IZERValerie ranted on and on about how she didn’t expect this from Scarlett or how she would like to confront her in the morning.I grabbed the center table, threw it across the room, and made her understand politely that she would do no such thing. I get her anger towards my Darling, but only I had the right to confront her or get angry with her. No one else could fuck with her. Not even my childhood friend stubborn Valerie.“ This will not work. ” She paced around the living room when I got ready to fucking leave.Valerie was annoying today. Maybe anyone or everyone who wanted to talk bad about Scarlett was annoying to me.“ Izer! Think about it for a sec. You are risking everything for her. ” She hissed as I walked to the door.“ She is my problem. ” I shot her a glare over my shoulder. “ Next time you try to make her yours, I will forget you are a friend, Valerie. Be careful with what you say and fucking think. ”“ I can’t believe it. ” She shrieked. “ you completely lost your
SCARLETT“ You don’t know. ”“ No, I don’t. ” I sighed. “ When I came back…” Izer ran his fingers through his wet hair. “ You were trying to climb the railing. I called your name but you didn’t listen. You were about to fall. ” My gaze traveled to the railing behind him. I didn’t remember anything like that.I was having that nightmare. Everything was dark and silent. Except for that scary voice that kept repeating the same thing.You did wrong Scarlett.I couldn’t move. I was petrified.But, Izer was saying that I tried to climb the railing. Was it some kind of mind control or what the fuck? “ I had a nightmare. ” I glanced at Izer. He was still glaring at me like he didn’t believe me one bit. I released a shaky breath, tightening my arms around me.“ I must be sleepwalking, Izer. I am telling the truth. I was not trying to die. I promise. ” I shrugged my shoulders.The frown between his brows smoothened. Izer stepped closer and placed his hands on my knees.“ What were you drea
SCARLETTThe nightmares persisted for the past week. Every time I woke up, Izer was holding me down or protecting me from doing all sorts of horrible things to myself.Once, I tried to drown myself.One night, I tried to slice my chest open.Last night, I tried to burn myself alive. He couldn’t sleep. Because I was trying to kill myself in my sleep.I had no recollection of it. Every night, he had to tell me what I was doing. And every time, I would have to watch his scared eyes and questioning scowl.He kept asking. What’s wrong with you, Scarlett?I wanted to tell him, but couldn’t. I refused to involve him in my problem. I would have to deal with it on my own.But, scaring him every night was not a good thing either.“ Tonight…just chain me to the bed. ” I sighed. My eyes fell on my reflection in the mirror. Dark circles adorned my eyes due to mental exhaustion and the constant fear gripping my heart whenever I heard that voice in my dream.You did wrong Scarlett.I couldn’t tel
IZER“ Of course, I will. What other choice do I have? ” Scarlett’s voice echoed in my office before the line went silent.I sighed, running my fingers through my hair. It’s been three days since she started reporting everything to Cadamus.I asked Dixon to get the landline hacked when I saw her talking on it the first time through the CCTV footage of the bookstore. As expected, she got a call from Cadamus yesterday and today too. From their conversation, I could tell Cadamus had given some kind of fucked up Elixir to her. And she needed the second dose of it.She also heard voices and believed the entity in her head wanted to kill her.She was sharing everything with him. About herself. And about me.This drove me fucking wild.Why couldn’t she just tell me? Did she deem Cadamus more trustworthy than me? That was stupid as fuck.“ Don’t you think it’s better if you just…you know… ” Dixon trailed off.He was sitting on the chair on the other side of the desk. His eyes were still f
SCARLETTThe next day, Izer told me he had talked to some witch who belonged to a powerful coven. The coven was old and many of its witches dealt with dark magic so she must know what was up with me.I thanked him before going to my job. Alpha King called me on time and asked the usual questions.What was Izer’s plan?Did you get some valuable information from him?What more do you know about his pack and its members?As always, I told him Izer was waiting for him to make the first move, I didn’t get to know much and the members were just regular werewolves with no special training or strengths.Then came the question about the number of members in Izer’s pack. I didn’t know for sure, so I told him I had no idea but I believed they were not great in numbers.That was a lie. Like everything else.I never intended to give him any real information. Even if Izer told me and even if I had realized on my own that his confidence and calmness were not a front he was putting up, I would never
SCARLETTWhen I snapped out of the daze, and the voice went silent inside my head, Izer was standing right in front of me, holding my upper arms and keeping me steady on my feet.It had felt like an out-of-body experience. I was in front of them for a moment, but then I was in some other world that I knew nothing about.But this time, at least, the entity had communicated with me. It had said I locked it up somewhere and whatever this was, needed revenge on me.I sighed, instantly dropping my face on Izer’s chest. He wrapped his arms around my frame and kept me close until I could breathe again.“ What was it? ” Izer asked the woman still kneeling on the floor of our sitting area.“ She was inside my head for a second. ” Her raspy voice replied.I drew my face out of Izer’s chest and looked at the witch. She was wide-eyed and seemed equally surprised, just like me. “ You made me leave you. I couldn’t fight the hold you had on my mind. ” She sighed, blinking a few times.“ What…does t
SCARLETT“ Why are you mad at me, Izer?! ” I hissed, following him to our room.No matter how I thought about it, his anger with me didn’t make sense.“ I am not. ” He sighed, walking to the closet room.He could say it all he wanted, but I knew him. He was mad.“ I should be the one getting mad at you because you still haven't bothered to tell me what is going on with Lilly. ” I huffed, folding my arms over my chest.Izer walked to the glass wardrobe and slid the doors open. I watched as he grabbed a suit and threw it over the glass table placed in the middle.“ Izer. ” I glared at him because he refused to answer me. “ Why don’t you tell me who did this to you first? ” He paused for a moment and looked at me.The strange look in his eyes had me pinned to my spot. There was no way he knew something.“ You and I both know no one other than Alpha King can do this to me. ” I sighed, hoping he bought it.“ And you didn’t know anything about it? You don’t know when he gave you that potio
SCARLETTDixon showed me different videos of numerous offices, houses, and bedrooms one by one. I couldn’t really make sense of them until I started noticing the faces.They were all Alphas or Betas of the packs that were loyal to the Alpha King. It was not surprising to me that Izer was spying on almost all of them. He knew the intimate details about them because somehow, he had cameras installed in their private places.“ What does this all mean? ” I ended up asking when Dixon didn’t stop sliding forward.“ You were right. ” Izer said from beside me. “ I was not waiting for him to make the first move. ”My eyes remained on Dixon’s stiffened back. He was frowning hard. It didn’t take too much brain to tell he didn’t like Izer telling me all this.But why? I thought Dixon liked me as his Luna.“ What are you doing? ” I shifted my attention to my mate who had his back resting on the edge of the desk now.“ You think of me as a cruel man, Darling. ” He sighed, gripping the side of the