Alter by Gracie Cochran (book series for 10 year olds TXT) 📖

goddess.”

 

I pretend to be shocked. “R really?” He smiles his lips inches from mine. I can feel his breathe on my face.

 

“Can’t you feel the pull? That feeling where you are wanting so bad to just kiss me.” His lips are just touching mine. Electricity instead of pain throws me off.  My eyes widen and I pull back in surprise.

 

“That’s impossible.” I say my voice just above a whisper. I touch my hand to my lips. He cocks his head.

 

“What’s impossible sweetheart?” he ask wrapping his arms around me. I see a smile playing on his lips.

 

I push on his chest. “Let me go. “ I say letting my anger show. His grip tightens and he shakes his head.

 

“You can’t deny it can you? You feel it too.” His nose brushes against mine. I struggle but he’s too strong. I keep myself from growling and ripping his head off here and now.

 

“I don’t feel anything towards you. I barely even know you. Let me go. ” I say.

 

He smiles. “Prove it. Don’t kiss me back and I’ll let you go.” Before I have a chance to argue his lips are on mine. At first I’m struggling trying to get away, but my mind and body eventually have different ideas. To my absolute horror my eyes close and I start kissing him back. My mind is screaming at me telling me that this is not right. I feel his lips turn up into a smile. He pulls away and I open my eyes.

 

“No.” my voice is barely a whisper but it’s filled with horror.

 

He smiles and I see triumph in his eyes. “Yes.”

 

I glare at him. “I can never have done that unless you had put some sort of spell on me. You did something to me.”

 

He raises an eyebrow. “And why would I do that? I’m not evil.”

 

I laugh letting my act drop. “That’s funny. The devil, Satan, not evil.” I wipe a fake tear from my eye. I watch him slowly frown.

 

“Now, who told you that?” His voice is filled with confusion and I see skepticism start to form in his eyes.

 

I roll my eyes. “You can’t be this stupid. My memory is back no thanks to you. I came here to punch you not make out.”

 

This causes the opposite reaction. He smiles. “So Anne. How does it feel that you actually like that kiss then?”

 

I growl at him. “It’s because I’m now cursed. I would never have kissed you back otherwise. I hate you. I feel nothing towards you that would warrant me kissing you back.”

 

He grabs me and picks me up. I struggle. “Put me down!” He tightens his grip on me.

 

I notice that my sword is a bracelet on my wrist. I still try to get out of his grip but as we get deeper something inside me was giving up the fight. Telling me to give in. It gets stronger as we get deeper inside the cave and my attempts at struggling slowly weaken.

 

Tears form in my eyes feeling hopeless. I let them fall down my face. He sees the tears and gently wipes them away. “No need to cry my darling. This is a good thing. We will be perfect together. We were meant to be together.” He place a soft kiss on my head and I close my eyes giving up. More tears fall from my face as he continues walking deeper and deeper into the cave tunnels.

 

He gets to his chair and sits down keeping me in his arms. He sits me up and pulls me closer to him.  I feel a flutter in chest but I ignore it keeping my eyes closed. He rests his head on top of mine and I feel the chair turn. I feel empty. I know that this feeling of electricity instead of pain is an illusion created by him. All I can think is how afraid West was. My heart aches just thinking about him.

 

Satan doesn’t say anything else. We just sit there with me crying until I have no more tears left to shed. I hear the voices of the demons talking softly and scream of the souls being tortured. After awhile I become exhausted and drift off to sleep.

 

Chapter 11

 

West’s POV:

 

I feel terrible. I just hurt Anne. I hurt her because I let her see the fear. I’m not afraid of her. I am afraid for her. She’s a kind hearted girl and that was really out of character. I knew something was up when I saw her through the window. Her eyes had started glowing and they turned a silverish white. I knew something was wrong. Though the side of her felt familiar. Almost like it was a completly different person. Like she's possessed.

 

She started talking to me about things she couldn’t possibly know then lunged at me. I could see hate in her eyes. Those weren’t her eyes. I didn’t recognize those eyes. They were empty except for the anger and pain I saw in them.

 

I walk out of Derek’s house and jump startled to see Mike. Mike’s one of my comrades from training. We have become close freinds ever since training. He and I had a lot of good memories together. I see sympathy in his eyes. “Hey West. I’m sorry. I didn’t know……… Anne was in the forest and I happened to see her. Well, I had left to go get something to cheer her up. When I came back I heard her yelling at someone. I went to check it out….. She’s been taken by the Satan. He grabbed her and took her into his cave. I wanted to do something but demons surrounded the entrance as soon as he went in.”

 

Anger and regret pass through me. My shoulders slump and I glare at the ground. “This is my fault.”

 

Mike shakes his head. “You didn’t know. I mean I have only just met her but I could tell the thought of hurting you caused her great pain. She was beating herself up about it. Saying how she wanted to be alone because she was a curse to the people she cares about. Have they told you the possibility of why she was acting the way she was? ” I shake my head, “It was the kiss forced on her by the Devil angel. It had wiped her memories for a short period of time. It may be causing blackouts where she hurts anyone she loves that is angel. It’s just a theory but it’s something. ”

 

I nod. “Yes I’ll need to make a plan. It’s going to be harder to get her out now that he knows to expect Derek to try to rescue her again. We may have to try a different tacktic to get her free. No actually we will have to.” I wave Mike inside and I get Jim and Derek so we can think up a plan.

 

Anne’s POV:

 

I wake up feeling arms wrapped around me. I sigh comfortably snuggling closer to the person holding me.

 

“Morning.” My eyes shoot open and reality kicks in. These aren't the arms of the man that I love. I struggle and he tightens his grip. “Hey. Hey it’s ok. It’s just me.” Satan coos into my ear.

 

I continue to struggle anger setting in. “No it’s not because it’s you.”

 

He sighs. “You need to accept that we are meant to be together. It is written. Prophesiesed. There's no denying it.”

 

I growl. “I will never accept what is not supposed to happen. Your evil. I will never accept evil into my life. Ever.”

 

His grip tightens painfully and it becomes harder to breath. “Darling, you’re now mine which makes you just as evil as I am.” I can hear a slight irritation in his voice.

 

“I….will….never….be….yours..” I say in between breaths.

 

I feel his lips on my neck and I stiffen. He smiles. “It’s cute that you think you have a choice.”

 

I growl. “I. Will. Never. Be. Yours.”

 

He chuckles and nibbles on my ear causing my to shiver. He kisses me down my neck. I struggle to get away from him. He starts sucking on my neck which set my cougar off. My cougar takes control and we shift. Before I have a chance to do anything my muscles lock up and I can’t move.

 

He sighs. “I guess we’ll do this the hard way.” He picks me up as my bones shift, forcing me painfully back into my human form. He walks through a wall.A wall.Yeah creepy.

 

Next thing I know i’m tossed into a chair. My hands and legs are being clamped by rope without him raising a finger. I pull on the rope but it doesn't budge. I look at him and glare.  He shakes his head and sighs.

 

“I thought you could learn to love me for who I was trying to be. I now know that will never be so your going to learn to love the monster you think I am.” He pulls out a knife. It lands hard into me leg and I cry out in pain.

 

I struggle in the bindings. Another knife goes in my leg and tears form in my eyes. It's like hot fire burning me on the inside without mercy. He laughs. “Now you’ve got the monster.” My vision becomes blurry. Another knife goes into my leg and a scream of pain escapes me.  He walks up to me and rips them out.  The pain is unimaginable. No words could describe it. 

 

My vision starts to blacken.  I sense silver entering my blood. I feel myself weaken as I lose a lot of blood. Everything goes black as my conscious slips from me. 

 

West’s POV:

 

Something’s not right. I can feel it. Anne’s in trouble. I need to hurry and help her. I need to save her.

 

I get up from the couch which caughts off any discussion that we were having. “What’s wrong?” Jim asks.

 

“Something wrong with Anne. I feel the bond weakening. We need to get to her now.” I say and start walking toward the door. I feel hands grab me and I look back to see Mike and Derek.

 

“We need a plan. We can’t just go without a plan. It will put us and her at even more risk.” Derek says pointedly.

 

I rip myself from there grip. “She is at risk now. Our bond is weakening!” Mike grabs me and throws me on the couch.

 

“He will not kill her he can’t afford it. She is alter and he wants to get her on his side.” he says. I groan and sag my shoulders in defeat.

 

“Fine but we need to hurry. I don’t know how long I can take this. How long she can take it.”

 

They go back to discussing the plan, talking away, while I sit in worry for my mate.