A Memory
NEW YEARS DAY OVER FOUR YEARS AGO
VALERIE. “It’s so late.” I massage the back of my neck as I step into my apartment. We had left the Whispering Mountain Pack after midnight and the journey wasn’t too short.
I yawn, pausing as I stretch when I hear the faint creak of a floorboard, making me freeze. It’s not a violent stormy night that the wind would cause the apartment to creak.
I tilt my head, but there’s nothing more and I almost smile. Why am I being so paranoid? I walk to the fridge, grabbing myself a bottle of water; gulp it down and look through some papers. I have work in the morning.
I sit down at the counter, skimming through one of the reports of a big operation we have tomorrow when I think I hear something again.
Tilting my head, I pause, I really am imagining things. I shake my head. Well, I should shower and get to bed. I need to get out of this dress too.
I get up and walk to the bedroom. Sighing, I mull over everything with Zaia. I hate how life has done her dirty. I wish there was more I could do for her.
I’ll keep sending her the antidote, and I’ll keep checking her bloods but it’s just not enough. Fucking stupid alpha!
That stupid bitch Annalise!
Karma. Karma will bite their ass.
I walk to my bedroom, pausing when I see it standing ajar. Strange, I’m sure I shut the door when I left. I specifically remember trapping my dress in it and then opening it, pulling out the dress and then closing it…
the light switch. Darkness. I groan in annoyance. “Do I even have a spare bulb?” Tonight is
see the tall, masked man who stands in the corner behind the door. He’s in baggy clothing with his hood up,
and I instantly grab the small vanity table that stands beside the door, lifting it up and swinging it at him with all my might. He ducks,
I’m no match for
steps out of the bedroom when he grabs my dress, yanking me back into the room and kicking the door
help, but his gloved hand covers my mouth. “I need to make sure you aren’t a Blood Born.” He
A what?
wrong person!” I say as he grabs me by the arm and violently throws me onto the bed and
as I struggle fruitlessly. “Don’t fight me and let me see if there’s a mark or not. You
looking for, will you let me go?” I ask, my heart thundering,
He’s pure muscle and in a battle of strength, I will lose. His hand wraps around my throat squeezing tightly. He pauses slightly, and at that moment I’m able to
He was asleep in the car ten minutes ago. “If you really aren’t, then, of
real. My blood runs cold, even though he’s speaking extremely low, it’s him. It’s Sebastian. But if I tell him I know… he might just kill me… even if he’s wearing that black mask. I remain frozen
as he yanks
head? “Ah… there it is…” he yanks my hair as his attention falls
struggling as he lifts it, and I manage to throw him
rare for a werewolf to be able to do
not for long as he grabs my arm, yanking me to the ground. I grab the bed sheets trying to pull myself
through my head. I let
but the pain is too much. “I’ll destroy it,” He hisses, as he keeps striking my head, bludgeoning it with the hammer. My ears are ringing and then…
is dragging me into the darkness and that silver light…
I
split open and the
and then the most excruciating pain I’ve felt
(PRESENT)
around the car, my heart hammering. I’m safe. I’m safe. I clutch
ghostly pain in my head lingering. My head still
fine,” I reply quietly. “And no one would have thought much
her head had, there’s a possibility it was just hidden and once her
entire ordeal to them in French, but it was too much, and I am left
were the ones who apparently found me… but at the same time, it’s obvious they could cook up a story to feed everyone… They were
I ask, wondering what they’ll say. “Someone peeped through the eyehole, but no one answered the door
down and found you in your bedroom, I think we might have come just in time,” Sebastian says. Zion’s watching us curiously. For
Val, trust me.” Jai’s eyes are soft and full of concern
matter, she’ll learn the truth, there’s no need to force her to believe us,” Sebastian says quietly. “I initially thought he
Zaia says, frowning. Does she trust Sebastian? I
then… either you have a doppelgänger or a twin,” I say quietly. “You aren’t the first to say that,” Sebastian says quietly, I look
managed to get his visor up
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