Sinclair

Don’t shift, don’t shift, don’t shift. I think manically Ella needs you.

Listening to Ella recount her childhood always makes me furious, but this time is

worse than all the others. I’ve suspected that Ella suffered terrible traumas for some

time now, but before this night l’d been able to pacify my outrage with the hope that

I’m wrong.

No longer.

As Ella speaks, I wonder how she could ever imagine herself weak. I can’t even stand

to listen to her story, but she actually lived it. She sacrificed herself for her sister, and

she survived things I can only imagine

“When the matron realized it was me, she smiled so cruelly that my stomach turnedshe was only too glad to take, me instead of Cora.” Ella continues, shuddering with

the memory. Her unease gives my wolf the push he needed to put aside his own rage

and comfort her. I finally manage a weak purr, and Ella presses her nose to my chest,

breathing in my scent.

“She took me to her own room and put me in her bed, and then she got in with me

and.. started touching me in ways I didn’t like or understand.

She made me touch her too, and she never stopped talking She told me how pretty I

was over and over, and kept asking me if I liked it. I said no, but she just insisted that

this was a special, secret game I was lucky to play. She said everything I was feeling

might be confusing, but it was good and right and natural. She said it took practice,

but that we’d have plenty of time.. Afterwards she took me back to the dorm with a

reminder not to share our secret. Cora asked me what happened but I didn’t know

how to explain.”

“The next day I went to the doctor in residence, and I told him what the matron had

done. I’d never liked him much, but in my heart I knew what had happened was

wrong, and I didn’t know who else to tell. I thought that since it was about my body,

the doctor was the one who could help. There was no such thing as sex ed at the

orphanage and no one else ever talked to us about our bodies. At first I was relieved

to tell someone. The doctor seemed very concerned, and agreed that it sounded

strange.”

told me that

words are coming in starts and stops now, and her shaking is

so I know she isn’t cold and I know the worst

put me on the exam table. and then

said, ‘now it’s very important that you be still, Ella. This is

of exam than you’re used to, and if

Ella s cheeks as she quotes the doctor, and

T know little girls

straps to help you. He

strapped me down. and then he asked

did, and when I explained he would touch me exactly how she

I cried

demand I tell him”

first minute or so I figured out what he

but if I didn’t speak he would start

abuses, always demonstrating them on my body. They were far worse

answered. I told him how to hurt me.” Ella

and she looks up at me

eyes are overflowing, but she offers

big bad

Ella determinedy forges on. “I was too young

those things, but I knew how it made

I never wanted it to happen again, but I was already

Cora who

tell me she didn’t!I have a horrible sick feeling in my stomach, and

time and whisk Ella away from that

could hurt her.

course, that only would have meant other children would be

did. My brave, brilliant little mate

abused… even if it meant being abused

hiding at night. I gave myself up

couldn’t be ruined more than I already was, and it was

else to be destroyed.” Ella shares, confirming my fears

logic. “The matron came almost every

every few weeks. I hated those visits worse

was sort of gentle, and she never tied me

to inflict pain, she seemed determined to make me

was a true sadist;

over time.” Ella hides her face in my neck as she concludes

and that’s when

but most were more afraid of

matron. Luckily they didn’t know about the doctor, and

behind to

clamped so tightly on Ella I’m

doesn’t complain.

still crying, but her muscles have

can only

everything she shared.

The matron and the doctor?” I finally ask, my voice a

hiss.

could only live outside during the

the first winter, but eventually the police found us squatting

returned us to the orphanage. When we got

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