The Alpha's Omega Mate-Chapter 32: Knight in no Armor.

~Dahlia’s POV~

"She’s been asleep for a while now."

"How long?"

"I don’t know, about 12 hours... maybe more. But who cares?"

"I do! I do because she’s been sleeping through most of her sentence when she’s supposed to be awake, being punished! Why did you let her sleep for so long?"

"Like I said earlier, because I do not care!"

The bickering noise between two bodyguards tore me out of my slumber and I begrudgingly peeled my eyes open only to be met with surprise when I felt the weight of something pressing down against me.

It felt heavy and for some reason, it smelled... heavenly.

My nostrils twitched as a feeling akin to desire pooled at the bottom of my stomach. This cloak smelled like someone... someone familiar.

My mate.

My eyes snapped open just then as the realization hit me. Alpha Zarek was the last person to come here to see me. He’d spoken to me like I was a criminal and I had retaliated by talking back at him... a little too boldly, and now that most of the pain-induced haze had worn off, my words came back to me. They plagued my memories, making me frown as I soon realized that I had ruined my only chance at getting out of here alive.

I had told him that I would leave... and that I would continue to try to find a way over and over again until I succeeded. And to him, that was a crime punishable by death. That was something he’d never forgive.

But if it was, then why was his robe draped around my body?

Why was it on this cold dirty floor with me?

Had he left it behind because he noticed that I was cold, or was this another sadistic game of his?

Before I could find answers to these questions plaguing my mind, the sound of the heavy cell gates grating against the concrete floor as it was being pushed open snapped me out of my thoughts and I turned in the direction of the sound quickly to find two soldiers slipping through the gates into my cell, and Hades, they reek!

Pulling myself to a sitting position, I rushed out; "I’m awake... and if you think I am not suffering enough, then wait until you see the infected wound on my arm."

That was a lie— I just wanted them to leave me alone.

However that didn’t happen as they both laughed at me. I heard more shuffling sounds around us and my eyelids burned when one of them lit up a torch, the bright fiery light infiltrating the darkness I had grown accustomed to in the past few hours. I groaned.

They looked very unfamiliar. I muttered; "Please,"

"Please what?" One of them spat back and then turning to the other one, he asked; "How do we punish her? She already looks beyond battered."

"I don’t think there’s anything we can do to her that’s worse than whatever she’s been through." The other one, darker and way taller, snapped back. He cast one last disdainful look at me but just a he was about to walk out of the cell, the other held him back, his eyes gleaming with mischievous light as he exclaimed;

"We could have our fun with her!"

My heart dropped as soon as I heard those words and instinctively, I shuffled away from them. It wasn’t until that moment that I realized to my utmost horror that he wasn’t as unfamiliar as I had thought. He was the guard from yesterday, the one who had almost raped me until Alpha Zarek came around.

Tears leaked out of my eyes before I could stop them and with desperation gnawing at my heart, I pushed myself further away from them, so far that I hit my back against the wall.

A small cry slipped through my lips when I realized how small this cell was and how helpless I was being stuck in here with two men who were way larger and stronger than I was. I panicked.

"Look at her, Kane. She’s small. She’s frail and beaten up... she cannot handle us. Let’s let her be!" The taller one responded and I almost let out a sigh of relief—almost— until Kane’s face broke into a sinister smile. He snapped;

"That’ll make it easier for us to sleep with her. Moreover I was paid some money to rape her senseless yesterday. I still haven’t done it."

"Really?"

"Yes. I can even give you some of the money! The more the merrier!"

As they discussed between themselves, as if forgetting that I was in the same room with them, I sobbed harder. The more I listened to them talk, the more my heart ached with fear and pain, and the more my hatred for Alpha Zarek soared.

He had done this to me!

He paid Kane to sleep with me and Kane being a sadistic psycho wants to extend it to someone else. Someone who was way bigger than he was— and he was big. I shuddered.

"Why are you so willing to share?" The darker one asked and Kane smiled, exposing his rotten teeth.

"You don’t know me, I’m usually benevolent!"

They laughed.

"Please both of you. I feel unwell. My wounds are infected. Aren’t you afraid that I might infect you with something too?" I cried out, shrinking back in fear when they both burst into more laughter, whilst ignoring my pleas.

"I’d gladly be infected even with the Devil’s pox if it means destroying your holes— and that was exactly how I was instructed to do it." Kane snarled, causing the other man to join him in laughter and I shrunk back, extremely disgusted by him and by his choice of words.

Something about his words and the malicious glint in his eyes made me cower in fear and I whimpered as he grabbed my face in his hands, using it to pull my face up until I was staring into his ugly dark eyes.

Oh goddess, how much I hate Alpha Zarek for this.

And then I screamed.

I screamed not because I had been hit or because I had been inflicted with pain but because the taller one—the darker one— squeezed my breasts so hard that I feared he would rip it off. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Disgust crawled all over my skin when his large hands circled around both molds and he wouldn’t stop squeezing.

"Damn Dan, seems like you’ve been wanting to do this for a while!" Kane laughed but Dan— I now knew his name— didn’t join in his humour as he was too focused on kneading my nipples, sending shards of pain piercing through my entire being.

He chuckled darkly. "I’ve not had a woman in fourteen months and this one, even though battered, looks sweet."

I nearly chundered.

With each passing second, my desperation grew and in order to ensure that they leave me alone, I continued to scream, louder each time until Kane growled in annoyance.

He let go of my neck, visibly irritated, and fisted his hands in my hair as he forced me to my knees. The pain made my head reel and I bit back a sob as a fiery fire spread across my scalp.

"Please...!"

"Shut up!" Dan growled.

"No, she shouldn’t!" Kane snapped back, "I’ll shut her up!" And with that, he smacked my face so hard that my head lolled to the side. I could even swear that I had heard my skull crack.

Tiny stars danced in my line of vision but he didn’t stop there. He slapped me again and again until I was sure my face was all blue and black and with one last push, he sent me flying to the floor, and almost losing consciousness when my head hit the cold ground with a smack.

Dan snarled; "You’ll kill her!"

"Even if I do, no one cares about her anymore. Let’s just fuck her to our fill and leave her to rot!"

I barely registered when he forced me back to my knees due to the intense pain in my head and body, and barely even noticed when he forced something into my mouth.

I vaguely heard him chuckle and then he muttered; "At least now she cannot scream." And it wasn’t until the thing in my mouth began to move that I realized that he was fucking my mouth. I gagged as I was overcome with an immense feeling of disgust.

And shame.

So much shame.

With the last ounce of strength left in my body, I closed my mouth against his dick, biting down on it and feeling something akin to pride spread across my chest when his agonized scream rang out.

Another heavy slap landed across my face but before I could cry out from the pain, one of them grunted and suddenly it felt as though their weight on me was suddenly lifted.

I was vaguely hit with the smell of something intoxicating. Something that tantalisingly resembled the scent accustomed to my mate when my vision soon blacked out and as I slipped into unconsciousness, the last thing I heard were more agonized screams.

They were loud and they were blood curdling, but they definitely weren’t coming from me.