THE ALPHA KING

THE HOSPİTAL ROOM

There is a hospital smell around. I smell medicine and serum. I try to open my eyes and I struggle. I force my eyelids to lift as light fills my eyes. My vision is blurry. I blink my eyes a few times and finally I start to see more clearly. I realize I am not the only alone in the room.

There are three women waiting for me. As far as I can tell from their clothes, they are all doctors. My eyes widen when I see the three women. What am I doing here? What is this place?

My head hurts. "Aahh!" I say and close my eyes.

The oldest of the three women, the one closest to me, smiles. "Ah finally... You finally woke up..." she says.

She sounds very compassionate, but the problem was that I don't know any of these women.

Or had they kidnapped me and held me captive?

Oh, my God! Oh, my God! As if I hadn't had enough trouble, and now this?!

The blonde mature woman who just spoke opens my eyes with her hand and shines a white light in my eyes. I try to push her hands away from my face with my hands but I can't. Oh my God! Why are they so strong? I can't even move her hands!

Eventually the blonde and mature woman shines a light in my left eye. I blink my eyes and try to get rid of her influence on me, but I fail again and I can't resist her power, she is so strong. After examining me, the blonde woman turns to the women behind her. "It's okay. She looks fine!" she says. I look in amazement at the other women and at the blonde, mature woman who examined me, for God's sake! What is going on here? What could possibly be wrong with me?

When the brunette starts talking, my gaze shifts to her. I get angry with myself because why can't I open my mouth and say a word when these women are talking?

"Oh, honey, I'm so sorry..." she says to me. "I think we scared you unintentionally. Please forgive us. We're healers. I'm Olivia. Our friend Freya is the one who examined you and she's..." pointing to the woman next to her, "And she's Fiona." She smiles at me again at the end of her sentence. I learn their names, but what good will that do me?!

"I'm..." I stutter. But I stutter not out of fear. I stutter out of weakness. "Why am I here? What do you want from me? I was at home last time." I'm glad I can finally react.

The blonde woman, Freya, exhales a troubled breath. Instead of answering my question, she runs her eyes around the room.

"You will know the answer to that question in due course. It would not be right for us to tell you. We are only healers. We are only obliged to heal you."

"I'm already fine! I'm asking you a question! Please answer my question! What am I doing here?!"

I scream with a sudden wave of anger rising through my body. She smiles at me again. God! Why is she still smiling at me! Are they making fun of me! I'm getting more and more angry and I can't control my voice. The woman, whose name is Fiona, gestures with her head to the others. Olivia approaches me. She holds my arms gently but in a way that doesn't let me move.

"Let me go!" I scream, but I can't make him listen. I feel a pain in my arm. He's giving me an injection. "What are you doing? Let go of me! Get your hands off me! Let go! Let go..." my voice is slowly getting hoarse. I raise my head and look at the needle in my arm. "What have you done to me?..."

My voice is getting lower and lower. "What did you do to me?" My voice comes out shaky and helpless.

I curse my condition. The woman speaks as she removes the needle from my arm. "It's just a tranquilizer, sir, please don't worry. Now this medicine will take away all your anger."

"I don't want to... Let go. . Let me go..." I start struggling on the bed. "Let me go or it will be bad!" I warn, but of course my warning has no effect. My body wants to struggle, but my mind is getting darker and darker. At the same moment a tear falls from my eye and the blonde woman quickly wipes it away. Before my mind goes completely dark, I hear the sound of the door opening, followed by the frantic voice of another woman I don't recognize.

"Miss Freya. Chieftain Alpha wants to see his lupa. You asked us not to let him in, but he insists."

"No, she can't," I hear Freya's voice saying, "She hasn't got her strength back yet."

Before I can hear the rest, I surrender to a deeper darkness and sleep.

"Daddy..." I'm crying, sobbing, I know it's a nightmare, but I feel like I'm back in my childhood. "Daddy, please don't..."

"Dad, I'm so sorry. I promise you, I promise you! I won't go when they call me again... Please!"

"Shut up! How many times have I told you girls are not allowed to go out!"

I was ten years old and my friends invited me out to play. And I wanted to play, so I went outside. I played with the other kids. My father was very angry about that... And he was angry.

"For the last time, Ashia! The next time your friends invite you out to play, you tell them you don't want to play! You hear me! You're a big girl, what will people say when they see you?! They'll look at your ass and your t**s! You want everyone to gossip about you? Answer me! You want them to talk about you behind your back?!"

I keep my head down and try to hide my teary eyes. My father gets angry with me more when I cry.

"Look at me! If you go out one more time, I'll beat the s**t out of you! You hear me! Huh?! Answer me! You hear me?! I'll send you to the grave like your w***e mother, do you hear me?! Do you understand me?!"

"But today is my birthday... Aahh!" I can't finish and I scream because my dad slaps me.

"Don't do it, don't hit me," I'm still muttering as I sit up quickly. It was a bad nightmare. I'm out of breath. Tears are streaming down my face and my forehead is sweaty. My hair and even my clothes are soaked with sweat.

I swallow as a moan of pain escapes my mouth. Some painful memories can make it hard to swallow. I had grown up with this psychology since I was a little girl. Maybe I should have gotten used to it, but for some reason, each time it hurt me more than the previous ones.

I'm trying to stand up with my hand on the pillow. My bones ache as if I've been under a huge rock. I'm not exaggerating, it feels like my bones are broken!

I want to take the serum out of my arm but I can't because I'm afraid it will hurt. When I lay back on the bed, the door opens. In walks that blonde woman again. She has food on a tray. When I see the food I realize I'm hungry, but I wasn't going to eat the food of these people who are here, who don't know what the hell they are doing and who are forcing me to sleep! Maybe I should... It looks good... Oh! I don't know! s**t! f**k! I'm hungry!