The way it should have always been
Shane
Adea leaned forward, she cried out as her hand gripped her stomach. Her eyes fell to her body and she flushed as she realized how exposed she was. She grabbed her cloak and pulled it forward in a poor attempt to cover herself. She tried and failed. If the situation wasn’t so fucking painful I would have laughed. There wasn’t a single part of her body I hadn’t already seen before this day. She was hiding herself from me and that’s what hurt more.
Adea’s eyes widened and she moved closer to Ethan as if he would protect her. He wrapped an arm around her shoulder as if shielding her from danger. An evil smirk pulled at the corner of his lip as he pulled her in. I looked to her as he did, fear shone in her eyes and a sorrow I didn’t know I wasn’t already feeling washed over me. Max and I threw our head back and a soulful howl ripped from my throat. She sought safety out in his arms. Ethan lifted his chin and flashed me with a bright smile before I lowered my head in as threatening a stance as I could manage chained up.
“You coveted what wasn’t yours and have done everything possible to rip us apart. You don’t love her, you only wish to consume her. If you truly loved her you wouldn’t have done any of these things, you wouldn’t have hurt her,” I snarled.
“She was always mine. She was my mated pair before she was your mate, she was my mated pair before you even met. If not for you, she would have eventually chosen me. It’s you who got in the way. It is you who has defied nature. I’ve only put things back into it’s original place,” he hissed.
“I’ll kill you no matter what it takes, I’ll kill you,” I promised.
I tried to shift, but failed with the wolfs bane hindering my transformation. I howled in frustration and he laughed at my pain. I growled at him as he pulled her onto his lap. My shoulders slumped as I stared at her. I watched her, searched her eyes for a hint of the girl I knew. She was still in there, she had to be.
“Adea, please,” I begged.
“It’s useless mutt. You’re nothing to her. Her loyalty, her love, her devotional… they all belong to me,” he said.
“Adea?” I tried again.
“What… what will you do with him? She whispered, turning from me and looking at him.
“Why? Do you feel for him?” Ethan asked. Both of us watched her, waiting for a different answer. A look of uncertainty crossed his features and a bud of hope bloomed. She shook her head and it was like a slap to the face. She looked back at me.
“I pity him,” she murmured. Ethan reached around and lifted her chin. He turned her head and she looked up at him.
“When it comes to him, you don’t have to worry about a thing. I’m the only one you need to worry about. If I tell you to slap him, you’ll do it. If I tell you to kick him, you’ll obey. If I ask you to kill him? You ask me with what. Do you hear me?” He asked.
“Yes,” She murmured.
“You only need to worry about me. You want what I want,” Ethan hissed.
“Yes, Ethan,” she sighed.
“I don’t… I don’t understand,” I whispered. Adea turned her attention to me. The love I spotted in her gaze a few seconds before, now gone. “Don’t look at him that way. Don’t talk to him with that… emotion in your voice. You don’t love him, Adea. You don’t want him. You don’t want to stay here. You don’t want to do anything for him!” I said desperately.
“You are the one who isn’t making any sense. Who are you to say these things? I don’t know you. If not him, then who?” She asked.
“Me, Adea. It’s always been me, just as it’s always been you. It’s us against the world. Don’t you remember? I promised to come for you. I’m sorry it took me so long,” I choked. “But I’m here now. I’ve come for you. I’m your mate, not him. Not him,” I begged. Hoping, praying that she would believe me, that she would remember, that she would snap out of it. Adea dropped to her feet, she turned and lifted her chin as she faced Ethan.
He handed her something and she looked down at her hands before her attention snapped back up to his. When he nodded, she turned back to me. I couldn’t keep my eyes off of her as she made her way toward me. She looked as beautiful as the first day I laid eyes on her. I’d fallen for her then, literally fell for her. She regarded me coldly as she stopped before me.
Adea lowered herself as she reached for me. I groaned when her fingers connected with my face. I leaned into her, turning my face into her palm. Her hand dropped instantly as she took a step back. I looked up and searched her features for something, anything. I stared into the brown eyes that have haunted me since the moment I left her.
“I feel nothing. The Goddess didn’t make me for you, nor did she make you for me. There’s no spark, no connection, and definitely no love. Nothing will come from your obsession with me,” she said.
“That’s where you’re wrong. I don’t need a woman in the clouds to tell me who I love. I’ll never stop, I’ll never give up on you. I’ll do whatever it takes to show you. I’ll break… I’ll lift whatever… whatever curse has been placed on us!” I said.
“That’s… different,” she said.
“It’s one of the things you love about me,” I said earnestly. She smiled, but shook her head before she turned from me, but I couldn’t just let her walk away.
“Please, Princess, please. Don’t… don’t leave me. I’m sorry.”
“I don’t love you,” she said.
“That’s not true. You don’t know what you’re saying! You… I… I have enough love for the two of us,” I said desperately. “I won’t give up on you Adea. I’ll never give up on you,” I swore.
“We had an agreement,” Ethan murmured.
“We did,” Adea said.
“Won’t you make me happy?” Ethan asked.
“I will,” she murmured.
Adea turned from him and bent down until we were face to face. She lifted her hand into the air and I looked past her to him. The evil bastard was making her do something she never would have done. My Queen wasn’t a murderer, she didn’t have that in her. I turned back to her and looked her in the eyes and smiled. I ignored the glint of the blame as she plunged it into my chest.
“I love only Alpha,” she whispered. I coughed as blood filled my chest and started to pour from my wound. “It’s him and it’ll always be him.”
“No Princess, it isn’t,” I grunted as she twisted the dagger.
“I won’t remember you. I won’t cry for you. I won’t wait,” she said.
“You don’t have to. Don’t worry and don’t cry. I’ll do everything. I’ll come for you,” I promised as I choked on blood.
I fell forward, the chains were the only thing holding me up now. The warm liquid dripped down my body. I was too tired to lift my head. The world was turning black, but I watched as she got to her feet and walked away.
No matter what it takes.
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