Chrysalis (Book 1.5 in the Wolfen Brethren Series)

Heart

18 years old
Decem

                   

My arms wrapped around the man at the door, hugging him before welcoming him inside. "Cobalt. Have you've come to help?"

"Kind of, I guess I just wanted to speak to Eliza about some things." He shrugged stepping past the doorframe and into the room.

A sharp gasp falling from his mouth at the sight of Eliza. Poor Eliza, crumpled on the floor by her bed. Her head buried in the mattress and her legs folded underneath her.

"She's not the greatest right now, so go easy on her." My words aren't necessary, he could see her pain but what friend would I be if I didn't warn him anyway. I need to protect her and he needed to know there was nothing I wouldn't do to achieve that.

"Hey Eliza, how are you?" Her blotchy face lifted from the pillow, her eyes squinted and dimmed red as she sniffles into her arms.

"Alive." She grunted, throwing her head back into the mattresses to hush her sudden cries.

Her head popped back up when she had then under control.

"Have you spoken to Samyuri?" Her eyes dim but hope in her voice. She hoped that Ci sky had come bearing good news from his best friend, I doubted it. Samyuri had let me down and he would continue to let his mate down, he was selfish.

"Yes. He's- well he's livid. He's heard about what you've been up to and he's not happy." He looked awkward and uncomfortable with the topic of conversation but he prodded on. It was clear that this was what he came for.

"No? well he shouldn't have left me then should have he."

She was no longer leaning on her bed any longer, instead her arms were in her lap as she sat crossed leg. Her back to the bed and eyes set directly on cobalt.

"Just because you're on a break doesn't mean you should be intimate with other guys."

Eyes rolling, she climbed it her feet, "I haven't, not yet."

Which was true, she hadn't had sex with any males since Samyuri had decided to be the scumbag I was beginning to think all non-matured wolves were. It was as if they were incapable of being caring. They would give you 5 minutes of love and then it dried up like the water in the dessert. Their love became a hallucination, a mirage that left you grasping onto thin air and your mind rocking with loss.

"Not yet? Are you hearing yourself? Eliza please, he loves you. Don't ruin the bond with your actions?" His words caused the hairs on the back of my arm to rise, back rising like a black cat ready to sink its claws in.

"My actions? My actions?" How dare he try blame her. I wouldn't stand for that and neither would Eliza. She would slap this man back into place.

"It wasn't me who decided not to be mated after 2 years of being together." She was on her feet now, stepping towards him, hand thudding against her chest.

"It wasn't me who decided they needed a 'break' from this, and it wasn't me who sneaked home to my parents in the middle of the night." Head shaking, tears falling, she snapped.

Tears dribbled down her eyes as her voice reached a new octave, "It was him! He fed me all these lines. He got what he wanted! He was my first but I won't let him be my last!"

Samyuri had hurt her deeply and I hated him for it. She was fine without his love. He didn't need to bring her love to only rip it away from her.

It was cruel.