Luca’s Inferno by Karima Sa’ad Usman

Chapter 7

07 By Chance Part 1
Emma.
It had finally happened to us. What we all dreaded for years had finally happened. My father had failed us in every way. We sat in chains at the back of the van, dreading what awaited us. My mother and I wept. I knew Tomas couldn’t save us anymore when they clamped the silver on my wrist. Beggers couldn’t be choosers, really. I should have taken Tomas’s offer. It had literally come in the morning. If I had said yes, this wouldn’t have happened. Now I did not know what to do. No one ever gets freed, especially omegas. Once we find ourselves in the underworld service, we can never come out. We are as good as slaves. I did not know if they would keep us together or apart. I feard for my fate and my brothers’. We were physically appealing; they might use us for the pleasure service. Being Tomas’s mistress was better than this.
The van finally stopped, and we were ushered out. They led us into a tall building still in chains. We used the elevator to the floor they were taking us to. My mother and I were put in a room. Two men wore silver collars on our necks to prevent us from linking and shifting. It was a way to ensure we could not escape. With the silver, they had taken away our abilities to work together and escape. My brothers and my father were carried away. They later allocated a place to us. They were nice enough to let us stay in one apartment, but it did not feel like home. We felt like slaves. I sat mute in the corner, still in disbelief of what had happened.
“You bastard. I curse the day I mated with you. You are nothing but a low life and failure. Did you have to drag all of us into this?” My mother screamed at my father in tears. Tevin went to hold her, and she could not stop sobbing. My father had nothing to say for himself. “You couldn’t stop at fifty thousand Leer; you just had to keep going. Now we are stuck here all our lives because of you. I should have left you long ago, but I stayed because of my
children. I should have left with them. You are nothing but a worthless piece of shit.” my
·mother said to him, and he just curled up in the corner, speechless. My mother wept and turned towards me as if something important had crossed her mind. “Who did you say was going to help us pay up?” My mother asked me, and I did not know if I could tell her. I was scared.

“Emma, I am talking to you,” she said, and I looked at Tevin, scared to say it. He nodded that it was alright.
I had always been the quiet and timid type, only daring to speak when something had gone too far, but what had happened had broken me so much that my voice came out almost inaudible.
“Tomas came by my work this morning and offered to pay off the debt if I agree to be his mistress, and father promises to stop gambling.” I blurted out quietly, and my mother was surprised.
“And you turned it down?” she asked, sounding very angry.
“How could you turn down the offer, Emma? Tomas would be the next alpha. Have you seen alpha Gibson’s mistress? No one can ever disrespect her. With your beauty and grace, she has nothing on you. You will have saved us from this if you have said yes. I hope you are happy being a slave of a mob boss. Men and women would use us as they see fit. Thanks to your
father’s poor judgement and your foolish pride,” my mother said, and Tevin yelled at her to stop. Tears streamed down my cheeks. How was this my fault? Why didn’t she stop her mate from gambling our lives away; why did I have to sell myself for their sake? I had told Tomas I would never be with him again; why should I have to eat my words for their sake? The guy used me for four years and dumped me as if it meant nothing to him. He humiliated me and let his mate humiliate my family and me. I can’t forgive him for that. Under normal circumstances, there was no way I would have said yes. If I knew this would happen, I would have agreed, not because I wanted to be with him but to save my brothers and me from the hell my father had plunged us in. I only wished I knew.
“You are an omega, Emma. You are to be submissive..” she said, and Tevin yelled at her again.
I could not say a word to her because she was right. Being Tomas’s mistress was better than this. We were truly finished.
ONE MONTH LATER.
We were subjected to severe hardship, and they threatened to put us in the pleasure
department. Two days of pain, fear and constant bashing from my mother pushed me to reach out to Tomas through Heather, and he came through.
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