Chapter 19 #2
Every bond I had with my pack instantly pushed reassurance toward me. I felt stronger with them here and I could practically feel their claiming bite marks burning as they made their presence known.
The message was loud and clear. I wasn’t alone.
With one final breath, I looked down at the page. It was a dossier, page after page of them for each of the men they thought were involved.
“We obviously know who your captor was, and we’re looking for him, especially after what he did to you and Jameson.”
I nodded as I looked at all the faces and read the list of crimes under each one. The girls still on the inside deserved for me to take this slow and careful, making sure not a single word was left unread just in case.
The first page was a list of potential names and locations. Clearly, they were still working on hunting down each of the suspects and gathering as much information as they could. Each document after that held pictures, schedules, aliases, family, the works.
They were thorough, even if they were slow.
I couldn’t understand why they waited so long to infiltrate these places knowing what secrets they held. Men like Seamus got away with murder and torture while the Alliance danced around the red tape.
The men on these pages were absolute monsters. Men who reveled in the pain and submission of each of the omegas and betas they locked away. Found pleasure and greed each time they tormented us then sold us for a few nights or for good.
Though, it seemed Seamus wasn’t very good at the last part.
I’d spent long nights listening to the screams, the cries for help and horror, the gleeful laughter from the officers who thought they owned the world and everything in it.
“This man,” I said, pointing to a face burned into my memory. “He was the first to bite me. He was close with my captor, Seamus. One of his trusted buyers who would spend money just to have a few nights with us.”
I couldn’t bring myself to use his name. He was a monster and didn’t deserve one as far as I was concerned.
The memories flared, hands roaming over me that I didn’t ask for. Spit hitting my face as he screamed at me that I was a useless omega. Barked commands that did nothing to force my body to comply.
He was weak, pathetic.
“When the bites didn’t work, he beat me within an inch of my life.
Not that it took much back then. He told me I was useless, a bad omega.
After that, I was thrown in my cell to ride off the rest of the medication.
I guess I took too long to recover. I remember waking up to icy water being dumped all over me.
Their version of a bath. Then injected with those godforsaken meds all over again. ”
No one said anything, but I could feel the anger and disgust pulsing in the air as I continued. At this point, I couldn’t seem to stop. They should all know the depth of what we were facing here.
I found another face. “This one was a guard. He was always with Seamus. Sometimes he brought me to the men, or sometimes he brought the men to me, depending on what they paid for. I suppose he’s just as guilty. He watched every single second they spent with me.”
“Noted,” the Chief said as evenly as he could. There was an undercurrent of fury in his words he couldn’t fully hide. “I’ll make sure he pays.”
It continued on like that as I flipped through the list of suspects, marking the ones I knew were there. They already had the faces. I doubted this was helpful, but I didn’t rush myself, naming them one by one and listing the crimes I’d witnessed or endured in detail.
The chief marked each one in his notebook, his pen scratching away as I spoke. He was taking this seriously and I found relief in the fact he’d use my words against them.
It wasn’t until I got to the last page that I jolted out of my chair and ran to the nearest bathroom, dry heaving over the toilet as the lunch I ate earlier started to rise. Sobs echoed out along with the heaving, my body reacting violently to what my mind couldn’t quite comprehend.
“What is it?” Ares said in alarm as he swept my hair back with his hand, holding it for me and keeping it out of the line of fire as my stomach emptied out violently.
“Give her a minute,” Caspian snapped, shoving Ares out of the way and taking his place.
He gathered my hair with one hand and reached into the cupboard next to the sink, pulling out a washcloth and soaking it with cool water before dabbing at the back of my neck and temples where sweat had started to gather.
“You’re okay, Audrey. Whatever you saw is in the past. You’re safe with us.”
“Am I?” I asked, raising my eyes to meet his as tears streamed down my face.
“What did you see?” Ares asked more gently this time. He wasn’t demanding information like he did at first. I knew he was alarmed, but Caspian was right. He had to work on his reactions when it came to me.
The gentle words had the answer falling from my lips.
“My parents were on that page,” I whispered.
Caspian’s eyes widened and the two alphas glanced at each other and then back to me as another sob escaped.
“Does that mean they sold me? This was a setup and they knew where I was the entire time?”