#19 Tortured

what surprised them most was the fact that they would have never thought it could be him, he was one of the alpha king’s most trusted warriors. How was it possible that he could betray the alpha king or even attempt to kill the queen?
The man who knelt with his hands placed tightly behind his back was also a dear friend and was a very close friend to the king. “Do you have anything to say for yourself?”, the king said, bending down so he was looking the wide-eyed man in the eye.
He was not looking for an excuse from the man, there was no excuse as to why he did what he did. He just wanted some sort of explanation, some sort of closure that would let him sleep a night, knowing he had ended his enemy and not his friend.
“I-I a-am i-incredibly so-sorry, my l-lord”, the frightened man stammered, from the moment the alpha king walked into the clearing, he had known there was no way out of this for him,

“Do not apologize to me, you treacherous snake”, he grabbed the man by his hair, almost ripping the roots of his scalp, the man screamed in pain but this just added fuel to the flame of the alpha king’s deadly desires, “Why did you do to me what you have done?”,
his canines elongated as the man’s neck lay exposed for him. He could just rip out his jugular and end him there and then but death was just way too easy, he had never been one to kill on impulse.
He would make sure he tortured his opponent before finally killing them, it was a habit he had stuck to over the years and nothing could ever make him leave that vicious part of himself.
“I did it because I loved Lilly and you took her away from me”, he wheezed out in sheer pain. After his answer, the already furious alpha king tightened the grip on the man’s hair.
“You are most must trust companion, I saw you as a brother and you are telling me you did it because you loved her”, he threw the man at the crowd in anger, making sure he broke at least five bones.

The man yelled in pain as the alpha king walked towards him, the other men parting in separate ways like the red sea. “Where is your accomplice, Jack?”, he growled at the man.
“I don’t know”, the man coughed out, “Do not lie to me”, he bent down in front of the man once again and took the man’s neck in his hands, elongating his sharp claws slowly so they could dig into the man’s skin in the most painful way possible.
“I swear I do not know”, he sputtered out blood from his blue lips and that was when the alpha king decided the digging was enough before he would get tempted to rip out the man’s breathing circuit.
He sighed and stood to his full length, “Since you are not ready to give out any information, we’ll have to do this the hard way; and I am sure you are very familiar with what the hard way is, isn’t that right, Luke?”, the alpha king placed a sinister smile on his lips,
“Four of you”, he pointed at the nearest guards to the scene, “Carry your so-called second in command and take him to my dungeons. Guard him with your life for he is very cunning”, they grabbed the subconscious second in command roughly and dragged him away.
“Let this be a solid warning to all of you, I do not tolerate betrayal, treachery, and treason. I tend to retaliate badly when it comes down to them. You are all dismissed to your posts”, those were the alpha king’s last words to the guards before they bowed and began to file out of the clearing.

Narrator’s POV.

Clank. Clank. Clank.

The sound of the iron rod hit the metal bars of the dungeon, slowly but harshly. The holder of the road was doing it purposely to create fear in the mind of his victim.
The holder took a pause, taking in the smell of the well-known and feared dungeon, it smelt of blood, sweat, tears, urine, and most importantly, fear.
All in all, the air smelled fresh for the sadistic man, it was everything in one place; The stale smell of urine showed that he had scared his victim. The beautiful smell of blood from when he had tortured them to death. Their tears as he broke every one of their bones.
The sweat rolled off their bodies due to fear and the heat of the dungeon. The fear they felt when they saw him enter their cell. That personally, was his favorite thing about this place.
On his arrival, one of the four guards he had told to escort the offender, opened the thick gate and allowed him to enter the cell of his desired choice. The bloodied-up man who lay right at the center of the holding cell looked frightened and distraught at the arrival of the mean-looking alpha king.

He pushed his weak body backward as he backed up to the wall. The alpha king found humor in the situation and his worthless attempt to get away or try to escape from what he knew was inevitably going to happen.
“Look at you", the alpha king spat on him, bouncing the rod from hand to hand, “So weak", he walked up to the man slowly and kicked him with full force, making the man choke out a yell, “So pathetic”, he took the man's hair in his hands and raised him with it, “So useless", he threw the man back to the ground,
making sure his head hit the wall in the most painful way possible; but not enough to kill him, only enough to make him wish for death. “My lord, I beg of you. End this torture, end me",
the man got on his knees weakly and begged, the alpha king took a deep breath as he saw the face of someone he once saw as an ally; not anymore. This man had betrayed him and brought danger to his late queen, that was unforgivable!

The penalty was death, and that was exactly what he was going to give the man; death. But this sort of death could not be given out overnight and the man in question knew that. “You know I cannot do that Luke", the alpha king said, his eyes cold and empty,
although he felt thousands within him. He had never seen himself in this horrible position before, he could not even begin to imagine it. Without ever imagining it, it had become a reality, a very sick reality that made his blood boil and stomach churn.
Why did this man he saw as a friend have to betray him the way he did? He understood that he was not the most understanding or listening person but he tried his best to be a good leader to all those who
deserved it. At this point, he realized the man kneeling in front of him, his now-former head guard, deserved nothing from him. He had been the one to make that clear. “Please, your majesty, remember all we had been through together.
Pity me", the pathetic man pleaded as crocodile tears fell from his red and blotchy eyes, “Luke, remember that I also once kept my complete trust in you, you
broke that trust and now you must pay the price and consequences of your actions."