Chapter Two Hundred and Six
Chapter Two Hundred and Six
Thane had work to attend to, but he had promised to send Axel in to keep me company. So when the door was pulled open, I had expected to see Axel, but it had been Jake.
His face paled the moment he saw me.
“Why are you here?” I asked, partly rising from the bed I laid on.
“I’d been wanting to meet you for a while now, but since I last saw you on the training field you seem to have vanished…” his gaze never left me. Taking a step closer, his voice lowered, ” What happened to you?” He asked and that’s when I perceived the whiff of blood.
“I’m fine.” I said to him, the blood smelled so nice, I wanted a taste. “You are injured; you should leave.”
“Not until you tell me what happened, are you alright?”
“Jake, go now,” I growled, but he only drew closer.
“No, you need help. Does the Alpha know…?”
I cut him off.
“Yes, he does, Jake. I’m warning you, leave.”
He paused, staring at my eyes. “Your face…”
He didn’t finish his sentence. I couldn’t explain how I had suddenly been on my feet.
I swiftly circled around him, and before he could turn around, my fangs dug into his exposed neck. His loud screams followed.
I woke up on the cold tiled floor. My head ached.
What the hell was I doing on the ground? Just then I spotted a man laying beside me; his skin was completely white, and his eyes were left open.
Jake. What was he doing here, and why did he look so pale?
I shook him, but he wouldn’t budge. Was he dead?
Panic rose in my chest. “Help!, somebody help!” I called out. The room was soundproof; ‘no one would hear my voice.
I needed to find a healer and fast.
Just then the door was pulled open and Thane walked in, “Sorry Axel couldn’t come…
His words trailed off when he saw the body on the floor; he rushed to my side. “What happened?” he asked; there wasn’t a hint of panic in his voice, I on the other hand was a
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complete mess.
I
“I don’t know –I woke up on the floor beside him.” My words were all muffled up wouldn’t even understand what I was saying if I were in his place, Tears stramed down my face. Jake wasn’t moving. Who could have done this? “He needs a healer; why aren’t you doing anything?” I cried out.
“He is dead, Riley; nothing can be done.”
“What do you mean, he is dead? He can’t be dead. Who would have done this?”
All I could feel staring at the completely white corpse was fear and dread.
Thane’s hand found my jaw, he tilted my face towards him.
”
“There’s blood on your lips,” he said before letting go. He bared Jake’s neck, and there… There I saw two puncture marks….
A gasp escaped my lips as I backed away.
“I didn’t… I didn’t do this; please believe me, Thane,” I pleaded.
“Is alright.”
“Is not; Jake is dead, and I did not do it.” I insisted, and Thane nodded.
Memories resurfaced, unclear at first, then starkly real. Jake had walked in, saying he needed to speak to me; he had an injury, and his blood smelled so nice. I begged him to stay away, but he wouldn’t; he kept on coming closer, and I…
I bit him.
Now I could remember it all clearly. My hands clasped on both of my ears as his screams of agony rang over and over in my mind.
“No,” I cried. “I killed him, Thane; he came in, and I… I killed him.”
“Is going to be alright.” Thane assured me.
“No, it’s not. I killed an innocent person.”
“You didn’t know what you were doing, Riley is not your fault.”
“It is; I could have avoided it.” I say, staring at my stomach. “I want it out. I want it out right now.”
