Derek POV “You are making a huge mistake Derek” Dean says. “Did you even tell her or you just decided to go full asshole” now it’s Dylan. “Why should I tell her anything? It’s none of her business” I answer Dylan. “It’s exactly her business, she is your mate so when you are bringing your ex girlfriend to stay over at your house you have to tell her” Dylan explains to me slowly like he Is explaining homework to a five year old boy, Dean is right, he is a dick. “She is not my mate… or at least won’t be in few days, we didn’t even talk since our last conversation four days ago, so yeah, it’s none of her god damn business Dylan, plus what do you guys have against Izzy?” . “You are kidding right? Tell me you are kidding… don’t you remember why you broke up with her in the first place?” Dean tries to remind me. “so she is a little possessive, but she was a good leader and handled some of the Luna duties very well when we were together, plus she is from a strong lineage, she is a good
Derek POV We get out of the pack house and head to the tree line, her scent is overwhelming me, it’s the first time in days to be that close to her. I keep stealing glances at her and I can see her blushing every time I do so, we reach the tree line and she stops me, “Are you going to shift?” she asks. “I wasn’t planning to but if you want to meet Rex, I can do that” I offer her. “No, definitely not, the last time I met him, he tried to kill me, remember” she says chuckling like it’s a fun memory; she has a very dark and kinda twisted sense of humor. Rex whimpers and I can feel his shame and hurt, shame of what he did and hurt that his mate doesn’t even want to see him. We reach the clearance by the crimson red river that runs through our pack land, hence the name of our pack “the crimson river pack”. Ria stop and look around admiring the beauty of it, we are standing so close, we are almost touching, should I hold her hands? Or will it be too forward? Maybe just brush against
Derek POV Pain, all I feel is pain, never ending pain. I keep hearing the faint voice of Alexandria but I can’t make out what she is saying. I try to open my eyes but even that hurts ,then I smell it, Alexandria’s scent, but there is something different about it, it’s mixed with…Fear! I try to open my eyes again but everything is a blur and I can barely make out my surroundings. I hear Alexandria’s voice again and try as much as I can to concentrate on her voice, at first it was muffled and far but then I could hear what she was saying or rather shouting. “GET UP, DEREK” Alexandria shouts. The pain is starting to subside and my sight is getting better, but still not enough. The first thing I see is Alexandria’s back, then I notice the two daggers she is holding, one in each hand, she is taking a protective stance infront of me 'What the hell is going on?' I ask myself. Then I heard it, snarls and low growls. I try to open my eyes even more, Rex trying to help me as much as he
Alexandria POV He closed his eyes, I waited for him to open it again, I begged and pleaded … but he did not respond. His chest is almost still and I can hardly feel his heartbeat, Am I really going to lose him? That’s not what I wanted; I just wanted to protect him … not for him to be gone. I did this to him, if he didn’t reject me he would have been able to defend himself, if I didn’t push him that far he would have been okay. I always do this, bring death… but I did it right this time, didn’t I? I pushed him away, I wasn’t selfish like I was with Luke, this time my mate was suppose to live, he is going to live. I start shaking Derek again saying “Derek, just wake up this time and I’ll do whatever you want, please just this once, open your eyes”, still no response. I hear movement coming from the trees, I snap my head around looking for the dagger I dropped and I can see it just at arm’s length, I reach for it and grab it. I stand protectively over Derek with my dagger in my h
Dean POV Still, he is lying still, not even a twitch in his fingers, only his chest going up and down. I can’t really remove my eyes away from him since Alexandria left several hours ago, its early morning and I feel like he should wake up any second now, giving me shit about whatever, hell he can even call me Deedee for the rest of my life if only he would wake up. Never in my life did I see Derek in a hospital bed, except once when he protected me from father, which is one of the worst memories I have. Being here again with him like that brings back all the emotions, all the anger, but even then he wasn’t hurt that bad, he had his wolf to heal him, but now, even that, she took away from him, leaving him broken and vulnerable. Why couldn’t she give him the happiness that he deserves? I mean her reasons aren’t that strong really when you think about it. He is Derek Stronghold, he would have protected her from some bigoted hunter that’s after her... and I don’t believe for a minu
Sophia POV “I’m his girlfriend, who the hell are you?” Izzy shoots back, putting a hand on her hips, giving Alexandria her full attention. Oh shit; this is bad, very bad, Izzy can’t find out who Alexandria is. I can hear Ria’s teeth grinding against each other and if I concentrate enough, I swear I will see a thin line of smoke coming out of her ears. “Ex, Ex-girlfriend Izzy” I say trying to save the situation and clarify things. “So that what he meant that day in the office” Alexandria says under her breath. “Not for long, Sophia, he wouldn’t have invited me here if he didn’t want to get back together” Izzy says shifting her attention to me. “No, he only invited you so you could help with the guardian’s ball preparation as it’s the only thing you are good at, and weren’t you supposed to arrive tomorrow or the day after or something?” I say getting annoyed with her pretentious ass. I can see from the corner of my eyes Alexandria burning holes into Derek with her gaze. “Do you
Alexandria POV It’s been four days, he is still asleep... yes, just asleep. The doctors said his injuries are fully healed but his wolf is for some reason dormant and so is he. I guess the rejection with the attack took its toll on him. He shouldn’t have done that, shouldn’t have saved me, I could have handled all of the rogues myself… but I couldn’t, could I? I’m getting rusty. I should go back to training. This can’t happen again. I need to be at my full strength for when I kill Adam, the son of a bitch who killed my family. We are close, Max said that he gathered enough evidence against him so that the Hunter community will have no choice but to shun him, and then I’ll hunt him down and kill him, he might be strong and a pure blood but so am I, I’m one of a kind too, and he won’t have his team to support him this time, he deceived me once but not again. I was pushing my food a round on my plate, not really having an appetite to eat anything with everything happening. I was
Derek POV “Derek, no no no, please stay awake, no, you can’t, I’m sorry, please don’t leave me, I’m so sorry” her voice keeps playing in my head, her panic and pleading, I want to comfort her so bad but I can’t, I can’t even move.“Please don’t leave me” it plays in my head again. Does she want me with her? does she want to be with me?Why was she saying sorry? Sorry that she asked for the rejection? Didn’t she say wait just before I finish the rejection?But I already rejected her, is it too late now?“Hey, human, how about we wake up and ask her ourselves because you are giving me a fucking headache” “Well, it’s about time you wake up asshole”With a growl we open our pitch black eyes, then Rex retreats to the back of my mind.I groan as I try to sit up, my back is stiff probably from sleeping for too long.Before I could fully sit up, I’m crushed back to the bed with a massive body.“You are finally up, big bro” Dean says. “Yeah and you probably broke my back Deedee, Get off of