Enraptured

Chapter seven

"Ouch! You pulled my hair." I loudly said to Constantine.

"I'm sorry! You wanted me to braid your dumb hair so allow me to do so." I rolled my eyes and sat still. "All done!" I turned around and saw Emrys looking from afar.

"Is he always watching us? Yo! He would have a blast being a fucking bird." He started laughing, and I joined in.

"You're not wrong." We sat there quietly. "Why didn't you speak up when Verona told me that?" I looked over at him for answers, shielding my eyes due to the sunlight.

"It was between you and her. We know Verona she isn't technically wrong." I bit my lip disappointed in his response.

I sat down not saying a word letting my thoughts overflow and compile. So many things to do and I have every bit of time to do it. If what I said before is what I truly believe I will stand by what I told him. I will never lower my standards for someone who treats me below my worth.

Is it love if all I see when I look at him is bottled-up anger, ready at the tip of the cap to just spill? Isn't love supposed to be similar to those Disney movies? Or based upon how real humans act I doubt it would be that symmetrical.

But maybe I've looked at it all wrong. I looked back at Emrys. What is love with no fear, conflict, and trust? Therefore is what we feel true? The more I have loved...the more I had to lose. Diminished into thin air. Enforced adherence leads to great emotional alert for freedom.

"It's time to head back." He got up reaching for my hand I got up with his help. "If you don't do what you want you'd be left with enervation with a drop of uncertainty. I thought by telling you what I thought would be easier to do would make everything seem better but I realized forcing you into doing it would make me just like them. I do not want to become our worst enemy."

Though the words he said spoke to me, ignorance and hatred clouded every thought I had. I am fearful of living my life at the expense of not enjoying it and huddling into a never-ending cycle of scenarios.

"Remind me to invest my time in something better. I am here just wasting my life away, doing nothing that at least challenges my brain." I wanted to say more particularly about the dream I had.

It was not only tormenting but never-ending. It did not allow me to rest, or think of anything else other than looking at everyone get killed. Not being able to move, do something. It almost made me seem useless...

Verona glanced at me and looked away. The further I accept my fate the more I lose those around me who have stayed with me since my timing on earth.

I looked down reaching where Emrys is. "Come with me." He grabbed my wrist harshly. It was almost like burning friction.

"That hurts," I spoke up.

He had no response. I glared at the ring on his left hand, it was black and had different platters on it. I fixated my focus back on him.

"Do you not care about anyone else but yourself?" I asked him. He opened a door and threw me on the ground. I hit my elbows when he pushed me most likely will leave a bruise. I lay in the middle of the room. His mood had changed the guy that I had talked to yesterday was no longer there.

"I do not care. If you were to die...I wouldn't even take a glance. You are replaceable." A part of me was confused about who exactly was talking. His whole stance changed, was this his wolf?

"Then why not let me leave?" He stared at his notes not even bothering to listen to me. "I've realized something, probably because of being never heard. I could leave and you would be left broken to pieces. So tell me this...would you react the same way if I rejected you as a mate?"

He looked up, "Shut up!" He commented before looking away.

"It would be easier. For me. I will not live inside of a box you made! I will not abide by your rules to sustain you from melting. I am not your mother! I do not need to teach or tell you how to respect me." I hissed. He looked at me with a cold stare, clenching his jaw. "You may be my mate but that doesn't give you an excuse to hurt me! I am done. These three days I stayed here made me realize who I was going to stay beside, and every time I thought of it. It made me die inside." He threw his folder, making paper fly around and land on the ground.

"Why don't you ever listen?" He said in a hasty voice.

"You view me less than the gum on the bottom of your shoes. I am not ready to love someone who doesn't even care to think about what they do to hurt me. I will live forever alone if that means I won't be treated like an ordinary half rather than their whole world. I stated that I would never settle for less of my worth and I meant it. Nothing you've done has changed my feelings for you, I see nothing but wanting you to bleed out, and die. I want to see the fear in your eyes as it's your turn to experience the wrath that you dwelled on others." He got up and walked towards me.

"Do you know what I think?" He lowered himself. "You are a load of shit. You didn't kill me when you had the chance, do you want me to believe you'd reject me? You are nothing but a slave to me." I stood broad and looked outside the window.

"You don't know me." I groaned. "So let me demonstrate the thing you fear deep down. I, Niovi Dubois of Celestria Eclipse reject you, Emrys Romano as my mate." It was silent, you could hear a pin drop.

I looked at the ground before turning to leave. "It's heartbreaking to know that we could've been something if you weren't who you were." I closed the door walking down the hall seeing Verona joking around with Constantine. "Let's go." I pointed to them. They got up and followed me outside.

"What happened?" Verona asked.

"Let's go before they come after us." I ran into the forest and shifted behind a tree. When I came back they were already finished.

"You know where they're at, Verona leads the way," I told Verona.

"No problem! Do you believe it'll be this easy to run away from them?" My spirits were down. I could feel the emotions of my wolf as she cried out.

"I think we should wait a few years before going to them. We need to create a new life." Constantine spoke up.

"I agree with him, Niovi. It'll be ridiculous to leave and end up coming right back here." I sighed.

"Fine. Let's run until we get out of this town and move onto another state." They both agreed. We didn't talk to each other after that little thought conversation.

I knew that the rejection of a mate would be dangerous. I could die if my wolf goes into a deep depression. I'm just hoping she's not stupid enough to forget about the pain he inflicted on our pack.

'How could you ignore my pain?' I must've stopped putting the wall up if I'm hearing her.

'Did it not pain you to see our pack family die before our eyes? You knew there was never going to be something real. I wasn't going to be happy dreading every second reminded of the things he did.' She let out a loud cry of agony.

'He was my true love.' I couldn't deal with her drama, not now.

'He wasn't mine! He hurt us. Do not forget that when thinking of him.' I shut her out.

Running in complete silence trying to get out of town without looking back.