Zara

At first everything was dark and all voices were muffled.

“Oh, wait!” Someone yelled. The impact from the yell hit me hard making me grunt out weakly.

“She’s finally awake.” Someone else said, the voice sounded excited. “Thank goodness we didn't lose her.”

Finally? Did I fall unconscious? For how long?

Slowly, my eyes fluttered open. Above me hovered different faces which formed a circle round me. I frowned slightly and blinked twice. “What happened to me?” I asked no one in particular.

All of them gathered over me, exchanged glances and shook their heads. When they returned their gaze on me, their look was that of sympathy.

“You mean you don't remember a thing?” The girl that almost got whisked away by the slave trader last night asked.

I shook my head slightly. “After I was dragged away, I remember nothing.” 

Slowly, I sat up on the cold floor. The girls straightened, giving me enough space to breathe in a bit of fresh air from the cramped up room. “What happened?” I was confused and I didn't hide it. While I hoped whatever that happened wasn't something awfully bad, I couldn't put a hold on the sudden trembling feeling that washed over my being.

“He used the magician's spell on her.” I heard someone muttering in the midst of the girls gathered around me.

“Magician’s spell?” I frowned slightly. “Whatever does that mean?”

“I shouldn't be telling you this but–”

“Oh, you should.” I snapped. “Whatever happened, know it isn't a good thing. The best you could do for me right now is tell me what the hell the magician's spell means and why I can't remember a thing after I was dragged away by the slave leader?”

She exhaled sharply but said nothing.

I let out a snort before I could control myself. “And what does the magician do? Say a word and boom… you don't remember what happens to you from that moment onward.”

She nodded gently leaving me to wonder if she saw through my sarcastic words or if she was too thick skinned to understand. “The magician is their loyal dog and does whatever they ask of him using dark magic to get executed by all means.”

She exhaled sharply. “Once they gang raped any of us or if any of us proved tough to deal with, they normally call a magician in.”

“That explains the pain I'm feeling in-between my legs.” I murmured and stood up despite the pain eating deep into my bones, I dragged myself up and stalked towards the door.

One of the girls was quick to drag me back. “Are you crazy?” She hissed. “Do you want to get yourself and the rest of us killed?”

I ignored her and continued to walk towards the door. The girls didn't let me go far enough before they pulled me down on the ground. “Stop behaving rashly. You are now a slave for crying out loud, omegas are on a higher level than us… you shouldn't act without a plan for heaven's sake.” She half yelled.

“I was never a slave for your information,” I said through gritted teeth. “Someone betrayed me, landing me inside this mess.”

“That look–”

“Huh?” I looked up, away from the girls who had my butt pinned to the ground to meet the eyes of the girl who was talking. “That look,” She repeated again without breaking our locked eyes.

“The look in your eyes shows your thirst for revenge but I can assure you that it won't take you anywhere at all.” She said, her voice gentle as if that was her way of consoling me. “See, I am telling you this because it looks like you were just sold off and you are still fresh unlike us here who have been sold over and over again.”

My brows narrowed in utter confusion at what she was saying, but instead of disrupting her explanation, I allowed her to talk.

“You shouldn't put up with a fight whenever any of the slave leaders comes for you–”

I scoffed. “Says the girl that refused to obediently follow him last night.”

“Erase what you witnessed last night, if you imitate my footsteps,” She finally looked away, tilting her head sideways. “You would end up getting yourself killed.”

A mirthless chuckle escaped my lips. “Won’t that be preferable, I mean, look at the life we are leading, at this point, from the few things I've seen plus the one I experienced just yesterday, I will admit animals are better than us.”

Sensing I had the attention of everyone gathered round me, I continued quite determined to convince them the thoughts that just crossed my mind was a good one to make come to reality. “Should we allow ourselves to continue this way or we would rather save our skin?”

I looked from one face to the other. “Are you all dumb or you are just pretending not to understand me?”

One by one, they all walked away from me, some went to sit at a far corner away from me, others went to stand by the only window in the room.

“Just so you know,” The same girl said. “We are about to be sold again but this time, there is a high chance we are going to be sold as someone's sex toy.”

Her words continued to ring in my head as we troop out in a straight line towards the car that was parked ahead of us. 

“There is a high chance we are going to be sold as someone's sex toy.”

I refused to give her words a chance to grow in my head but looking down at the tight short revealing dress clad around my body, I knew she wasn't joking.

***

The car screeched to a stop after what felt like eternity. Before we were allowed out of the car, someone entered and blindfolded our eyes.

I refrained from slapping off the hands of the person who touched and squeezed my breast under the pretense of putting on a blindfold over my eyes.

The moment I was outside, a loud blaring music hit me hard in the ears and I let out a grimace. With the blindfold over my eyes, I had no idea where I was nor did I know where I was headed so I stood still and listened to the ear deafening song blaring from the music speaker.

A rough hand dragged me no second after I stopped walking, guiding towards where I was soon to find out.

“I want her.” Someone screamed from the right side of where I faced.

“No, let me have her. I will pay a nice amount for her.” Another yelled.

However, the man gripping my wrist didn't stop a bit. He sent a stern warning my way not to do that either.

As we walked forward, the sound of the blaring music drowned behind us. Suddenly, everywhere became quiet.

“She’s beautiful.” A husky voice said. “Take the blindfold off.” The voice ordered.

“Yes Alpha.” 

Alpha?

I subconsciously took a step backwards the moment I felt the hand of someone behind my back. The person behind me gave me a hard push forward.

“How dare you hit what belongs to me?” What followed next was the sound of punches and grunting.

“Please don't kill me.” I begged. My voice quivered slightly. “Please.”

“Oh, I can't possibly do that.” The voice said, and just then, the blindfold was yanked off my eyes.

It took my eyes sixty seconds to adjust to my environment. “Your eyes are quite the captivating type.”

The man standing in front of me… with deep blue eyes and long blonde hair that was packed into a ponytail, broad chest and an athletic structure was certainly handsome but that didn't captivate me.

The sight of the bleeding man on the floor did.

“What?” I shifted backwards with a horrified expression on my face.

“Oh that,” the blonde haired Alpha cackled. “He touched what belongs to me, so I had to teach him a lesson.”

I glared at him. “I do not belong to you.”

He chuckled and crouched down while I took one step backwards. “Sadly,” He leaned down and touched me gently on the head. “I am your master now, I own you.” 

For whatever reason, he sounded so confident.

I became self conscious of the clothes I was clad in, I quickly wrapped my hands around my chest. 

Without taking his hands and eyes off him, he said to a man whom I didn't notice was with us all along. “Let’s get out of here before Leonidas arrives from Spain.” 

“Yes, Alpha Kaiser.”

“Take your hands off me.” I hissed and made to punch the man who without doubt looked handsome.

He sneered. “As a slave, you should know your place.”

“As a loyal hound that you are, you should know your place too.” I retorted sharply.

Alpha Kaiser laughed, I glanced briefly at him then back to the one before me who looked like he would bite my head off at any time. “I like her Rex, she has a fire spirit inside of her.”

“I wonder how long it will last though, knock her out.” He ordered with a cold smile.

Rex advanced forward and hit me hard with something on my head.

The last thing I saw before I blacked out was the smirking face of Alpha Kaiser.