The Girl Behind The Shifter God

Chapter 4

Melrose Brown

I don't know how long I have been back in this disgusting place but my body hurts. The ice water that has just been thrown over me has me gasping for air.

Luna Erika stands, hatred and disgust on her face as she watches me. Her usual composed demeanour now replaced by the look of a wild and frantic beast as she draws back her hand and smacks me in the face. My left cheekbone now throbbing and my eye swelling.

“You dare to attempt to kill my boy” she screams at me.

“f**k, he’s still alive?” I manage to laugh, even though my face is sore.

She screams as she lunges at me, hands and claws flaring about. She catches me on the same ribs Madison had. The air is knocked from me, she turns to pick something off the small bench.

Ignoring the pain in my leg from the gash that I must have gotten in the river, the minute she turns around I lift my leg. Connecting with her right knee the crunch has me smirking as she drops to the floor a scream coming from her.

I brace myself for the next attack but the sound of the heavy door being opened has me turning enough to see the Alpha come in followed by Jax. Jax goes to the Luna, helping her up. Alpha Knox grabs me by the jaw, his grip tight and unapologetic as he brings his face close to mine.

“So, just like your father. You have his eyes but your mothers beauty”

I frown at him as he harshly pushes me away from him as if touching me had burnt his fingers. I see Luna glare at him from the side, that's interesting. I think as he paces back and forth in the small space in front of me.

“Tomorrow you will shift, then I will remove your free will”

I look from him to Jax, panicking at the thought of being made a breeder is bad enough but taking away my own mind. I feel my body start to shake as he speaks again.

“But no breeder program for you, no, you are going to be sold to the rogues” my eyes go wide.

I look to Jax and for the first time in years I see shock pass over his face before he quickly covers it with his normal stoic expression. Maybe I imagined it, he hates me for what reason I have no idea but I will never allow him to fool me again. I think as the three leave me hanging from my broken wrist.

I am woken later by a tapping on my cheek, I blink as my vision clears to the green eyes of Jax. I jerk my face away from him.

“Don’t f*****g touch me” I growl at him. Sighing he moves back.

“I need to get you out of here” He says, looking almost like he meant it, but I won’t be falling for his bullshit again.

“Don’t bother, I’ll look after myself” I spit the words at him, as rage settles back in his face. Good, at least this one I know, I think as he stands rage clear as day comes from him.

“Fine, have it your way, but remember I offered” He marches out the cell, I shake my head. I mean does he really think I am that stupid?

I slip back into unconsciousness, the blissful nothingness of my dreamless sleep. I awoke later, I am not sure how long has passed when the familiar scent of Izzy has me blinking my eyes open.

“Izzy, what are you doing here?” I say in a rough voice, throat dry.

She pulls the hood to her cloak down, placing her finger at her lips telling me to be quiet. I nod slightly before the pain in my neck has me hissing in pain.

“Here drink this, it will block him from being able to Alpha command you” She holds up a small vile of a horrendous smelling brown liquid.

The smell alone has my empty stomach turning as I wrinkle my nose pulling my head away from her. She rolls her eyes at me.

“Look, you do not want them to be able to sell you” She snaps, still talking in a whisper, sighing I nod.

The liquid burns my dry sore throat as it goes down. I fight to keep it down as saliva rushes to my mouth with the promise of giving her elixir back to her. Izzy places a hand over my mouth, tipping my head back. She refuses to allow me to be sick. Breathing heavily, I shake her off once I feel like it’s going to stay down.

“That will block him, but there is a side effect” I just look at her as a sorry expression has me narrowing my eyes at her.

“What?”

“Your shift is going to be more painful, I had to make the choice and well you are tough enough to get through this” my heart sank, more pain, great. She gives me a sorry smile before she puts the small glass vile away.

“I need to go, remember what I told you about the Gods, you need to believe”

That's all she says before she leaves me hanging there in the darkness with a battered body and thoughts of the Gods. The cell falls back into its eerie silence as memories of the gold and red eyes come back to me.

One gold, one red eye that watches me through the deep, dirty water before the almighty force pushes me from the depth of the river. The voice, the words none of this had scared me, no something in me was telling me to trust whoever it was.

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Kamosh

It’s been a long time since I felt anything, that emotion holds no purpose in this realm. I can’t remember the last time I had heard my name spoken with such hope, especially from that pack.

That pack was rotten; the rot had already taken a firm hold. So imagine my shock to hear it, my name being so freely spoken in a place where it was long since banned. Run by a tyrant of an Alpha, greed had taken hold.

People get drunk on power, it’s like a drug the more you get the more you crave the feeling of it. And this Alpha was one of the worst, I often ask Selene how she came to make such a beast.

I watched her, the little red headed wolf, she floated through the pack using the same shadows I used to watch her. My big black wolf, Power by my side. He tilts his head watching her with curiosity, I run my hand down his thick black fur.

The minute she plunges that knife into the arrogant little Alpha I feel it. Her strength, her will to live was so strong I could taste it. She was brave, far braver than these wolves chasing her.

The smile she flashes at the boy as she throws herself into the freezing water has awakened something in me. Something I thought had died a long time ago; this thought makes me smile.

“Not yet, little red” I whisper in her ear as I use my shadows to push her up from that dirty water. I leave her with the promise of returning, I turn and return to my realm.