Chapter 8: Someday I’ll Cut More Than Just Hair
[TAMIKO]
"What was that, Tamiko?" Danny said, once the alpha and the trio had left.
In all their time in the pack, he had never expected that of all the things the alpha would frown upon, his son cutting the outcast orphan's hair would have been one of them. It was so unexpected and Tamiko was confused as hell.
The alpha had been cruel to him from the moment he had learned to speak his first word and was able to recall everything. This very alpha had somehow managed to make sure everything Tamiko tried to do, ended up as a failure.
The school Tamiko worked so hard to get admission into, alpha Ashton recommended his expulsion and in exchange, he donated more funds to the school. At the pack, he had promised to make everyone's life hard, if anyone so much as considered giving Tamiko shelter.
It was also the very reason that even though Danny was Tamiko's best friend, he couldn't help Tamiko with a residence, and he wasn't also allowed to go see where Tamiko lived.
Tamiko was in a literal hell, and alone.
As a result, the outcast orphan had to live in the woods, isolated from the pack, but he also had to report daily to the pack, to be their community servant. He was leading one of the cruelest lives possible, and no one had ever bothered to defend him, at least not until today.
But then again, the alpha hadn't defended him.