Chapter 237
He sighs heavily as he pauses for a drink.
“I locked the door behind me not even thinking about alpha having a master key to every room in the pack house and outlying buildings. It was a gruesome sight to see. As I forced myself to walk through the small training room all I could see was my friend’s lifeless body lying in the middle of the floor. He was nude and bleeding badly from all the cuts left by the belt buckle. His body was facing away from me but I could still make out the growing puddle that surrounded his head. It looked like a scene from a horror movie, only it’s his reality.
I circled his body so I could see his face and as I expected he was unconscious, bleeding bad from his nose and mouth. I reached out to him, touched his hair as I called his name. It took several minutes but I did get him to yelp himself awake. It made me nervous that the noise would cause alpha to come back but it wasn’t the same as the fear I have now in helping him.”
“What changed to make you afraid?”
“Not yet alpha.”
He whispers as he turns to face me, his cheeks wet from silent tears.
“Alpha Redmen only trains certain warriors to be a field medic so I was quite lost on how to help him. As adamant as he was that me and my family leave him to fight his own battles we knew he would never survive on his own. Not if what we had seen from the time we met him continued.
Mom, dad and I agreed among ourselves that we would continue to help him as much as possible. I called to him again and told him I’d be back when he groaned and squeezed my hand. I moved quickly but quietly to the door, cracked it open and verified that no one was in the hall. The lights were dimmed indicating that the offices were closed for the evening.
I closed and locked the door again before finding a hand pad and darting out the side door. I shifted without undressing allowing me to run faster. Unfortunately I didn’t realize how late it was at night until I got home. It startled my dad into a partial shift because he wasn’t expecting me to come home the day before I left.
He ended up pulling me into a hug because I was so frantic and crying hysterically that he couldn’t understand me. It wasn’t until he put me in a soft submit that I was able to pull myself together enough to be understood. Once he understood what had happened he went after his personal medic bag in his room while I threw on a quick pair of pajamas, jumped in the car and left for the pack house.
He pulled around back and followed me to the side door. He kept asking questions about getting into the room when I insisted on going around back. Fortunately no one had disturbed the pad I placed on the ground to keep the door open so we got in easily. Dad went straight to work cleaning him up gently and trying to get him conscious enough to walk back to his room.
Dad had a special blanket that he wrapped around him once he was awake enough to move around. We walked him slowly back to his room and we were surprised but grateful to run into Olivia. We had never been inside the pack house on a regular basis outside of reporting to alpha’s office so all we knew was that his room was on the ground floor at the back of the house where the omega maids tend to sleep.
She showed us easily to his room and punched in a numeric code that unlocked the door. He had spoken of the modifications that he had made to the room so his father couldn’t get to him but it was still surprising to actually see it. She held the door open and we both noticed a bite mark where markings are commonly left during the claiming of a mate near her neck. I kept my mouth shut but dad commented on it after she shut the door. She burst into tears when she saw the shape he was in. Started talking nonsense about how this belting was her fault. We didn’t realize it until we got farther into the room how far down our pack had gone. I had never seen so many pups in one place. There were at least a dozen pups, mostly girls, all camping on the floor of his room on thick memory foam pads. Some of the girls were wrapping so tight in their blanket I would have thought that they were overheating. Those were the girls that didn’t wake up when we entered the room. Several of the pups looked like they had just been beaten a day or two previously and I will never forget the fear each of them held as I helped Cole sit on his bed. Several of the youngest pups started crying in the arms of an older one. Dad made the mistake of picking Olivia up. I don’t recall how old she was but she was quite petite and him picking her up like he does with Caitlyn didn’t help her. It took Cole’s alpha voice and aura to shock her out of her fright long enough for her to respond to my father.
She confessed that she was the one that got him belted because she left his room before the mark had healed enough to be covered by make up. My dad held her a long time while I helped Cole get to the bathroom and put some loose fitting clothes on. As much as he fears shots he allowed dad to give him some. I think dad gave him penicillin, Vicodin and Valium before he left. I stayed the night to make sure he didn’t have a bad reaction to the drugs and dad woke me around 4am to make sure I had enough time to get my stuff from the guest room I was in out to the bus. Everyone was asleep when I left.
A few hours later while we waited to board the bus Alpha Redmen called dad and I aside. He told me that I was to follow him to his office and that dad was to report to his office as soon as he finished work. He said that if I was old enough to be a prospect then I’m old enough to be punished for insubordination. I didn’t believe that the punishment for insubordination could be very severe and I followed him away from the bus. I thought that removing me from the first run was my punishment and he wanted to emphasize the point. I had never been punished by Alpha Redmen before that point so I had no idea what to expect.”
He’s finally made his way over to the couch and takes a seat beside me, finishing the water once he’s seated.
“The longer it took to get to his office the more nervous I became as I’ve heard horror stories about how he chains you to his desk while talking to you about your punishment but for some reason I just couldn’t believe he’d subject pack members to the same cruelty as Cole.”
He pauses for several minutes as he paces the room.
“Would you like more water? A bathroom break?”
I speak gingerly knowing that the young man has started into a tough memory, one that I believe is the first time he was subjected to the brutality of Alpha Redmen.
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