You know what I hate, Layla, little sluts like you getting in my way of what I want. Can I just point out that, even though he tells you you’re his world, that you’re his, you’re still his dirty little secret and that’s all you’ll ever be.
I swallow. She doesn’t know that Colton and I have a bond, that he’s my mate. She doesn’t know about any of that.
You’re a human. It would be an embarrassment for an alpha as strong as he is to be seen with you. You’re nothing but a notch on his bedpost, just like all the others.
She laughs as my heart slowly sinks in my chest. It seems she knows exactly the right words to say. She can’t be telling the truth. But Colton does hide me. He hides me away from everyone.
I didn’t know what to think, and I was all too aware that Jenny is watching my reactions closely, probably getting a kick out of my pain.
I press my lips together. Are you finished ?
Far from it. You know, usually I’d shrug his latest conquest off thinking he will eventually get bored. But he’s kept you around too long and I can’t let you get in the way of what I want.
And what’s that ? I ask.
She smiles. Colton has something I want and I want it soon. I’m not prepared for a filthy little whore stepping on my turf and ruining my plans. So, I thought long and hard of a way that would put him off you. Did you know Colton’s parents were killed by moonwalkers ? I frown, so it wasn’t her father ? Did you know how much Colton actually detests that species, how much time he’s spends killing them brutally just for his own pleasure ?
I don’t say anything. Actually, I can’t think of anything to say. I cross my arms, feeling cold inside because I get the sudden feeling as if something bad is going to happen here and I won’t be able to fight it.
What do you want from me ?
I want him to hate you. What better way to make someone hate you than turn you into the one thing he hates most ?
The penny drops. Something in the back of my mind clicks-what she’s doing. But more so how she got me here alone. It seems too convenient.
You created a diversion didn’t you, the shooting ? I mumble. It made sense now. She knew Colton would go on a hunt after the guy that almost shot me.
Clever girl. I did. She smiles. Oh, Carlos, honey, would you come here ?
I stumble back when a large man comes barrelling into Colton’s office. He’s taller than Colton and his muscles are grotesquely too big. His features are dark and I notice ragged scar scraped across his left eye.
Those eyes. Cold. Grey. Full of evil. He smiles as he takes me in, tilting his head as those cold eyes raked over my body.
Are you sure, Jenny ? he asks huskily. She smells different.
Of course, I’m sure. Who gives a fuck if she smells different ! She stands to ruin everything. Beat the shit out of her and then bite her. Carlos turned to face Jenny. The next words she speaks makes shivers tumble through me. Make it painful.
She turns and leaves, closing the door behind me. Leaving me alone with him.
Make it painful.
I find myself backing away as Carlos stalks towards me with an evil grin shaping his lips. I scream as he suddenly closes in on me and he grab me around my neck so viciously I’m left whimpering.
He slams my body into the wall. Pain is all I feel as I try to kick him off, but his eyes grow colder.
This is my favourite part of making a werewolf, he says. Tears fall down my face from his chilling voice.
Let go, please, I beg.
He doesn’t listen. I’m going to break you, pretty thing.
He throws me down onto the floor and terror rips through my body. I try to get up and run but he grabs the back of my neck and pins me to the floor.
I scream when his fist rams into my back. Pain erupts all over my body and I cry as he continues to slam his fist into my spine. Screaming, I claw at the floor as he continues beating me. Over and over again. So hard that I can no longer breathe or scream.
He flips me around so that I’m now facing him.
I’m in so much pain I can’t move. He punches me in the stomach and it leaves me gasping in pain. I know my bones are broken. Shattered into brittle pieces. I look in his eyes. His cruel eyes filled with enjoyment of doing this to me. He stands and kicks me. I feel it all.
I wish I was dead as I splutter and cough up blood. His final kick is to my face. My body flips over from the impact and I feel nothing but agony. Never ending pain.
He snarls out viciously, unlike anything I’ve ever heard. I peek through my swollen eyes to see a huge wolf in front of me. A thought passes through my mind. How can he shift when it isn’t the full moon ?
It’s my first time seeing a moonwalker and I can see the differences immediately. He doesn’t look like Colton’s type wolf at all. This one was more snake-like, with matted dark fur, long claws and a snout filled with fangs long enough to rip through tender flesh.
I can’t even fear anymore, I’m broken. I just want him to put me out of my misery. He growls and catches hold of my shoulder with his teeth. Before I can gasp for air, his jaw closes and his sharp teeth bite into my shoulder hard, slicing my skin and crunching my bones.
I scream out as he bites down harder, deeper. I think any moment I will pass would from the pain. Die. But I don’t. He retracts his teeth and throws me to one side like I’m nothing, but the pain is still there, too real and too brutal.
He shifts back into human form in front of me, his mouth full of my blood.
Delicious, I hear him say. See you soon, doll.
He puts his clothes back on and then he’s gone.
It’s in that moment I wait for darkness to come, wanting nothing more for death to come this time.
Change, it happens to everyone. It’s all part of growing up and finding yourself. Finding your place in this world where you belong.
If anyone were to tell me that my fate was to become a werewolf, well, I would have laughed in their faces.
Who knew change was painful ? Who knew that my life would take a violent turn ?
It’s all happening too quick. I never knew this would happen, not in a million years.
My swollen eyes open. I can barely see. My vision is blurred it’s hard to make out my surroundings, but at least I know I’m still in Colton’s office, my body was on the cold floor still unfound.
If I know before what was in store for me, I wouldn’t have bothered opening my eyes…
The only thing I can feel is dull heartbeat thudding off my chest. What Carlos just did to me is bad. Really bad.
I’m lying flat on my stomach on Colton’s floor were Carlos left me. My head is to the side and I can’t help but scrape my fingernails against the wooden floor, leaving claw marks on the surface.
I don’t know why it comforts me, but it does. I’m wrapped in despair, tears falling freely from my eyes.