Chapter 166
“That’s what I did to Cole.”
Lucas admits quietly. Madilyn turns on Lucas’s lap to look him in the eyes.
“Why do you not like Cole?”
“A wolf from his pack claims that’s he’s raping his luna and he has a weird relationship with the young girls in his pack. He marks them like they’re his mate. Dallas said he’s seen girls as young as seven with his mark.”
“Doesn’t the mark hurt?”
Madisyn asks, cocking her head in curiosity.
“Yes, receiving the mark can cause a lot of pain depending on the circumstances under which it’s received. After you’ve shifted into your wolf it’s a lot easier to handle the mark than when you’re a young child.”
I try to explain.
“Your mom and I recently ran into a painful situation where hurting her was the only way to fix the problem.”
The girls’s mouths are open and the boys are looking at us intently. While I would never go into details on their mother and I’s activities I have never shied away from being honest about mates and one’s relationship with your fated one.
“Since we are bonded mates I knew that marking her would release chemicals in her brain that would lessen the pain that I would cause her in fixing the problem so …..”
I move the collar of my t-shirt on my left side away from my collarbone exposing the healed but still red mark their mother gave me a little over a week ago.
“A combination of her marking me and me marking her allowed her to handle the pain that I had to cause to fix our problem.”
I see the boys nod in understanding and the girls are in awe, most likely at the sight of my mark.
“The mark does many things. It strengthens the bond between all mates; fated, chosen and arranged, allowing them to feel the pain and emotions of their other half. It also claims one person to the other allowing all single wolves to know that the other has bonded and most wolves will leave them alone. Now, in the case of little pups, I don’t know how being marked would affect them. I do believe it would cause them great pain to be marked, but with what little research I’ve done about the marking of young pups, I do believe that it would change their scent and be temporary.”
“Cole said he won’t stop protecting them.” Madilyn whispers.
“When did you hear that?” Lucas is getting defensive again.
“When daddy let me lay with him.”
“Dad! Are you crazy? Letting her lay with someone rumored to be what he is.”
“We don’t know who he is.”
I growl out reminding him of the earlier conversation. He immediately becomes submissive as Madilyn drops the subject.
“Going back to why I punished you the way I did, Lucas. When I went upstairs after Cole, as I expected, he was nude and, because he felt he had made a deal with me, expecting physical punishment. I didn’t punish him.”
I interrupt Madilyn before she can speak.
“The yelps and screams that you heard were from me grabbing hold of him, trying to keep him from falling. He was very reactive because he was afraid and in a lot of pain.
Even though he had prepared himself for a beating it didn’t lessen the fear he had towards me. I asked a series of questions that led to me finding out that he’s been abused by the alpha of at least one pack that he’s been a prospect with.
All three packs he’s visited found out about the abuse the same way I did. In the case of Red Moon, it was a sparring session that triggered a nightmare that led to him going into a panic induced asthma attack. He was in their hospital for ten weeks before he was moved to the medical room like what I have upstairs. I have a recording of information that Cole provided me of what happened to him when he defied the alpha’s order to give him a child.”
I hold my hand up signaling a stop to any questions that may be raised.
“Like with us, he was at dinner. There were multiple kids at the table and the alpha had strict rules for all of them to follow. The beta’s son was the youngest at four and did extremely well following the strict rules. He was hungry that night and he wasn’t given enough food. He waited twenty minutes before attempting to serve himself which resulted in him falling from the chair and knocking several things over.
Cole noticed the alpha removing his belt before he told Cole to bring him David. When he refused, the boy’s father punched Cole and took the child. The child was then stripped of his clothes from the waist down and laid on the table where the alpha took his belt to him.”
Everyone has a hard time with the story. Even with it being her second time hearing the story Lilly has tears in her eyes.
“About twenty minutes after Cole ran from the table the beta came to his room and told him that the alpha wanted him. He was taken to an office where he was restrained to the alpha’s desk before being stripped of his clothes from the waist down and received a belt to his bare skin.
He could not tell me the length of time the child or himself were hit but he did tell me that a timer and four people were involved in his. Each wolf had a different strength and speed which, after careful thought and some research, I found was most indicative of the timing method of punishment. Problem is, Alpha Anthony is misusing it to an abusive level.
The basics of the timing method that most packs use is the wolf’s age in increments of five in time on their bottom. The council found that to be abusive so they compromised for a short time allowing it to happen but they changed the rules.
When the council allowed it to be used their rule was one minute per five years of age on a clothed backside. There’s no way to know how long Cole’s punishment went on but I find it safe to say he took at least four minutes at four different strengths. Now Lucas, you took delta level for thirty seconds with clothes on. From what he told me I believe he had gamma, delta, beta than alpha on his bare bottom.”
I can see Lucas deep in thought as I finish explaining.
“Why did the alpha order that?” He asks quietly.
“For defiance. He out right defied the alpha’s order when he refused to give up the child for punishment.”
“He was afraid for me?” Madisyn blurts out quietly.
“Yes he was, Maddie. He ran off to his room because he was expecting me to do something more after he let you go. Something he can’t handle witnessing a small pup go through. I know he expected me to take a belt to him for defiance. He also expected to be punished for lying about the pain he was in.”
The look of disbelief weighs on Lilly’s face.
“Lilly?”
I speak gently as I can tell this is weighing heavy on her.
“He was afraid to admit he was in pain?”
“Yes, and after he struggled with telling me about his punishment with Alpha Anthony he fell apart again admitting that he lied about the pain. I think that’s why he had such a bad reaction to me moving his leg. Considering the injuries he’s already taken between them, I’m certain he expected me to add to them when he yelped like he did.”
I can see my boys grimace at the thought and the girls, who are both straddling each brother’s legs, look between their own trying to figure out what is injured.
“His boy parts got spanked?”
Madilyn seems to be the first of my girls to realize what I’m speaking of.
“It would appear that his alpha has no limitations on what he’s willing to do to him for punishment.”
I speak softly at the realization that this isn’t the first time Cole has been punished that way.
“Shall we go see him? The nurse that has taken care of him the last six days called out sick and the new one assigned to him seems to be struggling which is concerning.”
I see the girls’s faces light up with the idea of getting to see him. The boys simply nod their heads. I stand from my seat and hold my hand out to Lilly as Madisyn and Madilyn climb off Damian and Lucas’s laps. I allow the kids to lead the way out the door as Lilly and I follow close behind.
It doesn’t take long to get everyone into the van for the short drive over to Crimson General. I’m actually getting anxious to get there as I don’t like the reports I’m getting from the pack members that work in the hospital’s ICU.
As the alpha and a doctor I have my own parking spot in the front row of the employee parking lot so I don't have to worry about having to park far away or spend a lot of time looking for one.
I pull right into my spot and help Madilyn out of the van while Lilly tends to Madisyn. We make our way comfortably through the main entrance and stop at the front desk.
“Good afternoon, Alpha Black.”
“Hello, Ansley. Is Cole still in the same room? Third floor, room 15?”
“Yes sir, but children are not allowed in the ICU.”
“They’re fine Ansley. Thank you.”
“Sir, children…..”
Although I’m ashamed of my rudeness, cutting her off as she repeats the hospital policy, I’m hoping things aren’t as bad as they seem. We hop onto the first elevator that opens and take it to the third floor before turning left towards the ICU.
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