I had to stop or at least try to calm the beast within him or he wouldn't stop at just Marcus and Marcus alone.

I knew what happened when one lost control. I've seen it time and time again as I grew up guarding the boarders of my old pack.

And with hybrids there wasn't just 'losing control', it was losing everything.

Suddenly members of my old pack slowly started stepping forward from the crowd. Liam coming from the crowd with a baseball bat in his grip, motioning a swing as he grinned at me. What are they doing here?

"The pact." my wolf replied.

Returning Liam's notion, my skin started to burn. I felt hot. Like REALLY hot. As if I was standing in the centre of an active volcano but it didn't hurt.

Then all of a sudden I felt cold, ice cold but it wasn't unpleasant. The air coming from my mouth as if I were standing on my porch back home on Christmas Eve.

I dropped to the floor, the sudden urge falling upon me to dig my fingers into the earth. I crumbled the small clots of earth beneath my fingers against my palm before digging my fingers deeper into the ground.

Suddenly I yearned for the sun upon my skin, wanting to feel its warmth seeping into me.

My body then began begging for water, a sudden thirst attacking my throat like hot desert air.

"Lexi..." a voice had me snapping my head towards the crowd.

"You're glowing." Liam gulped, pointing with his index finger towards me.

I stared down at my hands, he was right.

I looked like a a bar of gold glinting in the sunlight.

Immense energy started flowing through my body in a light buzz of vibration, causing me to ease back onto my feet and watch my body in confusion as well as wonder.

I slowly felt that my feet no longer touched the gound and that I no longer felt the earth hugging my toes. Weird.

Curious, I looked down and found myself stunned.

I was floating inches above the ground, the crowd, Luke and Marcus staring at me - amazed as I kept rising up higher and higher.

The energy flowing through me surged towards my hands with immense speed, making my arms stretch out towards the ground then with a split second my arms shot up in the sky as the energy shot from my body in bolts of lightening and pulling clouds together like magnets, making them darker and darker before finally the rain came pouring down upon us all.

Shouts and screams of fear came from the crowd until Vulcan stepped forward and said something I never thought anyone would speak of.

"She's an elemental." he voiced only to have Marcus growl in reply.

I looked down upon him and my eyes could see the blood within his veins, the human part of him strapped underneath his animal form.

A threatening urge came upon me and suddenly all I wanted was to see him squirm in agony under me as the same blood left him; the way I have squirmed and bled because of him for years.

I willed myself to calm down and dropped to the earth, striding over towards Marcus' hissing and snapping form.

All I wanted was to punch him.

So hard.

I lift my fists up, already attempting to put as much force behind them as possible and as I came swinging with my left but my hand wasn't the only thing flying towards him.

"Together." Luke's voice coming through our link causing me to let go of the hold I had on everything.

Clots of mud and rock flew into Marcus as my fist came crashing into the side of his body causing him to skid back before Luke came barreling towards him with his teeth bared.

A grin creeped onto my lips as my mates beast flashed me a wink before crashing into him and latching his jaw onto his side.

Chaos broke loose around us as rogues came sprinting towards my people and my people answered their sprints with cries of war as they all clashed together just as lightening seared a tree among the edges of the war that was raging around us

I felt Marcus' wild, vicious snarling and snapping of teeth making my mate irritated and one word kept flying through our connection. Kill.

With a nod, I sprinted, flipped over in the air and landed on Marcus' back, catching a hold of his neck and causing him to buck like a rodeo bull.

His body skid and jerked off the ground as he snapped at us like a rabid animal, twisting himself in unimaginable ways to try and get a hold. But his actions slowed as my arms started tightening around his throat.

He stumbled, huffing and puffing before collapsing on the ground and attempting to extend his neck in submission as Luke let go of his side before moving in for the kill.

"No amount of submission will save you, you filthy mutt." Luke's voice sounding through the packs connection causing all our people to growl in agreement "Lexi, I won't do it if you don't want me to." He voiced as his green eyes peered out through his beast towards me.

"Let me." was all I replied.

I eased myself off Marcus, lowering myself to the ground to look into his eyes before whispering "I'm sorry Marcus. But you did this to yourself. I will never be happy with you around." his eyes shutting as he huffed a single breath of acceptance in reply causing me to whimper.

The crowd slowly came to a stop around us, consumed by the scene that was now playing out before them.

I reached out and placed my hand over his head as he took deep breaths, easing my palm over his fur towards his chin causing him to open his eyes before shifting into his human form and reaching his hand out towards my shoulder.

"All I ever wanted was for you to love me the way I loved you." he whispered, his eyes desperate and kind as they stared into my soul and for a second I recognised him as the man I once fell in love with.

The look he gave me ignited something within me that had my wolf retreating in whimpers of fear back into the furthest confines of my mind with her tail between her legs.

What the hell?

I looked down the length of my body and back up.

And then I saw it.

Marcus was burning.

Flames reached up around Marcus and myself, engulfing him with a mouth of damnation, razor sharp teeth of oblivion a gut of infinite doom.

But he just stood there, watching me as he slowly retracted his hands, mouthing 'I love you' as he closed his eyes for the last and final time as ice took the place of fire, slowly engulfing him into a frozen hell.

I reached out...

And with a touch of my finger on the ice, it shattered.

The pieces falling to the ground like a house of cards making me look down at them in horror.

A warm hand on my shoulder had my fear fading as it softly urged me to turn around before large arms engulfed me in a warm, heart filled hug.

Tears sprang from my tear glands and ran down my cheeks, wetting Luke's now hairless and hard chest.

I've overcome my past again.

And although I still felt a little tinge of guilt... I knew it was needed if I wanted to have a future with Luke.

"It's okay baby." he cooed "Shh... It's over now." he whispered as he traced a finger up my neck before lifting my chin to look up at him "And I'll never let you go again."

"No... It's not that. It's just... I remembered something." I breathed before looking away.

I cried for two things. Something lost and something forgotten.

Marcus was lost and I could not change it.

But forgetting something that was always treated as such a special thing by so many as I grew up especiallybecause of the person I shared it with, was believed to be something to be ashamed of.

It was tradition to celebrate...

Because to some, it was a blessing.

"What?" he questioned curiously.

"Today's my birthday."