Chapter 94

(Tommy POV)

The pain I felt was beyond anything I had felt in my entire life. The weapon they used on us sent these shocks through me that made my heart tighten in my chest. It felt like being close to death with each hit, but Maya was in danger and my wolf was not going to sit by and let his mate be killed. He was taking over, trying repeatedly to shift but failing. I saw Elia and Noah’s wolves also trying to immerge with no success. Thomas was down and was motionless until he is hit from the pulse weapon again and his body convulses making him cry out.

Through the pain I try to turn my attention back to Maya, but the pain makes it hard to keep my eyes fixed on anything. Where was Maya’s uncle and Freddie? The guard nearest me hits me again with the pulse and I feel like my heart will explode any second. We need to do something soon! I look up to see Maya kneeling on the ground and her head low. She doesn’t move even as the guards near her, and I try to cry out to her. I blink and when I open my eyes again her body shutters and I let out a growl thinking the guards have shocked her with the same weapon.

She sits unmoving once more for a moment and then her body shakes again. Someone from the council is calling out for the guards to kill us, but they seem to hesitate to get near Maya. With another order from the same council member, the guards move in for Maya and I thrash my body trying to run to her. A guard hits me with his weapon, and I fall to my knees again, I close my eyes trying to pull out the last bit of strength left to somehow get to my mate.

Then I hear it, a howl, deep and thunderous. I open raise my head and it is like time has slowed. Maya stands in the center of the room in wolf form, strong and fierce. She doesn’t waste a second before charging toward us and attacking the guards who surrounded us. The guards fall and scramble away to try and reposition. Maya stands firm in from of us and lowers her head to release a deep growl that makes the walls around us tremble.

The guards take a step back and look to one another but keep their weapons pointed at Maya. She growls once again challenging them to move forward even an inch. From the corner of my eye, I see a soldier running from behind us and I call out to Maya as the man draws near and without a second delay she turns and grabs the man’s weapon, flinging him over her head. The other guards begin to rush toward us, and she adjusts her footing ready to take them on when the door to the hall bursts open and Freddie and Maya’s uncle come running in with their men right behind them.

The guards turn and take on the new threats that rush toward them and Maya turns to us and tries to help us get to our feet.
Chaos breaks out all around us as more guards flood in to take on the intruders and several of them begin to escort the members of the council out. Maya catches their movement quickly and growls but does not go after them. She turns to me and I know she doesn’t want to leave us, but if the council members get away, they could open a portal and escape. We needed to stop them. So, I step toward her and rest my head against hers.

“Go.” I tell her and I step back from her.

She gives us one last look before racing away, weaving between men fighting and out of my sight.

Freddie makes his way to us. “Sorry we’re late!” He calls out over the sounds of the fighting all around us.

“Better late than never!” I call out.

He has a weapon in hand that he seemed to have taken from one of the guards and he quickly moves past me to disarm and knock out a guard only a couple feet away from me.

“Any time you want to get in this fight would be great!” Freddie calls out to us.

I roll my eyes and lean down to help Eli to his feet and then Noah.

“We need to get him out of here!” I tell them as they lift Thomas off the floor.

He’s still alive but unconscious.

“Take him!” I yell to them.

“We need to go after Maya!” Eli replies.

“I’ll take him! You guys go help her!” Noah says taking all of Thomas’s weight on to himself.

“Meet us at the extraction location!” I yell to him.

Freddie turns to Noah and tosses him a small device. “Take that! It opens the portal!”

We look to him in confusion. “Guess our inside guy wasn’t exactly on our side.” He shrugs but doesn’t have time to elaborate before another guard rushes him. “Go get Maya and get her out of here!”

I pause for a second wondering if we should stay and help Freddie, but a distant howl pulls my attention solely to Maya again.

Eli and I run toward the door we saw Maya run out of. Once we are outside, we pick up her scent, but she isn’t close. I try to focus on my wolf and let him shift, but it isn’t as smooth as it usually is. The shift is painful with my body spent from the pulses the guards shot through us not long ago. Eli growls loudly as he shifts, but when he is finished, he takes off running. I push past the pain and finally shift racing after him.

We weave through the trees and homes trying to keep a lock on Maya’s scent, but it is scattered in several directions. We pause and try to focus on the strongest trail, and when we find it, we follow it running as fast as our tired bodies can go. As we follow the trail our noses catch the scent of blood, and we slow to a stop to find what remained of the Fae council. We stood in an open plain now with the bodies at our feet and Maya a few feet away pacing and growling. I make a noise trying to get her attention, but she is lost in her anger.

Suddenly her head snaps toward us and I shrink back for a moment when I see the fur around her face drenched in blood and her eyes burning red. She was losing control and fast! We needed her to snap out of it or she would easily take us out and half of the village without a second thought. I took a step over the bodies and she crouched down and bared her teeth at me. Eli whimpered beside me wanting to run to her.

“No Eli! She will kill you!” I say to him through our mind link.

“She isn’t herself Tommy! She needs our help!” He yells to me.

“I know! But if we go near her, she will only see us as a threat. That isn’t Maya! It’s her wolf, and she is too wild. We need to draw Maya out and make her shift back!” I tell him.

He huffs in protest but doesn’t make another move to go near her. Maya’s wolf had been silenced and hidden for so long that she was filled with anger and purely wild. Maya probably lost control the second she gave in to her anger and is trapped inside her wolf unsure of how to get out. I curse myself for not thinking this would happen, relying on her Fae abilities as her way to protect herself and not training her how to control this side of herself. I watched her carefully as she paced. She shook her head several times whining and growling as if she was battling with herself. Maya was trying to break out, but her wolf seemed to be fighting her to stay in control.

We couldn’t get near her, but I could try and reach her through the mind link, if I could get her wolf to calm enough and let me in. I was an alpha, and with that meant I had the power to make her submit by force, but in my weak state I wouldn’t be able to do it well. My only hope would be that Maya’s wolf is too distraught to fight against my alpha pheromones. She was looking away from us and I took that chance to step over her victims and forced my alpha scent to fill the area. She turned to me suddenly and lunged at me, I quickly dodged her attempt at going for my throat. She stumbled slightly but quickly recovered and crouched low ready to attack as soon as I offered an opening.

I focuse my eyes on hers trying to reach her through the mind link, but her thought were completely shut. She was in such an aggressive state that she probably didn’t even mean to do it. I forced more of my scent into the air and she whined and shook her head as it surrounded her. As she whimpered, I tried to push myself into her mind again, and I heard Maya’s voice for just a moment before I was shut out again.

I warned her with a growl and as much of my scent as I could produce in my state and she lowered to the ground whining and I moved closer to her. She completely fell to the ground as I drew closer to her and she shook her head violently trying her best to fight what I was doing to her.

“Let Maya out!” I growled into her mind as the link slowly cracked open.

Her wolf cries to me through the link but I keep pushing.

“Shift and let Maya out now!” I yell into the link in my strongest voice and she cries out right before the sound of bones begins to echo around us.

I step back and watch the wolf whither in pain as her bones break and reform into human limbs. It takes too long, and I know Maya is in a lot of pain, but soon enough her limp body is lying in the grass in front of me.

My body is exhausted as well but I muster up enough energy to shift back into human form and run to her.

“Maya? Love can you hear me?” I pick her up, but she doesn’t respond. “Maya, come on love talk to me.”

I hear bones cracking in the distance and soon Eli is kneeling down beside us.

“She won’t wake up! Eli she isn’t waking up! Maya!” I shake her but she stops moving as soon as I do.
I lean down and try to listen for her heart, and the world goes silent around us. Nothing but the sound of our breaths can be heard as I try to listen for any sign that our mate is still alive.

But I hear nothing.