his broken love

Chapter Three

 I woke up with a start, screaming at the top of my lungs. Angelica and her mother came in to try and help me calm down. I tried to curl up as small as I could but my body wouldn't shrink anymore. When Angelica touched my shoulder through the duvet I flew off the bed and found myself in the corner of her room as small as I can be. Angelica's mother asked me from a distance if I would be able to be around anybody today and all I could do to answer was shake my head as hard as I could. It made me dizzy but I couldn't stand to be near anyone. My life was turned upside down and there wasn't any good way for me to turn it back around. I don't think that I will ever be able to have a true relationship with a man, let alone be near one. Just as Angelica's mom got up to walk away I reached out and grabbed her arm.

"What's your name?" I asked in a whisper.

"My name is Issabella, but you can call me Izzy. Now what do you want me to do honey? I can go get my husband to get you something to change into and get you something to eat and drink or I can sit here and send Angie to go do all that." Izzy replied in the softest of voices.

"I need someone but I need to be alone at the same time what do I do?" I asked with tears streaming down my face. "I really don't want you to go out of your way for me. Maybe I should just go somewhere else, somewhere HE can't find me."

"Oh no, Honey don't say that he wont find you here and it's no trouble to help you. Please don't talk like you're a burden. It would break our hearts to have you go out there and try to find a way away on your own." Izzy said.

"Hey Z, I didn't mean to scare you but I don't want you to go. I finally met a girl that I like and I know that Lucy likes you too. Don't talk like you're going to take off when nobody's looking. You've only been here for two days-" I cut Angelica off.

"Did you say that I have been here for two days? I just got here early this morning. what do you mean two days?" I said in a panic.

They just looked at me and shook their heads back and forth slowly. Finally Izzy said "We know that you have been asleep the entire time, so you didn't realize that so much time had passed. We have grown quite attached to your presence in our humble home. Lucious has been on edge since you first arrived knowing that he can't do anything to help except keep his distance. But I can't get him to stop asking about your condition." She chuckled.

"I know that I will never be able to look at him let alone any man again not after what happened. And I don't want him to get his hopes up and then get crushed because I would never be able to love him the way he wants." I started to sob. "What should I do? I may have to leave just for that reason. What If he finds me here I don't want anything to happen to you?"

Many seconds of silence passed. I was afraid that they were going to leave me. Finally Angelica spoke up. "Z, I'm not worried about us if he shows up. I'm more worried about what Lucy will do to him. He was pissed when he found out exactly what happened to you. I think He might even be crushing a bit harder than mom let on."

I finally accepted a cup of tea and fell back asleep......

Lucious' pov

I was sitting on the bench bouncing my knee waiting for my mom to go in and check on Zera. She started screaming so loud that my mom and dad both ran up the stairs and my parents never run. In fact they make it a rule to prevent us from running in the house. If they are running that means it serious. I jumped up and went to lunge into the room but my father grabbed me to prevent me from letting her see me. I know that she is traumatized but I want to help I can hardly hold back my cat. My father's cat is way larger and stronger than mine so there is no overpowering him to get to my cat's other half.

I can smell the shifter in her. I can't tell what it is but I know she's a shifter Just like us. Maybe she doesn't even know that she is a shifter at all. I Know she is the one that was born for me. She just keeps screaming and i can't do anything to help.

"Dad she needs help why won't you let me go to her?" I pleaded. "Let me go to her PLEASE!" I struggled until the screaming stopped. Now she was just sobbing and I can hear my mom talking to her.

"You need to calm down son. She isn't going to accept your presence right now. It's too soon and if you really do feel the way you say and show try giving her some space. She doesn't even seem to know what the rest of us can sense. And I have a feeling that it's because of the way she was abused growing up. You know that a shifter needs to eat in order to be able to shift into their animal form. She doesn't look like she has had more than one meal total in a month." He said in a calm voice. I know that he was right but I don't like that she is suffering.

"You don't think I know that? I am trying to stay out of sight but when she is screaming the way she did it riled my cat. I just jumped I'm sorry." I said finally calming down all the way.

"Don't talk like you're going to take off when nobody's looking." I heard my sister say and it crushed me. I felt my knees buckle and I couldn't stand anymore. There is no way I am letting her go so easily. She's safe here even if that monster shows up out of the blue.

"Okay now that the fight is outta ya lets go for a run and clear our heads a little bit. we will even take the little ones with us and let them get some fresh air." My dad reasoned and it worked. Next thing I knew we were out in the woods shifting ready to run. My tiger knew that we had to release some tension somehow and he took off to the tree tops faster than he ever has before.

We ran for about three hours and when we got home my mom was waiting for us with a brick. There was a note tied to it and it read 'If you don't giver her back to me you will all burn together. She is mine and I want her back NOW!'

"Mom we can't tell her about this. She is way too fragile right now." I said after I finished reading. "Where is Angie?"

"She is in the kitchen trying to make some soup for our poor little Honey. And before you ask, no she hasn't seen this either. I don't want her upset when she goes back in her room to help feed Zera." She said making cutsie faces when she referred to Zera.