The Alpha's Doll || #wattys2023

Chapter 47

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Tessa's Pov

"I have one request."

"You're not in a place to make requests-"

"Trust me, I am."

Damon paused to study my face and said," what is it?"

"I want to become your doll after this, and me and mother and all of my other siblings could come to live here, with you, forever."

It was a big ask, but I was saving his life. A big ask for a big favor. I hope he saw things my way.

I told Damon all about the potion. I spilled about the day that I had walked onto my mother and Ava revealing their plans to poison Damon and present their plans to the council in an attempt to save humankind. I revealed that it had all been Ava's plan from the very start and that my mother had resisted during the entire process. I transpired the events of how Ava found the contents to make the poison  and how she had manipulated Damon the entire time to let her attend events with her other doll friends and trips to the market to pick up the supplies. Damon's face remained the same throughout the entire thing, he did not utter one word until the very end.

"Check on Ava every few hours, make sure to give her the meds-"

"Wait, what?" I burst out, Had he listened to a word I said?

"Are you deaf?"

"Did you hear what I said? She's trying to kill you-"

Damon stared at me dead in the eyes that seemed to have lost life," I will be back later tonight."

Damon disappeared. 

Ava's POV

I could not stand to be in this bed for a second longer. Hours had passed, I could not move, I could not sleep and I cannot shut the thoughts that occupied my brain. I was hostaged by guilt, intense fear and betrayal. I should have stuck to the plan, but somehow I could not regret not killing Damon. The only thing that I regret was Maria's banishment. Tessa never returned with the medication that I was meant to take nor food. Sometime around sunfall my stomach began to grumble and I finally had enough. I pulled the IV out of my arms and stumbled to my feet. I felt the immediate rush of a headache and my world spun for the first few seconds. I gathered myself and painfully walked out of the room and down the stairs in search of some food. The massive house felt even bigger knowing that Maria was not in it. Somehow and because of me only, I had managed to get both her and Evan banished and possibly killed. It would have been a lot better if it was me that was banished.
I headed down the stairs in search of one living soul. The only person I saw was the human boy who had unlocked the library doors earlier, he sulked as if mourning Maria.

"Where is everyone?" I asked him but it was Tessa who poked her head out from the kitchen.

"What the hell are you doing here!" she yelled out.

"I'm hungry-"

"You're supposed to stay in bed, you idiot!"

"I need something to eat-"

She tossed a piece of bread that fell off my stomach and hit the ground," there, that's all we have!"

I caught the eyes of the boy who glared at me with the same hate that Tessa bore.
I couldn't blame either of them. I figured I'd head back to my room and wait until both of them were asleep. I turned to leave but the sounds of heavy footsteps made us all face the foyer. It was Bullet.

"Master Damon requested that after she's had her medicine and dinner, that the doll be escorted to the cell," he spoke to the boy.

"Wait, what?" I pressed. What the hell is he talking about?

"She's had her dinner and medicine, I guess you can take her then," Tessa hurried to the boy's side who began to approach me.

"What's going on?" I yelled at Bullet," why am I going back into the cell?"

The human boy had already wrapped his arms around me. I struggled against his grip but he was far too strong to shake away.

"You got her?" Bullet ignored me and watched as the human boy struggled to keep me tame.

"Let me go, now!" I yelled out," Bullet! Tell me why!"

The boy flung me over his shoulders so that I faced a satisfied looking Tessa.

"What the hell did you do!" I screamed out at her, still fighting against the grip of the boy. Bullet had already walked away and we were already headed for the doors of the prison.

The hunger had eventually passed, it was hard to give any attention to my rumbling stomach when all I could think about was what could have made Damon switch up on me like that. It made absolutely no sense, to make sure that I was fed and given medicine and then quite literally sent to prison. What kind of twisted person did this? Of course all I could think was how everything could have been okay had I stuck to the plan. What could have possibly made him send me back here? Did Maria turn her back on me and reveal everything? Or was it Tessa? It couldn't be her, she would not risk any more danger to her mother.
Had he discovered everything on his own?

To my surprise, I did not find out. Days passed, and I hadn't seen Damon. I began to lose track of how I was counting the hours . It must have been sometime between three or four days, or maybe even five. I grew angry with the sounds of the droplets, they were aggravating, and then somehow sometimes, I found them comforting.
I began to wonder, how many more days until I went insane? Tessa never came, it was always the boy who dropped off a meal and some medicine. I begged and cried for answers, but he always ignored me. Eventually I figured that this was my karma for all of the villages that Damon would live to murder, all of the families and their children, slaughtered and forever vanished because I could not do the one thing I promised myself not to do.

I fell for Damon for his rare moments of vulnerability.