The door opened, letting in a faint flash of light that vanished with the same speed. She raised her head with such effort that opening her eyes was quite a feat. The image before her sickened her so much that she felt nauseous even more intense than she had. Its claws began to break through the skin of the fingers as its fangs grew larger.
She let out a roar using all his strength to reach the person to rip their throat out. Her body beginning to transform, but the rusty shackles around her wrists and ankles cut off her circulation and skin. Pain ran through his body like fathoms of fire falling to her knees and gasping without strength.
A triumphant smile crossed the alpha's lips as he knelt and brushed the dirty hair from the woman's haggard face.
-How many times have we repeated this event, my beautiful queen?- He wiped a drop of blood that stained his cheek and then raised her hand and hit it with a dry noise.
The woman's head hit the uneven ground and she stood motionless near the pool of her own dried blood.
The alpha frowned at the evidence of the abortion. He approached the woman and landed a kick to her stomach, earning a groan of pain from the body at her feet that shuddered into a fetal position. A slimy stream of black blood came out of her mouth, touching irretrievably.
-You can't even keep a decent puppy in that belly of yours- Rudoc had clenched teeth- Damn the day I marry you. The only good thing was your place at the top of the pack, but even your kids aren't good enough for what I have planned. Who should I get rid of first, if you lost a baby, another won't make a difference-
The omega at his feet squeezed his ankle trying to transform again, she knew it was useless and would only cause more damage to her weak body, but she could not stand idly by, she had to fight.
The death of their children? Everything but that. She did not know the faces of any of them, She barely remembered the smell of each one, but they were still his children. She vaguely remembered from a few days ago a faint familiar smell that made her moan wanting to go to him, although the chains prevented it. She had cried silently all night longing to feel him again.
Rudoc jerked his hand away and grabbed her old, torn dress, lifting it into the air and pulling it close to his face.
-You better prepare your body, my queen. I will come shortly to make you have another child of mine-
He released her and she fell back to the ground, against the wall. The door closed again, raising dust around her and she just stood there, plunged into darkness.
How long it had been there. That I no longer knew. 30, 40, 50 years, maybe. Keeping track was something she hadn't done since she had reached 25. The memories tortured her again like every day. For every mistake made, for every bad decision made.
She couldn't say that everything had always been this way. She had had a happy childhood, demanding being the only daughter of the alpha's brother after a chain mostly of omegas, so her lineage was considered one of the strangest and purest. There were good and bad things about that, and the bad things she had learned by force. She met Rudoc when she was about 18 years old, hardly a puppy aware of the world around her. He was a promising wolf, the son of a friend of his uncle, the alpha. Things like that had gotten out of control and without providing it she was married to him 4 years later. It was one thing for him to like her and another for her to be his wife, especially when he was 130 years old. Still young for a wolf, too grown up for her.
Many had celebrated the wedding without knowing that it would be the beginning of the decline of the pack. Within a few years the alpha had died unexpectedly along with his queen, leaving his brother in charge of the pack until a worthy candidate to be the alpha regent appeared. Shortly after, in a fire of dubious causes, her entire family had died, leaving her barely alive and with the responsibility of the pack on her shoulders. Rudoc in all those moments had supported her, comforted her.
For 10 years the herd had reigned. 10 years that she had done her best to keep all the members together and she had succeeded. She didn't know how, but respect from her people was a topic of conversation throughout her tenure. All until she had her first born at such a controversial age as in her thirties, since he was not even the age of majority, which was considered when he turned 50 and during his first heat. Being an omega it was natural to be fertile after 30 totally different from normal wolves.
After that Rudoc had changed a lot. So much so that the day she opened her eyes and found herself locked in, she didn't understand anything, although he was very "kind" to share his future plans and incidentally the past ones that included both her and her deceased family. Since that day her whole life had turned upside down, only keeping her alive under the threat of the death of her children and the miserable hope of ever seeing them again.