Chapter 34.

Chapter 34.
Estella’s POV.

I land on the ground with a thud as the wolf I was just teasing walks over to me, 2 huge wolves now towering over me and Collin’s occupied with the other, I’m stuck. They creep closer stalking me as I struggle to look for something I can use as a weapon. Not seeing anything useful I do the only thing I can think of, I picture the ground falling away beneath them as I scurry back frantically.

A sink hole forms just as both wolves try lunging for me and I blast them back with a gust of wind, they land on their backs in the hole, the dirt and mud caves in sucking them in with it. I turn to look for Collin breathing erratically as my hands feel numb and I know I don’t have much left in me, I see him under the large wolf as they lash way aggressively at each other.

Collin notices my sink hole and braces himself placing his hind legs against the rogues chest as he launches him through the air while making a high pitched whine, he lands in the crumbling soil sucking in anything near it. I run to Collin wrapping my arms around him while my heart calms and my body begins to throb, he mind links me as we break to see what is going on around us.

*Where’s the baby?* He asks frantically through mind link as I smile.
*She’s with Loral, she took the girls back with my mother.* I respond as he patters his front paws happily.
*Lets get this over with so we can get home.* He says shifting quickly to join me, I nod as we walk hand in hand to the middle of the rogue pack. No one paying us any attention as they continue the battle.

Collin lets out an earth shattering howl that shakes the ground announcing our victory.
“Your leader is dead!” Collin bellows, anger seething from his voice.
“You have 2 options, leave the village and continue living life as rogues. Or you can surrender and join a pack, train and find a reason to live.” He shouts as wolves begin to bow to him knowing they have no other choice, life as a rogue is a death sentence.

Out of no where a huge wolf leaps on top of Collin from behind making him fall forward to the ground as anger rises in me and the wolf ignites in huge flames, he hops around with his loud painful screams filling the air until he finally slumps over in silence and it’s done.

We collect our pack and leave, Collin has given everyone 24 hours to leave, we will return to the village tomorrow, anyone still here we will assume is joining the pack. Everyone else will need to be off the land or they will be killed on sight, finally we get to go home to our new baby.

Collin stands in front of me shifting quickly as I jump on top of him and we take off, our pack following close behind, it doesn’t take long before we’re close to the pack entrance, Collin takes me through first to open the spell cloaking our pack allowing our warriors to make it back in with us.

Running up to the castle we see Doctor Marlowe and Loral standing outside, my small baby wrapped in a little pink blanket from the nursery, softly snuggled in her arms. Collin gently lays down allowing me off when I realize how numb my body is, my legs throb and my muscles ache. I take a few steps before collapsing in to Doctor Marlowe’s arms.
“Ok lets get you in to bed to heal.” I hear her say before everything goes black.


I hear small voice calling to me in my sleep, I try to go to it as I struggle to open my eyes. The voice feels warm, comforting almost, I finally force my eyes open as my visions blurred and I struggle to see. Colours all collide together as I try to make out whats going on. Amelia stands in front of me, her big green eyes watching me closely as I squirm around trying to sort myself out.

She hands me a glass of water and I wince sitting up, I rub my eyes trying to get the sleep out of them before looking around.
“What happened?” I ask taking a small sip of water realizing how dry my throat is.
“Well you used a lot of magic when you went to help Collin, it exhausted your body especially cause of the poppy dust so when you started to relax you crashed.” She explains as I nod remembering the battle.

“And the baby?” I ask pulling myself up gently.
“She’s beautiful Estella, I love her so much.” She smiles brightly grabbing my hands.
“Loral has her, she’s napping right now. I’ll have the Doctor come discharge you so we can go see her.” She says softly as I nod with excitement, with that she’s gone and I’m alone in the room listening to the soft beep of the machines.

A few moments later the Doctor comes in with a huge smile on her face like usual.
“Well hello Estella good to see you awake.” She states pulling out her chart.
“Your magic will restore with some time and rest, until then you will be tired. You didn’t acquire any injury’s besides some minor bruising but you did just give birth so take it slow, you need to allow yourself to heal.” She tells me as I nod gently sitting up to get dressed.

“I don’t see a reason to keep you though so Amelia will bring you home and you will come see me in the morning.” She grabs my clothes coming over to help me. I thank her and finish up just as Amelia’s walking back in the room with some food and my stomach grumbles in response. I wolf down the food as we walk back to my room and my mind races, I finally get to see my perfect little baby.

Walking in I see Collin gently swaying back an forth with our daughter making me smile, I walk over to them as he turns looking up to me matching my reaction.
“She’s ok?” I ask softly as he moves to hand her to me.
“She’s perfect.” He responds while I take her from him sitting down on my bed cradling her comfortably in my arms, my eyes never leaving her perfect little face.

“What do you want to name her?” Collin asks sitting down beside me as he wraps his arms around us and my body warms to his touch.
“River, I think her name should be River Rose.” I answer, tracing my fingers over the soft groves in her face making her squirm beneath my touch.
“River Rose it is then.” We continue admiring our little baby when Loral finally comes in.

“Hello darling, it’s good to see you.” She says as I softly smile at her unable to break away.
“Collin are you almost ready to go?” She asks and I feel him nod and my head snaps up.
“Go where?” I ask abruptly as River begins to stir.

“Loral is accompanying me to the rogue village to see who’s left, you will stay here with your mother and Amelia, Steele will be hanging around as well.” He says as my face scrunches.
“Why can’t I come?” I ask feeling offended.
“You need to let your magic heal Estella, Steele is with your mother and I think you should spend some time with her and your sister.” I nod understanding he’s probably right.

Loral explains their plan for today at the village while I sit quietly feeding River, after few minutes Collin kisses my forehead and takes off with Loral to figure out what to do with the rogues. I finish feeding the baby and decide to go find Amelia.