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3RD POV.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.
The dungeon is dark, a replica that they know of regarding all the times they’ve locked their own mate there based on selfish reasons.
They are having a taste of their medicine and it plunges at that heart so much. It feels heavy, like there’s a dagger continuously piercing through their chest, reaching out to take away their lives.
Now, things have changed. Kaya is their reason for being here, when they used to be the reason she suffers. The emotions spiralling through their minds makes them understand the pain Kaya has once felt when they betrayed her again and again and again.
They blame themselves how they’ve misused her, how they have slept with her like she was some dog when in actuality, they loved every moment but just won’t admit it. They regret every decision that has brought them to this stage. But most importantly, they regret that they have completely changed Kaya into someone else entirely.
In the fight of good and evil, they have turned good into evil, now how would they be saved?
The brothers are locked inside the dungeon, their hands clipped with chains above their heads and hooked to the metal ceiling of the iron cell. They recall how they tied down Aiden then and broke Kaya when they took out his heart.
They can understand the pain she felt then now just like the way they felt when Kaya called their enemies on them. They are wrong to have thought that they could just change her mind by doing what they ought to have done when they first wronged her, and right from the start, they had even known that she was their mate, yet she had pushed her to the end of the wall.
She retaliates now without a stop. She cannot stop. They understand her rage. They feel it with her and it breaks them to know they caused it. How haste they’ve also changed, too. How haste they have realized their mistakes, but is there a chance for retribution?
The door to the cell rattles as it opens and Olivia walks in with her claws scratching the wall till she arrives before the triplets. They are only separated by the iron bars.
“How the mighty have fallen. You thought you were all powerful, that you had no weakness yet I had told you then… Did I not tell you that you’d come to your knees someday?” She asks them but they are unreceptive.
The three of them have their heads hanging low as their breathing has lowered too. They look like a living dead with their chest bare. The triplets have been ripped of all clothes except their trousers.
“Karma is a bitch, is it not?” As Olivia adds in, the four other alphas walk into the room, too with growls of approval coming from them.
Their laughter fills the air, piercing into the triplets ears, although it doesn’t shaken them up anyway. Rather, they are only in pain of their heart which has broken. It almost feels like a mistake that they made their own heart come alive only for it to be broken.
“Now, what do we do with these fools?” Alpha Xander is the first to speak. His tone is perilous.
Alpha Lucas chimes in, his menacing voice sending off chills, “of course, we are going to kill them.”
“But not without having Kaya here. I want her to see everything. She helped us capture them, so she has everything. Plus, by the way, what fun is killing these monsters without letting them suffer just like we had.” Olivia’s eyes scan at Alpha Damon’s eyes just then, to which he smiles.
“Of course,” he steps forward towards the cell and bangs at it. “Do you remember that torture measure you once taught me, Kieran?”
Kieran’s face raises and spits at Damon’s face, except it didn’t reach him exactly due to the distance.
“Don’t worry. Soon, you’d have no chance to even throw a spit. You’d be so feeble, useless, powerless, and your life having no meaning to you anymore that you’d beg for death. After all, isn’t that what you did to all of us?” Damon’s beast is half-out already as he grips the iron bar as though he’s grabbing one of the triplets neck.
“You all are cowards!” Kade voices out, utilizing his Alpha aura to raise his volume. They have been poisoned with silver, which is steaming inside their blood, so they are rendered frail in muscular strength. “You can’t even fight your own war well, but decided to use a witch against us. See you all, hypocrites in your own shadows. You did not win, and that’s what you don’t understand. Any of you would have killed the girl onset, but we kept her, and now you dare use her against us? It shows just who really is weak here. Could you have done what she did, half of it even at that?”
Alpha Damon was about to walk away before until Kade speaks up, and when he wants to retaliate, Luna Olivia grabs him by his arm and glare at him. “Words hurt more than actions, especially at situations such as this, so calm yourself.”
When alpha Damon has relaxed, Olivia steps forward and laughs before she speaks. She and the triplets are now facing each other and Kyle gazes at her with utter disgust. He has actually always hated her because of the fact that she’s always known how to make use of her words well.
“We lose, we win, but who is dying right now? Who is in a cell, wailing for help, or at least would soon?” One of her brows first raised before the second one, both of them wiggling at the brothers for an answer that would never come. “Yes, we are hypocrites, as are you. Everyone is judgemental of that, but what matters is who gets the last laugh, and we do.”
She steps forward, closing the space between the iron bar and her figure. “Each of us suffered in your hands. You killed my own mate and what did he do? Nothing worth his death! Damon, you forced him to reject his mate only because she was a human and when he wouldn’t allow, what did you do? You threatened him so much he had to let go of his love. And Frederick, and Lucas, and Xander, each of us suffered because of your selfishness but we use the only way we know how to capture you and you call us cowards?′
“When you were lost due to the curse, we wanted to be there for you as we are one, like-specie, but you hurt us in the course of it. You took everything we could ever happiness from us because you have more power, and you could do that to your fellow alphas, if you could rule over even us, what wouldn’t you have done to the poor witch? And when Alaric stood against you, you ended him and his pack. You enslaved them. Think about your punishment and see if you do not deserve each ton of pain that’s been thrown at you!”
And she finally finishes, “and the girl: she’s just yet another experiment to you, as she is to us.” Olivia chuckles there when she sees the change in the triplets’ eyes. “Oh, come on. She’s a witch. You don’t really think I have taken her as a sister?” She laughs out loud this time around, showing her real colour and intention towards Kaya. “She is a broken girl by your help and I’ll use her till the very end, till i see the finale of the triplets and the end of your kingdom.”
Olivia turns back to Damon, “when Kaya is back, we will commence the main torture. Till then, let us warm our high guests up.” With a nod from her, Damon walks to his left and presses a button on the wall.
Surges of electricity crackles out of the blue before it thrills over to the iron bar, sending it’s energy there. The result has the triplets screaming at the top of their lungs, the lightning zapping into their skin.
The alphas watch how the triplets’ hair fly up in the air and their body hung up there in the air under the influence of the electricity. And the greatest of all the fun, their wall-shattering roar for it to stop.
About an hour later, Olivia is back and turns off the switch. “Where is Kaya? What did you do with her?” She is far beyond pissed, as she still needs her in her plans.
But there is no answer for her. The triplets are a living ghost, unable to even blink. The charge from the lightning was too much.
When they wouldn’t reply, Olivia orders the nearby guards. “Bring them out. Seems the torture isn’t ending anytime soon.”
And what she has in mind for the triplets is worse than anything Kaya would agree to but if it’s what would make her find Kaya through the triplets, as she believed they know of her whereabout, she would do it.