Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Seventeen

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**TRIGGER WARNING: The following chapters contain themes of trauma and abuse. Read with caution!**

The man placed a blade over the green flames.

“I have a question; I need an answer, else…” he motioned to the blade. I understood his threat. “Our brother, Mason, was taken by your father; where was he kept?”

“I–I don’t know.”

“Well, too bad.” He picked the blade from the flames; the iron shone purple, instead of red.

“No!” Cas cried out.

“You said you would only ask questions!” the fool, Eli, screamed above his lungs. I looked away.

Father told me sometimes fear contributes to the pain.

The smell of burnt flesh filled the room and a single tear escaped my eyes.

“A strong one we have here,” the man said. The leader with the one eye didn’t look impressed.

“She would break with time.”

He was right. I did break, just about when the iron met my skin for the seventh time. I called for my father, for my late mother, for the moon goddess, and every supernatural creature I knew.

“Where did he keep my brother?”

know!” I cried.

the metal away; he seemed irritated. I had never seen men so cruel in all my life. I knew about rogues; I knew they were heartless creatures, but I never really

her fingers,” the Leader ordered.

Eli had strangely become

anything?”

don’t! I’ve

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of regret as he took my finger.

time I didn’t cry, crying… It never did change

know a thing.” Another man spoke

believe that.”

backed away. From

Fear.

she felt, and she was right to be

say goodbye to your little friend.” He suggested.

kept in the dungeons like the other prisoners; he had been kept in an underground fortress,

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place?” the leader asked.

pack boundaries,”

and burn your pretty little skin

let you and your friend go BUT, you took my eyes, you see, and I will have to take away something valuable from you too.‘

to Casa and

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what you wanted to know! Leave her alone…

He smirked.