Life After the Storm novel Chapter 77

I'm woken up from a dead sleep from what sounded like an explosion. Hoping I was having a bad dream. When I hear it again, I jump, knowing this isn't a dream. I get out of bed In a hurry and I get dressed frantically, not caring what I'm putting on just so I have something on.

As I open the door from my cabin, all I see is flames. I can hear screaming from pack members, as my heart sinks to the ground. I race out to see what I can do, but when I realize there is no battle happening. I'm confused to what the fuck is happening.

I see as my pack members run, but there's no one chasing them. Then something catches my eye as I look up into the sky. It almost seems to be shooting stars. Only wishing it really was, in reality, its burning arrows. I become Angry, I try to figure out what direction they are coming from. But I can't tell because they're coming from every direction possible.

I become scared, not knowing what to do or how to protect anyone. I watch as fire is coming from the sky. I get jolted out of my thoughts when an arrow lands right in front of me. I stumble backwards, almost fall to my butt, then I feel arms catch me. The relief overcomes me when I see Landon and Jayden. I'm so happy that they are OK.

“Lilly, are you OK?”

I don't even know what to say. I mean, I guess physically I'm fine. But emotionally, I'm not as I watch pack members' homes burning to the ground. I Wish I could have prevented all of this. Knowing that it is our fault, we brought danger here. As my body begins to shake, Landon is repeating himself, asking if I'm OK.

“Yes Landon, I'm fine physically, but mentally I don't know could we have prevented this by not being here? Would they have still been attacked if it wasn't for us.”?

“Lilly, come on, we have no time. We need to go. There is a hidden spot within the pack that they all go to. When there is an attack that no one out of the pack knows about.”

“What if there is a spy in this pack, and they're just waiting for us to come into their trap?”

As I am speaking I see a flame coming right for Landon and Jayden. Fear overcomes me and that's when my life changes forever. As I raised my hand up, I watched As the arrows fell to the ground, shocked. I don't stop there as I watch more arrows coming towards the pack. I raise my hands and simply just wave of my hand and imagine all of them to disappear, then watch as the arrows are no longer.

I look over to Landon and I can see him just stunned, not knowing what to say. Now I know why she said that I will be the one that saves us all because I truly have a power within me. As I look closer to the sky, I can see the arrows being lit. That's when I focus and watch as they all go up in flames.

I try not to break as I can hear those that are in flames screaming. Knowing that I am the one who has done it. Hoping that I can be OK with it because I was trying to protect us all. I close my eyes trying to block out the screams, I then hear a voice saying what makes one life more valuable than another, Bad or good.

My heart warms when I realize it's star, my wolf that has blocked me out but now has spoken. Even though her words cut me like a knife. I'm still glad that she has spoken to me. I then feel a hand grip onto my shoulder. When I open my eyes, that's when I see Landon. I wait for him to say something, but he says nothing.

I can't hold it in any longer as tears start to run down my cheeks. I look at Landon and then say, “what happened? What have I done? I killed all of them. What kind of person does that make me?”

“A person who saved all of us, Lilly, you are an amazing person with amazing power.”

As my face digs into his chest and his big arms wrap around me, I squeeze him as tight as I can, letting him hold me, wanting his touch not wanting to let go.  So overwhelmed by all that has happened, especially killing my own kind. I wanted to figure out another way, but they didn't give me enough time to.  Instead, they tried to attack and capture us and it didn't go as they planned.

As Landon squeezes me tight, the warmth of his body comforting me clear to my soul, he then whispers" Lilly you had no other choice. They would have captured us and killed. them you saved us all.”

I left up my head from his chest and I look into his eyes. “You don't think I'm a monster.”

“Lilly you could never be a monster, you care too much about others. You Could have just taken off and protected yourself, but instead you took care of all of us, and now we're safe.”

I then feel a little hand grab a hold of my hand, I look to see Jayden, it makes me forget what I have done as I wrap my arms around, him giving him a hug. “Lilly sometimes we have to do things that we would never do, but we need to do what is necessary to protect those that can't protect themselves.” 

“Jayden, you're such a strong little boy that has to grow up way too fast. I am so proud of you. I can't believe you're the one that is giving me words of advice, thank you.”

“It's because I learned from the strongest wolves.”

“Landon, you know that this is not over, you know it's just the beginning.”

“Then I guess it's time to get prepared for what is coming next.”