Cry Me a River |✔️

Chapter 58- From Beauty to Beast

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"Time to unleash the beast."

Chapter 58

River's POV

My teeth clenched, fingers digging into my scalp as the room shook in a booming thunder. My body rocked, whimpered cries falling from my lips. The bed grew clouded, my vision blacking in flashes as I tripped, falling in a loud crash. My body fell like a heap of wood to the cold stone flooring. My body shook, pulling into a ball as flashes of both heat and frost hit me simultaneously.

"River?" A voice called above me. Movement rocked above me as a looming figure stepped up to my shivering form.

A soft caress swept by my face as Alastair turned my face toward him.

"You're heating up," he muttered as his eyes roamed my face.

A whimpered cry answered his muttered words as a resounding series of cracks spread across my body. A blood-curdling scream strangled from my throat. Pain encased my very fiber as my body contorted, bending in unnatural positions. A growl pulled from my throat as I choked out series of both vomit and saliva.

My body's temperature fluctuated in quick patches as Alastair's voice boomed above me, growing louder and louder by the moment. My hands wrapped around my ears, drowning out his voice as it nearly burst my ear drums.

"N-no," I cried, small broken sniffles following the declaration.

Heated fingers pulled from my face as Alastair's figure backed up. The color drained from my surroundings, golden walls turning a light gray as hot flashes ensued. My speech grew contorted, forming into whimpered cries as I convulsed and shook.

My hands fell to the floor, unknotting from my hair. My eyes peered down, a whimpered cry pulling from my throat as dark hair was visibly growing up the plains of my knuckles and traveling up my wrist like a crawling plague. On reflex, my feet began kicking, frightened screams falling past my strained throat as I slinked backward, back hitting hard against the wall as I cowered into a small ball and broke out into tears.

"Love?" A garbled voice broke through my sensitive ears as my head nestled between my knees, hands cupping my ears.

No. No. No.

Tears dripped down my face, damped, open-mouthed breaths pulled from my throat.

Chipped cracking noises spread down my arms, traveling down my torso and legs as my pain-filled screams contorted into croaked howls.

Alastair's words turned into nothing more than raised sounds as my body hunched over and head pulsed.

'Your time has ended.'

My head shook, teeth chattered, nails clawed against stone flooring as raw pain shot across my body. My skin stretched, bones shifted as I fell onto all fours and screamed.

Though, my cords wouldn't allow it. The sound barely escaped my mouth, allowing for a silent cry as pure agony filled my very marrow.

'I will take role until the danger has ceased.'

That was the last I heard before the pain became too much for my body to take and my vision turned to black.

Alastair's POV

I took a couple steps back. My eyes widened, fingers growing stiff by my side as I fell witness to the unspeakable. I had feared for this day from the moment I discovered River's secret. The day where he'd lose all control and turn to that of a beast. My heart raced, fear enveloping me as I watched River convulse against our bedroom floor. Two fears fought within me, one to my mate and the other to myself had he choose to attack me in his beastly form.