Book 6⌇6. First Come The Tears

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 Chapter 6 ∣  First Come the Tears

-Adrasteia

The mist from the waterfall carried up to the top rock I was sitting on, my legs dangling over the edge. It wasn't a gentle rushing river, but not Niagara Falls either. The roar of the water crashing down over the edge, emptying into a pool before continuing down a more amiable path, the twist and turns slowly the once rushing waves. It was crystal clear, turning to my right, I watched my reflection in the passing water before it slipped down the cliff.

Red eyes glistened back at me. It wasn't my irises that were turned...no, the whites of my eyes were bloodshot with the overwhelming number of tears that had escaped me, crashing down my cheeks just like this waterfall. There was no point hiding anymore. My innate ability had brought me into this toxic relationship, one that should have been plain and simple.

Black and white.

The gray area in between allowed Landon the opportunity to turn away from me, taking his own love with another instead of building on the relationship that we could have had. If he'd just trusted in me, knowing I'd never put my life at risk to a point where it would hurt him so much. So much, that he made up his mind to spend his evenings with Cleo.

Each breath I drew, was shaky my heart ached and brought on another wave of tears. My beloved picked another over me...I'd never feel his bond the way she would, nor be held in his arms ever again.

If he's so quick to hurt me, disregarding my feelings like I'm nothing...then why do I still love him? Why do I still feel drawn to him? Why can't this just end?

"I'm a part of his coven," I breathed out quietly, the wisps of mist collecting in front of my lips, "So long as I'm a part of it, I'll be bound to him."

Covering my eyes with my hands. I let the tears flow freely, drawing in a sob and coughing when I released it for air. My light brown hair was still pulled back and away from my face, my trench coat keeping the cold night's air at bay.

"What did I do to deserve this?" I pulled my hands away, wiping the tears away and glancing up to the sky, the stars sparkling back at me in their silent response. "Why me? I've done nothing but put everyone before me and for what? To be taken for granted. To be tossed aside when I'm no longer needed?"

The water continued its path, steady and direct, my own obscured from where I truly belonged. This coven holds no happiness for me, the one light snuffled out and the last hope I had for Landon and I grew closer together with time...

My hearing almost deafened by the rushing water, I could just make out the low and threatening growl behind me. Turning my head, the wolf rushed me, the others of its pack making sure I had no route to escape to. My back was to the cliff and just as I had swung around to meet the wolf head-on, it snapped its jaws down on my shoulder, using its momentum to tear me from the ground. Taking me with it, launching itself off the cliff as we fell down the waterfall, trying to bring my other hand up to the wolf's mouth and pry the fangs from my flesh.

Falling through water that felt like concrete, we broke through the surface, the water pulling us deeply under, dragging our bodies to the bottom of the river. The tears stopped, my anger flaring. I wasn't fighting for my coven any longer, I was fighting for myself with not a single soul to give one ounce of care as to the position I am in.

I brought up my right fist, smashing it down onto the wolf's nose. It squealed under the water, a weird and eerie echo brought forth by the way the sound moved through the submerged surface. Kicking its paws out, one of them managed to contact my stomach, the claws shredding my black shirt, leaving behind claw marks.

Glaring, I brought my knee up quickly, cracking into the beast's ribcage and returning the favor of breaking its bones from the previous wolf who broke mine. It let go, paddling to the surface as the bubbles rose from its mouth and nostrils. It couldn't hold its breath like I could, shooting my hand out and wrapping it around its hind leg ankle.

It yelped, the air leaving its lungs, only to be replaced with water. I dragged the wolf back down and beneath me, propelling myself off its body, breaking through the surface of the water. Having kicked it farther down then it could swim back up, the bubbles ceased to rise to the surface, the waterfall beside me splashing stray droplets onto my face. I turned away from it, taking in deep breaths as I tread water, my head snapping in all directions to the two riverbanks.

My hair, though still tied back, flowed out around me in the water, my feet kicking to keep afloat. I didn't see anything, and I couldn't hear anything...well, no thanks to the water crashing down beside me, but there were only faint movements. I couldn't be sure if it was just the creatures of the forest or a more formidable opponent.

Swimming toward the left bank, my hands gripped onto the soft and muddy grass, lifting myself out of the river. I knelt on the ground, drenched and with the air as cold as it was, felt the shock through my bones. Breathing out slowly, I could just faintly feel the pull toward the shadows, the wolf not as smart as the one before it, not using any other type of weapon against me.

Right as I connected, I was knocked to the ground, skidding against the grass until my body collided with the rocks near the face of the cliff. I tried to lift, gaining a better insight to my surroundings...only to cry out in pain when teeth sunk into my opposite shoulder, locking down hard. When I lifted my hand to try and break free, its front paw crushed down against my wrist, pinning it down, while the other had already ensnared my free arm.

Struggling beneath its powerful body, I couldn't get any leverage, the wolf only biting down harder and making me scream, my voice lost in the barrage of the waterfall. Their smell filled the surrounding area, the wolves edging closer, growling and snapping their jaws, saliva flying when a few dared to lung toward me.

The wolf released my shoulder, snarling at the others.

Oh, apparently, I'm yours to kill?

The strength that radiated from this wolf, was like none other I'd come across while protecting my coven, the fear drawing into me with each passing moment. The very real fear...that I would die right here, made me blink away the tears that had been brought on by the intense pain in both of my shoulders and the fear of being killed, lost and forgotten.

My body was slowly healing, closing those wounds, shifting beneath the powerful wolf. It felt my movements and viciously snapped its jaws, growling at me while I thought my heart would beat right out of my chest. Its golden orbs locked onto my clear blue eyes, the hatred poured into me, staring into those hateful pools.

Please, please, please, please.

I tried to erase the thoughts of doubt, the ones that made me weak, the resonating memories of the ones who destroyed what I thought my entire being was supposed to be. Begging myself to just relax, determined to connect with the shadows, while completely exposed and threatened, something much harder to focus and do then when I usually have an advantage.

It didn't help, that I was staring into the face of what my death should have been.

The shocking revelation of the face I saw flash through my mind, the sharp jawline, his angular features, his deep gray eyes, the thick ebony hair that was slightly messy. That was the face that brought a calmness through me, feeling something pulling at the back of my mind, forcing my eyes to snap shut when I connected, dematerializing before the powerful beast.

Moving quicker than any other creature on this world, I was already at the end of the river, looking back over my shoulder as the wolves searched the area. Their howling pierced through the roar of the waterfall, feeling my sense of control returning, the once shattered pieces of my heart picking themselves up and coming together like a puzzle.

Narrowing my eyes, my blood boiling as the image of Landon claiming Cleo as his beloved brought a furry from within me. My eyes shifted to a crimson red, feeling my fangs elongate. I wasn't the one who betrayed the one they had sworn to be with, though unmarked, I had little say.

Clenching my hands into fists, I shook with rage.

I'm going to make you pay...

I'm going to rip everything away from you that you love.

You ripped my heart out and now I'll rip yours outs. Only, you won't be able to recover with time like I will...

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