Clentine:
"It’s really none of my business, but you should’ve at least moved an arm or two," I yelled at her, watching her eyes widen.
She instantly turned toward the others, probably asking with her wide eyes why they were letting talk to her that way.
" I an, she isn’t wrong. But it is fine. There are more inside. We’d be able to get the flags for you," Troy stood beside for a mont before stepping away to comfort her.
But I saw sothing in her eyes, sothing dangerous. She stayed silent, saying nothing.
Suddenly, the ogres began to move away from the door.
"Okay, we’ll go back in there—" Troy was in the middle of explaining when Oriana suddenly sprinted inside.
"Oriana!" Haiden shouted, his voice filled with worry as he almost panicked for her.
"What the fuck is she doing?" I yelled when I saw she was heading straight for my flags.
"We don’t need to fight these ogres! If I get these flags, we can all leave! Then it’ll be Clentine’s problem to find the flags!" she shouted, leaping over the dead bodies and leaving stunned.
"Oriana, it’s too dangerous!" Haiden yelled.
Before I knew it, the three of them were running through the small door, trying to draw the monsters’ attention to themselves.
"What the fuck are you guys doing?" I scread.
I didn’t know why I panicked.
The mont I realized they weren’t focused on saving themselves but on saving Oriana, sothing in pulled forward, pushing to help them.
I ran into the hall again, attacking the ogres so they wouldn’t reach those idiots.
Then chaos hit. Oriana had taken my flags and was sprinting in the opposite direction.
One of the ogres swung his arm, and I saw all my mates, along with her, get tossed around.
I ran straight for the ogre.
He clenched his fist, ready to slam them to the ground, Troy, Yorick, Haiden, and Oriana, whoever he could crush.
I rushed in and jumped, hanging onto his arm.
Sweat gathered on my temple as he shook violently, and I saw his other hand coming toward .
That’s when I stabbed him in the small circle. He scread and threw across the room.
I hit the ground hard, landing among broken toys and playground furniture.
My eyes caught sothing that froze , a pendant. Not just any pendant, but a red cherry pendant, glinting under one of the tables.
Everything went silent, and all I could hear was my mother’s voice.
Tears filled my eyes as I crawled under the table and grabbed the pendant.
When I turned it over, I saw the initials, and my whole body froze. I knew this was my mother’s pendant.
"Clentine, go!" Haiden shouted, snapping back to reality.
The mont I tried to crawl out from under the table, another ogre fell on top of it, trapping underneath.
I groaned in pain and scread.
I tried to wiggle free, but I was already hurt, and too many thoughts were clouding my mind to focus on my movents.
Then another ogre swung its arm and hit so hard I felt my bones crack as I slamd against the wall.
"Troy! Over here!" I yelled, raising my hand for help.
I was under attack by a monster.
If I had not entered the hall to save my mates, I wouldn’t have been in this state. But I did not regret it.
I would do it again to save them. Even when I will never accept them, I will never leave them to die.
The four of them heard cry out as the creature clawed and slamd against the wall.
"Help !" I gasped, but their attention shifted when a soft cry ca from the other side.
It was Oriana, the gentle princess and a warrior, a combination most n lusted after.
At that point, I still had hope.
They could see she was fine. All they had to do was spare a few seconds for , maybe a minute, maybe two.
At least two of them could have co to help.
I couldn’t rember the last ti I felt so miserable.
Maybe when I was a child and had no one to care for .
But now, my friends were staring at .
For a split second, my lips even trembled downward, and I swear they saw it.
I wriggled my fingers as the monsters ca at again.
If they didn’t help, I would be dead in minutes. They would crush under them.
It all happened in seconds, but ti slowed for .
Then Oriana scread, "My lovers, listen to only!"
And sothing in them seed to snap.
"Ohhh! I’m going to die," she whimpered again, though she could have stood up easily.
The monster’s focus was on .
"Yorick!" I scread, reaching for another of my mates, struggling to escape, my leg tangled in silver chains.
My mates looked at and then at her and I saw it. The shine of love in their eyes.
In a heartbeat, they ran to her. My heart slowed. Tears welled up.
Oriana had warned : when it ca down to it, they would choose her.
She told they only used to pass ti in the dorm room because I agreed for gangbang while other she-wolves did not.
And now, right before my eyes, they were leaping into battle for her.
"We’ll co back for you, don’t worry," Haiden shouted, as if that erased the betrayal.
At that mont, the monster turned back to .
And I knew there would be no saving .
So I prayed they’d live long enough to regret their choice.
"No!" I scread, closing my eyes as I turned over and saw the big ogre charging at , his hands clenched together and raised high in the air.
He brought them down, ready to crush , and I clutched the pendant tightly, bracing for death.
Before he could strike, a gust of black shadow and wind tore through the hall.
The others were gone by now, so I couldn’t tell who it was, until sothing slamd into the ogre, throwing him against the wall and breaking it apart.
Then it rose. A wolf.
A wolf I had never seen before, bigger, darker, and more terrifying than any monster I’d faced.
My eyes went wide, and panic crept over as the wolf turned its glare toward .
For a mont, I thought two monsters were fighting over who would eat .
But then I t the wolf’s eyes.
I couldn’t look away. My heart pounded so hard it hurt.
It was a two-toned wolf, black on top and white underneath.
Its pale eyes, each marked with a single black dot, stared straight at .
And slowly, the fear started to leave my body.
And I uttered, "Ian!"
User Comments
0 comments from readers