If only you knew by Rickayla Plaskett (surface ebook reader txt) 📖

for a shirt. I pull on light green shirt and grab my bag from the back of the front door. I walk out. Locking the door behind me. I take the bus to work. It is 5pm when I look at my phone. A little late but I make it to the restaurant on time.
I walk to the back room and set my stuff down. I wave to my best friend Miranda. We hug and get to taking orders. As the night wears on, people drift in and out. I sit at the bar and look at the door. Almost time to lock up. I order a beer and Miranda hugs me goodbye. As she is leaving, she bumps into a man. She looks back at me as he asks her a question. She does not leave immediately. I hear footsteps approach me. My cheeks start to burn as they draw near.
I see her staring at what might happen out of the corner of my eye. I sigh and swivel around. I start at his feet and slowly work my way up. I hear his sigh and the humming of his absent heartbeat. I finally look him in the eyes and smile. He folds his arms and looks at me.
“Madeline.” He says my name and that is all I need
I scramble from my seat and step into his arms. He looks surprised as he wraps his arms around me. I hear Miranda leave. I smile at him and he has a straight face. My face soon drops and I step far away from him. He starts to speak as tears streak my face. I turn away from him and he steps behind me. He pulls me against him and he rests his head against my shoulder. I try to get away from him effortlessly. He hangs onto me as I turn around and cry into his chest.
“Come with me, now.” He guides me to the parking lot
“Where are we going?” I ask him worriedly as his grip tightens
“Home” He pulls me to him
His fangs sink into my neck viciously. I start to scream. His hand covers my mouth. I start to claw at him. He slams me to the floor while still gulping my blood. I start to feel limp. I feel a power rise within me. In the life before my vampire one I was an all powerful elemental. I feel the heat rise within me. I feel my body try and shake but I have lost so much blood. He grips me to him and his fingers stroke my body.
“Do you feel better now?” I ask normally with my speech still with me
“I have to kill you Madeline.” He looks into my eyes
“After you have saved me, you have to kill me? Don’t you care about me?” I question him
“Yes. I do care about you but I was hired to kill you.” He stops biting me and licks the wound
“Why did you stop?” I ask stroking his face
“I just wanted to weaken you, not kill you. I still have my personal needs.” His hand runs over my blouse
“Take me to my home.” I beg him
“No. I want to take you right here.” He takes his shirt off and my heart starts beating faster
“Never.” I feel the strength rise within me
I scramble up and run into the woods. I hear his laughter all around me. I jump in a tree and wait for him to find me. I feel his fingers against my back. I drop from the tree and start walking slowly towards the deeper forest. I hear him touch the ground.
“Where in the world have you been hiding? Really you are perfect. I only wish you were here with me. Who is my new tutor?” I sing as I stop
“Who are you calling?” Demetri kisses my neck
“My little Angel. What would you like?” I hear his smooth tone from the deep woods
“Come here Lover.” I twist and turn flirting with him
“Yet, you have a man on your backside.” He growls deeply and Demetri hisses
“Don’t tempt me to use them.” I roar at him
“You lost your powers Two lifetimes ago.” He laughs and I only see his foot
“I can prove it” I laugh
“You don’t want him to be cautious?” He questions me
“I don’t care.” I feel the heat rise within my body
“You sure are hot.” I hear him in front of me
I feel fire consume my body. He steps into it, making the flame blue. He kisses me and I unbutton his shirt. He pulls me into his embrace and I melt. I feel air make a tunnel around us. The rocks form a line of defense around us. The water from the earth forms a veil around everything. I stop kissing him and he steps out of the Elemental Orb unharmed. Demetri seems surprised as I turn around and look at him for a brief second. I switch my attention back to Shadow.
“It seems you were telling the truth after all My Little Angel.” He smiles and walks away
“Wait! I need something from you still.” I argue
“Like what exactly?” He is in front of me in a flash
“He almost drained me.” I whisper into his ear
“What would you like me to do about it?” He asks devilishly
“Call my Brother.” His eyes dilate and He bows low
“As you wish, Princess.” He phases and is no longer in sight
“Madeline, who was that?” Demetri asks behind me unsurely
“My ex-boyfriend.” I say in a crouch
“Where has He gone?” He asks slicking back his hair for me to see his eye color change to bright red
“To get my Brother.” We circle each other hissing and staring each other down
“He wont make it in time and you know it. Even with your powers, you wont be able to stand the gravity pull.” He laughs in one place and stops circling
“I am not a vampire with elemental powers, I AM a Elemental. Just a side note for you to consider the gravity situation.” I jerk my head to the spot where Shadow disappeared to
“I hear him. He is very fast, very strong…He doesn’t scare me. He wont get here in time.” I hear Demetri’s voice behind me
“Lets play” I jump up in the air and search the grounds before landing
Demetri comes from behind me and kicks my feet from under me. I balance on my hands and kick him in the face before back flipping away. He smiles and I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around quickly to look in to the eyes of Demetri. Another one? CLONES! I phase and appear in a tree and assess the situation. I feel the ribs in my body break. I yell my lungs out. Demetri appears behind me. I try and crawl away from him but He pins me down where I am.
“Please stop. My body is breaking down. I beg of you.” Sweat runs down my face and I stare into eyes of a ruthless killer
“I don’t want to stop. I cant. Once if have started a hunt, I must finish it.” He kisses my neck
“Please…Dinka please…” I start to falter
“I like that name…no thank you.” He rips open my shirt
“Take me if you want but just let me finish the transformation please…” I bargain
“Hmmm…alright then my love.” He lays my head in his arms and strokes the hair out of my face
My arms become weak and unmovable. My legs become stiff and I start to groan. My heart beat slows and my pulse becomes weak. I have to tell him to move away for I must combust to regenerate. I push him away but He just reclaims my body. I start not being able to breath, I MUST TELL HIM BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
Brother! Get me away from him for his own safety! I am about to combust! Hurry!
“Dinka…leave before…I…com-…” I need the last word!
“Before you com-?” He kisses my forehead
“bust…” My heart stops beating and I go limp
I feel the darkness surround me. I hope He understood what I said. I hope He is out of the tree. I hope He is safe. I feel the fire burn my skin. I scream silently. I feel the rocks attack me, sinking into my skin. I feel the air being taken away from me and leaving me gasping for oxygen. I feel the water surround my face and drown me. I feel my body move and shed its skin. I feel my eyes flicker open.
I wake up to the inside of a burning tree. I cloak myself in fire and walk through it. I walk out of the tree, looking around myself. I put out the flames and sniff the ground. I smell Dinka. I smell him coming! I sink into the ground, becoming earth, as He runs to see the tree aflame. I feel him drop to his knees and the salt from his tears drip into the ground. He is truly devastated. I am just glad He got out in time.
He starts to rise until I shake the floor where He is standing. He jumps into the air and appears on top of a cloud. I use my air powers to blow him into a tree. What kind of mourning was that? He flies into the leaves of a tree and falls through the branches hitting the ground. He seems pissed, He shouldn’t be. I watch him rise and dust himself off. I create a chair and I send him flying into the chair. Before He can escape, I use veins and rocks to bind his feet and hands to the chair. I then float up through the ground ,in my new form, and walk up to him.
“Who are you? You evil, godforsaken, cruel creature from the depths of the earth!” He insults me
“Me? Who me? You insult me? How dare you?” I form a whip of fire and slap his face with it
“AH! How are you so cruel? Do you not see that I have just lost the love of my life?” He seems broken
“You sure didn’t treat her like that. You fed on her till’ she couldn’t move…if that is how you show love, you are the evil one” I kiss his cheek with the scorch mark and it heals instantly
“So you have been watching us” He laughs
“No…not really. She told me this while she was burning in the fire. The tree over there( I point). She actually was very beautiful. Delicious too.” He seems shocked, hurt…dead.
“Impossible! She was dead when she started to combust. I checked her 15 times!” He cries
“You must not have checked her well enough. She was alive when she was burning. Didn’t you hear her screaming? Or did you drown that out too? Just like her cries for help.” I lock eyes with him
I force the sounds of my suffering into his head without giving away that I am the one pushing them in.
“I…I didn’t know…I was sure she was dead…I checked…I left her there to burn…” He seems shaken
“Her brother and Ex boyfriend are on their way and I do not think they will be too thrilled to find her dead. Especially, if they find out you left her to die.” I whistle into the woods
“You have to let me explain.” I shrug
“It is not I who you have to convince.” I fade into the ground
I hear the footsteps of my brother and my ex-boyfriend on the surface. I automatically see them direct their gaze to the burning