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

feelings. He rarely talked and listened to others. Because he was the ruthless one and bothered enough to care about the rest. He never followed any rules as he had his own principles to abide by.

Yes, that was him.

And now he was standing in front of me, waiting to do the justice for someone else while doing the exact opposite to me.

I kept standing but with no arms at all, only with the same stern eyes on him, as I was determined not to let him see how vulnerable I was becoming from inside.

In a swift movement, one of his swords came flying right into my hand as he threw it towards me saying,

“I don't attack the armless.”

His deep voice resonated in the air ever so viciously, causing me to shake with the intensity of his rage.

“Who told you that I was the one to stab Markus? “ I dared to ask while the sword felt a bit heavy in my hand that I could not even gather enough courage to hold it against him, against Kazan... against my mate.

“Who could it be?

You tell me... among the two of you who could do such a thing.

Do you really think that a beta would harm his own alpha?

When you did not even spare Adrian as well?” Kazan spat in anger while I realized that he was not at all aware of the truth. Of course, what else could I expect from Adrian to tell Kazan instead of the cold-blooded lie? That was why Kaith could not find him last night, because by then that brute Adrian might have crawled to Kazan to hide behind him in order to prove himself innocent by blurting out the lies only.

“What I did to Adrian seemed right to me and I do not regret at all. He deserved that and if the situation demands, I would never hesitate to do the same.” My blood boiled thinking about that prick Adrian and what he did last night. Only for him, three of us had to go through such battles of a different kind.

Yes,

Markus was fighting to get healed soon at the pack hospital whereas Kazan was forced to hold the sword to fight someone little like me.

And I?

Well, my condition was even worse. I had to fight not only with Kazan for some lies but I had to battle with my own self.

“I dare you to say that you feel the exact same about what you did to Markus.” Kazan shouted ferociously while his sword was lifted up in an instant only to point at me menacingly, without much of his consciousness.

He could not help but clench his jaws in utter anger while his eyes did not stop to eject the fire which was already burning inside him for long, and waiting to take out its aggression on something ever so brutally.

No, the blaze inside him was actually meant to turn no one but me into ashes without mercy.

“What is there left for me to say when you have already declared me as the one to stab Markus like some coward.” I uttered without any fear, neither did I bother to lift my sword to protect myself.

But it seemed that my words shook something inside Kazan, causing him to get enraged even more than before. And it did not take much time for me to understand that my words worked as nothing but the trigger which made Kazan swing his blade in an instant into the thin air only to make me feel the sharpness of his sword.

Yes,

His blade made me bleed with just one swift move, as my heart was not at all willing to fight.

Episode 23

Kazan's P.O.V

I had never seen such a girl like her. The one who dared to stand in front of me with her head held high. As if she was not at all afraid to die.

Yes, she was the one and only Summer.

I knew her.

I had always seen her at school.

Actually, she was the only girl I had ever bothered to look back or even remembered her name all these years. No, not because I wanted to chase her or anything, in which I had no interest at all, but only for whatever she was. Her boldness, her courage to stand for the right with all her dignity, her fearless attitude and her fierce appearance without any concern about what others would say, always forced me to look back at her in admiration, which was so unlikely of me. Like other girls I usually come across at school or other places, she was never up for becoming popular by playing tricks, but her strength and courage made her one, if not to others, to me at least. Cause, told you, I remembered her name and who she was, strangely.

But I had never thought even for once that I had to stand against the same Summer one day, the one whom I used to admire.

I always saw how she never thinks twice to indulge herself in some danger if she needed to save someone, without even thinking about her own safety first. Then how could the same person do such an awful thing, completely distinct to her nature?

I just could not believe it.

Rather I did not want to believe whatever I was told, but seeing Markus in such a state with my own eyes, I had lost all of my ability to think rationally anymore.

The only thing that came to cloud my mind was that, no one should have dared to harm Markus, not even by mistake. And if that ever happens, I would never spare that person no matter who the person was. No matter if that person turns out to be the one I admired. Even when it was Summer.

I just