Chapter 35. The Mate and Not the Mate

Sheila took a deep breath to calm herself and began to speak. “When…….when she was at home she was made to behave like a slave, she was treated like one. She was given a lot of tasks to do and she was put under a lot of stress. My brother and I and Elton tried to help her as much as we could, but there was only so much we could do. One day Elton called us to his room and we found her unconscious, lying on his bed and covered in her own blood. That was when we realized that……..that our uncle didn’t just make her do a lot of work, but he also punished her often whether or not she did the work. He whipped her often, without remorse.” She used the back of her hands to wipe the tears that flowed down her cheeks. “It was at that point that we decided she couldn’t stay in the pack again. We couldn’t bear what was being done to an innocent girl. So we helped her escape and we hoped her pain and broken heart will heal with the wounds someday. Little did we know that asides being physically a