Keisha.
My heart was breaking... shattering into a million tiny bits and pieces and girl, that was the best way to describe the searing pain I felt in my chest as I watched Leilani walk out of the room holding up Jarek with one arm while Alpha Kael held him up from the other side.
And as they all walked out of the room, they looked like the perfect depiction of the word: ’loyalty’.
They seemed as though they all belonged to one another, and I... I was an outcast.
The outcast who now bled profusely, her blood appearing as streaks of red on the dirty damp floor. And the outcast who was the villain in all of their stories including those three filthy Alphas who have never had to taste just what I could do to them.
My eyes brimmed with tears as I watched Jarek go, and truth be told, I know that I may have always been a ’if I cannot have him then no one else can’ type of person, but that doesn’t mean that I wanted him dead.
I wanted him alone, yes, not dead or passed out or fighting for his life. And I certainly never wanted him to be dragged out of here with a gaping bullet hole in his chest.
The bullet wounds on my own legs pulsed from all the pain, and the fact that it was silver... a poison for our kind... made it even more painful and excruciating.
For a very brief moment, even with the intense pain I suffered, I thought back to a couple of minutes ago. I thought back to the moment when Leilani had looked me dead in the eyes and pulled the trigger...
And girl, I am not talking about the moment she pulled it, shooting me in the legs, I was talking about the moment she pulled it at my head without hesitation.
Without any hint of emotion on her face.
"If there were any bullets in my gun, then I would have been dead meat by now." I mused, hating the way my heart raced at the thought, and hating myself more for underestimating her like this.
She was no wimp. No weakling. And that in itself was more scary than the stink eye she had blessed me with before turning to leave in disappointment.
I was, however, pulled out of this haze when I heard the sounds of heavy footsteps approaching me. My head shot up at that moment to see a familiar figure coming close... but I could hardly make out who they were due to the fact that my vision was waning.
I do not know if it was because of the tears in my eyes or if this was just as a result of something else— maybe pain— but my vision was fast becoming blurry. My head swayed and pounded with a whack headache. But that wasn’t all.
Chills spread across my body which now shook with violent spasms.
In the next second, I fell to the floor on my back, but despite the filth on the floor, despite my pain and despite the hurt in my chest, I could only think about one thing:
Jarek.
And I prayed to the goddess that he survives what I had just done to him.
"Keisha!" A familiar voice called out to me but at this point, I was already too weak to answer. Even breathing felt like some massive job.
Next thing I know, cold fingers were cupping my cheeks, pulling my head upward with a force. I groaned against the hands with my eyes squeezed shut and when I tried to pull myself away, the person persistently held on.
"Do not die on me!" He shrieked, sounding worried.
Ohh Gerald. At least there’s still someone out here who cares about me...
"You are the only one who knows about the location of the diamonds and money I kept under your care. So don’t you dare die on me, Keisha!"
Oh.



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