Love Grows In The Dark by Eli Lowe (ebook offline txt) 📗

reason for your hardship if there was any.” Even though I said, it seemed that he was more difficult to deal with words only, as he was not even willing to listen to whatever I was trying to say. The only thing which his hazel eyes were reflecting under the dull evening sun, was the thirst to make someone else suffer for his self created agony.

“Yes, you were. Always. Cause you were the only one for whom I had to lose my face each time in front of everyone. For you, no one even takes me seriously, even though I am a beta, the second most powerful in our pack.

And you were also the reason for which my Alpha, my friend didn't even think twice to stand against me.

So tell me? How do you want to repay?” As soon as he finished saying all his reasons to hate me the most, Adrian smirked viciously once again and started to fiddle with the very thing which was in his hand all along. That thing shone brightly for the slightest second just when the last ray of the sun fell on it and disappeared in the next second, which caused me to freeze with a shocking realisation.

Silver.

It was a silver dagger in his hand.

But why?

What did he want to do with that?

Something inside me warned ever so loudly and told me to be cautious with each of our moves.

“It was all you, not me. Only if you got enough courage to be the man to fight from the front, you might never have to face all this situation today.” I said which made him even angrier, only because he just could not accept the bitter truth.

“Well, you see. That is why I am here today. I am here to do the exact thing that I can do best.” And with that Adrian came closer with his silver dagger in order to harm me.

Cause silver was the only thing which makes us weak, and wounds caused by the exact same metal could even turn out to be fatal for someone. And he knew that very well.

In the dusk, when the sunlight had already abandoned us only to be lost in the darkness of the night, I was preparing myself to fight a coward with my bare hands, while there was only a little dagger which was holding me back from breaking all the bones of that prick, Adrian.

And at last, he attacked, attempting to tear me apart with that silver but I dodged ever so quickly only to grab him by his hand and flipped his entire body which had made him crash on the ground with a loud thud.

I was almost determined to let him go without dragging the fight even further, but as if nothing like that was ever meant to happen. One thing led to another only to emerge as an enormous fight between us while I kept dodging the silver threat and he kept coming on me with the little favour he was holding in his hand.

But that could not last for long, as I made sure of that.

When the frustration of not being able to hurt me till now started to make him even more impatient, I knew that it was my turn to act quickly. And in no time he was again lying under my knee while I was able to twist his arms successfully breaking one or two bones for sure.

Yes, his terrifying screams confirmed so.

But just when I released Adrian free after taking the dagger from him to throw away, another bike stopped, just before us.

The dazzling light from the bike fell on my eyes and deprived me to see who it was. The only thing I could see at that moment was that the person got off from his bike only to approach us as quickly as possible.

He pulled me up from the already broken and devastated Adrian in no time and asked finally,

“What the hell did he do to you? Are you hurt?” The voice made me shiver in absolute fear, giving me enough reason to panic, just when I recognized the very voice.

It was Markus.

The one and only Markus.

And he was worried about me instead of taking care of his pathetic beta, Adrian?

But, then again, another series of realisation engulfed me all of a sudden, with no intention to let me break free from my misery.

Cause, I realised that even though he had touched me unconsciously, I felt nothing. I felt no tingles at all. His touch did not create all those sparks, that mate's touch supposed to erupt inside me. I could not feel the sensations which I felt last night and the day before last night as well.

And...and he didn't have the smell on him anymore as well. Then, what happened yesterday? How could I smell my mate's scent on him? As if he was the one who was emitting the very smell. What could be the reason?

Then again, what about last night when I saw his wolf?

I was very much sure that I saw the exact same eyes. They were the same seductive blue which had totally convinced me that it could be none but Markus. But what now?

Everything started to mess up in my mind once again. I kept thinking, if it was not Markus then who could it be?

“Summer?” Even after waiting for some time to get my reply, at last when he realized that I was showing not a single sign to answer any of his questions at all, he asked again, shaking my body gently with his hands.

“Yes?” I was pulled out of my thoughts only to be greeted with those familiar blue eyes once again.

“Are you hurt?” He asked once more.

“No.” I replied in just a word.

“What are you