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Goosebumps peppered my body as my intuition went on high alert. It was almost as if someone was in the room with me. I looked around, to double check that I was alone. Was someone fucking with me? I knew Zev was upset with me, but did he have the ability to do this to me?
If he was behind this, I would make sure he regretted everything for the rest of his life. Grabbing on to the end of the bed, I slowly got up, still a little dizzy from the pain. My heart was still racing, my body still on high alert. Nothing looked out of place in my room, I had been here the whole time. I grabbed my watch seeing it was two fifteen in the morning.
Lucien and Aeon had been waking up earlier but I hadn’t heard anything about Zev. The more I thought about it the less likely it seemed that it was that asshole. A sense of dread filled my chest before my intuition screamed at me. I frantically looked around for something before I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
The blinding pain came back, making me fall to my knees again. The pain was all over my head and I finally realized what it was. Caston was trying to force his way in. The revelation made me recognize the specific feel of his familiar magic trying to get into my head, but there was also a secondary feel to his power. It was like he was taking multiple hammers to my head to crack my skull open.
The pain intensified and I screamed so loud that my ears popped. Tears fell down my face as I tried to get up. I needed someone, anyone to help me fight him off. My vision cut off again while I crawled to the door slowly, like my limbs weren’t receiving the message to move.
“Lucien!” I cried out feeling myself on the edge of oblivion.
“Aeon!” I yelled, panicking wondering what the hell Caston was doing. “Help!”
Why wasn’t anyone coming? I had no choice but to try and fight it, but I had no idea what I was doing. Lucien said he would teach me but with everything that had been going on, we hadn’t had a chance to work on it.
Instinctively I tried to picture walls in my mind. Steel walls that were strong enough to keep Caston out. The pressure in my head lessened but when I felt another stabbing pain, my walls crumbled and all I felt was excruciating power.
Nausea assaulted me, making me want to throw up my breakfast. My body was forced ramrod straight, like someone was trying to command my limbs to do something, but I couldn’t figure out what.
Walk now.
My body obeyed immediately like I was a puppet obeying my master, taking a step. I clenched my teeth trying to put up walls in my mind again, succeeding for a second before they were blown down like they were a deck of cards.
I lowered my body to the floor sobbing, not knowing what else to do. He was winning and it looked like this was it. My body shuddered involuntarily while I felt the last of my will slowly give away. Who knew what he was going to do to me as I felt my subconscious slowly going under. I screamed one more time, as loud as I could. My final thought as I succumbed to the darkness was that I hoped Lucien would stop me from leaving if he got to me in time.
* * *
I was walkingwhen I came back into consciousness. My limbs felt heavy and I was moving slowly. Confusion was clouding my mind, making everything blurry.
Move faster.A growl sounded in my head. It was Caston.
The pain was radiating throughout my body instead of just my head with each step I took.
“Katarina.” My name made me flinch.
I opened my eyes, but I still didn’t have my vision back. It was also extremely hot. Heat was all around me, like I was in the middle of a fire.
What the fuck was going on?
“Katarina, you need to calm down!”
Kill.
“Kit Kat!” The heat was everywhere, it was consuming me.
Kill.
“Katarina!”
Kill them all.
“Zev!”
Arms wrapped around me. The intensity of the pain receded as I was met with yellow eyes. His face was full of pain.
“Fight it,” Zev said, through clenched teeth and all I could see around me was fire. “Stay with me, don’t let him win.”
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