Howl For My Heart

Ember Griffin's POV Everything seemed to close in on me with the seriousness that accompanied his voice. “You just had one job to do, Ember!” Damian’s voice vibrated through out our living room. “I said I’m sorry Damian.” “Sorry doesn’t cut it Ember.” He laughed so coldly “Do you know how stupid you made me look in front of the Alpha council.” “I am sorry for not being on time.” I whispered rolling my dark brown eyes. “Ember,sorry doesn’t fix everything.You made me look stupid.” I wanted to open my mouth to tell him the emergencies I had encountered relating to Zayn’s school but I couldn’t find the words. “I’ll show you.” His palm clenched in a fist aimed for my head and my shoulder,I landed on the ground with a loud thud as I felt the pain from his battery stinging deep. “You are useless Ember,Oh! You think because you are a lawyer you are better than me.She was right after all, you’ve lost your touch.” Bending over me as I wriggled in pain, Damian gave me a resounding slap again. “I didn’t mean…” I tried finding my voice to speak but it only infuriated him all the more. “Excuses can’t save you, you know that.” His fist drove hard into my ribs taking the air out of me, I coughed as I found it hard to breath. “Damian let me go, please just leave me alone.” I cried as I thought about Zayn and the way he hugged me with a beautiful smile before he left for school earlier in the day.Surely, I deserved better than this. “Just clean your self up and stop being so pathetic.” He snapped at me as I writhed in pain. I heard his footsteps retreating and the front door slamming behind him as there was total silence in the house except the hardness of my breath.I picked myself up as I held my bruised head,I could feel the makeup I had on pealing away from my face. “No I can’t go on like this.” I struggled to mutter those words.I looked into the mirror right in front of me and all I could see was a shadow of myself and the picture of a very peaceful family which I had envisaged seemed to be eluding me. "No,this is not a home.This is a battle field." I said as I grabbed my coat and my car keys from the table, I headed for the garage.I needed to see Darcy Calvin my best friend,I knew her place would be a safe haven for me and I seriously needed to hear her reassuring words.I took my seat in the driver’s side of the car as I drove off to Darcy’s apartment in queens estate. The weather was quite perfect and the flowers that graced the lawns were all so lucious and perfect unlike my current predicament. I rang the door bell of apartment number eleven which was Darcy’s and soon after I heard a very familiar voice speaking to me. “Wait a minute.” Darcy was home, I was supposed to be at my own home cleaning myself up but here I was, showing up on Darcy’s porch like a wet stray cat.The door flung open almost immediately and there she was with her long blonde hair cascading down her shoulders and her eyebrows in an arc,her lips coloured in red lipstick and her body in a white handless top on a tight blue short.Darcy was sexy and she looked like she just walked right out of a vogue magazine.Her sharp blue eyes widened when she saw me. “Ember! What happened? You look terrible.” “Damian…did” I couldn’t find my voice, I needed her kind words at the moment.Darcy had been my colleague and friend since college and finally law school,we had read,eaten and played together and now she was still here even when I needed her the most.She always had a way with words and she knew exactly what to say everytime. “Ember please sit.” She said taking off my coat and guiding me to her soft couch. “I will get some ice.” She left swiftly and returned with a bag of ice as quickly as she had left and pressing it against my cheeks she said. “This is not okay Ember, you’ve endured enough.You have to leave his sorry ass.You have to!” Darcy stared at me so intently as I spoke. “Damian doesn’t want me anymore,he keeps treating me this way.It wasn't my fault, I was just few minutes late for the company’s business meeting this time…” “Ember please wake up,think about yourself and your son first before that looser Damian.” “I know,I know Darcy but Zayn needs stability..He needs the love of Damian his father.” “His father or a horrible beast?” Darcy fired back at me as she sighed. “Let me help you figure this s**t out Ember,you can stay here at my place tonight if you want.” Her kindness and soft words made my eyes well up. “You’ve always been so strong Ember, please let me take some of the burden away from you.” “Thank you so much Darcy.” I said.As I relaxed on her soft couch I thought deeply about what I was going to do next. There was total silence between us for a while as I dozed off until a call came in for Darcy. Grinn! Grinn! It was Darcy’s phone ringing. “Darcy your phone.” I mumbled still feeling sleepy, I extended my hand to pick up her ringing phone laying on the table-What! It was Damian Griffin.At that moment I became wide awake as I wondered.Why was Damian calling her? Maybe it was work related I thought, Darcy worked with Damian as the company’s legal adviser. Darcy appeared taking her phone away from me only to disappear again into her room answering the caller sheepishly. Why did she need to be so discreet about the call? My heart was racing and my mind ran wild as I thought about Damian cheating on me with Darcy. I tried to put my mind at rest placing the remaining ice inside the little bowl Darcy had brought along with it, I took one of her pillows to balance my head on but this time the scent of a familiar scent seeped out of the pillow meeting my nostrils.That was definitely vanilla vision, Damian’s perfum I thought swiftly or was my mind just running rampage. Darcy was taking forever on that call making me very uneasy, I sprang up from the couch headed for Darcy’s room but I met her half way out. “Ember why are you up? You ought to be resting.” She said giving me a sharp look. “It’s getting quite late ,Zayn would be waiting for me now.” I replied. “I understand you need to go now.” “Yes I do,but why was Damian calling you?” I asked her curious to know why. “Oh! That, It was just work Ember.” My mind was now at rest as she spoke. “Thank you so much for your concern Darcy.” “I am always here for you Ember.” She said as she gave me a warm embrace and as we hugged my eyes caught a glimpse of something very familiar, what was Damian’s Rollex wristwatch doing at Darcy’s?