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“What’s going on here? Alistair, you told me that Scarlett has been missing since the battle,” Aurora said slowly. “When they dragged Liam’s dead body in here, you swore to me that you didn’t know where she went. Is this why you’ve been sneaking away so much recently? Do you have any idea how worried Victor and I have been about you?”“Aurora... calm down,” Alistair started, realising this was already escalating very quickly. “This isn’t what it looks like. She’s not who you think she is.”He lowered us off his shoulder and grabbed our arm tightly, preventing Scarlett from running off.“Alistair, my love, don’t lie to her,” Scarlett chimed in, playfully hitting his chest. “Aurora knows who I am, silly. We go way back.”Aurora’s eyes immediately filled with rage, a wind materialising from nowhere that started to gust around the room we were standing in. It slammed the doors closed one by one, trapping us inside with her. A sight that sent a chill of deep fear through me.*‘What is wron
“No... I saw you... I saw you just two days ago...,” I whispered, my head starting to feel light again.If Alistair wasn’t still holding my arms, my legs might have given out completely. It didn’t feel like I’d been gone for that long, so how could this have happened?“Where did you go? Scarlett said she couldn’t reach you.”“Uhh... I–I don’t know. I was in a fog somewhere... just waiting...,” I answered.“Was it Scarlett’s fault? Did she do something? If she lied to me, I swear—”“—No, no it wasn’t her. For once. It was....”My voice trailed off as I remembered the void holding me captive. I didn’t know how to describe what it was. The way it trapped me, yet also didn’t exist. Nothing existed.I didn’t exist.I wasn’t meant to be here.“Natalie?” he asked when I started spacing out.I snapped back to reality. “Yeah. I’m here.”I looked up at him and studied his face closer, seeing just how upset he seemed to be. In the two weeks we’d spent getting to know each other, had I really had
Scarlett shuddered in anticipation, enjoying herself as she waited for that moment he would kiss her. She didn’t really care for him. That much was obvious. This entire act of hers was for her own entertainment. Just to see if he would do it. Something for her to laugh at later and use against me.The whole time this was happening, I kept screaming inside, pleading with the void that held me captive, but it never relented. I was held in place, unable to do anything except spectate.He trailed his face along her cheek, his hot breath warming her skin as he continued to move upwards...And as he finally came to a stop at her ear, it was then that his grip on her tightened. More forceful. Almost as if he were trapping her in place.Scarlett gasped, not expecting the sudden violent strength, but Alistair spoke over her. A voice so dark that even I flinched from hearing it.“...Fuck off, Scarlett.”With that, he pushed her away.At being caught, Scarlett began to laugh, having nothing else
Somehow, I’d adopted a grumpy stray cat.But instead of a cat, it was a wolf... and instead of a wolf, it was actually the Alpha King.Two weeks went by since the initial night Alistair showed up on my doorstep. And, just like a stray cat you feed once, he kept showing up regularly ever since then. At first, he went back to pretending like he wasn’t interested in coming inside, but it only took a few days for him to give that act up. Soon, it just became the normal routine.I’d wake up around midnight and find him already on the porch waiting. He never knocked, but I think that was because he was worried about accidentally waking up Scarlett instead. He’d make me a fire, and we would just talk for a few hours. Sometimes I’d tell him a story, just a movie or book I’d read back in my world, and sometimes he slept here. The palace was always busy, and I think he liked having somewhere he could go to get away from it all. Even if that was just for a few hours.I also learnt a little about
“...And, so, she clicked her shoes together, spoke the magic words, and when she woke up, she was back home with her family. Like nothing had ever happened and it was all just a dream. The end,” I finished.I’d been telling the story to Alistair for a long time. Long enough that I noticed his breathing become even, a sign that he might have fallen asleep. I’d kept going despite this, continuing to speak until the end, but now I wondered if he really had drifted off.I leaned in closer, inspecting his face for any sign that he might still be awake. He seemed so peaceful as he laid there, the lines from stress having relaxed. He looked so... innocent. Like he wasn’t someone capable of killing a person with his bare hands, or able to order thousands of people into doing whatever he wanted.“Why didn’t the good magical Luna simply not kill the bad one? Why did she need the wolfless girl to do it for her?” he then asked, making me jump back into my armchair.Immediately, my heart began raci
The entire forest around us grew quiet, almost as if nature itself was responding to the loss. No one spoke a word. No one moved a muscle. Just stunned silence filled the air.Was I meant to say something? To offer words of sympathy? I was probably the last person he wanted to hear from, the face I wore a reminder of who stole his father from him.Instinctively, I’d raised a hand to touch his shoulder in support, but I quickly recalled it before he noticed. This wasn’t about me or what I could offer him. There was nothing I could do to make this situation any easier for him.Nevertheless, the news hit me hard too. I’d tried so hard to, not only warn Thaddeus that this might happen, but to save him too. Yet somehow, despite my best efforts, it had still been partially my fault that it ended this way.Thaddeus was the first person to look at me like I wasn’t Scarlett. Without even needing to explain anything, he’d given me a chance. He’d seen the good in me when everyone else only saw
The darkness only lasted for a moment.When I opened my eyes next, I was in water. Floating slowly down to the bottom of a void as bubbles filled my vision around me. Almost beautiful in the way they moved, dancing in the small light that came from above.Was this heaven? If true, it was kind of di
“Please...,” Scarlett choked out between sobs. “Please don’t kill me. I’ll leave you alone, I swear. I’ll run away as far as possible and never come back.”But it was too late for apologies. For years, I’d suffered at Scarlett’s hands. I was beaten, starved and abused by that entire pack growing up
“You should be in bed resting,” Liam said, holding my hand tenderly in his.I looked down at where he touched me and felt bile fill my mouth. I knew what those hands had done. I’d seen the results with my own eyes now. It was truly disgusting.“I’m fine, really,” I assured, forcing a smile on my lip
Oh... fuck.What the hell was I meant to do? No wonder the poor girl was terrified of me, some of those bruises on her body were likely my own doing. I’d just finished reading how she killed Scarlett in the future and now I was about to get a front row seat to the live action production.Was I just







