Amelia Wilson [Wilson - Rizer Pack Shifter- Complete Series

A Rizer Wolfpack Complete Series

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Amelia Wilson

Love Beyond the Wall

A Rizer Wolfpack Series Book 1

By:

Amelia Wilson

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CHAPTER ONE

C ARA COULDNT SLEEP .

How could she? In the morning, she would be forced into a marriage with Aldrich. It didnt matter that she didnt want to marry him. Cara had no other alternative. Not anymore.

She could still remember what it was like before the town had walls built over ten feet high surrounding it. There were mountains in the distance, beautiful sunsets. Back then Cara thought shed climb those mountains. She thought she would escape her father and leave all the ugliness behind.

People would talk about the big cities beyond the mountains. Cities that welcomed all walks of people, even the new race of people who changed their shape. These big cities still had the kind of things that Caras mother used to talk about. Taxi cabs, television, and phones that made communication possible across great distances.

The cities who did not fight against the shifters were allowed to carry on as they were. People like Caras family, who rejected the new race were pushed out of the established communities and forced to build new towns, and ways of surviving without any contact with the Shifter accepting cities.

Eventually war broke out among the shifter cities. At least that was what Cara heard. People left the cities, and so did the shifters. The order of the world forever changed.

Cara thought that perhaps the shifters were misunderstood by the people of her town. She wanted to believe that the world would eventually return to the kind of order it once held. She wanted to believe that the shifters were good.

Then they came.

The creatures who walked like men but were not men at all. They were monsters, wild beasts. Every man attacked by them died. Their bodies were brought back in pieces.

It wasnt long after the hunting party was slaughtered that the wall was built. At first it was only five feet high. When more hunters were killed outside the wall, the townspeople added to the wall. It grew higher every year, cutting out more and more light from the people inside.

For seven years Cara, and most of the people of Aldrich Town, were trapped behind the walls. It was a cage, and it was only going to get smaller for Cara when she married Aldrich.

The man was in his forties, while Cara was not even twenty years old yet. Cara knew him to be a cruel man, just like her father.

If it wasnt for Caras uncle, Mortimer, she might not know that there were men who were kind.

The men of the town angered easily. Many of them took out their frustration on anyone weaker than they were. When this happened, it was up to Aldrich if the person causing trouble got to stay, or was pushed outside the wall to be killed by the shifters.

All matters were taken to Aldrich. When Cara once asked her uncle why Aldrich was in charge he said, He owns the food. Aldrich owns the weapons. He owns the wall. Aldrich owns the people of his town because without him they starve, are defenseless, and die.

When Caras father took to beating her, the neighbors called in Aldrich. Cara was thirteen years old when he came to her house that night to answer the complaint. He arrived with a rope, ready to tie up her father because he was not interested in justice so much as he was interested in not being bothered.

When he saw Cara, he entered the home and sat down at the dinner table with Caras father. He promised to spare him if he kept her untouched by other men.

A virgin.

Aldrich said he would return for her when she was ripe.

Cara didnt understand most of what hed said, but she knew she didnt like how he looked at her. She didnt like the way Aldrich would follow her home from the schoolhouse after that.

She was relieved when Aldrich married Paulina. Cara thought that since hed married, Aldrich had forgotten her. Cara believed she was free of him.

Up until two days prior, Cara believed that she would be like every other young woman in town and choose who to date and who to marry. When Aldrich came knocking, Cara knew shed been mistaken. Aldrich hadnt forgotten her. Not at all.

Her father opened the door for Aldrich. When Cara saw him her body froze with fear. There was a rumor that Paulina died. Cara chose to believe it wasnt true. After all, Paulina was only twenty-three. How could she die so young?

Aldrich married Paulina when she was nineteen. Cara heard people say that Aldrich never let Paulina leave his house. Since Caras father rarely allowed Cara to leave without an escort, she thought it must be the same kind of restrictions for Paulina.

Once though, when she passed by Aldrichs house on her way to work, Cara saw her. Paulina was standing in the window glaring out at the light as though shed been in darkness for so long she couldnt adjust. She was bruised, too skinny, and she was crying.

Since Aldrich was the only kind of law in Aldrich Town, Cara felt helpless to do anything for Paulina. Cara remembered that look of desperation on Paulinas face, it wasnt a sight she would ever forget.

Aldrich entered Caras home. Cara could only think of the terror on Paulinas face. She stood, backing away from the table. Aldrichs brown eyes were so dark they were nearly black as they followed every move Cara made.

Caras hands were shaking. She fisted them. Cara didnt like the pleased look on Aldrichs face when he saw the clear sign of fear. Narrowing her eyes, she dared to meet his gaze.

Aldrichs cutting eyes widened, the bloodshot vessels in his eyes darkened. His pale face and pointed chin lowered as his heated gaze ran over her. His gray teeth looked sharp as his thin lips curled back.

He pushed up the sleeves of his red shirt. Take off your dress, Aldrich commanded. His eyes opened wider as he spoke. His hands opening and closing like he wanted to grab her.

Cara looked to her father. He was the only one who could protect her from Aldrich. Sure, her father was hard hearted, and short tempered but he did love her. Cara was certain he would do something.