Book 2: 8: Intruder!!!

MILA POV:

As I took a shower, I could feel Eli’s eyes on me. I just sighed I knew he was worried for me I could hear it in his voice and see it on his face. But things were going to change. He was back, I didnt know how but he was.

“If your not going to shower with me, then please dont just stand there staring at me. ” I told Eli and I heard him sigh.

“Call me if you need me ok?” he said, worry laced his voice.

“I will,” I responded.

“I love you” He told me again before walking out. I just hummed a response. I loved him, I really truly did. But right now, I couldn’t express it and honestly it was for the best. I couldn’t risk expressing any type of affection towards him. I didnt want him to end up like Adam, so for now, I will keep my distance.

I listened to him sigh sadly, then I listened as he closed the door behind him as he left.

The hot water that ran through my hair and down my body felt blissful. Even though I was alone in the shower, I knew he was there, watching and waiting.

THIRD PERSON POV:

Mila didnt know what she was going to do, or how she was going to go about dealing with Dante. But she knew she had to do something, for her family’s sake.

She was in the middle of washing her hair when she felt it. The feeling of someone so close behind her, that she could feel their breath on her neck. Quickly, she turned around, her hand rubbing the back of her neck. She could feel the hairs on the back of her neck stand up, but there was no one behind her. Slowly and cautiously she turned back around and continued washing her hair.

“Cara Mia” she heard his voice. And once again she turned around in a panic. Expecting to see Dante standing there, but like before, there was nothing, and no one. Panic started to rise in her chest as her heart or what was left of it pounded in her chest.

She knew he was here, he had to be, she could feel him near. But she couldn’t see him and she knew why. He was playing with her, teasing and enjoying the feeling of her panicking. Knowing this she just sighed, she knew there was nothing she could do, she couldn’t get rid of him. He was here to stay, so she decided to finish washing her hair and finish her shower.

She was rinsing the soap from her body and hair when a chuckle echoed throughout the bathroom.

“What do you want Dante?” She sighed, letting the water wash the shampoo from her hair.

"You know what I want cara mia.” He said with a chuckle and she couldn’t help but give the voice a sarcastic chuckle.

“The only thing I know is that I want you to leave me alone Dante.” She grumbled and he chuckled darkly.

From the shadows behind her, two hands stretched out. She froze in shocked as she felt an arm come under hers, a hand ran up in between her breast and lightly gripped her neck. She hissed as another hand grabbed her left breast in a death grip. The heat of breath fanned her cheek.

"Awww Cara Mia. I’m not going any where and neither are you.” His grip on her neck got tighter ”Not again, I’m never leaving you ever again. We’re apart of each other, forever.”

With one more tightening grip on her neck and breast, he kissed her on her cheek. ”Come find me.”

With that he vanished and now she was horny and pissed off.

Aggravated, she turned off the shower, grabbed the towel and stepped out, all a while grumbling and mumbling to herself.

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Eli had been worried about his mate, no matter how much she said she was ok. He didn’t believe her, he just couldn’t leave her, so he just sat there and waited. He could hear her talking, but it wasn’t as if she was talking to herself, it was like she was talking to someone. But he knew no one was in there, he didn’t hear anyone else just her.

The shower turned off, and after a few minutes, the bathroom door opened. She didn’t notice him at first, and he saw a look of aggravation on her face. When she looked up a look of shocked passed over her face as she placed a hand over her heart.

“What the hell Eli.” She said as she stopped in her tracks. “You scared the shit out of me.” She said as she stood in front of him. A towel wrapped around her body and her hands on her hips.

Eli got up and stood tall in front of her, his hand reached up and touched the crook of her neck. His face frowned at it’s nakedness, the place where his mark use to be. “It wouldn’t have scared you, if you still had my mark.” Sadness laced his voice and Mila just sighed.

She wanted to hold him, to console him, but Dante was watching. Somewhere in the shadows, Dante lurked like the evil little demon he was.

“Let me mark you again Vixen.” Eli said sadly as he caressed her neck. Mila wanted to smile and jump for joy yelling yes to the world. But she couldnt. She had evil little eyes watching her.

Eli was an Alpha King he could take on Dante, right protect himself? However, did she really want to take that chance? Dante wasn’t just your ordinary demon, he was someone she created out of the love she once had for him.

“Once?” Dante’s laugh echoed in her head. “oh cara mia you still love me, you will always love me and you know it.”

As she figured, he was still there. But he wasn’t right, right? She loved Eli now, Eli had her heart and no matter what he always will.

Once again Dante laughed in her head. “I have your heart. Cara mia no one else can.”

"Shut up Dante” she thought and he just laughed. She felt like she was going crazy having a conversation with the voice inside her head.

“Maybe you are crazy cara mia, but I’d still love you.” Dante told her and she groaned as she rubbed her temple.

Eli looked at his mate. Something was going on with her, she had a spaced out worried look on her face. He wanted to take some of that worry away, he wanted to know what was causing her to look so stressed out. The only way to do that would be to mark her again. However, when he asked her, she didn’t respond.

“Did you hear me Vixen?” Eli asked again as he caressed her cheek. Her eyes snapped up to his as he now had her full attention.

“What?” She asked.

“Let me mark you again. ” he smiled at her. He was waiting for her to open up her neck and just offer herself to him. But instead she frowned and looked down as if she was deep in thought. Why the hell is she always deep in thought?

He hated not knowing what she was thinking about or how she was feeling. He felt lost without their bond, so he asked again and again and again. Hoping she would break and just say yes.

Mila on the other hand was going crazy, Dante just kept laughing in her head. And every time Eli would ask if he could mark her, Dante would laugh harder. It was as if he was in a god damn comedy show, having the time of his life.

Between Dante’s laughing and Eli constantly asking the same question. Mila felt like her head was going to explode, so to lesser her head ache she was just going to say yes to Eli. Just to get it over with. As soon as she came to that conclusion, Dante stopped laughing and it got quite.

Finally.

She opened her mouth to answer Eli, but nothing came out. Her brows knitted together in confusion and her hands went up to her throat. No matter how much she tried to talk nothing came out. It was as if she lost her voice.

Eli tried to help, but he felt useless. He couldnt mind link her. He couldnt understand how he could help her or even what was wrong. For the first time in a very long long time, he felt powerless and it hurt him.

Then Mila made a gagging motion and she bent over as she continued gagging and coughing. Still he didnt know how to help his mate. So he just rubbed her back, and stayed by her side.

Mila could feel something coming up. She didnt know what it was, but it was choking her. She dropped to her knees as she gagged and coughed trying to get it out, she could feel it coming from deep with in her. She continued to gagged until she felt it start to come up her throat and out her mouth.

Eli watched in shock as a thick black smog seeped from her lips. He’d never seen anything like that before. Out of all his years as an Alpha King he’d never seen anything close to that and honestly it scared him.

Mila continued to gagged and the thick black smog spilled out of her mouth and onto the floor. With her hands planted firmly on the floor, Mila watched as the thick black smog pooled around them. Mila kept pushing and pushing until finally, she felt as if there was nothing left inside of her.

Now she was she just felt weak as she coughed and tried to catch her breath. Eli helped her as she stood weakly on her feet. He wiped any of her loose strands out of her face and his eyes searched hers looking for an answer but he found none.

“Water, ” was all Mila said weakly and Eli nodded and dashed off to the bathroom. The only thing on his mind was taking care of his mate.

Mila looked down at the smog she stood in the middle of, she didnt trust it, but she couldnt move. Then the smog started to rise and wrap around her almost as if it was trying to consume her whole. She wanted to fight it. But for some reason, she knew she couldn’t.

The smog had now reached up until it was basically covering her whole entire body. Honestly she was scared. She didnt know what was going on or what to expect. For all she knew she could have been devouring herself.

Then she felt it, the breath on the back of her neck. That’s when she knew what this was, and she couldnt help but cry.

“No tears cara mia.” Dante’s voice echoed from the smog. Then his hands reached out and wrapped around her body. She could feel his body press against her back. Then his nose brush against her cheek as he planted soft butterfly kisses on it. His kisses moved until he was kissing her ear. “I will turn you back into the demon you once was and it will be you and me. Like it was suppose to be. ” he whispered and Mila shivered as he wrapped one of his hands around her throat, squeezing it gently.

It was in that moment that Eli came out of the bathroom, cup in hand ready to do any and everything he could to make his mate feel better. But what he saw was the smog covering Mila’s body. He looked at her crying face and could see someone next to her, a man. His hand was around her throat and his mouth close to her ear. The man in the smog made eye contact with Eli and just smirked at him. Then he whispered something in Mila’s ear and she cried more. And it hurt Eli’s soul so he did the only thing he could do to protect his family, and shifted into Axl as he started to attack the intruder. But before he could get to the smog, Mila was pulled in and it was like it was sucked into nothingness until it was just gone. Axl search the entire room, but he found nothing.

Stopping Axl went to the balcony and let out a howl. One filled with pain, sadness, fear and sorrow. He had lost his mate, his queen, his wife, the mother of his children.

And he knew everyone else could feel the lose of their queen because that howl was responded back with even more howls. Each filled with the sadness at the loss of their queen.