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I finally was able to pick up his words as he suddenly grabbed my left bicep.
"Fuck..." he whispered before those shock-stricken circles peered into mine, which began to grow weaker. "Will...! You're...Will...aren't you?!"
I was unsure why his words were cutting off every other second, especially when our hearing was usually the last to fade at the brink of death. I couldn’t even answer his question, for I didn’t get what he was asking.
I tried to speak, but that only made me cough more blood and suddenly I was gasping as dark spots began to claim my vision. Dimitris was now wildly shaking me, and it almost pained me to see the fear that gripped those cotton candy spheres.
He knew I was dying, a result that wasn't caused by his own hands, and that left him in desperate need of claiming such ownership. I'm sure he would have blamed himself for the circumstances that led me to kill myself and be saved somehow, and then land in the heart of the Alpha forest to face Garfield's brother.
He'd take the blame like I was a true wolf of his pack. It’s what a real Wolf Alpha would do.
With each second that continued to tick, the wilder his eyes became, which left me almost confused as to why.
"You can’t die!" he declared as if it were my choice.
I surely didn't want to enter the pits of Hell when I'd yet to prove my worth. I'd finally discovered my purpose. Discovered the first set of secrets that were hidden in the lands of my mafia family, which was only one half of who I truly was while the other was kept hidden beneath the walls of power, money, and whatever source of magic that was able to wipe it all away.
My death would reveal the can of worms that had been left for years to discover, and maybe it would trigger an all-round war in the realms of shifters. Who knows?
My attention returned to Dimitris as he dropped to his knees. He clearly didn't care about the blood that surely would have pooled all around me by now.
His hands pressed against the very wounds that bled away the remaining fragments of my twenty-five years of life.
"Dammit!" he cursed and looked me dead in the eye. "Don’t you dare slip away from me! Did I fucking give you permission?!"
That made me smirk, though it had to be a tiny one that ignited his rage as he pressed even harder. I couldn't feel the pain anymore, but I was sure that my blood merely slipped through the spaces between his spread fingers and quickened my approaching demise.
How wonderful to get a helping hand?
"You're not leaving us," he snarled when he finally deemed his efforts hopeless, but his words made no sense as he couldn't stop fate itself.
It was sad, but that was life, I guessed. If only I could have seen what the Pink Moon had for me and how it felt to be a part of a pack. That would have been a dream to enjoy.
As I waited for death to finally take me, the silence that lingered was followed with a simple word.
"Awaken," Dimitris whispered, which left me to wonder if something seemed to beat hard enough for me to feel through the numbness.
What?
Dimitris watched me in shock before tiny traces of hope flooded those pink rings that dilated further. "I knew it," he whispered as a cynical grin formed on his lips. "Our little wolf is right there at the brink of death."
He hovered over me suddenly, and I watched as a tattoo formed on his left arm that blared with vitality within the dark night. His eyes began to glow as those pinks spheres suddenly shifted to a dangerous silver with rings of purple around his irises.
His short black strands began to flood with silver, leaving me to shiver internally as the pulsating force pushed harder for release.
He looked into my eyes with so much force that it seemed to unlock the very sensations I'd thought were led astray by approaching death, only for them to come surging back, which made me gasp as my back arched like I'd been revived by the defibrillator.
"Awaken, our forbidden fruit! Let that dazzling beast out of you!" Dimitris commanded, and the next pulsing force left me screaming.
The pain was back but far worse than before, as I was frozen in spams of crippling agony as my mind experienced multiple emotions.
They flickered through from four different directions, a compass of foreign feelings that begged for my utmost attention. Confusion, uncertainty, and intense lust were only a fraction of emotions that hit me - the burning anger that seemed to come from all four directional planes fought to consume me.
Only, the combination of rage wasn't directed at me but the person who did this to me.
When another wave of pulsating force went through me, it triggered something unimaginable.
My eyes rolled into the back of my head as my body convulsed once more, only I suddenly was consumed by heightened agony as splintering sounds of snapping bones were followed with my vision suddenly shifting entirely.
