Find a Way

Alley POV

My skin felt like it was crawling with bugs, heat was searing through my veins and my breaths were becoming short. I jolted awake clawing at my neck trying desperately to get air.

"Shit! Alley, look at me. Clear your thoughts and let it go. Count slowly and let each piece go." Ethan's voice was bouncing around in my head but I couldn't understand the gibberish he kept repeating.

Tears were now flooding out my eyes and my hand fisted his shirt. I knew he was yelling at me to do something but all I could think of was why there was no air. My eyes fixated on his lips then his eyes. The fear in them had my heart cracking. I was making him afraid. I closed my eyes and there was my devil. He wasn't a monster and he didn't do those things. He was my protector, my lover, my everything, he was mine and I was his.

My chest was rising and falling fast then I sucked in a huge gasp of air. My body fell limp into Ethan and I felt my brother's hand rubbing my back.

"Fuck, I told you we