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I opened the door to Grace’s tom and just breathed for a moment, resting up against the doorway. I already felt more at peace just being near her. I moved slowly into her room, closing the door silently behind me. I plopped into the chair next to her bed and stared at her.
Everything became so complicated when she entered my life. Would any of this be happening if I had never met her? She seemed so innocent… But was she a monster just like that thing we saw earlier? Was that really her true form?
My eyes began to feel heavy, and my mind still raced but it became more and more discombobulated until I finally fell asleep, drifting off to a sleep where everything finally made sense again.
I’don’t know how long I slept but I woke up to the sound of the shower, and my eyes immediately fell to the empty bed. I didn’t want to disturb her, but my wolf kept nagging me to go check on her. I knocked once, but she didn’t answer with a knock back like she usually did. I knocked a few more times, before caving, knowing that my wolf wouldn’t settle till we laid eyes on her.
“Grace?” I called out to her as I cracked the door open. I thought I’d feel better once I checked on her, but as soon as the door was cracked, I could hear her sobs, the ones she was trying to hide with the shower.
“Grace?” I tried again as I entered the bathroom slowly.
She was sitting on the shower floor, fully clothed. Her breathing was ragged as she tried to hide her tears from me. I immediately stripped off my jacket and opened the shower door. She barely acknowledged my presence, and my heartrate spiked with anxiety. I climbed in the shower with her and lowered myself to the ground before grabbing her and pulling her to me. Her sobbing only grew louder as I stroked her hair, unsure of how to comfort her any differently.
Slowly, she started to calm down. Her breaths became more even and her clutch on my wet shirt wasn’t quite so tight.
I stood up with her still in my arms and turned off the water before climbing out of the shower. I set her on the counter and stared at the way her wet clothes clung tightly to her body. I couldn’t help the overwhelming desire to undress her and take her right there. Her eyes were red and swollen, but her trembling lips were still totally kissable, and maybe she’d feel better if I could only…
I shook myself out of it as shivers began to rake her body. I quickly ran into the room to grab her clothes and returned before she had even attempted to move. I grabbed the sleeves of her fancy dress she had fallen asleep in and now probably ruined, not that I really cared, and began to shimmy them down her body. She wasn’t crying anymore, but she still looked so far away.
The more I revealed her body, the more I had to remind myself to keep it cool right now. She wasn’t
… vet.
She hopped off the counter and finished taking off the dress and reached for the new towel had for her. Then she really surprised me by suddenly reaching for her chalkboard and frantically began writing/drawing.
There was a picture of two groups of people and the word deal with an x over it, followed by a question mark,
“Yes. The deal is void.” I answered, looking into her big blue eyes, trying to find her point.
She grabbed the board back and wrote one of the longest sentences I had ever seen her make.
“Am I free now?”
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And my heart raced with anxiety.
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Aichele Gremillion
I wish she could tell Rhys what is hurting her
