The Hole

misusing funds

Lena

I am finally released from the hospital and return home. I can't even look at Gibson. Just thinking of this being an all-time thing now makes me feel sick. As soon as he gets close to me, I feel the urge to puke. I have moved my things out of our room and put them in the spare room. He is so upset, but he didn't fight me on it. He has been trying to apologize, he has bought me flowers and my favorite food and drink, but I couldn't even touch it. It is all going to waste. As crazy as it sounds, because I knew it would happen, it still hurts. It hurts me so badly. I had a glimpse of happiness, the nearly perfect happiness I had before. My first mate would never have done this to me. Oh my Lenny loved me so much. Our little family was everything to me. I burst out into tears. I need to find a way out of here. I can't live like this. I want my old life back. Even how it was after Lenny passed away. Anything but being here any longer. I can't take this anymore. I feel like I am losing my mind now. "Mommy, what is wrong?" Rayden says. "Mommy are you hurt?" Ranger asks and I shake my head. For toddlers, these kids are real smart and can talk a lot. I just know that I need to learn to control myself if my boys are around. It isn't fair to them. "No, I am just happy to be home" I lie. I hate lying.

Alpha Axel

"What is that?" I ask, pointing at the wall. "Oh, that is nothing, come, let's go," she says. "Help, please help us" we hear a yell from the wall. "Open that right now" I demand. "Alpha, that is just the girls who are being punished. They are very naughty" she says, like she is talking about toddlers or little kids, not young women. "Open it, now. I will not ask again" I say, in a threatening tone. She gestures with her hands and a guard hesitates, but when Justin growls, he opens it. A girl comes tumbling out. Justin gasps and immediately goes to help her. I can tell he is holding his breath because she smells horribly. "She's my mate," he mind links me. I look at Elizabeth, who is looking everywhere but at me. I take a breath and get a small hint of my mate's scent. It isn't her though. We do not share a mate. Thank the goddess, I doubt I would be able to share a mate. I would end up k!lling my beta if that were the case.

"Charlotte, stand straight, your manners young lady. This is Alpha Axel and Beta Justin" Elizabeth says.

"Good good is it morning?" she asks. "It's afternoon" Elizabeth grits out Why is she angry? This girl was stuck in a hole. It's not like she knows what day or time it is, "Good afternoon Alpha and Beta" the young girl says. She takes a peak at Justin, but for the most part, she keeps her head down. "Are you okay?" Justin asks her. She shakes her head.

She finally looks up. I know she gathered all of her strength for this. I'm quite proud, actually. "Good afternoon. Alpha Axel and Beta Justin. I am Charlotte" the young girl says and curtsies to us. I can now smell my mate's scent stronger. It is mixed with urine and sweat and other disgusting scents, but only she came tumbling out of that hole. I bend down and look inside. I am almost knocked on my a$$ when a set of bright, beautiful green eyes look up at me. MATE MATE MATE, we found her. Diesel is going crazy in my mind. I can't believe this. It is the girl from my dream, or my nightmare. It's her. Her eyes. Her hair , well it looks dirty and tangled, but it is her. I will never be able to forget those eyes and the scared look on her face. It's been haunting me. Why is she scared now though? Doesn't she know I am here now? She has nothing to fear.

I stand back up "What the h3ll is going on here?" I ask. "Why is she in here? Why are they in here?" I step back and look around and ask, no, demand answers. I am trying to hold on and not k!ll everyone here. "Justin, my mate is inside of this hole" I mind link Justin "Well get her out i***t" he mind links back and well, duh I am just in shock. What an i***t I am already f*ck!ng it all up. I just want answers.

"Why do they smell so bad and why are they so dirty? They don't look like the other girls out there?" Justin asks even more questions that Elizabeth is not answering. "She locked us in here and the guards peed on us and threw urine and who knows what else on us and they rubbed our faces and bodies in the mud. Please, help us," the girl cries. "They did what?" Justin growls. His eyes flashing yellow. His wolf on the surface.

"Elizabeth, the money I send to fund this school is not for girls to be treated poorly, assaulted and tortured," I growl. "This isn't a school, it is a prison and my sister is their favorite in mate. It's because she fought back and never took their sh!t for so many years. They want to sell her. Please help us, at least help my sister" the girl shouts.

I can't believe what I am hearing. "Alpha Axel, this girl is lying. She has lost her mind. These girls are so traumatized from their packs and being used by the men there that they brought it here and say ridiculous things". Elizabeth says, but I know she is lying. If she was doing things legit, these girls would not be in a hole in the wall or smell so badly and she would not allow anyone to urinate on the students here.

I ignore them and bend back down and put my hand out so my mate can grab it and come out. Her big beautiful eyes look at me, then at my hand, then back up at my face. She is probably trying to figure out if she can trust me. "I won't hurt you. I'm going to get you out of here," I tell her. She slowly crawls over to me. All I can do is hear her cries of help in my dreams. It was her begging for help. She has been here suffering, calling out for me. I am an !d!ot for not coming sooner. She has been getting tortured and I wasn't here to protect her. She never grabs my hand. Instead, she walks out, with her head held up high.