"How could you love me? I'm a monster."
I immediately stand up, pulling her up with me. Holding her gaze in mine as I trace along her cheeks and jaw, down her neck and back up again.
"You are not a monster, you never were. If anything you are a soldier Aella, a soldier who has fought for too long."
She stares up at me in silence, her eyes brimming with tears. I hate the sight of them, but I know that she needs to shed them, she's held them in for too long.
"You are one of the strongest people I have ever known my love. But please, when you feel like the world is going to crumble beneath your feet, let me be the one who holds you."
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Aella has had a life of hell. Seeing things that no child should ever see, and forced to do things no child should ever do. Being trapped into the life of a superhuman soldier, she finally escapes her captors. Now, with her freedom, she only has one thing on her mind: Vengeance against the ones who held her prisoner.
So when she meets her mate, a werewolf Gamma named Apollo, she's hesitant about getting too close. Learning long ago that it's dangerous for anyone close to her, she tries desperately to keep her demons from becoming his destruction.
But fate has other plans.
I crawled and sunk impossibly deeper into the couch behind me, biting my nails to hold back the scream of horror aching to burst through my chords. The terrifying and spine shivering sight of flesh being ripped to pieces, agonising screams of terror and the horrendous sight of blood splattering on the living room window escalated my heart beats to rhythms I never thought possible.
Suddenly all was quiet, silent and dark. The light from the moon that peeked through the window became non-existent. The screams of terror and horror disappeared and at the window I felt the presence of the monster who was doing this.
It turned a bit staring back at me with menacing yellow orbs penetrating to my soul as a silent warning that I would be next.
Next in line following the demise of my very own...family.
Crystal Cane, 17 year old senior in high school has had to live 12 years of her life after the incident with a new family, new home, new school and fortunately new friends.
Still a little timid as she lives her life she has to be ready to see what fate has in store for her.
Or what it seems to have against her . She enters a new lifestyle filled with question and very un expected harm her way.
This has been a rough start for me but believe or not I find it hard to give up even if I so badly want to. So whoever has stumbled upon this, please take time to read, vote and comment. It will sure mean a lot.... Thank you.