Chapter Eighteen

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Burning.

My skin was burning, my heart was tearing apart and my body couldn't do more but surrender. Surrender to the pain, to the agony and to the thought that this monster was going to hurt me, this monster was going to destroy me and in any second he would tear me apart. His hands explored, his lips bruising my skin, and his voice almost like broken glass to my ears.

–"Call him, make him see how you let me touch you, you filthy whore," His words were like blades against my heart, and it almost made me believe how unworthy I was.

–"What? Scared he won't want you anymore?" He taunted, continuing his assault and not carrying about my attempts to get him off me. But his words hurt more than his actions, what if he doesn't want me anymore?

His hand traveled inside my dress, caressing my thighs and almost reaching between my legs. –"Stop... stop... please," I cried, not wanting his touch, not wanting his presence and not wanting anything coming from this monster. –"Beg, you fucking whore," He laughed against my ear, not stopping and pressing his hand between my legs.

–"STOP!" I screamed, detesting the feeling, wanting to die in that moment as the emotions that went through me almost made me want to just close my eyes and fade into dust.

His hand moved, trying to make me react, but instead I was burning on the inside, I was bleeding agony and pain. –"STOP! STOP! PLEASE STOP!" I screamed, trying to pull myself away from his hold, but he was stronger than me, his other hand keeping me in place, while the other continued to cause me to feel unbearable pain.

–"Scream for me, I want to see you beg," He taunted, continuing his assault as his lips continued to press against my skin, making me feel the wrath of the pain.

He won't want you anymore.

He won't want you anymore.

He won't want you anymore.

You filthy whore.

You filthy whore.

–"I won't leave you,"

–"I'm never leaving you,"

–"Never,"

Beast.

Beast...

-"BEAST!" I screamed, wanting him to come, wanting him to save me, wanting him to come back to me. –"BEAST PLEASE!" I screamed once again, wanting to feel him, wanting to see him again and wanting this to be over.

A strong wind came through, thunders roaring in the distance, and the clouds quickly making their way to us. My body felt numb, my heart felt almost lifeless and my eyes almost fading into darkness. But, a growl made me look within the dark woods ahead of us.

–"Seems like we have a visitor," The monster whispered, his hands stopping and but he kept me trapped in his hold. Another growled followed, my body trembling as I felt it, as I felt him, within the darkness, I felt as he watched me, I felt as he called for me.

–"Beast," I whispered, causing another chaotic growl to sound within the woods, a thunder stroke in a near distance, making the ground tremble and making me shiver – somehow in fear.

The winds became stronger, making my hair brush away with it and my dress rise up with it, but I quickly kept it in place, wanting to see him come out to the light. In the distance I felt him, as if I knew where he stood, but he wasn't visible for me to see.

–"Beast," I called out for him, almost as if I was begging him to come out.

–"Come out brother, or else you want me to rip her apart," The monster spoke up, his arm letting me go, but his hand wrapped around my neck, making me scream at the sudden pressure he added.

Monster.

A grown erupted once again, thunders crashing down and the storm heard in the distance, about to approach. –"Or you come out, or your little lover dies," The monster threatened, applying more pressure and making me scream once again, feeling my breath getting shorter and shorter, and black dots starting to appear on my vision.

–"B-Bea...st..." I said, hoping he heard me, hoping he would come to me.

Before my eyes closed, I felt him, and saw him run out of the woods, a wind followed behind him as he stopped steps away from us. His fur was dark as night, his tall werewolf form made me shiver as the moon shinned above us, and his eyes... his eyes were a glowing red, watching us with an intense stare, almost deadly, almost monstrously.

–"Brother," The monster said, not stopping his torture as he continued to slowly apply more pressure to my neck. –"We were waiting for you," He taunted, letting go off my neck and making me fall to my knees, and catching my breath in heavy pants. But the monster wasn't finished, he pulled me by my hair and made me stare into his silver eyes, chaos running through them and a grin on his lips. Beast growled deeply, not liking what he was doing to me, and I knew he felt more than what I was feeling.

–"Isn't she beautiful?" The monster taunted, his face coming closer to him, making beast growl at him, stepping closer to us, which the monster didn't like as he frowned at the beasts way. –"You really want to threaten me, brother? While I can simply rip this woman apart?" The monster taunted, gripping my hair which made me whimper at the pain that it inflicted. The monster looked at beast, and laughed – a dark sinister laugh, which made me not like what could come next.

–"Shift," I looked at the monster, not knowing what he meant, but I knew he directed his words to beast. I felt as if they were communicating, but weren't speaking out loud. The silence was almost strange to me, but the monster spoke again.

–"SHIFT NOW!" I flinched at his words, but still not knowing what he meant. My eyes directed at beast, his red eyes not leaving mine, somewhere within them I felt his need to be with me, and my heart skipped a beat as I felt the pull between us come to life again.

He closed his eyes, making me just see his black fur be brushed by the wind, and then I heard cracking – bones cracking, many sounded painful and horrific, his fur was slowly fading back to his tan skin, the art in his arms appearing and he was now a man. My eyes were in awe at how his supernatural powers could be so strange and horrific to others, but I was mesmerized by his gift. His green eyes locked with mine, and somehow my eyes tried to remember every detail of this man – this beautiful creature before me, my beast.

His black hair looked like soft silk, his eyes trying to hide the anger he contained, but instead he looked at me with kindness, with pure adoration, his lips were just as I remembered, and I almost wanted to know how it would feel to have them on mine once again, his chest has small subtle of hair, and his arms still carried the art that I was fascinated by when I first saw him.

He was beautiful, he was mine, and I was his. –"Now you see what type of monster he is," The real monster whispered to me, but I didn't find his statement to be true, and I turned to look at him, somehow feeling the courage and the strength.

–"The monster here, is you," He looked at me shocked, but then he let out a laugh, as if what I said meant nothing to him, -"Me? A monster?" He said, pulling me closer to him, and making me feel his wrath of anger as he pulled my hair harder, not carrying for my cries.

–"Let her go," Beast said with authority in his voice, I heard him growl, his eyes filled with anger and about to unleash chaos. The monster looked at his brother, with the same anger in his eyes, –"Don't tell me what to do, were not little kids anymore," The monster spoke up, his eyes held emotions I couldn't decipher and all I could do was watch them both.

What happened between them?

–"She has nothing to do with what you have against me, brother," Beast said, stepping closer to us, looking at me with sadness in his eyes. I mouthed, it's okay, to him and tried to stay strong a little longer.

–"She does. She is a part of you, and if she dies, you die!" The monster reminded, but I didn't know that could be true. I won't die. I certainly won't die. Beast stopped a couple feet away from us, looking at his brother with rage in his eyes but there was a hint of sadness behind them, and I knew somehow, he still felt something for his own blood.

–"But why?" Beast asked, to which the monster just pushed me away and walked up to his brother, and next thing I know is that he swings his fist to beast, but he quickly dodges, but the monster won't give up that easily. He swings again, and this time it hits beast on his arm, pushing him a couple feet away from him, but the grin playing on his lips made me fear for beast.

–"TELL ME WHY!" Beast screams, making the monster rage, he swings once again, but the beast quickly takes a hold of his neck, keeping him in place. I watch in shock, and try my best to not interfere, but some bad feeling crosses over me.

–"SPEAK!" Beast roared, his eyes turning red and his claws appearing.

The monster laughed, a loud diabolic laugh, that I am sure could make children scatter away and people run with fear. –"Why?" He said, turning his head to the side, his eyes chaotic, almost insane. –"You took away what belonged to me!" He whispered. –"YOU TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME!" He screamed, hitting the beast on his chest with his foot and pushing himself away from his hold. My eyes looked at beast with worry, he didn't seem hurt by the monster, but his eyes said something else.

The monster laughed, once again, almost sounding like a maniac, my ears cringed at the sound, and he stood up while throwing his head back in laughter. –"You have to pay... Just like them," He said in a low voice, almost as if he wasn't himself anymore. Beast just watched him, but something in his eyes awakened rage. –"THEY ALL HAD TO DIE, AND NOW YOU WILL!" The monster took out a knife, but in the light it was a pure silver knife, my eyes widened at the item.

No...

No.

No!

The monster ran to the beast, it was almost as if he did it in a flash, and all I could do was scream, –"BEAST!"

My eyes widened as the monster sliced beasts arm, the blood that spilled from it made me scream in horror. No. No! Beast face appeared in pain, but he immediately held the monsters hands, trying to avoid having the blade near him. Both brothers look at each other, rage within their eyes, and a war in their minds.

–"They didn't have to die," Beast whispered, –"They were your family, the people that loved you, the people that took care of you and the people that respected you!" He expressed, his arm was badly injured, the blood continued to flow, but he continued to fight. –"But you were always the chosen one, you were the one who earned all of the love, and the one who would earn the family gift!" The monster raged, kicking his brother on the leg, making him step back and gave the monster the opportunity to swing at him once again, he missed plenty of times, and the beast kicked him on his chest, making him fall on his back onto the grass. The thunders roared in the distance, and the small droplets of rain falling on us.

–"You were still going to be my right hand, my confider, my brother," Beast said, walking up to the monster and seeing his eyes mixed with sadness and rage.

–"NO!" The monster screamed, standing up and pointing the knife at beast.

–"YOU TOOK EVERYTHING! THE GIFT NEVER CAME TO ME, BUT IT DID COME TO YOU! YOU WOULD'VE EARNED EVERYTHING, BUT NOW I FINALLY CAN DEFEAT YOU, AND I CAN BECOME MORE THAN WHAT YOU EVER WERE!" He screamed, making me feel his anger, his pain, his sadness and his need for revenge.

But, the monster turned to look at me, his eyes glowing with the moon, and the tip of the knife directed at me. –"SHE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF YOU AND THEN YOU WILL DIE!" He screamed, running to me, and making me look at the beast as I felt my fate was coming.

I love you, beast.

happy holidays beasties, i hope all of you are enjoying your time with family and stuffing yourself with food - if not then just enjoy your time however you want and i hope all of you are okay <3

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i love you all little beasties thank you for bearing with me. enjoy the rest of your holidays.

~ jess