Finding Calypso

In the Arms of an Unfamiliar Beast

Chapter Eighteen

~Calypso~

I turn around to look at Octavia. She nods in understanding and invites them into her home. I find my way back to James and lock hands with him. I look up to his eyes and I can feel my body crave his venom like a drug.

He leads me inside following behind my father. We gather in the living room and not one of us takes a seat. Instead the tension continues to linger.

My Gramair is first to speak addressing Gretchen

"I'm happy to see you are safe. I know everyone was worried for a moment, but I can see you are doing more then well" addressing her obvious connection with Octavia.

Her smile flashed revealing her new found fangs and I see my Gramair's assumption confirmed.

Gramair looks to me and asks

"How are you feeling?"

"I feel" I pause questioning myself. How do I feel? "I feel…. at home" I answer honestly.

My Gramair nods, but her eyes are still full of question.

"And how does your beast feel?"

I feel a twitch inside me like my monster is trying to wake up.

"I don't know" I say "I guess it's just all new to me" I shrug. "I know I'm different, but I've never felt more myself"

My Gramair didn't seem satisfied with my answer.

" Your father told me about your eventful night" My Gramair goes on making small talk, but something felt off.

I look to James only to see him and my fathers eyes locked challenging each other. I don't think they have even looked away from each other since we entered our home. I hear Octavia sniff the air beside me and her body goes rigid. Were not alone.

The howls of a wolfpack begin to sound off in the woods surrounding the house. We are more then out numbered.

Gretchen, James, and my eyes flash to Octavia looking for her command and protection, but her face holds no answer.

I feel fear. Fear of being taken away from James.

The door kicks open and a towering man enters the house. Our eyes lock and my heart rate accelerates. My beast comes alive inside me, but she feels muzzled and chained. Part of my soul feels relief that I know this man is here for me, but my mind tells me to take James and run.

His eyes look to James and his mouth opens and roars like a ferocious lion.

James steps in front of me only to be met by the man's hands around his neck. Octavia doesn't hesitate to attack. Her motherly instincts to protect her family is what fuels her and makes her incredibly dangerous. She latches her arms around the neck of the man in a choke hold now brawling with James at our feet.

His strength is no match for either of them. I quickly fall to my knees and grab the man's arms. They were clawed deep into James neck that looks nearly broken under his grip. The moment my skin comes in contact with his he releases his attack. I throw my body on top of James to prevent any more advances. I see James gulping and struggling to breath, but his body is quickly healing.

I turn to see another man entering the home holding a gun. He quickly targets Octavia and Gretchen who are trying to pull James's attacker away.

Then he aims it at me. I close my eyes and lay my head on the chest of James feeling like this will be my last moment. When the gun goes off hitting James causing him to seizure underneath me.

My eyes are pouring as I look around to all of them shaking on the floor around me. My Gramair and my father just watching above me.

James's attacker approaches me and I look into his eyes, and he looks back at me with eyes that hold so much pain. I see his eyes dart back and forth between mine and James's shaking body. As if he is looking at me for an answer. He grows angry in a second and growls as he lifts me off of James's body and throws me over his shoulder.

I scratch, hit, and kick him with all my might. But he just tightens his grip around me and takes me outside to the SUV. He opens the back door and throws me in. I try to crawl to the other side to escape through the door, but he grips his hand around my calf and pulls me back towards him as he enters the vehicle to sit beside me.

My father, my Gramair, and the man who shot everyone jump in the vehicle. My father throws us in reverse and steps on the gas. I look out the windows to see dozens of wolves in the woods around us begining to retreat as we flee the property.

I'm now caged in the arms of an unfamiliar beast. He held me so tight I could hardly breath. He continued to restrain me even though I had given up any attempt to fight. I was so livid with my father and Gramair. And I felt disgusted and murderous towards my captor.

I feared I would never see the family I left behind again. Never see the love of my life again. And that our last moments together would be him on the edge of death in my arms. I began to cry in defeat. When I hear a rumble in the chest of the man containing me against him. His grip loosens slightly as he takes his hand wrapped around my arm and moves it up and down in what seems to be an attempt to comfort me. I look up at him with a deathly glare, and he just stares back saddened and concerned.

The sight of him lights a pure hate in my heart, but at the same time when I looked at him I could feel my beasts chains breaking. I imagine she must be as enraged as I am, and she is using that to release herself. I wished she wasn't contained. Every second she gets closer to her release is a second closer to escaping. I feel her senses coming back to me and the fog in my mind is letting up. The memories of the night before becoming easier to grasp.

And I remember the power my beast had brought me. The power I will use to do what ever I have to do to escape.

I could feel my body shake as we drove farther from James. I wasn't sure if I was trembling from the pain of being away from him or the feeling of needing his venom in my veins. I felt feverish so I closed my eyes and slipped into a dream.