As soon as I spoke the name of the story Markus knew very well, I saw many emotions begin to flash through his eyes as he watched my expression, I knew he was trying to see any kind of deception in my looks, which is why I maintained eye contact. I needed him to see I was speaking the truth, even if it was beyond a lie. “The story I used to tell you when you were younger?” Markus asked looking at me with an intrigued look, where I had to nod my head happy that after all this time, he still remembered the little things. “After my entire family died and you took me in, nights were always hard but when storms hit, it was the worst. One night in particular, you came into my room, and I was in floods of tears, you sat right beside me and pulled the blankets right up and began to tell me a story to help the noises of the storm pass. You described a strong and brave princess who had to flee from her family in order to protect them, she was scared but she knew if she kept true to herself,
In all my years knowing Markus and allowing him to look after me, I had never once felt scared of him, even though his actions to others and the way he would speak around me should have scared me to the core. Deep down, I always knew no matter what he was going to look after me, be the protector I needed. But now as I watched him walk towards me, stood on the outside of the border in chains and individuals who he loathed more than anything on the earth and beyond, I couldn’t shake the fear. What if this goes wrong? What if he doesn’t believe me? Could I handle the one man who saved me all of those years ago switching gears and hating me? All of those questions seemed to swirl around in my head until he came to a stop right inside of the border, his eyes locking with mine as I forced tears not to prick them. “Isn’t this a surprise.” Was all he spoke his eyes locked on mine as though he was trying to read me, where I pleaded that he wouldn’t brush me off and listen. “Sorry the vis
The next morning, I woke up more determined than ever, most days since arriving here, I haven’t got any idea of what I’m doing until it’s thrown upon me, but now I knew we were entering into very dangerous territory, one I had lived most of my life, I had to get back to the way I was. Before the palace and Baron, I never let anything or anyone hold me back, I had been through some of the worst pain and circumstances imaginable back before my brain even had the chance to develop. I had to grow up fast and realise nobody had my back, even Markus and eventually, Daniel would say they’d look after me, there was always something in the back of my mind saying I still need to keep my wits about me. My father was someone I trusted more than anyone and he was taken; I needed to prepare myself in case anything like that happens again. But when it came to Baron, it was as though everything I had built up around myself came crashing down without me even noticing. When I’m around him, my entir
My entire body seems to go into that same panicked state as before but this time, it wasn’t my mind that was making up scenarios or forcing memories to play in my mind like an old tape recorder, but a huge black wolf towering above me. I couldn’t stifle the terrified scream that left my lips as I slid across the shiny dark flooring, my hands shaking so violently I kept stumbling and nearly falling fully to lay on the floor as my eyes refused to leave the wolf’s face whose eyes also refused to leave mine. With each centimetre of space I’d manage to create between me and the wolf, the closer his huge legs with the sharpest of claws I had ever seen seemed to draw even closer to me. The quicker my breath became the heavier the air grew, I truly felt as though I began to suffocate causing my mind to go cloudy and the room to grow darker. My elbows seemed to give way as I landed on my back feeling my eyes close, my heart pounding so fast in my chest when the bloodthirsty wolf seemed t
After some time to calm down and Baron repeating to me that I was safe, I sat on his office’s floor with my back against the wall and my legs pulled up to my chest. My head hurt from the power of those flashbacks and how fast they kept pounding my head. My hands still shook a little as my body attempted to calm down after it believed we were walking into some kind of war, and it needed to protect itself. Baron, who hadn’t left my side for a second soon walks back from his desk with a fresh glass of water in his hands, taking a seat beside me pushing my legs down so I was no longer sat in the fetal position, he hands me over the glass where I was forced to squeeze it hard so the shaking of my hands didn’t spill water over my legs. “I’ve had flashbacks like those before but never to that extent, it was as though my mind had switched to being seven years old again.” I sighed placing my head to rest on the wall behind me as Baron’s hand is placed to rest on my leg, his touches seeming
The only sound I could hear was the pulsing of heart ringing in my ears, my breathing was fast and panicked as the man, who had taken everything from me all of those years ago parades into the room as though nothing was a miss and begins to speak with his Alpha. Memories of the terrifying night that changed my entire life began to flash through my mind as quickly and deadly as the lightening bolts from the storm the previous night. With each memory, I sunk deeper into my panicked state and faster my breath became as I gripped the table so hard I worried my fingers would snap. “Erin?” Baron’s worried but muffled voice asks turning my face to look away from the middle of the office than back him, but in my panicked state which only seemed to be getting worse, it was as though my mouth dried up and I couldn’t produce any words to respond. As though my brain wasn’t already having a field day replaying some of my most freighting memories as though it was the next big blockbuster, it