CHAPTER NINE: SHE MEANS NOTHING!

LIAM’S POINT OF VIEW 

I hate him but I'm sure that that much is obvious. 

He is the bain of my existence but I'm sure that much is already known.

I am tired of being his, of being hurt this much!

It's like a push and pull, I hate him and then I love him.

 I need him and then I want him and then there is this passion, this need for him that leads to me craving him and then I reach for him but he pulls away like he wasn't the one that first reached for me.

With Zyn, it's always a push and pull.

He acts like I am the love of his life, the only one he could ever need.

He acts like without me he cannot breathe but then when I get too close, he cannot take it. He pushes me away in the most brutal way possible.

He throws me to the wall, not caring how painfully my head hits the stony wall.

He wants me but then he doesn't. I love him but then I hate him.

I reach for him but then I remember who he is: a sad bastard who would never let go of the leash he has around my neck. A wicked evil monster who only loves the fact that he owns me.

We are sitting on my bed, we had just kiss and then he pulled away.

When he pulled away from the kiss, I wanted more of the kiss, more of him so I reached for him.

I placed my hands around him and pull him close to me.

At first, he does not pull away.

At first, he stared into my eyes with the same longing that I stare into his eyes with.

At first, he is not a monster but my lover. 

He is the dreamy Alpha Zyn not the power hungry bastard that only exists to crush my spirit until he is the only one willing to take me.

Our lips almost melted into each other's but then there was a knock on the door.

This shocked me because this is the East wing, my part of the castle and I live in complete Isolation which is the way Alpha Zyn had made it.

I am supposed to be all alone every second of the day unless he summons me.

 I am supposed to die alone, languish in my loneliness unless he decides that he wants me by his side.

I am his alone, so hearing someone knock on my door shocked and scared me because whoever they were, they were destined to die for trying to cure my loneliness by coming to my side of the castle.

Without saying a word, or expressing any shock, he walked to the door, turned the knob. A guard walked in, pushing with a woman in with him.

Annalise!

My heart thudded in my chest.

Oh no! Not her! Not again!

The guard tossed her across the room, she landed hard on the ground, causing her to wince in pain.

My heart thumped painfully!

Does he know?! 

How much does he know?! 

Is he going to kill her?!

The tension built in the air, I could hardly breathe. 

I tried my very best to avoid Annalise’s gaze even though my wolf craved nothing more than to stare at her all day.

I tried to stop my hands from shaking so much, I tried to keep the nerves from showing on my face.

I have to pretend like I do not know her, like we are not connected to each other in any way… this is the only way that I can save her.

Any threat that Zyn senses, any reason to believe that my heart does not belong solely to him causes him to act out by killing off that threat.

I ignored Annalise’s stares even though it burned a hole on my face and I yearned to look at her.

My stares stayed fixated on Zyn as if I was trying to prove my loyalty to him and only him.

He looked from Annalise to me and then back to Annalise. 

Without saying anything he moved quickly to her in his quick Alpha speed. 

He picked her up from the ground with her neck and started squeezing the life breath out of her while keeping his eyes on me, with a malign smile on his face.

Annalise swung from the ground, Alpha Zyn’s fist tightened around her neck. His eyes stayed fixated on me as if daring me to do something, as if asking me to say anything, as if daring me to object.

I stayed quiet, even though my instinct was claw at him and try to get her away from his grasp.

I knew doing that would be signing her death warrant, it would be me consenting to her death.

I wanted to do something but I did nothing but instead watched her choke to death.

Zyn laughed.

“Are you really not going to try to save her?” He said with a chuckle.

“Why would I? She means absolutely nothing to me,” I retorted and then cringed at my words.

The tears escaped from Annalise's eyes, she looked at me with hurt in her eyes, like I had dug a thousand daggers into her eyes.

I looked away.

“Do whatever you want with her, I don't care?” I shrugged nonchalantly and hoped that Zyn would just let her go.

If anything he decided to keep torturing me by continuing to choke her.

Annalise gagged and struggled to breathe.

My heart thudded in my chest, is he really going to kill her? 

I knew that Zyn was still looking at me and that anything I said or did next would determine his next action, the problem however is that I am not sure what to do or say!

I already tried to act nonchalant but that did not cut it, he still seems very determined to kill her.

I held my breath in tension. Zyn squeeze on at Annalise’s neck but kept his eyes on me.

He tilted her neck to the side with his hand, smiling as he made to snap it off from her head.

“I guess if she means nothing to none of us then she would be better off dead,” he said and made to snap her neck off.

“Wait!” I yelled before I could stop myself.