VERBOTEN MATES

CHAPTER 5*THE BASEMENT*

*TORAK*

I don’t know what would have happened.

I have never felt that way before, in my entire 25 years as a male, perhaps I should say in my 12 years as a teenage.

Never have I felt such intense pull towards anyone before, not even my first love, nor Crina my girlfriend. 

That door opened, and I felt something changed in the atmosphere. I didn’t think it was something serious. I had brushed it off as perhaps anxiety for the outcome of fathers’ behaviour.

But I lost every sense of reasoning, when I stuck my foot out to stop the door and my eyes landed on him, and I just couldn’t explain what it was. 

I mean, everyone knows him; I know him, Aztec, the arrogant son of Alpha Kane, the next in line as leader of the wolf’s claw pack. 

The popularity of their pack was enough for anyone to know who he is in this pass of the world, but that wasn’t enough for the fire ball called Aztec. 

He had to create his legacy different from the one people know their pack for, It wouldn’t be an issue if he at least created a good name for himself. 

Aztec was a man w***e, one of the many Alpha male that disgusts me with their behaviour and beliefs, simply because they had power in the grasp.

And Aztec has it best, given the strength of their pack, and it is no news how strong he is even in his teenage years, he would spar against Alphas twice his age and have them on their knees, the moon goddess gifted their pack with strength.

Strength that that seems to run in the veins of everyone from their bloodline, and it takes their members rigorous training to make up for 50% of this power.

My eyes rested on his and I stared dumbstruck for a few seconds as his eyes scanned my form, his jaw slacking.

 I didn’t miss how his eyes thinned to almost closing, neither did I miss the way his tongue stuck out and he licked his bottom lip and someone I could feel what seemed like an intense lustful craze oozing from him to me. 

The feeling had confused me immensely, causing me to tilt my head to the side because I couldn’t understand any of it. Why would a guy, an Alpha, just like lust after me?

More so, what caused the weird shiver that crawled through my entire body when he eyed my neck. 

I had to shut Silver out completely, because he was prancing in my head, murmuring words I couldn’t understand. 

As I watched him take in my form, something in me wanted to pull him closer, to have our bodies smashed together. 

I had dug my claw into my palm as I fisted my hand to help me maintain calmness before I did something I would regret. 

When I finally spoke and he moved out of the way, I felt his eyes on me even as I walked away from him to go seat and I cursed in my head. 

I am not into guys; the packs don’t even support such union, besides I have known this kid my whole life. Our packs aren’t exactly friendly neighbours, but I’ve seen him around a lot as he is quite the trouble maker.

I had never seen a teenager as rowdy and arrogant as he was, even if a guy has to hit on me, it shouldn’t be him. 

I could barely keep track of most of the things discussed during the meeting, because I was having an inner turmoil with controlling myself. 

His growls, and snarls from my father, had snapped me out of my confused state for a bit and even when I spoke to calm my father down, he’s eyes trained on me, like I had foreign language written on my face that he needed to memorise. 

Even after leaving Alpha Kane’s office, the feeling lingered on; I wanted to rush back inside their mansion, for one last chance to get close to him, despite trying to shake off the want for him that stirred in me, it didn’t wok.

I remained silent all the way home, trying my best to stop myself from releasing pheromones that would stir questions from father. 

The last thing I want is him finding out about whatever the f**k that was. As we drove past our pack entrance, I looked over to father to see his jaw ticking harshly and I turned away.

He has said nothing since we left the wolf’s claw’s pack, truthfully I would appreciate if he said nothing about it, but knowing father he would.

I just don’t know why he is, holding back what he has to say, he would most definitely make a case out of not contributing to the reasons we went to their land in the first place and why I tried to prevent him from ripping Aztec head’s off. 

The car headed straight for the pack building and I sighed. Soon father was packing in the garage and he stepped out of his car and I followed suit. 

“Wait for me in the basement.”

Father says, jaw ticking aggressively, and my eyes bulge.

“F-father?”

I thought I had grown out of that, now that I would finally become Alpha of this pack why was he telling me to go there.

“Do not father me, you bastard. Letting you forget what it feels like to disobey me or go against me was a big mistake. I thought you have what it takes to rule this pack towards achieving greatness like I’ve done and your grandfather did. I was wrong. You need to be reminded what it takes to rule this pack as a man, to act like an Alpha. Did you see that boy today? Kane’s son. He is five years younger than you are, yet he stood up like a man would, disregarding morals and stood to fight for his father. That is how a true Alpha should act, I did not create a wimp for a son and I blame the w***e who birthed you.”

Father snarled at my face, and I couldn’t control the tremor rising in my veins. Not because I feared father, but because of what happens in that room, my childhood memories of what I’ve had to experience in that room. 

If you disobey father as a child, he never hesitates to discipline you. The first time he took me to the basement, I was three, for something I can longer remember, yet I remembered the pain and what it felt like. 

I shook the feeling of fear off my body as Silver made his presence known, I shouldn’t let me treat me like a child anymore. 

I am an Adult now, an Alpha, the one who would take over that seat in a few days, I can’t leave him to keep treating me like a goddamned child.

“I am no longer your teenage puppy boy father and I would not let you treat me like one.”

I spat out, shoving him out of my way as I made to leave the garage.

“Very well then, If I cannot punish you for being a shame as a son, it wouldn’t hurt to have the ones you care for pay for you disobedience.”

I halt at father’s statement and turned to see him fishing out his phone from his pocket.

“Do you have her?”

Father asks, whoever it is he called, and I strained my ears to hear the other counterpart on the phone. 

“Very well then, take her to the basement, have her stripped to her underwear and get the items ready.”

“What are you trying to do, father?”

I demand walking up to him, and he smirked.

“Teaching you a lesson by hurting your loved one. If you don’t want that innocent girl to suffer for sins she didn’t commit, you would gladly obey your father and do as he says.”

I remained stuck on my fit as father bodied me and walked out of the garage; I don’t want to go back to that basement, Neither do I wish to relive its memories, but Crina, she doesn’t deserve to know or experience the horror that rooms hold. 

‘Are you sure about this?’

Silver asked, and I sighed, nodding.

‘I am older now, and Alpha. I should be able to handle the pain.’

I replied, taking one step after another as I made my way to the basement.

‘I’m sorry that you have to go through this.’

Scar mutters and I smiled. 

‘It’s fine, it won’t last forever, besides tomorrow is the haze, I’m very sure he wouldn’t want me go there looking dead.’

‘I’ll stay with you to take the pain, once the haze is over and we take our place. I would rip his heart out with my bare hands.’

Silver snarled, and I nod.

‘I’ll make him suffer a death so painfully, besides you don’t have to take the pain. I need you for tomorrow.’

I tell Silver and I feel him shake his head.

‘Whatever it is, we will have to endure it together.’

I stopped outside the door of the room that held my childhood horrors and took a deep breath. Goddess see me through whatever f****d up plan that man has waiting for me inside.

As I opened the door to that dark room, I shook visibly as my eyes landed on the claw marks decorating the walls, bringing back painful screams, I wished would stay out of my head. 

Those claw marks were my doing, I would growl, scream and claw at the wooden wall whenever my body couldn’t take the punishments anymore, if though I knew no one would hear my screams of agony. 

“I guess, you still have your honour and dignity as a man intact after all. Take of your shirt.”

Father says, wasting no time as my eyes landed on him. I knew what was coming.

My body bears so many fading scars that represented the horror I endured in the room. As I unbuttoned and took off my shirt, father unlocked the chains and I sighed. I know what I have to do, kneel and have him chain me so that my wolf wouldn’t fight back. 

After having my hands bounded by the Aconitum induced chains that burned so severely against my wrist, father hums, turning down the brightness and I awaited his next action.

I knew what was coming, and it didn’t surprise me when the first drop hit the skin on my back. 

I closed my eyes as the second drop of molten silver hit my skin, this time burning me harder than the first drop. 

From one drop after another, it became a pour. Father had turned the handle of the container and had its contents pouring down my back, and it took almost all I had in me not to scream out in agony.

This wasn't just molten silver, it was molten silver and Aconite. Despite father knowing how both substances were harmful on our kind, he still chose this as punishment.

This has always been one of fathers many ways of punishing me as a teenager, dripping molten silver on my skin.

He did it for the scars, the pain, he wanted me to remember what each moment felt, and even as a 25-year-old grown ass Alpha, I still can’t break free from his madness, yet. 

I bit hard on my tongue as my skin made a sizzling frying sound as another douse of molten silver hit my back and I arch from the pain, curling my fingers in a fist and my claws dig into my palm, because I didn’t want to give father the satisfaction of screaming. 

 I had no track of time, as I hang off the chains, my knees weak and my skin burned to the depth, even though it healed half away a few minutes after being burned, it didn’t take away the pain, neither did father’s onslaught helped. 

I should be used to this, I was used to it, but the pain, the refreshing memory? I can never get used to that, not in this life. 

The chains fell off my hands as father unchained me, and I slumped on my ass, panting, while my palm dripped with blood caused by my claws. 

Father grabbed me by the chin, lifting my head up and he looked me dead in the.

“This better reminds you the son of who you are and what I expect of you.”

He spat, letting go as he puts on a mask, and my eyes widen as realisation dawned on me. 

 Sulfur Dioxide...

Panic swam my body as scrambled to my feet, I hate that more than my hate for father.

He is going to release sulphur Dioxide into the room.

“Father, don’t do this.”

My words fell on deaf ears as he goes to the wall and he pulled the lever and the once dark room fills with white fogs and I struggled to keep myself from breathing in the gas, but it was no use.

Soon my lungs, nostril and mouth filled with the gas and I collapsed, coughing harshly as my nose burned, my chest tightened and I wheezed repeatedly, and my skin burned. 

Through all this I closed my eyes, as I didn’t want to go blind.

‘hang in their.’

Silver encourages as he does all he can to hasten my healing process and I laid on the ground of father’s torture room, wheezing, coughing and waiting for the gas to air out while silver tried his best to heal me. And father? He was long gone. 

Goddess knows I would never wish this on my enemy.

‘This would be the last time. After tomorrow, you’ll be Alpha. All that power of Ascending would come to you and you would show that asshole what a failure he is.’

Silver growls, and I smiled, despite my agony. After today, this will be no more.