5

Katherine's POV 

The walk from where I saw Roma to the Alpha's quarters was dreadful. Each step I took scared me. I felt as though I was walking into a trap of death. I could turn back and run but that wasn't an option. 

"You don't have to go if you don't want to, Katherine," Roma suggested.

I turned to her. "I can't run," 

"Why?" She asked with a single eyebrow lifted. 

"Because it's not even an option," 

She cursed underneath her breath and held my palm. "Remember the last time he was this angry,"

Tears threatened to leak out of my eyes as I nodded, bringing back the horrible memory. 

He tied me up in his room, beat me repeatedly and did unspeakable things to me. When he finally released me, I couldn't get out of bed for days. I was brutally treated like an animal. 

"Don't go, please. He already promised to kill five of us if the chef's head ended up on the pyre tomorrow. I'm scared for your life," 

I nodded. I am scared for my life too. But I don't have a choice. I have nobody. I'm just an orphan and an Omega. No one would want me. No one would treat me any better than this if not worse. 

"I'm scared too but there's nothing I can do," 

She cried and let out a puff of air. She was frustrated. 

"I'll wait outside here for you. Just come out alive please," 

"I always do," 

"Promise me," 

"I promise," 

I gave her a hug, hoping it wouldn't be the last one since I didn't see myself coming out of the quarter alive. 

The door was opened ajar when I got there and before my second foot could meet the first one in the room, a hand dragged me inside and slammed my back against the wall. 

I crumbled to the ground and coughed repeatedly. It was as if air eluded me and I was getting choked. I tried taking in some air when I felt his hand wrapped around my neck in a tight hold. 

Whatever was going on wasn't new to me. It was his usual way to prey on people weaker than him. He makes sure I'm so weak I can barely fight him then he does whatever he wants with me. 

I held onto his hand and dug my fingers into his palm. He winced, letting go of my neck and moved away from me. Jackson's eyes held disdain and disappointment. 

Tonight, I wasn't going to let him hit me too much. He's more angry than usual and that could get me killed. I have someone waiting outside that door for me. I have to walk out by myself. 

"What do you think you're doing, you slut?" 

A loud, sharp punch landed on my stomach. I held my stomach and screamed out in pain. 

"Stop," I begged. 

"You want me to stop but you felt it necessary to stay in the same room with a man," 

"What?" I asked. 

For a minute, my memories were fuzzy as I couldn't remember what he was talking about. 

"You think you can go behind my back and sleep with my friend, right?" 

He was talking about the Lycan King, wasn't he? 

I took a deep breath, cleaned the blood from my lips. 

"I didn't do anything wrong. I just went into the wine cellar to get drinks and I met him there," 

"Lies! Lies you bitch. I saw the way you looked at him," 

I squeezed my eyes shut as the pain radiated over me. "I won't dare look at the Lycan King, Alpha," 

"Shut up," he growled. "You talk when I ask you to. You breathe when I demand you to share the air with me. You move when I ask you to crawl. You belong to me and me alone. You are my property and if I want, I would tear you into pieces right now and feed your flesh to my dogs," 

He threatened. 

I could see his claws were out. His eyes were pitch black and his shoulders crunched. He was mid transforming. I knew this was gonna happen. 

He held me by the shoulder and lifted me up, dragging my back against the wall. I could feel his hand crushing my shoulder blade. Tears gushed out of my eyes as the pain burned through me like a flame. 

"Please, please," 

The door suddenly threw open. I looked over to see the Lycan King by the door with Roma behind him. I cried loudly. Was he here to join him in punishing me too? Would it be more fun if they did it together?

"Ah! Good you're here, my friend," Alpha Jackson grinned and dropped me to the ground.

I looked up to see Kai still stuck to the door. He was staring at me as well as Roma. I smiled at her and mouthed for her to go away. She also had tears on her face. 

"What is this?" Kai asked. His eyes fixated on me as if that question was for me. Why does he look angry? 

That confused me. 

"She's being punished at the moment. She's my slut but I can give her to you for tonight," 

I closed my eyes and wept in anticipation of what was to come. 

"That question wasn't for you, Jack. I'm asking her. What is this, Katherine?" He asked again, shutting Jackson up. 

I looked up at him. "You should know better. He's your friend," 

Jackson grabbed my hair in a tight fist. I held his hand to stop the pain. 

"How dare you speak to him like that? Who do you think you are?" 

Within the blink of an eye, Jackson threw a hard fist, making me hit my head against the wall. I couldn't breathe, I felt dizzy and my head hurt in a way I couldn't describe. 

All of a sudden, something moved beside me like air and I saw Kai holding Jackson by the neck, slamming him against the wall and on the floor in what was like two seconds and the next thing I heard was a loud painful howl filling the room. Punches were being thrown and blood was being spattered. 

I couldn't see whose blood it was but when Kai emerged again, his clothes were soaked in blood.

Roma was holding me, calling my name, crying like a baby. I couldn't hear her clearly but I could see her mouth moving. 

Kai came around, held my face. 

"You're in good hands now, stay with me," 

How come I could hear him clearly? 

"Stay the fuck with me, Katherine," I wanted to tell them I was fine. 

It wasn't the first time this would happen but I couldn't because the last thing I saw was darkness surrounding the room and overpowering me.