The sister of Jack Barlow, who has been terrorised all her life by him, falls in love with the scary tall black hair dude and gains awesome powers and a dragon
THIS BOOK WILL BE BACK SOON
Xaden Riorson x oc
I had hoped to find a peaceful sleep, but I was never that lucky. When I opened my eyes, I was home, if you could even call it that. She quickly sat up from her makeshift bed as her dad barged in, yelling like always, "You useless piece of shit" he yelled, "did you break the vase in the living room" he continued, "No, I didn't," I replied quickly as I slowly backed away from him knowing he wouldn't believe me "you liar"! He yelled, becoming even more enraged as he grabbed her, pulling her down the stairs and out to the backyard, chaining her to the post in the middle of their yard. You brought this upon yourself self," my father said as he walked over to where they kept the wip. I squirmed as I tried to get the chains off. Still, it was no use. "this is what lying freaks deserve," he yelled, before bringing down the wip on my back.
But the blow never came as I woke up gasping for breath; it wasn't real, she told herself, just a nightmare. I guess my loud breathing woke up bella as she ground, snuggling closer to me. "Shut up, it's too. It's too early for you to be awake," BellBell mumbled, her words hard to hear as her face was shoved into my chest, trying to hide from any light. I chuckled before agreeing and lay down to fall back asleep, but it never came as I lay down on my back, staring at the ceiling, my mind blank.
After a while, I finally got up, moving bella of me as I walked into the bathroom. Staring at myself in the mirror, I saw that my braids were all messed up and frizzy and needed to be redone, so that is why I spent my extra morning doing my braids- to make sure none of my hair would get in my face. Once that was done, I walked back into the dorms, sitting on the corner of my bed, careful not to wake up the bell. I put my boots on and my weapons into their hoster before turning to the bell to wake up, which took a lot of convincing, but finally she woke up just enough to put her boots and her sword on her back before she once again fell asleep, which made me shy knowing that I would have to carry her to formation as I looked over to violets bed for help seeing that she was now awake." could you by chance get me some breakfast as I lugg this one out of bed please" I asked she nodded "yeah I got you have fun" violet said as she walked out.
"Elena Sosa, Brayden Blackburn." Captain Fitzgibbons reads from the death roll, flanked by two other scribes on the dais as we stood in silent formation in the courtyard, squinting in the early light. Everyone wore rider black. I was sweating bullets as the sun beat down on my black leathers. Fuck why is it so hot today, gods? And I didn't help to have Bell's extra body heat on me. Guess what was still asleep, which I couldn't blame her yesterday was a lot.
I stopped listening to a while ago. My mind kept going back to my latest dream, not the memories from last night but from when I was knocked out. I tried to make sense of what I saw, but the more I tried, the less sense it made, so I gave up, focused on bella, and tried to wake her up, but it didn't work.
I stopped trying to wake up bella after hearing Dain's annoying voice." Hopefully, you all had breakfast because you won't get another chance before lunch." Dane annoyed me, always telling me what to do and calling me a freak, but what annoyed me the most was the looks he would give me. He looked at me as if I was a monster. It seemed that Bell did not like him either cause after she heard him, she started to stir from her sleep and stretched in my arms before asking me to put her down, which I happily did cause my arms were beginning to hurt.
I ignored the rest of what Dain said, focusing on the new guy that Dain had called Forward. He looked older than us; he must be a repeat. I was pulled out of my thoughts when someone tapped my shoulder. It was Rihanna. "We're going to get our stuff from the dorms," she said.i nodded, following after her with bella next to me, still holding my hand as we walked next to Rihanna.
Rihanna and I walked down the halls to the dorms with bella still beside me, holding my hand and rambling about random stuff. Rhianna and I listened, commenting and laughing, but that was all cut off when, suddenly, I was pulled away from them. Bella's hand ripped from mine as I was pulled into a different corridor and slammed against a wall. My ears rang, and nothing made sense to me; my back ached as I felt some of the wounds open up, and the blood began to seep down my back. When I finally was pulled back into my mind, I saw it was Jack. He had his hand on my throat, choking me. He was fuming angrily as he yelled at me, but none of it made sense. It was all muffled, and I couldn't make out the words.
But he noticed I wasn't listening, and his anger grew. As he tightened his grip on my thought, I saw black spots clouding, and my head spun from the lack of oxygen. I struggled, scratching and clawing at his hand, digging my nails. I didn't want to die; I wanted to live. I wanted to keep going and keep my mother's memory alive. I wanted to see my brother again to make up for lost time. "Please, brother," I pleaded to him. I didn't want to die.
As I thought this was the end, Jack was suddenly ripped away from me. I crumbled to the ground as I breathed deeply, trying to get oxygen back into my lungs. Everything was still muffled, but I could see xaden pushing Jack away from me and down the hall. I was scared after I saw Jack leave and Xaden walk over to me, resting his hand on my shoulder. I wanted to be closer to him to find comfort by rapping my hands around his waist and burying my head into his chest. I could feel him hesitate before raping his arms around me. He was warm, and I didn't want to let go. And by the way, he was holding me. I don't think he wanted to either.
