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“We’re going to make it so no alpha ever wants to have a heat with you again.” Panicked sounds rose in my chest, but Gareth clamped a hand over my mouth. “Make a sound and I’ll take a turn just like Eric.”
It didn’t matter if I tried anyway; the music outside was loud enough, no one would hear.
I couldn’t do this.
I couldn’t be here.
I reached for a piece of me I’d only ever fled from as I lay on the bed. For the first time, it was a relief when time became meaningless, as I was swept back into the place where I was no one.
It wasn’t absolute like it had been, but it was something. My eyes traced the curve of the vase-shape that made up the bottom of the lamp on Eric’s side table. The pebbled texture along the surface. My pencil case rested beside it.
They were hurting me and I didn’t dare make a noise. It was Gareth above me now, he said something with a laugh but I didn’t hear it. His teeth hurt, digging into my flesh, nothing like the bite Umbra had left me. Not soft or passionate or loving…
Eric’s fist was bruising on my wrist as he repositioned me. He wanted to bite me again.
Again?
I don’t know how many I’d endured… Would they heal?
Alpha bites that weren’t intended as bonds healed fast, but… but these were deep. Deliberate.
I clenched my teeth, battling tears through the pain, and kept silent. It would end eventually.
I focused on my pencil case. In it was my registration card.
ThatI could walk away with.
I clung to that, telling myself it didn’t matter what they did to me here. The blinking ERROR sign had branded me since the moment I’d woken. I was broken already. Used by Dusk. Unwanted by my mates.
It didn’t matter what they did.
This was my fault.
I’d been so stupid, coming here thinking it would be different.
Why? When my uncle had warned me.
My mates were matched with a broken omega, one stupid enough to want more. And I was the one who’d fled the only place that had ever offered me safety.
How much time had passed?
I hurt so badly. Even my mind ached from trying not to be here. How much of my life had I lost to silence, a nightmare of wishing I was present when I couldn’t be, and now…?
They were talking. The words drifted in and out, forming meaning somewhere in my mind.
Again, the silence flickered and tears pricked my eyes, but I shoved them back seeking the cold room with bright lights and cold metal against my back.
The room I’d woken in, when shock had won, and I’d had no tears despite the agony shredding me, bone to soul.
I could hear the sounds playing from a phone. My own voice, echoing back at me.
“You came to watch me fucking your best friend?”Eric asked, his voice tinny in the recording.
“It… It was just… like a crush. It was stupid.”
Gareth’s laugh was sharp. “No way did she say that.”
They were going to send it out… to… to who?
