Chapter 139: Chapter 139

Charlotte’s tongue is stuck out of her mouth and two long fangs poke out at the sides. Blood drips from her red eyes and the look on her face says that she is ready to raise hell!

Azraiel is taken aback for a second. Sure, he knows that she could turn into anything but this is the first time he is actually seeing it for himself.

It looks like the vampire version of Charlotte is on the surface!

Without releasing her, he loosens his grip and continues staring at her face. She smiles creepily at his stare as blood drips from her fangs.

It takes everything in him to stay still and not wipe off the blood from her face. Slowly, he further loosened his grip but still remained close to her in case the spell didn’t work.

He breathes a sigh of relief when he sees that it does work. The spell worked!

Charlotte now stands on her own but now bound by the spell she isn’t thrashing. But for some reason, this stillness bothers Azraiel. He knows the spell worked since he can see the semitransparent snake bind around her body which is keeping her from getting out of control. But the look on her face says that she was ready for it, which is not good!

Azraiel takes a step back but keeps watching her. He has no idea why but he feels like this silence is the silence before the storm. She keeps smiling looking at him and it is starting to get to him. The blood dripping from her eyes and fangs doesn’t help either.

Charlotte takes a step back and he gets alerted instantly. Without breaking eye contact, he moves towards her. She can’t move her hands wildly due to the spell but it still gives her enough room to let her arms transform. Azraiel patiently waits for her to move.

Minutes pass by and nothing happens. Charlotte keeps smiling at him and Azraiel keeps staring at her with all his senses alert.

Suddenly Charlotte stops smiling and he notices a new emotion in her eyes.

Defiance!

She looks up at the ceiling of the tent. Azraiel wants to look up to see what she is looking at but instead chooses to stay alert and keep an eye on her.

After looking at the ceiling for around a minute she calmly looks back at Azraiel and gives him a smile with her bloodied mouth which looks more like a smirk than a smile to Azraiel and also makes him believe that something is going to happen soon.

And it does….

Charlotte looks up again and lets out a shrilling scream. The scream is so loud and bizarre that Azraiel has to actually cover his ears to save them. Azraiel unwillingly takes a step back. The sound of her scream is so loud that he could see the tent moving due to its intensity.

It seems like minutes but is actually for a few seconds that she lets out this scream. However, those few seconds were more than enough to wreak havoc.

As soon as Charlotte stops screaming, Katya and Theo rush inside the tent. Azraiel hasn’t taken his eyes off his mate who is standing there in the same place as a few seconds ago. The only difference is that her eyes are now closed and she isn’t looking up.

Azraiel doesn’t look at Theo and Katya when they enter the tent but he can feel their eyes darting between Charlotte and him.

He slowly takes a step forward and calls her name softly, “Charlotte?”

When she hears her name, she smiles and open her eyes.

Azraiel hears Katya gasp as soon as Charlotte opens her eyes.

No whites are visible as blood pours down from her eyes. Her eyes are red…filled with blood. It looks like someone gauged out her eyeballs. Her fangs that were poking out of her mouth have extended in length.

“Out” Azraiel whispers.

Katya leaves immediately and Theo follows after a second.

Azraiel hears Theo’s voice through mindlink a few seconds later.

“Alpha, it’s eerily quiet out here. Should we go check the tents?”

“Yes, but be careful!” He quickly replies and focuses on his mate again.

“Charlotte?” He calls her again, a little bit louder this time.

“Mhmmm?” She smiles widely showing her bloodied teeth. She sounds like she wants to play with him.

But he can’t let that happen now, can he?

“Come here, love?” he says and opens his arms wide. As long as he holds on to her, he’ll make sure to keep her alive.

Charlotte giggles like a teenage girl talking to her crush. As much as Azraiel wants to keep it real, it is getting a bit creepy in there.

The silence outside the tent isn’t helping either.

Charlotte takes a step forward slowly, still giggling in a creepy way.

Just two more steps

Please, Charlotte

Please

She complies and Azraiel breathes a sigh of relief….

Which is cut short when something unexpected happens the next second.

There’s only one step of distance left between them when Charlotte stops in her tracks. For a brief moment, he sees her!

Azraiel sees Charlotte, his Charlotte who looks pained and then just in a second, that Charlotte vanishes and is replaced by the one standing in front of him giggling like she knows a secret he isn’t afraid of.

When she doesn’t step towards him, Azraiel takes a step towards her but what happens after that is all a blur!

All he remembers is blood….

Only red crimson blood!

When he took that step forward, blood started pouring from everywhere. The amount of blood being sprayed from every direction made its way into his eyes. He blinked fast so that he could see Charlotte…but he couldn’t see anything but blood. It was as if he was surrounded by waterfalls of blood from all sides.

What Azraiel was most afraid of was the possibility that this blood could be Charlotte’s. The fear gripped his heart tightly.

No…no..no…no…no…

It couldn’t be…

Maybe it’s a trick.

He closes his eyes immediately and starts chanting the words that can lift any kind of supernatural veil.

Nothing happens for a minute as everything is silent.

And then, the blood slowly starts clearing out in the middle. It’s like the blood fall has turned into a curtain and he could peek through to see the other side.

Azraiel feels like his heart would come out of his mouth in the next second when he sees what lies on the other side.

His mate, Charlotte, lies naked and unconscious in a pool of blood. Her pink skin looks like it has been peeled off. But that’s not the only sight that sent Azraiel’s heart into a shock.

When the blood curtains clear out a bit more, he slowly walks towards her. What he sees makes him fear for his mate’s life from the bottom of his heart.

Her skin has actually been peeled off!

From what’s visible of her skin apart from the blood, he can see her bones peeking out. As he inspects her body from head to toe, he realizes that her left foot doesn’t have any skin at all…it’s just the bones!