Chapter 77: Lilith P.O.V.

Chapter 77: Lilith P.O.V.
I woke up in the room where I wanted my mates and I to watch television and spend the night cuddling when I felt pain radiating all over my body from my shoulder, to my breast and my neck. Especially in between my legs though. I looked around the room and everything had changed, like a mirage. 

Instead of the room being the television room that I originally wanted to be in now the room looked more circular with a fancy bed, vanity and huge amenities between the closet and bathroom. I hoped out of the room and felt a thousand different voices in my head, ‘elaine’ I whispered her name in my mind, hoping that she could help me understand. 

The bars on the window sending me back to my life in the cell,”No!” I screamed, tugging and pulling on the bars with every bit of strength that I could muster.Then it happened, last nights memories flooded my brain and I had to see all of it replay and I trusted men with my life. I trusted men that were so eager to imprison me to them, forever. 

I fell on the floor and cried, hot sobs rolled through my body while my heart broke for the second time in a week, “How could they?” I cried to myself. I cried until I couldn’t cry any longer and then I picked myself up off of the floor and went to the bathroom. 

Then I saw the proof of everything that they had done to me without my consent. Everything that troy promised that he would protect me from. Blue bruises covered my wrists and the spots where they left their marks when I heard a knock on the door.

“Please back away from the door, Luna.” a man’s voice shouted.

“I’m not anywhere near your damn precious door!” I screamed, furiously while I looked at myself. I wanted to go hide and never look back but then that would require choice. It would require having free will over my own damn body and I didn’t even have that.

Elaine closed the door behind her, “Lilith?” She whispered, I could tell by her voice that she was scared to see what she would walk into. My mate’s at least had enough decency to provide me with a pair of short sleep shorts and a small cropped white tank top. 

“Elaine, I’m in the bathroom.” I said, trying to find the energy to be nice. Her son, these men that she catered to their whole life are the ones that did this to me and it was wrong but I had so much anger for her too. 

The second she saw me through the mirror her bottom lip wobbled and she covered her mouth while she cried silently, “I-I didn’t know that they did this to you. They told me that you would need some help changing but this…” She tried to say something but she lost her voice.

She continued to walk towards me slowly, “What can I do to help you?” She asked in a way that made me feel like she saw me, not as a prize, not as a luna but as a woman. 

“Can you get some stuff, some salt or herbs to help with soreness for a bath?” I asked, because every part of me hurt. 

A few minutes later the same annoying guard knocked on the door with a basket full of stuff including food and salts, “Thank you.” I mustered up looking at Elaine. She was one of the first people I had met when I came here with Troy and now I didn’t even have her. 

Elaine turned on the water and sat down on the edge of the tub, “I don’t expect you to trust me after what I can only assume that they did but let me help you in any way I can.” She said with tears running down her face.

“I don’t know if I can trust you.” I whispered, while I wiped away the last tears anyone would ever see from me.

“Mating marks don’t bruise unless it wasn’t wanted from someone, the ones that are on you, they were forced.” She croaked, looking over my body. I wanted to hide, I hate that they marked my body in a way that showed every single person just how useless I am, how weak. 

“ They can read every thought that I have so there is no point elaine.” I sighed, watching the warm steamy water rise. I would be a useless Luan locked in a tower.

“The tea in that basket you need to drink it now.” Elaine smiled, looking at me like she knew a big secret. Whatever she has planned, unless she plans to kill me can’t be much worse than anything I have already gone through. I grabbed the mason jar with tea like leaves and some purple flower and drank half of it until Elaine grabbed it from me. 

She continued filling the tub with bath salts and the room started smell even better and more calming as the seconds passed, “The tea blocked the bond. They can’t read your mind.” She said, part of her looked so torn and I can tell why she is a wolf after all. 

“I may not be your mom but when you let me help you get dressed I saw you as my daughter. I don’t care that I have spent their entire life preparing them for their mates. I would never allow them to treat a woman like that. A woman who has already went through so much trauma. Let me help you get to the witch sanctuary, please?” Elaine held my hands tightly, while her eyes spoke with so much more pain.

“Sanctuary?” I asked, because I didn’t know of any sanctuary for wolves anywhere on the planet. Partly because we are supposed to be predators, top of the food chain. 

“There is a sanctuary in the mountains for witches and even half witches. If you go there you will be protected by people who have been traumatized like you have. The entire goal there is to protect women.” She said it in such a hushed whisper I almost didn’t believe it.

“How would we even do this. They have me barred in and nobody even knows who I am.” I sighed.

“Get in the bath my dear and we can discuss how I am going to save my Luna.” She cooed, picking up my hair while I got into the bath. I wanted to have hope that the woman that is trying to protect me can save me but hope dies fast in victims.

“You’ll have to convince them that you might be willing to forgive them while I get some things in place. It will take a day or two at most but it relies more on them giving you the freedom to walk around the house.” She said looking at me with anger in her eyes. For once I didn’t think her anger is towards me. 

“Elaine, can we really do this?” I asked, bringing my hand out of the tub and giving her hand a squeeze. For once a woman might be saving my life and that gives me hope. 

“My dear, I am doing this for you.” She said with the most confident look on her face that I have seen since being here.

“Okay, if you can have things ready that fast then I would like to set up a meeting with my mates within two hours.” I said, trying to muster up some of her confidence. 

She looked at me slightly alarmed given my current state with ugly dull skin and bruises everywhere. I don't think any man would believe their woman wanted ot be with them, “Can you make me look like a true luna in that time?” I asked her, hopeful that she could work some magic.