Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future by Neener Chapter 3

I hear Alpha Graham’s footsteps walk back down the hallway as he leaves the dungeon. Ryan tightens his grip on my neck, extending his wolf claws, making me yelp.

As soon the door slams, Ryan releases my neck and kneels in front of me. His face is contorted with anger. His eyes flicker black as his wolf, Dagger, comes to the surface. He grabs my shoulders, shaking me roughly, “What the Hell did you do to make him so mad?”

Why isn’t he beating me like he told Alpha Graham he would? I stiffen my whole body, avoiding eye contact with him. I’m shaking so badly, I can’t even speak now.

The thought of two people beating me regularly for the rest of my life…it just can’t be real. Can it?

How can the Goddess allow this to happen? I want to die.

That’s not an exaggeration. That’s not me being

dramatic. Please, Goddess, don’t let this happen. Just let me die.

I shake so badly that I fall to my knees. I start to sob hysterically and my brain shuts down from being able to think rationally.

Ryan grabs my chin and forces me to look at him in his cold gray eyes. He looks at me in horror for a moment, “Wh-what happened to your eyes?”

He moves his hands up from my chin to just below my eyes. It feels like his hands are trembling against my face.

“A-are you a hybrid or something?”

I shake my head, I feel him starting to press his

no no, he’s going to poke my eyes out. Holy crap, he saw the violet color. He was going to blind me. I place my hands on top of his

screaming, “NONONONOOOOO! STOP!! Don’t

a moment, time freezes. I don’t mean like it feels like time is standing still because I’m in the middle of a traumatic situation. No, time is actually frozen. Well, frozen for everything except for me I should say.

only lasts for a moment. I pull Ryan’s hands away from my face easily. The look of anger combined with confusion is stuck on his face. Next to him, a fly is suspended in mid-air. The second hand on the clock has stopped on the wall behind him. Drips of water aren’t finished falling, leaving umbrella-shaped splashes in

she have mercy on me? Did

eyes. My hands are glowing purple. As quickly as it stopped, time starts again. Ryan starts screaming and pushes himself away from me. The tops of his hands where my hands

are normal again,

my eyes tight, waiting for Ryan to retaliate. “If you tell anyone, I will kill you,” he says in

in the stomach, knocking the air

of my lungs.

hall, then out the door. I don’t know how long I sit like this but when I finally open my eyes I breathe a sigh of

my bed for a

didn’t hurt me? Surely he was coming back. I sniff the air but his

parts of

you for saving me. Thank you,” I say out loud, just in case the miracle I just

Okay Kas, focus. I need to make dinner for the pack or Alpha Graham will find me and murder me. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration, either. Even if I try to run away, either he or Ryan would find me before I could get off the territory. I think he really would kill me at this point. Speaking of which, it was only a matter of time before Ryan comes back to beat

The silver streaks are starting to take over my

on the baseball cap Diane gave me, pulling the brim

the color. Ryan glares at me every chance he gets. After dinner, it takes longer than usual to stock pantries because whoever did it while I was in the hospital