Chained submission

Chapter 13

One week.

     One week of being locked up in this room.

     Except this time it was my choice. I wanted to be in here, the outside was terrifying. I was sure that as soon as I went through that door someone would be there to take me away, to violate me. I had to stay safe in my room, in my territory, with my mates. My mates would protect me, they would never let anyone hurt me, I just had to stay with them and them only. All I had to do was stay by their sides.

     "It's been a week now, wouldn't you like to go outside? Maybe to the pool? Oh my, is the pool not to your liking? I will be sure to have the lake back there cleaned out so it's safe for you to swim there instead. Would you like that my love?"

     Axl spent most of his time trying to talk to me about going outside or at least out of the room, but I didn't want to have anything to do with that. I was good right where I was, I wasn't going anywhere. Not now, not ever. I was going to stay in this room for the rest of my life living content with the both of them.

     This was the point of the day where they both had to leave for their duties, which pained me every time they walked out the door. I sighed, cuddling up in my bed to sleep away the time they wouldn't be here.

     Though, only as I began to fall unconscious I felt my inner self force itself out.

PICKLE'S POV

     Finally.

After months of being locked up and forced to stay silent, I finally managed to creep my way out of Koa. He likes to call me stubborn but in reality he is the stubborn one, locking me away and leaving me no voice to defend myself or hear what I have to say. He's just like those two awful men, he has become someone I can't even recognize. But that's my job after all, to watch the reality leave what they once were behind.

Every shifter had an inner self, and they were there to take control in animal form and to keep their person in shape. They were left with all the old things. Old memories, personalities, opinions, and much more. I was what Koa used to be, and now I have to sit and watch him live through what our biggest fear was, a controlled submissive omega.

We had made a promise to live better than that, better than an omega. We were more than that, we were strong and brave, and most importantly didn't put up with any shit. But now I am left watching him turn into everything we despised. Now, it may seem like I'm mad at him, and although I am, I cannot blame him. If it wasn't for my job of holding onto everything about our past self, I too would have fallen into their traps.

I cannot blame him for his choices, only for the fact he didn't have any. Sure, I told him and tried to keep him in check, but even I wasn't strong enough to go against them. No matter what I have tried, pushing thoughts into Koa's head, they always fought back, showing that if I tried to fight they would only punish me for it, which was really punishing Koa. He was so unstable, so far gone that I couldn't help him. He didn't want my help, he didn't want to be strong anymore or escape. He has practically forgotten how he has gotten here or what all they have done to him for years in his dreams. Sometimes I felt as if I wasn't even here, like I wasn't needed anymore. I struggled everyday alone with thoughts that were pulling me down and causing me to overthink.

But at the end of the day, I knew where they came from, those two damn abusers.

But not just them, their inner selves, their dragons.

Since they were busy bringing Koa down, shaping him into their perfect mate and stripping him of everything he once knew, their dragons were now working on me. Of course, since we didn't have a mate link with them it was difficult, and is supposed to be nearly impossible, but those dragons are so strong it is probably nothing to them. They have gotten into my head far too many times and I'm tired of it. I will no longer stand here and watch them bring Koa down. I also will not stay long enough for them to do the same thing to me.