The Werewolf's Chapter 55: If only you chose me

Chapter 55: If only you chose .

Alanis.

I leave Beau with so much anxiety and fear. I don’t know what is going to happen inside, I don’t know what Cassius could possibly want from

but I guess I will find out. The building is dark and cold, almost seems like just the place he would choose for his abduction. I don’t want to be here; I wish I could be wrapped around Beau in bed watching old movies. I hate that Maddie got involved in this.

I take a deep breath searching for her scent, sohow, I should be able to hear them, their breathing, hushed voices but the place is quiet. Too quiet. I check all the rooms; they are all unpainted and still in the brick and block stages. finally coming across a door in a hidden area, I open it revealing steps to what looks like a basent. I hear her cries imdiately, which makes

run down the stairs and into the darkroom. I see her tied to a chair with rusty chains. Her mouth is covered with so kind of dirty clothes and she looks to have been crying all day. The room is empty except her but I know they are still in the building. I can sll them, they are not doing a good enough job of hiding.

"Maddie," I run over to her and she cries even louder. The sounds coming from her are muffled until I remover the cloth out of her mouth.

"Alanis," she calls my na and my heart aches deeper.

"Don’t worry, I will get you out of here," I assure her as I pull at the chains with all the strength I can muster. the chains fall to the ground and she continues crying. I have never seen Maddie look this terrified in all of the year I have known her. she always had this courage that made

choose her. I knew she could handle everything about —the fact that I am a vampire, I knew eventually she would accept . That is why I chose her, but looking at her at this mont, in this situation, I am glad I don’t have to put her through all this. I regret that she is in this right now but I will get her out of this and set her free completely, I will make sure nothing like this happens again.

"He took , he said he was going to kill ," she stutters as I pull the chains off her wrists and try to lift her off the chair.

Apart from her tears, she doesn’t look too hurt. That is good, I don’t know what I would’ve done if he had hurt her. I don’t hear the sounds of footsteps until they are too close to

and I can’t do anything to defend myself. I hear the snap of my neck before I blackout.

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I open my eyes to pain.

The pain that my heart feels is even more intense. I wished and I prayed that this wouldn’t happen. That I wouldn’t need Beau to co rescue . I knew there was a possibility that I wouldn’t succeed but I at least thought I would be able to save her. Things like this never turn out okay. The whole trade by barter scenario. I knew I was going to have to stay behind to get Maddie safe, but I don’t think I was able to do that.

I am tied up. The chains that were once holding unto Maddie are now around my wrist. I try to get the chains off but the more I pull at them the more they burn. They must’ve put sothing on them because I am suddenly getting weaker. My eyes roam around in search of Maddie but she is not in the room anymore. No one is in the room. My legs shake and tremble as I try to muster up the strength to stay up, but the more I try the harder it is. I know Beau is outside and once he doesn’t hear or see , he is going to co in. I don’t want him to co in because this was their plan all along.

Sounds co from the door and my eyes shift to the direction. The shock I get is more than anything I ever expected. Maddie takes slow strides till she gets to . Her hips sway from side to side and there is a smile plastered on her face. I don’t want to believe this, there is no way she was in on this. I risked everything to co and get her. I fought with Beau, I hurt him. I did everything to make sure she was okay.

I don’t want to believe that this was her plan all along.

"Hi Alanis," her smile is evil. she is enjoying every mont of this. How does she even know Cassius? Who am I kidding, he must have been the one to initiate whatever this is.

What is this?

"Maddie, what are you doing?" I manage to speak even though my words are mumbled due to the difficulty of speaking.

With the smile on her face, "I told you, you were going to pay."

It’s so easy, those words are so easy to co out of her lips. I broke up with her and sohow, I deserve this?

"I didn’t an to hurt you."

She laughs "I was with you for a whole fucking year and you decided to end things like they didn’t an anything."

She doesn’t understand anything, she has carried her anger this far. So far that she could end up being the one responsible for my demise. "I broke up with you because I cared about you. I couldn’t lie to you. You ant too much to ."

"You never cared about ."

I pull at the chains holding

"I did, you were very important to . You still are. Don’t do this, please."

She shakes her head and for the first ti, I look at her. I an really look at her. Sothing feels different about her. Suddenly realizing that her scent is even different.

"What did you?" I ask. The smile on her face reveals her teeth and I don’t need an answer anymore. She is not the Maddie I knew; she is now a vampire. Cassius did this to her.

"Everything I have always wanted."

I furrow my brows, confused "What are you talking about?"

"Enough," another voice speaks up and I look up to see Cassius with a grim expression plastered on his face. He looks the sa as the last ti I saw him. The smile on his face is sickening, this is all fun and gas for him. Playing with people and their lives is all fun and gas.

"What do you want from ?" I shout so loud from all the anger within .

This is not even funny anymore. Maddie is with him, sohow, he has done the one thing that I never wanted for her. She is now a vampire and it seems like she likes it.

I am so confused at this mont.

"You are just a tiny fraction to the end ga. This is not about you. You have to understand that I don’t want to do this to you. You are my kind, I don’t hurt my kind."

I don’t know what he is expecting, maybe remorse, or understanding. His actions are nothing I would ever try to understand. He thinks he is doing sothing for the greater good. He is a monster and I will never understand him. "Fuck you," I spit out blood to his face and he smiles almost like he was expecting that reaction.

"It’s fine. You will never understand." he walks away from

and stops in front of the door "Your boyfriend should be here any minute from now."

The fact that he knows that Beau and his people are here just proves that the plan was stupid. Cassius leaves

and Maddie in the room once again and I can’t even stand the sight of her. I hate that she is soone I was once intimate with, soone I cared about. This is soone I wanted to link with. I settled for her and I didn’t even know her; all along she was pretending to be soone else.

"Why?" I manage to mutter already weak from all the thoughts rummaging through my head.

She takes steps towards

with her shoulders raised. The look on her face shows pride, she likes that this is happening. She is enjoying every mont of this "You have no right asking that, did you answer my why when I asked you?"

She is talking about the break-up. I don’t bla her for hating , I hate

for hurting her but I can’t take it back. It was out of my control and I did my best to end things without lying. I never thought she would be this wicked. I never thought she would hate

to the point to want to see

dead.

"I am sorry,"

She laughs "It is a little too late for apologies," her eyes shine a bright red as she raises her hands up. "I really wish things didn’t end up the way they did. If only you chose ."

My knees feel weak suddenly as she walks away from . I am slowly losing consciousness. Regret floods as my eyes close slowly, silently praying Beau doesn’t co in.