Rising 172
Chapter 172
A week later they found her hanging from a tree, her hands tied behind her back. Her murder was never investigated. It took a while to find the note she left for me. She apologized for hurting me. She accused Dallas and Alpha Redmen of working together to cause her to miscarry the baby and was going to take the evidence she had of the conspiracy to the council. Turns out she had ample evidence to create a case for rape but because Dallas had already standmed three pups by the age of eighteen instead of stopping the rape when he got her pregnant he was given immunity to keep going until he killed i
“Thank you for sharing your story. Is it okay if I ask two more questions? Then we’ll move you to another room so you can sleep.”
“Yes sir.” He whispers as he tries to steady his breathing.
“Obviously this was the relationship you considered real but you mentioned two others.”
“Yes sir. Rachel and Rebecca. I dated both of them for three months. Rachel was a month after I turned seventeen and Rebecca was two months after I broke up with Rachel. Both of them pursued me. Both of them forced themselves on me. I tolerated their forcefulness until the night they tried to take my pants off.”
“I know I said only two questions but this goes along with this first one. Did they touch you or force you to accept oral sex from them?”
“No. I managed to get them off of me before they got beyond undoing the button and zipper of my jeans. I broke up with them that night before leaving their room.”
He sighs as he rolls off my arm back onto the pillow behind him.
“I stopped dating after them. At first it was because I was working with Jamie’s father, Jon Jenkins. I had an interest in carpentry and felt that if something happened where I couldn’t remain with my pack that it would be a useful skill in the human world.
I had just started dating Rebecca when Jon accepted me as his apprentice. There were several times during the last month I was with her that I showed up late because my dad called me into the office to talk to me about forcing myself onto her. The meeting got worse when I tried to tell him that she was doing to me what she claimed I was doing to her. He didn’t react kindly to my admitted weakness or to me pointing out that he had given me permission to do what I wanted with the girls. That he couldn’t have it both ways.
Five month later I woke to him banging on my door. I hit the intercom button near my bed so whoever was waking me could talk and he told me to pack my shit and get out of his house until my apprenticeship was over. That the only time I could step foot in the pack house was the fifteeth of each month and I only needed to report to his office for that.”
“Your dad doesn’t use the link with you?”
“Not in the normal sense. The reason I didn’t start dating again after moving out was because six months after we broke up Rebecca claimed she was pregnant and that I raped her. I had heard rumors that Rebecca was claiming that I was continuing to come see her in the warrior dorms when she was already dating someone else but never did I think she would stoop that low.”
“Was that the first time the Jenkins got exposed to how bad things could get for you?”
“No, I had only been living with them for a month at that time.”
We both remained silent awhile until Angela breaks the silence.
“The room is ready. Cole, I need you to sit up in a chair for the short trip over. It’s a special medical room that’s designed to reduce the anxiety of being in the hospital. I don’t feel you’re in need of constant monitoring but I don’t feel you’re awake enough to go upstairs.”
I look over to Cole to see his eyes drooping down, nearly closing before, opening quickly and starting again. I sm place my hand on his shoulder.
“How about we start with sitting up.”
htly as I stand, speaking gently I
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