Helanie:
I watched his face turn red and then lose its color as he yelled back at while covering my mouth with his hand. "What are you doing?"
The mont we heard footsteps approaching my bedroom, Kaye grabbed my arm and started pulling towards the window.
"Stop it," he grunted as I shook my head, trying to kick him away.
"I am not going without you; do you understand ?" he hissed, leaning closer to my face. When I attempted to resist further, he seized the small knife from the food platter and held it against my neck, shocking with his hostility. He then removed his hand from my mouth. I was stunned, feeling the sharp blade against my skin. My heart raced in my throat, my veins pulsating. Yet he looked so calm, as if he had done this before.
"Now shut up," he warned through his piercing gaze.
"Are you going to kill ?" My breath hitched, and my eyes ford tears of fright. I had such a perfect life until now. Why did he have to co here and ruin my night before the wedding?
"Co with , and I will spare your life," he hissed, forcing out of the window. He then continued to throw over his shoulder and jumped down.
It was all happening so quickly and abruptly that I truly thought I was dreaming. He put down but only to grab my arm and start sprinting into the darkness. My heart was pounding so hard, and I was too afraid to resist and risk getting stabbed.
I did hear my parents open the door to my room and call out for , so I had a little confidence that my parents would find . Or they would contact my mate and let him know what happened very soon.
Once we were deep in the woods and engulfed by darkness, he finally pushed onto the ground and stood on top of , his legs spread over my stomach.
"Now, if you make one more noise—" he waved the knife in my face, his massive body hunched over mine. I nodded shakily, showing obedience. He finally stepped back, and I sat up, my hands resting on the ground behind .
"What do you want from ? Are you going to kill ?" I asked, choking on my own tears.
"No! And stop it—this is not you. You don’t even cry when people kick you out of their hos or when they humiliate you. This you—this is pathetic," he had so much animosity in his voice that I began to wonder if maybe he had lost his mind.
"I am , Helanie. There is no other version of ; why do you keep saying that?" I asked in a low murmur.
"Helanie! You are trapped in this crazy dream world because you—you sniffed that purple rose. This is not real; this is a dream prison, and if you don’t get out in ti, you will be stuck here forever. And let tell you sothing: you will not be happy. You saw those people that you called your parents? I recognized them." He was driving to the brink of madness now. He looked so tall and ripped, huffing like a beast.
Everything he said went over my head, but it was also one heck of a terrifying claim.
"They were once the main leads in their own dream prison. The master—the alpha king, in your case—showed them this beautiful vision of a perfect life before he consud them. Now, they aren’t even living their own dream. They beco a part of whoever cos here. Do you want to be forgotten and beco a side character in soone else’s perfect dream world?" he yelled, shaking his head angrily at .
"Now tell —do you not think this isn’t your mother? Do you not rember your mother? Your father? We brothers—we gave you a hard ti and kicked you out. But then you still clung around because that is who you are. You are competitive and stubborn and very annoying. You want to get whatever you desire, and you do it no matter how many people are trying to stop you. But this one—the one who just wants to be praised—is not the real you." He knelt down before , maintaining deep eye contact.
I kept staring at his face until I had a flashback of sothing very terrifying: my mother grabbing my arm and kicking out of her house. It shuddered through my body and made Kaye examine closely.
"You rember sothing," he comnted.
"If it’s true—how do you think you are going to break free from this dream prison?" Since I was beginning to feel very misplaced, I tried to give him a chance. It wasn’t a lie that I felt odd about my mother. If this lady was my mother, then who was the one from my flashback?
I had only mories of this place, but I had flashbacks of the ones Kaye was telling about.
"That—I think if you rember sothing or everything, you would be able to co back ho," he scratched the back of his neck, and I frowned.
"Okay, then remind ," I said, sitting with support from the ground.
"Okay—m," he nodded slightly and then took a deep breath. "You don’t look exactly like this in the real world. I an, you have platinum blonde hair."
The minute he said that, my body was covered in goosebumps. This was the exact thought I had whenever I stared at myself in the mirror.
"I rember myself with blonde hair," I smiled widely, and his face broke into a grin before he smiled too.
"Okay, keep going. You were—um—umm—" He looked around, making wonder why he didn’t rember anything himself.
"Shit—I never spent ti with you. I don’t know you. I just know you were working in the garage for Maximus when you slled that rose—" His voice faded as I had a distant mory of that day.
"Ohhhh—I rember—I rember—" I jumped up, getting on my feet, and he followed suit. He looked so happy and excited that I had rembered sothing. "I rember Maximus!"
"Huh?"
"I rember him. We had this amazing conversation when we washed his car—he was so sweet and flirtatious that I was like, ’Whoa! I am your stepsister, dude!’" I laughed, not realizing the depth of my words, but Kaye didn’t seem very pleased for so reason.
I thought he wanted to rember.
"He flirted with you, and he’s the one you rember?" Kaye looked quite displeased.
"You ntioned him, so I rembered him." My excitent faded because I guessed that wasn’t a good sign.
"Okay, sure," he uttered, his hands on his waist and looking away.
"But why are we not going back ho?" I asked him, and he looked around at the lights appearing brighter.
The commotion started to approach us. It was pack mbers looking for us, searching for the bride-to-be.
"Shit!" Kaye hissed. "I think we are left with only one option. I have to kiss you!"
My heart dropped in my chest when he cupped my face in his hands out of the blue.
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