Chapter 6 - Fraya

I wake up in a unfamiliar bed, my muscles stiff and sore from the forced shift I had to endure once I lost my temper, I wanted to make it home last night. Though it looks like I spent the entire time here, under the roof of the dragon kings. I didn’t know what to expect, but I knew I had to leave, I didn’t care that I was their mate, I didn’t want them, I didn’t need a mate and I was certain I could manage without one. I guess I had some trust issues due to my past, yet that didn’t change how I felt, I wanted nothing to do with the men I knew were waiting for me down stairs. Even if they called to parts of me that I had long since trampled down, ignoring them more than anything else.

I didn’t want to be tied down, but I knew they would disagree with me, I had tried to reject them but they had stopped me, I had to find a way of doing it so that they can all hear me. I know that they are dragon shifters and they they only mate once, but it wasn’t my responsibility to bare their children. I didn’t want anyone’s children.

I climbed out of the bed, walking towards to walk-in wardrobe and pulling out some clothes seen as I had lost mine the night before, the bottoms and jumper I picked were too big but only slightly. They would have to do seen as nothing else was even close to my size. I entered The Walk-in Toilet and did my business before finally making my way down the stairs, I was hoping I wouldn't see any of them and I will be able to make it out of the house without being seen. but I wasn't so lucky, as I reached the bottom of the stairs Maddox was there, already in a suit and determined to keep me inside.

I walked straight past him and headed for the door, still raging inside that he shot me with a fire ball the night before when I had tried to reject them. I growled angrily when I realised the door was locked, not a key in sight.

“Let me out, I have work.” I snap, turning around to face him.

He stood there with a bright smile on his face, only making me angrier as he said; “why not join us for breakfast? We can take you to work afterwards.”

“Can’t you see that I want to get away from you?” I snarl, crossing my arms. “Why the hell would I tell you where I work?”

"im not asking you to." He laughed, taking a step closer to me. "we already know."

"why won't you just let me leave?" I ask, suddenly nervous.

I knew that if they wanted to, the dragon kings could have me disposed of, they could kill me and no one would question it. No one would fight back against them. They owned this town and every supernatural in it, including  me. But this isn't the life that I wanted. I wanted to be normal, live a human life.

I certainly didn't want four mates that believe I should be locked up for my own good, they would simply use me as a breading machine. 

Maddox smiled brightly, though I could tell he anted nothing more than to make me kneel, as he expected of everyone. "You belong to us Fraya, don't make too much of a fuss about it all."

"I don't belong to you or anyone else." I growl, furious that they think they can just own me. 

I turn around and kick the door as hard as I can, pushing my power into it, the power of my pheonix. The door buckled and breaks away from the hinges as I smile to myself. Pleased that it worked. I go to walk through the door when something is clasped around my neck, instantly burning my skin. 

I scream as I drop to the ground, trying to pry the silver collar off me, it felt as if it was burning me from the inside and tearing me apart. I rolled onto my back, tears streaming down my face as I looked up at Maddox, his smile now completely gone and replaced with a scowl. 

"you won't be leaving us Fraya, as I said; you are ours now." 

"you can't do this!" I cry, trying to pull the damned collar off. 

maddox raises his hand and shows me a small device with three buttons on it, warning me of something I didn't quite understand.

"Get this off me please?!" I sob, the pain almost unbearable. 

"I will remove it when you learn to behave." He says, his voice void of emotion.

I growl at him, lunging for the controller in his hand, knowing that whatever it did wouldn't be good for me. I missed by mere centimetres as he pulled back his hand, causing me to fall back onto the floor. I felt so weak and sore, like my pheonix had completely abandoned me. 

"you must learn that their are concequences to your actions here little one." Maddox said blandly, pressing the middle button on the device. 

I scream, curling up into a ball on the floor as an electric current goes through the collar, shocking me. The pain was unimaginable as I cried and sobbed, begging him to stop, to make the pain go away. Eventually, after what seemed like a lifetime, he let go of the buzzer and knelt down beside me, his face once again void of any emotion. 

"you will learn to be good to us Fraya, because if you aren't you will face the consequences." He stands back up and places the device in his pocket. "All of us have a controller, and don't try to take the collar off, because you won't like what happens them."

"you can't do this!" I cry, withering on the ground.

I could feel the collar settling onto my neck, the pain more bare able but still there, as though I had already gotten used to the silver. I knew that it meant I would be unable to shift or use my abilities whileever it's around my back. But what they were doing was so wrong, how could they treat anyone like this?

why couldn't they just let me go? I would never be there's, especially after this. I hate them all!

"You can cry all you want little one, it won't change anything." He says cruelly. "Once you learn to treat us with respect it will be removed. And don't even think about trying to escape, it's set to shock you if you try to leave."

"why are you doing this?" I cry into my hands, feeling utterly defeated and alone.

"you beling to us little pheonix, you are our mate." He says coldly, "we can't have you running around and trying to leave the city now can we?"

"I don't want to be anyone's mate." I whisper, looking up at him from where I was knelt on the floor. "Just let me go, I'll never come back."

"that's the problem." He says. "We have all decided that you are ours and we want you. If you leave and never come back, we will never have children."

"I won't ever have your children." I argue.

he shrugs. "Then prepare to spend the rest of your life locked in this house."

I scream in frustration and charge at him once more, whimpering when the electric pulse shoots through my neck onto more, making me fall to the ground. I curl onto my side and cry, knowing I had lost my freedom, that I will never be rid of them.