25. Realm Of The Unknown

**Narrator’s POV.**

DJ’s plan was to stay as far away from his sister as he could while watching over her in the process. This meant that, he would not go inside her room but stay at the door to make sure Desiree did not escape- that plan was changed once a beep came from in cellphone tucked away in his pocket,

‘Do not fail me this time son’, his father had written, ‘I will not take it lightly this time around’, another message came in and he tried his best to suppress the fear that came with reading his father’s words.

DJ turned to his best friend who had also been asked to stay on guard, “I am going in”, he sighed out, pulling the key out of his other pocket and placing it in the door, he twisted the key and the clicking sound that came from the door was evidence that it had done it’s job,

“I will come with you”, Alec said with hopeful eyes, it had been long since he had seen the girl he loved and mated or not, he missed her dearly,

“No, you stay here. My presence there would be hard on her already, I do not want the pressure to be doubled- it would not be good for the baby”,

Alec’s eyes narrowed at his friend’s words, a small scowl making its way onto his face, “Since when do you care about the baby?”, DJ was caught in a tight space- he could not deny or run away from the fact that he was actually silently anticipating the arrival of his niece or nephew, counting down the days until the child was finally born.

“Since it became my blood. The child did nothing wrong, it would be terrible of us to treat it badly over nothing”, DJ said as if daring Alec to challenge him, “Stay here and do not leave for shit”, he ordered, pulling the door open and closing it behind him.

Desiree was at her bedroom window when she heard the soft click of her main door, she immediately traced the scent of the person, “What do you want?”, from the tone of her low, daring voice, it was quite obvious that she did not want her brother’s company,

“I come in peace”, he stepped into her bedroom with his hands in the air,

“I do not give a damn, what do you want is what I asked”, she moved away from her window and turned to face him. His eyes widened in surprise,

“Shit, you look like hell”, he was drinking in her newly acquired features; pale skin, blotchy eyes, wide red nose, cracked dry lips and bloated body.

“I wonder why”, she tilted her head to the side, “Considering the fact that you and your father took my mate away from me- I need him now the most but I cannot have him because the both of you are selfish assholes who do not care about me”, her pregnancy hormones were taking over, making her say more than she should have- she did not want to seem vulnerable to anyone, especially not right then.

“What the hell are you saying Desiree? Of course, we care about you but-”, he was cut off by the hysterical, sarcastic laughter erupting from his sister’s mouth,

“That is fucking rich Dwayne”, she said in between laughter, “You saying you actually care for me when you clearly don’t, if you did, you would let me be happy, you would let me be with my mate”, her manipulative side was vastly approaching and she was not going to hold back, “History would be repeating itself if I birth this child on my own”,

“You would not be alone”,

“I would be without my mate- just like our mother. She went through hell giving birth to you without our father and the both of you know it. Why do you want me to go through the same thing? Mother did not have a choice but I do- if you both stop being such fucking plagues in my life”, the look on DJ’s face said it all- he was digesting all that his younger sister had said and letting it sink into his brain.

“What do you want?”, this question came with a simple answer which happened to be a very heavy request-

“My mate”,

“I am sorry but I cannot give him to you, not after what happened the last time”,

“Do you think he will get me pregnant all over again? I really do not think that is possible Dwayne”, she was growing slightly irritated by the chitchat session she and her brother were currently having and her mind went into overdrive. Why was he actually here? They had not seen each other in a month and suddenly, he is in her bedroom talking to her? She was not naïve- in fact, she was far from it, she was very smart. Smart enough to know that this bullshit talk she was having with her brother was a fucking distraction, a decoy to hide something from her and she was going to find out what.

“I still cannot do anything about it”, his words just confirmed her suspicion- he was planning on taking her round a verbal rollercoaster, but she was not in the mood for fun and games,

“Then why the fuck are you here?”, her voice came out shrill, almost deafening,

“Do I have to seek a reason to be here?”,

“Bull-fucking-shit”, she yelled at him, “Do not play games with me brother, I have known you all my life and I know exactly when you are trying to hide something. You are here to distract me”, in three long strides, she was right in front of him, “But from what?”.

The sweat on DJ’s head began profuse, he immediately regretted his decision of entering her chambers, if he had just stood outside the door, none of this would have happened, “I am not hiding anything”, he was taking aback by the slender hands that wrapped around his thick neck, hitting the right spot that left him gasping for air,

“You fucking liar! I swear to whoever is up there that if you don’t tell me, I would not hesitate to end you. My wolf might have left me but I will still defeat you”, he, for one knew she was not bluffing- she could kill him with her bare hands and not give a damn in the world until later when the adrenaline rushing through her has passed.

She pressed down on his throat harder and he wheezed out, not fighting back. He did not want to hurt the child inside her and he also felt the need to tell her about their father’s plans, he just needed a little nudge in the right direction- he had gotten the nudge he needed.

“The humans are on their way and our father plans on killing them all today”, Desiree released her brother’s neck and took a few steps back in surprise,

“He can’t do that, Harrison would be crushed”, tears coated her eyes, “I have to stop him”, she said to her brother, “We have to stop him from killing the innocent people over a stupid feud”,

“How do you plan on doing that?”,

After a few seconds on debating her options, she finally voiced out, “Mother. She is the only one our father would listen to-”,

“But she is in a coma”, DJ pointed out,

“I will try to connect to her, see if I can get her to wake up”,

“I am in, but we have a problem”, the look in his eyes were determined, making it known to her that she could trust him in this- her older brother was back.

“What is it?”,

“Alec is at the door”.