I gather my courage, take a deep breath, and turn my emotions off so I could get this over with.
“Ella, you don’t have to say anything. I will not let anyone make you say or do something against your will. Even the alpha” he says so gently, my eyes tear up in response to his kind words. No one has ever stood up for me the way he just did. He is willing to be punished for me. I felt so bad for misjudging him from the start. He was always so kind to me, but I was too scared to trust anyone before. I look at him now and know that he is the only person in this world I can trust not to hurt me or let anyone hurt me. And just for that, I was willing to stand up for him and protect him from being punished just like he was standing up for me.
“It is okay beta. Thank you for trying to protect me. No one ever did that for me before. But, I will not let someone else get punished for me” I tell him tearfully, then turn my eyes towards alpha Klaus and get this over with before beta Joseph stops me.
“I was raped and tortured by alpha Grey and beta Sam for the last ten months”
Ella’s POV
The expression on their faces was priceless. They were not expecting me to say this at all. I wasn’t expecting myself to say this out loud to anyone, if it wasn’t for that jerk of an alpha.
I cleared my throat and tried to speak the next words in a flat tone. I didn’t want to feel anything I was saying because if I did, I would break down completely in front of them. I kept my eyes down and fixed on my hands. I didn’t want to see their pity or sympathy for me.
“After my father died in a few weeks, I was serving them dinner one night and I accidentally broke the alpha’s glass of wine. He slapped me then took me to his bedroom to punish me. After he was done… he took away my virginity. Ever since that night he noticed me, he made me come to his bedroom almost every night and did the same thing to me over and over. When alpha Grey got too drunk to touch me or when he was busy, his beta Sam would take his place. Alpha Grey never knew that his beta was abusing me too. I was threatened by beta Sam to keep my mouth shut, and I did. At the end of the night, whoever I was spending the night with would give me some of his blood so that no scars remain on my body. But when alpha Grey goes away for a couple of days, he makes me drink some wolfs bane so that I wouldn’t heal until he returned. So that he’ll always cause me pain even when he is too far to do it himself” I stop to take a deep breath. I don’t dare to look up at them.
No one speaks for while. I keep my eyes on my hands. While I tried my best to speak unemotionally, my tears fell down anyway.
When the silence becomes too much to bare, I carry on. I figured since he wanted the whole truth, I’ll give him his damn truth.
“In the prison cell, when you asked me why I was running away from the pack I didn’t tell you the whole truth. You thought I was running away from you because I knew who killed your family, but I didn’t. I didn’t know it was your pack my father was sent to. I ran away because even if the alpha and beta were dead, I was afraid you two would be the same or worse. I didn’t want to live like this anymore”
I carried on “In the backyard, when you asked how long I have known about my father, I lied. I didn’t hear it from the alpha and beta behind a closed door. I was going to the alpha’s bedroom as usual, and found the alpha too drunk to move. As I was leaving his room, he called me back and started telling me everything about my father. That he killed him, that he sent him to another pack to kill the alpha’s father and mate. That he didn’t kill the alpha too because he wanted him to be broken before he took over his pack with his own power and…”
I stopped talking as suddenly, something else came to my mind about that night.
“And what?” said alpha Klaus tightly.
I looked up for the first time since I started talking and saw his face. I couldn’t put my hand on his expression precisely, but it was a mix of anger, hurt, and something else I couldn’t catch.
“I just remembered something about that night. It might have been the reason that man tried to kill me. After alpha Grey told me about my father and that pack, I asked him if he wanted to get something else off his chest. He said that he hated that pack so much because its old alpha took something from him many years ago, so to retaliate he took something from that pack too, many years ago. Before I could ask him to explain what he meant, he fell asleep and I couldn’t get more out of him.
He never got that kind of drunk again”
I took another breath, the room was starting to spin a little. I wanted this interrogation to end, so I could go back to the darkness I was in before I woke up. My wild emotions were threatening to explode on him for forcing me to speak about my abuse.
I looked at him again and said overwhelmingly “That is everything I am hiding about the ex alpha and beta. But of course you don’t believe me, so go ahead. Alpha-command the truth out of me again. Ask me if I lied or hid something else from you. Ask me if I made the whole thing up because you wouldn’t expect anything less to come out of a murderer’s daughter”
I saw regret, the expression I couldn’t decipher before, fill his features. I didn’t expect him to be capable of showing that emotion. It caught me off guard.
He opened the door and took off without saying anything.
Yeah, don’t bother to apologize for being a dick or anything.
While he was obviously capable of showing regret, he was incapable of giving a decent apology.
I look over at beta Joseph and see him watching me sadly. He pitied me and I hated to see someone look at me like this.
“I am really sorry you had to go through all of this alone Ella. I am really sorry you were forced to speak about this to us against your will. I…”
I cut him off angrily “You shouldn’t be the one to apologize to me, beta. He should be ashamed of himself for everything he has done to me since last night in the back yard. I actually believed that you were the good guys. That he was going to make everything better for half bloods. We were finally free to choose for ourselves. But it turns out he is worse than alpha Grey. Do you know alpha Grey never alpha commanded me? Even when he took everything from me, he let me fight him, he took my innocence from me, but he let me fight him, he could have made me surrender myself to him completely with a simple command, but even he didn’t dare to be that cruel”
I was this close to breaking down, and I didn’t want to do it in front of him.
“Please, beta. Leave me alone. I don’t want to talk about this anymore” I said while keeping my eyes closed.
I heard the door open and close. I opened my eyes and found myself alone, like I have always been.
I couldn’t hold back the tears anymore. I sobbed uncontrollably. What the alpha just forced me to say out loud made something break inside me. Keeping what happened to me to myself, made it bearable. Saying it out loud made it so damn horrible, so damn real.
I try to stop my crying as each sob made everything hurt worse. I wish I could feel nothing, I wish I could be numb. None of it would matter then.
Out of the blue, the door opens and someone walks in, probably a nurse, judging by his blue scrubs. He was holding a large needle in his hand filled with a clear liquid. As soon as I saw it, I jumped off the bed, grabbed the end of my IV stand, and pointed it at the nurse.
“Don’t come near me” I threaten him while backing further away from him into the corner of the room.
He looked shocked by my reaction, so was I. I don’t know what came over me, but the needle in his hand was freaking me out. What if he was sent by that guy to kill me. I am sure that by now, he must have heard that his attempt was unsuccessful.
“I am not going to hurt you. It is just a needle to put you back to sleep so you could heal quickly”
He takes another step towards me, and I loose my shit.
“Don’t come any closer!” I scream at him.
He freezes and backs away slowly.
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