Chapter Twenty-One

“Okay, you should go back out and enjoy the party” I tugged at his suit. “I need to freshen myself up, is there a bathroom anywhere?”

“Yes.” He placed a kiss on my temple. “It’s down the hall and to the left. As soon as you come back, I’ll announce to the whole pack our amazing news. Everyone will be excited.”

“Okay,” I breathed out nervously. “I’ll try and be fast.”

“Take your time.” I went to walk away and he squeezed my bum gently, making me jump up and snort-laugh, which resulted in him bursting into a fit of laughter and I quickly ran away, shouting at him to be quiet.

The bathroom was huge, as expected. I walked over to the mirror and looked at myself, feeling more beautiful than I had before. My skin was glowing and I looked amazing. Quickly dabbing the fallen mascara under my eyes and smoothing down my hair, I turned to walk out.

“You did it” A voice echoed around the stalls making me freeze in my tracks.

“What?” I turned back around and walked inside the bathroom again.

“You won, Isabella” The cubicle door opened and I tightened up, seeing Ruth walk out with mascara stained down her cheeks and her dress all ruined and ripped. “Did you not hear me!” She yelled and I cowered down. “You won!”

“Ruth...” My hands came out in front of me. “I didn’t mean to do anything, okay? It just happened”

“Oh, it just happened? Well that’s fine then!! I won’t feel so bad about doing this if I know that it didn’t mean anything” She started laughing and I raised my eyebrows.

“What are you—” I stopped speaking as she pulled a gun out of her bag, pointing it at me. My hands were raised beside my head and my heart pounded in my chest. “Please” A single tear fell down my cheek and I hoped that somebody would hear us.

“That’s right” She bobbed the gun up and down as she spoke. “I hold the power here, remember? I own you right now”

“What are you going to do? Kill me? How is that going to help anything?” I shook my head at her as her eyes flickered with regret. “You’ll just get thrown in jail for eternity, and never have a chance to amount to anything” My teeth snapped at her, my protective side coming out.

“I’ve waited so long for this” She moved around me, looking at the door from where she stood, making sure nobody was there.

“Then do it” I called her bluff and brought my hands back down. I knew that she wasn’t going to do anything to hurt me, her own wolf wouldn’t let her harm a Luna. “C'mon”

“I’ll do it!!” She straightened the gun in her hand, pointing it at me again. “Don’t think that I won’t”

“You keep going on and on about how you want to kill me, but yet your still standing here pointing the gun at me” My arms crossed over my chest and I raised an eyebrow at her. “I’m beginning to doubt your commitment”

“Shut up!” She cocked the gun.

“You won’t. You know why?” I took a step forward. “Because you’re a coward Ruth”

She let out a cry of anger and charged towards me, grabbing me by the throat and pushing me into the wall. I grabbed at her hands, kicking my feet up and knocking her onto her back. “Bitch”

She stormed up and shoved me to the floor, putting me in a headlock and squeezing my throat, constricting my air. I clawed at her hands and arms, drawing blood and trying to cry out for help, but it was no use.

"Elbow," I heard Theo’s voice come out of nowhere in particular, and I remembered what we had learned in the class, so I brought my elbow up, powering it with all my strength and ploughing it into her side. She let go instantly and fell back coughing.

I got up and went to walk away but she stepped up and grabbed my hair yanking me backwards so hard the sink came away from the wall and sprayed water all over the wall and her.

“Oh my god!” She let out a big scream as she was soaked and I walked forward, delivering a hard punch to her jaw, knocking her out cold. Her limp body fell to the bathroom floor with a thud as a guard ran in after hearing all the commotion.

“What is going on?!” He yelled out and I blew out a shaky breath, looking at the unconscious girl on the floor and the gun that had slid across the room.

“She tried to kill me” I nodded at him and he gawked at me, looking at the damage and calling for backup on his radio. “Thanks” I held up my thumb to him and stepped out, wiping blood off my leg and fixing the clasp on my shoe.

My eyes caught Theo, who was already power walking towards me with a concerned look on his face. “Are you alright?”

I flung my hands around his neck and nodded, happy to be alive and beside him. “I am now”