Ocean Of Lies

The reunion part 3

JESS'S P.O.V.

“Well, that was” I started to say  

“A little blindsiding?!” Willow finished.  

“Yeah, you could say that. f**k I need to shower!” I yelled running to the bathroom 

“I’ll get you clothes” Willow yelled laughing 

“I'm leaving the door open!” I yelled turning the shower on 

“Okay!” Willow yelled back 

A couple minutes into my shower Willow came in showing me every outfit she found that she thought I would like. I ended up choosing a black crop top shirt with flowers on it and a pair of flower holey leggings. I like flowers, and matching outfits. I quickly finished my shower and grabbed my makeup bag before getting dressed.  

“Hey can I barrow some of that?” Willow asked lowly 

“Make up?” I asked quickly  

“Yeah” Willow said shyly  

“Do you want me to do it for you?” I asked. 

“Yes please!” Willow said with excitement.  

“Okay, let me do mine and get dressed. You get dressed and I'll do yours when I'm done” I said running into the bathroom and closing the door.  

I quickly got dressed and did a light natural make up look. I wanted to look nice but not caked in makeup, I opened the door to see willow sitting on the bed fully dressed in the dress I picked out earlier smiling like an i***t at her phone again.  

“WOMAN WE DON’T HAVE TIME FOR SAUCY TEXTS FROM LUKA!!!!” I yelled making her jump.  

“IM SORRY AND THEY WERENT SAUCY, HE JUST SAID HE WAS NEARING THE DRIVEWAY!” She yelled back standing up and walking to me as I sat down at the table. I did her make up to and explained what everything was and showing her how I was doing it with her phone camera so she could see and refer back if she ever wanted to. She asked that I do a wing liner, I was a little taken about because Willow was never into make up before, at least not when we were 14. I didn’t know how she even knew what it was, but I complied and did it anyways.  

“I look amazing, thank you Jess!” Willow said jumping up to hug me 

“of course, anything for you!” I said squeezing her tight 

“They just got to the gate” Willow said looking like she was about to have another panic attack  

“Do you need another pep talk?” I asked quickly and she nodded her head. I grabbed her arm and brought her to the bathroom as the other girls walked into the room. I turned her towards the mirror so she could see herself and put my hands on her shoulders.  

“You Willow, you are who we all love. You held us all together during all of our fights, even that time Megan had s*x with my boyfriend, you have been the glue to our friendship and we were all really lost when you were lost. We fought more and hated each other, actually stopped talking to each other for about 6 months, before we realized that You would have wanted us to be friends no matter what. You have the biggest heart; you are a loving and caring soul. You are beautiful and you are brave. You make men fall to their knees and worship the ground you walk on. You survived. That’s enough. You did what you had to do to survive, you struggled and survived. You were kidnapped and survived. You escaped and survived. You are the most amazing woman I know, and I will always look up to you now. For everything you had to do, was way much more then I ever could and I don’t even know all of it. I love you Willow heart.” I said to her as a stray tear ran down her face.  

“You are going to ruin all of my hard work!” I whined wiping away her tear 

“Sorry” She said laughing.  

“Thank you Jess, I needed it.” She said looking at me with hopeful eyes. 

“I know you did, and I did to. You mean a lot to me. Always have and always will!” I said hugging her  

“You mean a lot to us to!” Megan and Alyssa said in unison joining our hug.  

“Okay guys, phone went off, and need to breathe” Willow said as we released our grip 

“They are here” Willow said walking towards the door.  

“Okay then, let's go” I said opening the door and letting willow out first, following right beside her holding her hand with Jay meeting us on her other side holding her other hand and Megan and Alyssa behind us. This was a lot for her, and I knew she needed me and my support. Marissa had left to go help everyone in the kitchen. So, it was just the 5 of us, hand in hand like old times. Facing the biggest thing one of us had to face, but together none the less.  

WILLOW’S P.O.V. 

As I neared the hospital doors a million things went through my mind, What If my parents didn’t love me anymore, what if they didn’t remember me. What if Luka sees me and is just done all together and leaves, what if I can't recognize my own parents, everything from earlier came flooding back into my head when I felt a reassuring hand squeeze on either side as well as a hand on each shoulder. I knew I wasn’t in this alone. But it didn’t make it any easier. I was scared and everyone knew it. But they would never let me go through this alone, and I knew that. Even if I wanted to, they never would. I was scared and happy to finally be back with my parents, and Luka. Even though leaving here would be so hard for me. I knew eventually I would have to. I struggled to make my legs move in the direction of the door and as soon as I stumbled Jess started bringing up a memory from the past.  

“Remember when Jason broke his leg during a football game and we had to carry him out of the hospital, But Willow fell and we all went down and basically dog pilled on Jay?” Jess said laughing  

Which made us all laugh in turn.  

“Thank you” I whispered to her 

“Anything for you” Jess said smiling at me. Once we were directly at the doors everyone looked at me.   

“Ready?” Jess said smiling  

“As I'll ever be” I said smiling back at everyone.  

And with that Jess and Jason pushed the doors opened while still holding my hands and we walked out together, instantly I knew everyone that was standing there waiting. They gave me time. Even though they could have rushed right in and made a huge rohus. They gave me time and waited until I was ready to come out.  

“Willow!” My mom yelled running up to me, my father not far behind. Breaking the hand link between Jess and Jason I ran to them as well. They hugged me and cried but I was afraid Jess would beat me if I did.  

“If you think I'm going to beat you for crying, its water proof” Jess said making me laugh  

“Look at you!” My mom said to me with tears still flowing  

“You are so beautiful” My dad said looking at me. He was crying worse than my mom.  

“We missed you so much Willow, and we never stopped looking for you” My mom mustered out between her sobs.  

“I know you didn’t” I said smiling at them  

Our hug lasted for a little while longer while everyone cried but my mom broke the silence.  

“There is someone else that desperately wants to see you” My mom said smiling at me and gesturing her head towards Luka.  

“Luka!” I yelled running to him  

“Flower” He yelled picking me up and holding me in a tight hug after a few seconds of just taking every bit of him in  

“If I move my legs this dress is going to expose every part of my lower body” I whispered in his ear  

“Yeah, I don’t want everyone seeing what's only meant for me” He whispered back laughing a bit. As he put me down still not letting go.  

“Gosh you are worse than Jess, Megan and Alyssa. I need to breathe sometime” I said making him and everyone else laugh and loosening his grip  

“I’m sorry, I missed you” He said laughing  

“So did we, but she didn’t care” Jess said making everyone laugh again  

“I cared! I just needed to breathe and I couldn’t do that with 3 fully grown woman dog piling on top of me!” I yelled looking at them as everyone continued laughing  

I looked back at Luka who was literally crying from laughing so hard and I just took him it for a second. His beautiful slicked back black hair, although I prefer it when its messy, His tattoos on his arms. His cute smile with a perfectly chiseled Jaw, His toned arms. And then his perfect gray eyes. I took in every part of his body when his eyes met mine. The smile on his face and mine was nothing I had ever felt before. I think I’m in love with this man.  

“Willow, I hate to cut this short but there is something we need to do before Lena leaves today, don’t you agree?” Mindy asked putting her hand on my shoulder pulling me out of this trance.  

“Yeah” I said and my anxiety started all over again. Jess could immediately tell there was something wrong as well as Jason and rushed to my side  

“Are you okay?” Jess said running up to me 

“Willow you look like you're going to puke” Jason said stating the obvious  

“Flower?” Luka said calming me down.  

“I’m okay” I said forcing a smile trying not to throw up the coffee I had while getting ready  

“You know we are with you” Jess said quickly smiling at me 

“All the way” Jason said reassuring me 

“I know, thank you guys.” I said pulling them both into a hug as everyone else walked through the hospital I stayed back for a second trying to collect my thoughts.  

“Willow? What’s wrong” My mom said coming up to me, Jess, Jason, Luka, Alyssa and Megan  

“Well, there's a lot of things that I let go of on that tape. A lot of things I needed to say before I saw everyone, a lot of things I had to do. And I'm worried that no one will look at me the same” I said quickly before I regretted everything I just said.  

“Willow, you are our daughter and we love you no matter what. You are so strong for everything and we will never feel differently about you because of what happened in the past 5 years.” My dad said reassuring me.  

“And if you are worried about me, you heard what I said. I'm already head over heels for you Willow” Luka said wrapping his arm around me, which then he quickly retreated as my dad shot him a dirty look 

“Well, I can't say that surprised me” I said laughing  

“Let's go, before everyone starts without us.” My mom said reassuring me.  

“Okay” I said putting my hands out for Jason and Jess, as Luka walked a little ahead of me but still close enough, he could be near me without my dad freaking out.  

“If you guys don’t mind, I would like to sit by Luka, He knows most of what happened anyways so it won't be some super shocking thing to him” I said lowly so only Jess and Jay could hear me  

“Yeah, we understand. If at any point you need us. Just let me know, okay?” Jess said reassuring me.  

“I will” I said smiling as we neared the door to the conference room that Lena had set up for us.  

We walked through the door and Luka immediately waited for me inside the door. I dropped my hands from Jess and Jason and they gave me a squeeze on my arms before walking away. I put my hand out for Luka, this was a journey for us. And I felt as if he would be the least judgmental because we had talked a lot on our hike here. He knew a lot but there were somethings I wasn’t ready to talk about yet. He understood but now, he’s about to know everything. Luka took my hand and we sat at the back of the table. I knew I should want to be next to my parents but I didn’t want to see their faces as the video was playing.  

“Hi everyone, we all know that we are here today because Willow chose to record her story and choose people to come see it instead of explaining it to everyone. I do ask that you respect Willows privacy after this video and not ask her any questions unless she gives you the okay as some of the these are still new and fresh for her. It could also trigger some flashbacks and put her in a state of panic. I am happy to say that everyone that was on the list has made it and am grateful you all could be here on such short notice. If anyone would like to talk afterwards my office is open until 8 pm tonight but I do have an appointment at 8 so please don’t show up last minute and I'll be in office again tomorrow at 6:30 am till 9pm. Please try to be quite and note that something may be a little rough to hear.” Lena said turning off the lights and sitting down.  

As the video started my panic started as well. Luka could feel the difference and my body language wasn’t hard to read either, Jess and Jason were focused on me and noticed it. Jess mouthed are you okay, and I nodded my head. I knew this was going to be hard. But Luka looked at me with his beautiful gray eyes and I couldn’t help but smile as he pulled me closer into him. Placing a kiss upon my head made my worries melt away. Knowing he was with me through all of this was much more then I could have ever asked for in my life.  

“ 

“Okay, so just for record purposes. What is your full legal name, and what is the reason for this meeting?” Lena asked.  

“My name is Willow Elise Heart, and I was Kidnapped and held captive for almost 5 years; This is my story.” I said with the upmost confidence.  

“Okay Willow, so tell me what happened” Lena said as a respectful older woman that I didn’t know I knew I wouldn’t have much of an issue talking about the things I was forced to do.  

“It was Wednesday, fall to be exact a week before my birthday, I was supposed to be meeting my friends at the mall, which I walked to because I was already in town with my parents and they had my body guard follow me. Just in case. Before I knew what was going on I woke up in a room I had never seen before, door was locked and bars over the windows. I started panicking. Then the door open and 3 men came in and 1 woman. I didn’t know who it was at the time. But soon I started putting the pieces together. I was locked in the room for days or even weeks at a time. I tried to escape when I was allowed out and struggled to live, for months it was like this. I was starved and beaten. I was forced to do s****l things on the Alpha. His name was Kris. Nothing he did ever left physical scars expect one.” I started to tell her what happened but was cut off.  

“Can you show me the scar?” Lena asked politely. 

“Yeah” I said standing up and making sure the camera could still see, I pulled down the side of my pants and took off the bandage that was on it, in all its infected glory.  

“Okay, continue please Willow” Lena said as I fixed myself and sat back down.  

“For a while nothing bad happened, I didn’t try to leave because I tried and failed a lot. I waited. And for a while nothing happened, No one came. I was allowed to watch tv but not a lot. And not the news. Unless it was something about giving up the search for me so then I would think no one cared enough to keep looking. I struggled to sleep most nights and spent them showering or preparing to make food for the next day, I got really good at drawing. Being afraid to sleep I was able to keep myself occupied with the little things, sometimes I even enjoyed what little food I was given, chewing more so that way it felt like I was eating more. When I was beaten for not doing something right it was with whips or something that wouldn’t leave scars, expect of course the one time. It was about a week before I was saved. I had dropped a plate, and of course it broke. I hadn’t eaten in a few days and I was so tired from the lack of food I just dropped it; I was cleaning it up when someone came in and saw what did and immediately, I was drug up to Kris, I had never submitted to him, and I never did. I vowed I wouldn’t until the day I died. His way of trying was cutting me with a silver knife, which I'm sure you know is the worst pain for a wolf, But I didn’t yell, I didn’t move, I didn’t flinch. It burnt like a b***h but I knew that’s what he wanted. Directly after he touched it and made me wince; he called me darling. I got a lot of that, darling this darling that, slut, w***e. Whatever he wanted to until he got what he wanted he told me he branded me. How f****d up is that? Like I was a prize-winning cow only he got to touch. Well, him and his wife. His beta came in. He was always nice; sneaking me food. Letting me do whatever I wanted as long as I didn’t leave the pack house. I think he cared for me...Felt sorry for me maybe? I don’t know, What I do know is that for almost five years I was beaten, starved, I was forced to do things I didn’t want to that giving in was just so much easier and maybe if I pictured doing it with someone else it would be better, which it always was. So, whenever I would be forced to do things, I would think about doing them with someone else. It wasn’t always easy. But it worked; and for one more day, I wasn’t killed. I was beaten, I was forced to do s****l favors on Kris and his wife, I was forced to let them do s****l favors to me. I was forced to cook and clean; I was forced to take care of a pack with about 300 pack members. I was made to give kris head, and to eat out his wife. I was forced into letting them have s*x with me, Including 3 ways. I was forced to sit there and watch while they had s*x with each other. I was forced to be tied up with a blind fold on naked while they cut me and beat me and licked my body and the blood off of my body, I was forced to do laundry. I was forced to do a lot of things I didn’t want to do. Until one night, about 2 am. I heard a loud noise outside of my door. And it opened. I was surprised to say the least when I saw Luka. He found me. He saved me. He brought me to his pack and went to mine. And for that I will be forever grateful. To him I owe my life I so desperately prayed would be taken away.” I said, trying to get as much out as I could. I hadn’t even realized I was crying I was so focused on everything that had happened, flashback after flashback. I was just trying to find the right spots and put the pieces together.  

“So, you said you didn’t know who the woman was, do you know who she is now?” Lena asked me and rightfully so.  

“Her name is Cece, and her husband is Kris. They were mated and marked. They knew what they were doing when they were doing it and they got off on it. Sometimes Kris would do stuff to me and Cece would watch, sometimes the other way around, sometimes alone, and sometimes together, but they always knew.” I said looking at her. Trembling from the flashbacks coming all at once again.  

“How old are you Willow?” Lena asked me.  

“I’m 17, 18 in a week.” I answered.  

“How old were you when this started?” Lena asked me again, I know she’s trying to figure it all out, so I don’t have to explain it to anyone else, but it hurts so f*****g bad.  

“I was 15 when it started, and it didn’t stop until the day I left.” I answered again. Tears still streaming down my face trying to compose myself. Trying to collect my thoughts.  

“Did you have s*x with anyone else before you went missing?” Lena asked.  

This one caught me off guard, I should have expected it but was I really ready to tell everyone I slept with Jason? 2 days before I went missing...  

“Yes...” I answered briefly  

“Who?” Lena asked quickly.  

“Jason.” I answered quickly which took her by surprise, hell took me by surprise.  

“When?” She asked after collecting her thoughts 

“2 days before I went missing...” I answered again.  

“Had you slept with anyone else before Jason?” Lena asked, man she was really popping the questions out and quick  

“No, I was a virgin.” I answer quickly  

“Was Jason also a virgin?” Lena asked as she wrote stuff down again. More focused this time then not  

“Well of course there are always rumors but Jason told me he was and I believed him” I answered honestly.  

“How old was Jason?” Lena asked.  

“He was 15.” I answered quickly just trying to end this.  

“What kind of things did you do during your kidnapping?” She asked again  

“I cooked, cleaned, laundry, dishes, did yard work sometimes. Mostly I was made to stay in the room.” I answered again.  

“Okay, and what happened if you didn’t get that stuff done?” Lena asked  

“I was beaten, forced to submit which I never did. I was forced to do s****l things.” I answered lowly, basically a whisper. I was tired, and tired of this.  

“Okay Willow. Please state your name again and the reason for this meeting.” Lena said again giving me a reassuring look 

“My name is Willow Elise Heart, and I was kidnapped 5 years ago, this is my story!” I said and tears started falling from eyes again and I couldn’t stop them.  

“Thank you Willow, I'm going to turn the camera off now.” Lena said sweetly  

“Okay, but can I say one more thing?” I asked.  

“Of course,” Lena said gesturing to the camera  

“Today I shared everything that happened to me. I don’t feel stronger, yet I don’t feel weaker. I know that you are watching this, and I’m sorry for telling you this way. I don’t think I could tell you myself.” I said again with my head down and tears streaming from my eyes.  

“Are you done now Willow?” Lena asked again and I nodded my head. I didn’t have anything else to say. I couldn’t have anything else to say. I said what I needed to.  

“ 

The video was about 30 minutes long, I sat there watching it and everyone else as people covered their mouths from letting anyone else hear them sob, as my dad held my mom while they cried silently together, While Jess and Jason cried holding each other's hand. As Mindy and James looked back at me with proud eyes, even hearing all of this. They are still so proud at how far I have come.  As everyone did and had the reaction that I thought they would. I sat there as a flashback started to happen and stopped as soon as Luka looked at me. He made me feel at peace. He squeezed me a little tighter some parts and looked at me with others, I watched him. He was the one I wanted to be proud of me. He looked at me and smiled when I said I owed my life to him. I watched as his eyes turned black with rage when I said about sleeping with Jason and watched as he returned the glare back to Jason as Jason looked over at me.  

“Luka?” I said quietly  

“I know, I have no reason to get mad about you and Jason, I just can't help it.” He answered looking down at me again. His eyes went black a couple times throughout the bad parts, and the more s****l parts. But he was pissed and I could tell. I needed to do whatever I had to, to stop him before he did something wrong.  

“Luka” I whispered again this time moving my hand up and down his chest 

“Lukaa” I whispered again so only he could hear me moving my hand towards his general  

“Willow” Luka said grabbing my hand as his eyes went back to their normal gray color.  

“That's all I wanted” I said with a smile 

“Oh, you really can be a tease, can't you?” Luka said to me smiling  

“I can, now pay attention, it's almost over” I said directing his gaze back to the projector.  

I returned his attention back to the screen in hopes it would be easier to just pretend nothing with Jason ever happened. Everyone knew now that it did but I was hoping we could just move on from it and it wouldn't be whole problem. Somehow I knew that wasn't going to be the case.