Unusual Ways

Bahm









"Would you please talk to him for me?

I don't particularly appreciate seeing him like this, Bahm.

He did nothing wrong, and you're treating him like everything is his fault.

Think about how he's handling this all and how alone he must be."







My jaws clenched at Hunnie's words.

I didn't have it in me to face Kris.

Feelings of disgust crept all over my body at the slightest thought of him.









"He's...

Your son, Bahm."

My eyes finally landed on her. She's been choosing her tone and questions wisely. Afraid to upset me, and it made me feel bad. She didn't have to fear me.









"I'll be right here if you want.

Kris would be more comfortable if I sat down with you both, too, he said.

How about you?"




I forgot I couldn't hear anything in his spelled and enchanted chamber. Jealousy almost floods me, wondering what else they speak upon when Hunnie enters his chambers. I hoped he wasn't touching her anymore, knowing his place now!



After miserably nodding to her request, Hunnie drags me over to Kris's quarters as I'm left out in the hall while she enters through his door to fetch him.





"Hey, Kris..."



Even his scent lingering out in the hall made me feel disgusted. It wasn't because I hated him or anything. It was because I hated myself for everything I put him through. None of this was his fault, but he forced me to do a lot, which bothered me the most.





"He's in the hall.

Are you going to be okay?"
I hear Hunnie ask before I see her stepping out the doors.







"Can I actually...

Talk to him alone?"



I turn to face the wall, sensing Kris approaching now. I thought he was okay with Hunnie being here with us!



Silence filled the air, and I couldn't get myself to speak. My body tensed incredibly, and I couldn't move. I could hear him breathing and smell my scent pouring out of my heart.






"S-So...you can't even look at me anymore, huh?"






I bit my tongue with my eyes shut, lowered my head, and began clenching down on my jaw harshly that I thought I heard a crack. This is my spawn...I have to do and be better, but I can't handle everything we've been through together only to find out he's mine!







"No.

I can't."






"But why?"
His voice croaks and something profound inside me aches, creating a fire.



I roared, feeding into the other emotion I knew very well, anger, and I faced him, eyeing his teary, swollen, and baggy eyes.






"BECAUSE KRIS!

I'M EMBARRASSED!

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!

DO YOU NOT GET THIS?"






"But...

But it wasn't your fault." He croaks, and I turn to face the wall again.

"Can we forget everything?

Why are you...Why punish me?"






Moments of his sobs fill the air again, and Hunnie steps out of his chambers and into the hall. This was going nowhere, and there was no way I could continue this torture.





"No one is judging any of you.

Cruel things always happen, but you two must fix this and talk...

It's hurting me too."

I sense her embrace Kris, who begins weeping. Believe it or not, this hurts me more than I could express. Things would never be the same.



I teleport out of there immediately, arriving by the shore where Hunnie exorcised The Gatekeeper, and I began to bawl. What kind of father doesn't recognize his child?





What kind of father allows his son to...





Even if the Heavens did place a spell for me not to recognize Kris, there was still a loophole. One that still brought me to find him! I could never forgive myself. I feel defeated, vulnerable, and hopeless.






These emotions, I couldn't take them any longer. A loud howl emits from my throat, and I shift and run into the jungle to release some steam. Wails filled the bright sunny day, echoing off into The Kingdom and surrounding my body as I tore up tree trunks and scratched large boulders until they shattered into small pieces.






"We can't live with ourselves, but we must do it for our children now..."

Suddenly, Aldrerix's voice fills my thoughts, and I stop my destruction. Boy, was it good to hear him!






"But, we can't just make our mate reject Kris. We just can't."






"But Rix, it isn't right!" Roaring over to him, I began gnawing on my front leg, wanting to feel more pain. I wish I never agree to Hunnie marking him. Understand that it was with good intentions since I beat him pretty badly. I wished I had a clear mind and hadn't been possessed by that Demon.






"Let's go talk to our mate.

She has a plan for all of this.

One, we might not all agree to." He says, and when I ask him how he knew Hunnie had a plan, he disappears to the back of my mind.





"RIX!

Why are you hiding from me!!" A howl escaped my snout; I could only think of why my wolf was hiding from me because he was also ashamed...







I throw myself into the icy cold ocean water, the temperatures shocking my body until I get a whiff of almonds.

Almonds?

My ears perked up, and I shifted back while teleporting to my chambers.




The place was empty due to being cleaned of all the spilled blood committed by my hands, besides my clothing in the closet, so I walked passed the workers and grabbed as much as I could before going back to The Healing Chambers. I could hear Kris talking with Hunnie, so I teleported inside the shower room to give them space.







Remaining in composure is best right now—no need to lose my head or sanity.



"Uhh...She peed, we think."






Kris held Hunnie's hand as she sat down on the bed once I walked out, and I only glanced over to him as he assisted her. He couldn't get himself to look at me either, and I could sense all the awkward tension in the air.



Did the sight anger me?



Yes, it made me cringe to think about handling the situation, but I told myself he wasn't doing anything inappropriate. He truly cared for her.



I still didn't want him touching my mate. Things have to become a different relationship as the mother of my child was also my mate and nothing to him.






"I don't think that is pee...it smells different." Hunnie looks over at me, exhaling roughly.






"Do you think the baby is coming!" Hunnie asks.






"Very soon, it smells like."







"Oh wow...

Well, I'll leave you two--"






-"No, Kris!

You don't have to!"






"It's okay, Hunine.

I want to spend some time with you." I exclaimed.






Her expression changes to sorrow, and Kris only tussles his hand in her hair before he walks over to the door, taking his leave.






"We need to talk, but please bring me a towel?"



After cleaning her watery mess on the floor and drying off her legs, Hunnie strips out of her clothing. My eyes follow her naked body beginning to wobble across the room until she throws a robe over her. When did she start wobbling?





It seems my baby boy will be here soon!





"Besides needing underwear in this place, I'll be in the delivery room you've all built?" She holds her arms out for me to assist her, and I shake my head yes.








"Also, it's Kris.

He isn't doing so well...and I think...I know how I can help him."






"Go on."






She looks up at my face, and I form a sudden smile at her beauty once I embrace her in a hug. Her scent was so irresistible, and I wanted her all for myself.



She will be once she rejects Kris. I'm tired of holding this guard up on our connection. They haunt me at night when I'm trying to sleep, and I knew it was wrong, but there was no other way I'd feel comfortable.






"I'm going to offer him the ability to forget everything he wants.

Forget the bad memories that make him feel..."disgusting," as he says and anything else that might keep him awake at night."






Goosebumps coated my body, and I only stared into her round, serious, riverbed eyes.

Can she do that?



What would the benefit of that be for me?

I'll still remember and always have a mindful of memories for as long as he's alive.



She isn't thinking of doing this to me, is she?







"Uhm...Well--




-"You would have to, too ..." Hunnie says, cutting me off and smoothing out a wrinkle on my silk tunic nervously.






"You want to...erase my memories?"









"Just the ones you show me.

Not everything."






"You can do this?"






"With the help of Suki and my friend Tennita's family's technology, yes!

With Suki's help, we can painlessly pull these memories from the helmet and disintegrate them! Her magic works oddly with time!"






As happy as she looked, I wasn't sure if this would even work.

She goes on to say that Tenn's grandmother helped many wolf packs forget their traumatic experience of murder that triggered their Werewolf curse. I wasn't sure how to feel about this. Could this device and spell even work on me?



Will Hunnie and Suki be able to access enough powers to pull this through?

Why was it that she couldn't just reject him? She did it to me, after all.