Loud Noises Scare the Big Animals by seastarpwn (large ebook reader txt) 📖

/> I looked away from him when I spoke. “Who is this person that you’re still in love with?”
“I’m pretty sure that you know her. She’s a member of the AS. And she’s the most beautiful girl I’ve ever known.” I felt him move right up behind me.
His close proximity sending shivers down my spine. “If you still love me, than why did you betray me?”
“I would like to blame it on the alcohol. But that would be a lame excuse. One day I heard you talking to a friend about breaking up with a boyfriend. I immediately knew you were talking about me. I was heartbroken. I didn’t want to go on living. So I decided to give you a reason to break up with me. But my plan backfired slightly, she didn’t tell you right away. That day you through the party and broke up with me to be with Collin, I decided to win you back in a way that you wouldn’t leave me again.”
“So you did all of this to make me jealous?”
“Not to make you jealous, but to win you back.” He pulled me close back to him, and began to kiss my neck.
“Was it part of your plan for me and Collin to fight?”
“No. I didn’t mean for that to happen. That was an unfortunate accident.”
Then I got this feeling of anger. It felt like something deep inside me was being torn away. And it made me angry not knowing what it was. “Please just step away for now.”
He did as I said. The next moment sirens are going off around the palace. “Just stay with me.” He grabbed my hand and ran towards the wall. Pressing a button. Then we ran down a hall into a throne room.
Slowly everybody began to show up. The only person who was missing was Nova. “Where’s Nova?” For a moment nobody answered me. “If nobody answers me, then I’ll go all bat shit crazy on you.”
“You’re cousin has been kidnapped.” Henry answered.
I just looked at him. “That can’t be possible.” Then I turned towards Ebony. “This is all your fault.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She said innocently, but I saw the lies in her eyes.
“You try to take my boyfriend from me. To get back at me you have my cousin kidnapped. This time you’ve gone too far.” I felt my skin ripple and my claws grow.
The next thing I know I’m charging Ebony. I knock her to the ground. Snapping at her neck, trying to rip out her throat. She just pushed me off to the ground, and smiled. She kicked me in the stomach, breaking a few bones. But that didn’t stop me. I attacked her again. We went on fighting for a long while. Neither of us willing to give up.
She was walking backwards when she tripped over something. I took that as my chance to attack. I bit down onto her arm, feeling the bones snap under my jaws. At the same time her other hand racked across my left eye. Cutting it.
I loosened my hold for just a moment, but that was enough for her too disappear into the shadows.
I let out a long howl, letting the world hear my pain.
Then I passed out.


Chapter 67
Nova

I felt weak and my body was sore from my daily beating. I think that was the only thing I could look forward to during the day. Every day I sat in the corner of my room and stared out the window that showed the hallway. It was white and hardly used, but it was the only way I got to see a living thing.
Everyday I thought about Astra, Alexzander, and Collin. They were all I thought about, I wonder if they knew I was gone, if they were out there looking for me, or just sitting around the house. I knew the third one wasn’t true, but what seemed like days sitting in a white room with only a bed and a window, it drives a person crazy.
I laid on the bed and listened to the door appear, a person walk in, and the door disappear. It was the same thing every day. Fulvia would always come in and ask me, “Where is he source of your power from?” and when I didn’t answer, she would sit on the bed and sung a soft tune. It was soft and slow. Even though I didn’t know what she was singing I knew it was sad and it always brings me to sleep.
I woke up with a start, “You are so addictive,” a voice whispered in the corner. All the lights were off and I couldn’t see anything. I should have changed then, but the needles they stab me with everyday, takes away my ability for a day.
“Jace?” I called out. Jace is the boys’ father’s name that I learned a couple days ago. I felt the blood in my body heat up and not in a good way like Alexzander does with me. This feeling made my insides hurt and disgust crawl up my body. “Why are you here?”
He came closer to me with a weird glint in his eyes, “You and your sister just…. Makes me want to do things. I can see why my sons took attraction to you two, you have this way about you that makes guys like us go crazy.”
“I don’t understand,” my brain was all fuzzy and I couldn’t think straight. My stomach growled and my throat hurt from not having water. I might have been dehydrated, “The only way I make your sons crazy is by annoying them,” I laid my head back down as I heard Jace shuffle towards me.
“No not that kind of crazy,” he grabbed my arms and pinned me down. I struggled under him, but I was too weak to keep fighting. He stroked my hair as a hand crept down my body and up my shirt. My eyes started to water and I kept muttering things. “Stop fighting, you bitch,” a sting crossed my face and the hand went under my shirt again, slowly making it rise.
“Jace, what are you doing!” Fulvia screeched and pushed Jace off of me. She flicked her hand and Jace disappeared leaving me and her in the room. I let out a bone shacking sob and curled under the blankets, “Nova are you Ok?”
“I am great, thanks for asking,” I stuffed my head in the pillow and let out a scream. My face burned, my ribs ached, and now I was afraid for my life.
Fulvia sat on my bed and stroked my hair back, making me flinch. Soon though her touch felt warm as I feel my ribs slowly mended and my face cool down. “Just go to sleep Nova, I promise this won’t happen again.”
Her words reassured me and I fell into a sleep that was haunted by Jace and soothed by Alexzander

Chapter 68
Astra
It was driving me crazy not knowing where Nova was. And I’m pretty sure that my constant pacing was driving everyone else crazy.
When Collin had told everyone that he was the last one to see Nova, I tried to kill him. Everyone had tried to pull me off him, but the only person that was able to do that was Henry. After that I had been locked up in my room. And I wasn’t allowed out. I had to say that wasn’t one of my best moments.
Now all I was able to do was sit in my room and wait for Henry to come tell me any news. But that didn’t happen too often.
Now I sat on my bed in the Indian position. Trying to figure a way out of this room. I pictured different scenarios. Some where I broke through the wall. Or jump the next person who walked through the door. But they all ended with me getting caught.
Someone walked in my room and sat next to me on the bed. “What do you want?” I said harshly.
“I thought you would like a different person to talk to. So I came.”
I laughed at myself. “Remember the last time I saw you? I tried to kill you.”
“I remember.”
“What makes you think I won’t try to kill you again?”
“I know you want to. But you have to understand that I had nothing to do with Nova being kidnapped.”
I knew he was right. But I wasn’t ready to admit it to myself yet. I was still angry. I got up and looked at myself in the mirror. I looked horrid. And the scar on my face wasn’t helping much. “I know you had nothing to do with it. It’s just ever since coming here to the underworld, I feel different. More angry all the time. Now that Nova isn’t here, I don’t have my anchor to the world anymore. I’m like a wolf with rabies, out to kill.” I turned back to him with tears in my eyes.
He got up and hugged me. “I know it might not matter to you, but I will still be here for you.” He kissed away my tears.
Just then someone walked in. “We found something. And Henry wants her.” It was Alexzander.
“He’s really trusting me not to attack anyone?” I asked sarcastically.
“He sent me to keep you in check.” Scott stepped into the room.
“That would work.” I smiled. “But how would he know you could keep me in check?”
“I have my ways.” He pulled out a leash and collar.
“I’m not wearing that.” I stated. “I will hurt you if you try to put that on me.”
“I have to. It’s for a safety regulation.”
“Fine. What does it do?”
“It blocks the use of your powers.”
I sighed. “That’s not right. Can I at least turn into a wolf?”
“You can. But you’ll be stuck like that until the collar is taken off.”
“Alright then.” I shifted and went to him. Thinking about how stupid this was. And the jokes they would make about it.
“Thanks for not making this difficult.”
I did nothing but trot ahead of him.
We entered the throne room. “Good you’re here.” I sat on the ground at his feet. “We were searching the castle and found Nova’s cell phone.” My ears perked up. “And there was a message in the drafts.” He pulled out her phone and brought it down to eye level. “It holds the name of a single place. Arunanchal Pradesh. It is in India. Take the leash off so she may speak.” Scott did as he was told. “We think they left this clue to throw us off. What do you say?”
“I am willing to volunteer myself to go and find out.”
“I’m not going to allow that to happen. You need to stay here so you can be safe.”
“Yeah. Look how that turned out. Nova is missing. And this is the only clue we have to her. I don’t know about you, but I want to go look for her.” I stood there staring Henry in the eyes, not willing to give up.
“If it pleases you, I will send a team to see if it is true.”
“Fine. I’m already sure that I know who took her.”
Nobody answered. They all knew who I was thinking of. “I know what he wants.” Said Alexzander. We all turned to him. “He wants the source of their power.”


Chapter 69
Alexzander

“If you’re going then I am going with you,” I told them as I let what I just said sink in. I stood and walked out before anyone could argue with me because I