Chapter 31. Obey Me!

I lost everything and almost died. Terrified inside, deep down, like a churning pit of foreboding that shadows me, of the monsters I knew only from stories. The ones who jumped out of the fables and threw me out of my bedroom window.

Knowing they are out there and close enough to devastate our kind is enough to make me cower for the rest of my life. They had a weapon, a sound that, much like Carmen’s, could hurt us and render us unable to turn. That means we’re no longer the stronger in this newfound war, and we can all be killed. I have bigger things in my head right now than love confessions and pining assholes trying to mess with my head while arguing with his mate.

“I’m not going to spend my days whining about this crap, and I need you just to stop, okay. The words you said in the forest were the end of this. There’s nothing to say or drag out and talk through.” I turn on him aggressively, lifting my palms in a show of ‘what now?’, meaning, where the hell am I meant