The Beast's Possession

**Aife

pov**

I woke up to Zion, jumping on the bed. I hadn't realized that I fell asleep until the unhinged maniac decided I had enough rest already and he had to take me on a new adventure.

Pulling the pillow over my head, I groaned and tried to hide from him. "Leave me alone, Zion. I'm not in the mood to play your games and I really want to get some more rest. Is an hour really too much to ask for? Please, let me be." Zion pulled the blanket off me and let out something that sounded like a war cry. As soon as the sound left him, the madman grabbed my ankles and pulled me off the bed, laughing as my body hit the floor.

"The look on your face," he heaved. "It's priceless. Goddess, if only you could see yourself right now, you would understand why it's so bloody funny to look at you. Aife, you are a clown, a whole ass clown." With every word that left him, I wanted to strangle Zion just a little more. He had to have lost his mind completely, whatever the reason for it was.

Come to think of it, he had always been a little off, but now, he acted completely out of character. Why was he playing up this crazy behavior? Was there something new to hide from me?

Slowly, I pushed my body off the floor and sat up to look at him. Even the laugh that echoed against the walls sounded all sorts off, which made me wonder what had happened. "Zion?" I called his name and he instantly froze up. The look on his face resembled that of a deer, caught in the headlights, so I instantly knew something had to have happened.

But when? I was asleep for a couple of hours tops, there was no way something awful might have happened all of a sudden. No, that was impossible.

"Why are you acting so weird?" I asked, just to pull him out of the weird haze he suddenly got locked in.

"Me? Weird?" His eyes darted everywhere but at me as he pointed his finger to his chest. "No, I'm not weird. It's you who is weird, I could never. How dare you call me weird? I'm not weird, it's you who's weird."

Seeing how off even his speech was, I decided to put him out of his misery. "What are you hiding? And why won't you look into my eyes if you're really not being weird about something? What did I miss? And where is Bane? Did he leave already? Without saying a proper goodbye?"

I knew my questions would overwhelm Zion, especially if he had something to hide from me, but that was my main intention. The more pressure my questions would put on him, the better.

My eyes followed every movement he made as Zion brought his hand to the back of his neck and scratched it. "I have no idea what you're talking about," he muttered, still looking somewhere in the distance.

Yeah, even a fool would see he was hiding something, probably something massive and important. But then again, seeing how the whole pack sort of viewed me as their Luna, I couldn't understand why there was the need to keep secrets from

me.

"Did Bane leave already?" I repeated the question, slowly getting back to my feet and acting as if it wasn't a big deal.

"Well, I mean, yeah, he had to and all. That's why I'm here, you know, to entertain you if it happens he doesn't come-" Zion slapped his hands over his mouth as his eyes finally met mine. As the realization sunk in, his eyes widened. "You just told me too much, didn't you?" I raised an eyebrow and crossed my arms in front of my chest, tapping my foot against the hardwood floor. Zion shook his head in denial, but I could see through him. The fool decided to lie. "If it happens he doesn't come back? Is that what you wanted to say?" I pressed.

Zion dropped his hand to his side, sucked in a deep breath and started talking. Just... He didn't say what I wanted to hear. "Breakfast sounds good, right? Bane told me I'm supposed to show you the territory and introduce you to everyone as the Luna. Just in case someone didn't know already and all. I think we could eat, walk around, maybe beat some racoons with sticks or something. I don't like those suspicious looking fucks anyway, I'm sure no one would miss their tiny criminal grabby hands."

"Wait," I stopped him and raised my hand, "how did you go from acting like the most suspicious person on Earth to beating racoons with sticks? Are you okay? You have rabies, right? Yes, that has to be rabies."

Stepping closer, I tried to check his forehead, but Zion started running around the room and shouting like a maniac, avoiding me as if I were about to give him plague. "Step away, witch, I don't have rabies! I never had rabies and never will! You won't get me alive! I won't allow you to stick your finger up my butt to check my rabies! Never!"

All I could do was stand frozen and watch him panic. Since when that was how people got tested for rabies?

I had no idea where this guy was getting his energy from, but Zion didn't stop running around like a lunatic for a good five minutes while I didn't move a muscle. He could stop and keep some distance between us, but he still decided to overreact.

While he was having a mental breakdown, I tried to notice if there was anything in his body language to tell me what he was hiding. I even went so far as to try to catch on every word, maybe some would be unintentional and Zion could at least give me something to think about.

However, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch on to anything. On top of that, I also couldn't focus on anything but his slip-up. Had Zion really tried to tell me that Bane thought he wouldn't come back?

After all what we had gone through together, the hell Bane trapped me in.. Would he really leave without saying goodbye, especially if he knew there was a chance he wouldn't return?

I didn't want to cry or break down like a weak link, but I couldn't fight off the tears that filled my eyes. Everything was too much. Just when I thought I could get my happily ever after, everything came crashing down. Bane had changed, but along with his change, came more challenges in our way.

By the time Zion stopped rambling, he noticed the tears that streamed down my cheeks. He ran up to me, grabbed my face in his hands and looked at me with the softest gaze I've ever seen. "Aife, are you okay? Why are you crying? Not to put any pressure on you, but if my best friend finds out I made you cry, he will kill me. This isn't even a joke. He will kill me."

The hint of panic in his voice made me chuckle. Even I understood that I was overwhelmed, so instead of pushing the questions again, I ignored them all and offered Zion to get breakfast. The lunatic was far too happy to hear about food, so I went with it. Later, he could tell me a little too much again and then, I would piece everything together.

If no one was willing to give me information, I would get it on my own.