Alex P.O.V.It’s been a while now, and Michelle is getting better day for day. She’s still fragile, but the doctors dismissed her from the pack clinic yesterday. She and Cedric have moved to the Alpha floor. They have both started much needed therapy, and I see them take steps every day to get better, even though they always have bad days. Especially has days where she hides in their room, not even coming down to get food. Jenna has made a point to visit her everyday, making friends and keeping her company. I still do not know how to feel about her? She is my biological mother, as Cedric is my father, but they abandoned me and Isabella to our own fate as children, and the way especially my sister was treated was at their hands as well as Ferguson’s. If they had taken us with them. If they had thought about us as well, Isabella would have had it easier. I know I am also to blame, and I take full responsibility, but I was a child. “Knock, knock.” Someone says while tapping their knuck
Isabella P.O.V. “ELIJAH!” I look into his office, but he is not there either. I have been looking for him for the last hour or so. I’ve just talked to Alex and I need to fill him in. My scream of desperation is met upon deaf ears. I sigh. Where the heck did everyone go? I wasn’t gone that long. The phone call took half an hour tops. I roll my eyes, walking back to our bedroom. I try to mind-link him again, but once again the link is blocked. I do not understand. I tried to look downstairs, at the training ground, our room, his office and everywhere else I could think of. I even tried to mind-link some of the others, but all mind-links are blocked and people are gone. I look around in our room. Elijah has been weird all day not that I think of it. He’s been really secretive and illusive ever since this morning. We cuddled in bed, which developed to three rounds of hot and steamy sex! But it didn’t get as wild as it usual
Elijah P.O.V. The panic I felt coursing through me when I couldn’t find Isabella. I didn’t even think to open my mind-link and ask her where she was. It was just sheer panic and dread in my mind and body. I left her in her office where she was calling Alex. She felt weird all of a sudden, and I know it wasn’t from me. I closed off our mate-link as well - not that she felt it. I hope. Oh Goddess. What if she wandered off to punish me? What if she felt me close the link and thought. No, no. I can’t think like that. Maybe she wandered off because she couldn’t find me? Maybe she was looking for me? “Elijah?” “Huh? What?” “What were you thinking off just now?” “Nothing special, baby. Why?” I lie through my teeth. I need Isabella to be relaxed and happy. With what I have in mind for today, she needs to not worry about me or anything else. She is the most special person in my life, and even though we haven’t been together that long, I know she is my it! That’s how it is with one's
Isabella P.O.V. “I’m pregnant.” I say, looking at my mate who’s eyes are closed. I know I hurt him when I didn’t answer his question and everything in me is still screaming to say yes, but I need him to know this secret before I do. He deserves to know that we have a baby on the way, and I need to know if he is angry with me. I didn’t mean to get pregnant, and seriously not at this time, but I want to keep the baby. Our baby. However, if Elijah is not okay with this, I will give him the opportunity to say so and I’ll leave our pack and him behind. This little pup is already my first priority, and I will move heaven and earth to protect him or her. The minutes drag by, and Elijah keeps having his eyes closed. His breath is calm, but I can feel the turmoil inside him. “Elijah?” I ask, the tension and suspense is killing me as I am sure it was killing him earlier. This was supposed to be the perfect moment and I ruined it. I should have told
Isabella P.O.V. The next few days we have different visitors. Different pack leaders and ranked members of other species. We talk and make contracts of peace and allegiance between us. We also announce to the pack that Elijah and I are engaged, and plan to have a small pack dinner on the night where Alex, Jenna, Michelle and Cedric arrive. It’s only a couple of days away now, and I am looking forward to telling them what has happened here. It’s so far all good news, but things have a way to change from one moment to another, and we couldn’t expect peace to keep ruling with the threat growing ever closer. On the night before my brother and parents were arriving, we were awoken in the dead of night by the alarms and then guards yelling over mind-link. ‘WE’RE UNDER ATTACK! SOUTHERN BORDER.’ ‘EASTERN BORDER IS BEING RUN OVER AS WELL! ARGH!’ ‘ROGUES WITH MAGIC. DEMONS AND.. OH MY GODDESS.. HELP US!’ Elijah and I jump out of bed. “You go to the safe room, baby. Stay out of sig
Alex P.O.V. We’re on our way to Isabella’s pack, when my phone goes off. The number is unfamiliar, and even though I don’t usually pick up calls that are blocked, something tells me to pick this up. “Hello?” “Alpha Alex? This is Beta Dale, I have tried to get a hold of you for the past four hours.” “I’m sorry, Beta. We’ve been in the air and my phone was on airplane mode. What is going on? Why are you calling me?” My stomach churns. Has something happened since I last talked to Isabella? It was yesterday afternoon, and she told me she had some happy news to share. I could hear Elijah laugh in the background, and everything seemed fine. “Where are you now?” “We just touched down, and are on our way to the strip where we have cars waiting. Why?” “We were attacked last night, Alpha. Luna Isabella needs you. Elijah..” He chokes up and I imagine the worst outcome possible. “Our Alpha is going between life and death at the moment. Luna is distraught, and refuses to leave his si
Isabella P.O.V. I don’t know what happened? I was in a separate hospital room, ordered by the doctor to lay down and rest, while they monitor Elijah’s condition and the next thing I know his heart is failing. Emerald has been battling something inside us, keeping it in check but wouldn’t tell what it is. She keeps saying we need to do something drastic and soon if we want to stay us. Whatever that means. I hear the flatlining of my mate, and I jump out of bed, running to his room. I remember the feeling of utter heartbreak, how he is slipping away and then I faint. I don’t remember hitting the ground, but I know my powers overpowered me and I did something. I hear Alex yell my name, but I am not hearing him from inside my body. I’m somehow levitating over the scene, and I watch as Elijah spirit looks at me with wide scared eyes, before he returns to his body and his heart beats once again. Then I know I’m dead. I used my lifeforce to prevent him from dying on me, and I died instea
Isabella P.O.V. “You two need to stop that bickering for a moment and remember your matebond and why you are in the same hospital room, with people who call for me when they can’t talk sense into you. Think back. Before all this. Before the attack.” Selene implores, but I am in no mood to as she says. Elijah is seemingly on my page in this, because he also crosses his arms. I smirk. Well, I guess there’s actually one thing we can agree on. Selene narrows her eyes. “Well, then I guess I have no choice.” And with that I feel the world go black, and the last thing I hear is Alex and Dale cursing out the Goddess and I’m out. Everything is once again black. This is really getting old. I know what I have to do, but I am not sure if I want to do it this time. Why should I? He is the one who ruined this. Why should I be the good little mate, who solves everything.Someone growls behind me and I swirl around just in time to see Emerald jump me. Somewhere in the distance I hear a