Our Luna, Our Mate by Linda Middleman

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TRIGGER WARNING: This chapter contains triggers such as rape, torture, slight kink / BDSM, and Blood. I will always try to give readers a heads up when writing such chapters but please just be aware that all chapters going forward will have some sort of extra

naughty content to them so if you've decided to venture further just know you've been warned.***

Athena's POV

Pain, Pain is always a constant reminder as to why I'm here, pain to those who hate me instead of loving and protecting me like they should. Pain which serves as a reminder of all I've been through and what I still go through as my Uncle roughly dragged me into the basement.

I wasn't sure why he had done it, buy when I had finally made my way downstairs this morning I was instantly met with an equally pissed off Uncle who was all but screaming at me for supposedly trying to attack my cousin when after all it wasn't me who was doing the attacking but that of Diana when she decided to slam me into my bedroom door and jabbing the door handle into my back.

After that moment I knew, I knew that no matter what I did, Diana would always find some way to make her parents believe that it was all me and that she was just an innocent victim in it for after all it's been like that since my rejection to Jacob and the day my life became hell for it wasn't my choice to be paired up with him but that of the Moon Goddess.

"You UNGRATEFUL child" growls Collin, as he begins to chain me to a support beam that hung just above my head, my hands being raised above my head which are then snapped into a pair of silver cuffs that painfully pinch into my skin, my restraints tight to keep me from escaping as I now dangle there.

"Please Uncle... I didn't do it" I whimper in hopes he would listen to me. But like always he doesn't bother as he moves to grab something from one of the wooden benches that were down there. Of course it doesn't take long to know exactly what it was that he grabbed when he moved to strike me with it, making it strike me across my chest.

A whip, a long thick leather whip as he swings it at me again allowing it to bite into my flesh as it rips the front of my shirt slightly. "Lies" says Collin again as he whips the whip again hitting its mark once more as I whimper in pain.

"Please... I'll be good" I beg, not wanting to be beaten especially with the Mating Ball coming up and me being forced into helping with its preparations while my body gradually healed from the last beating I had received.

"Oh you'll be good alright, once I'm done with you" sneers Collin as he moves to circle me, like I've suddenly become his prey, his emerald green eyes watching me as he slowly moves to stand behind me, the whip still in his hand before he sends it soaring forward once more allowing it to hit me in the back which rips a scream from me as it lands between my shoulder blades my back ripping open as it did.

the whip again making it land in another spot on my back which has me screaming once more unaware that Brian had followed us into

I don't immediately do as I'm told, my Uncle unleashes the whip again. "I SAID

as the whip hits again, this time harder

"T-Two"

"Three"

"Four"

back was already on fire, each hit cutting my back more and more into tiny

"Eight"

"Nine"

"T-Ten"

grab something else from the bench, a small tube-like syringe that was filled with a strange liquid as he moved back towards me and my now sore body. Spotting the syringe, I try to struggle with my bindings, the cuffs biting into my already raw wrists from when I was pulling on them during my whipping as I tried to move away from the harsh whip. But as my Uncle continued to move closer the more I tried to run, for there inside the syringe was a small dose of

needle and pushing in the wolfsbane, the effects almost immediate as I feel Artemis slip away into an induced sleep

assumptions are so that I can't use

into my mouth, a ball of some sort as he moves to fasten it behind my head, tears threatening to fall as panic starts to set in. NO! I silently scream as I try to push the ball out from inside

as he slowly moves away from me only to be replaced with that

I hear as he gently caresses

tongue?" taunts Brian as he moves to cup my tear stained face, a smirk playing at his lips as he takes in all my fear and

could, I threw all my pain and fear into that one look as I tried my hardest to show him that if he tried anything with me that

at my chest that he would try to bite, preventing me from finding my second chance mate. "Don't worry, I don't plan to bite you. After all who would want you after I'm done" and with that Brian takes out a small knife that he had nearby and begins to remove my shirt with a couple of swift moves, the knife cutting away

watching all of this as if he was suddenly turned on by he fact that

with a smirk as he moves to cup my breast, threw the fabric of my bra, his thumb