10. Pictures


    Mayra.


    I wake in my bedroom disoriented for a while. That is until I remember that Raya forced another shift


    yesterday.


    I breathe a sigh of relief when I discover that I wasn’t covered in blood this time. Every time she shifts


    I’m afraid that she’s out there killing humans. The hate that she harbored for them was in loads. I think


    if she could have her way then she would destroy the entire human race.


    Wondering how I was going to keep my walls up and strong. I head to the bathroom. Thest thing I


    needed was Raya drawing the attention of the elders and of Ren.


    Whether I liked it or not, she is the goddess’ executioner. If things got out of hand, Ren would have to


    kill me even though we were friends. Her loyalty to the goddess came first and we all know the


    goddess will get rid of anyone who endangered our secret and risked exposing us to humans.


    “Raya…” I reach out tentatively through my mental blocks.


    She doesn’t answer me. Never have I ever felt so alone in this. We should be helping each other to


    heal. To move forward but all she does is bring me down. She tears into me and makes me feel


    worthless. I know I can’t me her fully, she isn’t well but if only she would allow me to help her then I


    believe that things would fall into ce.


    When I’m done showering, I leave the bathroom. Just as I was picking my clothes for the day


    something catches my eye. It was out of ce because I don’t remember putting anything on my


    bedside table.


    I approach it with apprehension. Part of me wants to ignore it but I can’t. The same dread that filled me


    yesterday when I found the note fills me now.


    When I get closer I realize that its pictures. I pick them up. If this was a movie, everything would have


    happened in slow motion. A gasp leaves my lips when I look at them.


    Picture after picture of myself assaults me. It was from yesterday when I received the note, to when I


    woke up from the nightmare, to when Raya took control. They continue almost as if they were


    documenting what happened the entire night.


    Raya running through the forest, the crazed look that was etched to her face, when she came back to


    the room and shifted. Finally there was a picture of when she shifted back to human, me lying on the


    floor naked and then to me when I woke up.


    I drop the pictures and search the room but nothing was out of ce. Sniffing the air, I try to smell if


    there was an odd scent but there isn’t. The only whiff I got was my own scent.


    I start backing away from the picture. Confused and on edge. I was now sure that I had a stalker.


    “Raya…” I called her again. This time desperately, my voice shaking.


    She was the only one who could help me now. We couldn’t go with this to Sebastian. I didn’t want them


    to know.


    “What is it…can’t you see I’m trying to sleep” she snarls at me, bearing her fangs, her lips pulled back.


    Going to my closet, I pick an outfit mindlessly and put it on, before starting to pace the room.


    “We have a problem…don’t know if you know this but someone is stalking us”


    “That’s not a ‘we’ problem, it’s a ‘you’ problem…I don’t give a fuck if someone is stalking you, they can


    kill you for all I care”


    It shouldn’t have hurt but it does. It hurts so freaking bad. I know it was my stubbornness that got us


    captured but she behaves like I wasn’t there.


    She forgets that everything that happened, the torture, the rape, the experiments. They all happened to


    me. Not her. She behaves like the roles were reversed.


    “You don’t mean that and besides, you forget that if I die, then you die too” I tell her softly. Trying to


    fight the emotion that was clogging my throat.


    She snorts and looks at me in disgust. “Then good riddance, at least I would be free from you”


    With that she forces me out of her mind and draws up her own mental block. I fall on the bed


    Fuck! What was I going to do? As if I didn’t have enough to deal with. Now on top of dealing with a


    problematic Raya, I now had to watch my back and find out who was stalking me.


    The knock on the door makes me shoot up in panic.


    “May, are you still asleep?” Ren’s sweet voice cuts through the frigid air.


    “Yeah, just give me a minute”


    I rush to collect the pictures that wereying on the floor. I open my bedside cab and throw them in


    before trying topose myself.


    Opening the door, I’m met with Ren’s questioning face.


    “You do realize I could hear you as you rushed to hide something?” one of her brows was raised up


    and her hands were folded over her belly.


    “I wasn’t hiding anything” I squeak.


    I didn’t know how to lie. I always get nervous and instead of my voiceing out normally, ites out


    in a high pitch.


    She scoffs, her mouth twisting in a sneer. “I have two teenagers who do the same thing and not


    forgetting my super hearing”


    “Fine…I was hiding something”


    “What was it?”


    I wrack my brain for an answer that would cate her. I can''te up with anything so I say the only


    thing that pops into my mind.


    “Pictures of Darren’s dick” I say before covering my mouth in horror.


    I can’t believe I said that. She looks at me like she can’t believe that I said that too. Her face is a mask


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    of shock and who can me her.


    I was starting to shift ufortably on my feet when she threw her head back and startedughing. I


    just stood there watching her. Now I was the one who was confused.


    She wipes the tears from her face. “Wow that was a good one May…I’m guessing he’s giving it to you


    good if his dick is the first thing you want to look at in the morning”


    I blush from embarrassment. Not only because of herment but because this is her ex we’re talking


    about and given they have a kid together I’m sure she’s seen his dick more times than I have.


    I feel something ufortable settle in my chest. Was it jealousy? Probably. But I didn’t want it to be


    there. There wasn’t a reason why I should be jealous when ites to Darren. We weren’t a thing.


    “Come on…I need your help downstairs” she pulls me from my thoughts then proceeds to grasp my


    hand and pull down the hallway.


    “Help with what?”


    “Breakfast…Sebastian has a meeting with some of the Alpha’s and he requested I make breakfast for


    them”


    I nod even though she can’t see me.


    “Don’t worry though…Darren is among the Alpha’sing so after the meeting you can bring him to


    your room to show you the live image” she teases


    I groan. This was going to be a very long morning.