Blue convinced herself that she would manage to go through this. She would be alive and waited for her time to avenge what they had done to her.
She would bleed or bruise and even shed tears, but she wouldn't let Alpha Xerxes got away with what he had done. He killed her uncle and now he beheaded Mateo.
Blue was sure that she would crush his heart with her own hand and let him see that. He would die a misserable death that he would never see it coming.
Blue would make sure he would beg her to kill him when she tortured him to her heart content and she would torment him again and again.
The white hair girl gritted her teeth when she felt the cold water of the river touched her skin and soaked the cloak that Liam gave to her when it reached her hips.
The only reminded that she was alive was only the way Emmet gripped her hand tightly. He literally only a step away from crushing her fingers, but Blue had so much in her mind to care about that.
She was helpless with the bracelet around her wrist that prevented her from shifting into her beast and also with wounds that littered her body, which made the water of the river dyed in red.
"You better not passed out when I mark you," Emmet hissed when he spoke to her, as the ceremony began with Alpha Xerxes chanted in ancient language, praise for the moon goddess.
Blue didn't answer that, she fixed her eyes at Emmet, yet she said nothing about that. She knew what kind of pain that she would go through once Emmet sunk his teeth on the sweet spot on her neck, she was pretty sure that he wouldn't do it gently.
But then, maybe the pain that she needed at this moment, to keep her mind alive and to keep her grudge and resentment sharp.
She would remember every pain and humiliation that she felt tonight, it was agony that gnawed in her heart, which she hang onto it for dear life.
If Blue was asked what make her thrive to survive, the answer would be a grudge. She would survive to ensure these spiteful creatures regretted to not kill her tonight.
Once a little, innocent girl, with nothing that she wanted aside from a safe place for her to stay and lived surrounded by people that she loves and had a heart that was as gentle as a feather, now that little girl was gone.
Every small pieces of her that reminded of that little girl had gone. Zuri killed Blue in her, because that innocent girl, who would sobs pittifuly and flinched whenever she saw someone lost their life, wouldn't survive in this world.
She would survive by her own.
She would no longer hang her hope to be saved by anyone, not even Chaos…
"Now, you can mark your mate!" Alpha Xerxes announced, he smirked triumphantly, grinning viciously even when he watched Emmet grabbed Blue's face roughly and sunk his teeth on her tender neck.
The Alpha thought that she would cry out of pain and struggled to give the last fight, though it was only a vail attempt, since she wouldn't be able to avoid this.
However, to his surprised, the girl suck her pain and gritted her teeth, she endured the agony when Emmet forced to form a bond between them.
They were not mate, thus the bond that was created between them would be more painful, especially when the other one was not willing to give in.
"What a stubborn girl," Alpha Xerxes murmured, he was quite disappointed because the part where Zuri was crying was the part that he had been waiting for, but then he didn't get the pleasure.
Alpha Xerxes turned around to see the girl that was Emmet's true mate and he smiled resentfully to see the girl was crying silently, sobbing until her whole body was trembling when she was forced to witness the whole thing right before her eyes.
Meredith felt the mate bond between them snapped the moment Emmet marked Zuri, but then, since Emmet had not yet marked her, thus it was not so bad for her. It was something that she could endure and go through with it, as time would heal it.
However, what Zuri had to face was something for lifetime.
On the other hand, Liam turned around and left the scene, he didn't want to stay any longer there.
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"Where is my daughter?" That was the first word that came out of her when Lise opened her eyes and found out she was in a silent room, with only a woman next to her.
Lise could see the IV drips that connected to her hand and the cold expression of that woman when she asked her about River.
"Where is my daughter?" Lise repeated her question again and her first instinct was to flee from this place. Whatever place it was, this gave her a bad feeling, her guts told her to find River and go as far away as possible.
"WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER!?" Lise roared when the woman didn't answer her question, she looked at her contemptuously and continued with whatever she was doing, as she injected something into her IV drips.
"NO!" Lise struggled to free herself, she was trying to sit down only to find out that she was being strapped to the bed and was not able to move an inch from there.
Her eyes widened in shocked, the perilous of the situation registered to her mind. Wherever she was, she was not safe here, moreover her daughter.
However, the more she tried to fight back, the more exhausted she was. Her eyelids dropped, as her heart beat very slow and the only thing that she could remember was; she needed to find her daughter…
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