Moonlight In Chains (Trinity and Asher) novel Chapter 14

CHAPTER 14

Somehow, dad managed to stop himself and he stopped mom.

I was lying on the floor with blood pooling around my head from the numerous injuries that I had, and I couldn’t get up. I couldn’t move.

Dad picked me up off the floor and he carried me upstairs to my bedroom and simply dumped me on my bed, not gently either, and turned around and walked out. Slamming my door behind him.

I lay on my bed unable to move. Wondering why the hell I was still alive? Why wouldn’t the moon Goddess just put me out of my misery?

I could feel every muscle in my body aching and every puncture wound on my body was

screaming.

I could only imagine what my face looked like. I could feel it swelling. It was getting harder for me to see as my eyes were swelling shut and I honestly didn’t know if I was going to make it through

the night.

My mind was drifting off when I suddenly felt my phone vibrating in my back pocket. But I didn’t

answer.

I can’t move. Not because I don’t want to, but because my body won’t obey me. Every breath scrapes fire down my ribs. My cheeks are stuck to the pillow is it sweat, or blood? Probably both. My vision blurs when I blink, but I keep my eyes open because closing them feels too much like surrender. I replay it in flashes: the way his voice cracked with rage, the sudden blur of movement, the blows that came too fast to count. Now there’s only the sound of my own shallow breathing and the slow pulse of pain that fills every corner of me. I wonder if he’s proud. If he’s satisfied knowing I’m here, silent. My heart’s still beating though. Maybe that’s the problem – I’m

still here.

It was the most restless night’s sleep I have ever had in my life. And the longest.

I didn’t think the sunrise was ever going to come.

It’s getting harder to tell if I’m breathing or just pretending to.

The wall in front of me, fuzzy at the edges, like it’s made of water. Every inch of me throbs – not sharp pain anymore, just a heavy, crushing ache that sinks into my bones. My eyes are slits, too swollen to open fully, and the dim light that seeps through burns.

I can’t move. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m too weak… or because my body’s given up before I

have.

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Why am I still here?

Why didn’t I just… stop? It would have been easler. No more fists. No more fear. Just quiet.

But the quiet never comes. Even in this stillness, I hear him in my head – his voice, the crack of

skin on skin, the taste of iron in my mouth.

I’m still alive. I don’t know if that’s mercy or cruelty.

I

Just after the sun starts to rise, I hear my door open, but I can’t turn to look at it. I didn’t have to.

The sound of the footsteps told me that it was my father.

He looked in at me before closing the door and then I heard him speaking to someone outside my

door.

I assumed he was on the phone because I couldn’t hear anyone else talking.

He was telling someone that I wasn’t feeling well.

Who could he be talking to?

Then it dawned on me. It’s Monday. I’m meant to be working today at the high school.

He’s obviously talking to either the principal or the Alpha. I wasn’t sure. And I didn’t really care right

now.

He was just trying to cover his own tracks. Goddess knows what else he said to them when he walked away, and I couldn’t hear him anymore.

Werewolves don’t usually come down with the common cold. So, he could be telling them anything. I have a serious illness. Or I could be really hungover, Or some s**t like that.

Even though it’s hard for werewolves to have hangovers as well, but it is possible. If you get completely blind drunk, then we can wake up with a hangover. But that means that we would have had to drink a lot. And if he was telling my boss that I wasn’t coming to work because I was hung over and I got that drunk on a Sunday night, he was really messing with my life. As usual.

Trying to control what I did. Trying to keep me home so he could have complete control over me.

“You have to be strong,” Lily said in my head.

“You don’t feel it?” I asked.

“Of course I do. The wolfsbane is burning. I can feel it. But you can’t give up. That’s what they want. They want you to give up. They want you to surrender. As long as you are still out there living your life, spending time with Gage and Arlo, it means that they don’t have complete control over you.”

She said.

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“And I talked back to him last night,” I said.

“I loved it.” She said.

“Do you still love it now?” I asked.

“Yes. I will never hate what you said because of the pain that we are in now.” She said.

“You’re insane,” I said.

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“Trinny. You stood up for yourself. You were the same girl that you used to be before they started beating you all the time. Before they started breaking you. You fought back. You haven’t done that in so long. I am so proud of you.” Lily said.

“I don’t know if I feel the same way right now. Everything hurts. I can barely move.” I said, trying to

control a tear threatening to escape my almost closed eyes.

“Yes. It does. And you knew what was going to happen. But you still stood up. You spoke. You

didn’t bow down to him. I haven’t seen that in years.” Lily said.

“They wouldn’t have attacked me as badly as they did.” I said.

“But they didn’t kill you. And I am right here with you. I will always be here with you. I will never hate you for doing what you did. Courage is not the absence of fear it is choosing to stand anyway. And I am proud of you.” Lily said.

I don’t know how she did it. But she always knew how to calm me down when everything seemed hopeless. Especially in my darkest times when I actually feel like dying is my best option.

As the day went on I managed to start to move around my bed slightly. The pillow was covered in blood but now that I had stopped bleeding, I grabbed another pillow. I knew that it would still get blood on it but it wouldn’t be sticky like the other one.

So I managed to pull the blanket over me slightly while my head was on the new pillow.

The door opened suddenly and I heard Spencer start laughing from the doorway.

“What the f**k? What happened?” Spencer asked.

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