My Cursed Sadistic Alpha Sebastian's Curse novel Chapter 26

Athena

Sebastian led me to the hall, partially dragging me with him as if he could sense my reluctance and it bothered him.

If only he knew why I really didn't want to see anyone from that pack. Shadow pack was small, there were not many privileges that were provided and not many people in the pack too, so each face was familiar and I was sure anyone from there could recognize me as well.

And the last thing I wanted was to face the people from my horrendous past. It'd weaken me and being weak was the last thing I could afford.

"Sebastian, can you please let me go? It's not that important for me to be there...so please." I managed to muster with my shaky voice.

"You don't get to decide what is important or not, you will do what I say and want," He spat, and threw me on the couch causing a yelp to leave my mouth as I landed on the surface, "Keep your mouth shut or else you know what I'd do to you."

"Please listen to me once, I'd do anything you say or..."

"What are you even thinking? In what do you think I'd care to give a fuck about what you want or listen to you? I don't care," He grabbed my face, and his tight grip caused a burning sensation to spread through the skin on my cheeks.

"I didn't mean..."

I couldn't speak because he roughly tilted my face upwards and leaned "Stay within your damn limit, Athena. Because If I have to do that, you wouldn't like it."

He was not understanding the reason, nor I had the courage to tell him because that story was a part I wanted to forget as a nightmare.

I did not want to remember all those things I faced.

Tears began gathering in my eyes in anxiety, "It's not what you think, I c-can't do this....I-I don't want to see...."A sob automatically broke through leaving me unable to complete my sentence.

His expression changed.

For a man like him, it was hard to spot the unusual with me.

"What is it?" He asked, calm and cold at the same time.

"I...I don't want to, please let me go. I'll accept any of your punishments, you can hit me or do anything. I just don't want to do this...." I sobbed.

"What pack you used to live in before the auctioneers took you away?" His question made every cell of my body get alert. I could hardly breathe, anguish was all I felt.

They did not take me away....

My parents sold me.

I shook my head, not wanting to answer. I did not even want to utter the name of that pack. I spent the worst of my time there, from my childhood, in fact, the day I was born— That hell for me was even worse than Sebastian's.

"Please, let me go to our room," I begged.

Sebastian did not get the chance to speak since the sound of footsteps and a guard's voice broke through, "Alpha, they are here."

My eyes widened, and my body froze like ice. The knot in the middle of my chest tightened.

Sebastian grabbed my hand, probably knowing that I was about to run away.

"Don't." It was his stern command that snatched all the strength from my knees.

"Please..."

He did not pay any heed to my plea, he grabbed my hand and made me stand up. Dragging me forward to stand beside him and then despite all my attempts to get away he turned around and forced me to do so as well.

And then my eyes spotted the worst I could have ever imagined.

The two people standing in front of me were indeed members of the Shadow pack but their relation to much was much beyond that.

In front of me stood my parents. The same people who did not bother once before they sold me for a couple of thousand dollars, the same people who, for the entire time, thought spending anything on me would be a waste of money, the same people who only looked at me if they had to unleash their anger, the same people who did not deserve to be called parents.

They were devils under disguise. They were the true culprit for everything I had to face.

"Athena..." It left from the mouth of the woman I once called mother.

"What are you doing here?" My so-called father asked, his bewilderment shading his entire expression.

I bit down the inside of my cheek, trying hard not to cry. My hands automatically grabbed Sebastian's arm and I held onto him as tight as I could.

The more I looked at those two filthy beings, the more the pain seemed to increase. I'd thought I could somehow stop my tears, but it felt like I was not going to be able to do so.

Sebastian's eyes were only fixated on me as if he was noticing all my reactions, every deep breath I took or the way my eyes moved and hands shook.

"She is my mate," He answered on my behalf and my parents' eyes widened.

It was astonishment that covered their eyes at first as they exchanged a glance with each other and suddenly there was a change in both of their countenance as they noticed my hands holding Sebastian for my dear life.

I knew that expression.

It was nothing other than greed.

"We were here to search for our daughter," My mother's sad voice and sudden teary eyes did not match the ones I'd seen my entire life, "Your mate, Athena is our beloved daughter. I don't know if she has told you anything about her or..."

"No, she hasn't," Sebastian for some reason spoke quicker than I'd expected, "Would you both mind telling me what really happened?"

This polite request did not fit his behaviour, he was never the one to request but why he did today turned out to be the biggest mystery for me.

A barely noticeable smirk tugged at the corner of my mother's lips as she sobbed and looked at my father, passing him a silent message to join in her acting.

"A few bad guys took her away and we did not know that they handed her to those disgusting auctioneers so when we got a hint that she might be in your pack, we came in search of her." He lied perfectly.

If the memories weren't so decisively imprinted inside my head, maybe even I would have fallen for this act of theirs. It looked like they truly cared for me when in reality, they were only thirsty for money.

"We searched everywhere but we couldn't find her, for the past we have been searching for her all day and night," My mother frantically walked closer to me, wiping her tears and looking at me with affection.

"My lovely daughter, you don't know what we have been through. Your dad and I couldn't sleep, couldn't eat thinking of where you might be, what those guys might do to you," She stroked my hair and I flinched away, trying to hide my face into Sebastian's arm.

I did not want to see her or hear her voice. It disgusted me.

"You look so terrified, don't worry. It's me and your dad, we'll not let anything else happen to you. We are so sorry that we couldn't save you," She continued with her acting, "Please forgive us. Theo, please tell her to talk to us. Why she is not looking?" She cried.

"Athena, sweetheart...why don't you just talk to us once? You know we love you, don't you?" At the end of his sentence there hung a threat.

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