89 Torture (Part 1)
89 Torture (Part 1)
*****Trigger Warning Torture*****
Cassandra POV
Stupid f**king b**ch actually killed me. She was so weak I expected her to make one of the men do it. Hell, I expected her to tell them to let me go. When I open my eyes, I’m back in the f**king run down castle. Maybe I’m not dead. Maybe it was a warning from the goddess in the form of a dream. I smile knowing nothing she does will change my plans. I slide out of the bed and move toward the door.
I step into the hallway and immediately move toward the room where I’m holding the mutt. When I push the door open, I stumble back. “How” is all I manage to say. “Did you really think what just happened was a dream? I promise you it was very real. The goddess will be here shortly. In the meantime, we get to keep you company,” Lorraine says with a disarming smile.
Despite the fear that swirls inside me at her words, I laugh. “A human and a wolfless woman aren’t exactly scary.” “It’s funny that you are essentially calling us weak, because we are human when you are the same. You have no more powers, you evil b**ch,” Charles says. “How are you even here? You are no child of the goddess.”
“That’s funny coming from you. I think you being stripped of your powers makes you no child of the goddess,” he says. Anger has me clenching my fists at my side. Lorraine steps toward me and I stand rooted to the spot. Not because I want to, but because something is holding me in place.
1 expect her to hit me, but instead she places her palms against my cheeks. The minute her skin touches
mine, I’m sucked into darkness. When I open my eyes again, I’ve been taken back in time, but I’m not me. What the f**k is happening? “Lorraine, we must leave if you want to save your pup,” a younger version of me says. My heart feels like it’s being ripped out of my chest. I feel like I can’t breathe.
Hands touch my stomach and I immediately remember I’m binding Ace’s Lycan and planting the seed of disease. I want to scream at past me to stop, but it’s like my mouth has been sewn shut. I can feel every emotion that Lorraine felt and it makes me sick. We flash forward and Ace, as a boy, stands over my bed. He cries and begs me not to leave him. My body feels so weak as I look at Ace. I feel like my heart is breaking all over again. This is worse than any physical pain I’ve ever felt.
I struggle to breathe as a man I don’t recognize and Ace beg me not to leave them. I feel as though I’m suffocating before everything goes black. This time, when my eyes open, I’m standing inside a house I recognize. Once again, I’m not myself. I’m Charles, waiting excitedly for Evelyn to get home. The minute she steps through the door, my heart drops. She looks so defeated. I stand to rush toward her, but she raises her
hand to stop me.
“Charles, I’m so sorry. I tried to fight the bond. I swear I did.” My heart feels like it stops beating. Is she saying she found her mate? Is she going to leave me? I can’t breathe. “Charles, I will always love you, but Xavie my mate. I can’t be with you anymore. I have to leave. I have to take the pups and leave.”
Anger and pain course through me. “You will not take my children, Evelyn. It’s bad enough you are breaking every you ever made to me but you will not take my children” I manage to croak out. Why does this feel like my world is crashing around me? I’ve never truly loved anyone. Is this what it feels like to lose someone you love? “Charles, please don’t do this. I can’t be without Olivia and Connor, Besides, Xavier said
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it’s important for Olivia’s safety that she lives in the pack until she shifts,” Evelyn says.
I fall to my knees as everything in my life is yanked away, leaving me empty. We flash forward to the night Charles died. F**k, I remember how he cried and clutched his chest. “Evie, please come back to me I scream
from the floor. I feel like I’m drowning. Like my head is being forced underwater as my heart is being squeezed in my chest. “Oli girl, I miss you so much. I’ve lost everything,” I scream. I can hear my own whispers telling him nothing will take his pain away but death.
It doesn’t take long for me to be strapped to a bed with tubes down my throat. I want to scream to pull it out, but I’m not me, I’m Charles. I’m dying and there is nothing I can do to stop the feelings of despair that
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overwhelm me. I hear Oli pleading for me to come back, I hate myself. I hate that I left my Oli girl. Then it’s Connor’s voice making me hate myself for being so desperate to stop the pain, I abandoned them. Every molecule of my body feels like it wants to cry for what I’m losing.
I’m sucked into the blackness. This time when my eyes open, I’m in an empty room with my arms and legs chained. I search the room but I’m completely alone. What the f**k is happening now? The feelings of despair, pain, and loss are still bubbling below the surface of my skin. A door appears across the room and a woman who looks like she has seen better days steps inside. Her skin is covered in scars and her eyes are
almost black.
“Who are you? Where the f**k am I now? I want to see the goddess” I demand. She throws her head back and laughs. “You really don’t get it, do you. You are almost as delusional as the b**ch next door. She even tried to make a deal with me,” she says. “Did you hear what I said I want to see the goddess now.” A slap that has my whole face exploding with pain lands on my cheek. “Let’s get a few things straight, you worthless b**ch.”
“make the rules here. I am the one that is here to make you suffer, I am the Goddess of Vengeance. You are about to get everything you deserve and then some. My sister, Selene, wouldn’t waste her time on you. Now that you know who I am, let me tell you where you are. You are in the personal hell of your making. You will live the pain that you inflicted on others every day through their memories. Once the psychological torture ends, you’ll come back here to my playroom and the real fun will begin,” she says.
Fear washes over me. She can’t really mean that I will feel everything I just did for the rest of eternity. A sinister smile spreads across her face as a large knife appears in her hand. “I meant every word” she says as she moves toward me. I fight against the restraints even though I know it’s futile. When she finally comes to stand in front of me, she looks me over. “Where to begin, where to begin” she says, tapping the knife against
her chin.
“I know I’ll remove your womb. It’s not like you ever deserved having it. Wasn’t it you that ensured the pup was born dead, since it was of no use to you,” she says. My body freezes at her words and fear crawls up my throat. “Yes, that seems like a fitting start to your eternal punishment,” she says before she leans in close. “Don’t worry though. The pup is going to get a second chance at life with people who will love him,” she says. The feeling of the blade passing through my skin has me screaming out. I feel like I’m being ripped in half, as she does just as she said. I feel myself on the verge of passing out or dying either would be welcome right now. I watch as she throws my womb on the floor before she licks the blade. My mind can’t focus places the blade against the open wound. The burn has me screaming again. How the f**k is the
like it’s on fire.
she
I realize she is cauterizing the wound. “I’m not done with you yet. Once I am I’ll slit your throat, but don’t worry, when your eyes open again you will be standing in the castle before we have our time again” she says. “Pleas
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e don’t do this. I know I was wrong. I know I need to be punished, but this can’t be my eternity
“You took Lorraine, Charles, and the pups‘ futures away from them. They didn’t get to be with the people they love. This is the price you pay for your evilness and greed. You were never meant to have power and now you have none. You are just a toy among many. Let’s have some more fun,” she says, stepping toward me with an evil grin. Goddess, what have I done?
