VIOLET
The black haired woman brings me to a huge room at the other side of the mansion. I follow her without verbally asking any questions.
She seems to be wanting to talk to me a lot and I don’t know why.
“ What is this place? ” I question her when she goes to the wardrobe.
My eyes take in the room. Everything is white and blue here unlike the Golden and white of the castle. It’s cozy.
“ It’s the Silvercrest pack. ” The woman replies making me pause.
“ So the…people down there…they were all werewolves? ” I ask.
Bile rises in my throat. Their smiling faces almost seemed humane.
“ No. ” The woman’s answer startles me.
I glance at her and she turns around, a pair of jeans and a woman’s shirt in her hand. I take a long look at the pink shirt in her hands and look up a
VIOLETOur eyes stay fixed at each other. The world seems to have come to a stop.His hands on my body, the feeling of disgust…That’s all I can focus on. He did this to me.Tears well up in my eyes but I try my best to keep them at bay.“ Remove it. ” I choke on my breath and stumble inside the room.Wolf’s eyes fall to my neck where the collar is still locked, restricting me from breathing freely.Wolf doesn’t say anything and silently walks towards me. With each step, it feels like he is carrying the sparks of electricity closer and closer to me.I stumble back on my feet as the fear in me grows uncontrollably.“ Don — Don’t come close. ” I stutter and he halts in his way.I could have removed the collar myself. I could have done it myself then why did I come to him?Why am I here?I take another step back as my gaze drops to hi
VIOLET Guilt hits me at once. I have never felt so pathetic in my life. “ You knew what I was about to do? ” I choke on my breath, a lump getting struck in my throat. I turn back around on my feet and shoot him a hateful glance. “ I was not sure that you were actually going to do this. ” He groans, trying to get the pin of out of his abdomen, but failing to touch it for a long time. I gulp, my heart skips a beat looking at his pain stricken face. What kind of man is he? I heave a heavy breath and walk towards him before kneeling down. Wolf watches me with wary eyes. When I kneel down and my knees soak in his blood, I feel sick to my stomach. “ I was never this cruel. ” I tell him or to myself. I don’t know why. “ It’s okay. Just go to Mellisa. ” He says to me. I lift my gaze to his and stop breathing. He does the same. Time seems to have slowed dow
VIOLETThe expressions of anger wipe off his face pretty fast and it leaves me shocked instead of him this time.We stare at each other, different emotions and thoughts running through our minds. I can see it all in his eyes — the wheels of rationality turning and making him calm down.Without saying a word to me, Elias turns around on his heels and begins to walk away.This leaves me breathless and angry instead of him. Just a moment ago, I thought Elias would be very angry, that he would fight, that he would at least throw a pathetic tantrum but he just…turned around and…left.I don’t know what hurts me more. The fact that he got to know about something like this happening to me or the fact that he just left and didn’t do anything.‘ What can he possibly do? ’ A voice whispers in my mind.I gulp the lump which pops in my throat, making it hard for me to not cry.&ls
VIOLET“ What does this make me? A human who has lost her mind? ” I scoff and look back at the pond.“ Confused. ” She hums after a long time.“ What? ” I question without glancing her way.“ This makes you a young girl who is confused… ” She vocalises.Her words grab my attention and compel me to look at her with interest. She is still not looking at me but her tone is soft and thoughtful while her smile has left her lips.“ …You don’t know what you want. You don’t know who is your ally and who is your enemy. You don’t know who you want to be with and who you want against yourself. You don’t know which way to walk on and who to trust. ” Slowly, she looks at me with a serious look in her eyes.I listen to her while holding my breath.“ You believe what you want to believe Violet…” she heaves a sh
WOLF “ I want to talk to you. ” Violet says and then walks inside my office. ‘ Did any of you say something to her? ’ I growl down the mind—link with my brothers. ‘ No. ’ Only Cassius and Kane reply while Stefan remains silent. ‘ Stefan? ’ I call him out. ‘ No. ’ He groans in frustration. I block the mind—link and pay attention to Violet. I can only guess what she wants to talk about right now. I follow her with my eyes. Violet’s heart is beating fast, her heartbeat thumping in my ears, making me feel guilty all over again. The scent of her fear and nervousness is another bad thing about this situation. Deep down, I never wanted her to fear me, to hate me but it was impossible. She hated me even before knowing me and now she has a valid reason for hating me. When she came here earlier, I knew what she was up to but I allowed her to stab me so she could feel a little better but it turns o
VIOLETI shake my head, drawing my attention back to the argument.“ Humans found out about the presence of a supernatural race. Werewolves…” Wolf rolls his shoulders. “ they found out about us, Violet.”“ And they started hunting us down. ” He sighs, sounding tired to me.My eyebrows pull together to form a deep frown.“ Humans could only fear werewolves. Why did it matter that they found out about you all? ” I roll my eyes.Now, I feel less uncomfortable as compared to how I felt when I came inside his office. Wolf hasn’t done anything to tick me off and his eyes remain at my face, reminding me less about what has conspired between us.A teeny weeny part of me is glad that Wolf has not brought up the old topic which I am trying hard to avoid and he has not tried to make me doubt like he thinks of me as someo
VIOLET“ Why would he…do something like this? ” I whisper to myself.My eyes move to rest on Wolf’s. It seems too easy to look at him during this moment like nothing bad has happened between us.“ That’s another long story. ” He sighs, leaning a little back in his chair.My hands itch so I clench them harder.“ Tell me. I want to know. ” I insist even if I can see something is stopping him from revealing everything to me.Wolf’s expressions turn solemn and he looks tired like never before. Still, he continues to look at me and I do the same, letting him know that I won’t go from here unless he tells everything to me today.I am done with limited information, with not knowing what’s wrong with me or what’s wrong with humans and werewolves.“ There was a woman…” He drifts off and then takes a pause. “ She was n
VIOLET“ And your father and Katrina somehow suspected that I was the Orpheuns? ” I break out into a bitter smile.They are so stupid. Do they really think that I…VIOLET BANE…THE WEAK HUMAN WHO CAN NOT EVEN DEFEND HERSELF CAN BE THE ORPHEUNS?“ My mother was no witch and my family was a normal one. We were living a normal life until you came knocking at our door and ruined everything for us. ” Hate penetrates my words again.I believe I can’t help it most of the times. No matter what these werewolves have gone through, a small part in me doesn’t admit that they had the right to return all that torture to us…I was innocent and so was my brother and my family. We had not done anything to them at all.“ I can’t believe Katrina wanted to kill me due to such a dumb misunderstanding. What even made her think that I was th