Leilani.
I rember getting knocked out cold after Keisha injected with another dose of the moonlight draught elixir. I also rember thinking that that was my end because the pain that ca next had been so intense... so excruciating that I could barely breathe from all of it.
I had shut my eyes, awaiting my death or maybe sothing relatively close to death (sothing like a faint... like a coma or sothing) when a strange surge of energy suddenly rushed through my veins, and next thing I knew, I was on my feet, the chains around my wrists and ankles also long discarded and broken...
But that wasn’t all.
My hand was wrapped around Keisha’s arm— which also was the first thing I could latch onto on her body when I stood up, especially since she was about to hurt Zevran.
Her cries of pain slipped into my mind, snapping out of my montary daze and when I blinked at her, I was stunned to see the twisted expression on her face.
Her eyes were bulging with veins popping around and below them. The veins on the corners of her neck were worse and looked like they could fall out of her skin anyti soon.
"Stop it, you freak!" She scread loudly, her voice dripping with both terror and pain. "Let GO!"
But I didn’t.
For so reason, I didn’t want to.
I felt as though possessed, like all the reasonable thoughts in my head had sohow gone down the drain, replaced instead with fury so much, I could barely think through it.
Still feeling that need not anger rush through my veins, I let my fingers curl around her arm, squeezing tightly as I sneered into her face; "You wanted to see what I can do, right? You called a weakling and taunted ... you said—"
"I KNOW WHAT I SAID, YOU FREAK, LET GO!" She yelled,
And ladies and gentlen, do you know exactly how that made feel?
Ecstatic.
It made want to squeeze tighter. It made want to press on until she snapped. And to add salt to the already existing wound, my mind drifted off just then to rember Agnes.
My Agnes.
My friend.
At the ti, Keisha was still screaming and thrashing wildly. Her long claw-like nails scratched at my skin as she tried to get away from . With a shout of pain, she shoved my shoulder hard and sneered; "I said let go!"
"No!" I snapped back, causing her to imdiately snap her lips shut. "You wanted to see what I can do?" I taunted in a cold cool voice, "...now baby girl, this is it!" I snapped, and with that, I squeezed so hard, her bones popped loudly.
Her loud shout resonated in the air, and it wasn’t until that mont that I stopped to take a glance at Zevran who for so reason was frozen in the sa place he’d been at several minutes ago.
His jaws were slack with terror, and his eyes— the sa eyes that used to hold just pure admiration for now held sothing akin to fear.
I stopped.
Our eyes t.
And then he smiled. It was shaky at first but soon eased into the soft one I was used to— the one which reached his eyes.
"Bitch!" Keisha snarled as she pulled her arm out of my hold and clutched at it as if for dear life.
She however probably has a death wish because next thing I knew, she was charging at like a mini Godzilla and because I was already feeling so antsy and so annoyed, I didn’t even glance at her as I smacked her in the face so hard that she fell to the floor and passed out instantly.
I sighed: "it was about ti. She was making a lot of noise."
When no one responded to imdiately, I slowly turned to the other brothers to find them watching with wide eyes.
My eyes thinned at them, and upon the realization that they were still chained, I glanced at Zevran and hissed; "Keys."
"Huh?" He sputtered.
"Keys," I hissed again, "the keys to those tal clasps. Also we need to do sothing about her," I finished, pointing to Keisha who was still sprawled on the floor, unconscious.
But still, no one moved.
No one even said a word.
Now, they were making anxious.
I turned one more ti to look at Zevran, my voice cold as I snapped; "What?"
He flinched, bead a smile at and drawled; "He was right."
"Who was right?" I couldn’t help but ask, especially since I was more confused now than ever. "What is happening?"
"Keisha’s ex, Gideon or Gabriel or whatever Ga his na is. Moonveil draught no longer has any effect on you." He hissed and I frowned.
"Wha—"
"You’re shifting." He finished, interrupting , and it wasn’t until then that I stopped to look at my hands...
I froze.
Why?
Because instead of hands, what I found were paws. Paws covered in beautiful silver furs.
The sight made gasp as I stumbled backward in shock and maybe a tinge of excitent, my smile growing when I noticed that my legs had elongated into the hindlimbs of a wolf as well.
"You’re shifting..." soone said again, and this ti, I didn’t check to see if it was Zevran or one of the other brothers.
Hell, I couldn’t even care less if it was Keisha herself.
All I cared about at the mont was how, despite being shot with moonveil draught, I could still shift.
It was a miracle.
A sharp cry— one of joy— tore out from the back of my throat and the tears that filled my eyes in that mont were tears of pure bliss.
I rasped; "I never lost my wolf— my hybrid."
"You never did."
I do not know who said that, only that it made feel so so good and with my already wide smile spreading even wider, I stumbled forward, grabbed at the chains wrapped around Caelum’s wrists and tugged it loose in one fluid motion.
The silence that followed was deafening but I didn’t care. I couldn’t.
Not now.
So I smiled. "That’s just... that feels just wonderful."
—
Zevran.
As I watched Leilani move around the room with the precision of an eagle, I wouldn’t lie, at so point, I couldn’t help but feel raw fear.
I an, who wouldn’t?
Who wouldn’t feel fear or bow at so point to the eerily powerful aura in which she now possessed and exuded?
Who wouldn’t be in awe or feel their blood run cold when she was literally doing sothing I’ve never ever seen happen before?
And I do not an snapping those silver chains like they were made of plastic, I ant being in a state of mid shift and functioning so well, you’d think she was born to be like this.
Her long thick limbs made her pants stretch so much until cracks began to form on the smooth soft surface. Her furs— silvery and beautiful peeked through the torn cracks line a ga of peekaboo.
My heart pounded in my chest as she snapped the tal clasps around Kael’s wrists, that is after she’d practically destroyed the one on Caelum’s wrists, and as they fell to the floor, shattering into bits, the sound echoed.
Like echoed.
It sounded like the daunting sounds of a rock hitting the bottom of the ocean.
Then she turned to , flashed a smile that looked like a grimace and drawled; "Please tie her up now, will you?"
My eyebrows shot into my hairline, and I can swear that my brain scattered as I stuttered; "Huh?"
She frowned and crossed her arms over her chest. "Tie her up," she hissed, pointing to Keisha, "we can’t afford to leave her unchecked when she has a history of waking up at the wrongest tis."
"Oh oh!"
I scuttled to my feet to do as told while Kael and Caelum went over to help Jarek out of his confines.
The man was like a log of wood, so stiff and extrely drugged with only God knows what.
I grunted as I picked up Keisha and struggled to tie up her limp form; and as soon as I finished doing that, I took a step back and muttered;
"Now, that’s it. That’s done."
I turned around briefly to see Kael and Caelum already helping Jarek to his feet. They dragged him out of the stinky room with Leilani following closely behind them...
And goddess, I could not help but feel that sothing about this whole thing didn’t feel right.
I an, why’s it so easy?
I followed closely behind Leilani whilst glancing around skeptically and as soon as we arrived at the entrance, I imdiately realized why I have been feeling so skeptical ever since.
Because standing in front of us were a group of n— thugs. Lycans. They were about twenty in number and I am not even exaggerating.
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