Nero called Benny straightaway and asked him again to urgently send the footage from all the cameras in his suite from yesterday. While waiting to receive the footage, he mind-linked his personal guards to go and check on the Omega in the basement.
"Alpha sir," came a voice through the mind-link. "The situation is not good. I think you need to get down here."
As Nero walked into the basement, he got a strong whiff of something assault his nose. As he descended the stairs, the smell got worse and worse. As Amelie was the only current resident in this secret dungeon, the smell must've been coming from her cell. As he stepped in, he saw the product of the mess he made. He saw the girl had not moved an inch since he left her. Blood and urine had dripped down and spread everywhere; her back was covered with open wounds which he could see through the back of her ripped dress. 'Thankfully all her lady parts were covered,' he thought as though that saved her a little dignity. Her face was bruised from where she hit the floor when she collapsed, and he could make further out bruising across her abdomen where he kicked her but there was more than what he inflicted. She was still unconscious, breathing short and shallow breaths and her thin body looked like it was ready to give up any moment.
"s**t!" Nero exclaimed, he quickly mind-linked his doctor to get over here as quickly as possible but provided no details.
A short while later, Joshua Chamberlain (Josh), the Alpha's personal physician and childhood friend arrived on the scene. He could be heard uttering curses in his deep baritone voice, as he walked down the stairs. Eventually, he came into view, and Nero saw a familiar pair of green eyes and handkerchief covered face approaching him.
"What the hell happened here?" Josh asked in horror at the sight that lay before him.
"I'll explain later, can you treat her?" Nero asked.
"Not here, no. She needs to be transferred to the hospital."
"You can't do anything for her here?"
"No, I was just told to get here as quickly as possible. Is that piss I smell?"
"Yes, look I'll explain it all later Josh, I need you to give her the best treatment; keep her in my private rooms."
"Ok Nero. I've got this, but afterwards, I will need an explanation."
"Yes, meet me in my office when you have time."
Josh nodded and got to work. He mind-linked a couple of paramedics and cleaners he trusted to meet him at the pack house with all the necessary supplies. Meanwhile, Nero returned to his office and saw some emails with very important attachments waiting for him. As he played the video footage of all the rooms, there was nothing to see, until he saw the bedroom recording.
Vanessa initially looked through his drawers and cupboards with the curiosity of a small child; her eyes were filled with fascination. Eventually, she undressed herself and crawled onto the Alpha's bed taking in the smell of his sheets and moaning as she did so. She rolled onto her back and spread her legs wide. Lifting her pelvis up slightly, she sucked her fingers and then began to finger both of her fuckholes; one with each hand. She writhed against her hands moaning as she pleasured herself. Ordinarily it would have been a real turn on to any man watching such a graphic scene. From her long blonde hair, light blue eyes, plump rosy lips and her long legs, to the juicy pink lips that lay between them aching to be f****d; it was a sight to behold. Her plump breasts and pink n*****s bouncing teasingly as she moved up and down; it all only filled Nero with anger, knowing what she had done. As her slick juices ran down her thighs Vanessa began to slide another finger inside each of her holes and moaned. She took her fingers out of her ass and placed them on her c**t and rubbed. Her moaning got louder and her hands moved faster. Minutes later she let an almighty moan as she climaxed, her hands rubbing her c**t as she did so.
Vanessa lay there for about five minutes when she heard a knock on the door. Nero saw her leap off the bed, put her clothes on quickly and straighten up the bed. He compared the timestamp of the knocking with the with the time Amelie entered and they matched perfectly.
"I think I have the perfect plan for what to do with those f**k holes," Nero smirked, as he re-watched the exchange between Amelie and Vanessa.
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Amelie was rushed into hospital post haste and taken to the Alpha's private rooms in the hospital. If anyone in the Alpha's family was treated, they have this luxury suite all to themselves to receive visitors and recover. There was a kitchen, a living area, a bathroom and a couple of spare bedrooms as well as the main bedroom which had its own en-suite.
Amelie was wheeled into the main bedroom and there, her treatment began. As she was unconscious, Josh needed to be sure she wasn't in a coma. After a few routine checks, he realised she was underweight, malnourished and dehydrated; she had broken ribs and bruising on her abdomen and head, the skin on her back had been ripped open all over and there were signs of infection. When he pulled out her file, apart from her birth certificate there was nothing else in there which seemed very strange. According to her file, she was only 15 years old, which meant she wouldn't have her wolf yet; this explained why she hadn't healed much. He also noticed on her neck where a mated wolf's mark would be, she had an 'X' tattooed there.
"Curiouser and curiouser," Josh muttered.
Josh and the nurses began to work. They put her onto a saline drip and measured her vitals; she had a high fever which could be due to the infected wounds on her back. Josh administered her some antibiotics to help with this and they began to undress her. What lay beneath her clothes broke Josh's heart into a thousand pieces. Her body had been bandaged up by a medical expert very recently, but strangely, there was nothing about this in her file. As he began to cut the bandages off, Nero marched into the suite. Josh dismissed the nurses, sending them off to prepare fresh dressings for her back; he needed answers from the Alpha. Josh removed the bandages from her front to reveal the large ugly bruises causing them both to gasp. Rolling her gently onto her front, his heart bled looking at her back. He could tell she had been beaten with a belt, the marks where the skin had been ripped open and the rough shape where the buckle had hit her could be clearly seen. Josh turned to Nero looking for answers and began cleaning her wounds.
"What the f**k happened here Nero? She's just a girl!"
Nero kept his face neutral and truthfully explained what had happened in the order of events; the whole truth as he now knew it.
"So, you're telling me, you beat an innocent girl to within an inch of her life and then pissed on her. A girl who was only following your instructions and despite her attempts to prove her innocence you..... you ignored her, and destroyed her anyway."
"Not all those injuries were inflicted by me," Nero countered.
"Oh, sorry yes big bad Alpha, you're right, only the ones that might kill her or permanently scar her were the injuries inflicted by you!" Josh hissed. "What were you thinking? That was badly done Nero, very badly done."
Before Nero could reply, the door opened and Sienna who happened to be Josh's mate walked in.
"Oh, my Goddess so it’s true! Amelie!" she cried out rushing to her side. "What happened to her Josh?"
"Si, what are you doing here? You can't just come barging in!" Josh growled.
"I will do as I damn well please! She is my patient! I thought I recognised the scent!"
"I thought I recognised her bandages!"
Nero coughed, clearing his throat, which alerted Sienna to his presence.
"Apologies Alpha," Sienna gave a bow. "I'll leave, but keep me posted," Sienna requested and turned to leave.
"No," commanded Nero. "Stay. You said she's your patient. What were you treating her for?"
Sienna sighed.
"Amelie comes in regularly with bruises, cuts and fractures; I patch her up and send her on her way. I used to think it was because she's an Omega or that she was adopted, but there is much more to it. She never tells me who beats her; she tells me it was a clumsy accident, but a doctor always knows. I have always suspected that b***h Vanessa, but have never been able to prove it."
Nero's eye grew dark at the mention of that slut's name and began to growl. Sienna began to slowly step backwards.
"Never mind him," Josh interrupted, he threw Sienna some gloves "make yourself useful."
Sienna helped Josh clean Amelie's bloodied back, tears streaming down her face. The nurses returned with the dressings; Josh and Sienna worked into the early evening patching up their little rag doll, under the watchful eyes of Nero.
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Nero had mind-linked Lily to visit him at the hospital later that evening. By the time she arrived, Sienna and Josh had completely cleaned Amelie up and bandaged her. Amelie's wounds were still weeping as the infection was working its way out of her system and they required changing regularly. She was still unconscious and was showing no signs of waking. Nero watched her sleeping so peacefully; it was such a contrast to those screams he heard her make that day. They would forever haunt him.
"Oh Goddess! Nero what did you do to her?!" Lily exclaimed upon entering the room.
"I'm sorry Aunt, I was wrong," Nero replied humbly looking down, feeling like a child again.
Lily, although wasn't related to Nero by blood, had loved him, raised him and treated him like she would one of her own children. Tears streamed down her face as she sat by Amelie's side; she couldn't begin to imagine what Amelie must have gone through.
"Tell me Nero, where did I go so wrong?" Lily asked him.
Nero eyes flicked up at her in confusion.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm asking you where I went so wrong in raising you, for you to be capable of doing something like this?"
"You didn't go wrong anywhere, I lost control of my temper. I'm truly sorry."
"I'm not the one to whom you should apologising or asking forgiveness from."
"I understand."
A comfortable silence exchanged between them. Lily rose to her feet and walked to the foot of the bed, standing beside Nero. She took Nero's hand in hers and gave it a squeeze.
"She will get better. Right now, until she wakes up, the best thing you can do is find the one who framed her. Find the culprit that wanted this to happen. By the way, can her friends visit her tomorrow?"
"Yes. they can visit, but only her close friends. Nobody else. You can also tell them I am delivering swift justice to the person who wanted to hurt her."
Lily gasped as she heard this.
"Y-Y-You know? Wh-Who-w-wanted you to hurt her?"
Nero gave her a sharp nod and said nothing further on the matter.
"Would you be able to stay the night here with her Lily? In case she wakes up?" he asked her softly. "I'll have the spare room made up for you and some dinner sent for you."
"Yes, of course. I'm sure she'd like to see a familiar face when she wakes up," Lily replied warmly.
Nero gathered his thoughts. Lily was right; he then marched out of the hospital and back to his office to deal with a loose end (or woman) he needed to tie up.