I got you

Grace’s POV

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Pain.

All I could feel was pain, all over my body.

I had heard from people that the greatest pain of a women’s life was to deliver a baby.

Well, I had never been pregnant before but I was sure this pain was much more than for sure. I didn’t know what was happening to me. I wish I could say it was mind-numbing, but my mind was all aware.

This pain made me feel like my skin was being peeled off slowly as I was set on the fire.

My body began to shake uncontrollably and the sound of my own scream filled in the room. I tried to stop shaking, and control the pain but it only got worse.

I had no idea what was happening to me. I just want Zayden to be by my side and stop the pain which I was going through.

I felt like I couldn’t breathe, the pressure inside my chest was too much to take. I tried to reach the window. I didn’t know what happened next but I smelled the smell of fresh woods. I feel the cold ground under me. I stared at the moon and heard the sound of bone breaking.

“Ooooowwwwlllll”, I howled loudly and saw my hands turning into the paw.

Wait, did I just howl and see my hand turning into a paw?

Tears streamed down my face as I rolled in pain, looking at my hands, my fingernails grew into black claws as golden hairs grew from my skin. My breathing came outshot and fast as my visions blurred, my body started morphing into something unknown.

I laid on the grass with my eyes closed, panting for air. My heart was racing and I could hear it echo all around me. Strange, I could even listen to the sound of someone's breathing.

“Sweetheart?”, Zayden called me and I looked around to find him, standing at some distance.

“No! Brother.”, Allison shouted and held his arm as if she was trying to keep him away from me.

But why?

‘I am fine now. The pain is gone. I wanted to say to Zayden that I am okay but I was not able to speak.’, I looked around to see who all were there. I observed that everything around me was damn so clear as if I was watching something in HD quality video. Not only that, but I could also see the small insects flying in the sky.

‘I am fine now.’, I wanted to say but again I couldn’t. Please don’t tell me that I got better eyesight in exchange for being dumb. Did something happen to me?

I looked toward Zayden again, he might have answers to my questions. I must have been zoned out because I was no longer in my room but in the backyard. I saw Eric and Theo beside me and they were standing in a defensive position.

“Leave us alone.”, Zayden ordered.

“But…”, Eric tried to say something but one glare from Zayden, made him shut his mouth. I saw them leaving hesitantly from there. Finally, this time, Zayden walked toward me and caressed my face. “You look beautiful, sweetheart.”

‘This man! He gives me the complement of looking beautiful even at the mid of the night.’, I blushed at that thought and looked at the ground. That’s when I saw my golden paws.

Paw? I glanced down again and reconfirmed whether I really had paws? I wanted to gasp, to scream, but I couldn’t do anything.

“Let me explain, sweetheart.”

‘Explain what?’, I wanted to ask but I couldn’t but this time I could understand why I couldn’t. So many questions were going on in my mind. ‘Why do I have paws like some animal?’,

Well, not just some animal. I was sure I was a wolf.

I knew what I had to do next. My ear perked at the sound of running water and the next thing I knew was, I was running.

“Grace, stop.”, I heard Zayden calling my name but I just ran away from there.

I couldn’t believe my speed. Growls filled in the air as I skidded to a stop. The fur on my neck rose and I could feel eyes on me from all the angles. My own growls filled the air, warning whoever was there to leave me alone, but they returned my growl with a few more.

This wasn’t good. If I were in my human form then I would have been trembling in fear and crying like a coward but in this wolf, I just stayed still. A part of me was thinking that I should turn back into a human so that I could talk but then I had no idea how to do that. Moreover, I remembered when the werewolves turn back into humans, they are butt-naked, and trust me, I was in no mood to be in that position in front of so many wolves. I didn't know how to defend myself at all.

I could see them now, slowly stepping towards me. The circle around me was getting smaller and smaller and I didn’t know where it faced. I didn’t see a way of this and I was analyzing it in my head. Out of nowhere, a large and big black wolf jumped in front of me. It didn’t take long to understand that the wolf was no one else except Zayden.

He growled at them loudly and those wolves started moving away.

“Sweetheart, you should listen to me when I ask you to stop.”, I was startled when I heard his voice in my mind. He sounded mad and angry.

I didn’t know how to answer back. I knew he was going to scold me.

“I can hear you and trust me, I won’t scold you. It was just that you could have got hurt.”, he said calmly. “This is someone else's pack. You just can’t enter into it without taking permission of the pack’s Alpha otherwise the warriors on the patrol might hurt you.”

Now I understood his reason for being mad at me.

“Now, follow me. I know where you want to go.”, He said.

Of Course, you would know. After all, you knew everything about me. We started running together, he kept checking on me from time to time to see if I was following him or not. I must say, he was too fast. My paws thud against the ground as I run through the trees. But my heart was not really in following him blindly, I was so enchanted by the new colors and the animals. I could see each and everything crystal clear. We finally stopped near a lake. I took small steps toward it and saw my reflection which I wanted to see for a long time. I saw a beautiful golden wolf with green eyes looking at me. I turned my head toward Zayden, he was in his human form, wearing boxers, staring at me intently.

“That’s you.”, he said, which I was thinking. “I know a lot of questions are going in your mind. So why not start with, how to get back in your human form?”

I quickly shook my head and glared at him.

“Oh! No! No! That was not what I was thinking. I knew you would need clothes, that's why I had already asked Eric to keep something for you at the lake side.”, He explained and showed me a shirt and shorts which I think belonged to Allison.

I sighed in relief until I heard. “Well, I wouldn’t mind seeing all naked.”, he joked but stopped laughing when he saw my glare. “Okay! No more jokes. Right now, all you have to do is crouch down and picture yourself in human form, from head to toe.”, he explained and turned his head in another direction.

I knew he wouldn’t turn around without my permission.

I trust him.

I adjusted my position and lowered my body to the ground and imagined my human form. I couldn’t help but cry in pain when my bones started cracking again.

“You okay, sweetheart?”, he asked worriedly.

“I...I am okay.”, I said and finally found my voice which I had lost.

“Worn your clothes?”, he asked again without turning back.

I didn’t answer him for a while. “Yes!”, He quickly rushed to my side. I tried to wipe my tears which were still on my cheeks because of the pain in morphing back to human form.

“I got you.”, he said, scooping me up in his arms. I felt a jolt of electricity pass through me when he touched me again. I looked at him surprised. “I think I have to explain a lot of things to you.”, he murmured and kissed my forehead.

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#TBC