Emt:
Years Ago:
"We should talk about it," she ca into my view, arms spread wide, eyes locked onto mine.
"Azura, not tonight. I have to be sowhere," I said, trying to walk past her.
"Are you seriously running away from this conversation, thinking that would be the perfect response to your desperate girlfriend?" she held onto my hoodie and stopped from walking away.
I felt embarrassed every ti she behaved that way. Sotis she’d even act like this in front of my parents and siblings, even when she knew I wasn’t comfortable with it.
Especially when I had told her things were changing rapidly. But she didn’t care. If she got upset about sothing, she would hit right in front of everyone. And I hated the idea of violence against soone you claim to love.
"I’m not running away. I’m going out there for my brother," I held her hand to free my hoodie when she let out a yelp and pulled back, stepping away from with tears in her eyes.
Honestly speaking, I didn’t even hold her hand that tightly.
"You hurt ," she whimpered.
"I didn’t. I only freed my hoodie," I replied sternly this ti. She had been doing this to for the last couple of months.
Every ti I tried to get past her, she’d either claim she got pushed or that I hit her.
I knew it wasn’t true, but she’d be so stubborn about it that I’d eventually have to give up and bow down to her.
"We’ll talk later," I replied to her complaint, seriously so done that I didn’t even want to stand near her anymore.
"No," she blocked my way again, making stop and grunt at her.
"Kaye and Noirman are there with your brother. Do you even understand what’s going on? Maximus doesn’t want us together, so he’s making up so shit about his wolf coming early. That’s a lie. He just doesn’t want us to have this conversation."
Every ti she spoke about Maximus like that, I felt anger run through my veins.
She had no clue what my brother was going through. Of course, we kept it from her for a reason.
My brothers didn’t want any outsider to find out what had been happening to Maximus for so ti.
And even when I told Azura the outside wasn’t safe during the full moon, she wouldn’t listen to .
Lately, she had beco so stubborn that I was honestly beginning to wonder if she’d follow outside one day and see Maximus herself.
"I said we’ll talk about it later. If you respect and believe , you’ll wait for morning in your bedroom. I promise we’ll have this talk," I reassured her in a much calr tone since she made it clear she wouldn’t listen to otherwise.
"Rember, Emt! I’ll die if you stop loving ."
Her words made my heart shake.
She gave a blunt look while I started walking away.
The fact that the conversation she wanted to have had already happened nonstop for the past forty days was exhausting.
It was always the sa thing said and done by her.
I left the mansion to join Kaye and Norman at the entrance.
"Kaye! You will stick with us, okay?" Being the youngest among us, we cared for him, but he wanted to be there for Maximus too.
"I spoke with Mom. She said Maximus will only get worse from here," Norman whispered, trying to keep Kaye from hearing us.
"Did she tell you what’s happening to him? Why has he been in pain for years, and at such a young age?" I asked Norman, my eyes on Kaye, who stood next to us in tears, watching Maximus groan on the ground in the middle of the woods.
"She said it’s a curse. She’ll tell us about it."
My skin broke out in goosebumps the second I heard the word curse. A young teen is cursed for what?
I watched Maximus go through the most painful transition, and then it beca the sa cycle as always. We’d make him run around and offer him our blood from ti to ti to keep him from attacking others. Until sothing else happened.
That night wasn’t like the others. Especially because there was soone who never took no for an answer.
"Emt?" I felt shivers run down my spine. Maximus was drinking blood from Kaye, who had insisted on being part of the help for his brother. Maximus wasn’t fully a beast yet, so the blood from his brothers would calm him down.
"Azura!" I gulped, my eyes widening. Even Norman looked shocked.
"What is that? Why aren’t you doing anything about that monster attacking your brother?" she scread, throwing a rock at Maximus in panic.
Norman and I rushed toward her to stop her, but she wasn’t the type to listen to instructions.
"Sobody help! There’s a monster here!" And just like that—She had stolen the attention of the angry lycan.
Maximus let go of Kaye and turned, hissing at her.
"Azura, run!" I yelled, loud and clear.
But she didn’t listen. While Norman and I tried to reach her, Maximus got to her first. All I saw was blood splattering around as he clawed her. Her screams filled the air, echoing like a lancholic lody.
I instantly began pulling Maximus away. He attacked her, but never us. He would drink from us, but sohow was never triggered by us.
It was Kaye who managed to steal Maximus’s attention again by running in wide circles. Maximus’s focus shifted. It was like a ga to him, Kaye had beco his distraction. Even as a lycan, his heart still ached for entertainnt, for play– especially with his brothers.
Once Kaye made Maximus follow him, I reached Azura.
She was losing blood—fast.
"I don’t think he can transition to heal. We need to take her to the hospital," I said, tears running down my face.
Since our last conversation hadn’t ended well, guilt was already crushing .
She was in my arms and I was running away, when I felt her teeth sinking into my neck before she said sothing to . I couldn’t help but rember her last words to .
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