Chapter 355 – Owned by the Alphas Novel Free by Jen Cooper

Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel

‘Shall we start, Luna?’ The witches echoed in the cavern.

Oh so this was going to be a public affair? Awesome.

I was about to tell them that when I was thrown back into my cage by their power rushing at me.

To say it was painful was too weak of a description. It was excruciating. Birthing kind of excruciating.

I clutched my head as they tried to burrow, refusing to scream. That’s what they wanted. I understood their game.

Torture me in front of my mates, in front of my pack so someone caved.

But Kai and I had played this game before. We were not going to give in.

We knew the sacrifice we had signed on to take when we became parents.

The witches flushed my mind with images. Of my Mates. Dead, bleeding, being tortured. It was a future I couldn’t let happen. It made me more determined to resist.

The second the witches felt that it didn’t work, the images got worse.

I saw Kai fucking female after female, I felt the pain in every thrust he sent into other women. My heart ached as I clawed at it.

“It’s not real!” I screamed.

‘It was. This is your mate doing what he wants to do. Do you really think he is satisfied with only you? With having to share?’ They taunted, pressing the images into my head harder, imprinting them until the tears were falling down my cheeks.

I clutched my head, refusing to let their words get to me.

They were before me. Kai was happy now, mated.

But the witches still pushed.

And then Kai was raging, bashing against the cage as he roared. The cavern shook, rubble falling as the witches chuckled.

Brax was next, his shadows reaching for mine, needing reassurance.

I peered down at Derik who was frowning, his eyes closed, his face rigid.

We were all being put through the same torture. The kind that fucked with our heads.

I saw Brax with Danika, going on dates, the engagement, the promises. I saw them fucking, I saw them happy.

It crushed me to think that was what Brax had given up for me. Since being with me, we had been at war. Were we happy?

And then Derik. The girl he had been with before was beautiful. A woman with darker skin, beautiful long silk curls.

Her almond eyes were soft and kind.

She was gentle with him, touching him, promising herself to him.

And then she had mated.

Pain laced through me as I saw what he went through, the pain of losing the woman he had loved. And he had.

They had fucked like lovers, been comfortable with each other. She had broken his heart.

I recognized her too. She was one of the teachers of the school. I hadn’t known that and doubt crept in.

Was she happy with her mate? Was Derik happy with me?

The doubts swirled like piranhas in bloody water.

I sucked in a breath trying to shove them out of my head.

But the witches were relentless.

I saw my mates naked with their lovers and how much they had enjoyed themselves. I saw the life they lived before me.

It was years and years of females, of sex. Was I too inexperienced for them? Could I really satisfy three Alphas?

Were they disappointed to be mated to me?

I spiraled, fighting with everything I had against the cruel, unforgiving images the witches showed me.

But they played on every insecurity I had.

Brax complimented Danika on how well she fought. Complained about Cain and Tabby and how he would die before he let them close. I had let them close.

Derik was promising his life to his fianc?e, complimenting her tall, slender frame. I was no longer as slender as I had been. I wasn’t even that tall compared to the wolves.

Kai. He had so many women. I was so inexperienced.

I couldn’t escape the witches’ words. They sunk into my head, latching on and sending me into a hopeless despair where my brain told me I wasn’t enough.

How could I be?

Compared to what they’d had?

What if they were only settling because fate had cursed them with me?

I sunk to the floor of the cage, putting my head against the bars, trying to tell myself that it was all a lie, that the witches were just trying to get in my head.

But what if it wasn’t a lie?

The question wouldn’t leave and I wasn’t sure it ever would now that it was there.

34. The Tunnel

Lorelai

“Don’t listen to them, Little Luna,” Kai growled. “They know nothing of our connection.” He tried to look down at me through the cage bars.

I didn’t look up at him.

Darkness swirled in my heart, in my head.

My magic perked up, but it was my shadows that tried to kick out the toxic thoughts that the witches gave me.

“Beautiful,” Derik coughed from next to me. I didn’t look at him. “The witches are showing me pictures of you with your other mates. They are telling me you prefer them. That I am just an added extra but you will pick them over me, every time. If we are to believe what they are telling us, are you telling me that is true?” He asked.

“Of course it isn’t!” I said, meeting his eyes.

They were hooded, his arm hung over his stomach as he stayed against the back of the cage. Even his words were weak.

“Then push them out. Whatever they are using, it is lies. As it is in our minds. We have to stay strong against it,” he said.

I took a deep breath and nodded, centering myself again.

I shoved back at the thoughts, at the images. My shadows helped, and I slowly felt more confident.

The witches took offense, pushing back harder until my head felt like it was going to explode.

“Spitfire. I need your reassurance here. You’re not thinking of cutting me out, right? Hating me for the rest of our mated lives because of the Heather and Danika thing, right?”

I smirked. They really were playing us.

“I will never let you go, Brax,” I promised.

I heard his sigh of relief.

I looked up to Kai who had his eyes closed, leaning on the bars, his hands clutching it.

His lips were pursed.

“Kai?”

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