Chapter 10

**Lana**

Everything I thought I knew about myself was all a lie. My parents weren’t my parents, and I wasn’t a full-blooded wolf. I was half-witch and half wolf. His words rang over and over in my head. I was adopted and my real parents were dead. The people I thought were blood to me weren’t even related to me at all.
Why had my biological parents given me up?
Were they protecting me or did they just not love me?
So many questions were running through my head and the only ones that held the answers to them were dead. I remember that dream I had when a woman told me all would be explained, and to be patient.
Was this what she was talking about?
I’ve tried to open my eyes so many times, but something is preventing me from doing so. It’s like there’s a force holding me down. Open your eyes, Lana. I can see a woman in the distance, and she’s coming right towards me. Her long black dress flows through the wind as she gracefully comes closer. Her dark hair blows around her face, and her eyes glow a deep crimson red.
“My child, you have to wake up. Go back to him. He needs you more than ever now.” She says stroking my hair.
“Wait, who are you?” I ask, just as she disappears into the fog. Who was she, and was she talking about? Jaxson, or someone else? I can hear everything around me start to shake and make my body convulse. My body shakes uncontrollably, and my head pounds forcing me down on my knees. I can feel my eyes burning with hot tears as I scream out in agony.
The pain is too much for me to handle; then everything around me changes, and I’m back in Jaxson’s bedroom. I can see him looming over my body with a sad expression, and crying as he strokes my hair. Tears stream down his face as he whispers in my ear. “Please baby, open those beautiful hazel eyes. I need you to come back to me.”
A woman stands over my body chanting, and that’s when I notice she looks familiar. She was the woman I had just seen. Is she a witch? She continues to chant when the room suddenly goes dark.
My body jerks into a sitting position, and I gasp for air holding my throat. I’m back in my body, and Jaxson rushes over taking me in his arms kissing all over me. “Baby! I was so scared I’d lost you, but you came back to me.”
The woman stands next to me, and grabs my hand chanting again. “You were spelled, but I put a protection spell on you so the next time they do it, it will mark their hands hexing them instead of you.”
Someone had spelled me, but why?
This had to be Lorenzo.
I’m sure it was.
Lorenzo was as evil as they come. A toxic waste ready to invade your body killing you on the inside. He was the definition of pure evil, and I’m pretty sure if you looked the word Satan up in the dictionary his face would be next to it. He was a monster, and proved it every day I stayed with him. I tried so many times to leave, but somehow he always found me. He punished me every time I ran. He punished me for not submitting to him, and I hated him for that.
More importantly, he ripped my soul away, along with my wolf. I thought my wolf was gone for good, but that changed the minute I met Jaxson. He was my savior. Thank you, Jaxson. Thank you for saving my wolf.
“Who did this to me?”
He growled, and his body became rigid making his eyes grow dark with anger.
“I’m handling it, baby, don’t worry about that.” He told me with a hint of venom dripping from his mouth. He traced his hand down my neck touching his mark sending tingles down my body.
Do you want to play this?
I can play this game too, baby.
He shivers as I take my finger touching the mark I left on his neck. He’s now the one under my control, and I’m loving every second of it. The way just one finger can bring the all-powerful Alpha to his knees makes me feel stronger than I’ve ever felt before.
“Jaxson.” I bring my finger down his chest.
“Please…Lana.” He says between breaths as I drag my finger lower stopping above his zipper.
“Please what, Alpha Jaxson?” His breathing starts to increase as my hand grips him by the belt loop of his pants. He’s fighting the urge to take control, making my wolf howl in excitement. His eyes glow the color of blood. The beast is out, and he wants to play.
“Wait, Lana. Before we continue, I have to tell you something. When your eyes glowed, they weren’t yellow. They were red with black outlining them.”
Running to the mirror, I focus on my eyes and it’s just like he said. They were red with black outlining them. My hand touches the mirror and it breaks in a million pieces.
“What’s happening to me?” I panic pacing back and forth.
“Your witch side has awakened. Calm down baby, I’m calling my father over. He’ll know what to do.” He calls his father, panicking just as bad as I am right now.
Calm down, Lana.
It’ll be okay.
Deep breaths.
In…out.
In…out.
My breathing starts to slow down, and I feel my body relax letting me know the breathing is calming me down. What the hell was that in there? What did I do? Jaxson’s words ring in my head over and over. My witch side had awakened, and I had no idea how to control them. I’m like a ticking time bomb walking around. I could have been holding Gabriel when that happened. I could have hurt him.
His father looked at me curiously, then shared a look with his son. “Maybe it has something to do with my witch putting the protection spell on her, or maybe her powers surfaced because of the mate bond. This all started happening the minute you marked her.”
Jaxson’s head hung low with guilt. “Son, it’s not your fault. You couldn’t have known this was going to happen.” His father tried to tell him, but Jaxson shook his head violently.
“No! It is my fault no matter how I look at it.” I try to calm him down, but he rips my hand away.
“Don’t touch me!” He hisses with so much anger, and runs outside. He’s afraid to touch me.
His father wraps his arms around me trying to give me some sort of comfort. The pain rips through me making me howl. “I-I…He doesn’t want me because I’m different.”
“No, don’t think like that. He does want you, but he’s just afraid. He’s afraid he’s going to lose you. Jaxson already lost someone before, and doesn’t want that to happen to you. He’ll come back.”
The comfort he tries to give me doesn’t do anything for me. It just makes me cry even harder, breaking me in two. It takes all the strength in me not to run away from this place, but I know if I did it would be a mistake. If I left, he would find me and punish me. Maybe even kill me this time.
“Can you excuse me?” I say running outside in the same direction Jaxson did.
My feet carry me through the woods towards his scent. The closer I get the more scared I get. What if his father was wrong, and doesn’t want me anymore? I run even faster, and the next thing I know I’m knocked down falling on my back. His red eyes meet mine making my emotions take over once again.
“Please Jaxson, don’t leave me!” I beg him.
He looms over my body, and confusion is written all over his face. “I’m not leaving you, you’re mine. I just didn’t want my wolf to hurt you.”
He cups my face connecting our lips, and sliding his tongue in my mouth. I can feel his emotions as he possessively claims my body. His hands slide down to my waist, and slip under my shirt making me moan against his mouth. His mouth moves down my jawline to his mark, making everything so much more intense.
“Jaxson,” I whine fully submitting to him. I can feel his hot breath on my neck as he grinds into me. I hear a voice, making me feel embarrassed. I’m caught once again in an awkward position.
“Jaxson. I need a word with you.” He growls in frustration at being interrupted again.
“Fine! We’ll have to finish this later, go back inside.” He whispers in my ear while glaring at Cole.
Walking in my room, I see a dark figure in the corner. It's too dark to see who it is, but something tells me that I need to get out of this room and fast. He shoves me to the wall gripping my throat. “So delicious. It'll be fun watching as Jaxson breaks completely. Not yet, but soon little hybrid. Soon. I'll be back for you.”
He released my throat, and before I know it he's gone. It was too dark to see who it was, but the voice sounded so familiar. I've heard it before. Maybe all this was just a hallucination from all my stress. I can't even tell anymore.
Who was he, and what does he want from me?