Alpha Ocean ✔

11. Alive

  Naya's P.O.V.  

I was going to kill him. 

That fucking Darkling. He was going to die. One way or another.

Troubling thoughts clouded my mind while the calm lake before me failed to subside the turmoil bubbling up inside me. A week passed had by within a blink of an eye.

 My existence seemed meaningless without my wolf, the physical strength, heightened sense and my strength, was all gone. I was discharged a couple of days after waking up but Adeya, kept me under heavy medication. 

Supplements, she called it, all kinds of Vitamins and Calcium that humans took.

I started to get tired quicker than usual. People walked everywhere here and so did I when I had my wolf but my body physically would shut down after a mile. Hence, I was stuck at Oceans' house. 

My parents were staying with the Drakos family but my mother came over every day, babying me. I was an Alpha for Goddess sake even if I didn't feel like it anymore. I was always cold even though spring had taken over. I felt lonely and empty inside.

Worse, I couldn't feel Ocean any more. The mating pull wasn't there but I didn't dare tell him that. He was already riddled with guilt and I didn't want to add more pressure on him. It frightened me, honestly. 

I couldn't feel his presence when he was near but not in sight like before, I couldn't feel his lingering emotions anymore. Tears repeatedly kept leaking from my eyes. I tried to hide them as much as possible but I knew, deep down, I was deteriorating.

My bones felt heavy, joints popped with every movement and a constant headache that never allowed me peaceful night of sleep.

The hallucinations stopped too. Another information I hid from Ocean. Any ties I had with the spirits were severed. Sometimes, I cursed the Spirits for leaving me there to get tortured by a sick sadistic immortal. 

It took a while for the seriousness of the situation to sink in. When my family found out the truth about us, they didn't believe it until my father spoke to LoRusso and saw the pictures that Ocean hid in his room back at the Quarters.

It was uncanny how much we looked alike. The picture contained 18-year-old Ocean, Jace LoRusso, Isiah and 17 years old Lea and me. In the middle, Ocean had his arm wrapped around my waist while his other one hung over Jaces' shoulder. 

His hair was cropped to its roots and a big smile stretched across his young face. I had my arm around his back and the other one around Isiah. He kept his hand on my shoulder and the other one held on to his back pack. 

I looked happy. The lean of my body against Ocean indicated how intimately involvedwe were. Lea looked shy beside Jace, holding onto his arm.

In the background, lockers were stacked up against the wall. The exact same ones that appeared in my memory.

It reminded me of my old friends in high school, only difference was these friends still held on to the memories of us. The old us. Where as in this life, my other friends could care less if something ever happened to me or Macey.

Feeling helpless, I threw a rock in the still water. It plonked against the surface before the water swallowed it whole. The waves reflected soft sunlight every time it managed to the break through the clouds.

 My life resembled everything opposite of what was in front of me. The mountain and the trees on the other side of the lake remained still where as everything in my life was in chaos.