Chapter 49 Loss

Clara ended up in the house where Alex brought her, she threw Quientin against the wall.

"Please don't, I didn't-" Quientin stopped talking when she looked at him, pure rage in her eyes, he gulped loudly. "Listen, Clara....I'm sorry."

"You're sorry?" Clara laughed dryly, "no you aren't, you just don't want to die."

It was true he didn't want to die, but he was more terrified of her than anything else.

Quentin backed as far against the wall as he could as he seen her take slow steps toward him.

Her fingertips touched him and he jumped at the contact, his heartbeat began to speed up as her fingers danced over his chest.

They left behind a burning sensation, a hiss left him as the burning increased.

"Why did you kill him?" Clara asked him as a claw extended from her finger.

I guess Quentin didn't answer her fast enough because he felt her plunge her claw into his chest slowly causing him to let out a cry in pain.

"Why. Did. You. Kill. Him. Quentin?" Clara repeated slowly with an emotionless look on her face as she withdrew her claw and began trailing it down his chest whilst putting pressure on it.

"Because of you!" he said cautiously, Quientin winced as she stopped her hand under his ribs and hooked her claw in it.

Clara rose an eyebrow at him in question telling him to continue. "I came back...for you. It's always been you that I've wanted."

"You are delusional if you think that I would ever want you." Clara told him extending all of her claws and grasping the bone in her hand before yanking it out without mercy.

The scream that left him was quickly silenced as she placed her hand over his mouth. "Noah didn't scream when you tore his throat out. So you can handle a few ribs being taken from you without screaming!"

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Wyatt looked on as he watched his once dead brother sit up from the floor. He quickly got to his feet as he ran over and slid to the floor as he barreled into him with a tight hug, tears leaving his eyes once again.

Noah wrapped his arms around his cousin in utter confusion. He looked around confused "what happened?"

"You died, that's what happened!" Wyatt said not wanting to let him go. "I thought I was gonna have to tell your parents that you were dead."

Noah tightened his grip on Wyatt, he looked around the room again. "Where's Clara?" he asked pulling away.

Wyatt looked down at his neck that no longer held a mark by their mate anymore.

She won't know that he's alive because the tether broke when he died.

"She took Quentin and left. She didn't handle your death well, Noah. Said she was gonna make him pay." Wyatt said

"Actually," Mariah interjected "she said and I quote 'I'm going to kill him, then everyone else who helped him' it sounded extremely dark." she shivered at the memory.

"She used dark magic to bring him back, borderline necromancy...we can bring her back. We just have to get Noah to her." Samuel told them.

He just prays that by her doing that, it didn't attract the one person he's been trying to keep her from.

"We just can't tell her about her parents though." Brandon said softly.

"What happened to her parents?" Kelly asked nervously.

"They're dead!" Chase said entering the room with a grim look on his face.

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Quentin slumped to the floor holding onto his bleeding stomach. "Pl-Please, just kill me." he begged, his mouth was missing several teeth and many of his fingers were were broken, along with his right elbow.

"I'm no where near finished with you." Clara told him while wiping her hands with a towel. The shirt she found in the house was saturated with his blood, but she didn't care.

She had to block her pack link because she kept hearing people calling to her, it was a distraction.

The last time she was here though she thought she was too far from then to mindlink, but now that she's reflecting on it again, it could have just been the lack of food and water.

Samuel was the most prominent one that was breaking through her barriers. Damn powers of his are giving him an advantage.

"Kiddo, tell me where you are? Everything is okay" Clara heard his voice cut through again.

She groaned and replied "Stop, please just stop! I can't do this right now!" and with that she blocked him again.

She didn't need their pity tonight.

If it were possible she'd turn her emotions off, but at the moment her anger and hate for him is what's keeping her drive going right now.

"Are you ready to tell me how many people you convinced to attack my pack?"

Quentin let out a sob "I don't know, there was atleast 50 from the Forest Pack, my cousin got a couple dozen from Crystal. But-" he stopped unsure how to continue.

"You were doing so well..." Clara told him as she kneels down in front of him.

He sucked in a deep breath but winced when he did from the pain it caused. "We hired hunters, that's why there was so many of us."

Blinding rage filled her, there hasn't been an attack from hunters in this part of the world in decades. "There were children here." Clara said darkly her body trembling in pure anger.

"I'm sorry" Quentin cried as he began backing away from her.

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Anna looked up when she heard the doors creak open to the safe room.

Only someone with a code can get in, so it had to be family, or a ranked member of the pack.

Pure relief filled her when she seen her brother walk in, tears filled her eyes as she got up and ran over to him. "I was so worried."

Noah wrapped his arms around her tightly as he hugged her. "I can't get a hold of mom or dad." he heard her cry into his neck as he held her.

Noah pulled back with a sad expression on his face. "Dad is in the foyer..." the carnage outside was so bad that it even reached their house, a house that's normally protected.

Josie continued to bounce the baby, but she seen the look on Noah's face and it broke her heart.

"And mom?" Anna questioned tying to go around him. Noah gripped her arms a little tighter, he shook his head lightly.

She was still in the kitchen, he didn't want her to see her like that.

"Stay here, Anna!" Noah's voice cracked a bit, one of the tears in his sisters eyes fell and he knew that she got what he was trying to say.

"No..you're lying."

Noah went to the ground with her as she broke down, he held her tightly with his own tears welling up in his eyes.

"We'll be okay, everything will be okay..." he whispered to her.