Chapter five

Glancing at my bare form, I slowly lose confidence, making me hesitant to lift my head and meet the gaze of the man I've suffered so much to meet. Though my clothes are within sight, I refrain from daring to stand up from the bed to retrieve them.

“Are you suddenly deaf?” Alpha Damon growls, his intense dark eyes reflecting rage as he glances between us.

Hunter’s head drops as he kneels. “Please forgive me, Alpha. It was my fault. I shouldn't have—”

Alpha Damon laughs maniacally and raises his foot, delivering a powerful kick to Hunter's gut without warning. The force of the strike sends him flying instantly.

“You know that you shouldn't but you did. How dare you attempt to sleep with her!” He thunders again, and panic grips my whole body, causing tears to stream down my face involuntarily.

I want to plead, to implore him to stop hurting Hunter, but I dare not open my mouth to utter a word. Shame washes over me, and a sense of defilement strips away my chastity, even though Hunter and I haven't gone that far yet.

“Are you also deaf?” Alpha Damon lifts his penetrating gaze at me. His dark, intense eyes flashing with fury and malicious intent, send a shiver down my spine as I behold them. How dare you shamelessly open your legs for my Beta!”

A sharp breath escapes me upon hearing his cold, condemning voice, but I find myself at a loss for words in self-defense. My head hangs low, and my heart races under my chest. I feel too terrified to meet his penetrating cold gaze.

“It’s not her fault, I was—”

“Shut the fuck up! I wasn't speaking to you.” He growls at Hunter. “I'm speaking to this adulterous woman. In just a few days, you've managed to seduce my Beta? What would you have done in a year? Would you have shamelessly slept with all the werewolves in my Pack, uhn?” Alpha Damon lashes out at me, his words holding no filter, each one piercing my heart and leaving me feeling utterly broken.

I gradually lift myself from the bed and stand beside it, at a loss for words, and unable to counter his insulting remarks. My initial intention to clarify that Hunter is my true mate and that is why we can do this, falters as he moves closer.

I am dumbstruck when I sense the same mate scent on him. It's even more irresistible and thicker than what I perceive on Hunter. Confusion envelops me, and renders my mind blank. All I can do is shiver in fear as he approaches me.

“Please, Alpha, spare her. It's my fault,” Hunter whines in a low, unstable voice. He is already severely wounded but he’s still crawling towards Alpha Damon, whose eyes are blazed with a frenzied rage.

A guttural growl escapes his clenched jaw and he delivers another powerful kick in Hunter’s stomach. My eyes widen and I watch in terror as he swiftly grabs a huge rod and hits it on Hunter’s head.

I blink hard and freeze. Everything around me stops, and my mouth opens agape as I witness Hunter's unblinking stare, and blood seeping from his injured head.

I gasp before screaming, “Hunter!” I dash towards him, paying no mind to my nakedness in the urgency of the moment. “Hunter, no, please, don’t die. Please!” I cry out as I hold his dripping head in my hands.

“Hunter!” I scream in a broken voice when he suddenly stops moving.

I redirect my gaze to Alpha Damon, my eyes now ablazing with an unmistakable glare of pure, seething hatred. “We didn't even do it! How could you kill him?!” I yell, dropping Hunter’s body to attack his chest with my tiny fists.

He easily overpowers me and strikes his palm across my face. “You dirty slut. How dare you raise your voice at me after you shame yourself around like a whore without any regard for me?” Alpha Damon accuses me as he roughly throws me on the bed.

His eyes fixate on my chest, and he raises his hand to grope my breast. I moan and whimper under his towering stunning body, as he forcefully leans to take my nipple in his mouth.

“Please don't do this, I beg of you” I plead, but he ignores my cries and drags my erect nipples with his teeth as he fondles my breast, his other hand roughly roaming down my body like he's in a pursuit.

My body feels feverish as he touches me, and I let out another mindless moan as I attempt to push him away, but he firmly holds my hands above my head with one hand, his cold gaze penetrating me. At this moment, as our eyes meet, I reluctantly admit he embodies the epitome of every woman's forbidden fantasy.

“It's the mate scent. Be level headed and beg him not to forcefully take your virginity.” I say to myself to control my treacherous body.

“This is what you want, hm? You are so needy for a cock you can't keep yourself and wait for me, so you decide to run to my Beta and seduce him, mm? Don’t worry, I will give it to you. Since you want to be fucked so badly then I will fulfill your wish. You don't have to thank me.” Alpha Damon's hurtful and vile words resonate in my ears, but I quickly shake my head to deny them.

“No, please. forgive me. I was confused, I wanted to run away but...” I bite my trembling lips as tears begin to flood in my eyes.

I hate how the mate scent coming from him keeps confusing my thoughts, but I still try to refrain from moaning when he gropes my breast. “This isn't what I want, please…” I don't want to lose my chastity this way. Please, don't do this. I beg the Black Pack’s Alpha with my teary eyes, and unexpectedly he jolts away from me.

He curses under his breath and drapes my body with his white shirt, now stained with blood, and moves away from me.

I tremble as his intense gaze fixates on me like he is contemplating what to do with me. I drop my gaze to my entwined hands and I shiver in fear. I have no one to blame for my miscalculation and misconduct, even though I sensed something fishy was going on. How could Hunter have my mate's scent on him too?

After a moment of deep thought, he slowly inches to me on the bed, as if meticulously calculating each of his wicked steps.

“Pick your poison, Princess. Would you rather willingly be my sex slave or forever live in the dungeon?” Alpha Damon abruptly asks, and I lift my head to see his lips curling in an evil smirk.

“I would rather willingly die in the dungeon than be a sex slave to a monster like you!” I spat in his face, my eyes brimming with anger at his ridiculous choices.

Alpha Damon freezes after my words, and his penetrating gaze shows disbelief as he glances at my body. “Oh, good, you made your choice.” He retorts, glaring at me with hatred as he swiftly wipes my saliva off his face.

After his words, he roughly drags me to a dark, gruesome dungeon with only his stained formal shirt on my body.

“Tie her up to the Silver Pole,” he orders the guards. That evil smirk on his face lingers and he stares at me while they tie me up like he is daring me to submit to him.

But I will never. Not after what he did to Hunter.

***

Bound to the Silver Pole for what seemed like days, the relentless ache intensified, carving deeper pain into my weary frame. Each day, my hope dwindles, leaving me ensconced in the oppressive toxin of Silver in the cell.

The only person who could possibly save me is already dead. The Black Pack Alpha killed him before he hit and sexually harassed me.

I try so many times to end my life, but each attempt is foiled as the guards catch me.

“Leave me alone, let me die!” I struggle as the chains clamp around my wrists, and the guards do their best to prevent me from committing suicide.

Through the blur of tears, I hear a voice I recognize. “Lana, didn't I tell you to be obedient here in the Black Pack...”

I weakly raise my head, and my eyes widen in surprise as a figure approaches—it's Hunter, the man I believed Alpha Damon had killed.