LOGINChapter 52- Weak Man Aurora's POV"Stop it!" A heartfelt giggle rang out, and I squeaked in my mind, because the sound was coming from me."Won't your family talk about it? I'm different from you." A male voice in front of me spoke softly, the sound trickling into my ears, pleasant and familiar, but I couldn't make out his face. It was blurred, distant, and hazy. We were somewhere in a beautiful garden, my ass seated on the ground, my fingers carding gently through the man's hair where his head rested in my lap. "I don't care," I responded, or rather, my mouth said it for me, some version of me I didn't recognise speaking through my lips."Neither do I," he answered, and I lowered my head to press a kiss to his forehead, my heart skipping so hard in my chest.My eyes fluttered open, blinking at the same familiar ceiling I'd come to know by now. I'd lost count of how many days I'd spent in this hellhole. Five, maybe, or more. Barely any water, and whatever rock-hard excuse for bread
Chapter 51 - This is it Aurora povKnox took real pleasure in my pain, replaying different sex tapes over and over, not just once; some were videoed in that apartment we used to live together. How much more had he done to me without my knowledge, I wondered, my nails scratching hard at my skin, trying to claw the memory out of existence, trying to force it back as just another bad dream. But Knox's continuous taunting kept resurfacing it. I slid off the bed and curled into the corner of the room, hands clamped tight over my ears, refusing to listen anymore as my body shuddered from bile.My skin stung red where I'd scratched it raw, and I squeezed my eyes shut, willing my mind to carry me somewhere else, away from this horrible nightmare. And it did. As I remembered the day I got my first paycheck at the bar.That day had felt so shocking, so unbelievable, that by the time I made it home, I felt like I was holding the world in my hands, choked up with tears. I couldn't believe it, t
Chapter 50 - Break beautifullyAurora's POVI'd been waiting for Knox to snap, to go into full-blown anger, which I knew so well, but he hadn't said a word to me since the last time he'd walked in. If the thin ray of light beaming through the small window wasn't lying to me, that meant it was already a new day.He'd released my hands the day before, telling me I was free to use the room however I wanted. Free. The room had a single bed, a small window, an old standing television, and nothing else. I swallowed thickly, although my mind was still shielding me from the worst of it, but I didn't know how much longer that would last. Was he waiting for the silence to break me?Knox wasn't behaving the way he always had, and that unsettled me more than his anger. He should have hit me by now, screamed at me, and done something. This calm wasn't like him at all, and it left me anxious really bad because the fear of the unknown had always been worse than the fear of the known.I licked my low
Chapter 49 - Untitled Everything was hazy. Orion didn't remember how he'd gotten home, only that he was in serious pain, the stab wound scorching hot no matter what Roland tried; none of it working.He gritted his teeth through the agony, his vision unfocused. "Dawn," the word slurred out.He could hear sound around him, voices, and movement, but everything was ringing. His heart palpitated against his ribs, his throat scratchy and dry, and when he tried to breathe her in, his nose failed to pick up her scent anywhere near him. Fuck. He couldn't believe a stab wound could reduce him to such a state.He gritted his teeth harder, his jaw cracking a little. "Where is Aurora!" he thought he growled out, but the words were incoherent.Roland, watching the Clan Leader struggle and wanted to cry. This wasn't the man she knew. When they'd carried him home, she'd expected to walk in and find Aurora there waiting, panicked. Instead, the house was empty. Her stomach sank as she shook her head.
Nightmare II"Go to hell," the man spat at him, and Orion's hands were closing around his throat on instinct, uncaring of the commotion erupting around them, choking the life out of him as he felt his strength draining fast, faster than it should have from a stab wound. Liam and Rook came sprinting toward him from opposite sides of the ring. His tongue felt heavy in his mouth, his eyes growing hazy and unfocused. The wound wasn't healing the way it should have. Wasn't healing at all. Meanwhile, back at the house, Roland had been quietly watching Aurora, who looked a little guilty still but noticeably different from how she'd been a week ago. Livelier. More like herself again, with color back in her cheeks. Roland felt relief at that, grateful not to watch her friend crumble into that broken, hollowed-out shell anymore, when she felt a pull in her mind.She opened the mind-link and was met instantly with Liam's voice, frantic and breathless. "Come now, my brother, the Leader's been s
Chapter 48 - Nightmare Third POV for better reading :]Orion turned to look at the aurora again, his eyes scanning slowly over her face, worry and concern carved deep in his brows with his lips in a thin line. "I don't want to leave," he said softly, and Aurora just grinned up at him, rising onto the tips of her toes as he bent his head low enough for her to press a kiss to his cheek. He always liked her small kisses; they made his heart flip every goddamn time. She chuckled playfully, resting a hand briefly against his chest and his body jolted at the little contact. "You're not a baby. It's two hours max, you'll be back before you know it, and I'll be right here waiting for you, Orion." She giggled at the look on his face, the sound like music to his ears, so pleasant. "With my arms open to welcome you home."That seemed to do it for him, softening the clenching in his jaw just slightly, though he still shook his head like he wasn't convinced to leave her alone. Orion had been rel
Chapter 5 - Don’t LeaveAurora“Coming!”A distant voice filtered in and I immediately placed it — Roland, the name I had been able to attach to the female voice that had woven in and out of my consciousness.The door opened and she walked in while I stared at her from under my lashes because I cou
Aurora’s POV“Why is she not waking up?”I heard an agitated voice woven into a distant wave in the loop of darkness that surrounded me. The sound was pleasant to me and made the wave calm down in a serene way. I wanted to move my body toward it but it wouldn’t budge.“I’m sorry, Alpha, she has los
Orion’s POVI had been feeling agitated since I woke up, my mood dampened and hazy as irritation crawled at the back of my mind, but this was different from the usual restlessness while my animalistic side was pacing in the background. I resisted the urge to groan, feeling a headache creeping in fr
Aurora’s POVI can’t stay here.I can’t! I can’t.I chanted in my head repeatedly. My brain moved before my body as pain erupted everywhere, and I groaned into the floor, pressing my hand flat against the cold tile and trying to breathe through it. My ribs were throbbing, my head was pounding, and







