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A branch snapped a few feet away, deep within the darkness of the forest. A sense of awareness tickled my spine, the same one I felt when that witch broke into our home.
Anger swelled in my chest, dark and pulsating like the shadows that watched with caution. I thought I could feel them hiding, responding to my rage as I screamed and snarled into the night.
“Come out, you f*****g coward!” I didn’t care who could hear me, or how many there were. All I knew was that if her heart stopped, everyone involved would d*e. “You want me? Come and get me!”
I screamed until the feeling of being watched faded, until I knew we were truly alone.
“Daisy, it’s alright…”
Breyona’s eyes were clear as they stared into mine, but it was the understanding in her voice that broke a piece of me I hadn’t known existed.
The loss made me realize how far I was truly willing to go for the people I loved.
“The f**k it is.” I snarled.
Using my birthright, I stared through the darkness and called on the shadows that hid within it. With every ounce of force possible, I summoned them to my side.
It wasn’t just rage I felt when they ignored me.
It was betrayal.
The bravest inched a few feet forwards, but only to get a better look. Still hidden within the dark, I could feel their anxiety and their hesitation. Not a single whisper filled the air, and not one dared to come close.
“Why aren’t you listening to me?! I want to make a deal with you!” I screamed into the night and felt their answer in the way they retreated.
Their cowardice stoked my anger, morphing the emotion into a lightning storm that raged in my chest. I screamed with each crack of electricity, until my throat grew hoarse, and I tasted the metallic tang of blood.
My heart and head had been cracked open, and everything good and safe was removed. It left my morals scrambled until I wasn’t sure I cared what was right anymore.
“You took her wolf!”‘ I laughed, and the sound was every bit as unhinged as I felt. “You took the only thing she had to protect herself, and now you won’t come and save her? No, that’s b******t! Save her-
heal her! I’ll pay whatever price you want!”
Breyona took what I somehow knew was her last gurgling breath. Acurrent skated over my skin, raising the hairs along my arms and neck as I screamed:
“Save. her. Life. Now.”
I wasn’t fast enough to cover my head when every shadow lurking within the forest swarmed us. A
dense fog void of color surrounded us, very much sentient, and watching. They encompassed Breyona until she vanished form my sight, until the entire forest vanished from sight.
They were all around me, and I could feel their ire as if it were my own. If they had answered me, had listened to my call I might’ve cared about their feelings.
The only thing I cared about currently was the girl I had known since I was a child-who accepted my half-assed apology for turning into a b***h and became the best-friend I desperately needed.
Seconds passed in silence and just as quickly as they lunged, they slunk back into the cover of the forest.
I didn’t know what they did to her, nor did I care. All that mattered was the wound on her chest was gone, leaving behind smooth skin. They took every drop the blood that trickled from her body, which they were lucky to have devoured considering I had to beg for their help.
Breyona was unconscious but lifting her into my arms was easy enough. If I wasn’t furious and running on the fumes of my fading adrenaline, I would’ve found the sight of her tall frame in my arms comical.
My anger made the shadows restless, which was something that never happened before. They were voyeurs, watching until they were called, never affected by what went on in the world around them. It was unusual that my emotions invoked a reaction.
The shadows followed us as I carried her through the forest, but didn’t dare get too close, even with my back turned.
We had just reached the backyard when her eyes fluttered open, making my determined pace falter.
“…my hero…”
I wasn’t sure if I were amazed or annoyed that she had the audacity to laugh after almost d***g.
Giovanni would certainly tear her a new one for venturing so far into the forest at night, but that wasn’t why I decided to cut her some slack.
I’ll pay whatever price you want.
I made that promise so effortlessly, knowing all too well how dark their requests could get. Not only that, but I’d never seen the shadows act this way before. There was no telling what price I had paid, just like there was no telling what they’d done to Breyona.
I stayed with Breyona all night, and not because Nolan practically vanished into thin air. Even when
Giovanni stormed into the house and swept her up in his arms, I remained at her side.
2 Nearly three hours later I got a mind-link from Sean and Mason, who had watched as Nolan barreled through the pack’s territory lines chasing after a cloaked figure.
Another hour passed before Nolan’s voice slid into my thoughts, which after careful deliberation I decided to ignore. I could still hear what he was saying, so I knew he was safe and sound, but that didn’t change the fact that he had blocked me off during his wild goose chase through the forest.
“Daisy, I was right on her trail.”
I gave him the chance to explain himself only because he showed up at the house Breyona and
Giovanni were staying at.
“Then where is she?”‘ I asked, my voice sharper than I intended, but exhaustion had long ago consumed me. “…did ignoring me, and risking your life to run miles out of the pack’s boundaries get you the witch?”
“She got away, but it wasn’t for nothing. The place that they gather, it’s North of the boundaries. I’m sure of it.” He took my sour attitude in stride, but no amount of understanding would melt the chip on my shoulder.
When he tried to pull me into his arms, I placed a hand against his chest.
“What you did wasn’t okay, Nolan.” I told him, forcing myself to remain strong even though the flash of hurt in his eyes felt like a punch to the gut. I dropped my hand and leaned into his chest as his arms wrapped around my waist. “You know things would be very different if I was the one who vanished for hours on end, ignoring your mind-links to chase after a witch.”
“Daisy-” I could taste his apology and the sincerity behind it since Nolan’s pride sometimes kept him from owning up to his mistakes, but I wasn’t finished getting my point across.
“You’re an Alpha, which makes you more protective than most, but I won’t have you lock me away just to run onto the battlefield by yourself.” I told him, feeling a spark crackle in my chest as my words rang true. “I have the strength, the speed, and now the magic to help end this. Hiding me from danger won’t save this pack, it’ll be the avalanche that kills us all.”
It wasn’t the sunlight streaming through open c******s that woke me, but Beta Drake’s gruff baritone. His voice d*****d out the steady thud of Nolan’s heart which was right below where my head was resting.
‘Daisy, are you with Nolan right now?’
My spine protested angrily as I rolled off Nolan’s chest, which I had been sprawled across seconds ago, and plopped down on the floor. The last thing I remembered was being wrapped in his arms, letting his warmth and strength flow into me as I told him how Breyona almost died.
I didn’t want to tell him what I’d done. There wasn’t a single part of me that regretted it, not once I saw the look of pure relief in Giovanni’s eyes and knew how close he had been to snapping, but I was still ashamed and horrified. There was no telling what or who they would take.
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