We stood facing each other, the full moon shining above us.
“You-” I fell silent when she closed her eyes, only to open them again with a sniffle.
“I remember everything,” of course she did.
Her hair had now turned platinum blonde. Maybe now we could find a way out of here. She buried her face in her hands and started sobbing, causing me to tilt my head and zone out. I thought she would be grateful to wake up from a dream that had imprisoned her.
“Don’t worry, we will find a way to get out of here,” I told her, taking a steady, deep breath.
Instead of responding, she simply shook her head.
“Okay, you know what? Very soon, they’re going to come looking for us. We need to escape before Rune finds you and marks you as his forever,” I urged, glancing around and listening as the crowd drew closer once again.
One of these times, they would discover us. The only reason they hadn’t yet was, my best guess, the darkness. Mr. Rune didn’t like the shadows. He fooled everyone with light and promised a good dream world to make them stay.
“Let’s go; we need to hide somewhere else,” I said, expecting her to follow me. Instead, she finally uncovered her face and looked me in the eyes.
“No!” Her voice was soft and gentle as she dismissed me.
“What do you mean by no?” I inquired, furrowing my brow.
“My real life sucked. I-I don’t ever want to feel that way in my body,” her words sent goosebumps coursing through me.
“Your body? What do you mean? Are you upset because you didn’t have a wolf?” I was trying to understand her purpose for wanting to stay here, where she wasn’t even promised a happily ever after. The minute Mr. Rune marked her, her story would end, and she would become a side character.
“No! I hated everything. Especially how I felt after that night. I don’t ever want to look at myself in the mirror and see that victim of abuse-and-” she paused, her words enough to shake the ground beneath my feet.
“I don’t ever want anyone to touch me again. So I’d rather stay here and disappear-” It couldn’t be. She was saying things that were horrifying.
“No! I am not going to let you ruin yourself,” I reached for her hand, and the moment I did, I heard something so terrifying that I instinctively gasped and stepped back.
But the voice echoed through my head again.
“Mate!”
Helanie:
A twisted pain in my chest widened my eyes. Kaye was staring at me as well, looking as shocked as I felt.
Did he hear it too?
Did I just feel the mate bond with him?
But why and how? I had already found my mate, and it was his brother, my other stepbrother. What kind of twisted game was the Moon Goddess playing with me?
I now remembered everything. And yet I didn’t want to leave. I told him enough, and that was because my real life was full of misery.
But now this-it just confirmed I shouldn’t return. The Moon Goddess was on a mission to make me apologize to her. And he fucking kissed me. I kissed my stepbrother. But is it okay if I think of it as just a dream?
The moon goddess is playing with me.
That had to be it. Why else would she make the people who were going to be my stepbrothers my mates?
Not only that, but they also hated me.
“They are here,” and then we broke out of the trance once the loud noises approached us. In that moment, I realized they had caught us.
Or specifically, Kaye.
The warriors arrived and tried to grab Kaye’s arm, but he punched one of them in the face. Both of them landed on the ground when he kicked them too, but then many others arrived from behind them.
The entire pack house had now surrounded us.
My mother was among them, wearing her perfect hairstyle, but she looked shocked when she reached me.
“Your hair-” she gasped, covering her mouth with her hands.
“You- you come to my home and try to take away what belongs to me.” I felt a long arm wrap around my body, sending goosebumps across my skin.
It was Rune.
I slowly and shakily turned my back to look at him. He wasn’t as charming as I had thought before when I was under his control.
But now that I could see his true self, he was terrifying. His hair was wet, and his smirk was extremely creepy.
“Helanie! Come on. How can you want to live here?” The desperation in Kaye’s voice was different than before we felt the mate bond.
I gulped at the urgency in his eyes. He had come here for me, whatever the reason, and I was grateful for it.
“She is not coming with you. She would much rather have a perfect life here than suffer in your world,” Rune said with a smile, shaking me as he kept his arm wrapped around me, holding me close to him.
“Helanie! I won’t leave until you come with me.” Kaye extended his hand, and Rune’s nails pierced my skin, his grip tightening around my arm, evidence that he wasn’t happy about it.
“What made you think you could escape? You came here to ruin my perfect world. You are going to stay here forever. There is no exit. And as for your wolf-I’ve decided you don’t have a wolf in my world,” Rune snapped his fingers, and Kaye dropped to his knees. My body flinched, and I swear Rune noticed it because he turned his head to me.
“How about we go away? Huh? Have the perfect ending for you-an ending you wouldn’t get in the real world. There’s no end there; only one issue resolves, and another pops up. But here, you get a happy ending, and then it’s over,” he smirked as if that were enough to convince me.
But I was already convinced, wasn’t I?
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