The Alpha’s Slave

BRIANNA’S POV

Pressing my lips together, I let out a heavy sigh and squeezed my eyes close for a moment. That was a part of my life I wanted to forget and never talk about. But if I wanted Aunt Gigi to understand how I ended up there. How Hermes and I’s relationship turned out then I needed to tell her everything. I just hope she’ll have the heart to bear it. I have known her to be soft-hearted and too emotional she can break down in the slightest of distress. Maybe even more emotional than me.

“Are you okay?” She asked, giving me a questionable look. “Did something happen…”

“The marriage with Hermes never worked out,” I revealed, leaving her frozen on the spot, her eyes popping and lips flying open in shock. “Hermes wasn’t the person we all believed him to be. He’s a monster…a psychopath. The devil incarnate…”

Aunt Gigi stared at me with eyes that blinked rapidly, too surprised to say a word or even breath.Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

My shoulders dropped and I closed my eyes tightly to hold back the tears painfully forming behind them, reminding myself that I have gone past this stage and it wasn’t worth shedding a tear for. “I just wish we realized that before I followed him to that hellhole he calls a castle. None of all that would have happened to me…”

“None of what Brianna?” Aunt Gigi managed a voice, staring at me as if to see through me, her attention piqued to the hilt.

I looked up at her and forced a dry smile as I began telling her everything that happened.

I told her how Hermes turned me into a sex machine. Turned me into his sex slave. How he and his sister maltreated and used me as their plaything. I told her about the Omega slave auction and how I was sold to Sebastian. I told her how meeting Sebastian changed my life for good. How he cared for me and made me rethink a lot of things that would have negatively affected me if I had continued living with them.

With his help, I have been able to get through that traumatic part of my life. With him by my side, I have been able to get through a lot of challenges. As a result, those memories can’t haunt me again. I have learnt not to be hard on myself again because everything that happened then wasn’t my fault. I have moved on just fine. I have found true happiness.

“I’m sorry…” she clamped her hand over her mouth to stop the storm of emotions accumulating inside her from bursting out. “If I had known it’ll turn out like that I wouldn’t have urged you to accept his proposal…. I wouldn’t have insisted on you immediately following him to his castle…”

“I understand that part perfectly,” I replied with a heavy heart, stopping her from continuing. “He is the Alpha King. Everyone in the kingdom has a good impression of him, not knowing he has a dark side. But what I didn’t understand is why you or your husband never came to visit or at least check up on me…”

The flood of emotions she was holding back got the best of her, finally escaping as tears that streamed down her rosy cheeks.

“I waited a month for you to come get me and pull me out of that terrible nightmare. A month turned into two then three then four months but you never came. Why didn’t you come for me, Aunt Gigi?… Did you and the rest of the family think I was living the dream in that castle?”

She shook her head in a painful disapproving motion as I said all that. The bitter expression on her face showed she shared in my pain and misery and had no clue about what happened to me. Of what I was talking about. But I needed to know if she actually came for me or just left me to suffer in that hellhole.

“Of course not!” she removed her hand from her mouth and blurted out in a frenzy of conflicting emotion. “I came to visit. Several times. But those men who usually guarded the castle said Hermes didn’t allow visitors unless it was for something special and important. Even when I told them who I was and how we were related they still didn’t grant me access. They even mentioned you gave them strict orders not to allow anyone to come visit you…that you weren’t interested in receiving visitors.”

“Those bastards,” I gritted my teeth before scoffing. “I thought as much.”

At that moment, I didn’t regret killing one of them the time I tried to escape. People like them deserved death and all the misfortunes life has to offer for helping Hermes carry out his disgusting acts just for money. Hermes probably didn’t allow visitors in the castle so no one will find out the terrible things he’s doing. Throughout my stay there, I never for once heard he had a visitor.

“On the contrary, we thought you turned your back on us. We thought you suddenly forgot us because of the position you had risen to. The kids kept asking when you’d come visit and bring them gifts and I kept lying to them. Now I don’t even know what to tell them again. I just do my best to avoid the questions entirely.”

Hearing that made my heart soften to a puddle and bleed in my chest. The last thing I’ll do is forget the people who stood by me when I had nothing and no one to lean on. I’d give anything to see my little cousins again and bring them all the gifts in the world. But I couldn’t risk going back to my kingdom because of Hermes.

“I’ll never turn back on you people. I love you all very much to do that. Many times I thought of coming back and letting you guys and everyone in the kingdom know what a monster Hermes is, but I couldn’t. I can’t set foot on that kingdom again,” I sighed lowly in defeat.

“Why?” Aunt Gigi asked, her brows pinching into a frown as if to protest.

She took out a tissue from her bag and began wiping her tears which had already ruined her once perfect makeup. I felt bad for her ruined make-up. I didn’t mean to be the cause of it.

I popped out a supreme breath, not knowing how best to answer her question. I didn’t know she would take it. I myself didn’t take it in well when Sebastian first made it known to me.

“You see Aunt Gigi, slaves sold at the auction are forever bound to their masters till death or something tragic. If I happen to leave this place or go back to our kingdom and Hermes sees me and reclaims me as his slave or any of the Alpha Kings that were present at the auction recognizes me, then I’m done for,” I explained sadly, wishing I didn’t have to go on. “Not only will be punished severely or even worse executed, but Sebastian will also face trial and likely lose his Alpha King position.”

“That’s absolute bullshit!” she vented, her face grimacing with disgust and disbelief.