Chapter 1)
BRIAN
"Chloe!" I shouted when I heard the gun shot ring. I sprinted into the the cable car museum and rushed inside with my heart hammering. "Chloe!" I screamed when I saw her body sprawled on the steps inside. My heart seemed to stop, my breathing catching and the crushing feeling of everything lost. I knelt next to her, staring down at her pale face. She had two gun shot wounds, one in the chest and one in the stomach. With hands shaking, I felt for the pulse in her neck and the one in her wrist. There was nothing.
"Chloe, please...just wake up." The tears began to fall, dripping down my face and onto Chloe. Her face wasn't wet with her own tears; she hadn't cried when the bullets were loaded into her and had sucked the life away.
I could feel my heart breaking, a new scar forming on it. "I never got to tell you my secret." My chest was heaving. "And I wanted to hear all your stories." I covered my face with my hands, loud cries erupting from my lips. "Come on, please. We got this far. We can be just friends." I would do anything for her to just be ok, even if that meant she would never talk to me again; I loved her.
ALEK
I frowned, Chloe still wasn't answering my calls or texts. I clenched my teeth when I thought about her being with Brian. I tried to push the idea out of my head, but once something formed there it got stuck. I turned the key in the lock to the apartment I shared with Jasmine and Valentina. I pushed the door open and immediately stopped. I looked around, my heart dropping and the color leaving my face. "Jasmine…Valentina.." I breathed.
"Oh hello Alek." Jasmine's date stood a few feet away from me. "It's nice of you to join us." He grinned.
I felt my chest puff out and I raised my chin, "I'm going to kill you."
"Kill me?" His eyebrows squeezed together and then he laughed. "But I'm your brother."
I was taken aback. "Screw you." I lunged at him. I didn't really care if he said he was my brother. Whatever blood relatives I had were gone and he had just murdered the family I was attached to. I was quicker than he thought I would be; he didn't have time to dodge my attack before I pummeled him over.
He cackled with laughter when I pinned him down, my claws digging into his shoulders. "I hope you know your girlfriend is toast." He laughed harder, and my grip tightened.
I held tightly onto his shirt and pushing him back as hard as I could, sent us both crashing through the large glass window that overlooked the city. I'm coming for you Chloe. I shut my eyes to the shattering glass. I'm coming.