Breed Me. Daddy Alpha novel Chapter 302

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~ Lyra~

I was running so fast my legs were shaking like they didn’t even belong to me anymore, branches slapping against my arms., I wouldn’t stop, not with Damon’s blood all over my hands, not with his voice still in my head saying run, kitten, like he knew this was the only chance I had to make it out alive.

I couldn’t even see properly anymore because my tears were everywhere, burning my eyes, running down my face in hot, messy streams, and every time I blinked it just made the whole forest smear together.

I kept hearing things, shouts behind me, feet pounding against the ground, the low snap of branches breaking somewhere too close and I was gasping so loud it sounded like screaming, like the air was getting shoved into my lungs with knives.

My wolf was in my head the whole time and she was panicking so bad it made me panic more because she was supposed to be the brave one, the instinct, the strength, but right now her voice was shaking just like mine.

“Lyra, faster, you have to go faster, they’re coming, I can smell them, oh goddess, there’s so many, I can hear them getting closer, we have to run, we have to run now or this is the end of us both!

‘‘I’m trying!” I shouted back even though my throat was raw, even though my legs already felt like they were tearing apart from the inside. “I’m trying, okay, but Damon—oh God—Damon is back there, he’s bleeding, he told me to run but I wanna go back , what if he dies, what if this is the last time I ever see him, what if he never opens his eyes again?”

He told you to run for a reason, my wolf snapped, her voice hard but I could still feel the fear shaking through it, he knew this was the only way you would live, do you want to waste it, do you want him to bleed for nothing, do you want him to die knowing you didn’t listen to him?

“No! ” I was sobbing so hard. “No, I don’t want that, I don’t want any of this, I didn’t ask for this, I didn’t ask for Darren to lose his mind, I didn’t ask for knives or silver or strange men crawling out of the shadows, I just wanted a happy ending. I just wanted to breathe, I just wanted to feel safe for once in my life, is that too much to ask?”

Left, go left, there’s water ahead, maybe they’ll lose the scent if you cross it, go left now, Lyra, now! my wolf barked and I stumbled left so hard I nearly crashed into a tree because I was crying too much to see properly.