how can I die?
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The river raged like an enraged beast, ready to tear down whoever came its way. The currents bounced up and down as if they wanted to break all the shackles and engulf everything.
Suddenly, a head cut through the waves and surfaced with a face following it, and then a hand also cut through the waves.
Skye gasped aloud, opening her mouth in the process to get some air in her body, but the currents forced her back inside the water, pulling her small frame into the depths again.
The water refused to let go of Skye out of its violent embrace.
The currents twisted her body as if she were nothing but a fragile leaf caught in a storm.
Her body was thrashed harshly among the waves, giving her new injuries whenever she thrashed against rocks or water plants inside the river.
The coldness of water burned against her skin, seeping into her bones.
The drug in her system dulled her senses, slowed her reactions, and blurred the fragile line between consciousness and oblivion.
Her limbs felt impossibly heavy, as though chains had been wrapped around them, dragging her further into the depths, but Skye refused to give up at any cost.
She had promised Mora that they would not die here tonight.
She promised Mora that she won’t give up at any cost, and against all the odds, she was determined not to let Mora lose her life tonight because Skye wasn’t strong enough to keep her promise to her wolf.
How can she give up when her enemies and those who have treated her like trash all her life are still alive and living happily?
How can she give up when her culprits were still alive and thriving, laughing at her pathetic self?
“Mora.” She called her wolf with the last bit of her strength as the water filled her mouth, nostrils, and her food pipe.
Mora growled aloud with her last strength before Skye’s hand was also forced inside the currents.
The storm raging around calmed down immediately as if it hadn’t been there a few seconds before.
The river calmed down like a docile pet.
Skye pushed her body out of the water again and gasped aloud as soon as her face got out of the water.
She stopped struggling too but kept her legs moving to keep her face and shoulders above the water surface.
The water inside her food pipe and nostrils made her choke a few times. She coughed hard while trying to breathe.
The dark sky filled with dark clouds suddenly cleared, and stars started twinkling above Skye’s head.
“Hahahahahahahahahahaha.” Sky laughed aloud bitterly.
She, Skye Locke, possessed so many abilities, and controlling nature was one of them.
She was powerful enough to make the world bow to her.
Yet, she had to hide herself behind her muteness and weak appearance.
“You must not use your powers before you meet your fated mate, Skye. Promise me that you will not let anyone learn a bit about your abilities. You will keep yourself hidden until your mate arrives.”
Her maternal grandmother took this promise from her when Skye was only five.
She remembered because she did something for her to have this memory at the back of her mind.
“Let’s get out, Skye. I am tired.” Mora urged in a weak voice.
Skye took a few shallow breaths before swimming towards the shore.
The responses of her parents and her fiancée were still ringing in her ears, strengthening her resolve to go back and punish them.
So what if her grandmother took a promise of not revealing her abilities?
So what if her grandmother did something to suppress her abilities until her fated mate meets her?
Her grandmother never asked her not to use her abilities to protect her.
And now, Skye knew what to do with her enemies and against the people who betrayed her.
She dragged her battered and wounded body outside the water and fell on her back when she had no strength left inside her.
Her ankles were still inside the water, but she wasn’t bothered by that.
The moon was now shining brightly in the sky, and she locked her gaze on it.
“Don’t hold me accountable for what I am going to do to them, mother. I have had enough of their torture. Now it’s their turn to pay for what they did to me.” She whispered to the moon goddess, feeling that the goddess was hearing from above.
She smiled weakly when a helicopter’s shrill voice shattered the silence of the surrounding night.
She didn’t think a word again and let sleep engulf her consciousness.
Albert was restless while searching the riverbank for a fragile and small figure lying anywhere at the bank.
He was told that Skye jumped off the cliff to save herself from the rogues who kidnapped her.
He didn’t know how he was going to tell Alpha Arthur about this, but he knew very well that he needed Skye alive, or else this night would be the end of his life too.
As the beta of the pack, the security of the future Luna was his responsibility, and yet he failed miserably.
His emerald eyes were widened to the fullest so that he wouldn’t miss a single thing there.
His heart almost leaped out of his mouth when he noticed something like a human body lying half-submerged in the water.
He couldn’t see the face clearly as the whole body was covered in mud.
“Fu*k.” he cursed and ordered the pilot to lower the helicopter with a furiously beating heart.
“Please be Skye. Please, for my life’s sake, be Skye and alive,” he muttered in his heart, locking that figure lying on the ground.
He jumped off the helicopter when the distance was favorable to him.
“Skye….. Skye.” He screamed at the top of his lungs in panic while running towards the body.
The body jerked lightly but didn’t make any further move.
He fell on his knees beside the body and cleaned her face. Mud had covered the scent.
So, he couldn’t say if the person was Skye or not.
“Oh, Goddess!” he exclaimed aloud in relief when he saw her face.
It was still covered in bruises and a few deep cuts, but her scent hit his nostrils like a storm.
It was faint yet strong enough for him to recognize the person.
He immediately put his finger under her nose and exhaled in relief.
She was breathing very shallowly, but she was alive.
He didn't waste another second, and immediately slipped his hand under her neck and knees and pulled her up into his embrace in bridal style.
He froze for a few seconds when he registered all the injuries on her body. Even her clothes were torn.
A warrior came forward and covered Skye with his shirt.
Although her body was covered with mud, she was still almost naked.
"Seal the whole forest, and don't let a single soul, not even a bird, get out of the forest unnoticed." Albert barked his orders while running towards the helicopter.
Skye needed urgent medical attention.
"Examine her. Tend her wounds. See if her wolf can heal her in this condition." He barked at the doctor inside the helicopter.
The doctor bobbed her head immediately in fear and gestured for Albert to put Skye's body on a clean sheet.
The doctor, a young she-wolf, leaned her face towards Skye's face and sniffed.
"B.... beta Albert." She called Albert fearfully.
The helicopter started ascending again.
Albert looked at her angrily while dialing Arthur's number.
"Th... The Luna.... sh.... she has a heavy dose of wolfsbane." The doctor told Albert while stuttering in fear.
At the same time, the call connected, and Arthur heard the doctor clearly.
His jaw clenched tightly, and his cold crystal blazed in fury.
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