Chapter eighty-one

Isabella

It has been days and yet Aurora was nowhere to be found. And from Valerio's recent behavior, I know he doesn't care and that is making me skeptical about him.

For an Alpha that someone suddenly disappeared from his pack without any trace, he seemed relaxed which is odd if you ask me. And that's why I am having double mind, is either his behind her sudden disappearance or he knows something that I don't.

Because everything started right after he suddenly summoned her alone. I have tried to know if I could get any reasonable information from Eduardo but my efforts seem futile. Eduardo might be acting all funny and calm but he's damn smart. He knows what I was doing.

And he's fucking not opening up in whatever they are hiding.

I have tried and tried to the extent that I was no longer fucking talking to Valerio. I have been giving him cold shoulders since our last argument but how was that going to get to him when he's mostly not here. He barely comes back these days and even when he does, is when I might have gone to bed.

I groaned in frustration and headed toward the bathroom sink. Aurora is my friend, I was the one that had brought her in here and I am not going to fold my arms and do nothing about her way about.

I have to do something.

Whether Valerio is involved or not, whether he knows her way about or not, I have to find her.

I switched on the tap and quietly patted my cheeks and switched it off. As I was about to leave, I instantly felt a searing pain shot through my head.

"Ah!!" I winced, my eyes screwing shut as I clutched my head.

For days now, I have been feeling something inside me. More like something was awake within me and struggling to surface but something seems to be restricting it.

I stood in that spot for a while without moving to know if the pain would subside. And soon, just like always it was as if nothing happened. I let out a sigh and turned back to the washing hand bathroom basin to turn on the tap again when another sharp, electric pain crackled through my skull, leaving me breathless.

"Ah.. ah!!"

A strangled cry instinctively slipped out from my lips, my vision blurring as the pain threatened to consume me.

My hand fled instantly to grab the edge of the basin. Tears pooled my eyes at the sudden pain.

What's happening to me?

My heart was racing fast, nervously as I slowly lifted my head and instantly my gaze fell on the small wall mirror stationed about the basin.

And I froze in shock.

My eyes widened as I noticed that the amber color of my eyes was no longer in sight but a sliver.

The same exact color just like that day…. that means… that means, I was hallucinating.

The more my frozen eyes stared at the mirror, the more it was as if I was staring into something else. Or perhaps something was looking back at me.

Cold crawls rushed down my skin and before I knew it… I screamed out in fear, "Ahhhh!"

The blasting of my voice made me flinch, and the open window slammed shut with a resounding crash, as if a fierce gust of wind had suddenly swept through the room, rattling the glass and shaking the frame.

I stumbled back immediately, shocked at what just happened. My breathing became ragged as my bulged eyes stared around in horror.

"W_what was that?" I mumbled in my head. My heart was beating very fast but just as I was about to draw another step back, I mistakenly hit the back of my hand on the cup there, knocking it down.

And the little echo of the cup on the bathroom floor resonated loudly, piercing my ears this time. I almost jumped up and covered my ears with my hands. My body shivered in panic. My ears was usually picking any slightest sound even the little puff of my breath sounds so loud in my ears now.

I sniffed, and quickly held my mouth to stifle my sobs from breaking out. I didn't want someone to come in here and find me in this state.

I didn't even know what I looked like anymore. I doubt if this was even me, my eyes seem so different like something else.

And I felt this new wave of strength… "Ahhhh!!!" Suddenly another pain ripped through me. I cried out, my hands holding the wall as I felt my bone starting to crack, splintering, and my vision began to blur more.

"No!!" I hissed out in pain and staggered by the side. The pain shot my knee and I felt my legs curl, a bone crack echoed and I let out a cry for help.

But before I knew it, I fell to my knees, and a blood-curdling scream fled out from my mouth as my body continued to mutate.

"Please.... Please!!" I shouted, tears streamed out as another wave of pain teared through me like a razor-sharp claw. My back arched instantly and my muscles convulsed.

I was shaking.

And my bones seem to be painfully rippling out of my flesh.

"No. No," I kept murmuring. The pain was so much that I now wished that someone would burst in here. I pleaded to the moon goddess, tears filled in my eyes. I could feel my body shaking as if to transform but something seems to be holding it back.

My breathing was hard and fast.

The bathroom seemed so suffocating that breathing was now hard.

I struggled, pushing myself as I crawled toward the door. Each movement horrified and more than painful. My head was throbbing so hard and my eyes started turning towards me, images splitted into two.

The door was splitted into three in my gaze.

"No…" I sobbed hard, shocking my head. "Valerio," at this moment, I wished he had marked me. So that I could send him a mind-link or he would even feel the pain through the bond.

Alot of I wish was bombarding me at this moment.

I felt so weak, vulnerable, confused and….

Anyone. I felt almost everything all at one.

Almost closer to the door, I managed to stretched out my trembling hands but the next pain that hit me at the back of my skull dragged my body down the floor.

I felt helpless there. My wide gaze staring at the door in front of me, there was no more strength in me. To lift a finger felt so hard, my body felt so heavy.

And slowly, my eyelid twitches and my eyes started to flutter close when I heard that deep howl in my head. "Hello, Bella, I'm Akira, your wolf,"

My half closed eyes shuddered. "A_kira," I stuttered, my lips trembling as the darkness closed in.

And instantly, the bathroom door was bursted open. "Isabella!!"

My weak eyes immediately snapped shut and I welcomed the darkness.