Chapter 95
He stops as he tries to gather what little sanity he seems to be getting back, steadying his voice.
“He told me that if any girl came to him claiming she was pregnant with my pup he would force them to abort it by convincing them that the pup was an abomination. He would then punish me severely before placing me in his jail cells while I wait for the council to come get me. That he would take all the evidence of rape that he kept quiet from my brothers and use it to frame me. To destroy me.”
He’s breathing hard as he tries to settle down. I’ve placed my arms on either side of his head. It took him a minute or two but he did manage to lean his head against my one arm so I start using the other to gently pet the nape of his neck. He whines initially but that fades out as he starts talking again.
“Somehow she found out about my meeting with dad. She started to avoid me and after two weeks of being completely ignored and avoided by her I used the card to visit her on a Friday night. I found out quickly that was a popular night for visiting the female dorms as I could hear the activity going on behind the doors. Some sounded like both were having a good time but most sounded scared, painful and forced. Allie’s room was the very last one on the left. I stopped outside the door and listened to verify that no one else was inside with her. I let myself in. I had the box dad gave me in my hands. I sat on the edge of the bed by her feet and waited for her to wake up.”
He puts his hand on his head, taking his time to brush his fingers through his hair. His motion not being stopped for the first time in half an hour seems to comfort him as he continues talking.
“It only took ten minutes or so for her to wake up after I sat down, but it felt like an eternity. She rolled over and ran into me. She froze up, didn’t move for a minute before slowly moving her legs as if she was testing to see if she was tied up. When she realized she wasn’t tied she sat slowly up in her bed. Her eyes were wild with fear. I only looked at her a moment before looking at the ground in shame. We sat together for a long time before she asked me if I was there to rape her. I couldn’t even bring myself to answer her. Eventually I told her no.
It took a while after that to start talking for both of us. When I finally found my voice I had all kinds of questions for her and found out she lost her virginity that way. It hurt to hear what she went through. She invited me to stay the night. I slept on the floor even though she insisted the bed was big enough.
My respect for her turned things towards dating. I stayed the night several times in her room. We made it to second base by the time she found someone else that interested her more. She told me I was too timid when she broke everything off. We had dated for three months at that point.
She came to me six months later in a mental breakdown apologizing for leaving me. She had left the first person she had left me for and ended up with Dallas who is two years older than me. He had started raping her the month before and she stopped to visit me because she had been to my dad’s office begging him to stop him.
He didn’t stop Dallas and Dallas told me two months later that she was pregnant with his pup. But even that didn’t stop him. Neither did my dad. She miscarried three months later. She came to me when the cramps started. I got the doctor to come to my room because she refused to leave. They brought the ultrasound machine and found that the heartbeat was gone. She stayed with me two weeks before leaving. She moved out of the dorm and a month later….”
He trails off not wanting to admit the end result.
“She used the link to tell me goodbye and to tell me where she hid a letter specifically to me. She told me she was leaving the pack. That she couldn’t handle being under a dictator that refused to protect her when she was the most vulnerable.
A week later they found her hanging from a tree, her hands tied behind her back. Her murder was never investigated. It took a while to find the note she left for me. She apologized for hurting me. She accused Dallas and Alpha Redmen of working together to cause her to miscarry the baby and was going to take the evidence she had of the conspiracy to the council. Turns out she had ample evidence to create a case for rape but because Dallas had already abandoned three pups by the age of eighteen instead of stopping the rape when he got her pregnant he was given immunity to keep going until he killed it.”
“Thank you for sharing your story. Is it okay if I ask two more questions? Then we’ll move you to another room so you can sleep.”
“Yes sir.” He whispers as he tries to steady his breathing.
“Obviously this was the relationship you considered real but you mentioned two others.”
“Yes sir. Rachel and Rebecca. I dated both of them for three months. Rachel was a month after I turned seventeen and Rebecca was two months after I broke up with Rachel. Both of them pursued me. Both of them forced themselves on me. I tolerated their forcefulness until the night they tried to take my pants off.”
“I know I said only two questions but this goes along with this first one. Did they touch you or force you to accept oral sex from them?”
“No. I managed to get them off of me before they got beyond undoing the button and zipper of my jeans. I broke up with them that night before leaving their room.”
He sighs as he rolls off my arm back onto the pillow behind him.
“I stopped dating after them. At first it was because I was working with Jamie’s father, Jon Jenkins. I had an interest in carpentry and felt that if something happened where I couldn’t remain with my pack that it would be a useful skill in the human world.
I had just started dating Rebecca when Jon accepted me as his apprentice. There were several times during the last month I was with her that I showed up late because my dad called me into the office to talk to me about forcing myself onto her. The meeting got worse when I tried to tell him that she was doing to me what she claimed I was doing to her. He didn’t react kindly to my admitted weakness or to me pointing out that he had given me permission to do what I wanted with the girls. That he couldn’t have it both ways.
Five month later I woke to him banging on my door. I hit the intercom button near my bed so whoever was waking me could talk and he told me to pack my shit and get out of his house until my apprenticeship was over. That the only time I could step foot in the pack house was the fifteeth of each month and I only needed to report to his office for that.”
“Your dad doesn’t use the link with you?”
“Not in the normal sense. The reason I didn’t start dating again after moving out was because six months after we broke up Rebecca claimed she was pregnant and that I raped her. I had heard rumors that Rebecca was claiming that I was continuing to come see her in the warrior dorms when she was already dating someone else but never did I think she would stoop that low.”
“Was that the first time the Jenkins got exposed to how bad things could get for you?”
“No, I had only been living with them for a month at that time.”
We both remained silent awhile until Angela breaks the silence.
“The room is ready. Cole, I need you to sit up in a chair for the short trip over. It’s a special medical room that’s designed to reduce the anxiety of being in the hospital. I don’t feel you're in need of constant monitoring but I don’t feel you're awake enough to go upstairs.”
I look over to Cole to see his eyes drooping down, nearly closing before, opening quickly and starting again. I smile slightly as I stand, speaking gently I place my hand on his shoulder.
“How about we start with sitting up.”
“Sure.”
He responds sleepily. I reach around the front of him and help pull him into a sitting position. The movement wakes him enough that he moves to the edge of the bed on his own. He teeters when he stands, sitting back down on the bed almost as soon as he stands. He tries again, making it to his feet before taking a few steps and sitting in the chair. Angela steps behind him and starts pushing him out the door.
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