Meant to Be

Chapter 37

Chapter 37

I’d fallen asleep, only to see the face I was longing to see. I had started running towards him in my dream. He was so far away, but the sight of him was enough to make me keep pushing forward. However, as soon as I reached him, I startled awake. It was the typical dream that you wake up crying like a baby.

My eyes had healed, and I was able to open my eyes. It all came rushing back to me, and I realized that Nate wasn’t really here. Neither was Silver, I sucked in my breath and tried to reach out to her. Silver didn’t respond. I tried once more, but it felt as if I was grasping mere empty space… I cried out for Silver, but yet it felt as if she was unreachable… How is this possible…? Where is she?! I worried inside my head. But then something came to me…. There should be another voice as well. Tears brimmed the edge of my eyes, and I released a shaky breath as I tried not to cry.

“No…!” My voice was hoarse although I hadn’t even screamed like I wanted to. “No! Nate…?” I choked up, and I brought my chained hands to wrap around my throat as I tried to learn how to breathe again.

Where did you go? I frantically searched the recesses of my mind, trying to see if I could find some sort of switch… some sort of button… Where are you Silver? Think of the baby! I tried to bribe my wolf, sinking deeper and deeper into despair as the seconds ticked by and the eerie silence stretched on.

“Silver!” I croaked, “Nate! No! This can’t be happening!” My chains rattled as I brought my knees up and entangled my hands in my messy red hair. I fisted my hair painfully as I tried to think through the silence that seemed to push away my every thought. “No!” I shook my head back and forth, gritting my teeth and pressing my hands harder and harder against my head. “No!”

Where are you?! I screamed in my head, Say something! I pleaded, calling out their names. Nate? Silver? Please!

“Where are you?” I breathed, my face contorted in anguish as I realized that I may never hear their voices ever again. “Please talk to me!” I choked out.

Please! Before I die! I cried out to them, Talk to me, Silver! I don’t care what you say! Just tell me I’m a silly girl, call me a sucker, laugh at me; just say something! I bit down on my tongue hard when she never answered, and the metallic taste of blood filled my mouth. Come on! Nate? Nate, baby? Please, baby! Don’t go! Don’t leave me here! Please talk to me! My mouth opened as I felt a sharp pain in my heart. Please talk to me! I heard a sickening crack, and I wondered if it was all just in my head. My heart was burning, and I knew the irony of this… a broken heart.

I put a hand to my upper chest, my nails sinking in deep as the stabbing pain grew. “Talk to me, Nate!” I whimpered. Then I gasped as my heart seemed to burst as if it had just been hit by a hammer. I suddenly couldn’t breathe, and the pain in my heart increased to the point I brought my other hand up to assist the other one in clutching the skin above it. “Ouch!” I sank my nails in deeper as I began to break out in a cold sweat. I began to panic before some instinct came over me and I clawed at my chest, my stomach rising and falling rapidly in time with my heavy breathing. “Nate!” I wailed. The scent of blood was becoming overwhelming, and I pushed myself harder against the stone wall.

Where are you?! Please come back to me! I let out a strangled cry as I tasted liquid salt on my lips; my eyes snapped open and I panicked, my crazed eyes flitting around my holding cell as if searching for an escape. I let out a cry of shock and terror as my blood-shot eyes saw that the stone walls seemed to be closing in. My chains clanked together eerily as I pushed myself harder against the wall behind me. I scrunched up my face as my tears dripped onto my naked legs and slowly fell to the cold stone floor.