**TRIGGER WARNING This chapter contains sexual assault and/or violence, and suicidal thoughts that may be triggering to survivors.**DreamAdeaAll those years, he never let me down. He wasn’t a man of many words but I always knew, I just knew. It was in the way he looked at me, the way that he touched me, the way that he did things for me, the way that he jumped in the way when I was going to get hurt.Yes, his way of showing affection wasn’t normal but… how many people were actually normal in this Goddess-forsaken world? If that was how he wanted to show me he needed me, loved me, I didn’t care.Sometimes, yes, he hurt me, his love was painful but good, so good. I could take it and knew when we mated, I would do anything and everything to make him happy. Did that make me like Alpha’s mate? I don’t know.I could see the light at the end of the foyer that waited for us on the other side of the hallway. If we could just get there we would be okay. We’d be free and I’d never have to see

**TRIGGER WARNING This chapter contains sexual assault and/or violence, and suicidal thoughts that may be triggering to survivors.**DreamAdeaWhat is she doing?I don’t know, but I’ve missed you Korra.I know. Me too. Whatever she’s doing isn’t good.I know.You need to get that off of you.Why? I don’t know how I’m going to do that with my whole body chained down.You need to try, Adea. Whatever it is, it isn’t good. I can sense it. Do whatever you can to get that off of you.I think it’s useless, Korra. We’re not getting out of this one.I don’t know what it is. What I do know is that it will change everything.What do you mean?I don’t know how but I just know. I smell darkness from this witch.You’re not helping, Korra…Don’t start crying now. Even if we can’t break free, we need to wipe that symbol off of your chest before she can complete the ritual.Ritual?Yes, Adea.I don’t know how I’m going to stop this. As I panic and try to find a way to smear the symbol, the witch move

NowAdeaLong black curls of hair fell down on the bed, eyelashes fanned his cheeks and a sharp nose. I recognized him instantly, I remembered what I had forgotten. The man who came for me, the man whose love was painful, the man who kept his promise was in front of me, laying in bed with me.My fingers trembled as I reached out to touch him. We were running and we’d almost been free. We would have been free… if not for the witch. My fingers froze. The ritual. She’d completed the ritual.Goddess. Ethan. The memory of me crying, sobbing, and screaming on the metal table melted into the day Shane ripped his heart out of his chest. The pain I had felt had been real.The loss of my mate had been real. The hate Shane felt for him had been real. The rough way he took me that night had been real. The sword through his chest had given me the revenge I wanted but it wasn’t enough.The loss of my child had been real. The wish for death had been real. The memory quickly melted into something els

AdeaIn this life, he was someone I needed to get rid of. He was someone who had hurt me and I just— Images of the ways he’d hurt me in our first life flash through my mind. Feelings of liking it, of liking him hurt me in ways I shouldn’t have.No, that was before and this is now. Shane is someone I need to get rid of, someone that’s hurt my family, he’s someone I need to kill. This knowledge doesn’t change that fact. I decided that this morning when I woke up from that terrible dream and I needed to fucking stick to it.Ignoring the way I’d felt, the way I wished for more for him, I swallowed it all down. Everyone has a sob story, anyone can have a dark past. That doesn’t mean I can let it affect me and what I’ve come here to do. What I’ve come here to accomplish.I will not be swayed. No matter how much my heart disagrees with my mind. Shane’s lips press to mine and I’m yanked from my thoughts. His kiss is everything it usually isn’t. It’s tender, it’s cautious, it isn’t kind but it

AdeaWe stood panting as he came back down from the wave of ecstasy he was riding. The room was filled with the sounds of our breathing and the walls were starting to close in on us. I was ready to get out of here and do anything else. I stood flabbergasted in front of Shane. A sly smile pulled at the corner of his lips, he didn’t have a care in the world.After pressing a kiss to my nose, he started about his day, pulling clothes off hangers and throwing them onto the table like he didn’t just jerk himself in front of me twice in less than twelve hours. I wanted him to get comfortable around me but that’s not what I had in mind.I realized the sheet come loose and my breasts were on display. Quickly, I covered myself. There was a knock on the door and I found myself face to face with Beka. She held a few bags in one hand and a couple of dressers hanging in the other.“I don’t know what you prefer to wear, so I brought a few things for you to choose from.” Her eyes immediately roamed