The Alpha and His Contract Luna (Lauren) novel Chapter 121

Mayra.

I wake in my bedroom disoriented for a while. That is until I remember that Raya forced another shift yesterday.

I breathe a sigh of relief when I discover that I wasn’t covered in blood this time. Every time she shifts I’m afraid that she’s out there killing humans. The hate that she harbored for them was in loads. I think if she could have her way then she would destroy the entire human race.

Wondering how I was going to keep my walls up and strong. I head to the bathroom. The last thing I needed was Raya drawing the attention of the elders and of Ren.

Whether I liked it or not, she is the goddess’ executioner. If things got out of hand, Ren would have to kill me even though we were friends. Her loyalty to the goddess came first and we all know the goddess will get rid of anyone who endangered our secret and risked exposing us to humans.

“Raya…” I reach out tentatively through my mental blocks.

She doesn’t answer me. Never have I ever felt so alone in this. We should be helping each other to heal. To move forward but all she does is bring me down. She tears into me and makes me feel worthless. I know I can’t blame her fully, she isn’t well but if only she would allow me to help her then I believe that things would fall into place.

When I’m done showering, I leave the bathroom. Just as I was picking my clothes for the day something catches my eye. It was out of place because I don’t remember putting anything on my bedside table.

I approach it with apprehension. Part of me wants to ignore it but I can’t. The same dread that filled me yesterday when I found the note fills me now.

When I get closer I realize that its pictures. I pick them up. If this was a movie, everything would have happened in slow motion. A gasp leaves my lips when I look at them.

Picture after picture of myself assaults me. It was from yesterday when I received the note, to when I woke up from the nightmare, to when Raya took control. They continue almost as if they were documenting what happened the entire night.

Raya running through the forest, the crazed look that was etched to her face, when she came back to the room and shifted. Finally there was a picture of when she shifted back to human, me lying on the floor naked and then to me when I woke up.

I drop the pictures and search the room but nothing was out of place. Sniffing the air, I try to smell if there was an odd scent but there isn’t. The only whiff I got was my own scent.

I start backing away from the picture. Confused and on edge. I was now sure that I had a stalker.

“Raya…” I called her again. This time desperately, my voice shaking.

She was the only one who could help me now. We couldn’t go with this to Sebastian. I didn’t want them to know.

“What is it…can’t you see I’m trying to sleep” she snarls at me, bearing her fangs, her lips pulled back.

Going to my closet, I pick an outfit mindlessly and put it on, before starting to pace the room.

“We have a problem…don’t know if you know this but someone is stalking us”

“That’s not a ‘we’ problem, it’s a ‘you’ problem…I don’t give a fuck if someone is stalking you, they can kill you for all I care”

It shouldn’t have hurt but it does. It hurts so freaking bad. I know it was my stubbornness that got us captured but she behaves like I wasn’t there.

She forgets that everything that happened, the torture, the rape, the experiments. They all happened to me. Not her. She behaves like the roles were reversed.

“You don’t mean that and besides, you forget that if I die, then you die too” I tell her softly. Trying to fight the emotion that was clogging my throat.

She snorts and looks at me in disgust. “Then good riddance, at least I would be free from you”

With that she forces me out of her mind and draws up her own mental block. I fall on the bed completely defeated. I hated that there was this big gap between us that she wouldn’t let me fix.