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Story: Ravaged Bond

Chapter 4

A loud bangingsound filled Bryan's head, jolting him awake with a startled gasp. Josef stood next to his bed and slammed his fist repeatedly against the side table. Bryan sat up, bewildered.

"What are you doing?" Josef shouted. "Where the hell is breakfast?"

"Uh..." His head felt fogged up.

"I'm going to be late! Come on. Useless Omega..." Josef stormed out of the room and Bryan heard him stomping his way downstairs.

His heart hammering, Bryan looked around the room. A vague and cloudy memory hung in his mind of three powerful Alphas and a depraved, carnal act that he'd participated in. He couldn't get his thoughts straight. Had he been dreaming again?

No, the soreness between his legs suggested otherwise. He grabbed the blanket and winced. He had a small cut on his palm, slightly red and swollen but mostly healed. "Ouch," he muttered, and licked it. Memories broke through the haze. Gan, Munok, and Nugai. He remembered Nugai gripping his hand and piercing his flesh with a knife. He saw the flickering glow of flames on the Alphas’ faces, highlighting their grimaces of pleasure. He felt their hands on his body, especially Gan's. The Alpha was beyond well-endowed in all aspects.

Bryan clutched his stomach as a strange buzzing sensation filled him, and he lurched forward in surprise like he'd received a punch to the gut. The buzzing was faint, but he could feel it travel down to his groin where it terminated at the tip of his cock. His lips parted in a silent moan. Memories exploded through his mind like fireworks. Gan filling him up with his come. The swollen heat of their members grasped in his hands. The way they'd used him, shared him, and how much he'd loved it. Then he saw that dire wolf skull, like some ghostly specter watching the entire scene.Uri. That was its name. And they were called the Uridimm. Not Direlings, but Uridimm.

"BRYAN!" Josef screamed. "BREAKFAST, NOW!"

Bryan tossed the sheets aside and hurried downstairs. Josef sat fuming at the dining table, glaring at him over a viewscreen pad as he passed by on his way into the kitchen. "I apologize," Bryan mumbled, bowing slightly.

As he cooked, his mind wandered back to the memories. Everything seemed so far away. He grasped at pieces, trying to put them back into place. Even the faces of the three Alphas seemed fragmented and unclear. He wanted to remember everything about them.

A shiver of desire pulsed through him and he nearly dropped the egg he was holding onto the floor.

Thinking about these things made Bryan's cock hard and his entrance slick. He'd never dealt with this feeling before. He'd gone his entire life devoid of this kind of want, never experiencing the burning heat that he'd been told came to all Omegas—until now.

He wanted them to fuck him again, especially Gan. He wanted to feel the stretch of his cock filling him up entirely. He wanted to please him.

Bryan stared at the eggs sizzling in the cast iron skillet. The mate bond between him and Josef had not conjured up the natural feelings of desire it was supposed to, but it had turned on a compulsion to be subservient to him. Not that he'dwantedto, but it was like his body had no choice. In order for things to feel right, he'd done what Josef had commanded. He realized that feeling had vanished. The connection had been severed. Aside from needing to please the man for the sake of the contract, Bryan felt absolutely nothing. If anything, the contempt he had for him had been amplified. It was like blinders had been removed from his eyes. He could think straight—at least when it came to matters of Josef Zamgarg.

A string of thick saliva dripped from his tongue onto the eggs, sputtering as it dribbled onto the hot pan. “Fuck you,” he whispered, and scooped them onto a plate and then brought them to the dining room.

"You'll be meeting with the healer," Josef grunted, scooping a bite of the eggs into his mouth. Bryan sat with a cup of tea on the far end of the table, watching with quiet pleasure as the man ate the tainted food. "I've scheduled an appointment for today."

"What for?" Bryan asked, surprised.

Josef frowned. "Are you questioning me?"

Feigning submission, Bryan shook his head and lowered his eyes as the man shoveled more eggs into his mouth. "I'm going to get you tested," he said. "It'd be a shame to have to give you up. But I'm not going to waste more time than I have to on you."

"But the contract says—"

"I know what the contract says." He scarfed down the last of his breakfast. "You give me a child and the terms are fulfilled. If you can't, then the contract is void. Sooner I know, the less time I waste." The chair clattered noisily across the floor as he stood up. "I'd always had high hopes for you, Bryan. Such a shame if the only Omega in New Pixia couldn't bear children. Let's pray that's not the case. I know how desperately your family needs my money." Josef gathered his things, and before leaving he grabbed Bryan's arm and yanked him close. His pungent musk smelled worse than normal. "I expect you to be on time this afternoon. I'm going to get my use out of you." He grabbed Bryan's ass and forced a messy kiss on his lips.

When Josef had left, Bryan sat at the kitchen table and poked glumly at a plate of eggs. Suddenly an intense feeling of desire struck him and sent that odd vibration in his gut humming at a new peak. He gasped and doubled over, clutching his stomach as he squeezed his thighs tightly together. His body yearned fortheirtouch. He'd never experienced anything like it before. It pained him, like a fist squeezing around his heart that could only be released through their presence.

"Iamgoing insane," Bryan muttered, glancing out the window to the forest in the distance. He didn't even know who they were. Just what had they done to him?

That ritual, Bryan thought. Was that their magic? Maybe they'd cursed him.

There was a part of him that doubted the entire thing had even happened. It felt like a dream and Bryan might've believed it had been if it weren't for the physical evidence.

The forest seemed to call out to him. He needed to go back there. He needed to know who they were. But most of all he needed them to quench this hunger that gripped him.

That afternoon, Josef accompanied Bryan to his appointment with Healer Fielding. Bryan was relieved that she was quick to catch on to the situation, acting as though she were running her tests for the first time and not giving away the fact that Bryan already knew what the results would be.

"I'd like a moment with Bryan if you don't mind, Minister Zamgarg."

"Certainly," Josef said with a good-natured smile, and he left the room.