Love Grows In The Dark

by Eli Lowe

  And he did not wait to pull me hard only to make me fall right into his hard chest, causing Markus to lose his grip on me.

  “Kazan, let me drop her, at least. You are totally drunk right now.” Markus's voice did not fail to show how worried he was but little did he know that his concerns about us would do nothing except for worsening the whole situation even more.

  Cause, Kazan moved in an instant only to grab Markus by his neck, ever so brutally, and said,

  “I know how to look after my own mate. You do not have to bother about that. So, go find your own.” Kazan uttered with the utmost hatred towards his own brother, leaving Markus absolutely startled, witnessing the sudden change in Kazan's behaviour.

  And I could do nothing at this moment, even when I could clearly see that I was the only reason for such a rivalry between the two brothers.

  I was the sole reason for such hatred.

  And I just did not know how could I forgive myself for coming in between them, only to make their lives another hell.

  Kazan let go of Markus at last, and dragged me out of the club.

  Even before I could say anything to him, I was forced to seat on his bike in front of him just before he started the bike only to run the wheels with some tremendous speed.

  Episode 44

  ****Warning( Mature Content )****

  Summer's P.O.V

  I was thrown on the bed ever so brutally, right after Kazan dragged me straight into my room tonight.

  Yes, he took me straight back to my house from the club without bothering to say even a single word to me, the whole time during our ride. I kept trying to make him talk to me at least a little bit, but it seemed that nothing was meant to work on him as he stayed quiet and mad all the way back to home. And just when we reached my place, he parked the bike in front of my house and without waiting for any more second he got down only to throw me on his shoulder, as if I weighed nothing at all.

  I tried to let me free from his tight grip but unfortunately, nothing worked as he kept grasping me by my waist with his inevitable sturdy arms and I had left with nothing but to lay on my stomach without being able to get myself down from his shoulder.

  I shouted but as if not a single word fell on his ears. I tried to jerk myself off his body but it seemed that nothing was enough to make him stop from whatever he was going to do next.

  And I was already terrified, seeing my mate like this.

  I never realised that Kazan would be reacting like this with me as well.

  In no time, he made both of us in, effortlessly, only to rush inside my room. I could not see Kaith here tonight and it did not take much time for me to realise that no one could save me from Kazan tonight.

  And here I was.

  I was thrown on the bed only to lie there with utter shock right at this moment, while my wide eyes never stopped even for a second to look at the one who was now standing in front of me like some monster whom I must fear.

  “What...what do you want to do?” I stuttered, assuming the worst, as his face was clearly showing how angry he was right now. His eyes were already red which kept tracing my body entirely from top to bottom. And I realised how drunk he was.

  “Wash yourself. Right now.” His deep ferocious voice fell on my ears only to make me shiver for some unknown fears. But he did not move from his spot even for a bit and just kept waiting for me to do exactly what he just said.

  “But it is already so late and...” I could not even finish my words when another ferocious growl stopped me in between, leaving me no choice but to listen to his words.

  “I said, now. Right now.

  I do not want to touch you at all when you are already touched by someone else. So, wash each and every part on your body, and I do not want to repeat, Summer.” Kazan's words did not fail at all to relay the fact that he was so much disgusted with me right now. He did not even want to touch me only because I was kissed by Markus without much of my wish?

  Why was he punishing me in this way when it was not me who did anything wrong?

  Why am I this much unfortunate to get punished for other's sin, each and every time?

  And now, even Kazan thinks that I betrayed him when I knew that nothing like this I could ever do to him.

  Why?

  Why this kind of things only happen to me?

  Oh yes, how can I ever forget that I am the unfortunate one?

  So, I had left nothing to say.

  I got down from the bed carefully only to drag myself to the bathroom, so that I could stand under the cold shower in the middle of the night.

  I did not know how long I kept washing and scrubbing my entire body under the shower but it seemed quite some time as I had already started to feel that my skin might fall off at any moment if I kept going on with whatever I was doing since I came into the bathroom.

  The cold shower was successful enough to hide the warm streams which never stopped flowing on my already wet cheeks for quite some while now, but little did I care.

  Cause, no one cares.

  Standing under the running cold water I promised myself one more thing tonight. I promised that this time would be the last time ever, when I was going to prove myself to anyone. And after this one last time, I would never care to do the same, no matter who the person is. I would never try to prove myself ever again for any of my deeds, not even to my mate.

  Yes, I took the oath tonight.

  My mind was so engulfed with all the thoughts right at this moment, that I failed to see the one who had already invited himself inside the washroom during this time without any need for my approval.

  But I did realise the sudden presence of that very person in no time, just when the same sturdy hands pulled me back by my waist only to make me crash right into the bare hard chest of Kazan. And it did not take long enough for me to realise that he was completely naked too.

  “Why are you touching me now? I am not clean yet. I am still impure. So, go away.” I yelled without realising that my words would fall into the deaf ears. I tried to push him away but it seemed that the more I tried the more he kept pulling me towards him.

  “Try as much as you want. But make it very clear in your mind that you are stuck with me forever and so am I.” His drunk voice was enough to make me all terrified once again, but still, I was never meant to stop fighting, as I was not at all born to submit. No. Never.

  At least, I thought so.

  “Let me go.” I pushed him hard this time but it only made the night even worse for me. No, I could not make him lose his grip on me even for a bit, instead, he pushed my face against the wall and the next moment he was already moving inside me like some beast.

  Kazan clenched both of my hands together at my back while the cold wall felt even colder on my skin as he kept pounding inside me from behind without any mercy.

  “It hurts. Let me go.” I screamed in pain but, this time he did not stop.

  “Exactly mate. It hurts. I am hurt too, more than you could ever guess.” His warm breaths brushed against my ears ever so menacingly while I had left with nothing but to endure the brutal torture of my mate tonight.

  “I hate you.” I screamed in utter rage.

  “Same here, Mate.” Right at this moment, I realised that he was no more the same Kazan whom I knew till this morning. He was not at all gentle, he was no more interested in making love and of course, he had no intention to care for the pain which he was giving me right now. Yes, he completely became a monster tonight.

  And I did not know when I will be free at last.

  So, I closed my eyes and let the tears fall finally, while I kept waiting for him to show some mercy to me at last, only if he wished.

  Kaith's P.O.V

  The corridor was now absolutely dark and quiet, and so was the night outside.

  The dull screen of my phone was telling me that the time was past midnight now and everyone must be already sleeping ever so soundly without any worries to baffle with.

  And I?
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  Well, I had to stay awake tonight. Cause there was something which I needed to know as soon as possible.

  I did not forget at all about what Kazan had asked me to do this morning. Maybe, that was the only reason why my suspicions had increased even more than before. Even though I never mentioned, alpha Benjamin was always someone very suspicious, if not to others then to me at least, and the way he became the alpha of our pack right after the death of Summer's mom and dad, appeared even more suspicious.

  But before, when I tried to find out the reason for all of my doubts, I could found nothing. And that was why I did not proceed with my own search about the truth anymore, but it does not mean that I had stopped being wary of him, cause I did not, not even for a second until now.

  So, tonight I decided to start looking into the matter once again. And I knew from where I should start.

  Yes, the pack office.

  I was approaching alpha Benjamin's office room inside our packhouse ever so slowly and silently, and I believed that there must be some kind of clue of some kind of record about the past or anything odd about our recent alpha, which would definitely help me to go further and nearer to the truth about the ambiguous past.

  At this late hours, alpha too must be sleeping like others, and which meant, for me, this was the best opportunity to do whatever I was intended to do from the very beginning.

  At least I thought so.

  But little did I knew that I was not at all prepared to witness the very thing which I was about to see just before my eyes in no time.

  So, for now, I just kept approaching the office room without any idea about what was going on behind the closed door at this late hours, away from the eyes of everyone else in this pack.

  And when I reached, at last, I knocked on the door twice, as I wanted to make sure that there was no one in the room right now, so that I do not have to get caught for such trespassing. But it appeared that no one was there behind the doors indeed to respond to my knock, so I pushed open the door slightly only to find that the light of the room was still on, ever so surprisingly.

  I spent quite a lot of time standing in front of the door, hesitating about the fact that I should go inside or not. But even before I could make a decision about what to do next, a wicked sound of some kind of wooden furniture moving, came to my ears suddenly.

  I became cautious in an instant as I made sure at the same time that I should stay hidden in the dark only to see what was happening in there.

  Through the narrow passage of the open door, I saw the huge bookshelf moved to the side and a hidden door behind it opened mysteriously. And what I saw next, completely froze me right at my spot.

  Cause I saw someone, coming out of the door with his clothes all covered in blood but strangely, he seemed not at all injured.

  Then that must be someone else's blood. And most importantly who was he?

  I could not see his face yet, so I kept standing at my spot only to wait for him to wipe out all the blood which was tainting his face too, ever so viciously. The sight was extremely horrifying, indeed.

  And then, the very thing happened for which I was waiting. As he started to wipe the blood out of his face he started to become very familiar to me with each passing second and at last, I saw him very clearly.

  Yes, he was no other than our alpha Benjamin.

  My heart started to pound vigorously as a sudden chill ran down my spine, when I realised that he was about turn this way where I was standing right now. Yes, I panicked cause I had no time to run away.

  But in no moment, a strong hand covered my mouth forcefully all of a sudden and dragged me back to some even darker place.

  I could not scream, neither could I let myself free.

  I did not know if I had seen anything which I should not have.

  I did not know.

  Episode 45

  Kaith's P.O.V

  I was forced to stand in the dark for quite some time as the hand which was covering my mouth tightly, never loosened its grip on me, not even for a little bit. I could not move from the spot where I was dragged to stand a while before, leaving me no other option but to watch and witness the sight before me tonight.

  Though it was not that I could see everything from where I was brought to stand to hide amongst the darkness of the corridor but I could hear very clearly, the sound of each and every movement inside the office room.

  And mostly, I did not need to see anything more, cause whatever I saw tonight was enough for me to get myself all together with the very brutal reality.

  No, actually the thing was that I did not know the reality at all, and I can say that now for sure.

  I needed to rethink each and everything, all over again. But I could do that only if I got to get out free from where I was trapped right at this moment, rather from the person who was now holding me back from making any kind of movements.

  But something was telling me that though the hands were grasping me in this way, it meant no harm at all, instead, it was more like I was rescued from a great danger tonight.

  Cause as I kept standing without being able to move even for a little bit, I started to hear footsteps which were now getting even more clearer with each passing second, declaring the very fact that alpha Benjamin was going to come out of the office in any time soon.

  In this silent dark night, the mild footsteps also appeared loud and ever so vicious to my ears.

  My heartbeats started to rise along with the increasing sound of the footsteps but the hands which kept covering my mouth did not let me make a single sound at all, not even the sound of our breathing was there in the air all around us.

  And soon, the sound of the footsteps decreased only to vanish into the thin air as well in no time, just how once it started in the first place.

  With that, I realised that alpha Benjamin was now gone. And the hand of my saviour soon moved from its previous place too, just as I had expected. But even when I saw that now there was no alpha Benjamin right here at this moment, to catch me spying on him at the middle of the night, I could not found enough courage to continue with my mission for tonight, not at least when I could not forget at all what I had just witnessed.

  “Are you a fool, Kaith? What made you think that you could resolve each and everything in just one night which took me years only to understand what was happening in this pack for a long time?” The man whispered from behind, a few moments later, and I needed not a single hint to know who was my saviour tonight.

  “Dad?” I asked. Even when I had no doubt that it was him, but still as if I just could not believe that he came here to rescue me and that too at this late hour, when he supposed to have no idea about my sudden visit here, tonight.

  “Yes, it is me. And you should be grateful that I came here at the right moment, otherwise you were going to be doomed. You shit head. Now let's get out of here, before anyone sees us. We can not trust anyone right now. Come with me.” With that, dad dragged me out of the corridor along with himself in no time, only to come outside to get some fresh air, after what we both had to go through tonight.

  I did not know why, but somehow I was feeling like dad knew so many things which I was looking for. Something inside me was telling me that he had a lot of things to make me aware of. Then again, another thought started to bother me all over again, that if dad knew everything then why did he not tell me anything about it yet?

  Why?

  What was the mystery behind all this?

  And then the very thing came to my mind what Kazan had informed me this morning.

  'I was told to look for someone called Seth, cause he had got everything that I was looking for.'

  Yes, his each and every word were like engraved right into my mind.

  But the things which I did not understand was who told Kazan to look for my dad?

  What was Kazan looking for?

  And most importantly, why it is my dad who knows everything? What does he know?

  I kept baffling with
a lot of possibilities in my mind while the menacing silence overtook between me and dad for the time being, even when we were out to take a late-night stroll only to breath in the fresh cold air which kept accompanying us throughout our walk.

  Summer's P.O.V

  When I opened my eyes, it was already morning, as the bright light outside my windows was telling me so.

  And it did not take long enough for me to find out that I was lying all alone in my room, as there was no trace of the very person who made my life a burning hell, without any kind of mercy.

  I did not know when I fell unconscious last night, neither how I came to sleep in this bed. Cause the last thing I remember was those horrifying moments with my mate which I never want to experience ever.

  Yes, there is no doubt that I was terrified enough to even think about what happened between us at night, yesterday.

  Once again I was reminded how unfortunate I was.

  Anyway, by now I should have learned to deal with my fate. I should have been prepared for such kind of worst turns in my life cause I must remember that I could never expect anything good to happen with me, never ever.

  Again, with a deep sigh, I wanted to sit up on the bed but it seemed that I was drained out of all the energies of my body, and I could not even move. My entire body felt sore right now.

  But still, I sat up, ignoring the tiredness early in the morning, thinking that I had to learn to endure each and every kind of pain from now on.

  I was prepared to get down from the bed pulling the cover away which was on top of me, so that I could dress my naked body, right after I felt that I was awake enough to begin the day once again, but it seemed that till now I had failed to realise that I was already dressed in my huge t-shirt, ever so strangely.

  When did I get myself dressed in the middle of the night, in-between my sleep?

  Don't tell me that it was....?

  No, it can not be.

  I was confused with such a difference in the behaviour of my mate, just when my thoughts got interrupted all of a sudden.