Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 34

I won her

I knelt to the ground laughing silently. My arms were bloody I think I had lost a tooth. I know I had a cracked rib and I was so excited.

I stood and hobbled out of the arena. Cea and Eva came forward to their men.

I made my way to her my b*dy aching and throbbing. I opened the door to her sweet wide wet eyes. She sobbed and ran forward to me her b*dy turning red with my blood.

She moved me to the couch and she sat beside me. We spoke no words but it felt like heaven.

She washed my face and arms. She cleaned my wounds and bandaged them. Her fingers traced over my skin and I unabashedly watched her for peace. I savored her kindness for me who had to hurt her family. I had hurt her and she was worried for me and healing me.

She finished wrapping up my chest and sniffled. “I have to go see my family,”

“Go,” I nodded to her.

Stay.

I watched her leave me for the second time that day but this time it felt different. I knew now what I would give for her I had been beaten and all I thought the whole time was of her.

It’s terrifying when there is someone you need with your whole being and every time you try you freeze because your are afraid.

“How can I still be afraid now? I’ve promised to try and she is still the one thing I am fearful of. *

I ran to the keep bad into the clinic. My brother lay passed out on tables as my mother and Cea cleaned Charlie and my dads wounds.

“Goddess be,” I turned away from them bile creeping up my b*dy.

He had done this…

“I can’t be upset they had all accepted this. He did this for me.

I breathed in and put my eyes stinging with the fact I had healed him before my flesh and blood. I felt gross and sickly with myself.

I turned and walked up to my father bowing my head and ready to beg for forgiveness.

“Do not feel guilty,” he commanded me.

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Chapter 34

But my end up. “Papa he hurt you and I..”

too

“Bu in your family whette, you have to choose him that’s how it thats sollong. It is a choice my darling. You

every day to have him.” He gave me a soft

thimit: he’s an ass,” Charles rolled

grabbed the cloth from her.

wrapped her in a hug and whispered

in cold water and cleaned his fingers they

you used your dows? I looked at the red on his

“An-”

you acting so weird?” I gave him a serious

wanted to prove..myself,”

amidin. Beating Grayson will not prove you are ready to be alpha.. You

know it.”

I meann, The whispered under his breath and I wanted to ask what he meant but

Over

fought with everything he had, She looked over at

ready for the feast,” she sighed and now I

tell what she was going

there when I opened the door and I thanked the goddess silently. We wane

feel good about this,” she

“Mama,” I started.

for you, hut he is fractured. It is hard to start a relationship when one of the people imit

youth this situation is not one any mother

supposed to leave you now that I know he’s public al hurting you?” she whimpered.

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made me stronger than any kind of sadness. Even if he hurts me

while and I felt the years fade and I was

me. “I still wanna kill him,” she

began braiding my hair in an intricate four–stranded braid Sculled the ones we leave out

to symbolize my tourney to Luna and

me before dinner tonight. They selected fighters and whoever worsoodidbeart the

fill their cups and their plates to show my

serve me. I found it funny

bare feet and the people were laughing and dancing and

me. Time to welcome

like a china doll with

our fightersstoryou, Icon

Matt, Brian, and Leomaillsteppetifforward.

the prize of champion and brand of our Luna,

nuwhich felt slightly off putting. I did not find it pleasing to push a piece of hit metal into the skin of these men wholiadentfriendly

went dizzy, Arran put up a better fight but Matt was

My syntindwasapresentimoon with a paw print next to it. I felt like puking

he whispered. “I can take it bortwany,

made me llinch slightly.. let it go as soon as I could a