055.

Hailey’s POV

He didn’t say a word and neither did I as the pretty blonde staff served the food on the table, and then bowed to him before muttering; “Alpha, your food is served now, you may eat.”

Hades dismissed the girl then but that is after he threw another pointed look at me. It was obvious that he knew I had lied about the food just to get the girl here but he said nothing until she had walked out of the room.

Then he turned to the door too, but just as I thought that he was about to leave, he fastened the door’s lock, threw the key into his pocket then dipped his hands into the same pocket as he leaned against the door to glare at me.

“What did you try to do earlier?” He drawled in that low seductive voice of his that always managed to get me wet. “And why were you trying to attack me?”

As the questions left his lips, all I could do was shake my head because I knew that no amount of explanation could make excuses for what I had intended to do. I had called the girl up here by lying about Hades, then I had planned to knock her out with the lamp, change into her clothes then sneak out of the place.

Easy plan right?

Just that it didn’t work out that way.

My shoulder sank in defeat but still I said nothing. I’d rather die than hurt my pride that way.

“Why did you ask her to bring my lunch here?” He continued, ignoring the fact that I was silent and this time, I immediately answered as a less questionable lie sprung into my head. I said; “I asked her to come her because I felt that she wouldn’t if I said the food was mine. I do not know where the kitchen is and I am hungry… moreover I feared that they might poison it if they learned that it belonged to a prisoner.”

Hades squinted at me but said nothing. Obviously, he didn’t believe me but he didn’t argue. I had even begun to think that he would let it slide as he wasn’t saying anything until suddenly, he barked; “Come here!” And I nearly jumped out of my skin as I scrambled over to where he was.

I stood a few feet away from him, mostly from self defense but not too far that it would annoy him. I noticed how his eyes roved my body while I did this, and it wasn’t in a subtle manner. He looked at me like he was undressing me and like he could literally see everything, even though I was clad in shabby looking clothes. Something about the intensity in his eyes made me shiver as an unknown feeling shot through me, electrocuting me even to my core.

I peeked up at him from under hooded lashes and subconsciously stepped back when he suddenly stepped closer. My reaction made him smile as he then began to slowly walk over to me, stalking me even as I took several steps away.

I only stopped moving when my back hit the wall. But he didn’t stop. If anything, he sauntered toward me even more, increasing his strides as he backed me to the wall.

“Did you just try to lure the unsuspecting servant here to hit her with that?” He snarled, pointing at the shattered lamp on the floor, and wordlessly, I shook my head.

“What were your intentions, Hailey? Were you trying to sort out ways to escape ME?” Again, I shook my head but I was a little hesitant, and he caught that small action. “So you were?” He seethed, wrapping his manacle-like fingers around my upper arm.

My body tensed as his fingers dug into my skin and with a frown, I growled; “Stop! You’re hurting me!”

Something about my words, or was it my tone of voice made him even angrier. A deep frown etched its way to his face and with a flip, he turned me around and pushed me against the wall such that my front was pressed into the cold brick while his was pressed into my back. A shiver ran up my spine when he spoke into my ear, and it felt as though each word was directly being pressed into my mind while his breath elicited sparks on my skin, especially around my ear where it was directed at. He growled;

“You don’t raise your voice at me, kitten, I am your boss. I bought you and I would waste no time to return you back to where I got you from if you do not learn to tone down your voice.”

His words took me down a few seconds of memory lane, and after remembering the things I and the other girls were subjected to while at the auction house, I stilled. It was bad. Extremely bad. Inhumane even. My mind went to Ally, my only friend back there and upon realization that she was never bought that day, my heart broke. I wanted to be close to her, to be with her but at the same time, I wasn’t sure I wanted to return there.

I was hated by most of the girls there- Ally wasn’t, and sometimes she often told me that the other girls didn’t like me because the ‘Boss’ favored me to the rest. They thought he did because he always called me up to his office and always asked me to eat with him, but little did they know that whenever I went up to him, he assaulted me. He never asked for my presence because he liked me. He did because he wanted a toy.

I was subjected to a lot of abuse, especially sexual abuse but he never raped me because according to him, he wanted me to remain a virgin so that I could be bought at a high price. Which eventually happened.

My gaze snapped back to the wall like someone shaking out of a daze and I blinked away at the tears that had pooled in my eyes. I had almost forgotten where I was and what I was doing until I felt something on my lower back, pressing into me so uncomfortably that I shifted in my position.

A low growl sounded from behind me and I was stunned when I realized that Hades was still pressed into me and that it was his erection digging into my lower back. A blush crept up my face at the situation and without thinking, I blurted out the first word I could. I said;

“Sorry.”

That seemed to make him still but before he could respond, I heard clicking sounds on the door. Someone was trying to get in, and obviously, they had the key to the room just like Hades’ did now with the one in his pocket.

Hades jumped away from me then but he didn’t step too far away from me and just as he did, the door suddenly opened, revealing his two brothers. They were people I didn’t know, but at this point, I already hated them.

Chad’s eyes danced with amusement as he looked between Hades and I, and when it rested on the tent now formed on Hades’ trouser, he smirked and whispered;

“Brother, why weren’t we invited to the party too?”

It took me a moment to understand what he was saying but when I did, I dropped my head in shame, which elicited laughters from both of them.

These brothers were not only shameless, they were perverted as well.