Zane | ✔︎

Chapter Twenty-Six | Burn.

God, it hurt so much.

I couldn't do anything for the pain.

It waved into my body like an ocean, drowning every part of it.

"P-Please wake up, Riot," I cried desperately, my frail arms hurting the most out of everything because of the cigar burn marks on them, shaking his large arms to budge and disturb his slumber, seeing him lay in the bed like a corpse facing down.

His body looked so relaxed, so peaceful. His dishevelled light hair was all in the wrong places, yet still in place because her struggles couldn't reach them, he held her down so badly. So tightly.

I couldn't keep my legs straight. It pained that much. It was all burning. I was burning.

He slept like a dove, not worry about his face. A prince who was satisfied with his rule today, a hell in the making after unleashing everything on her. He was divinely pleasured in his place, but he had a promise to fulfil. 

He promised he'd be there this time. 

He promised he'd be there when the pain episode would come to her.

I've tried for an hour.

"P-Please...wake up...I can't..n-no.." My voice broke with every hiccup that emitted from my throat, it was now surfacing up to my head. This was beyond my threshold of tolerance. 

I got out of bed to try and walk. I had to push all the needles with my feet off the sheets to get up, my legs stinging from the contact of those sharp metals.

My legs gave up the second I left the bed, crashing me down onto the floor with a harsh thud. I screamed in pain after the burn worsened, with my feet automatically kicking the air to repress it, to contain it within my will.

My body couldn't heal itself.

My wolf was silenced again.

"PLEASE WAKE UP. SOMEONE. HELP ME." I wept a howl, a howl that would do no justice to the pain I had been going through, making it echo in the whole dark castle with no one's approach coming to me any time soon, and my inner thighs chaffed black and blue.

It was bruising, it was clotting there after countless hits to it. It hurt to sit.

"AGH! MAKE IT STOP LUNA!" My voice was almost gone, to think how can a man sleep through this volume. To think how he could sleep through this while I was all alone. I couldn't comprehend the hurt adorning my heart, I cried to my Goddess.

I cried to my moon, praying she'd make this madness stop one day.

I prayed for this relationship to not be my fate.

This can't be meant to be.

How can a mate be so dangerous? How can a mate bond be so harmful?

This can't be how mates work. He can't be a mate to me. I want someone else, someone who wouldn't want to hurt me every time, I never desired him in the first place. 

I don't know why he wants me. Why he needs to have me.

I was just a stranger, not even from this pack.

I thought complying would make him stop after a while.

Could there be a chance someone would listen? Please, please listen to me. Hear me. Find me. 

I want to leave, please take me away. 

Please, I swear to God I'll be good and not in anyone's way. Please find me and take me away, I can't hear my wolf. She needs me, I need her.