The Dead Luna

Aurora/ Phoenix:

I was walking fast... really fast. Jai was behind me, calling out. But this rage wasn’t letting me hear his voice.

"Hey! Wait up, Phoenix! What happened?" I didn’t stop. Didn’t even look back.

"Phoenix. Come on!"

I finally spun around, and he must have noticed my clenched jaw, "Why would you say that stupid thing to Alpha Blake? That too in front of everyone?"

He raised his hands trying to explain, but I didn’t wait. I turned and started walking again.

Then I heard a loud thud and a curse behind me.

I stopped and turned back. There he was. Flat on the ground. His boots must have caught on a stupid rock or maybe a root or whatever, leaving him there, lying and groaning.

I sighed and walked back to him, reaching down to help him up. He grabbed my hand, and I pulled him up. But the moment he opened his mouth to talk again, I was already walking off.

"Oh, damn. Phoenix... just listen..."

He came after me to catch up, and the second he got closer, he reached out and turned me to face him.

"Listen, Phoenix. Love..." he was panting. A doctor who was quite out of practice for such a brutal fight, "You... you don’t know how to speak for yourself."