|Little Red|
"I'm trying here, Lele. Just let me help."
I might be taking a drastic decision by refusing to hear anything else that she has to say, but the world can bite me for all I care. She was going to abandon us. I cried when she died. I fucking wasted my tears on this bitch. I know she's already dead, but she's dead to me. If that makes sense.
The cell starts to crumble, and a growl bounces off the wall. Eleana squeaks, and I struggled to maintain my balance. A hand, thick, long, and covered in fur shoots out from the wall behind her. It wraps around her neck, yanking her backwards. Everything trips dark, like a light bulb had imploded. The whole cell is cascaded with darkness. I can barely see a thing.
Then I feel something soft under my head, and my body starts to convulse.
"Ah! Make it stop."
I can't hear my voice anymore, it's drowned out by the heavy thumping in my chest. My eye lids fly open, and instead of seeing the cell, I find my face close to the wolf. My nose brushes his.
The red glow of his eyes are full of something close to worry. I grabbed the pillow from under my head, and smack it to the side of his head. He doesn't budge but it distracts him enough for me to roll out of the bed. I ran directly for his bedroom, slamming the door close. I pressed my ear to it, hearing nothing for a minute before the noise of his feet hitting the ground floats into my eardrums. I raced for the window, pulling the lock off. I winced, biting into my lip as the pain in my leg comes back.
I didn't let that stop me.
If there's one thing that dream taught me. Aside the fact that my cousin was a backstabbing bitch! It's that love….. love will lead you into a peril of pain, and disappointment. It's me against the world. Humans or monsters, they can't be trusted.
I spotted my red coat on his bed. The handle to the door turns, he's testing to see if I locked it. He shouldn't have added locks to his room then. I snagged my coat, and dived out of the window and into the snow. My body shudder from the cold.
I tossed the coat on and took off. Having no idea where I was running too. I just need to get away from him.
I need to be far from that beast before he convinces- no before he brainwashes me like he has to my body. After just one day of being next to him.
I refuse to be the fool that falls for a monster. Sometimes they come as saints. He's calling me his mate right now, pretty soon he'll be calling me a slave. Forcing me to cook for him. To clean. To service him.
My head shakes so hard my neck begins to ache. I won't let that be my future. I did not escape one monster to fall into the arms of another. I am not Eleana!
The cold air whooshes against my face. Inhaling hurts, my legs is screaming for me to stop. My whole body is struggling to keep running. I just need to create enough distance and then-
Something slams into my back, tacking me to the ground. The growl forces me to stay still for a second as I recognized it as the wolf. I clawed at the snow.
"Let me go you monster!" I shouted, hoping someone- anyone- would hear my cries and come to my rescue.
His teeth digs into the side of my neck, and my scream grows louder for a moment before his hand closes over my mouth. His hand is just as big as the rest of him, it covers my nose as well. I can't hear my own screams. Oh gods.
My neck twinges with pain, so much pain. Make it stop. He does the opposite, increasing the tightness of his mouth on my skin. His teeth are sharp, at least four of them are. I'm going to get a bruise.
He growls, fear snaps my resistance and I forced myself to submit. Arching my back into his hold, he plants a hand on my hip. There's too much pain, numbing my mind.
"I'm sorry." I sob, hoping it would get him to let up.
I thanked the universe when he released me, lapping his tongue over the wound. I shuddered, from the cold I'm sure. And the pain combined.
"I warned you, red. I warned you and you choose to disobey me. I was going to give you the opportunity to do things the regular way. But I can see you need a little bit of discipline. A brat like you can't be left alone. You'll need rules." Every word is punctuated with a growl. The sound keep getting more violent. Like he's promising me pain if I even so much as breathe without his permission.
"I'm sorry." I wheezed out, my sobbing dying getting more insistent. I still can't hear myself.
"Save your sorrys, my little pet. You want me to be a monster, you want me to be the bad guy? Fine. You've got yourself a bad guy." He rose to his feet, dragging me along with him. I was manhandled and tossed over his shoulder. My stomach felt an ache from the collision against his shoulder blade.
What was I thinking? I should have snuck out when he was asleep. That's escaping 101. I wonder what he's going to do.
My mind did a good job providing me with more than enough examples of what the wolf could do to me. He bit my skin after all. I'm amazed he didn't just eat me whole.
This isn't what I had in mind when I followed that sparrow. I thought freedom was in my path. I thought it was in my hands.
Will I ever be free?