A Howling in the Hills (Prev. Adjusting) (BoyxBoy)

Chapter 13 - Pain

"Why do you ignore me, Adrian?"

I was breathing hard as pain lacerated my body. Bites, bruises, cuts, blood, and spent white seed decorated my once pale skin. 

I couldn't stand to look at myself. I kept my eyes shut as often as possible. 

"Adrian..."

My muscles were tense as my breathing labored through the pain, sweat dripping from my pores to try to cool off my overheated skin. 

"You know that I wouldn't let them hurt you if you just accepted me, Adrian."

Tears began to seep out from my tightly shut eyelids at Alex's words. I had been ready to try with him, to attempt to get over what had been done to me in the past.

I was such a fool. 

No one can be trusted enough for that. 

"Why are you doing this to me?" I whispered, completely defeated. "I thought you cared about me." 

Alex chuckled as though I were simply a curious child. "Oh, Adrian," he said as he began to pet my greasy, blood-matted hair. "I do care for you."

With a finger, Alex began to trace the contours of my face. 

"Rogues have to be controlled. When I found you, we were so close to other pack members that I couldn't bring you here straight away. That would've been much too suspicious."

He had added the rest of his hand, now, and ran it down the length of my neck before resting it on my bare chest. 

"I couldn't just let you die, either. You're much too pretty for that."

He began thumbing at my nipples, twirling his fingers around them to circle them in blood.

"I knew that once everyone saw how we were together, they wouldn't suspect me."

A small smirk appeared on his face as his other hand joined in the fray and he began to rub them up and down either side of me under my arms. I let out a hiss of pain when he rubbed them up against some of my cuts.

"This way, you can be with me. We can be happy together."

"If you want me to be happy, let me go," I begged, having completely given up on getting my dignity or pride back.

Alex just chuckled as his hands dragged further down to my hips. He dug his fingers into the bruises there, causing me to let out a cry of pain.

 "Adrian, you don't listen, do you?"

Alex leaned down so his mouth was right next to my ear before digging his nails deep into the skin at my hips. I cried out again and tried to jerk away, but his grip just tightened as blood began to trickle from my hips.

"I already told you," he whispered before licking the shell of my ear. "Rogues need to be controlled. You don't know what's best for you--I do."

"You'll be charged with treason," I whispered, my body shaking in fear. "You've killed your own pack members!" 

"I just sent the order," Alex smoothly replied as his grip relaxed and he began to lave at my neck, making shivers of disgust shoot through my system. "Besides, once I'm Alpha, they won't be able to do anything to me."

"You'll never be Alpha," I sneered. "You aren't next in line. You have no Alpha blood in you."

Alex's hands shot up from my hip and gripped my throat, slamming me against the bed with a tight grip. I tried to grab at his hands, but the steel chains held me back.