Keep Your Mate Close

Bahm's P.O.V





"Is the baby alright?"





"Yes, he's stable, but she must be healed, or she'll suffer a tremendous headache."







"Wh-Wh-What...do...I...do?

She's going to awake and hate me!!"







"You frightened her, just explain it was an old habit when a Dark Witch attacks..."







"NO!

That's not good enough!

ARGHHH!!! My head hurts!!!" Placing my had to the side of my head, tilting in pain, I close my eyes.







"But why?"







"HOW SHOULD I KNOW, NYKU!!!" With a room full of women, the pain in my head grew worst and worst, even from their own desperate sense of reaction.







"Well, well...this has never happened before, you don't ever get headaches." Nyku exclaims. She was showing her bothersome worries about me, but I wasn't worried about myself, more about my mate that I accidentally knocked out.









"Maybe because she got him good..

Why would you use your abilities on the girl, what were you thinking?

How will she be able to accept you after that?"







"Mother please, you aren't helping!!" Nyku yells and mother starts fanning her face rapidly with her fan, displeased with my actions.





"I didn't mean to...I wanted answers!" Cringing in pain, I clenched my jaw to my mothers question. Shit, I messed up, again.





Disappointment filled me entirely as well.

Yes, I was upset, but now I know why Hunnie reacted the way she did. She has already been through this, even more....I marked someone else?





All I could do now, was stare at my mate's beautifully relaxed face in my arms. Just who was this other marked woman? Where is she, and what happed to my marking? Every time I asked myself this, pain radiated to my head, causing an awful wave shooting throughout my nerves.





Who's to tell how Hunnie will react once she wakes up.

She already hates me for how I reacted with Kris, now I have a pattern of losing my shit when it comes to her, and even worse, I've betrayed her.







"Are you sure she'll wake?"





"Yes, Your Highness.

She suffers from a concussion--"





" Get yourself together, even I can tell she'll be awake!

Concentrate, on how you can make it work after this." My mother hisses, cutting Mirah, the pack doctor off and she turns to face The Healing chamber door to make her way out.





Feeling triggered by her words, a fire builds up inside of me, wanting to lash out in frustration.

"THIS IS ALL OF YOU GUYS'S FAULLLTTT!" Growling loudly, my mother turns to face me as I stand abruptly off the ground with Hunnie in my arms, seething and panting like a monster.





If they had only told me the truth, I wouldn't be in this predicament!





"Don't EVER, hide ANYTHING...from me!

You should be more scared of doing THAT, TO YOUR KING!!"



Marching over to our healing tub in a rage, I sat in the hot wax-like substance, hoping the heat would stem her awake, but still, she laid limp as I squeeze her limp body against mine, absorbing any pain I can take away from her.







"Hunnie, I'm so sorry, please wake up." Pressing my lips to her ears, a sudden tear drop falls down my cheeks and nose.





"Dismissing myself.

I'll be right next door."

Mirah says, bowing and following Nyku and mother out the door.





"Don't stay any longer than 10 minutes in there, it won't be good for the baby."





Planting my lips on her cheeks and soft Lucious lips, her breath eases into my nose, along with her natural small and Dark magic. Her chest rises up and down steadily.

How I wish I could remember you, Hunnie.

Fear and rage fills me entirely at the thought of a mate I've only recently come in contact with, to now hate me forever, or even reject me.







"Rejected...

We've been...rejected...before." Aldrerix sighs, pushing closer to my surface.



His words moved me, sending goosebumps to cover my whole body and I decided to take us out the hot pool full of healing wax, placing Hunnie's body on top of towels on the bed, wiping the odorless substance off of her, and covering her naked body with the heavy covers.







"What are you talking about, Rix?"





"I...I don't know...

The sensation of being rejected before, lingers around my body.

I can sense the pain, but the memory is gone.

Were we...rejected before?"







"How can it be gone, did we go through it or not?

Don't ask me, I know nothing anymore!"







"Ask mom, but get dressed first, she doesn't like seeing us naked."







Rushing to throw on a blue pair baji pants, with wax still falling off my body, I teleported to where my mother's scent was the strongest in the castle, ignoring the pressure on my head.



Arriving in front of her chamber doors, her guards step out of the way as I barge in.





"THE KING APPROACHES!"







"Ma, I have questions." Strangely out of breath, I panted as I walked behind her room divider.







"What is it, my dear son?" She peeks up from her cup of tea, getting ready for the night and sitting on the edge of her bed while her maidens undoes her big hair.







"Was I rejected?"





Looking at me with cold blank eyes, she hands her cup to her women, waving her hand to dismiss them.





Once they leave, she begins.

"Yes my son, you were, but obviously you worked things out and got your mate back again."







"But why did she reject me?

How can you all hide this kind of information from me?

I don't get it!"







"Because we were scared, son.

I hate to admit it, but we were-"





"But, why?

I...I-I'd never...

I'd never do anything to you, let alone Nyku..." My eyes frown, and if I could feel my heart right now, I'm sure it would be accelerated at how my own mothers thumped in hers.





When mother doesn't answer, the pain in my head shoots to the back, and I wince in pain holding onto the side of my head and struggling to keep my eyes open.





"Do you need help?

What is it, your head again?"







With a strained voice, I lean against her shikigami wall of luck, clenching my jaw and fighting through the pain. Damn, what has Hunnie done to me?





"Do you... know why she rejected me?"





"I believe she was scared, maybe had no idea why you marked her...

She's a young one."





Her words were becoming painful, more painful than the thought of being rejected. A sudden vision flashes before my eyes, one of me deep in a forest, watching Hunnie walk away.





What was that?



Kris did say Hunnie sent me to Hell because she was terrified of me, but what did I do to reserve being rejected?







"Uh....

Um...

She said...soemthing...

She said...I went to Hell for...marking someone...

What's that about?"







"Oh, yes...you marked a lowly Nymph girl, barely of age..." My mother pauses, searching my face with her eyes, then she smiles deviously.





"Hunnie, your mate...you started to treat her awfully...giving her the ultimatum of keeping that woman around, bedding the Nymph..."



Her words were too painful to listen to anymore, it stung my ears. My body became heavier than I could handle. I dropped to my knees holding my ears, trying to see mother straightly as she seemed to be getting farther and farther.





"Azalea, was her name.

Your mate left you for Annie, afraid to stay around the castle and you, for you couldn't keep your anger down...having two mates changed you."







"WHAT!" I hollered furiously, standing on my feet.

"She went with Annie?

My mistress??"





"Annie...

Annie isn't your mistress anymore, my son.

She's been released almost 300 years ago."



A bag of hot molten lava smack me right dead in the face, well that's what it felt like. My ears rang and my head pounded. Hunnie has met Annie...I mean...left me for Annie?





"I don't feel so good," My hands reach out to grab onto anything I could, for my vision was becoming blurry and behind my eye socket ached tremendously.









"Guards!

Please assist him to his chambers!"





"NO!!

To...

To...

My...mate!"





Everything goes black before I'm caught, drifting off into unconsciousness within each hall I could feel us turn down. What's going on with me, I've never been in pain like this! This must be the effects of Hunnie's Dark Magic.







"Don't worry my Lord, we are almost there."





With at least three guards by my side, my body is hoisted before soft textures ease all around my skin, engulfing me like a blanketed flame. By the time I came to again, the pain was gone, but my body so very tired.







When turning to my side, Hunnie's heart beat was steady, indicating I was in the bed next to her. I throw the separate covers off, cuddling underneath the one Hunnie was laying under, and wrapped my arms around her hot soothing body.







She calmed me dearly, she always had, just her presence alone, but it wasn't enough to make the thumping in my head stop. It was as though something wanted to burst inside, scratching at the surface and melting the nerves in my brain.





Hugging my mate closely, my heavy eye lid closes with her scent reaching the deepest parts of my core. "Oh Hunnie, I want to keep you."