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?”

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

no no no, he’s going to poke my eyes out. Holy crap, he saw the violet color. He was going to blind me. I

screaming, “NONONONOOOOO! STOP!! Don’t take my eyes ouuutttt!

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

face. Next to him, a fly is suspended in mid-air. The second hand on the clock has stopped on the wall behind him.

she have mercy on me? Did she let

again. Ryan starts screaming and pushes himself away from me. The tops

my hands. They are normal again, not glowing purple. Seriously though, what the

you tell anyone,

the stomach,

of my lungs.

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

bed for a while

was coming back. I sniff the air

in other parts of

me. Thank you,” I say out loud, just in case the miracle I just experienced was because of

Ryan would find me before I could get off the territory.

grungy mirror. Both of my eyes are pure violet now. The silver streaks are starting to take over my hair now. It isn’t like an old person’s hair. It is silvery white that almost shimmers, even in the low light of the dungeon. So weird,

I put on the baseball cap Diane gave me, pulling the brim low to hide my eyes. Throughout

my eyes to the floor so Alpha Graham would avoid seeing the color. Ryan glares at me every chance he gets. After dinner, it