Book 2: 7: The Lost Of A Mate

ELIAS POV:

I was worried, my Vixen was sick, terribly sick. I knew it everyone knew it but she just wouldn’t admit it. After Lani, she got worst, she was always looking so weak and so pale a few times she even passed out. I didn’t know how to help her, she was a demon after all not a werewolf so I didn’t know how to help her if she didn’t tell me.

I was in my office, trying to do pact business. But my thoughts kept going to Mila and her health. Just what the hell was wrong with her and just how could I help. It made me feel worthless. An alpha a king in fact, that can’t even take care of his own mate. What kind of a mate does that make me? I ran my fingers through my hair in frustration, then the phone rang.

I looked at it but for some reason, I hesitated to answer it. I felt a dark cold shiver run over me the longer the phone rang. Finally, I picked up the phone off the receiver and answered it.

“Hello?” I answered.

“Are you happy with yourself?” the deep voice on the other end responded. His voice was cold dark and held hatred behind it.

“Who is this and what are you talking about?” I asked the voice.

“Are you happy with yourself, my daughter is dying because of you.”

After he said that I knew who it was, Lucifer, Mila’s father. I didn’t know why he was calling me him and Mila weren’t even on speaking terms, so why was he calling me?

“What are you talking about Lucifer?” I asked him highly annoyed.

He just growled then chuckled.

“My daughters sick isn’t she.” He said. In more of a statement then question.

My whole body stiffened. “What’s going on with her?”

He just chuckled. “She’s dying,” he said simply.

“What,” I said lowly in disbelief “No she can’t be dying, or I would have felt it.”

“That’s what you and my daughter don’t get,” he said his voice laced with disgust “You both are of two different species. What you need to survive is both completely different. And because of that my daughters dying.”

“What can I do to help her?” I asked, I wasn’t going to listen to him. I was going to help my Vixen no matter what I have to do.

“Hmm you don’t have to worry about that preparations have already been made, Mila will be taken care of. Without your help, so be prepared.”

He was pissing me off. “Prepared, prepared for what?”

He just laughed and hung up the phone.

Slamming the phone down in aggravation I ran my finger through my hair gripping it tightly.

Then there was a stinging sensation over my mark, I hissed and rubbed it slowly. The stinging sensation increased until is turned into a deep agonizing burn. The pain started to grow, so much that I started to yell out in pain why clenching my neck.

“What the fuck?!?” I yelled my hand on my neck. My Beta Ryan came running in my office.

“Alpha are you alright?” He asked me running to my side.

“I don’t know ah!” My whole side started to burn only I clawed at my shirt and Ryan helped me take it off. The red marking from me and Mila’s soul bonding was glowing a bright red and it was burning like hell.

“What the fuck!” I yelled loudly. The burning pain started becoming deep and agonizing till it felt like my insides were burning. Then it reached my heart and I fell over panting and grabbing at my chest. It was an agonizing, terrible and burning pain that increased so much I could feel myself starting to shift. Axl was starting to take over, my yells in pain soon turned into deep growls and howls.

But before I could completely shift, the burning sensation slowly started to die down. Till all that was left was that stinging sensation, that soon died down to nothing.

“You ok, Elias?” Ryan asked me as he helped me up, worried clear in his voice. “what was that all about?”

I was just silent. I didn’t know what it was about. Hell I had no Idea what was going on at all. But what I did know is that it had something to do with what Lucifer said. It had to. It wasn’t no coincident, that weird phone call, then that deep agonizing pain.

“Elias,” Ryan gasped. I looked at him. His face held a mixture of emotions, confusion, fear and most of all worry.

“What’s wrong?” I asked him. My voice hoarse from all that yelling and screaming.

“Your ma-marks,” he stuttered “Their gone.”

I stood up quickly and walked over to the full length mirror, my eyes widen at what I saw. As he said my marks were gone. Every single last one of them, it was as if I was never even marked by Mila.

What the hell is even going on?

Pushing past Ryan I ran out my office to the one place I really needed to go. I needed to see Mila, I needed to make sure she was ok. I ran through the halls dodging everyone and everything just to get to my Vixen. Bursting through the door.

She was sleeping peacefully on her bed, but, there was someone there with her. He was just there, standing over her, watching her sleep, just staring at her.

“Who the hel-”

Before I could get the rest of my sentence out, he just vanished in a cloud of black smoke. The only thing I could see from him is the grimy smirk that laid on his face as he disappeared.

Running over to Mila, I called her name as I quickly tapped her on her face. It took her a while but soon she groaned as she slowly started to wake up.

“Eli” She groaned as she blinked a few times to wake up, then she tried to push herself up. She looked like she was struggling a bit, so I gently grabbed her arm and helped her up. Sitting up, she stretched and yawned. As if she was refreshed and wide awake.

“How are you feeling?” I asked her.

She gave me a confused look, then shrugged. “I feel perfectly fine honestly, in fact I feel great.” she smiled brightly.

She did look better, she didn’t look tired or drawn out, the color was coming back to her face. She looked better, healthy, even. I was happy, very happy. That was until she turned her head to look out the window. And what I saw broke my heart completely.

“Mila,” I whispered “Your Mark.”

She gave me another confused look then reached up and touched her neck.

“What’s wrong with my mark?” She asked me.

“It’s gone.”

Her face held a look of confusion at first, then her eyes grew wide with shock.

“What’s wrong, how could this have happen?” I asked her. She wasn’t answering me just look like she was lost in thought, shock and worry still on her face. “Mila?”

She shook her head as if trying to forget what ever she was thinking about and chuckled. “I have no Idea how that happened.”

I frowned but quickly covered it up with a small smirk. She was lying I could tell, but why was she lying to me? She never lied to me before, so why now? Does it have something to do with our mark disappearing? But, why?

“D-does this mean we’re not mates anymore?” she asked me. Confusion in her voice. I pulled her quickly into my arms.

“You’ll always be my mate not matter what Mila, you’ll always be my mate.” I reassured her, I held her tightly in my arms. She wrapped her arms around me to hug me back, but her hug wasn’t tight as it usually it. Instead it was loose, very loose.

“Pity” She said then pushed out of my arms and went and got out of the bed. She stretched and made her way to the shower. I was highly confused.

The water turned on and I heard her humming, something she hadn’t done in a while.

“Oh my god look at my skin, I’ve really been letting myself go, hmm I wonder why.” She said loud enough that I could hear it. The way she said it was like she was being sarcastic, and I didn’t like it. She just started humming again, my guess was that she was taking a shower.

I got up and walked to the bathroom and just stood in the door way my arms crossed over my chest. I just watched her movements.

“It isn’t nice to stare you know.” She chuckled. “If you want, why don’t you just come in?”

I wanted to, It’s been a while since we’ve had sex, however, the way she’s acting right now. She wasn’t in her right mind, I could tell.

“It’s fine,” I told her as I continued to eye her. “Are you sure your feeling ok?” I asked her.

She just chuckled, “Of course, why wouldn’t I be ok?”

“I just want to make sure your feeling better, that’s all.” I told her and she just hummed. “You know I love you right?”

Whatever was going on with her, I was going to find the problem and fix it. No matter what I have to do. But with her next words I just knew, that my mate had changed completely.

She just chuckled “Of course you do.”