Forbidden Mate: Awakening

There she stood, hair burning in the crimson light that started escaping from the heavy fog.

She always gave off a eerie feeling that made me shiver, as if she would attack me out of nowhere and no-one would see it coming. Her eyes were filled with pure hate, showing the total darkness inside her. Every step she took closer to us was full of evil intent. She held Aunt Belinda on her knees, close to her, grabbing her hair tightly as the woman yelped for mercy. Her twisted smile showed how happy she was to inflict pain. At that moment, it felt like all the badness in the world was in the air with us, leaving me feeling scared and anxious.

“Let her go!” I shouted with all the strength I could muster.

Her sickening laugh made my ears bleed. She dragged Aunt Belinda’s hair tighter making her spine bend inwards and the poor woman’s cries made me tighten my fists in anger.

“I said let her go, Audrey! What are you doing? What do you want?!”

And then, a familiar voice I never thought I’d hear again spoke, “You’ve gotten a lot more feistier than we last met, little wolf.”

I knew that voice.

A dark shadow walked out from the corner and shockingly, Leo stood beside Audrey, hands pocketed and the mocking grin I knew too well on his smug face.

What? Do they know eachother? Are they allies now?

Before I could say anything, Theo stepped in front of Sarah and I, standing in a fighting stance. His deep voice bellowed, “Who are you?” He inquired from Leo.

The bastard chuckled cynically and fixed his gaze on me, not caring about Theo or his question. He started walking towards us and Theo took out his claws ready to defend us.

Alerting danger for Theo’s life, I held his arm back, “No, Theo, don’t. Just step back. I’ll take care of this.”

He looked at me and then reluctantly stepped back to stand beside Sarah. Leo muttered something sounding like ‘smart’ then stood in front of me. The way he looked at me all over made me feel disgusted.

“What do you want?”

He chuckled, “I’ve missed you a lot, little wolf.” After every sentence he spoke, he stepped closer to me. “I did allow you to escape but sadly your Adrian couldn’t. He’s there…. sleeping, unconscious, unresponsive, or dead…I don’t know or care. He won’t be getting out anytime soon, I can you tell you that.”

Upon hearing Adrian’s name, I couldn’t help but grit my teeth and have the urge to knock Leo out. What had he done to Adrian? No.. no…he’s just trying to distract me.

“I’m asking you what you want. Let my aunt go!”

He smirked and used his fingers to trace my cheekbones. I could see Audrey glare at me from where she stood and also how repulsed Theo and Sarah felt at the sight of what Leo was doing to me, yet, I couldn’t move. I was frozen to the spot.

“You’ve gotten a lot hotter than we last met. Seems the two months with me has taught you a great deal.” He licked his teeth and stepped even closer to me.

I didn’t understand what he was trying to do. He didn’t want to explain what he was doing with Audrey or what they wanted to use Aunt Belinda for. I needed to speak up, but I couldn’t.

Thankfully, Theo was my saving grace. The way he sprang at Leo caught us both unaware.

“Asshole!” He shouted before running up to us, but before he could swing his blow, a huge force blew him back, making him hit his head on the ground.

Sarah gasped, “Theo!”

Leo chuckled, “Is that the best your pack can do? Are these the warriors who wish to face us in the war? Loser posers like you?”

I looked behind Leo and saw Audrey breathing lightly with her hand outstretched in front of her. She had done that. Our eyes met. What had she become?

Sarah rushed to Aunt Belinda, cussing out Audrey, “You bitch!” But she met the same fate.

I had to shout, “Don’t hurt them!”

Then Leo gripped my waist and pulled me closer to him, “I won’t if you cooperate.”

“Why are you doing this?”

“See, little wolf, There’s a lot of things I’ve not tasted from you yet.” He said and licked my ear. “I let you go easily the last time, you won’t this time around.”

I held onto the pocket knife in my hand and released the blade out slowly.

“At least let them go!”

“Oh, but I do need them, Because I know you won’t be a good obedient little wolf if you don’t see your loved ones in pain as a consequence for rebellion. I need you obedient and serving to me…”

“What the fuck do you want from me?”

He smiled, brought his lips to my ear and whispered, “You…” then laughed.

What was he saying? Why would he want me? What in hell’s name did he mean by that?

“You know I want those powers flowing within your bones…” he slowly shifted his lips from my ear to my lips, “…. and much more of you I haven’t tasted yet.”

I couldn’t take it anymore. As if Audrey anticipated my attack, before I raised up my hand to reveal the knife, she already shouted, “Watch out!”

Unfortunately, Leo was too fast for me and he was able to maneuver my move and turn me around so my back was facing his upper body and my hand was tangled behind me. My joint was in pain and I screamed for him to let me go. He dragged the knife out my hand and held it to my neck.

Theo and Sarah had stood up and Theo shouted, “Let her go, you bastard!”

Leo sneered at him, “Are you so ready to die today, lad?”

Theo wanted to charge at him again but Sarah held him back.

“Just stop this! Tell me what you want and I’ll give you!” I said with a pleading voice.

I could tell Leo was smirking when he breathed on my neck. He held me tighter and used his nose to rub lines down the side of my face, “Information…I need information…”

I noticed Audrey’s face had gotten hotter and redder. She pushed Aunt Belinda to the ground and walked up to us, “What are you doing?! We came here for something, remember?”

Leo’s face drew sour and he turned to look at Audrey, “Did I ask you to remind me?”

Her teeth gritted, “Instead of you getting horny here, why don’t you just finish what we came here for?”

The silence afterwards between them was nerve-wrecking. The look they exchanged made me wonder what deal exactly they struck between each other to make her talk to someone like Leo like that. And the thought of Leo getting horny for me was far more disgusting than it was scary.

Leo finally spoke but this time I could sense he was deadass serious ,”You will not talk to me like that, Audrey. You won’t…”