“What? Can’t you hear me? Take that off. Want to see you when you suck me.”
“You’re drunk, sir,” I managed, trying to change my voice so he wouldn’t recognize it.
“So what?”
Indeed. Many men who came here stank of wine. But so far, only two had paid the sky-high price for me and come so drunk they couldn’t even get hard.
“Do you hear me, whore?”
He swayed.
“Guard!” I yelled, and the door to the room burst open. “He tried to hit me.”
“What? He’s lying. I didn’t do anything. I want my money back! Give me my money!” My father kept kicking as my guard dragged him through the hallway.
Before the sun was up the following day, I rode out of the town’s gate, cloak over my head and my bags of silver tied behind the saddle, hidden under a woolen blanket.
2
And that is how I find myself here—in the middle of the forest at twilight, surrounded by robbers.
One of the men grabs my horse’s bridle. He’s tall, taller than any alpha I’ve ever met before. All three alphas are enormous, with wide shoulders and thick arms. They have shaved heads and thick beards and are dressed in sturdy leather with woolen cloaks over their shoulders.
It’s twilight, and I can’t tell the exact color of their eyes. They seem to glow like hot coals. There’s something inhuman about the men, something sinister. Cold shivers run along my spine.
But if I’m to make it out of here alive, I can’t let fear and superstition cloud my mind.
“This is a dangerous place for a little omega,” one man says, looking me up and down. My horse jerks, but the man holds it firmly. He looks like he could tear me off the saddle with one hand.
“Let me go, please.”
“You don’t have to fear us, boy,” the second alpha says. “We won’t hurt you.”
“Not unless you want us to,” the third one says, chuckling, but instead of laughing with him, the first alpha throws him a glare. He must be their leader.
“Where are you going?” the leader asks. “You can’t travel through here at night.”
“Outlaws roam these woods,” the third man says.
Obviously.
The leader smirks. “And wolves.”
“I don’t fear wild animals,” I tell them with courage I don’t feel.
“You’re right. Men are far worse. So, where are you going, sweet boy? Why should we let you ride out into danger?”
I don’t know where I’m headed. Another town? The harbor?
There’s a land on the other side of the mountains where an omega king resides. Omegas live safely at his palace, unmarried and free. Legends surround the place, tales about endless carnal pleasures and sin without repercussion. Maybe it’s true, maybe not. In any case, to travel there, I need my money. If these men take my money, I must return home and marry.
“Will you let me pass if I pay you?”
The leader shakes his head, smirking. “Let you pass so you’d get killed before morning? And how would you even pay us, boy?”
Luckily, I always have the right currency with me. Heart pounding, I hop off my horse. I pull my shirt out of my pants as they stare at me suspiciously.
“You can have me, all three of you. Fuck me, then let me go.”