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 my

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

STOP!! Don’t take my eyes

middle of a traumatic situation. No, time is actually frozen. Well, frozen for everything except for me I should say.

on his face. Next to him, a fly is suspended in mid-air. The

the…Hell? Did the Moon Goddess hear me? Did she have mercy on me? Did she

glowing purple. As quickly as it stopped, time starts again. Ryan starts screaming and pushes himself away from me. The tops

hands. They are normal again,

retaliate. “If you

punches me in the

of my lungs.

the hall, then out the door. I don’t know how long

bed

he was coming back. I sniff the air but his scent is

in other parts of the dungeon. I’m

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

I splash cold water on my face and look in the grungy mirror. Both of my eyes are pure violet now. The silver streaks are starting to take over my hair

a t-shirt. I put on the baseball cap Diane gave me, pulling the brim low to

every chance he gets. After dinner, it takes longer than usual to stock pantries because whoever did it while I was in the hospital had no idea