Roles Reversed

Chapter 5

Ariella's Pov
I stare into his eyes for the longest time and I unconsciously start to believe its Crystal. I snap out of it when I'm shaken some what roughly. I realize it's my mate and I instantly put my guard back up. I don't really trust him yet if you couldn't tell.

I pull my hand back in a fist to punch him for what he had down. As I put my fist in motion he flinches and just as I'm about to make contact my wolf takes control and stops my fist. I was bewildered, my rage starts to build at my wolf. And I expect her to give me back control.

Instead she starts talking.
"As you can see, my human has some serious anger issues." I start to push for control but the more I push the farther she sends me back.

"My human and I have been broken for a long time." My wolf continues. "Our family was brutally murdered and we turned cold.

"But we found someone who made it better, she was are sun on a cloudy day, the love of our lives." Looking at my mate I can see jealously flash through his eyes.

My wolf picks up the picture on the floor.
"Her name was Crystal." She says as my wolf points to Crystal in the picture.

"She was a force to be reckoned with." My wolf chuckles. "She was a abandoned human slave that we found when we took over another country."

"When we met her you couldn't tell that she was a slave tortured and all from her lively spirt and witty charm besides the scare on her body."

"She was the first person to make me smile and soon laugh after our parents died"
"She was an annoying little thing and refused to leave me alone even though she knew I could kill her."

"Eventually she made so many cracks in my walls that they fell down completely, with her at least."

" After a couple years I changed her to werewolf, and made her my beta."

"Everyday she made me a better person, and we lived comfortably not needing anyone else but each other."

"And it stayed like that for a 100 years."

"100 years she was in our life." My wolf lifts our wrist to show him our bond

My mate finally speaks," what happened to her."

"Spies killed her 5 years ago."

"Why are you telling me all this." My mate says confused.

"Because her story needed to be said out loud, so that my human can move on."

"In the beginning I was just as angry as my human was and after a couple years I realized this isn't what Crystal would've wanted."

"But my human took her death very hard, and each day I could feel her soul get worse and worse."

"So mate I'm her to ask you to please let my human move on, she's lost trust on all things good in the world."

"No matter how much Arielle pushes you away please be there for her."

My mates wolf decides to make an appearance and he says," we will."

At this point I'm screaming at the top of my lungs in my own head. While giving that speech to our mate. She was replying all my favorite memories with Crystal in my head.

I was being forced to watch them like i was strapped in the chair. I feel my heart breaking and my walls come crumbling down.

Since she died I never went back and looked at my memories of her. It was too difficult. I didn't want to watch these anymore. It just reminded my if how she's dead I can never see her again. I can feel the darkness in me slightly lessen looking at these memories.
And that makes me afraid because the thing feeling Crystals void is my own darkness.

My wolf all of sudden appears. Make is stop! I scream at her in my mind. I probably look crazy to my mate seeing my screaming at nothing.

"My human you have lost yourself, you seem to have forgotten all the good moments and memories you shared with Crystal, just because she's not here with us right now doesn't mean she's not here with us in our heart and mind."

Look at the memories my wolf tells me. "I am looking you've been forcing me to look this whole time." I yell In agony. I feel my body pressed against another but I don't pay attention to that at the moment

No I mean really look my wolf tells me softly. 

I focus in on the memory it's of me chasing Crystal around my room with a pillow and her laughing wildly and me laughing hardly as well. She finally stops and I crash right into her.

She promptly flips us over so she's on top of me. "Hey look I'm on top of the big bad queen maybe I should be queen instead." She says slyly

She then proceeds to imitate me in a very rude way might I add
I growl at her but a small smile makes it way into my face that soon turns into a full on smile.

She stops talking and stares at me eyes full of admiration again. I think how can such a bright light love such a dark darkness. She then suddenly flops on top of my body her head buried in my neck.

I purr at the warmth.

"You know I love you right?" I say shyly. She chuckles

"As do I my love." She says. The memory ends and I'm sobbing. And as I'm slowly pulled back into reality I'm sobbing into a hard chest

Since the first time she died I'm crying. I've always replaced my sadness with anger. And for the first time I allow myself to feel again.

I start crying harder and I'm lifted up and tucked into bed. Shortly after big arms wrap around me and I continue to cry for who knows how long until I fall asleep.

I wake up eyes puffy. And for the first time in a long time I feel content. A weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I turn around and come face to face with my mate. My hand moves on its own and my finger traces down his sharp jawline.

His eyes flutter open and I can feel a blush rise to my cheeks. "Good Morning." He says huskily.

"Good morning." I say back. I slowly get out of bed and I can feel his eyes follow as I go to the restroom.

I turn around and ask,"do you wanna come, there's two sinks." He smirks and gets out of bed taking long strides towards me.

He leans down and kisses my forehead and walks into the bathroom . I blush comes to my face as I put my hand to where he kissed me before following him in.

We're both brushing our teeth and honestly this scene looks a lot like the one from bring it.

When I'm done I walk into my closet and change into proper attire. I mind link the staff and tell them to set up a table for two. And also have someone bring me some men's clothes.

I hear a knock on my door, and I swiftly open it and grab my mates clothes , before quickly shutting the door.

I walk into the bathroom and hand the clothes to him. And i realize something.
"What's your name." I asked embarrassed that I don't know his name yet.

"Lucian." He states.

"Lucian." I repeat aloud. Lucian after the devil himself, oh the irony, I think.