6
Evie’s pov
Everything stopped moving. Stopped breathing. My knees felt weak as my trembling fingers grip the curtains.
Ryan’s eyes don’t leave mine and in the glow of the moon, red bleed into his eyes. His wolf.
My heart pounds.
This cannot be right.
It was impossible.
I was wolf less yet I knew that I was claimed.
As the thoughts rush through my head, Kimberly pulls me out of the daze when she squeals and rushes over to Ryan, throwing herself into his arms.
Her sudden movement made him stumble and remove his eyes from me, thus breaking the trance. He grows stiff as a board, his jaw flexing as her arms loop around his neck.
My stomach twisted as everyone cheered, waiting for him to claim her as his Luna. It was time….
I swallowed, my throat hurting as I do so. It felt like a blade was slowly twisting in my heart.
Just then Ryan’s eyes flickered up once more, catching mine. As soon as our eyes locked again it felt like the world tilted.
He was hers by duty.
But the bond didn’t care, it hummed between us. However it was destined to shatter.
As the cheers grow louder, the knife dug deeper. I could no longer take it. I stumble away from the window, breathing erratically.
“No,no,no,” I whispered over and over as I rake a hand through my hair in angst.
Why was I feeling this way? It was impossible for me, a wolf less girl, to feel such a bond so strongly in my being.
I bite down hard on my lip as I pace the flooring of my room. My hand press against my quickly beating heart and I snap my eyes to stare at the window where I can see the silvery of the moon shining bright.
Did he feel it too?
Does he know?
I shake my head as I hear the pack members cheer for Kimberly and….him.
My heart hurts painfully and a sob pushes out of my throat.
I needed to get out of here. I needed to leave. I needed air.
I can’t do this. Them.
Seeing them together.
I can’t.
As I breathe out sharply, I wrench the door open and stepped out of my room. Everything in my body told me to go to him, run to him but I knew I couldn’t.
So instead I run downstairs, not caring that I look a mess and there were probably a few pack members who saw me this way.
As my feet carried me through the house, suddenly I slammed into someone. I stumble back as Hannah gasped in outrage.
+25 Bonus
“You disgusting bitch! You touched me you filth!”
I don’t even bother looking at her, didn’t bother even apologizing for nearly throwing her over….I just walked away, eyes glued to the front door so I can leave.
1 can hear her mumbling something nasty behind me but I don’t care to even acknowledge her. As soon as I open the front door and stepped out, I run.
The cool air of the forest wraps around me as I rush into the thick foliage. Branches whipped against my arm and face, yet I don’t stop.
I’m heading to the only place I felt safe from home.
Our place.
Were we always meet up for a swim.
Tears blurred my vision but I don’t stop until the trees parted and gave way to the pretty lake. The silvery of the full moon hang above it and casted its reflection onto the waters.
My chest heaved as I slowed and a sob raked through me violently.
The air was always colder here, sharper. Pine and moss.
Ryan and I used to always come here as kids. Before there were any expectations, before I was considered the weakest in the
pack.
“This can’t be,” I whispered out loud, gripping my dirty shirt in my grasp. “How can it be?”
This must be a sick joke the moon goddess decided to play on us.
An alpha and a wolf less girl? Mates?
Impossible.
He had promised things would never change when she became his Luna but things would definitely change now. Because I was
his true mate. And he was mine.
The thought made my body suddenly heat up with fire coursing through my veins until it became unbearable. With a cry I
scratched at my skin till it didn’t relieve me.
With shaky hands I ripped my shirt over my head, freeing my breasts and then removed the jeans I had on until I was completely naked.
Maybe the cold water would help me cool off. Maybe just maybe….I could forget the heat I felt when he looked at me tonight.
My breath hitch as I stumble to the edge of the lake before wading into the cold water. Yet even with the chill of the water biting into my skin with each step I take in further, the heat burning inside me wouldn’t ease.
As I reach waist deep into the lake, I can’t help but wish that the cold would take away the pain in my heart. I wish it would numb me, to smother the bond singing in my blood.
Just as I took another step in deeper, a sound of a twig being broken snaps through the air. I freeze.
“Evie,”
That same pull, the invisible thread that knotted minutes ago when midnight struck, thrummed sharply.
I whipped around, spotting him quickly as he stepped out of the shadows.
Ryan.
