Betrayed Only To Become The Alpha's Fake Mate

LENA'S POV

I stood before the gates of my father's mansion, inside the heavy rain. I was dripping from head to toe, shaking from the cold but I remained there. The constriction in my chest wasn't due to the storm, though, it was due to the crushing weight of hopelessness.

"Please," I breathed, the rain consuming my voice. "Please, Father. Just save Mother."

The house stood vacant, light dancing across the windows, beckoning me in. I squeezed my fists so hard my claws ached to burst forth. My wolf growled, eager to tear the gate off its hinges, to burst in and shatter on my wail. But I calm myself. I had come to plead, not to fight and cause trouble.

I wondered how we had managed to get to this point.

My parents were not fated mates, but they loved each other so much that they got married and vowed to reject their fated mates when they came across them.

My poor mother kept her promise and rejected her mate but my father lied to her that he did the same only for her to find out years later that he had been seeing her secretly and they had a child who was a year older than i am. She confronted him only for us to get kicked out to bring in his mistress and bastard daughter.

My wolf whined deep inside me, pitifully torn by anger and sorrow. She hated this shame, hated that I had come here. But I had no choice. I needed money for my mother's treatment. Her health greatly deteriorated since the fall out between her and dad.

A shining headlights flashed on me out of nowhere, pulling me out of my thoughts.

"Shit!" I sprang away from a black car coming in my direction, managing to avoid the car by the whisker.

The car halted and the door opened to reveal Nina-my father's little bastard daughter with an umbrella in her hands and a wicked smile on her face, walking towards the gate as if it was hers.

"Oh dear," she feigned to be in shock. "Lena, I didn't notice you there. You look so small after getting wet in the rain."

She dripped in sarcasm, and my wolf growled in anger.

"Indeed?" I folded my arms. "Perhaps you ought to have your eyes examined. Or are you merely blind to see things when your head is up your ass?"

Nina's smile quivered.

"You should get out of here immediately," she shouted at me abruptly. "This is Petrakis land. And hear me, I am the only heiress of the pretakis family."

I laughed, a harsh, mirthless laugh that echoed in the darkness.

"Daughter?" I strode towards her with every particle of rage that churned within me. "You're a product of a dirty affair. You will always be an illegitimate child as long as your mother is not legally married to father,"

Her eyes blazed with anger.

"You cunt!" she yelled into my face