Page 155 of Retribution
Thick arms pick me up and shift me to the side before he leaves again. I don’t even know this alpha’s name, and I can’t bring myself to care.
Avery has jet black hair that’s as dark as Rock Dresmond’s, and her eyes are soulless. It’s almost as if no light can reflect in it, due to how dark they are.
“Rock Dresmond is your father, isn’t he?” I croak out. God, my mouth is so damn dry.
“Is it that obvious?” she asks, giving me a non answer as she gives me a break from the hose using it on the ground. “We don’t talk about my father. You shouldn’t either.”
Avery strikes quickly as she shoves a hood over my face and gags me. There’s no way to spit out the hard, thick rubber since it’s part of the hood. Shaking my head, I can’t even gasp as she turns the hose on me again. I can’t see her, but I can feel the freezing pinpricks of water as it hits my skin.
Shivering, I hear her laugh as she continues to talk to me as she works.
“We have big plans for you,” she says, her voice light as if she was talking about the weather or what her weekend plans are. “We have to break all these pesky bonds though. Mommy says she thinks it’s another reason why the forced heat medications aren’t working. She’s working on something now. Better safe than sorry, you know?”
Fear that I’ve never quite felt before floods my system, and I begin to cry uncontrollably, my chest heaving.
“Noooo!” I scream, my voice muffled from the gag.
I drop every possible barrier in my mind and scream every apology that I can think of. I tell my alphas that I love them, but I’ll never know if they’ll be able to hear me.
“Shhh. It’ll be better for your alphas in the long run,” Avery soothes, her hand rubbing my back.
It wouldn’t be soothing even if I wasn’t naked, bound, and completely at her mercy.
“Fuck you!” I yell, knowing the words are completely mangled.
Her hand slaps the side of my head so hard that my ears ring, the wood at my ankles the only thing keeping me from falling to the ground.
“Besides, Mommy is going to dose the alphas who are going to fuck you with something that’ll make them tear you apart,” Avery giggles inappropriately. “You know how good she is in the labs. She taught me everything she knows. Between us, I’ve thought of running away. Wouldn’t it be marvelous to start over somewhere new?”
Avery is batshit crazy, just like her father. Ophelia is a calculated, mean, selfish person. However, she’s not crazy. Somehow, that makes her worse in my opinion.
I’m hyperventilating, and in the darkness of the hood over my head, white bursts of light travel over my vision from my blood pressure shooting sky high.
“Since you’re going to die anyway, it would be a shame to pull your alphas into death with you. Right? Unless, you’re really that selfish,” Avery growls.
Leila.My alphas need to raise our daughter. I don’t actually know if our bonds are solid enough for my death to hurt them, but I don’t want to take a chance.
I throw caution to the wind as I attempt to send them images of where I am. There are only a few, grimy windows from lack of care, but I’ve seen a few trees. I also know that it’s two stories because I walked past a stairway when Ophelia dragged me in here after she used the hose to clean my body.
Outside of that, I know fuck all.
“We have four days to make this happen,” Avery says, unaware of my thoughts. “Someone drained all our accounts, and we need to leave Minnesota. You need to put on a very good show before they kill you.”
I feel her fingers pressing along my skin, and I stiffen as I shout the number four down through the bonds. This is it. She’s going to take them from me.
I’m having trouble breathing as my chest heaves, but Avery pushes the needle into my skin and fills my vein with whatever is inside it.
“You need a break,” she whispers as my body begins to sag. “Sleep, and Mommy will be back as soon as she’s ready to break your bonds. This is the only kindness you’ll receive from me. Don’t get used to it.”
Anything else she says becomes fuzzy as I pass out on my knees. Kindness indeed.
Lucas
My brain splits in pain, and I vaguely notice that my pack all flinches as well.
“Fuck,” I gasp, my arm tightening around Leila. “Someone take her…”
Hands lift the baby from my arms and I press on my temples with my fingers. There’s so much flooding my mind, but I can feel my beautiful girl for the first time in too long. I can feel pain, love, sadness.
