03

CHAPTERS 03

« Looks like this is the last one. » He hums to himself and I glare at him, stomping my foot down.

I outstretch my hand signaling for him to give it to me but he only smirks and tosses the box to the side as he rips open the package and holds the chocolate snack in his hand.

Shaking my head vigorously, I beg him with my eyes to not eat it but he’s evil and guides the food to his mouth. My legs shake, my teeth scraping my bottom lip into my mouth. His smirk falters, his green eyes slightly darkening as his eyes zone towards my lips as if it was the real meal he wanted to devour.

Confusion littered my expression. I didn’t understand why the look crossed his face so obliviously, I released my bottom lip only to swipe my tongue across it as it was something I just naturally did to provide moisture to my drying lip.

Shocked, I jump hearing his growl and the way his canines begin to elongate. I swallow and like the predator he is, he watched the movement my throat makes and that’s when he began to stalk towards me.

I blinked rapidly, taking unsure steps backward. Was he going to attack me ?? I didn’t have my wolf yet but he did and I was constantly told stories of wolves coming out and just attacking out of nowhere for no reason. Gnashton was also spontaneously violent so could this be his revenge for everything I ever did even though I never really tried or attempted to anger him before.

My heart raced, my legs trembling as it became hard to breathe. Flashbacks flashed right before my eyes and I felt like I was suffocating like I was dying ; I couldn’t find a breath of air for the life of me.

‘Useless fuck,’ an angry voice hollered with undiluted hatred.

My body was shaking, tears streamed down my face. I felt pain, at the corner of my eyes was the shining object of a knife.

There was blood on it. The man came close…

I jolted, feeling a hand touch my arm and so I thrashed about and opened my mouth to release a noise but nothing came out and it hurt so bad.

I fell to my knees and with blurry eyes I see an angry Gnashton yelling at Caspian while Elliot is frantically moving about while Elijah tries to calm him down.

« Why the fuck did you touch him ?! » Gnashton barks out at Caspian who scrunches up his nose.

« You act like I knew that would happen, » Caspian crosses his arms across his chest.

Gnashtons hand balls into a fist, his eyes a scary black color and that’s when Caspian began to regret his decision as he stumbles back and falls as Gnashton lands a punch straight into Caspians face. The crack, the sickening crack has me cringing as I struggle to get up.

« My baby, » Elliot whimpers as he rushes over to my shaking form.

He didn’t touch me but I could tell that he so desperately wanted to embrace me, the glisten in his eyes told me everything. Elijah is holding him firmly, his eyes showing concern for me as he looked at me.

I ripped my eyes off of my adoptive parents to look at Caspian who groans in pain on the floor as he cups his hand on his face but I see the blood and it makes me lightheaded so I immediately look away and at Gnashton who is seething.

His knuckles are white with how hard he’s clenching them and I can tell he wants to beat the life out of Caspian, the only reason he isn’t is…well, I’m not sure why but I’m going to believe the reason is because of Elliot.

Gnashton forcefully tears his eyes off of Caspian to look at me and I shake my head slowly as if telling him not to hurt Caspian anymore. I see how his chest puffs out, the prominent veins in his arms coming to life, it looks like he’s trying to restrain himself.

Eventually, I believe he can’t take it anymore because he looks away from me and growls once at Caspian before he kicks the back door off its hinges and I watch him shift into his large dark brown wolf and run until I can no longer see him.

I slump down on the ground breathlessly.

« That was—so unnecessary, » Caspian huffs out.

I run a hand down my face.

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« Gnashton is so hot. »

« Gnashton is a douche. »

« Did you see Caspians face ? Gnashton belongs in a mental institution. »

« He’s a freak show. »

« Who ? »

« Both of them. »

Giggles after giggles, gossip after gossip, the school is a buzz. It’s only the first day and word already spread around about what happened or at least what was passed around which was altered Information mixed up with over-exaggeration of what actually happened. Typical high school theatrics.

People saw Caspians face that’s bandaged up and people immediately began to talk and spread lies as if they really knew what happened but it wasn’t like Caspian wasn’t thriving off of the attention. He acted as if he hated it but I knew better as did the two closest people he hung around with, Hunter and Archer, and Gnashton.

Caspian didn’t even have a bruise left, he’s healed because what happened was a week ago and although he wasn’t an Alpha nor a higher-ranked werewolf, he’s still much more than an omega like I am.