Thorns And Roses

Chapter Forty-five

Theo felt hands wrapped around his throat and he tried to breathe through the tightness coming from his neck. His eyes looked for the thing that had him pinned but his eyes only met inky blackness.

"Theo, puppy." He started to settle as he recognized Demi's voice amongst the pitch black surrounding him. He knew who had him and he was okay with that. Okay with Demi choking him and taking his breath away. To be held so roughly but so soft at the same time.

Loved.

Wanted.

"You're stupid to think I would still want you. Love you after you whored yourself out like that. Just letting anyone fuck you. Disgusting little slut." Theo tensed under the harsh words and tried to say something in his defense but the hand around his throat became tighter.

"You know I'm right, Theodore so why try and fight it?" Theo whimpered and tried to look away from Demi who finally came into view. His once pretty glacier blues quickly turned an ugly brown color and his snow white hair a chocolate brown.

The longer Theo stared, Demi became Joseph Anderson.

The remains of his nightmare had Theo bolting up in his bed and swinging. He heard the sickening crack of bone meeting bone and knew he had just hit someone square in the nose. Worth it Theo thought once he opened his eyes and looked around himself. Five men stood above him, all glaring and one hissing out in pain as he held his face. Theo went to hit another one before his arm was taken and pinned to the bed. He still fought.

When fingers came towards his face, Theo pulled a move out of Demi's book and bit down as hard as he could. He tore his head back, smiling as he felt flesh rip under his teeth and a loud yell went up in the air. Theo spit out the torn skin and blood in his mouth, smirking as another hand reached for him. He wasn't able to bite this one and winced as his bruised cheeks were taken into a hard grip. The hand went around his chin. Their index finger and thumb dug into the space in his cheeks and forced his jaw to unhinge involuntarily.

Theo tried to close his mouth as a small white pill was brought into his line of vision. He couldn't. Not without hurting himself in the process. Once the pill was set on his tongue, his jaw was snapped close. Theo's teeth clicked together painfully but he didn't swallow. The pill tasted disgusting and he gagged as it started to dissolve on his tongue.

"Swallow it. Now." One of the men commanded. Theo shook his head no at them and squeezed his eyes shut. The hand left his jaw to instead slap him across the face. Hard. Theo spits the pill out at their feet as soon as he had the chance and opened his eyes to glare at them. But it wasn't enough, most of the pill was already in his system.

"Fucking slut. Fuck." Theo winced at the insult. He was hit again and it made his head spin. Theo slumped against the mattress at his back giving them the impression that he was out for the count. As the hands on his left leg loosened, he drew his barefoot back and kicked the man that once held him in the stomach. He heard a loud crashing sound.

"That's enough, Angel." The name and voice had the blood in Theo's veins freezing and his body going tense. He knew who it was that had spoken. The same man that would watch him being used every night. The man that started everything when Theo was just eight years old.

Joseph Anderson. The bastard who had stolen Theo two weeks ago.

"Good boy," Theo growled at him as Joseph came to stand beside his bed. He hated being called that by anyone else that isn't Demi. Theo was too scared to do anything but growl though. He hated to admit that Joseph terrified him to his very core.

Joseph pulled a bottle of pills out of his pocket and took two out instead of one. He set them against Theo's lips as he was held down by every limb.

"Now open up and stick your tongue out." Theo wanted to fight, wanted to scream but the fear thrumming through his blood had him obeying. He parted his lips and lolled his tongue out of his mouth. The pills were lazily placed on the muscle, a smirk curving the corners of Joseph's lips. Two of Joseph's fingers dipped into the space of Theo's mouth and shoved the pills down his throat as he finger fucked his face.

"Good boy." Theo gagged and choked on the fingers as Joseph praised him by running a hand through his disgusting hair. He needed a shower, not just a wipe-down that they allow him to do. The drugs hit him pretty fast after that and he did go unconscious that time, still gagging on those fucking fingers.

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A hard slap to Theo's face was what had him waking up with a hiss of pain. He felt it all over his body, in his very bones.

"There he is. Was worried I killed you there for a minute, Angel." Fuck. Theo opened his eyes and looked around the room he was in. It wasn't his nor the room he was usually taken to at night. It was different, more elegant and Theo got the disturbed feeling that it was Joseph's personal bedroom.

"W-Where am I?" God his voice sounded wreaked. Like he went on a three-day screaming bender. Joseph didn't stop him when Theo sat up and rubbed at his head. It felt like someone was taking a sledgehammer to the back of his skull.

"My room here in the brothel. It would be a little better than taking you in front of a bunch of men. More private for what I want to do." Theo's heart rabbited in his chest and almost jumped in his throat when Joseph slipped onto the bed with Theo. The dragon scooted back away from him into the far corner of the bed.

"N-No." He didn't know what Joseph was wanting to do but it didn't matter. Theo didn't want it either way. Fuck the drugs and fuck Joseph. The narcissistic asshole.

"I won't take no for an answer, Angel. You will give me what I want." Theo flinched as Joseph crawled towards him and pushed his legs apart. There was nowhere else for him to go. Theo was trapped. The man wasn't looking at the front of Theo's boxers but at his stomach instead. At Theo's quizzical glance, Joseph filled him in on the loop.

"I got your medical records, Angel. It confirmed what I always knew. That you're an Omega. A helpless, worthless being. Your only purpose in life..." Joseph softly stroked the hard muscles of Theo's stomach under his belly button. It made Theo sick.

"Is to produce offspring." He could feel all the color in his cheeks drain and Theo started shaking.

"I-I can't get p-pregnant. I'm an Alpha." In reality, Theo didn't know if he could or not. He was too scared to find out the answer so he never got any of the testing done.

"You don't know that Angel, now do you? It says in your records that you never got tested. Why was that?" He would never tell Joseph that he was too scared to get tested. He would not give him a reason to mock Theo. Joseph smirked at Theo's silent treatment. He refused to answer him.

"We'll test it out in our own way, Angel. So far none of the men you've been with have taken you bare. I'm going to be the first one." But that wasn't true. Demi has taken Theo bare more then once. All Theo could pray for was that Joseph's semen doesn't take just like Demi's never did.

Theo didn't want to get pregnant with his rapists baby. That would be a fucking nightmare in of it's self. And not to mention the way Demi would feel once Theo went back to him. If he ever did that was.

"I know what you're thinking, Theodore. Would that mate of yours love you once he sees you knocked up with someone else's baby?" Joseph sneered the word mate. Theo knew he was pissed that he was mated and loved by another.

"He doesn't you know. Say it. Say he doesn't love me and add that little twist we like." Theo swore to himself he would never say that word again. But the way Joseph looked at him, all malicious intent and deranged eyes, he knew it would be safer to say it.

"H-He doesn't love me, m-master." It tasted like thick black tar that was able to choke him enough to make tears track his cheeks. Theo didn't believe them even if he was starting to the longer he stayed there.