There's no point. The other two men rush in and grab me. I kick and scream, as does Silva. I bite and curse until I feel something sharp prick my neck, and then everything goes black.
I awake with a gasp, shooting up into a seated position. My stomach rolls, my head pounds, and everything spins. Groaning, I place my face in my hands, giving myself a moment for the world to come to a stop before I open my eyes.
“Lexi!” Silva’s voice has me looking up, eyes blurry. “You’re awake.”
“What's going on?” I ask, feeling woozy, like I’m drunk. “Where are we?”
“Fuckers drugged us!” Silva growls. “I’m gonna kill them. I’m going to kill all of them!”
“I’d advise against trying that,” a feminine voice sounds nearby.
“Who are you?” Silva demands. “And where are we?”
“You are at the Henderson Estate. This will be your new home.”
“What the fuck do you meannew home?” Silva shouts. “You can’t do this. You can’t keep us. This is kidnapping! When the police find out, you’re all going to be in trouble.”
“And who will call the police?” this woman asks. I still can’t see her, but I can just make out her body shape. “You have no friends and no family. You two are all alone.” She sighs sadly. “But no worries. You two are safe now, and we are your new family. You will be well cared for here, and you will become the perfect Omegas. When the time comes, you will never want for anything in life.”
“You’re crazy. You all are crazy! What is this place?” Silva asks.
“It’s a place that will teach you to be the perfect Omega,” she repeats like some damn robot. “By the time you leave, you will be exactly what your Alpha wants and needs.”
“W-what?” she stutters as this woman's words sink in.
“You are now the property of Gideon. We will care for you and teach you the ways. When you turn twenty-one, you will be matched with your perfect Alpha.”
“You mean sold,” Silva laughs, but it sounds a little manic. “We’ve been kidnapped and sex trafficked.” She begins to laugh harder and harder. “Holy fuck. Oh my god, Holy fuck.”
My head spins, and my stomach turns as Silva’s words replay in my head over and over and again.
We’ve been kidnapped. We’re being held until they choose to sell us.
As the world goes black again, I wish we had never left the foster home. I’d rather be raped by them than be imprisoned against our will.
At least then, we could have gone to the cops and had them arrested.
Here, we hold no power. We’re the forgotten. No one is coming for us, because the only people who care about us are... well, us.
Chapter 2
Lexi
Three Years later
Every few seconds, my eyes flick over to the clock on the wall. The tick-tick-tick is driving me insane. My knee bounces like crazy, my heart pounds with nerves as my stomach twists with unease.
Gideon, the man who’s held us captive in this mansion for years now, has put on his annual gala. A yearly event he hosts for the rich and powerful Alphas of society.
To an outsider, it looks like any other event someone with money would put on. It’s not. It’s far worse than it seems.
We’ve been preparing for this night for years, it’s what we’ve been trained for.
Each year, the group of Omegas who are newly twenty-one are paraded around, shown off like prized ponies before being sold off like pigs for slaughter to the highest bidder.
We’re the Omegas who spent years being shaped and molded to be the perfect housewife, the obedient sex slave, the fertile womb to hold the future heirs to empires around the world.
I’m dressed in the gown Viv, one of the female Betas in charge of the girls, left for me.
