"Kai?"
"Jake is alright, isn't he?" my voice shook with tears and grew faint towards the end
"Tell me,"
"He's your goddamn Alpha, kai. You have obligations to him" I bawled, feeling extremely angry at my vulnerability to all of this
"If you wish to know about you love, I'm in the finest position for it," Flynn was back and he came towards the head of the bed, he leaned in closer and his fingers touched through my hair to my skull
"This will not only hurt you little sister but tear your heart out"
It was for a moment that my consciousness was snatched away before, I saw standing in the middle of the place I saw once; when I was looking for Jake. Then a fight scene erected, the ground roared and my breath was down with oppression and with every clash between them affected me with something like a blow, Kia grabbed hold of Jake's leg; he was in so much pain before I heard him made a painful roar followed by a snap, I cried; wailed for it to stop but it didn't. Jake was flung across into a tree, he reverted to his human form because his wolf had been injured badly; as he was trying to get up my brother came and wrapped his hand around his neck and elevated him to a height, Flynn's eyes changed into a deep golden color and then Jake's body started to convulse; he was draining his soul. Jake screamed heavily before his skin started to boil and finally came to a stop and his body slumped before Flynn dropped him to the floor. Flynn's eyes crest with a little bit of red before it disappeared, she stepped forward and stood by Jake's pale body and the next thing he did was stride on Jake's skull making it crush underneath his feet.
"No,"
"That was what I granted him──"
"No,"
"For his loyalty to you"
"You did not kill him," I denied everything I just saw──Jake promised me to be alive and well. I looked up to Flynn who was still towering over me, watching me unravel musingly.
"No," I said the tears in my eyes finally falling out,
"Jake cannot die!"
"──and none of your powers can bring him back"
Flynn's face had no remorse; I could only see the hatred he had for anything that had to do with me. He leaned off the bed and went out of sight, but I could still feel his coldness linger inside of me or was I growing cold? I quacked with silent sobs, making the chain rattle and the bed move with my motions, chest squeezing; Jake's gone. He'd killed Jake──my half-brother killed my first love. I was angry, hurt but mostly blamed myself; I should have never let Jake leave alone. I should have been as difficult as he was──followed after him after I couldn't locate him. I should have never let his lips left mine that night, I watched him walk away from me until I could no longer see him but hear the sound of his love for me in my chest not knowing that was the last time I'd ever see him. Jake Wyatt had been everything to me──secretly watched and protected me even of his pack was on the verge of completely vanishing; that's how much he'd risked for me and I couldn't even give him the love he deserved. Jake died trying to patch up what I had forcedly ripped out of him while still looking out for me. Is this what it felt loosing Jake forever? I could feel my heart transform into something I'd never known it could, stone; an empty feeling in the chest. The pain and weight settled in my back forcing my breath to drag, rage rippled in my chest, it boiled and assaulted my chest, and I don't know how to relieve myself of it or put it on someone else. Anxiety−dizziness and nausea kicked in just at once, my body felt numb and everything shut down like I was looking out of the rest of the world through a glass. I remembered when I visited shallow falls, met Jake and Phoenix's aunt and made her a promise to bring him back to her safe and sound. Everything came crashing through, my muscles relaxed and I couldn't stop the tears anymore. I cried like I'd never did before, I would have melted to the floor if it weren't for the shackles keeping me in place. I didn't try to control the magnitude of it, the more I left out the more it built because all I could think was all the little memories I shared with him. It stung, my head spun, heart flutter and spring with pain from my wailing and not-so-quiet cries. I didn't know for how long it happened but it did, finally it turned down to just heavily warm tears leaving my eyes and my face stiffened. I watched blankly at Kai moving across my view, on guard and heartless but all I knew is although he had such rage inside of him he'd never willingly attack someone who wasn't just his Alpha but a friend and also family figure. I remembered what Jake is in every point of life for me, every step of the way. I heard him come back in again and the scent of Cassuis filled my nose too,
"What a time; I couldn't hear less of you no matter how far I went"
I didn't answer or try to engage him in such a situation, no matter how I tried to keep my tears away from his view he saw it and it gave him the muse he wanted. Repeatedly I used my free hand to wipe hard against the skin around my eyes and nose, it started to sting.
"Little sister the pain of losing someone dear is nothing compared to seeing them die" he started again I shift my gaze to him whom had Cassuis's weak body knelt in front of him.
My voice was very hoarse and didn't even sound like mine "I witnessed my mother's death and──"
"Elisabeth daughter to Zion was no mother to you but an ordinary care taker" I refused to comment on his disrespectful thought towards Elisabeth, I stared in his eyes and the next breath I took rattled the bed I was in a powerful riffle leaped out of me and charged like a lightening bolt towards him. In a weakening state; the sound of it was strong but it only made contact with him just about to his left temple leaving nothing but blood. Flynn's head swept to the other side while he groaned, he looked back at me with a smirk; he seemed ecstatic.
"Gianna, this is what he wants you to do. Don't give in" Cassuis's voice was so little and weak, I dragged my gaze down to his face and searched. He doesn't feel what I felt, he doesn't understand what I lost and he would never because he once took something away from me too.
"Jake's gone Cassuis" I stated my voice sounded venomous and angry. He looked shocked for a moment before he said "Gone?"
"Yeah, Jake's dead," I started to break into another episode but quickly shut it out "Jake's dead, trying to save his pack from destruction──trying to save me from the war. You cannot imagine me to standby even if his executor was my own brother"
"Composure is what you need, don't let grievance waste Jake's sacrifice" he tried to pacify
I breathe out sharply and turned my gaze upward
"Then, you took your resolve little sister?" he mused, I kept in silence while the tears made their way to both corners of my eyes and spilled.
"I want you to free Cassuis but first I want to be alone with him" I tilted my head bringing them back to my view. Flynn observed my face for a while before he replied toneless "Sure" he waved his hand at Kai and he followed behind him obediently.
"I am not leaving you here alone," Cassuis came closer, reached his hand and do away with the hair on my chin.
"Yes you are" I said assertively "All he could do is keeping me here like this. He's not going to kill me; he's my brother Cassuis" He leaned in caressing the side of my face before kissing me lightly, I pushed him off "Stop Cassuis,"
"He harbors enough hatred to kill you if he wishes; you can give up on your family ancestral power; your birth abilities but do you think he will do well by people when he has them?" he paused and looked me in the eye. He could see that I doubt in the state of mind my brother was, he could neither think straight nor bother to care for others; Cassuis got so different in such a small amount of time, he sounded like a person with a warm heart. It made what I wanted to do next harder
Cassius added "I am not leaving."