Saving my abused mate

9. No one deserves this

Cara - 3 years ago

It had been years of the same monotony.  I felt like I was no longer a person, I felt like a robot going through the motions.  Time became just an idea.  I was pretty sure it had been years since I had been trapped in the basement for a few years already.  I might even be eighteen, not that it mattered.  Without my wolf, finding a mate was impossible, not that anyone would want me with what everyone believed about me.  

Things hadn't changed much, except that my work load had increased, and my exposition to people decreased.  Now they had added laundry shuttles to drop the dirty clothes, and a dumbwaiter to send clothes up.  Food was also sent through the dumbwaiter, not as often as I wished.  I still had to scrap the tablecloths and napkins for food, but it was never enough.  I felt my strength diminishing and my connection to my wolf side was shutting down.  All my senses were getting duller.  I guess it was just a matter of time until I was nothing but a human.  I just knew that I wouldn't last for long living like this. 

It was dark, darker than usual, which meant it was night.  I still had a lot of ironing to do, and it was getting hot.  Because of the cuff on my leg, and the chain attached to it, the kind of clothes I could wear were limited, I was wearing a long dress, but because of the heat and the sweat, it was plastered to my skin like a second skin.  I had to keep pulling it away from my legs and chest.  I just needed to be done with all my shores so I could take a shower.  One of many issues I had with my current accommodations was that the shower only had one temperature, I couldn't adjust it.  During the summer the water was warm or hot, during winter it was cold to freezing.  A shower wouldn't do much to help with the heat, but at least I would feel clean.  

I was focused on my task, so I was startled by the noise of the door closing.  It had been a while since someone had been on the basement, and no one so late at night.  I heard laughing and noticed two men walking down the stairs.  One of them was the Alpha's son, but I wasn't sure who the other was, only that he was older.

"So this is the murderer?" asked the older one.  "She is your cousin or something like that, right?"

"No," he denied immediately.  "I mean, she is supposed to be my aunt's daughter, but dad always says he is not of our blood.  She is a mistake my aunt made, one that cost her her life."

"She doesn't look like a murderer," the other said, looking at me in a way that made me uncomfortable.  "She looks rather pathetic to tell the truth."

"She is," Blast immediately agreed, "both a murderer and a pathetic excuse for a wolf.  She is not really dangerous right now, but because my father forbid her from shifting, it's her wolf who went feral.  In this form she is nothing.  And she is doing her penance.  Dad said she is going to be working here the rest of her life to pay for what she did to my aunt."

"That's such a waste," the older man moved closer to me.  I hated not being able to talk, not only it made it easier for them to talk about me as if I wasn't even there, but it also made it impossible for me to deny their accusations or ask for clarification.  "Do you know how old is she?"

"Not sure."

"She looks old, is she eighteen already?" 

"I think she is, why?"

"Well, it's time for her to find her mate, right?"

"She needs her wolf to find her mate, and she can't shift, so she won't be able to find him."

"That's a pity," the older one moved closer and closer to me, leering at me.  "She should know what it feels to be with a male."

I didn't like his words, or the way he was looking at me.  I turned to Blast, the guy I had thought of as part of my family for years, but I saw no help there.  When the older one moved closer, I started moving away, and when he jumped at me, I tried to run away, but he stepped into the chain, and I fell down when I wasn't able to move forward.  He took the chain and started using it to drag me closer to him.  There was no way for me to escape, and soon he got his hand on my ankle, and then my calf.  I tried to kick him using my free leg, but he easily grabbed my other leg too.  

"You shouldn't be doing this, we aren't supposed to be with girls that aren't our mates," Blast said, sounding a little nervous. 

"You can't create a mate bond with a woman when the s*x is not consensual," the older one explained as I tried to fight him, uselessly, he soon restrained me, "the bond just doesn't stick.  That's why is such a taboo and some higher ups decided to make it a crime.  But she is not even a real wolf, and she will never find her True Mate, so what matters what we do?" he started tearing my clothes.  I tried to scream, to call for help, but all I managed was a groan, and not even a loud one.  I kept trying to get away from him, so he started slapping me, and when I didn't stop he punched me in the stomach, hard, leaving me gasping for air.  He used part of the chain to loop it around my neck, pulling it and choking me.  

"Be careful not to kill her, or dad will be mad.  If he wanted her dead, he would have killed her himself," Blast said, but he wasn't doing anything to help.

"Don't worry, she will be fine," he said.  

I was doing my best to fight back, but I was tired and weak, and the man was obviously a warrior, maybe one of the Pack's enforcers.  All my struggles got me were more punches.  I wasn't able to get away from him, and soon he was inside me.  I felt like he was going to tear me in half, it was just too much, I couldn't even breathe from the shock and the pain.  It went for an eternity, at some point I just didn't have the energy to fight back, so I just laid there, wishing it to end, and crying silent tears.  Why me?  What had I done to deserve something so awful?  At some point he finally finished, but it wasn't over.

"You should try," he told Blast, "think of this as practice for when you get your mate."

"It would be weird," Blast said.  I looked at him and shook my head, trying to beg him not to hurt me.  

"Come on, you will like it, I promise it will be worth it," he used the chain around my neck to pull me to my feet, and then he made me bend over one of the folding tables, he then pushed my head against the table, with my hair covering most of my face.  "There, it shouldn't be awkward anymore."

I was hoping Blast would refuse, but then I felt him move behind me, and then the pain was back.  The man was holding the chain so tight that I passed out at some point, which was a good thing, for it saved me from having to live through all of it a second time.  

After they were done, I was so weak that I slid off the table, and they just left me there on the floor, like a piece of trash.  I cried myself to sleep, and woke up to yelling from the omega in charge of me, she came looking for me, angry because the laundry was not in the dumbwaiter as it was supposed to be, but when she saw me, she ran out of the basement and returned with the doctor. 

I was feeling numb, not really aware of what was going on.  I felt like I had no energy left to even attempt to get away from the people surrounding me, I was completely defeated.  What was the point of all of this?

"There's a lot of damage around her neck, it seems whoever hurt her used the chain to hold her, it's a miracle they didn't break her neck.  And from the bruises and the blood, it's pretty clear what happened here," the same doctor that had attended me when my parents died was now looking over my new wounds.

"Yeah, she is not only a murderer, she is a slut," the Alpha said, angry at me, as always.

"I don't think that's fair, there are defensive wounds here, and it's clear that the person who attacked her did a number on her.  She was r***d.  That's a crime, something we should investigate.  No one deserves this!"

"I won't punish others for her crimes," the Alpha stated.

"This is not her doing!  She is chained to the wall, she can't get out of here, how could she have seduced someone into coming here and taking her?  Someone did this because he knew she was vulnerable.  We should move her to a safe place to avoid something like this happening again," I could feel her hands trembling, I wasn't sure if it was fear of the Alpha's anger or something else, but it didn't matter.  I had to be realistic, the Alpha wasn't going to allow me to go away.

"She won't get out of her sentence just for a few bruises.  And you can't talk about this with anyone!" the Alpha ordered, and then walked away.  I could hear his angry steps, even if I couldn't see him from where I was.

"She doesn't deserve this," the doctor said.

"Well, if you do the crime...." the head omega said.

"But she didn't.  She told me her family was attacked by a rogue wolf, and I believe her, none of the injuries in the former betas could have been done by a child like her, and she was also hurt.  I think they died defending her, not by her hand."

"But the Alpha said it was her fault," the omega replied.

"And I'm sure he believes that.  Maybe he thinks that if they hadn't been defending her they would have a better chance at fighting or something, but it wasn't by her hand, of that I'm sure.  You can't keep working her like this, she is severely undernourished and after what happened to her...  I'm sure that the Alpha won't look into this, whomever did this will have the chance to do it again, and no one will care!"

I was so tired of fighting, what was the point in all of this?   Is this all my life would be?  It would be better if they let me die.

"There's not much I can do, it was the Alpha who ordered for her to do this, if we help, it's us who will be punished," the omega explained. She didn't sound that worried about me, it was more likely she didn't want to go back to doing all the work I was doing.

"Well, she won't be able to work for at least a few days, so you will have to do something!  It's my medical opinion, she needs at least one week of rest," she moved to my ankle.  It was raw because of the cuff and it hurt, she touched it and I heard her sobbing.  "She also has an infection, we need to remove this."

"That's not going to happen," the head omega said.  "We don't even have a key, and I'm sure the Alpha won't give it to us."

"I'm going to do my best, but I'm not sure it will be enough," I felt bad for the doctor, she really wanted to help, but there was nothing she could do for me. It would be better if she just let me die and freed me from the suffering that I didn't deserve. 

I closed my eyes and tried to ignore the pain, then she gave me something to help and soon I could feel nothing at all, but I knew the respite wouldn't last.