As I stood there, surrounded by a sea of angry faces, my mind was filled with thoughts of Declan. My mate. My heartless mate, who’d for the first time showed me weakness and vulnerability. Images of him flashed in my mind, then those images were replaced with reality when I saw him down there, being dragged around and bullied by over 30 men. He was clearly fighting back, but he wasn’t in his half form. He couldn’t defeat them. My heart broke seeing him like that.
The thought of him dying, of losing him forever, was unbearable. I felt like I was going crazy.
“Scream, Elena, scream!’’ That unfamiliar voice came back in my head again. I tried to block it out but I couldn't. I knew what had happened the last time I screamed. I couldn’t bear the guilt. There was a sea of people between Decla
