"Come on out Toby." His voice was coaxing. I knew better than to move.
"I promise I'll be gentle this time." Lies. He was never gentle. I scooted back even further. The closet that I made my hideout was full of different scents, they would mask mine well.
"You know I hate to punish you." His footsteps drew near and I held my breath. My heart was beating too fast but I hoped it wouldn't be heard.
"The cook didn't give you permission to eat, you know the rules."
Do not eat unless directed to.
'It's been days since I'd eaten and the cook had set the plate on the floor. He'd nodded his head at me!'
I felt the tears form, and I set my hand over my mouth to stifle any sounds that may come out.
"Come on pup, it'll just be worse if I have to find you." I could see those feet between the cracks and very quietly, I stretched out my legs and placed them against the door, locking my knees.
"Toby, Alpha isn't going to be happy with you." No! My heart skipped a beat and I struggled to contain the sob wanting to force its way out. Alpha was going to find out that I stole food! He's going to be mad at me.
"Are you in here Toby?" I knew he knew I was in here, but I couldn't will my body to obey his calls. When he raises his fist it hurts, I didn't mean to steal, I thought it was ok. The cook nodded. I didn't know!
"Come on boy, open the door and we can talk about this."
But I'm not allowed to speak, it's against the rules!
There was pressure against my feet as he tried to push the door open. I stretched my legs out further disobeying.
I heard his growl, and my body shivered. He was going to kill me. I knew he was, I could feel his anger, smell his excitement.
"Omega, this is your final warning." I shivered at his words, my arms coming up and wrapping around my head as sobs finally broke through.
He could surely smell my fear, hear the rapid beating of my heart, smell the saltiness of my tears, taste my sweat. I would die today, I knew I would. The Beta hated me.
"I can smell you, Toby." His voice was low, it would have been soothing if it had come from anyone else, but coming from him it was haunting. It held the promise of pain.
Another shove to the door and I felt pain in my legs. I pushed on it harder. 'Stay away!'
"This is why Alpha refuses to make you pack, you lack discipline!" Another push, my legs shook with the force.
"This is why you have no family." I clenched my eyes shut against the words. Biting my lip against the pain the door was causing.
"This is why I will beat you into absolute obedience!" And with those words, he shoved the door completely open and I felt my knees bend awkwardly, my eyes flew open in horror as the pain never registered but the sight of my now broken legs, bent in a 'u' shape, did. Blood, bone, I looked up and screamed.
...........
Arms were shaking me, and I continued to thrash. His scent was here, he was here. I tried desperately to move out of the hands that continued to grip my shoulders but my body couldn't get away.
I could faintly hear voices but the pain was unreal, his scent was surrounding me, suffocating me. Pain and fear were a dangerous mix. I had to get away from here. I had to get away from him. Alpha would protect me. Where was Alpha? Was he safe? Were we at war? Was the pack safe? The pups?
I felt hands on me, his hands. I felt his breath, smelled his scent. If I opened my eyes, his eyes would be looking back at me. I had to get away, but I couldn't disobey him again, surely he'd kill me.
Water.
My eyes shot open as ice cold water was poured over my body, momentarily shocking me. I jolted upright and felt hands on my shoulders pushing me back down. The hands were gentle but left a burning heat in their wake. The water had given me a moment of relief from the visions in my head, the thoughts that were pledging my mind and the heat engulfing my body. A heat that I hadn't even realized was present until now.
"Shhh, you need to calm down."
Looking over I was met with the eyes of the healer who'd stuck a needle in my neck. Her hard brown eyes looked at me in concern and I felt instant relief that they weren't his. These eyes were a comfort to my distressed mind.
My breathing had slowed, and I settled back into the small bed. I didn't allow my gaze to leave hers. I was at her mercy and as much as instinct said to not trust her another part of me desperately wanted to cling to this woman. Her scent was welcoming, soothing even.
"That's it, but I'll need you to sit back up so we can get some clothes on you." Her words were gently spoken and her aging hands supported my back and torso as I slowly sat up once more.
Being naked wasn't new to me. I was usually only allowed to wear a long shirt or tattered nightgown. Alpha told me that wolves had to earn the right to wear clothes. Since I wasn't apart of the pack, I only wore what the elder omega had worn when she had been alive. She had been pack and had been given some clothing.
I moved my gaze from the aging healer to my body. My body had barely healed itself. It would take a good amount of time until my legs and stomach looked the same again. My hands attempted to move up to my jaw but they were meant with resistance.
I was still chained to the bed, legs, and arms bound, and a belt cut across my lap. They were ensuring that I wouldn't be able to escape. Dread was seizing me to my core. What has happened? Where was everyone?
With quick hands the healer slipped a shirt over my head, being mindful of my injuries. Quickly she undid one arm to slip through the sleeve before reconnecting the restraints and doing the same to the other. I stopped resisting.
"There now, all covered up." As the words left her another surge of fiery heat coursed through me and I let out a whine. The shirt wasn't helping and I silently wished for it to be removed. My wolf was stirring and I felt his discomfort as well.
"That's your heat young one." The healer spoke running a hand through my hair. I didn't like the feeling. Her hands didn't feel right on my head. "I'll give you something to help with it. We don't need you creating a stir while Alpha Kain prepares the pack for the merge." Kain? Alpha? Merge?
What was this?
I clenched my eyes closed when another heat wave wrecked my body, that combined with my injuries wasn't doing kind things to my state of mind. I didn't understand anything. The one time I wished I was able to speak and I couldn't.
I felt a needle pierce into my arm, and it was almost instantaneous that the heat faded into a dull ache that sat at the back of my mind. My wolf went back with the heat.
"Now lay back down. Alpha Kain will be in later with former Beta Sid to decide what we will be doing with you." She gently pushed me back down but at the mention of Beta, my eyes got wide and panic once again started to seize me. I tugged at the restraints and even at the feeling of my protesting body, I yanked harder. My wolf was fighting to help me but whatever I was injected with severely handicapped his aid.
Run
I had to get away. My punishment hadn't been over, Beta would be back to finish it, and I wasn't sure what it even was.
I felt hands clenched at my shoulders and then voices, more than one were heard from outside the door. I knew he had to be close.
"You must calm down! I can't safely give you another sedative!" The healer was trying to reason with me but her words fell on deaf ears. I didn't want to listen, I only wanted to flee to my Alpha where I would be safe, where I would try and follow the rules, where I would know where to hide from him.
"Levi looks like you've got your hands full." My eyes snapped up to the dominating presence that entered the room. Immediately I felt myself recoil at his presence. I could feel his wolf, I could smell his dominance, the fine smell of wilderness that also clang to every new wolf I had encountered since waking up from my cell. This was their Alpha.
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