65. Alex's POVI am tired and my brain feels like it is in its limit when it comes to thinking of where Tessa could be.I am holding on to the little bit of hope I have and to Mason.Mason has been an angel and I really don't know how to thank him.I have been an arse most of the times since Tessa disappeared and I swear I will make it up to him once this is all over. Just me and him.As we are sitting there without talking just enjoying each other's company, my phone rings."Alpha, we have found her," I sit upright and Mason is quick to notice that it is not a normal call.I hold the phone in front of me and the man on the other side continues."Give me that," Mason's dad says on the other side and he takes the phone."Son, the wizard we went to called.He has finally traced Tessa.I am sending you the GPS location.You two hurry. Don't use a vehicle. Just come," he says and we look at each other.We spring into action without thinking.I take the small backpack I usually keep packed
66. Alex's POVI am angry and I hate the world right now.I can't belive that Tessa is dead.The girl I have ever lived since I was born is dead.I am in pain.And what pains me more is that she didn't die a natural death or even die the way most of us die: in battle.No. Someone killed her.Someone ripped her belly open and ripped the babies out of her.Someone deliberately left her there weak and torn to die.And that someone took our children.If I don't kill all the vampires and witches in existence then I am not an alpha.I will die trying but I will die with several.I also can't believe that Mason could do that to me.I always thought that he will always stock with me but tell me how he decided to stay with Tessa insisting that she isn't dead.All of us could tell tagt her pulse and heartbeat were gone.Get body was as cold as the snow that sorrounded her.She was gone but Mason decided to let me look for our children all alone."I CAN'T BELIVE THIS!" I roar as I run.I already
67. Mason's POVCall it denial or whatever but it was hard to belive that Tessa was gone.I could see her body lying there lifeless and all but I just couldn't belive that Tessa was dead.My heart was beating so hard that of I was not unalive, I knew I would have been down with a cardiac arrest.I looked at Alex and I felt helpless.I felt that it was all my fault since Tessa had been killed by a vampire in cohoots with a witch.At that moment, I didn't know which vampire had taken her and I thought that it was one of my clan.I sat there and when Alex hugged me, I felt his grieve too.When dad said that the children were alive and had been taken, Alex wanted to go after them.I, on the other hand, wanted to remain with Tessa.I believed that she wasn't dead. Tessa would come back.How? I didn't know. If it called for me hiring the services of all the oracles I knew and wizards and witches, then I would.What I knew was that I wouldn't believe that she was dead.Alex left and I knew h
68. Tessa's POV"Tessa? Tessa? Queen? Can you hear me?"That was the voice that was calling me and I felt like it was coming from miles away.I didn't understand what was happening to me or where I was.So, I just laid there waiting for my brain to start working.Heck, I wasn't even remembering my name at that moment or where I was.I closed my eyes and listened to the fire that was coursing through my veins.It was burning me and I wanted to scream but it was like my voice was sealed.I couldn't speak.I then willed myself to get better and closed my eyes tight and it was like I could see inside me.I didn't know how I was able to but it was like I could walk inside me and tell the exact position of each organ and how the blood was moving.I saw my muscles heal.It was like they were being soldered together and that was why it was all so painful."Queen? Baby? Tess, please look at me," that same voice again.I opened my eyes and tilted my beck.There, seated beside me, was the most h
69. Tessa's POVAlex was lying there and he was barely conscious.I didn't know when tears had began to roll down my face but I was crying as I looked at him.Mason knelt beside me and called Alex gently hut he didn't even look at us.He seemed to be in so much pain that even opening an eyebrow was painful."I'm here baby, I'm here now," I said as I held his hand and at that, he struggled to open his eyes and try to form a smile.He then looked at Mason and also tried to smile.It was like he was bidding us goodbye and I wasn't having it.I wasn't going to try it.Alex had turned to stone from his toes and now, it was at his chest and we could feel him struggling to breathe.I touched him and it was all cold and hard."Can you lift him?" I asked Mason.Mason tried lifting Alex and for the first time, I saw a vampire unable to do something.He couldn't lift Alex and it was distressing."I can't. It's like he is glued to the ground and I can't lift him," Mason said puzzled and I knew wh
70. Tessa's POV"It states here that we have to have the blood of the person who cursed him or a relative of the one who cursed him, a piece of an alpha's tail fur, a bezoar from the inland taipan and its venom, and mix that with water from a holy spring and boil for four minutes while stirring counterclockwise, let it cool for two minutes and stir it twice clockwise in those two minutes. One time each minute and then boil it again for ten minutes while stirring it clockwise this time.After the ten minutes, sieve and put in a cup and let the person being healed take it hot for it to melt the stone..." the oracle read from one of the books he had taken from a stack.The book looked bulky and like it was tens of thousands of years old."We have almost all we need.I am a relative of Mara, sad to say, we can use Alex's dad's tail hair, what else did it ask for?" I ask as I take my mind."A bezoar from an inland taipan and its poison and water from a holy spring," he answered as he rumma
71. Mason's POVI was breaking on the inside due to all what was happening. I did not even know how I was still on my feet. I just wanted to sleep then wake up and find out that all this was a bad dream.Mom was on her dying bed, Alex was dying too and my children were missing. Any man would break mo matter how strong.I was happy to have Tessa back but I won't lie, I felt a gap.She had been missing for almost four months and she ran away by herself.I was half that she was back because she was my half soul and I still lived her but come on. There was no denying that she had cracked out relationship.I didn't say anything though.I was waiting for Alex to get better so that we could address the elephant in our relationship and maybe know how to repair that crack.But looking at it, everything that was happening was all Tessa's fault.Hwrnear death experience, mom's attack, Alex's attack, the babies kidnapping... they were all her fault.But I didn't want to blame her because it wou
72. Tamia's POVI was hurting and I knew Mason was hurting too.We were all hurting and I knew this would come.I knew they were blaming just that no one wanted to say anything with all the shit that was happening and Mason cracked sooner than I thought.I had left them for close to four months and I wouldn't be surprised if their bond grew stinger.They had been there for each other when I was missing being each other's strength and it was no surprise that Mason was this hurt with Alex bejng bedridden.What he didn't know was that I was also hurting.I wished I could punish myself for everything.I wished they could see the pain I was going through.I knew I was rash and stubborn and it had finally cost me and worse was that the pain was felt by the whole family.I wished I could tell him that I was sorry but what would that do?What would sorry help with?Would it change the fact that everything is messed up?No. It wouldn't.The pain would still be there and it wouldn't change fact