The Lost Goddess, A War On Mates

Chapter 26

Aeris saw the Beta John carrying Tyler. He looked terrible and she came over quickly cupping his cheek. A small smile graced his face as he leaned into the touch. He passed out quickly into the hug. It broke my heart. John seemed to be anxious and immediately pulled Tyler away from me and into a bridal style hold. He started to walk away so I followed. He went all the way to the Beta floor. He quickly opened the door across form his room and nodded towards it signaling me to enter. I closed the door behind me as he set Tyler down as gently as possible. He sat on the edge of the bed and put his face in his hands.

I walked over and kneeled, “Beta John, where has he been?” John glanced up with a weak smile and grabbed my hands.

He sighed, “He has been in the dungeon since January, he was put there for asking where you were during the last peace treaty festival. He also was whipped with a silver cat of nine tails 75 times.” He was shaking slightly, and I paled. He continued,” After the whipping he refused to submit leading him to the dungeons. No one wanted to care for him, so I volunteered. He reminds me of my omega son Zach. They are both such good boys…” A sob escaped his lips talking about his son.

I whispered, “I did not know you had a son. I figured your kids would be Beta’s as well.”

He shook his head smiling with tears running down his cheeks, “My mate Sandra was an omega. My son took after her. She was beautiful and the most important thing to me and Zach. I miss them both so much. Zach looks just like her. He had light brown hair and one green eye and one brown eye. He inherited it from his mom, he always felt special with two pretty eyes. She always smiled at his enthusiasm. He wanted to be big and strong like me, but I ruined them both staying in this god forsaken place…” He sounded defeated and helpless.

I furrowed my brows leaned my head against his forehead, “Calm down John, you are safe, and everything is okay. Where are they now?” I tried to convince him to be open, but he just shook his head.

Pulling away he wiped his eyes, “I will let you know when Tyler is awake for you to visit Aeris.” He stood up and opened the door silently dismissing me. I stood uncertainly and gave Tyler a quick kiss on his cheek. I walked out the door and bowed to Beta John. I walked away and went to start dinner.

After I had got back to the house with Aeris, she went back to cleaning as I went to grab my cell phone that was hidden inside my mattress. After walking down the hall, watching every corner, I stood outside my door making sure no one was in or near my room. I could not smell anything, so I opened my door. Looking around nothing had been moved. I nodded in self-satisfaction and locked my door behind me. I rummaged through the room to make sure nothing had been hidden and quickly lifted the sheet from the bed.

Dialing up an old contact I wait, three rings in and he answers, “Hello, what can I do for you Hart?”

“I was wondering if you had any information on the Blue Moon Pack. I have been hired privately to do some investigations on treatment of pack members, their suspicious behavior towards outsiders, and some unknown financial information. I know you have been working on your own project.” I rattled off my list quickly hoping to not be caught so soon.

A long pause filled the room when suddenly a grunt echoed, “Yes I have quite the interesting file on the Blue Moon Pack, they are constantly low on omega members and prefer to not accept outside members into their pack. No one knows for sure where those omegas go, and the Alpha always has some excuse. They left the pack, found a mate, died by a rogue, etc., but I have been trailing some leads on underground prostitution clubs and labor camps. Some are human centered and are willing participants, but I am zeroing in on a few different locations that are wolf owned and not so willing. I can get back to you when I confirm if your pack has part in these activities.”

I smile and nod, “Alright, call me when you have the information. Also, you are close to some of the other supernaturals. Have you ever heard of a witch’s curse that would make your body and eyes glow and suddenly have tattoos appear?”

Humming could be heard from the other line making Colt’s smile falter,” I have not heard of that ever. Curse or no curse. Have you found someone with these features?”

Shaking his head and sighing, “Yeah it’s a pack slave, she is something else, but we can discuss this a different day and time. Speak to you soon Albania.”

“Speak to you soon Hart.” The line went dead, Colt threw his phone back into his mattress hiding it deep within its stuffing. As he moved the sheet back into place a knock came to the door. He froze and quickly exhaled his shaky breath and put on a smile. He opened the door to Drew.

“Hey Colt, we should head to the training grounds. It would be good for you to get into a routine and get to know the other warriors.”

Walking out of the room and locking it behind me, “Lead the way, boss.” He smirked as I lay it on thick, each one of them were egotistical pricks in this pack. As we made it to the training ground, we came across those two boys from breakfast making my wolf growl in frustration. He liked Aeris a lot and hated these idiots for making her cry.

Drew and the boys began arguing as we approached the field. A fight seemed to ensue and finally their third friend showed up. They went on about a deal for Aeris living arrangements and I just laughed to myself.

All these grown men and they were arguing over a woman’s decisions. I shook my head as they agreed, and I watched two of their asses get beat down. Finally, Aeris came into the picture. I tried so hard to stop it, but Jacob was happy sitting back and watching it all happen. By the end of the fight, I had declared Aeris the Winner and she walked away with a smug Drew. I smirked at the kid who fell to his knees at the silent rejection and walked back to the house looking around to find that kid Lucas for some more answers. I had not seen the Alpha for a while and decided to snoop around his office again.

The Alpha walked downtown into a back alley near the border of the woods. It was late afternoon, and the alley was dimly lit. The building itself looked run down and condemned. He entered the code into the keypad lock and unlocked the hidden door at the end of the alleyway. Stepping inside he was greeted to the back entrance of one of his private businesses.

The room was lit with red light bulbs giving off an ominous feeling. The scent of arousal and fear was pungent in the air. As he walked down the hall, he nodded at a few of his patrons, most had an omega or two on their lap or servicing them with drinks. Many of the more elite packs who had unmated men came to him requesting specific looking men or women.

Making his way to a private back room he found his two most prized possessions, Sandra and Zach. Zach was chained by a special collar so he could please customers freely whilst Sandra hung from the wall by her wrists and ankles.

“Aw how are my two best workers?” I sneered, Sandra barely moved to indicate she was aware of him and Zach flinched. He stepped in front of Zach and held his chin forcing his face up, “I have someone who is very excited to meet you. So, hurry up and get dressed.” Zach nodded while the Alpha walked back out onto the floor. Many of the other Alphas, Betas, Gammas, and elite warriors were openly having s*x with their purchases on the hosting floor.

Smirking the Alpha sat down in his private booth in the back that gave a view of the entire floor. Moments later Zach came out from behind the curtain. He had his hair in a shaggy mess, a nice black vest that had a zipper down the middle, his boxers had black and white vertical stripes outlining his bulge. A growl escaped the Alpha as he noticed he was not wearing any shoes. Zach made his way over to the private booth and bowed to the Alpha. He sat down across from him waiting for his next client.

“Why so sad Zach, you have to entertain them or else your mother dies remember?” I sipped my whiskey as a smile appeared on his face, his rigid posture tightening and his eyes looking dull and dead. A smirk crept its way onto the Alpha’s face, “Ah here he is the man of the hour. I introduce you to our best worker Zach.” A tall man enters the private booth, nodding to the Alpha and smiling at Zach nervously. He sits beside him and pours himself a shot of vodka.

Zach glanced over at the man and blushed. He held his hands tight together to quell the shaking. He was tall with sandy blonde hair. He could not see his eye color do to the ridiculous red lighting, but he wore a black tux with a deep wine red under shirt and a white tie. It would normally clash but it just made him seem fierce.

“Zach is $5,000 a night if you plan on using him that long otherwise, we can work out a deal for a shorter excursion. Most want him for more than one night.” Zach bit his inner cheek and looked down at his bare feet. He wanted to run but could not leave his mom. Nothing was going the way it should have.

“Actually Alpha, I was hoping to purchase Zach.” He whipped his head up wide-eyed wondering if the Alpha would finally agree, this was not the first time someone wanted to buy him for his looks.

The Alpha set down his whiskey glass and crossed his arms over his chest,” Make an offer Alpha Salvino?” Zach stared at them both shaking, he had been used and abused under the pretense he was eighteen and, in all actuality, he has been doing this since he was nine years old. He only recently started to work in the Alpha’s entertainment portion of business, before this it was manual labor working for rogue’s and other unsavory people who wanted under the table workers, no paper trails. When he turned fifteen the Alpha sold him to clients as being eighteen. Zach was currently sixteen and about to turn seventeen.

“I will give you five million for just Zach, but I might offer to buy this business if we could work out a price?” He pulled out a suitcase and slid it across to my Alpha. His eyes widened and he unclasped the little latches holding the case together. As it opened his face lit up with a sick smile. Zach bit his lip hard as he closed the case and slid it back to this other Alpha Salvino.

“Alpha Salvino, may I ask what your interest in my cute little Zach here is and why you would want to prospectively buy one of my successful businesses?” His grin never left his face and it only made Zach tense. He kept glancing towards the back room and waiting to see his mom. His fear was once he would come back from a night of entertaining a client she would be gone or worse, dead.

“Alpha, I like beauty and Zach has just that. I do not have a mate; she died a long time ago and I find women repulsive at this point. He would make a good mistress, for the business I find myself always investing in new endeavors and this is one I could easily manage. If you have a price in mind for the business, I would like to discuss the details?”

“Gladly, would you like just the hidden club or all of my workers as well? I also would have to sell each of my patron’s names to continue their usage of the establishment. In all I have about 100 different omegas running this business, all female except for Zach here. Most of my men omega actually last in manual labor jobs.” He scoffed at Zach making him look down in shame at notwithstanding the harder conditions. He clenched his hands tight together and bit his lip drawing blood. Every time the Alpha was in the building he felt his blood boil, he hated him, he hated his weak excuse of a father, and he hated his clients.

“Alright I will match the price of each omega as I did Zach, so that would be $500 million for the workers how much for the building space and patrons names?” The Alpha’s eyes lit up and Zach felt his stomach clench tight. He quickly grabbed the bottle of vodka and downed a large portion to cool off his wolf. His wolf Gabriel was feisty and made it difficult to not talk back, they both learned quickly talking back could lead to death around the labor camp and rougher r**e here at the red room lounge.

Glaring at Zach the Alpha stood looming over him as he set the bottle down onto the table, “What do you think you are doing Zachary?” Zach glanced up and was immediately hit with a force sending him to the ground below the booth. The shaking had stopped because of the alcohol letting him breath in deeply and scrunching his face at the smell from the floor.

Disgusted he quickly stood up. He winced at his cheek and bowed, “I am sorry Alpha, I needed to calm my wolf he was not happy with the discussion at hand. He is highly loyal to you after all…” A frown sat on his face as the Alpha nodded and sat back down.

“Very well this is only one brothel I am sure I can start another one at a different time, I still have many other fruitful businesses. I will sell you the workers for the $500 million and the building for $50 million, the patrons names for a small 1 million per visitor. I have about 75 regulars and a list of random clients that pop in from time to time. They are only about 300 random visitors though. In total that will be $925 million Alpha Salvino, can you afford it?” He smirked crossing his arms thinking he won. The other Alpha smiled and took Zach’s breath away no one ever smiled before when they came for a purchase. It made him feel giddy knowing that someone could be less disgusting as an Alpha.

Pulling out a check the Alpha Salvino wrote down all the information and slid it across the table along with the suitcase, “This is the check in full payment, deposit it whenever you like, and I would like every detail in writing for my receipt. The suitcase is payment for my night with Zach as well. Until the deal is finalized through legal paperwork, I will not be counting him as my purchase just yet.” The Alpha faltered and nodded looking wearily at Salvino.

“Well, Salvino, what paperwork do you exactly need from me?” Salvino narrowed his eyes and grabbed Zach’s hand as he sat wide eyes at the conversation. His wolf Gabriel purred as Salvino rubbed small circles into his hand and stared down the Alpha.

“I need business licenses, an agreement I paid you and this property is mine along with all the workers and patrons names, and that you have willingly relinquished this property to me. It is quite simple and can be finished in a day or two. Until then, come Zach.” He stood and pulled Zach up to his feet gently as the Alpha seemed irritable.

Walking down the steps Salvino smiled down at Zach and led him to a back room that was lit with light blue lights. It made Zach a bit dizzy going from one monochrome red room to the monochrome blue room. Blinking rapidly, he rubbed his eyes. Looking around Zach noticed the Alpha sat down on the couch and laid his head back. He fidgeted unsure what he wanted from him, his deal seemed more then business at the table, but he bought him for the night. Sighing Zach walked over and straddled the Alpha.

Salvino’s head jerked up with wide eyes and he frowned, “What are you doing Zach?”

Zach narrowed his eyes and mumbled, “You bought me for the night, I am doing my job…” He wrapped his hands around Salvino’s neck as Salvino sighed pinching the bridge of his nose and removing Zach’s arms and setting him next to his side on the couch.

“Zach I may have paid for the night, but I promise you I do not want to have your services.” He cringed at the word services knowing full well as an omega he most likely was forced to be here. It was rare to be a male omega as beautiful as Zach was and Salvino knew why he was so expensive; Zach was a rare breed.

Male omegas tended to be able to get pregnant along with being overtly feminine in nature and caring. They were easy targets to manipulate and man handle, it rubbed Salvino the wrong way how many were used and abused when they should be treasured. You may only find one or two male omegas in a whole pack of three to four hundred members if you were lucky.

Zach sighed in relief and sat limp in the couch finally relaxing. He closed his eyes and his breathing evened out, Salvino smiled to himself, Zach fell asleep with a stranger in the room. It spoke volumes of the trust he had already built with Zach, hopefully he could convince Zach to be his chosen mate and help him on his mission to eliminate omega mistreatment. Salvino caressed Zach’s cheek and gave it a light kiss pulling the poor boy into his side covering him with his suit jacket.

They sat there relaxed for the rest of the evening as the Alpha sat in his back office looking for forgeable paperwork to give to the Alpha Salvino Albania. The money was too good to refuse, and the lies were making it a bit hard to keep up, it was time to cut ties with the business and lie to the Beta about his wife and son dying from manual labor accidents. A sinister smile plastered the Alpha’s face as he hummed to himself and worked on making all Salvino’s paperwork demands come to life.