Chapter 475
Chapter 475
Her eyes flew open, but Rick and Shelly screamed. My mom and Toya grabbed Rick. Wendy wrapped her arms around Shelly’s waist to keep her back. Rick bellowed. “ABBY!” His eyes were a mix of rage and desperation. He was desperate to save his pup. I felt the phantom kick from my own pup and knew I would have done the same. “Amy, you were supposed to save her.” His voice broke. “How could you do this?” Tears poured from his eyes. “She trusted you.” He forced himself another step. “We trusted you.” He bellowed again, eyes flashing. “ABBY!” His pain was a bitter taste in my mouth.
I met his eyes. “ You said you trusted me.”
That made him pause . “I did…I do. But you just killed-” His voice broke as he looked at the growing pool of blood under her. “You killed my baby.” He dropped to his knees and the sob that broke from his lips shattered my heart. “You killed my baby.”
Shelly just hung from Wendy’s arms. I expected to see hatred , to see fury, but all I saw was a broken woman. Watching me slam the knife home shattered something in her. Something that was so deep , so profound that I wasn’t sure it would ever be fixed.
“Shelly?” I called to her , but she was gone. But I needed her to snap out of it. I needed her to feel. I grabbed the cup that had held the water and I walked to her. I grabbed her face. “Shelly, I need you to look at me.” There was no response .
“Girl, you know you need to do it. You are running out of time . ” My grandmother’s words were soft , but they gave me strength.
I nodded once, and then I pulled back and smacked Shelly across her face . Ternen and Alannah were crying , staring at me like I was a monster. And right this second, I felt like one. I looked at Wendy and she grimaced but nodded. I pulled the two to the side of the table, next to a crying
Carly .
“Look at your daughter Shelly.” I grabbed her face and made her look at Abby. She still didn’t react.
Rick fought. His tears were streaming , but his need to protect his wife overruled him. But my mom and Toya planted themselves in front of him. “ Trust her . ”
“She killed my pup and is torturing my mate and you are telling me to trust her!” Rick screamed again. A gut wrenching sound that made Shelly twitch.
“ You have to make her feel it.” My grandmother’s voice was soft. “She has retreated to the back of her mind, but she needs to see it, to feel it . ”
I turned in to myself and Nix nodded. Get on. I jumped on her back and she ran through the forest . She ran for a few minutes when the trees changed. The trees that were lit by sunlight shifted into darkness.
“Can you see anything ? ” I dug my fingers deeper into her fur.
“ No. But that’s fine, I don’t need to see . I can scent the trees and follow the crying . ” Nix sounded confident.
“ What crying ? ” I couldn’t hear anything.
“ Shelly’s . ” Nix sounded sad , but determined. We ran in the darkness for a few more minutes , but I couldn’t help the dread that was spreading through me . If we couldn’t get her to snap out of this , we were cooked.
And I had just murdered a child in front of her parents.
There , in the distance , was a clearing. Moonlight cascaded down on to a huddled form and I could hear the faint sobs of a shattered heart. The knife in my own heart twisted. I was the cause of this. But I couldn’t stop . We walked out in to the clearing.
“Shelly. ” I called out , and a wolf , blonde and pissed , popped up .
“ You have no right to be here. Murderer . ” She snapped at me. But we ran towards the pair.
“I have no right to be here? But you human is too weak to face her own daughter’s death ? ” I scoffed . The taste of bitterness coated my tongue.
The wolf, Shelly’s wolf, snarled . “ Did you come to gloat ? ”
“Yes.” I smiled. I hopped off of Nix . “ Look at how pathetic she is. ” Shelly looked up , and I nearly stepped back from the hatred I saw in her eyes “What? You don’t like that?” I raised my hands. “ You can hate me all you want. But you are the one that ran away from her daughter’s death You retreated instead of fighting for her . And you call yourself a mother? ” I scoffed. “ I might be evil , but at least I care enough to stay present when my pup died . You came in here You ran. Leaving her to grow cold. Alone.”
Shelly screamed at me. But I think my words finally hit her. And she was gone.
i hopped back on Nix, and we fled back to my body .