Imperious.

Part XXXII: Emilia & Tom

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Pages: 121 - 126

E M I L I A - 

I know where I am, even though I can't open my eyes. It's the unfathomable smell of death that I've allowed to grow in this room. It's the smell of decaying bodies, and rodents running up and down, calling this place their home. It's the base room, my killing room. A room that I designed myself to ensure that anyone trapped in it has no way of getting out. So I guess it makes sense that she trapped me in this very room. But why her? Why Jamie?

I called her my friend, treated her like the sister I never knew I wanted. I made her my right hand, told her about the ins and outs of Tom and mine relationship. How could she betray this pack? How could she betray me? My heart involuntarily sank when I saw the strand of blonde hair slip out from her hoodie. The same blonde hair I've watched her stuff into a ponytail or let out in curls throughout the years we've been friends. Straining myself, I try to think about anytime I could've possibly pushed her away, or angered her into doing this to me, but I come up short.

How could she?

I breathe through my mouth, and the bitter taste of my blood makes my stomach queasy. If I even attempt to move a part of my body in the slightest way, the throbbing sensation that floods my senses makes me want to scream. While I'm chained to a chair, in my base room, my pack is left unattended, and my mate - where is he?

Flinching at the stinging sensation my tears give as they run down my face and greet what can only be cuts, my mind begins to race as to what could only be being done to Tom. The people threatening to take my pack from me won't see Tom as a person innocent in every way from the complications that arise while running a pack. They won't regard him as a man who's simply mated to an Alpha. They'll see him as a threat. A complication - a tie needing to be cut to ensure that taking over this pack will be easy. And that is what causes this newfound dread to form from the deepest parts of my stomach. I'd never forgive myself if something happened to him.

"Oh you're awake?" Jamie says, her blonde hair curled to perfection as she smiles, peeking her head through the base room door, before closing it. Watching her tiredly, her brown eyes gleam wickedly as she turns on the dim light. "I was hoping to mess around with this one for a little while." She says, gesturing to Jessica, who sits lifelessly in a chair not too far from me, "but no matter. I guess she'll have to wait for later."

"Why did you hurt Jessica? She's done nothing to you." I ask, trying to move, but the thickness of the rope she's used to bind me rubs against my open cuts, making the pain even more unbearable.

Looking up at Jamie, her happiness is gone and a different persona faces me. Her eyes are cold, detached and feral. Her smile is replaced with with a scowl, before changing into a sneer. Walking up to me, she backhands me and my face flies to the right.

I bite back my scream as my left cheek flares, as if it's on fire, and I bite the inside of my cheek as I feel the cuts reopen and begin to bleed. Breathing out harshly, I blink and deblur my eyes. I'm Alpha; I cannot show her weakness.

"I'm not Jamie! I'm Jessica." Jessica yells in my face. Grabbing me by my hair, she brings my face close enough to hers that I feel her anger rolling off of her.

What could I have done to make her this angry?

Banging my head into the chair I'm sitting on, Jessica walks back and forth, muttering to herself. "Jamie. Jamie. Jamie. Mom loves Jamie, Jace loves Jamie, Dad loves Jamie, everyone fucking loves Jamie. Jamie's the sweet one. Jamie's the hardworking one. Jamie's the one who's gonna make us proud. Of course you thought it was Jamie, because Jamie would be the only one to pull something like this off, right?" She screams, her eyes flashing green, "Well no! I'm Jessica. Jessica can pull off something like this. Damn you and damn her!" She screams before walking over to Jamie and smacking her awake. "Wake up! You both are going to listen to what I have to say."