~Kezi
I was hardly concentrating on my sandwich at lunch.
Etta was compensating for my lack of conversation, chattering on about her latest dose of medication. Something about how she had hallucinated about a boy she had a crush on joining her in bed. Melena seemed to disregard her, while Amilia reprimanded her for her foolishness. The pecking order within this group seems to shift between Amilia and Melena being on top. I can’t decide what’s going on between them.
“Did you hear about the two girls in the gym room this morning?” Etta asks excitedly. Those deep blue eyes often gleam, I’ve noticed, when she’s gossiping. “Bot
~KeziThe sound of dull buzzing and faint clicking greets me into consciousness.It takes a bit of scrambling for me to realise what has happened. I feel marvellous, as if untouched by any harm. As my eyes crack open, I’m reminded of the harsh white ceilings, and the crisp sheets that cover my body. Sitting up is difficult, the amount of tubes wrapped around me near ridiculous.Everyone in the room turns, noticing my movement. Cian is gone, a distant memory in the back of my mind. Now, instead, I’m looking at a nurse, a doctor and Alpha Alden.
~KezziahI’m frozen.Time seems to have that ability. To chill my blood and cool my skin. Every inch of me is suddenly fridged, the brittle atmosphere within the room wanting to step right out. Not that I have much of a choice in doing that. If Time want’s to speak to you, then he will. That’s how he branded me in the first place.He twists something on his finger as he stares at me. A ring. It’s golden - like his eyes - and adorned with brilliant glinting diamonds. Its lavish, pertaining to whatever has been filling his time with recently.
~KezziahSermon woke me the next morning, appearing at the door, but not passing the threshold.The expression on her face told me something isn’t right. She seems wary, peering into my room as if someone, or something, would jump out and attack her. It takes my groggy, waking mind a few moments to piece together why she might be anxious about stepping into this room.Time.I’m not sure what it means to me if she saw what happened last night. The memory seems to dip in and out of my conscious, but what I do remember, are those pierci
~KezziahI can’t predict what is going to happen tonight.Three days has past from Cian’s proposal. He will keep me safe, and in return, I will attend this party on his arm tonight. I’m not particularly fond of the idea, and I’m unsure of what will happen as a consequence, but I need this. If he keeps me safe, I can escape, find freedom, and Avia. I can finally right everything.“I picked out your outfit for tonight,” Cian tells me, turning around with a dress in hand. “Since you don’t exactly have the resources to get yourself one.”
~KezziahI’m not sure what this revelation should mean to me.Part of me immediately feels sorry for the oblivious girl out there who doesn’t know who the two mates arguing over her. One, a powerful immortal who belongs to a group of sins who want nothing more but for this world to burn. And an Alpha, who runs a Pack created of secrets, and what I’ve gathered, a sort of protection against the immortals.Having either of them as my mate would be too much for me. So to know there is someone would there perhaps about to realise who their mates are, I can feel nothing but sympathy.
~KezziahI’m staring at a stunned man.The door behind me shudders closed, a silence following after. I had to come here. After what Cian revealed to me, it’s evident I have no other choice. No one else has offered to help me at all, and as much as I’m trying to figure this out myself, it seems unrealistic that I’ll succeed.Alden slowly rises from where he was sitting, eyeing me like I’m a foreign creature who crawled into his office. I don’t move from my stance. I can’t change my mind on this.“What…” he breaks off. “Are you sure?”
~KezziahI have no idea what to say.Alden is staring at me as if I have committed a crime. Maybe I have to. It wasn’t like I had a choice what was done to me by Time. The marking...The everything. How the bond between us works, I’m not sure. However, when he touched me, I felt nothing. No sparks, no feeling other then angry and hatred.“He’s not my mate,” I say carefully. I believe that, within me. I believe there is someone out there who is, but it’s not Time.I’m not sure why Alden looks so offended by this notion. Perhaps he is surprised he
~KezziahThe more time passed, the more days seemed to entwine into each other.It would be breakfast, lunch and dinner seeing Amilia, Etta and Melena. There was always knew gossip to be had. Whether it be another patient reacting badly to the medication, or someone caught sneaking off in the late hours of the night to be with their assigned guard. Etta seems to find these stories the most mesmerising, being the hopeless romantic that she is.Recently, I common trend had been patients graduating. A strange ceremony takes place where the girls are released from their holdings after their bond has been removed. Clearly Alden