Dawn

Chapter 16

"You thought that you could escape me? Foolish girl."
"Get away from me, I will never be yours." I spat, but he stalks towards me, a vicious look planted on his beautifully sculpted face, making him look like a demon out of hell.
His eyes are no longer that beautiful, greenish hazel color, but instead black and empty.
I turn around, doing a whole 360, looking for an escape. But there wasn't one....
I am surrounded by a vast darkness. Everywhere I turn,there's absolutely nothing...
He starts to close in on me.

"You have no where to go." He drawls, the corners of his mouth tilting upward into a blood churning smirk, his canines sharp.

"Vince... Don't d- do this." I say, starting to hyperventilate at the realization that he would actually go through with it no matter if it resulted in me hating him for the rest of my life.
I feel his warm breathe on my neck. The tips of his canines, his soft lips brush up against my neck, and my heart about to explode out of my chest. I hear a violent growl come from behind me.
I whip around to see the big brown wolf from the woods.
Vince grabs my waist and pulls me behind him protectively. But I don't stop staring into those eyes of the brown wolf.
There is just something so familiar about them...
"She's mine," Vince says darkly. The maliciousness in his voice making the hairs stick up on my skin.
Why is this wolf here?
Why was he trying to protect me? Or was he going to cause me more harm?
Before I could ask myself anymore questions, Vince starts to shift. His bones cracking and popping loudly, as he tears his clothing apart with his sharp nails. His canines are now elongated and his face... transformed into that of a beast.
His wolf is enormous with dark fur, he growls at the brown wolf. His own form only a little bigger than the brown wolf's.
They circle each other in a dangerous dance and midway into it, Vince lunges at the brown wolf and they begin to claw and tear at each other's flesh.
I let out a  scream.

"For the love of the moon goddess! Wake the hell up!" I hear a feminine voice yell as they shake my shoulders.
I jump back and manage to hit my head on the bed board. I groan in pain and rub my head. I open my eyes and blink several times to get my vision straight. I see a pair of blue eyes staring back at me.
"Alyssa?" I say groggily.
Oh moon goddess am I still dreaming?
"What are you doing here?"
I turn to grab my glasses and turn on my purple lamp from my bedstand. I sit up and take in the fact that it looks like she has been crying. Her greenish blue eyes red and puffy. I then look at her clothes, sweats and a tee, like she literally just got out of bed and rushed over here.
"What happened?" I say, my voice cracking with concern.
She knows.
My head starts to spin, my palms become sweaty, and my stomach fills with dread.
"Dawn I'm so con-confused." She starts to sob. "Because I still love him Dawn!"
My blood runs cold.
I pause to stomach this situation already knowing ?who's she talking about.
"Vince?" I say lowly, she sobs even louder. I pull her into a hug and rub her back.
Ok, she didn't pull back. That's a good sign,right?
"But- I don't know what to do anymore."
"What do you mean?" I ask, scared of what she will say next.
I feel so guilty.
Why do I have to ruin everything?
"I just-" She pauses and shakes her head, biting her lip to stop the cries. She looks out my window, and I realize that it is wide open, the white curtains blowing as the wind starts to blow in, making the room chilly.
"You came in through the window?!" I exclaim.
"You know I have a spare key under my mat!" I say, shaking my head, getting up to close the window.
She just shrugs.
"Everything is just so different now, Dawn." She says through a hiccup, laying her head against my headboard and fiddling with the hem of her blue shirt. I lay down next to her, messing with a ring on my finger.
Maybe if I beg, if I plead for forgiveness, maybe, just maybe, she won't hate me forever.
I'm going to tell her.
Here it goes.
"Alyssa, I have to tell you something. Just know that I never wanted any of-" I begin, reaching for her hand as she sits up abruptly.
" I know who my mate is," she mumbles so low, that at first I thought I had heard her incorrectly.
"What did you just say!?" I whisper, my eyes closed in confusion.
She crawls under my blue covers and begins to sob again.
"Hold on. Did you just say you found your mate?" I yell in disbelief.
"Yes," she grumbles. I whip the covers right off of her. "I've know for a while," she drawls on, fiddling with her shirt again.
Now I should definitely tell her! I mean if she found her mate maybe she'll be more sympathetic?
"Who is it?" I say, looking at her, and finding myself eager for her response.
She doesn't look my way, but the name she says shocks me to my core.
"Blake." she says in a low clear voice.
"It's Blake." Saying it a second time not to confirm it to me, but herself as her eyes have drifted off into space. She rubs her temple with her fingers and it takes everything in me to not freak out.

It's funny how it clicks now. The way it can only click after you've been told something that only now you can see because you were told.
Now looking back, I get why she seemed so nervous  around him and why they stared at each other the strangely way they did.
Under other circumstances, I would find this whole situation very humorable. Very. But I'm wrapped in this mess too, so it's not.

I mean first, I find out I'm Vince's "mate" and now I find out Alyssa is his brother's mate.
Now, I'm absolutely certain the moon goddess is playing a joke on me.
I can only manage to look at her with wide eyes. She doesn't even glance at me, but keeps her gaze towards her shirt.
"His brother." I bring myself to whisper in disbelief, this time confirmation for myself. I sit wide eyed, looking at my wooden floor, and my fluffy white rug.
The forgotten son, the mysterious brother of Vince, and the almost alpha.
My head is spinning.
"Yes, his brother!" She hisses, bringing her hands to her face.
"Vince and me are done. But I can't find it in myself to let him go Dawn...." She starts to choke on her last words. I can't look at her.
It's all too much.
I feel as though my head is going to explode.

Just tell her. The truth will set you free...
"What did Blake have to say about it?"
She scoffs,
"Absolutely nothing! He didn't even acknowledge our bond. When I confronted him about it later that night after Vincent broke up with me, he made it seem as though I was crazy!" She sits up, placing her head against the backboard.
"Besides, does it even matter? I can't bring myself to think about our stupid bond, when I'm still in love with his damn brother!" She says frustrated, grabbing a pillow and putting her face to it.
I swear this really is some twisted joke...
I try to chose my next words carefully, because I doubt I'm in any position to give advice.

"Alyssa, Blake will come to his senses eventually because you're his mate... His soul is yours and your wolves are connected. The pull of the bond is hard to ignore." I say, reciting what my mom used to tell me growing up and still find her telling me now.
Only that now that I actually know my mate, I think it's a load of bull.
But Alyssa doesn't need to know that...

"You just need to give him time..." I say guilty looking down. "Blake, will realize what he's missing out on, he can't stay away forever...." I say, leaning my head against the board once again, hoping I'm right.
Alyssa stays silent for a couple of minutes. All she does is shake her head solemnly.
"I don't want to see you hurt, Alyssa.You're my best friend and you mean so much to me. Sometimes, though, the moon goddess works against our favor and throws us things we wouldn't have expected otherwise." I confess with double meaning.

"Oh Dawn, what would I do without you?" She says, putting a hand to her head dramaticly, and sniffling. I roll my eyes, and smile, grimacing on the inside.
"Oh and also what were you gonna say to me before?" She instantly perks up, remembering the beginning of my confession.
Tell her Dawn! Just say it. Rip it off like a bandaid so you don't have to keep holding onto this lie.

" I... I forgot." I say, unable to bring myself to say the words.
Coward.
She smiles at me.
" Can I stay the night?" She now asks.
"Of course." I take my glasses off and place them back on my nightstand, turning the lamp off.
I lay awake in bed though, unable to fall asleep. By the sound of soft snores, I can tell she has already knocked out. But I can't help but think about the amount of pain that I'm putting her through even though she doesn't realize it yet.

Vince was her first real love, her childhood sweetheart...
Her mate isn't even acknowledging that she exists.
Amongst all of this, my mind still finds a way to drift back to the mysterious brown wolf.
What was my wolf trying to keep from me?
And why does he seem so familiar?
But I have a gut feeling that I'll find out soon enough.

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