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“We wanted to do a thorough investigation on him but never got around to it,” Seth says. His voice is calm but the emotions swirling in his emerald eyes tell me he’s simmering inside.
“I want to go and kill him right now,” Oliver says with a determined glare in his eyes.
“No!” I gasp. “I don’t want you to get into trouble over him.” The sight of the two lifeless beta women rises in my mind. Seth killed them both in the blink of an eye. It’s going to be just as easy for Oliver to do the same with Jake.
“Do you care about that asshole?” Oliver growls.
“No,” I say in a somber tone. “I just don’t want you guys arrested over the murder of that lowlife. You have no idea what I’d do if something happened to either of you.”
“Then, why did you do it, Rory?” Seth asks in a grim tone. “Why did you run out on us?”
“Jake blackmailed me.” Closing my eyes, I rub my forehead, wondering how to describe the scene in the video clip he showed me. Shame and disgust rise inside me while my mates watch me silently.
“He showed me a video clip from the time I was down in those hellish cages,” I say, my voice barely a whisper. “A group of men were taking their turns with me while I lay there, silently accepting whatever they were doing to me.”
“Rory...” Simon’s voice is gentle as he wraps an arm around me.
“He said he’d use the clip to destroy my dad’s career as well as humiliate you and the Burton Pack.”
Seth’s calmness vanishes and his expression hardens. Within a second, he looks like the same man who twisted a woman’s neck like it was nothing.
Simon and Oliver wear identical expressions of rage and disgust.
“How did he plan to use that clip?” Seth asks in a deadly calm voice that strikes an unfamiliar terror in me.
“Jake would portray me as a whore who liked selling my body to men for money,” I say in a trembling voice. “Since the military never revealed anything about the rescued omegas, no one would know about the situation. The clip shows me being meek and submissive, making it look like I’m truly fine with the strange men taking their turns with me.”
A painful choke suffocates me. Massaging my chest, I force myself to speak. “No one would know the way I’d be beaten and tortured if I raised a voice against those alphas. In the beginning, I did fight, but soon, I realized it didn’t matter. They would use and abuse me despite all my protests.”
Pain lances through my chest as the most horrible memories rise up to the surface. Jake’s betrayal stabs into my unhealed wounds, making me gasp and pant from the sheer agony of the injustice I suffered.
“People would believe his lies and think my dad used me to fund his campaigns,” I manage to say before tears cascade down my cheeks. “He also said the video would humiliate you and your pack. I didn’t want your dads to punish you once again because of me.”
Simon’s blue eyes shimmer with unshed tears. A painful expression twists his handsome features as he draws me into a gentle hug.
He says nothing as I let my raging emotions take over me. I weep against his chest while he gently pats me.
It’s a while before anyone speaks.
“What did Jake want from you?” Seth asks when my sobs finally fade away.
“He wanted me to give myself to one of the men who’d used me during my time with the Black Widow,” I say. “He wouldn’t tell me who it was. If I wanted to keep him from leaking the clip, I had to walk out of the house with those two women following behind me.”
“When did Vaughn Dumas come into the picture?” Oliver asks.
“Vaughn came to pick me up in a car when I’d walked far enough from the house,” I reply. “A part of me already guessed it was him because of the way he’d been staring at me during my dad’s speech.”
“What did the senator want from you?” Oliver asks in a grim tone.
“He never revealed his face to me when he was using me,” I say, my lips twisting with disgust. “I was blindfolded every time I was taken to him. I finally recognized him when he started speaking to me. He wanted to keep me chained in his mansion but I feel that he had a deeper motive in capturing me.”
Seth shifts closer to me. “What did he want, Rory?”
“He wanted me to tell him where the other omegas are hiding,” I say, staring into his eyes. “He thinks you’re hiding them here in Burton Estate.”
Seth exchanges a glance with his brothers.
“So, they’re on the move already,” he says in a low grim tone.
