*Raya*
I am harshly awakened by loud noises in the middle of the night. Someone is downstairs in our house. I sit up in bed with a startle. I had just been dreaming about Zay and how he, on his 18th birthday, would declare me his true mate.
There are more noises and muted voices, almost like people are wrestling in the living room.
“Get the girl too”. Someone calls out, loud enough for me to hear, followed by heavy footsteps up the stairs.
I pull my blanket around me, feeling scared and wondering what the hell is going on here. ‘Get the girl’? The girl is me, right?
My question is answered about two minutes later when my door is all but kicked in, and a brute of a fighter enters my room. “Where are you, my pretty ?”
“What is happening? Why are you here ?” I pull the blanket cl
