Chapter 8: Not for long

Chapter 8: Not for long 

Ari's POV 

I stopped a cab and followed the scent of the suicidal girl I was going to murder.

 It was faint but it was still there and I found her in the same place I saved her from earlier. 

Except this time around she was holding a cone of ice cream and sitting on the fucking ledge.

I stepped out of the cab and I almost smiled at the sight of my father's car because it looked unharmed and I tried to ignore the lunatic that was standing on the ledge except she was dangling the key to the Aston Martin Car in her hand and I was as good as dead if I lost the keys.

 Ryan Darken Black would literally snap me into two if I lost his keys.

Aniston concentrated on the ice cream she was holding even though her eyes were leaking again. 

She hated the tears just as much as I hated watching her cry on my father's key.

"It won't be long now. There is a way out, just under this beautiful bridge. A way to the sweet succulent freedom I crave for, freedom from the pain and nightmare that haunts me, I would be released from my guilt and I would be set free. Beyond this point I am standing is the serenity and peace I deserve and good lord! I can't wait to get there"

I heard every nonsense she was yelling but I was more worried about the key disappearing forever.

I took off my shoes, I don't know why I did that and I took a step into the road towards the side she was standing on. 

The cold tar bit into my feet, just reminding me that I was barefooted for no reason but it didn't deter me.

Nothing at this point could, not when I was a few steps away from my father's key.

It was cold and the breeze was a fleeting comfort. 

The white dress she wore was flimsy and loose and it danced to the drum the wind was beating.

Great!

 She had time to get ice cream and a brand new death dress while I was stuck trying to get back my alpha father's car key.

And I am forgetting the fact that she was delayed from looking for Storm.

Aniston closed her eyes and she breathed in the fresh sweet air around her.

"Say what you must, Ari but it is a beautiful day to die"

"Can you give me my father's car keys before you do that?!" I yelled at her

I took another step closer to her and she moved even closer to the next step of the bridge railings, her first step to what she calls freedom. 

"I can hear the river below the bridge calling my name, telling me it was time to come home.

Come home and rest, Ani!

It is almost music to my ears" 

"I don't fucking care! Just give me the car keys!" I yelled at her.

She took yet another step and another until the only thing separating her from going over was a tiny rusty railing.

"I am almost free" she murmured to herself but the wind carried her voice and it went away.

I was standing very close to her now.

"Give me the keys, Aniston" 

She turned and she smiled sadly "why is your baritone voice emanating with authority without even trying and Aren't you going to talk me down?" she asked me.

"No" I stated as a matter of fact.

She turned around and watched me. 

"You have a nice voice and a beautiful face…which is nice if you are the last thing I am going to see before dying but There is nothing for you to see here, sir. Please leave me in peace" 

She told me before returning her attention to what she was doing.

"I will as soon as you hand over the keys. Haven't I been clear on that?" I asked her.

"Ouch! Seriously dude, you suck at talking people down. You should leave. Today was supposed to be peaceful but you are messing it up for me. You are messing my whole plan up. Whether I choose to live or die is entirely my choice, sir. let me make it in peace" 

"I am warning you. My keys or I am pushing you over myself!" I warned her.

Aniston turned around fully to look at me.

"Is that blood on your sleeves?" She asked me.

I followed the direction of her eyes to my sleeve and I quickly folded them.

"Tomato sauce. You see, someone stole my fucking car and I had to take a bloody cab with tomato sauce stains on the seats. It was disgusting" 

"My apologies. I needed the car. I can't exactly walk to my chosen suicide venue, that would be madness"

I exhaled. "For someone who wants out of this life, you are unusually chatty. Take a step down from the ledge Aniston, it will do well for my mental health especially with the way you are dangling that key you are holding"

And just like that the crazy girl smiled and started playing with my father's key like I didn't just ask her not to.

She watched me place both hands into my pocket like I was daring her to lose the keys.

I was still watching her dangle the keys when her leg slipped.

"Ari! Help me!" Her voice echoed as she went over the ledge.

I didn't think. I just reacted and I jumped in after her. 

My change into a werewolf was swift and on the go, as I jumped after her.

I got to her in time to turn her so I would handle most of the force from the clash into the icy water.

"What are you doing? Let go of me?!"

She yelled at me mid-air. She didn't look surprised that I was a wolf.

I howled at her.

(I will spank you after this! You better believe it! And for your sake pray you die from this fall or I am going to murder you!)

I yelled at her through the mindlink.

I waited for the impact and it came. The wind was knocked out of me as I struggled to pull both myself and the thorn in flesh named Aniston to the surface.

I knew a few of my bones were at the verge of snapping but I didn't let up, I wasn't going to die and leave Storm in the hands of this crown prince with his long hair and evil face. No, I couldn't let that happen.

I pulled Aniston and myself out of the river and to the shore and I tried to catch my breath. 

At first, she was unconscious but after a few slaps on the face, she slowly opened her eyes and coughed up water.

"Oh my God! I am alive" 

"Not for long" I told her "if you lost the car keys, I will throw you back into the river"