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POV – Kai-Lea
*I fell into a deep sleep, I couldn’t hear anyone, it sucked. More because I couldn’t open my eyes either. And I still felt pain, unyielding pain. I tried to reach my mates through the link but no response. It didn’t help that I couldn’t even talk to or hear my wolf. She wasn’t gone, she was just silent and in pain. The knife he used must have been more harmful to her than me. When I did hear from her it was pained whimpers. This hurt me as I got her hurt and cut my connection to my mate’s, all because I didn’t want to mate with them for the first time inside the pack house. I wanted it to be special. As time passed, I thought more and more about my mates and what they were going through. They must be so mad at me. How can I blame them though, I'm the reason I'm in this state? I'm the one who wanted to mate them at the cabin. If I could I'd tell them, I'm sorry they have such a stupid mate.
‘No this isn’t on you. It's on me.’ My wolf said.
‘What? How?’
‘That heat, warmth you felt as I said, don’t be scared. Was me. I thought that they were closer than they were. I'm sorry.’ Again, my wolf stirred in whimpering pain, but I felt her more than I had so far, which could only mean good news right.*
That was until felt myself starting to heal.
Eventually, I felt myself starting to wake. Neither of my mates were by me. This hurt. But I couldn’t expect them to stick by me like this. Once the doctor released me, went to find my mates. Kallen and Stuart had become cold and distant. They even gave me back their rings that I had made for them. Then went my room packed my things and left. I told Mom that I was sorry for all the pain, I caused. But I wasn’t going to stick around for them since they no longer want anything to do with me. I left her the rings and took off. This wasn’t my home anymore.
After a month of driving from town to town, I finally decided to stop. Life was never going to be normal again, so it didn’t matter where I now live. The pain from being away from my mates was growing. I could only hope that with time it would go away. After finding a house that was decent enough, I also looked into finishing my last few weeks of school. I wasn’t going off to college and while that once was just a dream, I’d managed to make reality living at Royal Green Mountain, now… Now, it wasn’t worth it. I’d already lost what truly mattered to me.
Over the next two years I worked at a few places.
As I was coming home with some groceries I noticed a strange car in my driveway. I made my way inside to find Kallen and Stuart standing there.
“How can I help you? Do we need to reject each other or what?”
“No. We finally found again.”
“I wasn’t hiding.” I said plainly. The pain from being away from them had only grown. I was angry at them. I didn’t know why they gone distant while I was healing. Or what I could have done differently. But I was angry at them.
“Kai-Lea, we need you to come home.”
“Why should I?” I cried.
“Because we need you. Mom and Dad were hurt badly. The elders think it best that the three of us take our roles. And we can’t reject you. When we brought you back from the brink of death, we permanently linked us to you and you to us.”
“I’m sorry. You only want me back because it’s needed not that you actually want me.”
“We do want you. Kai-Lea, you are our everything. But you died on us. You don’t understand that pain.”
“Prove it.”
“How?” they asked.
“How do you think?”
Kallen moved closer to me grabbing my face, kissed me like he’d never kissed me before. It was filled with strength and passion, as he moved his lips down my chin to my neck, Stuart came over and started to kiss me on the back of my neck. “Can we mark you?”
“Please.” I practically begged. As soon as they did, I felt my life end, and with it that of my Lycan and other soul. Leaving darkness in the place of my wolf.
*Or so thought until I felt a shock jolt me back to the strange place standing next to my wolf. As I went to ask her where we are, I felt just stupid, we were dead, and it was all my fault.
‘Sweet human, you aren’t stupid, and what happened to us at the cabin was meant to. Just be patient and everything will present itself in due course. Little one. Please trust me.’
‘I trust you more than I trust anyone else out there. I always have. That's why I never doubted you when you told me not to tell anyone back at Black Moon pack. It's me I don’t trust.’
‘Well start. You're smart, kind, sweet. And our mates are working on a way to help us as we speak.’ My wolf said.
‘And we’re here with you too.’ My Lycan and third soul said. Shocking me, as I'd never heard the third soul, like that. It told me that my wolf wasn’t the only one in pain, my Lycan and other soul were too.
‘How do you know? And what was that?’
‘Because we've been talking to our Mother. Or as you call her Moon Goddess.’
‘I will try.’
‘Good, because your sadness and anger towards yourself is driving us insane. And she will explain anything she feels she needs to.’
‘Sorry.’
‘Don’t be. You just start being yourself. Just be more confident in yourself, is all I'm saying. You're a badass and you know it.’
I giggled at my wolf's sentiment. Her tail was wagging away making me worry that she’d wag it off if she didn’t slow it down. We wondered around and I wished something would tell us where we were. I also thought about how it’d be nice if I could meet my Lycan and other soul. And what they’d be like. If they’d hate me or feel something else towards me. We walked around for what seemed like forever, as we’d needed to try and find someone to help heal us. Or at least help us find someone that could help. We saw some of the most beautiful flowers, trees, and streams imaginable. Little balls of light bounced from spot to spot as we heard giggles it was perplexing as it was calming. Sometime later my wolf and I woke to find myself asleep on my wolf, I wondered for a brief moment how this was possible until I remembered that I was dead. This sent a shockwave up my spine forcing me upright. As I did I found a woman sitting on the other side of my wolf, petting her. She was wearing a simple cream white/yellow gown that went down past her feet. Her skin was pale as the moon, her hair was as dark as mine, her eyes were every color out there. And boy were the mesmerizing, I felt like staying there next to this woman just simply from the look in her eyes. While she was slim, she maintained a healthy look about her. Her smile made you feel like nothing bad was ever going to happen. Upon finally looking away I noticed two other beings there. One was a man who was no doubt her equal maybe her even mate or brother. I couldn’t know which. And a Lycan, who was white as snow, just lying next to him just purring away.
“Hello, my young child. He is my brother the God of Lycan’s, and that is your Lycan. However, you are here because I have news for you. You will live through this. But first you must meet your parents. After which your mates will then help you heal and wake you. However, they feel as if they aren’t worthy of you. You must show them what you’ve seen. That cannot happen. Remind them of the love between you three. Show them what my brother and I have shown you.” She told me. My wolf walked over to what looked like a pond in the garden. One that felt connected to the pond at Auntie Clayra’s pack.
“That is because it is my darling child. The Koi it holds are far more special to you and those silly boys than even I know. But, not why we are here. What you have seen cannot come to pass for more than just your life. You die that way Milton and Millus will gain all of your abilities and destroy the world as you know it. You cannot under any circumstances let this happen. You are our bridge to that world. But in order to stay that way you have to mark and mate with those that are fated to you by a force far beyond any of the gods or goddesses here.” she finished as was soaking up all the peace she was emitting.
“I understand. It won’t.” I told her.
“Good.” she said as she hope in her voice.
As I moved to lay next to her and stay warm, we felt a jolt of electricity go through us. One that said, family somehow. “How did that feel like family?”
“You will soon see that for yourself. But remember what my sister said. DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN. Please.”
“I won’t.” I told him before turning to my Lycan, “You coming, sleepy head.” She huffed at me but came to sit on my other side as we waited to see what happened next for us. It was nice to know that we actually had family out there. And made my wolf, Lycan, and other soul wonder what this family was like. *