Chapter 401
Chapter 401
Abraxas
Samara was fucking useless. How can someone be so fucking stupid as to play this game with us? Maybe if she had stopped crying for one damn second, I could have got something useful out of her. Though I did enjoy shaving her head as she squealed.
If I couldn’t get anything out of her, I will keep going until I break her.
I push the door open and find Madison propped up on the bed reading. Dane had requested that she stayed in the house, given her situation. We had words, but ultimately, his decision outweighed mine.
The room was small with only the bare necessities. A bed, a wardrobe and a dresser. She had access to a bathroom just down the hall.
“I take it that it didn’t go well with that woman from the dungeon?” Madison asks as she puts her book down.
“I never said who I was meeting.”
She points to the window and rolls her eyes at me. “The power of sight is an amazing thing.”
She was starting to feel more normal, but still had a tendency to rub over one spot on her neck like it was bothering her. Though her attitude towards me today was starting to rub me up the wrong way.
“No, it did not go well. She was a blubbering mess.”
“So you shaved her head?” Her chestnut eyes are on mine. “I saw her leave.”
“She deserved to have something done to her that she had done to someone else.”
Madison bobs her head, but keeps her rosy lips pressed together.
“You don’t agree?”
“I didn’t say that.” She mutters, picking up her book and quietly flicking through the pages, blatantly trying to ignore me.
“You didn’t have to, your face says exactly what you are thinking.”
She slams the book shut. “Have you ever thought that always being mean to someone isn’t the way to get information from them. Especially not if they are in some kind of denial.” She keeps her gaze on the book, “I sat on the stairs listening to you terrorise at her.”
She exaggerates opening the book and props it on her knees and reads, ignoring my presence.
“Madison….”
“I know. That’s what you do. You are a Hunter you are created to kill Lycans.”
“It’s only just bothering you now?” I smirk and she glares at me.
“Why are you here?” She fires back. “You made it quite clear that you couldn’t feel our bond anymore. Dane wants me to stay here until he figures something out because Klaus isn’t at the hospital. You don’t need to watch over me, not anymore.”
“Mad….”
“I’m fine.” She shrugs at me, “I get it. You just couldn’t ignore the mate bond before and now you don’t feel it so you don’t have to worry about it. Cooper fixed the problem for you. You can just forget I ever existed.”
I stare at her as another crack creeps into her soul. Her exterior may suggest that she’s fine but her soul was completely different and those cracks are forever getting closer and closer together. All it will take is for one or two to appear in the right spot and she will shatter.
“You are right. I thought it was because of the mate bond, but for some reason, I couldn’t get you out of my fucking head and that still hasn’t changed, that’s why I am here.”
Her eyes widen from my unexpected response.
“I spent hours in that hospital, trying
to figure out why I couldn’t walk away. I watched you squirm in your sleep from the night terrors, wondering how I could make it stop. I thought about all the ways am going to make Cooper suffer for
what he did to you.”
to
“I’ve watched your soul crack over and over, waiting for the moment when all those cracks meet, knowing it will tear you apart. I watched because I didn’t want that to happen and I hoped my presence would be enough to stop that.”
She slowly puts down the book, her chestnut eyes are low. “You can’t Brax, you can’t stop it because I was already broken.”
The tip of her tongue slides across her lips as she scowls. “The fire you pulled me from was not the first time I’ve tried hurting myself. The men, the ones that sold me between their friends, had to take me to hospital regularly.”
That was already obvious from her soul, but I never pressed for the information.
“You could heal?” I frown
“I could, but before fire, I used poison. It has different effects and is harder to heal from. At first, I did it to have a break from them and then it was a good way to numb everything, but my body started adapting, becoming used to it. The doses were becoming dangerous and they became more vigilant about what I had access to.” She smiles, “It took them far too long to realise what I was doing.”