Austin POVI don’t know how long I have been down here. The guards have tried to talk to me, h3ll I have been friends with most of them since I was a kid, but I just can’t. I did something unthinkable, absolutely heinous; I cannot believe that I attacked Clara… it doesn’t mater that it wasn’t ‘me’ per say I still did it. I was… AM… so weak that Nic has been able to take over at every turn. I can’t trust that I will be able to take back control from him at this point. I don’t know how he’s doing it either, which is probably the most disconcerting part, although I doubt that even if I did know that it would make any difference.I am half asleep when I hear the door open and feet shuffling down the long hallway. Barely crac.king my eyes open I notice that there is someone being placed in the cell across from me. I know well enough that there are more than enough cells for him to be no
Ashton POV I am hesitant on telling Austin anything, but he’s still my beta and best friend. He can’t link anyone, no one can get in to talk to him, and I doubt Gavyn will be able to magically get through to anyone either, so I give him a little bit of information. As we suspected, the second Isla was mentioned, Nic tried to take over, but Austin was able to call out for help to get another wolfsbane drink. Then he was ok until Kushim was mentioned and that set him off even more. The amount of force, and power, needed to do that in Austin’s current state is… it shouldn’t be possible I doubt even Ty could pull that off. What has us really concerned is that the time between wolfsbane doses has been steadily decreasing. We started at an hour and a half, now we are at every half hour and we have even doubled the dosage. Well by we I mean Clara. All of a sudden Austin starts hyperventilating, and the shit show starts. &nbs
Alaina POVMy grandfather. I know so much has happened but I can’t get over it. Shock, that doesn’t describe how I felt when he attacked me while I was talking to Isla. I can’t get my mind to focus. One minute I am talking to this man that claims to be my grandfather, then I’m with Dr. Clara, then I’m holding Austin’s head in my lap, while he gets cuffs and a collar on. What happened after that… I can only explain it as demonic possession. ‘Oh, a little melodramatic there don’t you think Alaina?’ ‘Do you have any other explanation there Ty? Because I sure as hell don’t! Pretty sure YOU didn’t randomly take over and I KNOW that I don’t have all that in me!’
Ashton POV ‘You need to hear this.’I get from Ty. ‘… FU.CK DO I HAVE TO DO ALL THIS SHIT? WHY AM I HAVING TO GO THROUGH SO MUCH BULL.SHIT? FOR WHAT? FOR A SICK PERVERSE GAME BETWEEN A PSYCHOPATH AND A GODDESS? I DIDN’T FUC.KING ASK FOR THIS SHIT, I DIDN’T FUC.KING ASK TO BE ‘THE CHOOOOOOOSEN ONE’. I JUST WANT TO BE ALAINA, I JUST WANT TO HAVE MY FAMILY AROUND ME, I WANT TO BE HAPPY, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO LOVE MY GODDESS DAM.NED FUCK.ING WENCH OF A SISTER! I WANT TO BE ABLE TO GO ON DATES WITH ASH AND NOT HAVE TO BE WORRIED ABOUT BEING KIDN.APPED, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE CHILDREN AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS FUC.KING AS.SHAT TRYING TO TAKE THEM TOO! I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO LIVE MY LIFE LIKE THE REST OF
Alex POV “What do you mean Finlay did this?”Livid, no livid doesn’t touch how incredibly P*SSED off I am! HOW is it even remotely possible that the goddess damn LUNA was left alone in the cells with her ab*ser? How is it possible that she was within his reach even? I cannot… I have no words! “ASHTON! EXPLAIN!”He lets out a low, loud, warning growl, but I don’t really give a sh*t! “How DARE yo-“ “NO! Not how dare ME! How DARE YOU! How did this happen? How was he able to do this to her?”Osain, Cal
Ashton POV “BOTH of them will be ok.” She is going to be ok. I can finally breath a little. It has felt like there’s been an elephant sitting on my chest, not able to get enough air, suffocating me in guilt. I shouldn’t have let her walk away like that. “Wait…” One of the guys calls out. “Did you say both?” HUH?! BOTH? ‘Both… more than one?’ ‘That would be the definition of both. Well, more specifically about 2.’ &nbs
Alaina POVWaking up to the incessant beeping tells me a few things. One, I’m still alive, two, they saved me… again, three, I have a wicked migraine, and four that I am not nearly as angry as I was when I went to see Finlay. I am acutely aware that there is talking, and movement, around me but it takes a while for me to really wake up. Being in that limbo state of not quite being awake, but not still asleep either, is frustrating! That all being said, waking up to a cold, slimy, thing being put on my abdomen is disconcerting and more than a little creepy. Had I not heard the machines beeping I would have thought that I had been kidn.apped again!As I open my eyes I can feel Ash’s hand, gently, grabbing mine and giving it a kiss, that is probably one of the most comforting things someone could do for me as I wake up! “You had me so scared love.”&
Ashton POV “But one of the more troubling things… is the prophecy and the ritual.”I forgot to tell her SH.IT! How does she know about the rituals? “The rituals… I forgot about…” “How did yo-“ “Ash, there are things that the elders in Ben Lomond told me. So, we have another week and a half, two to be safe, before they can’t do anything.” “And these are MY pups, the ritual is for you to have a girl with someone who is not your mate.”I can feel my chest puff up w