And Then There Were Four

They say when you lose something you love the most, your world stops spinning and nothing makes sense anymore. I never thought much about what my life would be like without the people closest to me. But the moment my life was faced with hard choices and bad

decisions, I realized there was no turning back.

"How dare you touch what's mine?" The roared comment that came from Lucas echoed throughout the area. Panic consumed those around us as they watched the scene before them unfold. People went running, screaming for help, and I knew somewhere close by, my parents were trying desperately to find out what was causing the chaos.

The chaos centered around me.

"Stop!" I screamed as the two guys went at it with each other. Claws flying through the air, slashes being made upon skin, howls of pain, roars of anger. It was all too much for me, and as I jumped to my feet, I tried desperately to find a way I could stop at all. There was one way, but using my magic was forbidden by my parents and the pack. I wasn't allowed to do that, but as I tried to see another way around it, I couldn't.

I didn't shift into my Lycan form for a reason because I was more uncontrollable than my brother. But I so desperately didn't want either Lux or Lucas to get hurt.

With panic setting into my racing heart, anger bubbled inside me, mixed with confusion, hatred and love. I didn't know what I was doing, but before I knew it, I allowed myself to change.

The only problem was it wasn't the change I was expecting. The change that ended up consuming me was of power and darkness. A rage boiling inside of me that finally exploded with a screaming yell for them to stop.

The power bursted from my hands, my body and my soul was unlike anything I had ever felt before. There were those who had made it away in time from where we had been consumed in chaos, but those that did not were thrown back hundreds of feet, landing on the ground, pleading for the chaos to stop.

"Cassie, no!" My mother screamed as my parents tried to get to me in time. Both Lucas and Lux both turned to me in shock as the power radiated off my body in green waves.

All I wanted tonight was to enjoy the time with my family I had before I left for college. To enjoy my birthday and possibly meet my mate even though Lucas was not the mate I was hoping for.

Yet that didn't happen. Instead, hell broke loose all because I was paired with a man my brother hated.

As both of them turned to me, they slowly transformed back into their normal forms, their clothes completely shredded, their half-naked bodies bared before me.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

"Cassie, you have to stop," Lux pleaded with me as he held his hands up as a sign of defense. "You can't do this. Look, we're not fighting anymore. Please, you have to calm down."

It didn't matter if I wanted to stop or not, at the moment I was unable to, it was as if I had taken a back seat in my mind, and the forefront of power which controlled me currently was driving this ride.

"Why is it that every time I find something in my life that could possibly make me happy, you try to stop it?" I bellowed at him. "I'm your sister. Why can't you be happy for me?"

"I am happy for you, Cassie, please, you have to stop. You're scaring people, and if you're not careful, you will not be able to redeem yourself for whatever you do when you completely lose it."

He was trying to reason with me, that was obvious, but he was doing so in a very poor manner. I didn't understand why he couldn't just let me be happy, let me figure my own shit out. He always thought he had to control me, tell me what needed todo.

He was my brother, not my keeper, and he didn't seem to want to understand that.

"Cassie-" Melissa's soft words caught me off my guard for a moment, and glancing at her, a part of me calmed at her presence. However, that was quickly ruined when Pollux took note of Melissa, stepping closer and decided to open his mouth.

"Look, Cassie, even Melissa is scared of you."

Narrowing my eyes, a low growl echoed from my throat. "Don't you dare say her name."

"...Or what? If you keep this up, there is no redemption for you, Cassie. Someone is going to get hurt all because you don't know how to keep your shit together."

"You're such a fucking liar. You are

not happy for me. You never have been and you never will be. You have been nothing but jealous of me

I.ne

since the day we came into our

powers and you blame me for every

moment of your life, not being

exactly how you want it."