Marcus POV
After hours of boring paperwork, making sure I have made a lot of the neglected paperwork I went down to the kitchen to get my mate something to eat. She had not eaten a lot earlier and I was worried she would be hungry. But thinking about what Daniel said to me about starting with smaller portions of food, I made a bowl of fruit for her, a big one with all kinds of fruit, I did not expect her to eat everything if she ate some of it. When I had the fruit and orange juice, I made my way to my room. I knocked on the door to tell her I was there and waited a little bit because she might be still asleep. So, after a minute I walked into my room to see her rolling over the bed crying and looking like she is in pain. I can hear her whimpering like she is in a lot of pain. “Please, please do not whip me again. I-I wi-ll d-o EV-every-thi-ng you want please stop hurting me. No, no nooooo please stop!” I hear her whispering this before she begins to scream, I did not hear her struggle before because the walls are soundproof. I rushed my way over to her and put the food down and I held her hand and shook her shoulder to try and wake her up from her nightmare, to tell her she is safe, but as soon as I touched her, she seemed to relax a little at my present. She grabbed my hand as her life depended on it and she fell back asleep without nightmares. I tried to get away from her when she was asleep, but every time I tried, she would steer and start to whimper, so I stayed with her. I was happy for her, but I knew she would freak out when she woke up.
Anna’s POV
When I slept, I always had these horrible nightmares, this time was no different. I was back with Max and his pack, I had done something wrong, or just breathing I cannot tell the difference, maybe they were bored. I was chackeld to a cross, I was not wearing any clothes, and there they were alpha Max and nine of his strongest and most brutal “friends”, is beta and delta included. Al of them was naked or only wearing pants, and all of them had a whip, all of them had their kind of whip, wolfsbane, nails, silver, poison other stuff, I only knew all of them hurt. The alpha tells that I have been a bad girl, that I deserve punishment and that his “friends” deserve some fun time and they like to play with their toys and to find their release. I knew what he meant with it, first torture and then rape, I knew what was coming but I still begged him to stop and told him I would everything, but they would not listen they only laughed and began. Then they took their position as one side the cross was protecting me a little but not much, they were only two thin metal bars in the form of a cross I was leaning on, so they could reach everywhere, the alpha had told me he had it specially made for me. First, their hits were consistent, all at the same time with the same amount of time between them and the same force, but after a while, it faded and all the hits were being made at their own pace. I was not making any noise, not anymore and just took my punishment. They whipped me until they began to become tired and they stopped one by one, but Max went on and on, hitting me harder and in all the places he could reach, making a small whimper escape me. He strikes a few more times before he stops panting a little. He told the guys to have fun but to not take me off the cross. And all nine men did. Al on their own pace from behind, but also the front even though they could not reach my mouth at some point four of them were inside of me or maybe five, it hurts and I screamed my lungs out, but they just laughed and went on, until they had enough, and left. I was still bound to the cross, I was happy they did make take them in my mouth, it is disgusting, and I cannot get used to the taste. Then the alpha came back in, on his own with his creepy smile and I started begging again for him to leave me alone, but he would not he got me off the cross and started to beat and kick me and he took off his pants. But before he could force himself in me, I shot awake drenched in sweat and shaken. It was still light, and I figured I had not slept long, and that Marcus was still gone. I went to the bathroom to do my business and went back to bed, I was afraid to go back to sleep, but the bed was so soft, I fell asleep after a few minutes. I fell into a nightmare; this time only alpha Max was there. He was standing above me, I was hanging down from the concrete ceiling of the basement I could not move, I was tied down by my ankles and wrists, he was pacing up and down telling me all the things I did wrong that die. Waking up too late, not making enough breakfast, not cleaning well enough, not giving his men what they deserved and above all, not looking down fast enough when he walked past me. He got his torture devices out and began injecting wolfsbane into me, I screamed out in pain and I tried to get myself out of my restraints but it would not work. When my screams became whimpers, he took his silver knives and began cutting me. I kept screaming while he engraved his name into my back with a normal knife, so it would heal and he could do it over, and over. After he was done, he started to whip me, that was the part he liked second best. He whipped me with different whips on all the places he could find and could not find. After he was satisfied, he made me fall down the ceiling. Then he started to get off what was left of my clothes and that was when I started to beg him to stop again, this is the part I dreaded the most, I hated it but I could not stop, but the moment he grabbed my breasts I got this feeling around me, that I was safe, and nothing could happen to me, I did not believe the feeling but then I heard the voice “Hey, hey, ssshh, you safe it is a nightmare, you are okay. No one is going to hurt you anymore I am here for you now.” After I heard those words alpha Max disappeared and I fell into a deep slumber without nightmares, feeling safe.
A few hours later
I woke up feeling safe; it was dark outside. I stirred a little in my sleep feeling something besides me. I looked up and I saw Marcus sitting at the side of the bed leaning at the head of the bed while I was holding his arm. It scared me, I let go of his arm and scooted away from him with a low squeal. He woke up from that and got out of the bed immediately looking at me with a sad smile on his face and his hands up in surrender. I looked at him questioning. “I came in with food as I promised you, but when I came in you were having a nightmare, and I came over to calm you down. When you calmed down, I tried to get up but you kept holding my arm and I did not want to wake you so I decided to stay by your side, but I guess I fell asleep. I am sorry; I did not mean to scare you.” He told me while keeping his distend, I did not know what to say to him. I am grateful that he had nightmares away, it was the best sleep I have ever had. I was also a little scared that he wants something from me now he helped me. But somewhere deep inside me, I knew he did not want that. “Tha-nk y-you fo-r kee-ping t-the nig-ht-mares a-away, an-d so-sorry for breaking out,” I told him this with a small smile on my face and a light blush while looking down. He did not respond to me, when he looked up, he had a big grin on his face. “How about you fresh up a little while I wait here and then we can go downstairs to have dinner since we missed lunch.” He said to me with a knowing smile on his face. I blushed a little and nodded my head. I went into the bathroom, did my business, and cleaned my face before walking out. He was sitting on the edge of his bed and when he saw me, he stood up and told me to follow him downstairs, so I did. When we were downstairs, we walked to the dining room in silence, I liked how he was not pushing me to talk about things. When we walked into the dining room, I could see two other men with a woman each, this got me nervous, I did not know what to do, so I hid behind Marcus. My behaviour made him chuckle, which made the others look up at us. We walked to the table and he sat down I came to stand behind him because that is the place I always stood, but he would not have any of it. “What are you doing over there, come sit next to me. That is if you want to, I do not want to force you to do things you do not want to, but this makes eating a little easier.” He told me. I nodded my head and sat on the chair next to me. We sat there in silence a little more, I kept looking at my hands fumbling with them, I was too nervous to do anything else. Then one of the men started to speak to Marcus. “Who is this beauty next to you, if I may ask.” I blushed even more because I was the only one sitting next to him, but I did not understand why he would call me beautiful. “This is my beautiful mate Anna,” he told them, I looked up at him with a light blush on my face that kept getting darker. “Aaahhh she is so cute” “she sure is look at that little blush on her face, oh it is getting darker.” “yeah, and those beautiful eyes.” The two women kept talking about me, I was blushing, and I was sure I would look like a tomato if they would not stop. Marcus got their attention from them by coughing. “Why do I not introduce you before you make my mate run away.” He told them, this made them shut up immediately. “I-i-t is o-ok-ay, I d-o no-t mi-mind,” I told him, this made one more aww come from the two women like I was a little puppy, instead of a disgusting being. “Okay, I will tell you who these people are because you will be seeing a lot of them. On the opposite of you, you have my beta James with his mate April, and to your left, you have my delta Luke and his mate Olivia.” He told me, I got a little nervous, but I did not have the time to be more because the food came in. And it distracted us all.