Chapter 54

Eloise’s p.o.v

*Mention of rape in the scene*

I was going crazy, that was for sure. I could no longer tell where I was, or what was real. one moment I was living the life of this so called Dorothy, who ever it is that she was, and the next moment, I was living the life of another person.

It messed with my head in more ways than I could explain.

“I see you’re back to normal.” The guy that had carried me away from the palace, James said.

“Don’t you serve the king or something? I believe taking his mate would not be treasonous, would it not?” he did not even look phased, like he was not scared.

“you know, I don’t think you know what’s up here.” He said taking a step closer to me. There was no place to run to, so I had to stand my ground. “ You may not have heard about me, I’m James, the brother of Eric and the main person to the throne.” He said pacing up and down.

“What does that even have to do with me?” I was suspecting that he had something to do with the way I felt, cause sometime when he had dropped me, I felt a little more control of my body, still not enough yet.

“It has everything to do with you Ely” he looked at me with that abominable look and then asked “I can call you that, can I not? I heard those close to you call you that at one point or the other.” I lost my tongue. He had been watching us. Watching me.

“The thing now, ely is very simple. I was cast out of my rightful place, which was in the palace, to rule as the alpha and no one else. The only way to get that to be possible is to have a child.”

I still did not get how it related to me. I tried to pull away, but then chains which I didn’t not even notice since I could barely feel my body and since my eyes had been fixed on him gauging his every move, weighed me down and pulled me back, restricted my movement. “Come on now, don’t struggle with it. You’ll only be hurting yourself. I am sure you don’t want to bruise those pretty wrists of yours now, would you?”

“Look, whatever is the issue between you and Eric? That’s between the two of you. I don’t think I should be dragged between the two of you”

“Do you want to hear a story?” he said and sat in front not me.

“No, I do not”

“I’ll tell you” he said as though I had not just out rightly refused to listen to him. “I once had a mate, she was the prettiest” he said with a dreamy look in his eyes. “ I loved her, but then no one could know of our relationship. But then Ian, he had his way with her, he .. he .. raped her.” The rage Was glaring in his eyes.

“He took away her innocence and killed her! And then Eric had the guts to challenge me!” he looked at me with hate filled eyes. “Now you, they think that after everything they get to have their happily ever after while I suffer?” just then, someone came in with.. “Anna!” I screamed. Trying to rush to her but he chains, they restricted my movement. It was starting to get irritating.

“let her go!” I yelled.

“ You don’t get a say in that pretty” he said. “I’ll come when she has woken up.” He winked then left.

“Anna! Anna!!” there was no reply. She was out cold. I calmed my racing heart to listen to hers. A sigh I did not know I was holding was released. “she is breathing, she is breathing” I told myself over and over again.

I looked at the unconscious body that lay in my view but out of my reach.

I closed my eyes and let the minutes fly by.

I could feel how my legs grew numb under me with nothing much that I could do. “Its been a while I’ve heard from you” I heard the faint raspy of Anna

“You’re awake!” I jolted my eyes open. “Can you stand up? Can you feel your arms? Your legs?”

She shook her head as if to wave off what I was saying. “You worry too much” she smiled “you know, I’ve missed you. I feel like since this whole thing, you’ve been distant from me” she sounded sad. Anna had always been the emotional one between us. She wore her heart on her sleeves. “Some days, I hate you” she started making my heart slam against my rib cage from the pain I heard behind those words.

She gave a faint laugh. “I hate you because you I feel like you dragged me into this world and then abandoned me, to face all these things all alone. But then sometimes I am grateful because I would not have met Ian. He…” she sighed.

I had expected her to Continue, but she didn’t. “anna?” there was no response. “Anna!” I called out from panic.

“I miss him. One moment he was coming back from a 'mission' and next he is going in another. It never ends” I felt bad. The only reason Ian was as occupied was because Eric and I had a lot to handle.

“I could always talk to Eric about it, we’ll make sure something is done” she didn’t say any other thing and just nodded her head. “I am really sorry that you have to go through that. You must really love him”

The place started to get brighter and brighter for me. Not because of the lighting but somehow, I could just see perfectly in the dark room.

“What of you? What’s been keeping you away?” this was hardly the place to have a reunion, but I appreciated it. “Honestly, I need a break. It’s been drama. From witches to visions I can’t control, it’s… it’s messing with my mind.” I felt my voice waver a bit.

“What do you mean messing with your mind?” at this point, I wanted nothing more than to go back to those days where all I had to worry about was hide who i truly was and then get through the day.

“I feel myself most times living the life of the person, but it’s only a vision. I don’t even know what is real any more. It’s tiring.” I said out loud for the first time in a while.

“It’ll be-“

“Ladies!” James came back, looking excited “sorry to break up the reunion, but I think I am back” Anna looked at him with … fear?

“Who are you?” she asked.

“Some bitch” I said taunting him a little. It didn’t work out well for me because he marched up to me and gave me a slap that sent my head going the opposite direction with so much force.

I could feel the blood rushing to my mouth. “Is that all you’ve got?” I smiled, taunting him further.