Book 6⌇6. First Come The Tears

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 Chapter 6 ∣  First Come the Tears

-Adrasteia

The mist from the waterfall carried up to the top rock I was sitting on, my legs dangling over the edge. It wasn't a gentle rushing river, but not Niagara Falls either. The roar of the water crashing down over the edge, emptying into a pool before continuing down a more amiable path, the twist and turns slowly the once rushing waves. It was crystal clear, turning to my right, I watched my reflection in the passing water before it slipped down the cliff.

Red eyes glistened back at me. It wasn't my irises that were turned...no, the whites of my eyes were bloodshot with the overwhelming number of tears that had escaped me, crashing down my cheeks just like this waterfall. There was no point hiding anymore. My innate ability had brought me into this toxic relationship, one that should have been plain and simple.

Black and white.

The gray area in between allowed Landon the opportunity to turn away from me, taking his own love with another instead of building on the relationship that we could have had. If he'd just trusted in me, knowing I'd never put my life at risk to a point where it would hurt him so much. So much, that he made up his mind to spend his evenings with Cleo.

Each breath I drew, was shaky my heart ached and brought on another wave of tears. My beloved picked another over me...I'd never feel his bond the way she would, nor be held in his arms ever again.

If he's so quick to hurt me, disregarding my feelings like I'm nothing...then why do I still love him? Why do I still feel drawn to him? Why can't this just end?

"I'm a part of his coven," I breathed out quietly, the wisps of mist collecting in front of my lips, "So long as I'm a part of it, I'll be bound to him."

Covering my eyes with my hands. I let the tears flow freely, drawing in a sob and coughing when I released it for air. My light brown hair was still pulled back and away from my face, my trench coat keeping the cold night's air at bay.

"What did I do to deserve this?" I pulled my hands away, wiping the tears away and glancing up to the sky, the stars sparkling back at me in their silent response. "Why me? I've done nothing but put everyone before me and for what? To be taken for granted. To be tossed aside when I'm no longer needed?"

The water continued its path, steady and direct, my own obscured from where I truly belonged. This coven holds no happiness for me, the one light snuffled out and the last hope I had for Landon and I grew closer together with time...

My hearing almost deafened by the rushing water, I could just make out the low and threatening growl behind me. Turning my head, the wolf rushed me, the others of its pack making sure I had no route to escape to. My back was to the cliff and just as I had swung around to meet the wolf head-on, it snapped its jaws down on my shoulder, using its momentum to tear me from the ground. Taking me with it, launching itself off the cliff as we fell down the waterfall, trying to bring my other hand up to the wolf's mouth and pry the fangs from my flesh.

Falling through water that felt like concrete, we broke through the surface, the water pulling us deeply under, dragging our bodies to the bottom of the river. The tears stopped, my anger flaring. I wasn't fighting for my coven any longer, I was fighting for myself with not a single soul to give one ounce of care as to the position I am in.

I brought up my right fist, smashing it down onto the wolf's nose. It squealed under the water, a weird and eerie echo brought forth by the way the sound moved through the submerged surface. Kicking its paws out, one of them managed to contact my stomach, the claws shredding my black shirt, leaving behind claw marks.

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