Who took Eudora???
EUDORA. (Fifteen Minutes earlier…)“Stay here, the Alpha will come get you.” I did as I was told; I stayed. The ‘here’ in question was a small room, an extension of a somewhat larger space that I didn’t see clearly when Logan left the house with me and led us here. After he closed the door behind him as he left, I spent the first few minutes accessing the room, mostly because I wondered if there was anything there that could give me an answer to the only question that’s bugging me since Alpha Rex got me this dress: Why? Why had I been brought here? What was the fancy dress for? The small room proffered no answer. It was a study or at least used to be one. The dust covered books on the only furniture—a table and a chair—was a witness to how long it’s been since anyone has used this room. There were a few other items, stationeries, figurines and some more books stacked neatly on a small shelf. I couldn’t help the feeling of slight disappointment that washed over me at the thought
EUDORA. The voice in my head was a good enough distraction from the striking silver eyes of the hulking man standing over me and the corpse of the man he’d just killed with a blade. The voice was one I haven’t heard in a long time and I’d forgotten I even had. “He’s here…finally, he’s here for us.” There’s a delight in the voice—the kind that no one in their right mind should have when they are being faced with possible death by a blade wielding, malevolently looking man. For a voice I was hearing for the first time in weeks, my wolf’s voice was nothing like a soothing balm that it should have been. Instead, it was like salt rubbed over and over on a wound that was fast healing. It stung. However , it also sprung me back to life and jerked me out of my paralyzed state. We don’t converse much but with the little time we have, I was well aware of the fact that both times, I was in a life threatening situation. And this was one. Only a fool would need her wolf to tell her to get
ALPHA REX. A fucking disaster. That’s what the whole day has been and just when you think it couldn’t get worse, another dead body is dropped at your feet. I wasn’t sure how many times I’ve killed pretty boy in my head—probably a gazillion times—and I should be the happiest person on earth to finally be able to stand over that piece of shit’s body but even in his death, he still found a way to fuck me over.Unlike the other Alphas, Conan was killed in one single blow or to put more accurately, one single slice. He didn’t die a tortured death like the others. His death was clean, precise. Unpremeditated. Clearly, it was spontaneous and happened in the heat of the moment. He hadn’t meant to kill him but he did it for a reason. That reason being the girl I’d found unconscious mere feet away from Conan. The girl whose sudden disappearance had driven me right over the edge and made me almost lose my mind to the thought that he’d taken her away from me. It was only for a few minutes bu
ZENA. There’s only one means for comfort in my messed up life and I clutched it tightly to my chest as I laid on my bed. My eyes were tightly shut. I see nothing but darkness everyday of my life but closing my eyes like that helps feel like I’m just like everyone else. Like I was normal. With my mother’s picture held tightly to my chest, I tried to search for the good memories amidst the dark one that keeps rearing its ugly head like a venomous snake. I tried so hard to keep it from rising to the surface but no matter how hard I tried, it wouldn’t budge. It’s been that way since Rex said those words to me. I’ve only ever had a single memory of my parents' death. Even in my dreams, it was always the same. I’ve had the same dream over and over again for me to know I didn’t see wrong. It was always the same. The blood soaking the lush white rug of my father’s room. My father’s eyes wide open and lifeless. My mother beside him, her neck twisted to the other side. And Rex standing ove
ZENA. “How long have you been following me?” I said, sneering at him and chanelling all of my anger from this afternoon into grabbing him by the neck. I didn’t grip him too hard but it was enough to have him choking for air and of course, Logan wouldn’t fight back. He never does because of the stupid mate bond. Groaning, I let go of him;my anger already subsiding. There was no point attacking him if he is only going to let me hurt him and not try to fight back. I sprang off him like he was hot coal that was burning holes into my body. In truth, it did feel too hot being that close to him. That and the fact that shifting has left me stark naked. “Shit.” I cursed at the realization that I was naked. I turned my back against him, my cheeks tinting red in embarrassment. I sensed him standing as well and it was futile trying to cover my privates with my hands.“Zena—” He started to say.“Don’t.” I cut him off, looking over my shoulder although I couldn’t see him anymore. I was back in
ZENA. We stood, seconds after Logan’s mind-numbing words as clouds darker than the ones in the sky that the moon was peeking through, settled over us—over me. And even when the moon succeeded in fighting the clouds, coming out victorious and casting its silver glow over the large clearing, mine were still darker than ever. There were clasping thunderstorms in my head and a good chance of a heavy storm that could sweep me away.That is the only way I can describe how I felt at that moment. I had just been told that the woman I’ve spent my entire life mourning was alive and I couldn’t even move a finger—or a paw in my case since I was still on all fours in my wolf form. “Are you okay? Say something.” Logan’s worried voice broke through providing a single crack in the clouds that made light flood through but that was enough to jerk me out of the shocking effect his words had on me. “Woah! Woah.” Logan exclaimed, backing away the moment he saw me shifting back. I hadn’t thought it thr
EUDORA. I woke up with a start, my entire body drowned in sweat that made my clothes stick tightly to my body. I was breathing so hard the sound was like a roar in my own ears. I’d just woken up from a nightmare that had my heart pounding in my chest like it would burst out anytime from my waking moment. My nightmare was so vivid, so real it could pass as a part of a lost memory. Maybe it really is because it was like a visual representation of the same story I’ve been told since I was old enough to understand the world around me.“Eudora, the reason other kids in school make fun of you and call you names is because you really are not like us. You are different. And I think you are old enough to know it now that I found you in the middle of a forest. You were the only survivor among a group of Omegas I found dead in the same forest.” I was ten when Luna Eleanor told me what my true identity was. I had just returned from school again and it was the same old story: the other school
EUDORA.I stared forlornly at the grey wall in front of me. Color it in a darker shade and you’d have a reflection of what my soul is at the moment; dark, lonely and alone. I wouldn’t say I missed my room because of the bright colors that are in every way a contrast to these ones but I couldn’t get used to being in a room that once scared me to no end. It’s only been a day in this room yet it feels like it’s been an eternity since Alpha Rex moved a few of my things in here. Now his closet was a mix of knee-length floral/ plain dresses and dark shades of every shirt and pants. Not to mention the toiletries stashed into the cabinets of the bathroom. How could I get used to that? When Alpha Rex said I was never leaving his sight again, I didn’t think he meant it in every sense of the word. He watched me like a hawk even when he kept his distance by doing whatever duties he had in the living room. The room was less suffocating with him in it but it was still just that—suffocating! I’