How was I supposed to know I had to block my thoughts?!? I mean, you killed my family the day of my transformation!! They never had the chance to tell me anything!
Leo whimpers and his ears droop.
I’m sorry, that was a bit harsh…
Mira, it’s alright… I deserved that.
We stand there in an awkward silence until I nudge him, come on, let’s go for a run.
We both run through the dense forest until we find a very large creek. I stop instantly and back away.
Leo flys by me and jumps in. He quickly swims to the other side and shakes the water off.
What are you waiting for Mira? Come on! I want to show you this beautiful meadow up ahead!
I take another step back and whimper.
I-I. uh. Well… I can’t swim.
Leo cocks his head to the side. then he plunges back in and swims back to me. He gets out and shakes the remaining water off. He looks at me with a sad expression.
Guess that one’s on me too….
Come on, it’s getting late anyways.
He nudges me and we both run back to where our clothes were. I once again hide behind the tree and change back into human form. The cold nips at my exposed skin so I quickly put on my clothes which are now damp from the ground.
I come out from behind the tree and shiver from the wind.
Leo was all dressed and waiting for me, when I came to him we went back to the house.
My hair is in my face from the wind. I shake my head to try to get the hair out of my face. That was a failure. Leo
chuckles and turns to me. His hands glide over my face to pull the stupid hair out of my face.
Unfortunately my hair flew back into my face!! I growl. Stupid hair!! He shakes his head and smiles at me.
“Turn around Mira.” He says softly.
I hesitantly turn around. His hands once again glide over my face to grab all of the irritating hairs.
He runs his fingers through my hair to smooth it. My whole scalp is tingling because of this. I close my eyes and smile at the feeling.
I don’t know how much time went by until he turned me back around.
“That should help.” He motions me to keep moving forward.
As we walk I lift my hand to my hair, and feel a long French braid going down my back. I gasp, surprised he actually knew how to do a French braid. Or a braid for that matter! He turns to me to see what I gasped about.
“What?” He asks innocently.
“You can braid!” I say with astonishment.
He chuckles, “well, when you have three little sisters, it is ‘mandatory’ to learn to braid. So my mother says. Though she has no clue how to braid. Guess that’s why it was ‘mandatory’.”
I giggle, “so how did you learn to braid then?”
“I asked my aunt to teach me. She’s amazing at braiding.” He rubs the back of his neck.
I smile at the thought of him as a little boy trying to learn to braid. I then recall my mom teaching me. My smile fades as I remember my mom.
“Yeah, my mom was too.” I look to the ground, trying to hide my tears. I can’t let him see me cry.
I feel a hand under my chin lifting my face. I pull away from his grasp. But he grabs my chin harder, forcing me to look at him. His icy blue eyes are filled with confusion. I can’t believe he doesn’t have a clue about what I’m so upset about!!! He killed ! My Dad! My brother! And my pack!! I swipe his hand away from my chin. He stands there, waiting for an answer. An angry tear slides down my cheek but I quickly wipe it away.
“What’d I say?” He asks innocently.
My anger bubbles up. How can he act so innocent?!? He destroyed my life and he acts like it never happened!! I try to calm myself but there’s no stopping me now…
“You didn’t say anything!! But what you did was you kill my mom and the rest of my family!!” I growl.
He growls back and steps forward, “No one uses that tone with me! Not even the Luna! I am your alpha!!”
All fear of him vanishes as it is replaced with hatred. I take a step toward him so that our faces were inches apart. I show my canines and snarl at him.
“I have no alpha!!”
Once those words left my mouth, I knew what was coming next. Pain.
Leo grabs me by the throat and lifts me a foot off the ground. His claws puncture my skin and my blood trickles down his arm. He glares at me with his glowing, red eyes. He brings his mouth to my ear and whispers,
“You do now.”
He throws me to the ground and gets on top of me. I cry out in pain
“Submit!” He growls.
I snap at him with my white canines He snarls at me.
“Submit!”
I decide there is only one way to anger him more. Well, only one way I want to anger him more. I gather all the saliva in my mouth and spit it directly into his eye. He roars then uses his claws to leave five long gashes on my left cheek. I let out a whimper of pain.
Ok maybe this wasn’t the best idea…
My fear starts to reappear as I feel the blood trickle into a small pool beside my head. I feel salty tears start to run down my cheeks, burning my gashes. I’m gonna die like my family did. At the hands of the Blood Moon pack. I don’t block my thoughts from him, not knowing(or caring) if he can even hear me past the rage overtaking his entire being.
His eyes suddenly change back to their usual icy blue. He jumps off me and crawls away from my bloody body. Pure shock covers his face. I try to pull myself away from him with my arms but don’t make it very far. He rushes to me and tries to help me but I quickly throw my hand up to tell him not to come closer. He stops.
“Mira! Are you alright?!? I’m so sorry Mira, my wolf took over… I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to, you gotta trust me Mira ! I promise I won’t hurt you ever again! please forgive me.”He pleads.
I curl up in a ball and pull my knees up to my chest. I start sobbing uncontrollably. He broke his promise and now he expects me to trust him? My sobs calm to hiccups and I lift my head to look into his eyes.
“Y-You expect me t-to t-trust you? When y-you broke your p-promise?!” I cry.
I bury my face in my hands as I start to sob once more. Tears start to pool in my hands and my gashes are on fire because of the salty tears.
“I’m sorry Mira.” Leo’s husky voice rings in my ears.
My wolf whines for his touch. She wants to comfort him because he’s in pain. I push her back, too scared to go to him. Why am I scared of everything? I’m so weak!
“No you’re not.” He whispers.