anything, just to hurt me, and to make my life even worse, they lowered me to the rank of an Omega, and not just any Omega, but one who does the chores of the palace and serves as a slave.

By order of my dear sister-in-law, I am responsible for leaving the bathrooms sparkling, a disgusting and dirty job, because every day, they leave me a gift and not one that I like.

There isn't a day in my life where I don't regret my existence, my body is already used to pain, pain is already part of my daily life. I just hope that when my mate shows up, I can go far away with him and be loved, but that's just a dream and dreams are just as their name says "dreams."

I stopped thinking about my misfortune and decided to change into something decent, something from the few things I have in my old closet, and then grab my cleaning supplies, and start a long day of cleaning the castle, and scrubbing those disgusting bathrooms.

As I walked out, I met my other companions who were just like me, with dark circles under their eyes and looking very tired, because some of them work at night attending to the guards who patrol the borders.

The day passed without much trouble and I went to sleep, but how foolish I was to think that here I was going to finish my work as a maid, because after a minute my brother and his Luna arrive to annoy my bitter existence.

"Where are you going, beggar?_" Asks my brother's girlfriend, with disgust.

"Luna, I was about to go to sleep. Do you need anything?_" I say with false calm.

"I need you to clean the floor again because apparently it's not clean enough."

"But I just finished cleaning and…." I didn't finish speaking because my brother slapped me so hard that I fell to the floor with blood in my mouth.

"Insolent, if my Luna tells you to clean, it means you have to clean, whether you cleaned right now, or just now, it doesn't matter. She's your Luna and you have to do what you're told, you insolent girl. I'm going to teach you a lesson. Guards, guards! Come and take this beggar to the punishment cells and give her 50 lashes to see if that will stop her being insolent." Those were the words of my older brother, and when I heard that, I panicked.

"No brother... please forgive me, I'll clean it right now." I say that and I run to his feet, and when I get there, he kicks me in the chest and I fall away from him, and the guards grab me and drag me to the dungeon, as if I were a stray dog.

There they tied my hands and feet with silver chains, and put a gag in my mouth. One of the guards threw a bucket of ice water with salt on me, and ripped the back of my dress, as if it wasn't already too much, what they're going to do to me, they start giving me hard lashes.

One, two, three, four, ten. I think this is the end for me. I lost count of how many times they whipped me, and little by little the darkness takes over.

(Well, that's as far as my suffering goes.) I say inside me and I surrender to the darkness, after all, if I die no one will notice.

"Jazmin, you have to wake up," says a voice I can't make out.

"For what? To live again in suffering."

"No... I will help you get out of here soon, but you have to wake up."

"Go away and let me die in peace."

"Silly girl, if you die, what will happen to me?"

"It doesn't matter to me. Who are you? Tell me, what does my death have to do with you?"

"I am you and you are me, I am your wolf, my name is Camila and I am attached to your soul."

My eyes widen, and I see something shining and the darkness where I was is slowly disappearing, revealing a beautiful white wolf with blue eyes.

"Are you real, or am I hallucinating?"

"Does it look like I'm not real?" she says, giving me a spank with her hind legs.

"Hey…" I said and I jumped.

"I don't have much time before they come and punish you again, you have to wake up."

"How do I do that in this condition?"

"Well, you see... when your mother killed the witch, since the attack was intended for you, you received her powers, and you are half wolf and half witch. The reason for that, I don't know, the Moon Goddess was the one who decided it, and I don't understand those things."

"But, is that possible?"

"Aaf. I don't know, girl, I'm not the goddess, I'm just telling you what you are."

"Well, okay, tell me how to get out of here?"

"Well, I know you're weak, but I'm going to give you a little energy so you can break the chains, and manage to open a portal that will take you far from here, you just have to concentrate, and think about something that brought you a lot of pain, and after that, when the magic portal opens, you will say (take me far from these lands to one where there is no more pain) and you will cross through it, and that portal will take you to the place where you wished to be, since your torment began."

"As if it were difficult not to remember those moments of pain, my whole life has been painful."

"Well, do it, you already have enough reasons to make the portal open for you, you must wake up now, they are coming, and it is possible that this time they will kill you."

"How do I wake up?"

"Like this…" Camila said, and I received a tremendous kick from her.

I opened my eyes, and I realize that I am still in the dungeon, and the wounds on my body, although they no longer hurt as much as they did at first, bring me back to reality.

"Remember what I told you to do."

"Yes, okay."

And so I did, I concentrated my mind on breaking the chains, and in a short time they broke. Then I put my hands on the wall, and I started to think about the bad and sad moments I have had, and a portal opened the size of a door, and I easily entered it.

Well, I hope that wherever this portal takes me is much better than here, and let myself be guided by where it was taking me.

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