Warrior vs Wolf

Chapter 6

Lying on my back and staring at the ceiling the silence began to creep into my mind. The huge king size bed was soft underneath me. The ceiling had swirling patterns in the centre with a light hanging low. In that moment I missed Liam, more than I had during this past week. I missed him so hard that it actually made me catch my breath, like her absence was something real stuck in the back of my throat. Not because having him here would solve all these problems but for the sharp, selfish reason that if Liam was here, he would have answered these questions running through my head differently. He would know that when I asked I wouldn't need an answer. He'd tell me everything would be ok and to wait for him. Even in these long, terrible days he would wrap me in his arms and I would feel safe and at home. Morning has lost its healing powers when it arrived and I found myself wide-eyed and wary, struggling with the loss of my other half. Suddenly rage built up inside of me once I had stepped into the bathroom. I went to the cabinet and saw my reflection looking back at me in the mirror. I no longer looked like a strong warrior. My hair was dull, my eyes lifeless. My body no longer strung with height and power but weakness and fatigue. Before I knew what I was doing, my fist went out and I smashed the mirror. Pain flew to my fingers and over my knuckles. Glass shards flew forward and stuck in my skin, scraping the bone.

I heard him walk through the door. The alpha, strong and in control all the time now looking shocked and scared. I looked at him with hate, it built up inside of me and I screamed for him to get away. Hurt reflected in both of our eyes and before i knew it he had picked me up and taken me over to the bed, cradling me like a child. 

"Stay here, I need to get the first aid kit." He said.

I didn't move, talk or blink. I stayed completely still and silent. He came back in, his footsteps loud. Crouching down in front of me he grabbed the big chair from the corner looking to heavy for human hands and brought it over with ease. We sat eye level and watched each other silently, before he broke the silence.

"Why did you do this?" He asked me, sounding fragile and unsure if I was stable enough to give an answer. 

"I can't be here. I don't want to be, please let me go. Please don't keep me here against my will. I have a fiancé that I love, you can find someone else." I broke, my voice cracking as tears started to roll down my face. 

"I know this sounds hard now but trust me when I say that you will fall inlove with me. It may take time but I won't give up on you or us. You don't know me and I don't really know you. Please just give me a chance." He pleaded with me.

"I don't even know your name. You can't keep me locked up in this room forever." I said. He appeared to be in thought as he looked to my hand and began to remove the shards of glass clawed into my skin. Once the glass was out there was a cascade of red blood trailing down my hand, however all I could think about was the warm and steady feel of his hand on mine. This feels so wrong but so write at the same time.

"My name is Cole. I won't keep you here forever but just long enough to realise I am the one for you. How about we make a deal?" He asked. He put the white cloth over my hand and began to wrap the cloth around my gaping wound. I flinched from the pain i felt.

"What kind of deal?" 

"Give me three months. That’s all the time you will need to realise that you love me." He placed his hand on mine and began to create small circles over the back of my hand. The feeling gave me a rush. "Can you feel that?" He asked. "The feeling you can only get when you are with your mate. This is the strongest love in the world and you may not admit it yet, but you will feel this too." He sounded so sure of himself. Before I could protest he asked. How about we play 20 questions? You know, short simple answers."

"Ok, let's start with an easy one, what’s your full name?" I said, I didn't really want to play but I was happy for the company, going a few days without someone to talk to is making me go insane.

"Cole Eugene Summers. Yours?"

"Hahahaha! Your middle name is Eugene?"

"Yeah, what’s wrong with that?" He appeared to be fake hurt which made me smile.

"Nothing at all. My name is Aydan Grace Castro."

"Alright, favourite colour?"

"Green, yours?"

"Blue or gray, it changes depending on the colour of your eyes." He smiled at me. The affectionate comment brought a rush to my cheeks. Then I asked him.

"What have you done with my little brother?" He looked down at his thumbs as he nervously started to twiddle them.

"Uh...He's safe, still down at the jail cell."

"Can you please let him into another room, somewhere where there is a bed and not a concrete bench for him to sleep on."

"No, he is a prisoner, he can't go anywhere." At this I stood and began to exit the room onto the balcony which escaped into a beautiful garden which went back into woods. There goes that escape plan. 

"Why not? He's family. My brother. Do you have any siblings?"

"Is this the 3rd question and we are already fighting?" He asked trying to avoid the subject with humour. It didn't work.

"You can't do this to him. What kind of monster are you? He is once brown eyes were once the chocolate brown, now filled with black he eyebrows furrowed together and a thin line formed on his lips. His broad shoulders towered over me and he looked ready to explode.

"I uh....I need to go..."I looked at him dumbfounded and shocked at his sudden disappearance.

"Are you serious? You're really going to put this off? You're such a jerk!" I shouted in his face when suddenly I wish I could have taken it back.

His body began to shake. Shifting. He was going to turn to a wolf and I needed to get out of here. His body was shaking powerfully when I began to run. I ran back to the bedroom to escape the anger and destruction about to take place. The glass doors slammed shut and I locked them once I was finally inside. The hair on the back of my neck prickling to wary attention. I look up at him but now his head was spasuming and jerking from side to side. Saliva dripped from his open jaws. I didn't move. I was frozen in a state of shock unable to function. He gave me a final look before running into the other direction towards the big tall illuminating trees in the distance.

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