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?”

shake my head, I feel him starting to press his thumbs against my lower eyelids obstructing

violet color. He was going to blind me. I place my hands on top of his trying to pull him

“NONONONOOOOO! STOP!! Don’t take my eyes

like time is standing still because I’m in the middle of a traumatic situation. No, time

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

me? Did she have mercy on me? Did she

with wide eyes. My hands are glowing purple. As quickly as it stopped, time starts again. Ryan starts screaming and pushes himself away from me.

are normal again, not glowing purple. Seriously though, what the Hell just

shut my eyes tight, waiting for Ryan to retaliate. “If you

in the

of my lungs.

long I sit like this but when I finally open

bed for a

me? Surely he was coming back. I

parts of the

you,” I say out loud, just in case the miracle

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

The silver streaks are starting to take over my hair now. It isn’t like an

dressed in leggings and a t-shirt. I put on the baseball cap Diane gave me, pulling the brim low

After dinner, it takes longer than usual to stock pantries because whoever did it while I was in the hospital