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He’d kill me this time and I would welcome death with open arms at this point.
“Goddess, it stinks in here.” I froze, even more, when I heard Lucien’s voice.’I would welcome death with open arms but he would make death even more painful.
Lucien, as hard as it may be to believe, had been my friend. As a child and even after the pack ostracized me. Everything changed a few years ago in an unfortunate turn of events that I wished never happened.
“Keep your voice down. She may be sleeping.” When I heard Celeste’s voice after his, some of the knots in my stomach loosened. I didn’t dare move as the pain on my back and sides intensified with every small twitch of a muscle.
“What did they do to her?” Was that pity I heard in Lucien’s voice? It couldn’t be. This man made my life worse by simply being in the same room as me.
Skylar would come for my head if she found out we were in the same room without her present. Half the curses I endured from this pack that didn’t come from the Alpha came from him or his gang.
I hated him.
More than I did the Alpha. He’d been my friend. I’d convinced myself that he loved me but his betrayal stung.
“We’ll get you out, Aysel.” I flinched from Celeste’s touch on my face. Everyone felt like my enemy in this state, even my best friend.
“How do we get her up without aggravating her injury?” I heard her ask Lucien.
How would he know? Why would he care?
“I’ll carry her.” From my weakened state, from deep within a mind hazy and delirious from pain, I knew nothing good could come from him touching me. I didn’t want his hands on me. I didn’t want him near me. I didn’t even want him in the same cell as me!
“You’ll have to be careful.” Celeste took a step back. All their movements registered from a faraway land, a land I didn’t inhabit with them.
“What could she have done?” He whispered. He’d come too close to me. I felt him reach out a hand but halt when I started to shiver violently. I didn’t have the strength to run but I didn’t want him touching me.
“The same thing she did to you. You held her down while Bethel belted her just yesterday.” Celeste didn’t sound impressed with the softness of his voice.
“That’s that’s different. It was only six strokes we gave her.” Six? It felt like something between twenty and a hundred. Six!?
“Whether it’s six or sixty, you’ve been a part of this. You’re only helping her because I’m blackmailing you so don’t try sounding as if you’re a saint here!” Her sharp voice pierced my eardrum. “The lot of you are disgusting. You, your stupid girlfriend and your stupid best friend. I hate all of you!”
“Leave Sky out of this. You don’t know what she’s suffered.” I didn’t want them fighting in my cell. I had enough on my plate without adding loud sibling spat that they would make my fault again.
“F**k you and f**k Sky. She’s using you but you’re too blind to see.”
“She loves me.”
“You’re just her shiny boyfriend. She doesn’t give a damn about you but that’s your business. I’m here for my friend. Let’s get her out before Alpha Zavier returns.” Celeste ran her hand through my hair again and I felt myself being pulled up. I gasped as pain bit into my skin from numerous open wounds.
“I’m so sorry.” She kept whispering until they somehow got me on Lucien’s back. I still trembled, my tremors now accompanied by soft whimpers. I feared Lucien would drop me despite his hands clasped on my thighs so I tightened my hands around his neck. This could be another cruel joke of his.
“We’ll get you home.”
I loved Lucien once. Along with Celeste, he’d been my best friend. His parents always quarrelled with him so he would stay away from me but he never listened to them. Things started to change when we entered high school six years ago. As we are older than Celeste by a year, it left the two of us as high school friends and Celeste still in middle school.
It was around that time his infatuation with Skylar started. She’d been the hottest girl in our high school. I didn’t blame him for abandoning our friendship and choosing her. They made a golden couple the Beta’a son with his mop of curly black hair, lean muscular build and long legs and the Alpha’s daughter with the perfect figure eight and shiny long hair.
Lucien couldn’t be friends with me while dating Skylar who hated me from childhood. She abhorred me even before she had a reason to. I let him choose his girlfriend before me but he wouldn’t let me go. He gave me false hopes that ruined what little reputation I had amongst my peers.
“Are you okay?” I could only nod at Celeste’s question while her brother cleaned my wounds. I assumed Skylar sucked out all the niceness from him through one of their many public k!sses but he proved me wrong by coming to my aide and patching me up.
“These will scar.” He sounded disturbed.
Scars were nothing new to me. Scars decorated my back in their numbers, a map of whips, belts, canes and everything else I’d been beaten with. The scars in my back were nothing; the scars in my mind a telling of the pain that would never fade. I could cover my back and pretend I had nothing but smooth skin behind me but my mind lay bare to me, a constant agonizing torture.
“It doesn’t matter.” I pulled away from his lingering touch.
“Careful.” He stopped my sudden movement. “I don’t want the wounds reopening. You should stay still so Eris heals you in time.” He threw out my wolf’s name as if we were friends, as if he knew her and liked her my wolf, the omega that he couldn’t stand being associated with when he became the king of our high school, becoming even more popular than the future Alpha in the pack.
He cleaned my wounds with the care of a friend, applied cream to my stinging back and bandages the wound then he got ice for the slight bump in my head from where Skylar kicked me yesterday.
He may be feeling deserving of appreciation after all he did but I couldn’t find it in me to thank him. He started this. He held me down yesterday with brute force yet he wanted to act as my saviour today.
“Why are you helping me?” I asked, turning to face him while ignoring the bite of pain from my movements.
“Can you give us a minute?” He turned to his sister who stood with her hands folded, her upper back leaning against a wall with her legs crossed at the ankle.
“I’d rather not be alone with him.” Turning to my best friend, I made sure she saw that I didn’t want to be left alone with my bully. I would have no interactions with Lucien if I had my way.
“If you do anything funny, I will castrate you.” She wagged a finger at her brother, pushing off the wall.
“Celeste ” I didn’t have the strength to glare but I managed one.
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