CHAPTER 19
MONTANA'S POV
I winced from the pain in my arm but endured it as I could not complain. He kept pulling me and soon we were at the Pack's dungeon. I knew a pack dungeon when I saw one and I refused to move, "A-alpha", I stuttered and pulled backward.
Flashes of me being locked in the attic started coming back, my heart was racing and I was panicking, "P-please", I muttered breathlessly.
"You better walk or I will drag you anyways", he said angrily I still did not move so he dragged me into the dungeon while I was still finding it hard to breathe.
He was not even mindful of the guards who were watching and I was sure none of them would utter a word about this treatment anyway. Great, just great.
A particular dungeon was opened and I was thrown into it.
"A-alpha L-lincoln please, I am sorry, p-please d-",
"Shut up!", he said and then closed the dungeon, locked it, and left.
I crawled to a dark corner and hugged my legs while muttering some words to keep me calm.
A few minutes later, I heard the gate of the dungeon room I was in being opened and rushed to it, only to see Alpha Lincoln, bringing in some tools for cleaning.
He started talking and explaining what I needed to do, what to use and what not to use like some cleaner, "And now if you want to leave here by the end of the day, when I am back, this place better be sparkling clean Montana or this is where you will spend the night."
"B-but Alpha, Victoria, and my kids-", I protested as he started walking out and locking the gate.
"I will let them know you are occupied, which you are", he informed me and left.
I sighed and fell to the ground, maybe I belonged here, after all, I thought.
ALPHA LINCOLN'S POV
Gosh, she annoys me so fucking much and I do not even know why I let her get to me this way but she keeps crossing boundaries and just never learns.
Simple instructions, simple rules, and still she won't follow them. Questioning me? How dare she? Have I gone soft or something that she feels she can question my orders?
She is not even the least grateful that I took her and her family in. She can not even consider the fact that I went against my own needs to protect her and her family, which is something I have never done before. She could not even consider that fact and listen to me and my orders.
She feels too big right, if she doesn't listen to them I will have to make her, surely. What a pain!
Well, today she better get ready, this will be her first lesson in defying me.
"Heyy, where's Montana? We have been looking for her and she is nowhere to be seen", My sister, interrupted my angry thoughts.
"You guys go without her, I will be needing her today, plus she will also be busy."
"Busy with what?", My sister asked me.
"Mummy is not coming with us?", Zendaya muttered and looked up at me.
I smiled and bent down to their level, "Yes sweethearts, she is going to be hanging out with me today as we have some unfinished stuff to handle. So have fun with Aunt Victoria", I explained to the innocent kids and ruffled their hairs.
Why I am like this with them? I had no idea but I also had no problem, standing in as a father figure in their life in the meantime, plus this might be something I would never say, there was no pretense in how I treated them.
Well, that got settled as the kids left with Victoria and I went to my office, Sean already waiting for me, "So where is our destination today?", I asked him.
MONTANA'S POV
After some minutes of self-pity, I looked around the dungeon and took a deep breath, I took the gloves and wore them on. Who knows what will happen if he comes back and I have not gotten anything done, I better get to work soon.
I brought this open myself.
I started removing any unnecessary items or debris from the floor and putting them into a designated bin that will be disposed of.
I picked up the dusting cloth and cleaned the surfaces, the walls, every part of the dungeon room that needed to be dusted, and any equipment that my eyes came in contact with.
When I was done, I swept the floor thoroughly, making sure that everywhere was sparkling, despite it being a dungeon room or should I say cell. I started from the farthest corner and worked towards the exit.
I sometimes wiped my eyes cause I felt them become wet but kept on working. I was not sure if I was capable of being loved. I tried to stay positive though, I was trying to be positive.
I sniffed and picked up the disinfectant solutions and mixed them as he instructed me to. When I was done, I applied them to the areas that may come in contact with skin and I allowed the disinfectant to sit for a little time before wiping it away with a clean cloth.
"Why is he even making me do this? Is a dungeon cell supposed to be clean?", I spoke to myself. I guess this was supposed to be a punishment and whether it was supposed to be clean or not I had to clean it.
If there were pieces of furniture I would have probably cleaned those too but in this dungeon, there was not any single furniture, but there were restraints and that gave me shivers.
I took a deep breath went over to the restraints, and cleaned them with mild soap solution.
My breathing was a bit difficult as there was no ventilation, no windows, just the doors, "oh right, that helped a lot unless I might have suffocated by now."
I took breaks in between cause as little as it may look, it was a lot of work. At a point I was so thirsty that I cried, I had done something terrible because of thirst.
I had no idea what the time was and I had called out for maybe the guards to help me get food or even if it was only water, that would be fine but no one came to my aid so the bucket of water I was supposed to use to mop.
I drank from it.
The things I have to do to survive.
When I drank from it while crying and relaxed a bit. I started mopping. I repeated the cleaning solution and poured it into the water in the mop bucket and mopped, paying attention to the corners and edges and also praying that Alpha Lincoln would come soon as I did not want to spend the night here, especially much worse as there was no single bed.
That was the final part, I was finally done. I inspected everything thoroughly and then fell to the ground after arranging the cleaning supplies at a place.
I think it was around evening by now and I waited for Aloha Lincoln but no one came. I was already hungry but it was fine, I had been starved before and maybe I could take it, without complaining.
I could not resist anymore and went to the edge.
I lay down there on the cold floor and waited for someone, anyone to find me and get me out.