Chapter 46
Colt’s POV.
I watch her sleep. It is bliss to me to see her resting. But it is hard for me to sleep.
I carefully get up and head to
the small kitchen she has in
her room.
I would love to have a drink
right now but she has
nothing strong enough here.
Just juices and water.
Before I can grab anything, a
soft knock comes from the
door.
I open the door and see Julia.
She stares at me with
surprise.
“So you ARE staying here.”
She says.
“Yes. I am. What do you
want?” I walk out closing the
door behind me.
“I…I wanted to know how
you were. It’s been a few days since I’ve seen you. I heard everything from my father but…I…” She pauses and
seems to have difficulty
continuing.
“What is it, Julia?”
“Do you love her?!”
“Yes.” I quickly say, knowing she is talking about Cass.
“But I love you! We were
friends and shared a bond.”
Her eyes water.
“We are friends but that is
all.”
“No. I won’t…I can’t accept
that.”
I think I have to make this
very clear to her.
“Julia, I don’t just love Cass, I adore her. She will be my mate-” To this, she gasps and
her eyes land on my neck.
“No!” She says and sprints away, crying.
I’m sorry, Julia. I really am but I never gave her any indication that I had feelings for her and I surely never led her on. I was always direct and turned down any
advances.
With a sigh, I go back to the
room and lie next to Cass,
wrapping my arms around
her.
Cass’s POV-
“I told you I wouldn’t let
you
be happy.” Ezra’s voice echoes in my head.
My heavy eyes slowly open to see his infuriating
features.
I really hate that this man looks like the man I love,
Colt. But they are brothers so it can’t really be helped.
Focusing my eyes, I sit up. It
is a white room, almost glowing because of how
bright it is. There are no
windows or doors that I can
see. I lie on a velvety blue
chaise lounge chair. Clearly,
I am not home.
Ezra, to my displeasure, sits on a leather brown armchair
with studs on the edges of the seams. He has a leg
hoisted on his knee and sits
back looking relaxed with a huge smile on his face.
Our chairs–besides us–are
the only thing that stands
out in contrast to the bright
white room.
“What is this?”
“Do you like it?” He waves a
hand to the room. “No
distractions, just us two
getting right to the point.”
I sigh. “A dream.” I mutter.
“Great! Now I get to dream
about you…this must be a nightmare then.”
“Well if that’s how you see it…” He still has a stupid
horrible smile on his face
that really pisses me off.
“This feels almost real.”
He shrugs. “Maybe it is.”
I slowly shake my head. “No. It’s a dream. Great, now you haunt me even in my
dreams.”
He grins from ear to ear. “I will haunt you until you
breathe your last breath.”
“No. Until you breathe yours.” I correct him.
His smile falls. He looks to
the side as if he hears an
inaudible noise.
“Time to go.
וו
He winks at me with his
stupid smile, relaxing deeper
into the chair.
“By the way, I cut right through your sister’s neck
and she was still alive, can
you imagine how much she screamed?”
Before I can connect my fist
to his face, I wake up in my
room next to Colt.
sigh and think of my father.
It is his fault that I had that
dream. His exact words
when he taunted me were what Ezra repeated just now.
I am tired as if I hadn’t slept at all. I want nothing more
than to stay under the covers
but to my dismay, the light seeping through the window is bright. Then suddenly I remember that James is
here.
I immediately sit up. Colt is
still fast asleep and I leave
him that way as I make my
way out of the room still in pajamas.
I stand in front of the room
that was given to James now rethinking this. There is a guard next to the door, watching me.
“Is he…awake?” I ask him.
“I do not know, Alpha.” I am suddenly taken aback when he calls me Alpha. It is
strange to hear and I am not
sure I’ll be getting used to
that any time soon.
I stare at the door again.
Is this too early? He might still be asleep.
As I think this, I hear
movement inside. Just a bit of shuffling. I put an ear to the door. And again I hear
soft noises.
Taking a deep breath, I decide to softly knock.
Again there is movement but
I hear no attempt to open the door. I wrap my fingers around the metal door nob
and turn it. Taking a peak, I
see that the room is still a bit
dark because the early sun
does not hit this part of the
house at this hour but I can
make out the silhouette of a
man sitting on a chair. James stares out the opened
window and the noise I hear
before is the flailing of the curtains caressing everything
they could touch as the wind
blows on them.
“James…” I say softly.
His eyes are cast down as he
stares down into the forest.
He doesn’t turn to me. I walk
up to him and kneel in front
of him.
“James…” I say softly but he does not respond.
“James…” I say again and yet
again, nothing.
His eyes are filled with
sorrow. It breaks my heart to realize that he is probably
not going to survive this
heartbreak. He looks like he
is in shock but once that
shock breaks, he will come
undone. He…has been
scarred deeply. Not all scars
are visible. Some run so
deep that they bear no
marking save for that of the
broken soul. And James’s
soul has definitely been
broken.
“My dear brother…I am so sorry…” My voice breaks and
my eyes water. It is so hard to see him like this.
I get up and softly hug him
before I leave.
Walking back to my room, I feel so deflated and sad.
Then I notice the quiet and empty hallway and I realize
that I have never been alone
here. There has always been someone with me; Serge,
Colt, or Victor. I was never
allowed to go on my own. I
don’t like that I have been
conditioned to feel unsafe
when I am alone and that is
how I feel right now, unsafe.
I turn the corner to get to my room and I immediately stop when I see a blazing Bryn standing in front of my bedroom door. She sees me and immediately runs up to me with her hands flailing around pointing to her
mouth. She moves her l*ps as if she is talking but no sound
comes out.
I bite my l*p holding in my laugh as I examine her face,
and the dark circles under
her eyes.
To my surprise, she suddenly puts her hands together in a prayer and I can tell that her l*ps are
trying to say the word, please.
I lift an eyebrow feeling a bit
triumphant.
“Okay, okay…I’ll undo it just this once…” As I say this, I realize that I am not sure I
can. “Uhm…or…I’ll try
anyway.”
Her eyes widen and I
nervously laugh.
“Okay…hum…stare into my
eyes.”
Looking stressed, she does as
I say.
I concentrate, staring into her green eyes that remind me of Colt’s own eyes. I
inhale deep and when I
exhale, I speak my words. “You may speak again.”
I give her a smile. “Try it.”
Bryn blinks a few times and then opens her mouth.
Nothing.
“Oops…” I mutter. “Well,
you’re screwed. I don’t have full control of my powers yet so until then…” I give her another nervous laugh.
Her eyes widen with rage
and as I try to rush inside my
room, she jumps on my
back.
“Stop!” I shout.
She pulls my hair as I try to get her off of me. I twirl around hitting everything that gets in my way since can barely see anyways at
this point.
“What the hell!” I hear Colt
say.
I hurl myself to the bed thinking that if I roll, I’ll get her off but the bitch stays
latched on to me and doesn’t
let me roll.
Bryn is taken off of me by
Colt who holds her from the
back of her shirt as if she was
a puppy.
“She attacked me,” I say
getting up.
Colt puts her on the floor
where she pints to her
mouth and stomps the
ground with one foot over
and over.
“Look! I am sorry! I can’t undo it right now!” I say. “I did it by accident and I can’t control this power yet.”
Colt sighs. “Sorry, Bryn, but
it’s true. She can’t control it
completely yet.”
Her face scrunches in anger
and to be honest, she looks
cute when not a single word is coming out of her to ruin the doll image she has going on for her. Her hands raise
in fists and she starts shaking
them in anger, almost as if she was angrily cursing at me. Giving a huff, she turns around giving me one last
angry look, and stomps out
of the room.
I look at Colt. “I tried, I really
did.”
“Cass, you really need to learn to control your power. It’s going to get you in trouble especially when you can’t control your emotions.”
“I can control my emotions!”
One of his eyebrows lifts up.
“Well…maybe not the
emotion called…anger.”
“Exactly.”
I suspire. “Okay yeah. I get it. But you know I am trying.”
“I know. I know you are.” He
sits next to me.
“I don’t understand why can’t
I learn control. I can tell that
Warrick is also frustrated by this so that probably means
that he didn’t have this much
trouble learning to control this power. So why do I?”
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