Siren -Editing-

Chapter three

I rocked to the lullaby's tune as I watched the rain fall from outside my window. My little space of heaven, the dream night with all the lights off and singing along to the little I had left of my mom past my bedtime.

My Bonnie lies over the ocean,

My Bonnie lies over the sea,

My Bonnie lies over the ocean,

Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me.

My smile spread wide across my face the longer the song went on. The rain pattered softly on the window, adding to the peaceful atmosphere it had built for myself over the past few months since Daddy pulled me from school for more specialized training.

Bring back, bring back, O bring back my Bonnie to me, to me:

Bring back, bring back, O bring back my Bonnie to me.

I danced across my floor, swaying side to side in my best attempt at keeping time with the song. I didn't get many chances anymore to let loose and have fun. I knew the other kids did, but Daddy says I'm too important for childish things.

O blow ye winds over the ocean,

O blow ye winds over the sea.

O blow ye winds over the ocean,

And bring back my Bonnie to me.

Daddy opened the door and stared at me as he walked in, then slammed the door behind him and crouched down to my eye level. "Now, where did you learn that?"

"From mom..." I kept my voice quiet, the way Daddy likes it, and tried to avoid his gaze.

He nodded, "Yeah, from your mother. Remind me, Lily, what happened to your mom?" his voice was calm, but every word was laced with venom as though he was daring me to snap at him.

"I-I di-did."

"That's right, Lily," he grabbed my shoulder roughly and forced me to look at him, "and I will be making sure nothing of hers will ever escape your lips again. Do you understand?"

I nodded, too scared to speak, but I didn't understand. Not yet.

"Good," In one smooth motion, he picked me up and carried me out of the room I would never see again.
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Throughout the whole day, the same guy from first period followed me around as I did my best to ignore his presence. He sat directly next to me in every class and even tried herding me over to a table with people I didn't care to meet during lunch.

He didn't say a word to me the whole day, but he did remind teachers about my "condition," as he put it, whenever they tried to get me to answer a question. His voice was like velvet, in both directions, leaving lumps in my throat with every word he spoke. Even if I could speak, I didn't see how I would ever get a word in with him around anyway.

He didn't leave my side even as we left the school doors and breathed in the freedom of fresh air that wasn't littered with a thousand different scents attacking my senses from every front. The moment the sun hit my skin, I relaxed for the first time in six hours.

A chuckle sounded next to me. "If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were just released from solitary confinement."

I sent a glare over to him, pausing slightly to look over the finest man I had ever seen. He was fit, tan, and everything I knew to avoid, but everything in me itched to be in his bulky arms. That must be what Jes felt when Alex was pinning her down to keep her from running.

"So you do feel it then, you've just been ignoring me the whole day?" he brushed hair from my face as electricity spread across my face from his touch, letting his eyes rake over me before they clouded over as he was pulled into a mind link.

"Who's the mutt?" A girl crossed into our path as he came back to us.

I glared at her, giving her a warning to back off. I didn't care if she was fourteen or thirty, I was going to teach her a lesson about respect if she didn't drop her attitude.

"What mutt?" He looked around, acting like he didn't know what she was talking about.

She laughed, "Aww, the little rogue can't fight her own battles?"

"There is no battle here, back off." I looked up at my mate, confused. I couldn't tell if this was him defending me or if he just didn't want to fight with her. The authority rolling off of him gave her pause and tightened my chest.

"Blake," She started slowly, "you and I both know this feral little wolf has no business being anywhere near any of us, least of all you."

I balled up my fists, but she had a point. I didn't have any business being at a school, or inside a pack, and I didn't deserve a mate after everything I had done and everything I had already been through. Her words still stung, though, building a fire deep in my chest that begged to be released onto her pretty little face.

"My mate has every right to be anywhere I am," he growled out.

She looked me up and down, "Your mate looks like a monkey cosplaying a wolf."

She didn't get the chance to continue before my fist was in her nose, and Blake was pulling me off of her. Her scream was music to my ears, even through the twinge of regret that radiated through me. I didn't stop glaring at her until he had me in his car and she was out of sight.

"You can't just attack people, Lillian!" he started the car as his gaze burned into the side of my head. I grunted, and he sighed in frustration. "I'll be shocked if you aren't suspended for that."

He pulled out of the parking lot, and the way out took longer than it had going in through all of the other cars also trying to leave the grounds. Every moment I had to spend trapped inside the metal box was agony, even while wrapped in my mate's scent and listening to his voice echo the words on the radio.

I was just happy he could sing.

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