The Alpha’s Fated Dragon Maiden

Episode 1

I am Alina, 17 years old. I work and study, as a kitchen assistant in a restaurant. I study in the morning and work in the afternoon and at night. I begged the restaurant owner, Mr. Elias, to accept me, because, due to my age, he didn't want to, but I told him about my situation and he was moved and gave me this opportunity. My parents are drug addicts and I have to support the house. I have no relatives besides them, not that I know of... I prefer to work and study; the longer I stay away from home, the better!

Unfortunately, today the restaurant is closed due to preventative pest control. After school, I had to go home. My parents were there, drugged, the house a mess—it was always like this. I sigh just thinking about the scene that repeated itself day after day. Little did I know that today things would be different. I walk into the house and find my father with a gun to his head and my mother lying on the old couch. She was so drugged she couldn't speak intelligibly. My father, upon seeing me, told the man that he could take me as payment. The man looked to be about 50 years old, tall and with a scary appearance. You could tell right away he was a ruthless bad character.

I froze when I heard my father say that I would be that man's payment. I understood very well what he said, but with a glimmer of hope in my heart I insisted on asking.

"What's going on, Dad?"

"What's going on is your father is in debt to me and he gave you to me as payment. Your mother was the one who paid with her body, but I'm not interested in her anymore. Look at her, she's totally wasted. But you, you nymphet, are going to settle all your parents' debts," the man said, looking me up and down perversely, leaving me in a panic.

"Is that true, Dad?” I asked, afraid to hear the answer.

"Go get your things! Now you belong to him. At least it wasn't so useless to raise you," said Alina's father.

"You have 30 minutes to get your things, girl, and not a second more, otherwise, I'll go to your room and drag you by your hair. Do we understand each other?" threatened the man.

I looked at my father who looked at me with no expression, as if he lived in another world. I know my worth. I was never useless. I've always worked to support the house. I remember when I was a child, my mother used to take me to the streets to beg for money. They always found ways to use me to make money, and it only got worse when they started using drugs. It only got better when I started working. Hearing my father talk like that and sell me without any feeling was a very hard blow.

I snap out of my thoughts with hands choking me. I opened my eyes wide, as it became difficult to breathe.

"When I ask you a question, I demand that you answer! Do we understand each other?" the drug dealer shouted.

I coughed several times and with great difficulty answered yes, that I understood.

"Now go! You have 20 minutes! You wasted 10 minutes by not answering the instant I asked," the drug dealer barked.

"Yes, sir," I replied with tears in my eyes.

"Good girl, that's how I like it!" The drug dealer smiled coldly.

I quickly went upstairs in tears, an immense pain in my heart, a mixture of feelings overcoming me: disappointment, anger, panic and despair. I entered my room and locked it, pushed the closet against the door, looked out the window, saw no one, and climbed out.

"I have to escape! I won't live a miserable life, be a sex slave to that old man. Even if it's to help my parents pay off their debt, I don't want that life! They don't love me, they never treated me like a daughter! I'm going to run away!!” Alina decided in her mind.

My house is close to a forest. Why did we come to live in a place like this? Simple! The forest has many dark stories and no one wanted to live here, so I managed to rent it for a very low price and the place was very quiet, ideal for my parents to hide from creditors. They owed money to many dangerous people, this place was ideal. Now this old man shows up, he must be one of the dealers my parents owe. I won't go with him! I'm not an object to be sold to anyone!

I ran as fast as I could until I got close to the forest, when suddenly I heard footsteps behind me. I looked back and saw two of the old man's henchmen and right behind them the dealer himself to whom my father had sold me. He started cursing and threatening me. He yelled for me to stop and that I had nowhere to go! I won't give up! I ran as fast as I could, forcing my legs to go faster than they ever had before. They might even catch me, but they won't have it easy! I will fight to the end!

When I am about to enter the forest, one of the thugs throws himself on top of me. He manages to knock me to the ground when he reaches my left foot and I fall. I kick him hard in the nose and he lets go of me. I quickly get up and run as fast as I can into the "haunted" forest. I run without looking back. I run so frantically, dodging trees, that I have no idea where I'm going, when suddenly the ground beneath my feet gives way. I fall down a large embankment towards a lake with a strong current. The last glimpse I have before I fall into the lake is of the two henchmen looking down at me with big smiles on their faces as I plummet into the lake.