As I ran I tried to work it all out in my mind. How could he have done that to me; I thought he loved me. 

Tears streamed out of my eyes making it hard to see and I eventually came to a stop and I stood in the middle of a small clearing with my head bowed. I knew I had already made it further than any soldiers following me would be able to travel so ended up losing myself in the vicious thoughts circling my mind. It had all been a lie; from the very beginning they had manipulated me into believing he loved me.

The image of the smirk on Rowan’s face as he called me disgusting made me shudder and feel pathetic. It made me angry to think that he and Orion had orchestrated the whole relationship from the start and that it was totally built on lies and deception. I thought of all the times he had called me his ‘Beautiful Creature’ and bile began to rise in my throat as I realised the double entendre of him regularly calling me a beautiful freak or animal. That was all he had seen me as; a useful pet that needed to be controlled. I hated him.

When I had read his mind I could see the excitement he had gotten from sleeping with me and making me want him, the sadistic thrill he experienced when he had been taking advantage my body to get what he wanted. I felt my skin crawl as I remembered how he had touched me; it made me angry and sick to my stomach at the same time. How had I become so naïve?

I felt the anger rise within me as I thought of why he had done it. As much as I loathed him I knew he could not be the only one I aimed my anger at; Orion was just as much to blame. I had never trusted Orion; there was something about him that had always given me an uneasy feeling. However, I hadn’t expected him to be so malicious. I thought of how he had composed the whole exploitation and it made me furious.

I thought of every look, every touch, every kiss, I couldn’t believe it had all been a lie. My attempt to rationally think it through failed and I screamed in pain and frustration. I felt the electricity shoot through my body as I let my emotions take over and an eerie blue glow started emanating from my body. The more I thought about what they had done the colour of the light changed to red. Crimson sparks flew from my body as the tears streamed from my face.

I felt so, so, betrayed; as I thought the word a shot of red crackled to life, striking the tree closest to me and causing it to be engulfed in fire. I felt the fire being replicated in my eyes as heat seemed to cloud my vision. I was so furious, another shot of red and another tree in flames. As I processed what they had done to me the forest around me blazed into a furnace of burning trees; each realisation bringing another shaft of crimson lightning.

Eventually the anger passed and the pain took over. I fell to the floor and felt completely lost. As I tried to breathe calmly I looked up with cooler eyes and stared around myself in horror; what had I done?

I threw my consciousness across the forest and felt the animals and birds running for their lives as the fire chased them out of their homes as a deadly sea. I quickly quenched the flames with my mind but the damage had already been done, for meters in every direction the trees were cindered and charred, the grass on the floor was either black or in ashes and everywhere I looked I could see the bodies of dead creatures.

Remorse swept through me again and like a coward I ran away into the night.

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I know this is really short but i think it needed to be put in this chapter, as when I tried to fit it in the next one it didn't work. I hope you dont think she's over reacting, but Rowan (although a dick) was her first love, and i thought i needed to show how Orion was involved and was just as much to blame...more explination about Orion in the next chapter.

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