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?”

to shake my head no between sobs. As I shake my head, I feel him starting to

crap, he saw the violet color. He was going to blind me. I place my hands on top of

“NONONONOOOOO! STOP!! Don’t take

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. I can feel

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

the Moon Goddess hear me? Did she have mercy on me? Did she let me

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

look down at my hands. They are normal again, not glowing

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

in the stomach, knocking the air

of my lungs.

down the hall, then out the door. I don’t know how long I sit like this but

bed for a while

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

other parts of the

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

Ryan would find me before I could get off the

the 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

the baseball cap Diane

the floor so Alpha Graham would avoid seeing 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 had no idea what they