The Only Exception (Book 3)

The Secrets We Keep

Hello my beautiful readers!

Normally I don't like doing this but given the context I just wanted to give a little trigger warning for mentions of ptsd and past trauma/sexual assault. I tried to give as few details as possible while still showing how it affected the character.

I hope ya'll enjoy the chapter anyway and please leave me more lovely comments! It makes all the writing/work worth it :)

Much love! Xx

*******

"Three things cannot long stay hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth." –Buddha

*******

Ben's Pov:

"The way I heard it, you're pretty easy."

I flinched as the words were whispered into my ear, drowning in the way they lingered around me. I could almost feel Logan's breath and yet I couldn't smell him. But what did scent matter when he taunted me like this?

"You know I'm friends with Drew right?"

I shivered but I felt rooted in place, unable to move from the hands that pursued me.

"Look at that scared, cute, little face," the whispers continued, sounding so fuzzy and warped that chills broke out across my skin. "Did you really give head to all those boys, cockslut? You'll let anyone fuck you, won't you? Won't you?!"

This time the voice changed and my entire body tensed. I hadn't heard his voice in ages. I always blocked it from my mind but now, somehow he was here and I could feel even more hands all over me. I wasn't alone with him anymore. There were others and they wanted a piece of me too. I couldn't escape even if I wanted to. It was frightening and I didn't want them. I just wanted him. Didn't he know that? I felt the bodies of the other boys surround me. They were all so much bigger than me, even if they were only humans. It was getting so hot and I couldn't think clearly. There were so many of them... I felt slick drip out of my virgin hole as I took in the surrounding scent. I badly wanted to be fucked but this situation was intimidating to me.

"Such a whore," someone chuckled, though I couldn't tell you who.

"I know. Alpha's are so lucky to have a willing hole whenever they want it," someone else laughed as the group pressed in closer.

"P-please," I heard younger self beg. "I-I t-think I'm.. m-my heat it's-"

"Shut her up," someone complained and before I knew it, I was choking.

*******

I sat up in bed gasping for breath, trembling from head to toe because of my all too real nightmare. I nervously took in the unfamiliar surroundings before my wolf caught scent of the human sleeping next to me. I panicked and nearly jumped out of the bed before my frazzled brain realized that I was in the presence of my Master. Still, I couldn't control my shaking. I forced myself to inch as close as I dared, so that I could drink in my Master's smell without waking him. His scent took the edge off and the cobwebs in my mind began to clear. I wasn't back at the shed. I wasn't having my first heat out of nowhere and I wasn't surrounded by anyone. I was safe, wasn't I? I was with my Master. He would never damage me, even if he was a human like them. So that meant he wouldn't hurt me during my heat...right?

I knew it would be coming up soon. I could feel the occasional rush of warmth in my blood and I was beginning feel the mounting anxiety that always accompanied it. My heat was only a few weeks away now, earlier than I had anticipated, and I didn't want to spend it alone. So, what if I asked Adam to spend it with me? Could I do that? Maybe. He was my boyfriend after all, not some boy I had unrequited feelings for.