Dear readers, this episode contains the following: Physical and metal violence, s****l abuse, and racial violence towards the elves in this story. 18+ readers advised.
Evie Pov:
The slow movement from Alex's hands had helped calm the storm of emotions in me, but I needed to get this out in the open. I stood up and started pacing like Chase had been in Alex's head. I couldn't stay still. I thought the rest of the story might set both of them off and I needed to do something as I told him this part.
"Todd was on the phone when I could finally focus on everything around me. He was fighting with Kara. Demanding on getting his reward for capturing us. See? He was obsessed with Kara and wanted her badly. Kara, on the other hand, thought anybody that wasn't a human or mage were a mistake that the moon goddess had made. Kara worked with others but deep down she had hated everything and everyone that wasn't like her. Werewolves were flea-ridden beasts, vampires were a cancer among her kind, and elves were freaks of nature and were only meant to be servants for the betterment of humans and mages alike. This war she started was to weed out everyone that wasn't like her. She calls it: The Correction War. If she couldn't weed them all out, then she would start something her mutt of a grandfather had started but didn't finish. This time, every being in the world would serve her and the mages. To her, mages were ultimate beings. I think that's when she turned to the demon, letting him inside her. She told everyone before she left that everyone would bow down to her, because now she was a goddess with no equal, not even the moon goddess herself.
She had told Todd to kill us both, to do what he was told, then to forget her. That she wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pool. He was beneath her and hung up on him. He went into a frenzy. Smatching his phone against the wall, he turned to Mara. Mara looked so much like Kara and he still wanted a reward. He smiled at her and walked toward her stating, "If I can't have your twin, then I'll have you!" I lost it and started yelling profanities at him. I got what I wanted! His attention! I remember him turning towards me with a grin and calling me freak. Lower than him and I need to remember my place.
He punched my face and chest, breaking my ribs. Then he moved down to my fingers, breaking them in a slow, painful way. Calling me long ears and mistake of a c**t. No better than bugs in the world that need to be squashed. Squirm bug, I remember him saying. He reached for a metal bat and started beating my legs until the bones were shattered in every place. I didn't realize that he was communicating with the other rogues until they brought him a hot red iron to him. He raised it up and showed it with a crazed smile. It was blazing and smoking and was formed into a word: Freak. Letting me feel the heat of it but not actually touching me yet, as he taunted me and called me names like w****e and elf b***h while he waved it in my face. He walked around to my back. Let's test my new toy, he said, and started branding me with it. He started with my shoulder and continued down just above my hips. I could smell the burning of my flesh and I could hear my skin sizzle.
By this point, my voice was so sore I could barely yell or whimper. It had hurt so badly. To get more of my flesh, they let me off the cuffs and laid me on the grown so Todd could put his whole weight on me as he pressed the iron further into my skin. After, he rubbed all my open sores on the floor, getting dirt in them. He yelled, This is where you belong and don't forget it! He then made one of his rogues pick me up and he bent my head toward Mara. He whispered in my ear and said now it's time to be a good little servant and watch what I do to anybody who befriends your kind.
He walked over to Mara and pulled her out of the chains. With help from the other rogues, they laid her down on a metal table. They used barb wires around her elbows first and then wrapped more wires from her knees down to her ankles. Then they pulled them as hard as they could so her arms and legs were spread wide apart. I could see blood starting from the barbs and I could hear her start whimpering. My throat was so sore from earlier I couldn't get anything out of my mouth. I couldn't get any magic to stop it, even with the cuffs off. I blamed myself and my magic for what came next. Todd slowly started to take his clothing off while looking up and down at Mara's naked body. He started to s****k his c***k in her face, but when she turned her head he growled.
He slammed Mara's head against the table and forcefully turned her head to give him a b*****b and when she refused, again. He screamed and bashed his fist into her. Giving her two black eyes and when that wasn't enough, he shoved his hands in her mouth, cracking her jaw open. I could hear the bones break even over her screams. He continued and shoved his c***k in her mouth over and over. When he clamped her mouth shut and squeed her neck to s****w his c**m. When she did, he praised her as his naughty little s***t and started scratching, biting her arms, her shoulder, her n*****s, over her stomach and legs. Then he got to her p****y, he licked and bited, fingered, and slammed toys in and out of her p***y. When he was done, she was bleeding everywhere. I knew Mara and I knew she had never been with a man before. She was raw and bruised all over. Blood was coming out of every mark and hole she had.
Todd ripped the barb wires off and flipped Mara on the table so she was lying on her stomach. He used too much force. I could see Mara's eyes roll back in her head. I knew she blacked out from hitting her head on the table again. Blinded with need, he didn't seem to notice. He pushed his claws straight into her back to hold her there and started ramming into her. Whether it was the claws or him breaking her virginity, she woke up with a scream. I wish she hadn't. Over and over he kept moving, and evertime he pulled out or slammed back in, I could tell his c**k was covered more and more with blood that was coming out of Mara. I wanted to kill him and I couldn't. I prayed over and over to the moon goddess to help and nothing happened. He roared with his release and pulled out. With a satisfied grin, he threw her on the ground next to me and his rogue companion knocked me out.
I don't know how long we lay there broken and abused on the prison floor. I just remember waking up with water surrounding me. Water is one of the elements that helps us mages. It helped me heal and I could feel my legs again and the bones where healed, but it wasn't enough. The water picked one person and only had enough to mend one thing. I had enough energy to flip around and see Mara still unconscious. I got up as quickly as I could but every step hurt, the water didn't heal my broken ribs or the brand marks. At least I could walk and I took advantage of it and found some blankets to cover us and searched for an exit. I found a crack along the wall and with whatever magic I had left I broke the wall further into a small hole enough for us to squeeze in it. I was also happy about the fact I didn't have that much power left. It didn't have enough power behind it, so it didn't make much noise to be noticed.
I pushed and dragged Mara in it first and then myself. I followed nature signs as best I could and came across a little river. I washed most of the dirt, blood, and scent we had on us. Using the plants, water, and a little of the moon's light to heal us the rest of the way. I was so exhausted that I had to pull Mara and I to the top of a tree to hide us. I don't know how long we were up there, but enough for Mara to wake up. When everything had settled down, we started making our way out and finally found a town with a hotel room. I got a small job and some cash and in two days we were able to move to the next.
It took us at least a week to talk about what had happened, then another week for her to tell me she had a vision of her being pregnant, then another week for her to confirm it with a pregnancy test. I wanted her to get rid of it so there was no memory of it, but she wanted it. She told me the child would be mine too and would have great power and end wars. I hated myself for not wanting Bella, but at that time I was hurting from what had happened. I love Bella and now I see the reason. I'm still pretty ashamed I had even suggested an abortion to her. It took a long time to even talk to Mara about how I was feeling. We were on the run for about another month before Mara could sense you as her mate. She said if anyone could help, it was you.
I had walls up and couldn't feel you. I didn't know at the time that both Mara and I were supposed to be with you. All of us are supposed to raise Bella and stop Kara. Kara can't know about Bella because she's different. Normally, a guardian is either a mage or a wolf, but Bella would be a hybrid. First of her kind in over a century, both magic and a wolf of her own as well. It seems I need you not just for her, but for me. Alex, I love you and I want you to know that I will be there whenever you need me."
I stopped talking and turned around to look at Alex. His face was red, puffy, and wet, but his eyes were also intense, watching me. Just me, I thought. I knew he loved me for me. Not because I'm an elf or a mage, but me as a person. I turned around and dropped the robe on the floor. I could hear the intake of Alex's breath and him getting up as he walked towards me. I could feel the warmth of his hand as it landed on my scar.
"One scar." I said, "That is all that's left of the memory of that abusive night. A painful reminder of what people think of my kind. I knew Todd was obsessed with Kara and Mara. The only reason why I wasn't r*****d as well was because of being an elf. A reminder of what your people think of my kind"
"I don't care about what other people think," Alex said to me.
He wrapped me up in his arms and turned me to face him.
"I love you for you." he stated, "from the bottom of your feet to the tips of your gorgeous ears."
To prove the point, he rubbed them from the lobe up to the tips of my ears. He started nipping my ear with his mouth, sending heat and warmth through me. The cloud of my story is just a story of my past that doesn't define me. It's given me a hateful scar. Yes, but a beautiful daughter and a fanatic and understand mate. I hugged him.
Alex moved both of us to the bed. He wrapped his arms around my waist and snuggled into me.
"I will always love you mate. No matter what. Sleep now, I think we both deserve it."
I breathed in his smell and snuggled myself closer to him. The light tingles, the smell, and his slow breathing took over everything. It calmed my body and before I knew it I had fallen to sleep.