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Chapter 47
ALINA
We watched her get lowered into her grave, each person throwing a rose in as a final departure gift. It wasn't fair, life wasn't fair. To watch your child be laid to rest was something no parent wanted. Sophia's mother stood there, unblinking, silent tears leaking out of her eyes. The doctors said she was still in shock, the worst was yet to come. Sophia's father was taking it just as bad, converting his sadness into anger and directing that anger toward Max. In a blind rage, he blamed Max for everything that happened.
If he only knew that weren't true. All of this was my fault.
Zion slipped his leather glove covevered hand into mine, giving it a light squeeze. I shifted my gaze to him, taking in his appearance which calmed me. He wore full black, just like everyone else around us. The color that depicted how sad we all were. It didn't make sense, they kept going on about her going to a bet
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Zion Chapter 48
ZIONI knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep my family, Alina, and the people Alina loved out of danger. No one else would be harmed. No one else would have to lose their life because of Alina or me. I wouldn't allow Alina to carry any more guilt around. It burdened her, stealing away that radiant smile I wanted to remain on her face always.I stared at her sleeping form in my hold. Today was both mentally, physically, and emotionally draining for her. I couldn't imagine what it felt like to watch someone you loved dying, knowing that you would never see them again; I couldn't imagine it until today. Today I felt the full influx of those emotions. Today I finally understood it. Thanks to Alina's uncanny ability to project her feelings onto me, I understood how utterly fucked up and heartbreaking it felt.It didn't take her too long to fall asleep. One minute she was laughing at some stupid show
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ZIONMy eyelids peeled open to find Alina's bright gray eyes staring back at me. For the past couple of days we had been sleeping together in the same bed; mostly me sleeping over at her house due to my mother never allowing us to close my damn bedroom door.Today was different though, today she stayed over at my place. I felt a different type of happiness each time I woke up with her in my arms. The not so little shock waves that traveled up my arms due to the skin on skin contact, the way her long, thick disheveled hair sprawled across her entire half of the bed. She was a morning person, always wide awake, always staring, always tracing the features of my face causing me to wake. I never minded though; even when she caused my sleep to break at five in the fucking morning."Happy birthday," her shining smile greeted me, pulling me out of my thoughts, "I'm sorry for waking you but it's already six so we h
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ZION"Hey, let's head down to the lake for a little ice skating," Alina ecstatically chimed as we exited the school building. Her eyes had this twinkle in them that made my heart still and breath hitch. I wasn't even paying attention to what she was saying because her smile was simply ethereal, "Zi, did you hear me?" She quizzed, hooking her arm with mine.Shaking my thoughts away, I answered, "Uh, yeah...sure. Our skates are still in the trunk of my car right?"She nodded her head, "We never took them out after that day.I took in my surroundings, all the students still lingering outside the school, "Shouldn't we be getting home though? I mean, it's test week so don't you want to study. You know how you get. You stress over the simplest stuff for no reason.""I've been cramming this whole week. I think my brain deserves some rest and I'd like to spend time with you for yo
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*TRIGGER WARNING: This content mentions sexual assault. If you're a sensitive reader, please skip those parts.ZIONRemember when I said this was the best birthday out of the eighteen birthdays I had so far?Well, I spoke to fucking soon for my own good!I stood in my room, listening to the chaos that ensued outside. People were running around. My father's boots thudded against the hardwood floors as he rushed to the main bedroom, probably with my mother in hand. None of them knew about the chaos in front of me at the moment.Kendra stood over Alina's limp body on the floor. There was a steady rise and fall of her chest letting me know that she was alive but she looked like my mother, unmoving and lifeless. That wasn't a good sign, I knew that much considering what happened before. My mother almost died that day and now I ran the risk of los
Zion Chapter 52
ALINA I heard him. His voice echoed in my head, the words he said rang in my ears and I wanted to scream. I wanted to tell him that I didn't need saving, that I was perfectly fine and that this was a trap but I couldn't because no matter how much I shouted or cried, he couldn't hear me. My physical body was as good as a lifeless shell, immobile and cold.I'm coming to get you Angel face, you hear me? Hang in there okay.Those words were continuously taunting me. Damn him for caring this much! With his mother also here, it made sense that his first thought was to come save us. His father would be in a haze himself, not thinking clearly due to his wife's state. I could see her from where I stood next to my father. He had his little serpent crushing her, draining her of the little power she had. Her screams each time that viper bit her made bile rise up my throat. Her soul would be long gone before Zion could even get here. If only I hadn't gone to Zion's room with Kendra or anywhere al
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ZIONRuthlessness.When I looked into Alina's blackened eyes that were the only thing I could see. She didn't know it, couldn't see it, but at that moment she looked a lot like the man that fathered her. The female devil herself asserting her power and taking the reigns.I knew I showed no emotion, keeping my face blank as I stared at her but deep down my mind was reeling and my stomach was churning. On her back, a pair of beautiful crimson wings sat. Unfurled, they were huge, almost as big as mine. I had never heard of an angel who managed to get their wings back after they were chopped off, but then again, I didn't know they still chopped of wings until I met Alina.Again, it only proved that there was so much I didn't know about my kind. I couldn't help but wonder if those wings would still be there once her subconscious returned to her physical form.
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ZIONI reappeared in my bedroom finding Kendra's hands tied to my bedpost and her father's limb and very dead body still on my bedroom floor. Rolling my shoulders, the weight of my wings vanished so I took the opportunity to put a shirt on. Just then, Alina shot up from the bed with a loud gasp. Her subconscious finally returning to her physical body. The first thing she did was throw a hand behind her to feel her wings which weren't there. Disappointment colored her features when she realized this.Placing a hand on her shoulder, I gave it a gentle reassuring squeeze, "It will all be okay."She met my gaze, "Yeah, I know. I was just getting used to having them that's all," with those words, a perplexed sigh left her lips, "I should be telling you that though not the other way around."I clenched my molars, keeping my mouth shut from spitting something I would regret later. This wasn't a t
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ZIONWe didn't know what to do with Kendra. She kept apologizing profusely, kept saying that she didn't want to do what she did and was forced to by her father. Deep down, I wanted to believe her but I didn't. I couldn't. We still let her go because there was honestly nothing else we could do but we kept a close eye on her. That was until she disappeared two days later. There were rumors that her and her mother had just packed up in the middle of the night and left town.Good riddance I say. The further away from me and my family the better. Killing her would only be a pleasure for me if she brought it to that. There was nothing stopping me from doing it now. Nothing beside Alina ordering me not to I mean. I respected Alina enough to listen to her because I didn't want her to get mad at me. I lost so much, I couldn't lose her too.Mabel, Grayson, and Alina helped plan the funeral
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