Episode 3

Uh... I think I finally died, it felt so warm, I was floating in the air, this was definitely heaven, so warm and soft, there was no pain, no problems, for the first time in who knows how many years the feeling of alertness with which I had lived my whole life had finally disappeared, I was at peace, calm. In heaven it also smelled like lemon cake, this was definitely paradise, maybe I would finally see my mother again, maybe I would recover my sight, if I could open my eyes... Okay, I already opened them... I still can't see anything... Even in heaven I'll be blind... Great!!

The sound of footsteps broke the silence that accompanied me.

._ Miss, you're awake._ a smell of chamomile and spices flooded the place._ I'm glad to see you're feeling better_. And then that's when it hit me, the softness of the fabric that covered my body, my hands tightened on the sheets of the bed where I seemed to be lying down, I could feel it... The softness between my fingers and then everything started... The alarm went off inside me, I brought my hands to my face and felt it again, that which my mother had hidden from me... Marks, scars, holes... Everything came back to me... I was never going to be at peace.

Freak!!

You're disgusting!!

You're useless!!

Worthless!!

You're a freak!!

Those voices came back into my head, taking over everything around me, I was there again, in that cell being tortured by the devil himself, hearing his laughter, feeling my skin burn._ Stop, please._ the words came out as a whisper from my lips, they were never going to stop, it was useless, I could never give them what they wanted, because I didn't even know how to do it, I was defective, a mistake, a freak, there was nothing left to hide, I was naked, showing my wounds to the world, completely defenseless, as I had been my whole life, trapped between those bars being shown to the world like a circus animal, being tortured again and again by my captor, there was no way out.

._ Miss..._ that sweet voice filtered through my dark thoughts, a gentle touch on my arm._ It's okay, everything is okay, no one will hurt you, you're safe here._ I was trembling uncontrollably._ ssh it's okay, everything is okay, no one is going to hurt you, you're safe here._ her hands went to mine pulling them away from my face, no one... No one should see me like this.

._ where are they?._ I brought my hands to my face covering it, I could feel the scars under my fingers, the same ones that accompanied the palms of my hands.

._ What?._ her voice came out soft, with a trace of doubt in it.

._ My bandages... Please, my bandages._

._ Oh... We had to take them off, you were very injured, they were soaked in blood, we had to take them off to be able to heal you._

Her words took me back to that moment, now I could know where I was, I could remember it, the fight, the smells, Pure Alphas... They saved me and brought me here... To some city ruled by purebred alphas.

._ Where... Where are we?._ I asked nervously, we were not alone in the room, that lemon cake smell had not gone away, it had not been a hallucination, the man who had brought me here, smelled like lemon cake.

.- We are in the mansion of Alfa Izan Noah, in the golden city, our alpha saved you and brought you here... Here you are safe.- I felt her hand caress my hair, my body shrunk fearfully, the muscle memory, I hated any kind of touch on my body, I stayed still fearing to reject her caress, what the pure alphas could do to me if I didn't do what they wanted... Well... I was trapped again... In the city of the most feared Alpha on earth... Goddess... How did I end up here?.

._ My name is Katya... What's yours?._ her caresses in my hair never stopped, her sweet voice entered my ears, she seemed like a good person, but I couldn't help but doubt her true intentions, everyone wanted something from me... Maybe they expected it too._ You don't want to tell me?._

._ Luna... That's my name._

._ Oh... Like the moon, that's nice._ I stayed silent, completely alert to all the sounds that were around me, I felt their gazes burning on my body, observing the disaster that I was, every part of my skin burned as if it wanted to be torn off so that no one could ever see the disaster that I was.

._ Please... My bandages._ the silence that followed my words was long enough for my mind to fill with questions, How many? How many had seen my body? The disaster into which I had become, I didn't even remember how it felt before being this.

._ I... Well, I could give you some new ones if that makes you feel better._

._ please._ my voice came out pleading from my lips, I felt unprotected, those bandages were the only thing I had left of my mother and now I had lost them, just pieces of cloth that helped me hide from the world, the truth of what I am... A Freak.

._ Ok, I'll bring them_. Her hand moved away from my hair, I heard her footsteps moving away, her smell disappearing from the room, I was alone with the owner of that sweet smell, how could a pure alpha smell like lemon cake?... All those I had the misfortune of knowing had the strongest and most demanding smells that existed... But there was one I would never forget, the smell of the man who had destroyed my life... Ammonia and Sulfur... I could never forget his smell, the smell that had marked my skin.

._ I'm back, I have it here, do you want me to help you or..._ I stretched out my trembling hand into the air, I would rather do it myself a thousand times._ ok... Here.- I felt the bandages fall into my hand, I squeezed them feeling the texture between my fingers, I took it to my face quickly starting to pass them quickly between my ears, my nape, squeezing them tightly, remembering my mother's words.

If I couldn't see them then they weren't there... A sweet and poisonous lie, I could never see them... But they would still be there.

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