Vengeance Is Mine

Eleni POV.

"Umm ... Honey! Not so early! Let me sleep."

I cooed in half sleep as the strong hands of my man grabbed me from behind. I was lying on my bed in my own bedroom on the top floor of our house. "Our" house belonged to my husband, my in-laws, and for the past couple of weeks, to me, too. After all, I was a newly wed bride yet to go on my honeymoon.

It was early in the morning and I was still deep in sleep.

"Danny, please! Later. Let me sleep a bit longer," I mumbled without opening my eyes. Danny -- my newly-wed husband Daniel -- was a notorious early riser. And so was his libido. Nothing pleased him more than a quickie before sunrise. Nothing captivated his imagination more than a series of pokes and strokes at dawn.

But wait. This time it felt different. The grope was that of a man, but much rougher than Danny's. The touch was that of his fingers, but much more restless and crude. The strength of his embrace was prodigious, but lacked warmth and affection. The smell of his body was ... not Danny's at all!

Oh no! It's not Danny! It's not my husband whose vice-like grip I found myself in at the crack of dawn. It's a stranger!

What the hell!

I opened my eyes in a flash and sat up on the bed, startled. Only to watch in horror a strange hairy man trying to disrobe me. A vile creepy hairy beast with lust in his eyes and stink in his breath had managed to slide his hand under my nightdress.

"Help!" I shrieked. Not in distress, but in panic. Not for help, but in dismay. I could not believe a stranger could enter my bedroom at sunrise without alerting anyone else in the house. And the house was full of people -- my in-laws, servants, maids, gardeners, cooks, janitors, drivers, security personnel. Everyone except my husband Danny was present at the house. Danny was away on a business trip.

Danny was the Alpha of the White Raven pack. Danny had to go on regular business trips. Danny had the highest number of security personnel in the entire pack. There would be a dozen or more security men present inside the house at any given point of time.

And yet, an unknown creep with unknown intentions had managed to sneak in at sunrise without so much as a peep. Managed to evade detection in a house full of people. And had the audacity to enter the Luna's bedroom and touch and feel her without restraint or remorse.

"Help!" I screamed again. This time louder and stronger. "Rosemary, help me!"

Rosemary was my mother-in-law. The matriarch of the house. The Alpha's mother. The Luna of the White Raven pack before I became the Luna after my marriage to Danny.

And she arrived quickly and silently. So quickly that I was baffled by her speed of response. So silently that I had a fleeting suspicion that she was hiding outside my bedroom door, waiting for the moment I would scream.

"What the hell is going on here?" yelled Rosemary in her stern matron-like voice. That voice had been unsettling me for the past 2 weeks, never sounding affectionate for once, always heaping scorn and ridicule over other members of the house.

Including myself.

The strange intruder ran towards the balcony and leapt onto the terrace as soon as Rosemary entered the room. As if he was aware of the entry and exit routes to my bedroom. As if he had rehearsed his escape time and again.

"Who the hell is this guy?" Rosemary shouted in fury as I cowered in my partially nude state on the bed. The big hairy stinky man had managed to disrobe me to an embarrassing extent.

"I don't know! He must have sneaked in," I sobbed and mumbled in shock. "How did he sneak in?"

"You are asking ME?" Rosemary narrowed her eyebrows and tightened her jaw muscles. "It's your bedroom, nobody else is here to open the door for him, and you are asking me?" She ended her query with loads of disdain and scorn.

"What!" I sat frozen. "You think I let him .... How could you imply such a thing?" I wailed in agony and dismay. "It's disgusting."

"No," she shot back. "What is disgusting is your behavior. Your current state of undress. A one night stand gone wrong. You getting caught red-handed with another man in bed. That's what's disgusting. That's what's shameful."

Without waiting for my response or reaction, Rosemary left the room in a flash. But not before locking the door from the outside. Locking me in my owm bedroom. As if I was a petty thief and would run away any moment.

I sat petrified, terrified and tormented.

My clothes were dishevelled. My hair was unkempt. A couple of buttons were open on my nightdress. A couple of scratches were visible on my thighs -- marks left behind by the intruder. But my soul was crushed, my spirit was broken, my self respect was dented. Rosemary's insinuation that I was having a clandestine affair in my own bedroom in the absence of my husband was morally crushing and spiritually devastating. I knew at that moment that I could rely on one person only to prove my innocence.

My husband Daniel.

Only he could check and confirm that I remained pure as ever, untouched as ever, unviolated as ever. Only he could confirm that I still remained a virgin, that it was for him to alter that reality, that I would submit only to Danny and nobody else.

Little did I know that I was being framed. Not just by my mom-in-law, but my hubby dearest himself. Little did I know that a befitting punishment for my 'infidelity' had already been planned. And that plan had been set in motion.

Little did I know that I would end up dead.

Almost dead.

Eleni POV.

"You are a cheap sl*t. A shameless wh*r*. Unfit to be a Luna of the White Raven clan. You slept with a stranger behind your Alpha's back. You deserve death."

Those were the words repeatedly thrown at me by my Mom-in-law every time she opened the door to my bedroom. And she opened it only thrice that day. Once each to bring in breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I was not allowed to venture out nor was anyone else allowed to enter the room. Rosemary brought all my food that day. And left after shouting a thousand curses in my direction.

"Rosie, please," I sobbed and pleaded, "please trust me. That man ... I don't know him. Never seen him before. Not sure how he entered and why. You know the family I come from. Why would I do such a vile thing?"

"Do not call me Rosie, you skanky wh*r*!" Rosemary hissed at me. "And as for your family background, there is nothing special about it. Nor about your