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Echoes of the Pack Chapter 88
Alora.Alora.Alora.It's all I can hear the whispers of the ghosts and the visions-as I press my cheek against the cold, tile floor. My mind is drowning, my soul is being hung by a rope of grief and disbelief and turmoil. Death.Death.Alora."Alora." Jayden knocks on the bathroom door again, "Please unlock the door."There's no movement, no sound, that comes from me. My body is a corpse. I lie curled up in their cabin bathroom. It's been hours since I left. The day has come and gone but I remain in my position. The shock is still processing the idea that I have no family left is still wrapping around my mind. The last thing I can do is unlock a fucking door.The last thing I want is to face anyone. Facing them will mean that I'll have to accept this strange, new reality. I'm an orphan.Sobs wrench my lungs from my chest, constricting them so tightly like balls of crunched up paper. I can't breathe. I can only exist in a world of pain. A world of death.The Wolf inside me is folded u
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"Where are they?"Ariella stands in front of me. Tears stream down her face. I step up to her and hug her tightly. We bury our faces into one another's shoulders, sobbing loudly. She bunches the thick material of my cardigan in her hands, shaking so hard against me."I'm sorry," She whispers, "I'm so sorry, Alora."I only weep quietly into the crook of her neck. The pain is still so fresh- the loss not quite sinking in. I feel so astounded that it's almost like numbness. The only thing I can do is sob and hiccup into my sister's embrace."Where...Are they here?" I finally manage to choke out. I can't find them -no matter where I desperately search in this Plane... they're not here. All I saw is the red, darkening sky that lights up the black horizon and silhouettes of the Plane. Iphigenia is pressing against Ariella's thigh, whining softly. But no one else. Only mist."Ariella," I look at her again. She's biting her lip and I cry, "Ariella- where's Mom and Dad?""Alora, they've alread
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All that flashes through my mind is that he's touching me with the same hands that he touched her with."Don't shut me out, Alora," He murmurs.I let go of the doorknob but don't turn away from the door. "I don't know what you're talking about.""You haven't spoken to me since...since..." He stumbles over his words as I turn around. He can't meet my eyes, but his hands find my wrists. He holds onto them tightly. Out of comfort or to restrain me--I don't know."Say it," I growl, "Say it, Hendrick! We haven't spoken since....""Since your parents died..." His grasp on me softens, but not enough to let me break free. "Alora...I'm sorry... want to take it all away for you- the pain, the death.""You just want to take it away, so you don't have to feel it," I hiss, spitting at the spot on his chest where his heart is supposed to be. "You don't want to feel this way anymore.""I don't.""I don't either! But there's nothing you can do about that--but you didn't have to make it worse!" I try
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It's not right. It's wrong to be the only one still standing. Like me being the only one alive is a betrayal.It doesn't feel right because out of us all, I'm the least useful. I couldn't stop any of them from dying. Or perhaps it's because this is all my fault. I'm the reason they are all decomposing in the ground beneath my feet. I'm the one who Orion wants to get to.I'm just as responsible for their murders as he is.Darkness clings to me like a cloak. If people could see auras, then I'd be shrouded in black. Like the mist that surrounds Hekate."Alora," Kaizer's eyes are bloodshot and glass. He waves me to stand next to him and his father, the minister of my parents' funeral.I can't move from my spot. I'm frozen just like they are. There's a large lump in my throat that I can't swallow down-it only grows the more I try to speak.Finally...the final words I'll say to them comes out..." My mom-she was born in Las Marías, Puerto Rico. She and her brother moved to the U.S. after the
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Her cheek shatters under the force of my fist."Alora! Stop!"I have Ashenia by the collar of her shirt and slam her into the ground before anyone can stop me. Despite the outrageous pain she's in, she uses my momentum to flip us. My back hits the ground and my gut takes the brunt of her fists.But rage drives me forward. I reach up and grab her face, clawing and gouging at her eyes until she falters. The moment she does, I'm on top of her again.She still smells like him.Her eyes are wide as my teeth sharpen. The beast inside me wants to show this female who is dealing with. There's no mercy, no humanity in this Wolf that lurks inside me. She knows pain-she knows how to inflict it too.I wrench Ashenia's neck back and go in to Mark the bitch myself.Hendrick's body crashes into mine. He quickly pins me down. Only he has the power to quell my Wolf in this moment, though he barely manages it."Bring her to my office, now," Mira's bellow echoes.He tries but I slip through his grasps a
Echoes of the Pack Chapter 93
My whole life amounts to two duffle bags and a handbag. It's an odd realization I have as I put them in the trunk of one of the Solari SUVS. Clothes, a couple photos and personal belongings, Ariella's notebooks, and my scrying bowls. Everything else is left in the house or on the boat. Everything else is memories and sentimental items-which when it comes to it, have no real purpose.The Wolf driving the car Jayden and I will be in closes the trunk. Around us, car doors are opening and shutting. They're all ready to leave. Everything is packed-everything is set. All that's left are the farewells.Jayden hugs Aiden tightly, "I'll call you guys when we cross borders.""And when you get there," He smooths down her hair and plants a kiss on the crown of her head, "Be safe.""You too," She begins to cry, and I turn away.Avianna is standing beside me, a small chest in her arms. She smiles at me when I glance at her, and hands it over, "This is for you."I don't have to open it to know what
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Alora. She reaches out to me. Dark, brown hair. Blackened hands that radiate with heat and a heavy, dense feeling of dread. I can't see her face properly...but I know her. I know her...Alora. She whispers my name. Or maybe she's shouting. Either way, I can't tell as I slowly surface from my sleep. She reaches out to me just as I try to get a better look at her face.Yellow. Her yellow eyes are infected with madness-insanity and murder just like Orion's.Alora!I open my eyes, looking over at Jayden. She moves a lot in her sleep, and has accidentally jabbed me with her elbow, which roused me from my own troubled sleep."Sorry," She smiles as she sits up and pats her shoulder, "I can be the pillow for a while if you want."I laugh quietly and stretch out across the backseats, "I don't know how you sleep with your neck at a ninety-degree angle. I'll just lie on your legs.""More cushioning there, for sure," She winks, "You forget that I have to sleep in mud and through rainstorms when I
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My hand tightens around the stem of the glass. I look up sharply at the Wolves staring at me, "Leave.""Yes, ma'am," They bow, glancing warily at the man who enters. He only grins at them, his eyes flashing that sickly, diseased yellow.Before the door even shuts, I throw the glass of champagne at the pig. He dodges it, of course, and laughs heartily at me. I move around him, keeping a good distance from him. He watches me with a wide, toothy grin. My eyes only narrow at him."It's good seeing you without the veil," He chuckles, "You recognize me -good. I wasn't sure if you would-""Do not speak to me," I command. He only bows his head, but it's a futile attempt at an apology. He is disrespectful. A venomous snake that need its head cut off. "I know what you are. The only reason why I'm entertaining your request for an audience is because I want to know why you are here. Here, where I could easily order you be ripped to pieces.""If I may," he takes a step towards me, smirking as he w
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