*Trigger warning!!!*

Kale's POV-

It was subtle, barely there. However, it was unmistakable. It was him.

I sat up with a growl wanting answers. I knew my eyes were black with rage as I stared at her.

Her legs snapped close as soon as I sat up, letting me see her thighs, hips, and lower abdomen. I sucked in a breath as I looked at her lower half. Bitemarks marred the skin all around her most intimate parts. A newfound fury overtook my whole body, and I felt my wolf-side barely hanging on to any sanity over the hurt that was marked on her skin.

I kneeled down in front of her once again. She tried to curl in on herself, but I caught her before she was able. I touched one of the bitemarks at the fold of her hip and thighs. I watched tears fall from her eyes as she refused to look at me. I slowly reopened her legs and saw the bitemarks all up and down her inner thighs. I held back a sob at the sight of the overlapping markings. Rage and sorrow filled me up as I saw the evidence of what was done to her.

"I can't get his scent off of me," she finally whispered. "It's constantly there, barely, but it is still there." She sobbed and hid her face as she brought her legs to her chest.

I stood up as the rage within me swelled and began pacing to try and keep my anger at bay.

"I-I can't get rid of his marks, I can't get rid of his smell, I can't get rid of his touch... I just want to be rid of him!" She exclaimed. "But I can't undo all the things he did..." she whispered.

"Luce... h-he... He forced you?" I asked, needing the confirmation for some stupid reason.

She looked away from me as tears slid down her face rapidly.

"Lucy..."

"Over and over again," she finally whispered brokenly.

I growled harshly as I felt anger cloud my mind.

"He..." I was breathing hard trying to remember how to function.

"Yes... he forcefully fucked me," Lucy finally said bitterly. "But was that enough?" She continued. "No, oh no... He had to bring his pack in on it too. I was their reward sometimes, you know. Especially the top warriors. Oh, and Harrow, fucking prick!" She growled angrily.

I felt my wolf-side trying to shift. I felt my resolve breaking. I felt everything in me being overtaken by my anger. I felt my wolf-side lose it with grief and rage at what had been done to my mate.

She finally looked up at me with a heartbreaking expression. "So yes, Kale, I'm tainted. I'm impure. I didn't wait for you like a good little Luna should... You didn't get me first." She sobbed into her knees.

I moved forward to touch her, but my hand was already beginning to resemble paws. I was going to shift!

"I need to run," was all I could get out before I had to leap through the window to complete my shift, so I didn't hurt her with the unexpected shift.

As soon as I hit the ground, I ran like a wild beast. I had so much pent-up anger. I wanted to destroy Fleming. I wanted to make him suffer.

It took a long time for me to calm down enough to shift back. I was still so angry. No matter how many trees I destroyed, it didn't help. I had a burning rage in my gut. I had a need to avenge her and protect her, but I couldn't do that because what had been done was already done.

"Kale," Sam said as he approached me cautiously. He could see how angry I was.

"What?"

"What did you do to Lucy?" Wes asked abruptly before Sam said anything.

"What?" I asked angrily.

"She won't come out of your room. She won't open the door. I..."

"We're worried, Kale," Sam said quickly, trying to make me see that Wes was simply worried over her and not meaning any disrespect. "Wes is her Beta; he can feel that something is wrong... And I am your Beta, so I can feel that something is wrong with you. What is going on? How can we fix it? When Lucy is upset, all of us are upset."

"He raped her," I finally spat out angrily.

"What?"

"Who?"

"All of them," I almost sobbed. "Fleming, Harrow, the warriors... all of them." I could feel the tears of anger forming in my eyes. "Fuck! She was there for fifteen years! I... I should've known that they had done it to her- I know that they were monsters, but I had hoped-"

I punched a nearby tree due to my anger.

"I had convinced myself that she hadn't gone through that horror... That The Moon Goddess had spared her prophet or something. How fucking stupid am I? How fucking dumb could I be? We all know how fucked up The North and specifically Harrow is. She just... She's so fucking sweet and understanding and- and she wants to spare them. She wants us to spare The North and believe in their goodness. Meanwhile, she has their marks written across her body and their demented acts etched into her psyche.

"I never asked her. I just... I had hoped, and due to that hope, I let her live with those horrors all by herself. I never asked. I just-" I didn't even know what I was saying anymore; I wasn't making any sense.

Both men were speechless as they took in the information that I had just spewed out. By the look in their eyes, I knew that they had known. Everyone probably already put two and two together; we all knew that The North was nowhere near above that. I had just let myself live in delusion, and I was so mad at myself for letting myself believe that it was better for her than most... She lived in that hell for so long.

"You need to go up there and fix it," Wes said shortly after coming to his senses.

"How do I fix that?"

"Do you love her?" Sam asked.

I nodded instantly.

"Do you want her still?"

"Absolutely, always."

"Then you just love her," Sam answered quickly.

It felt like I had been punched in the gut as I took his words in. Love her... I just had to love her. She had been through monumental hurt, things that I'd never even be able to imagine, but I still loved her. I'd always love her.

"You're right... she's not broken. So, there is nothing to fix, just love..." I breathed out, suddenly understanding exactly what I needed to do. Just love.

I made my way up to my room and entered cautiously, not knowing what to expect in the aftermath of such an emotionally draining situation. The sound of the shower hit my ears instantly.

I walked into the bathroom and took in the scene in front of me. She was standing underneath the water with her back towards me and her forehead leaning on the tiled wall. She didn't even hear me come in. Even through the fogged-up glass, I could see the angry flesh on her back. I could see the scars and marks all across it.

I undressed quickly as I walked into the walk-in shower. I touched one of her scars on her back softly, she gasped audibly. I kept her in place and traced more of the marks across her back.

"I thought you ran away," she said quietly.

I hadn't even thought about the way that my abrupt exit could have looked. I just had to go... I didn't want to hurt or scare her with my anger.

"No, Luce. Not like that. I was shifting. I couldn't control it. I was so angry."

"Angry that I didn't wait for you?" She sobbed.

"Lucy no!" I tried to turn her to me, but she was rooted in place. "Lucy, my baby, no! Angry at them. I... can't even fathom what you went through. You were there for so long..." I breathed deeply. "I was just so angry at everything that they did to you... Angry that I don't even know what they did to you."

"You don't want to know, Kale!" She said strongly.

"Yes, Lucine, I do!" I said and turned her to face me. "I want to know. Tell me! I want to know how to help you and how to love you better. I want to know how to give you what you need!"

"You want to know, Kale?" She seethed. "You want to know how they used to fuck me then throw me back into my cell. They wouldn't even let me wash myself. I was stuck in their scent for months sometimes!"

I sucked in a deep breath.

"You want to know how I was kept in the complete darkness for almost an entire year? The only light that I ever saw was when the door opened for one of them to come in to rape me!"

I sobbed at her cracking voice.

"Yes, Lucy! I want to hear it because you need to tell someone about it. I want you, Luce... all of you. That includes your past. That includes what they did to you. That includes all your scars and hurt. I want you, Luce."

She stared at me with her mouth slightly ajar due to my words. "There is no fixing this, Kale! It is beyond repair! I am too damaged. You can't want that!"

"I want you to understand that you are not broken. I am not trying to fix you because there is nothing to fix! I want to show you that."

We stayed staring at each other for a long time. Her tears were mixing with the shower water.

"Will you tell me?" I whispered.

"I don't know where to start," she admitted softly.

I grabbed the bar soap and washcloth from behind her and lathered it all up. I slowly made sure that it was hot and soapy before I dropped to my knees in front of her.

She watched me carefully as she leaned her back against the wall. I picked up one of her feet and examined it closely. There was a long scar that crossed over her foot and down her big toe.

"What happened here?" I asked softly as I slowly washed the foot with the washcloth.

She looked at the scar for a moment and then back to me. "I kicked at a door barefoot while trying to find a way out. My foot went through the door and cut me."

I rinsed her foot off and then kissed it all over, focusing on the scar especially.

I then moved up to her ankle looking at the various scars from ropes and other things. I sighed heavily and asked her to explain what happened. It went on just like that for each and every one of the scars that covered her beautiful body. I asked for the story, washed it, then kissed it all over. She had a plethora of scars, so we were in that shower for hours- long after the water turned cold.

I finally made it back down to her hips, having skipped them before as I went to the other scars up her body. My fingers skimmed the bitemarks softly.

"It was Fleming, most of them anyways..." She paused as I washed each and every bitemark. "It was partially how he'd get me to open my legs. Then, after a while, it just became a game."

I rinsed the soap off and looked up at her for permission to kiss the sensitive areas. "May I?" I asked softly. "Can I make you feel good?"

"Please?" She said desperately. "You've washed his touch away, so replace it. Please?"

I finally pressed my lips against one of the marks on her hip. I kissed it all over and then moved to one on her womb area. I did so with each and every one of them.

Finally, I came to the last one. It was on her inner thigh, and so so close to her core. I pressed a kiss into the mark, letting my nose bump her core purposefully. That time, all I could smell was her. Only her arousal was filling my nose making me moan involuntarily.

It didn't even matter what she smelled like right then, because after that day... She'd smell of only me. I would make sure of it.

I quickly found my way to her dripping core. I let my tongue out and got a little taste of her. I looked up and found her looking down at me with eyes playing from gold to bright blue.

"Do you like that?" I asked softly with my mouth still so close to her dripping pussy. "Or do you want me to stop."

"Oh god, please don't stop," she moaned.

With no further invitation, I dug into her core. I mouth-fucked her mercilessly and made her cum twice with just my tongue. Her sweet juices covered my mouth and tongue as I licked all around being sure to savor the feel of her cumming around my tongue. Being sure to make her feel as good as I possibly could. Being sure to replace any other touch with mine.

When she finally came down from her climax high, I stood up. I stared at her face as she got her bearings back. I knew my eyes were black with need as I looked at her. Damn, I needed her.

"Mmm that was the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen," I said quietly as I kissed her neck lovingly. "That euphoric look on your face... stunning."

She breathed in sharply as my tongue reached out and lapped at her sensitive skin. I traced a line up her throat, and eventually my lips landed on hers. I moaned in satisfaction at her immediate willingness to kiss back- at her responsiveness.

I pressed her into the tiled wall as my lips roamed her body once again. That time, though, it was in desperation. I was so desperate for her.

Her hands found my hair, and she pulled firmly. "Please Kale... please." I continued to nibble on her skin as she spoke. "Ugh. Please fuck me. I need it, Kale. I need you."

"Mmm." I heard my animalistic voice say as I picked her up wrapping her legs around me. Our cores touched making both of us moan out in pleasure. "No."

"No?" she whined.

"Not fuck. No. I am going to love you. I am going to make you forget about everything else. I am going to make sure that there is no other trace of any man who violated you. I am going to make you feel good."

I felt her wetness pool at my words as my mouth greedily returned to her neck licking the spot that my mark would go.

"No one else will ever touch you. I will be your first real lover as well as your last. No one else will ever take advantage of you. I will not allow it." I softly bit at the spot making her cry out in pleasure at the sensitive spot. "No one will ever question that you are mine ever again," I said with another love-bite. "No one else will ever love you the way that I do."

She moaned as her body looked for friction.

"I accept you, Luce. I accept everything about you. I accept your past, your present, and I claim your future... our future." I bit harder at her neck, but still didn't mark her yet. "You are mine, my beautiful Alpha, Luna, Oracle... mate. You are my mate, Lucine. I love you."

I felt my canine teeth extend. Just as I bit into her neck to permanently mark her as my own, I plunged my length into her core.

She was mine.