1 Chapter 1: How it Began...

Cecilia's POV

"You evil witch! If you hadn't killed your parents, you wouldn't have been so pitiful." I didn't have to look up because, by his scornful and mocking voice, I could guess who it was. 

He approached me with some men following him from behind, Henry, the son of Moonlight Alpha, smirked as he got closer to me. 

Ever since the day he started visiting our pack, he had decided to make my life miserable by constantly bullying me. No one could stop him and I couldn't fight back because he was always up and ready to give me a taste of my own medicine. 

I swayed my eyes away from him, for someone who wants me I have decided to mind my business. I continued drying the herbs I have gathered from the forest. 

"Wait, did you just ignore me?" He snapped out, as though he was shocked. 

I didn't turn until he walked over to me with a heavy step and grabbed my hair. 

"Do you think you can ignore me?!" He spat at my face with disdain, his eyes boiling in anger. 

"Let go of me! Let go of me, Henry!" I yelled his name while struggling away from him. 

No matter how I cried, my voice wouldn't be easily heard because I was staying in a more isolated area. The medicine, elixir, and decoction I make have both good and bad effects which my Alpha wasn't comfortable with. He decided to build another tent for me, that way I would do whatever I wanted to do peacefully. 

"Get out!" He pushed me away and my face landed on my herb tray. 

"What have I done to you? Each day, you always come to bully me! Did I do something wrong in my past life? Why won't you leave me alone?" I had the sudden courage and cried out at his face, I thought he would grow sentimental or something but no, he started laughing and his men followed. 

"I will show you what it's like when you mess with me." He sneered devilishly, taking the tray I was holding. 

"Henry, please, can you stop this?" I pleaded. I knew I was at his mercy and the least I could do was beg him. 

I had stopped using poisonous herbs and medication after what happened to my mother, I wanted to keep a good record else he wouldn't have had the right to do all this. 

"What are you waiting for?" He completely ignored me and shouted at his men. He threw the tray of herbs he was holding to the floor and his men started dismantling my herb stand. They threw my trays, the new roots I had gotten, everything was on the ground and they made sure to scatter everything. 

"No!" I screamed in pain. "Those herbs are rare!" I rushed over to them because if I continued standing at that place, they might destroy everything. 

"No, don't touch that!" I grabbed one of his man's hands but he shoved me away. 

All the herbs I have waited for years to grow, all the roots I had woken up early in the morning to pluck, and even some that I had to travel far away to acquire. Henry and his men destroyed everything. They didn't just throw it away, they marched it with their feet making it impossible to rewash and use them. 

I clenched my fist and gritted my teeth in anger, I wanted to kill him for being so wicked to an innocent lady like me. I was boiling in rage when he walked over to me with a cold smile on his face. 

"I told you I will make your life miserable from the first day we met, didn't I?" He lifted my face with his finger, clicking his tongue. 

"I will kill you! I swear I will pay you back for what you did!" Out of anger and pain, I spat at his face with a voice filled with hurt and he pushed me away. 

"Let's see if you can live up till the day I will die." He waved at his men and they kicked my small herbs shade, as they stormed out, my shade crashed to the ground. 

I was on the floor, crying and sadly picking up my herbs, they were useless and I could do nothing to them. He had hurt me. I had prepared these herbs to treat some sick Betas and also my Alpha's son who contracted flu. He didn't care what they would be used for or anything, he use ruined them. 

Soon, Anna, the only apprentice and close friend I had kept in my corner rushed out of the room. I had asked her to prepare pots of hot water so I could use them to stem the herbs when they were dried. She met me at the front yard and her eyes danced around the scene. 

"My lady, I was hearing noises. What happened here?" She rushed over to me and pulled me up. 

"It's nothing." I shook my head. 

"It's Lord Henry again, isn't it?" She guessed it right. He was the only one who could be wicked and stupid to do something of this nature. 

I didn't respond to her and she sighed heavily. 

"It's been more than five years now, my lady. Lord Henry always trampled on you, bully you and make a mockery of you, don't you think it's time to fight back for once?" Anna hissed. I turned to her and she wiggled her brows, showing me how serious she was. 

"What can I do?" I exhaled sharply. "He is the son of Moonlight pack after all," we started walking towards the tent. "After all these years that I had stopped practicing poisonous medication, I want to stop the people from fearing us or thinking my family is full of evil," I explained to her sadly. 

"I know, my lady. But with the looks of things, Lord Henry has no plan to stop. He would continue messing up with you." She grumbled. 

"Right, he messed up with me today and honestly, I don't want to let him go. I want him to taste what it feels like to get bullied or disgraced." I gritted my teeth, with a voice filled with seriousness. 

"That's more like it, my lady." She punched her hand in the air and I chuckled, shaking my head. 

"So, what do you plan to do, my lady?" She asked anxiously, staring at me and I rubbed my chin. 

"His eighteenth birthday is coming soon, right?" I asked slyly and she nodded impatiently. 

"Then, I will give him a perfect birthday gift." I let out a mischievous smile, staring back at the herbs he had destroyed.