The Pixie's Warrior Wolf (Completed)

The Past III

Scared as she fell and he looked down at her on the ground, in a skirt, her heart thudded as it washed over her. The vision in his head.

“No Zane! Stop!” Zane, inside of her, thrusting happily. Happily hurting her as he groaned enjoying himself all while she sobbed for it to end.

Sick to her stomach as the vision had made her react without thought, Zane trying to live out his fantasy ended in something tragic. His death.

And her first time killing someone.

“I was scared, I didn’t know…I thought I was powerless. I was so sure, the only thing I’d have been capable of was light levitation. Something…easy.”

Only easy with unstable magic was never the case. “I levitated whatever my magic could connect to and was aiming at his head. I didn’t know what hit him until he hit the floor.”

And saw the knife in his head.

Eyes wide as she looked at him terrified, Katherine had ten seconds to think. And then she ran.

“I orbed from his place. It was the first time I’d done that in two years and it almost killed me. I was so drained, and I felt sick, not to mention I pissed off my aunt and uncle. I got chewed out like no one’s business.” And it had been a bad one with much shouting at a numb Katherine who had been too quiet as they laid into her. Upset at her lack of response both had asked in different formats if she planned to keep using her power.

Frightened, she would lead hunters to their doors and knowing even just as distant descendants of pixie kin, they wouldn’t have been spared.

Thinking of their kids and their own safety, Katherine had still been numb when she spit out the words she’d been denying for too long. “No, I’m going home.” Silence had stretched as both Uncle Rob and Aunt Pen stared at her like she was speaking Romanian.

“Thank you for letting me stay here.”

Those soft and out of it words led to backpedaling as the two tried to calm her down, seeing her so messy and upset, Aunt Pen tried to ask then if something had happened. If she was okay. Only Katherine hadn’t been and was even more sure when she said strong, “I’m going home.”

The next morning after they’d told her to sleep on it, she waited until their younger kids left and told them, she was sure. And since neither had been able to sway her into staying, she’d handled one last errand before she’d gone to the airport.

“What was the errand?” Henry wondered.

Something she remembered coldly. Because she knew of one person who could implicate her and Katheirne couldn’t let that happen. So, she’d found Amber before she could squeal.

“The girl who said she’d be outside the door for me, left me there knowing Zane was going to try to f**k me and knew I didn’t want to f**k him. She knew I wasn’t into him like that and yet, she left me there and was going to tell the police she had.”

Sobbing and pale, the guilt gnawed at her thinking of her and her “boyfriend” Skillet finding Zane that morning. Upset since she’d not only f****d him a few times in the past and still was occasionally, she also considered him an actual friend. So, in not thinking about what he could have done to Katherine, she’d tried to implicate the girl instead for what she’d most likely done to him.

Only for Katherine to intercept her before she got to the police station.

Grabbing the b***h by her hair and slinging her into an alley, Katherine had hit her hard. Power still in her from using it in the f****d up ley lines, she’d hurt herself doing it, but she’d hurt Amber worse making the girl throw up her lunch before staying hunched over hugging her bruised stomach.

“You b***h, you set me up.” Trembling scared, Amber whispered, “N-no, no I didn’t! Zane, Zane really liked you-.” Katherine cut her off with a spitting, “b***h, you and I both know Zane only thought with his d**k. He really wanted to f**k me. You told me let’s go over to his place, you drove me there, and then you left me there, and as far as I’m concerned? Tried to help him when he tried to r**e me.”

Eyes wide at the r word and about to say Zane wasn’t that type of guy? Amber could admit he wasn’t the best and as all the times in her less than sober states she’d woken up to him on top of her flashed through her mind? Had her hearing Katherine’s words, as she realized what had to happen next.

“I got Amber to agree to do what I said pretty easily.” Katherine swallowed hard, “All she had to do was say the say the truth.”

Which was easy enough when the cops asked her who she’d gone with, how long she’d stayed, when she left, and who she left with. “Tell them you took me home. If they ask how, you got home, tell them you took Malcolm and then McBride because you were trying to avoid night traffic. If they ask where I am? Tell them we only went out on a Tuesday because I was going back to my home country and I’m already on my flight.”

And when asking the stoned girl where that was, the smart Amber had been honest when saying she didn’t know. Cops sighing as the dead end left the case to grow cold, Zane’s case still remained that way.

With an already dead mother, and a father who had remarried well and had two other kids, not him? No one wanted or needed the case dug into. So, it had fell to a bottom of a pile before Katherine had even touched down in Romania.

“I’m not a psychopath.” Katherine admitted looking into the fire, “But feeling that helpless? Broke something in me. I hadn’t…I had let myself be naïve to a threat that wasn’t even on my mind to be on guard for. And with this worry in the back of my mind about my parents, my aunt and uncle were always talking about hunters, it all just…became a wakeup call. That I couldn’t be weak. I couldn’t just give someone, a man, the chance to hurt me. Not again.”

So, she’d fight, curse, and kill if need be. And she’d win. Looking at her mate expecting horror, she didn’t get a trace of it.

Henry instead looked at her like she’d just told him she’d been honored in a museum as he sighed, “f**k I’m so proud of you.” His deep rumble as he stroked her cheek making her flush, she shook her head shocked, “I killed him and had someone cover for me. I knew she did it because when she came out, she immediately went to go get high to forget she just did.”

Not understanding the woman’s reaction, Henry wanted to shake sense in her. “She knew you didn’t want him and left you alone despite you voicing you didn’t want that scum either. In the end? I bet she knew what you said was right and was only defending yourself as you should have. Never feel ashamed for defending yourself. I have and will always no matter whose blood I have to spill. You and I are family now, if we don’t fight to keep each other alive, no one else will.”

Happy he felt that way, Katherine whispered, “I haven’t told my parents what happened, we haven’t been on the best of terms since coming home. But when hunters attacked the castle, before I got there…a few were on our property. I saw the same type of visions I got when Zane attacked me. Them coming in, planning to assault, loot, and traumatize whoever was in my parents’ home. So, I killed them…which has my father and mother worried about me.”

Not telling him that they were trying to push for a psyche reading from their colony leader, Henry didn’t seem like he could handle it as he waged a finger, “Yeah, and you see that’s strike two for me with them.” Having thought maybe Katherine having not been standing beside them the reason they hadn’t dropped her name when introduced, he’d tried to let it go.

Only now Henry had heard the full scope did he feel differently. “They sound like they left you alone in judgement when this business with Josie woman took place, and now they’re judging you for protecting them? Where do they get off?”

Katherine didn’t want to sit there and demonize her parents. They were older, from a different time and while not perfect? Were still her parents. “I can’t say. I just know it’s been hard living with them since being home. Being back in Heart Cove has been harder than I thought. I don’t know if after how much I’ve changed, I can handle being around people who haven’t. Who, like Bernadette and Ida, think they can call me out of my name and I just let them have their fun. I’m different now, I give back as good as they give, and they only have rumors and lies. I have truth and proof.”

Which gave her a sense of security in a way, but she didn’t think she had the energy to keep going head to head with people clearly determined to tear her apart. Something he saw as he asked, “Is it worth it to be battling with these people? Matching disrespect with their disrespect? I can’t imagine that being harmonious enough for us to live in.”

She couldn’t either honestly which made him sigh and kiss her hand before saying knowingly, “I would guess you came here to get closer to your parents, try and make things right between you all. I would also say you might wanted to smack a few people in the face by telling them about themselves. I get that.” He really did.

“But if this is the ugly of Heart Cove and the downside of such a close community, maybe it is not somewhere we should think of as home.”