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
Stuart had left to get the last of the Alpha couple’s and was taking some time, with how long the day had been and the amount of people I had to make conversation with and smile at, I was absolutely, exhausted and couldn’t wait until I could climb into Baron’s ever so comfortable bed and fall asleep. Speaking of Baron, I still hadn’t moved from his lap as my head lay against his chest, even though I knew I couldn’t go to sleep and tried to fight it at every corner, the steady rhythm of his heartbeat and his hand running gently through my hair, I felt my body slipping away into dreamland. “I don’t know about you guys, but I’m exhausted and all I’ve done is sit here.” Lizzie yawned from the side of the room with Glasses, her voice snapping my eyes open slightly before they involuntarily closed once again. “We have one more Alpha couple before we can all get some well-deserved rest, well after we figure out how we can enter that village to get the box.” Glasses joined the conversat
“Anything ma’am, just say the word.” The Alpha was quick to respond pulling his face away from his mate, while my own slowly removes his away from my neck and watches me suspiciously, no one knew what I was about to say which is something I loved in the moment, be so unpredictable, no one knows your next moves. “Even though I consider this village my family, we have been through the most awful, heartbreaking tragedies together and I truly, hold such a tight bond that could never break, due to where I am now sat with the mark on my neck, my return may not go the way I expect or want.” I began to say even though that realisation broke my heart, the reaction from John last night once he saw my mark only validated my worst fear, I may have become their enemy. “With that being said, I am willing to take that risk to retrieve this box as I said, I know what’s it like to miss people and not have anything of them, I’d walk into a burning building to have at least an item of clothing from
The room sunk into a tense and uncertain atmosphere after that question left her lips, I believe each person in the room worried I would somehow get offended that she’d ask me as I wanted to keep such information to myself with the title I was about to ask. But when I smile in response, I saw the worry in the Luna’s eyes fade slightly. “I’m not ashamed of where I come from and the experiences that others put me through so yes, I am from that human village.” I answered smiling over to the Luna not feeling anything but somewhat pride that this Alpha could see that even though I’m from that village, I’ve still managed to achieve my title as Queen of their people. Now I had confirmed her suspicions, it was shock that filled her and her mates face, it was as though they didn’t believe either I had the guts to admit it or that Baron would accept such a person as his mate, both things were far from being true. “I hope the origins of where my mate is from is not going to be an issue for