Chapter 27: A place called home
Autumn ran.
She definitely did not know where. Did not care. Anywhere but there...
The sting on her cheek was nothing compared to the fire in her chest. The slap was nothing actually.It was the anger that hurt!
The raw, clawing fury that made her legs move faster and made her fists clench tighter. The forest blurred around her, branches whipping at her arms, her face, but she barely felt them. She was going far far away from the Blackmoon pack and that’s what mattered.
"Idiot. Stupid!!! Fucking pathetic idiot."
She swiped at her face angrily, but the tears kept coming. She hated them. Hated that she could not stop them. Hated that he had reduced her to this. And hated herself that she allowed it... in some ways, she did.
Her foot caught on a root, and she stumbled, barely catching herself before she faceplanted into the dirt. A scream tore from her throat. Angry!
"ARRGH!"
She grabbed the nearest branch,thicker than her thighs and snapped it clean in half with a sharp twist. The sound was satisfying, but not enough. She hurled the broken pieces into the trees, then kicked a rotting log so hard it splintered apart.
" Damn you Kieran! You fucking sucker!!And fuck me for going all goo gaa... fuck! That’s why you never put your guard down... never... there’s nobody but you Autumn! You are your own back up! You idiot! The fuck you let him do that to you... you soft pink! "
But she knew why. Because she had seen something in Kieran’s eyes...something soft, something she thought might be real and she had been foolish enough to think it meant...something. Or perhaps it was just the stupid fucking mate bond messing with her head!