Pain is everywhere. It is all I could feel. I can’t focus enough on speaking. I nod my head slightly.
“Ella, I know it hurts. The doctor will put you back to sleep in a little bit. But I need to ask you a few things, it is very important. I need you to focus for me and find your voice” alpha Klaus says gently.
I try to speak for several seconds. It takes me a few tries but I eventually manage to say “It hurts so much”
Beta Joseph closes his eyes in pain, While alpha Klaus tries to get me to focus on him “Ella, who attacked you?”
The memories flood my mind immediately. I remember everything. The huge man, our conversation, my struggle to save my life, my failure.
“I don’t know his name. He was one of beta Sam’s spies” I whisper.
“Why did he attack you?”
“He heard my conversation with you in the backyard. He said I made a huge mistake by coming clean. He thought I knew something else from alpha Grey and didn’t want me to tell you about it. But he was wrong, I told you everything I knew”
He looked at me in suspicion then asked “Did he specify exactly what he thought you knew?”
“No, I have no idea what he was talking about”
He stares at me for a while. He doesn’t believe I am telling him the truth obviously.
“If you are hiding something about alpha Grey or beta Sam, you need to tell me right now. And I mean anything, even if you don’t think it concerns me”
I stare at him in annoyance. He is always going to assume that I am lying or hiding something and it is making me annoyed. He is right, my abuse does not concern him at all.
I take too long to answer but stick to my earlier statement “I have no idea what he was talking about” I say stubbornly.
“You are lying to me Ella. Something you shouldn’t dare to do to me again. Tell me the truth right now” he screams the last sentence at me.
I flinch and say in a scared tone “It’s the truth”
“Klaus, she…” Joseph begins to intervene when suddenly, he holds my eyes and says in a deep voice “Tell me everything you are hiding about your old alpha and beta”
I gasp in surprise. He did it again!
The bastard alpha-commanded me again.
My mouth begins to open against my will and I know exactly what my next words are going to be: I was raped and tortured by them for the past 10 months. Words that I will die before saying out loud to anyone.
I put my hand over my mouth and keep it shut, while shaking my head at him.
He leans over me and puts his hands over my head.
“Speak” he commands again.
Although I was already in pain, but I felt another pain I have never felt before. Pain in my head. It was like a million needles were drilling themselves into my brain. I scream like I have never screamed before. My hands automatically reaching for my head. I was fighting so hard against his command, and the more I fought, the more I hurt, the louder I screamed.
“Klaus stop it right now” beta Joseph says to him angrily.
“Speak now so the pain will stop Ella. It is the only way” alpha Klaus says sternly.
I thrash in pain while begging him “Don’t do this to me please”
Abruptly, I watch as beta Joseph lifts alpha Klaus off me and throws him across the room. He hits the wall hard causing the painting behind him to drop and crash to the ground.
“SHE’S BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH KLAUS” beta Joseph screams at him.
Alpha Klaus stares at him in shock, while I stare at both of them in fear, my pain forgotten for the moment. I was always more scared of alpha Klaus than beta Joseph, but right now he was more scarier than him.
“Don’t stand in my way Joseph, or I will have you punished for disobeying me. She will tell me everything she was hiding” alpha Klaus spits in anger.
“Punish me or kill me, I don’t care. But right now, if you want to get to her, you will have to go through me first. I will not stand here and watch you hurt her more than she has already been hurt” beta Joseph says in determination.
Alpha Klaus stares at him in hurt. “You would rather stand against me rather than finding out the truth about your daughter’s murder? If I didn’t know you, I’d say you don’t care about her”
“Your daughter?” the words come out of my mouth in a whisper.
Beta Joseph turns to me and says sadly “Yes. Kate was my only daughter” he then turns to look at alpha Klaus and says “And I do care about her, don’t you dare imply otherwise. But I will not let you hurt an innocent girl just because you are too blinded by anger and revenge that you don’t see what you are doing to her. You just commanded her. And it wasn’t the first time. You are losing control and I have to stop you, as your beta, and your father in law. You can’t go around throwing alpha commands at people. It is cruel and you know it”
He stares at him stubbornly “I wouldn’t have to if she speaks the damn truth for once instead of lying and hiding secrets. She brought that upon herself”
He looks at me coldly and says “Are you going to speak now, or should I call Marcel to come arrest your bodyguard for disobedience first? Because either way, I will get my answer”
I stare at him in hate. Whatever I was hiding didn’t concern him at all, yet he will not rest until he makes me say it.
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