Reaper's Lily

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Liliana's P.O.V:

Aimee stopped at an intersection about an hour away from Jason's house, turning into the town, and she stopped the car when she screamed out, "I can feel Jason in the bond!!"

Then Gia said, "I can hear Nate too. They're close."

Before I could say anything, I felt a wave of pure fright. We all heard a window being broken, and there I felt an arctic hand lacing into my hair, grabbing a handful of it. I started to, and miserably failed, to fight the hand off as Gia tried to grab onto my ankles to keep me in the car. Aimee was starting to speed off when I was nearly halfway out of the broken car window. I wished I was strong enough to knock him off of me, but I wasn't. What could I fucking do? At this rate, Calvin was going to yank me out of a speeding car and possibly break my back in the process.

[there is a trigger warning for violence, blood, and gaslighting! if this bothers you, you can skip this part and wait for the next upload~ please read at your own risk!!]

With one hard yank, Calvin managed to rip me out of the speeding car, along with Gia's grip. He chunked me a few feet away from him, making me roll a few more steps away, and I landed on my left shoulder. I fought back a scream of pain, slowly using my hand to push myself to sit up at least. When I moved to get onto my knees, I felt a shin slamming into my stomach. I rolled a few more steps away, holding my stomach in pain, then looked up to see Calvin stalk towards me on the empty road. Once again, I got to my knees, only to get a kick in the left shoulder and I fell on my back.

Calvin slammed his foot onto my left shoulder, trying to dig the heel on his faux leather loafers into my wound as he calmly stated, "Those kicks were for leaving with Alcantara the first time. This"—he dug his heel more into my wound, hearing me whimper out in pain since I refused to let him hear me scream—"is for the hospital in California when you let him shoot me in the back with wooden fucking bullets!"

"Get...off!" I managed to whimper out in pain, swinging my leg to kick him in the back of his knee.

It really didn't work, but it did piss him off enough to get off my shoulder. Calvin bent down, grabbing a handful of hair at the top of my head, and yanked me to my feet. He wrinkled his nose in disgust, back handing me as he roared, "You smell like him!! How could you fucking do this to me, you damned mortal?! You're my beloved and you betray me!!"

I felt the right side of my cheek go numb with pain, then he slapped the shit out of my left cheek as he let me go. He kicked me a few times in the gut, forcing me to roll away in agony in every kick, and he only kept angry screaming Russian with every hit he gave me. I felt like I was back in that hellhole, in that basement, and I could only attempt to crawl away to at least get to my feet.

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I FOUGHT MY OWN TWIN BROTHER FOR YOU?! I gave up his nest for you!!" Another slap to my face. "I was willing to give you the gift of immortality so I wouldn't lose someone as beautiful as you!"

I spat out some blood that was lingering in my mouth, finally getting to my feet and I held my ribs then held my left shoulder. I wanted to kill him, but I knew I didn't have the strength. I took my eyes off him for a split second and looked to see him gone.

I should've known better for his hand wrapped around the back of my neck, his icy thumb moved my head to display my neck with ease, then he sank his fangs deep into my neck as I finally screamed out in pain. I tried to punch him off of me, but he didn't let go. In fact, his bite and grip tightened. Yep, I was going to die, and I wasn't going to get a chance to say goodbye to my family or to...Kaiden.

All I could do in that moment was think of Kaiden and my family, but my thoughts kept flooding back to Kaiden. I was angry at him slightly for leaving me alone, but the part of me knew he wasn't able to see the future was taking over. Both of us didn't know this was going to happen so soon. We both didn't know I was going to die this way and this quick. I just wanted to let Kaiden hold me and tell him not to blame himself. This wasn't his fault, and I was going to take full responsibility. I was the reason everyone around me got hurt and/or died.

I felt the coolness of the ground on my cheek, Kaiden's rage filling in the bond, and I looked up through heavy eyelids to see Kaiden had come. I only smiled weakly, happy that he came for me, and laid on the ground, blinking slowly as I heard him fighting off Calvin.

All that mattered in this moment was that Kaiden came for me.

Kick his ass was what I wanted to say, but I couldn't find the words as I blinked a few more times.

I wanted to sleep. I couldn't keep my eyes open much longer.