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
73. Mason's POVI was pretty angry at Tessa.I really didn't know where all the anger was coming from but every time I thought of Alex being crushed by that stone while he was still alive, I felt this fury I couldn't control against Tessa.I walked away from her twice because my vampire was threatening to come out and hurt her.But I made sure to make her feel the pain I was feeling.I walked without knowing where I was going but I wanted to be anywhere where Tessa wasn't.I also wanted to take matters into my won hands and help looking for that snake.I was going to kill it and bring the stone and poison back to the oracle of the Bluewater Pack so that he could heal Alex.I just wanted him back.Maybe by the time I was returning, I would be able to look at Tessa and not shout at her or hate at her."Alex? Baby?" I called to my link and there was nothing.It was liking trying to speak to someone though a walkie talkie and all one got in response was static noise on the other end.At th
117. Tessa’s POVIt is evening already and I am all ready.I am wearing the wedding dress they bought me that day they proposed and I have no idea how they pulled this off because it is my size and the women of the pack can’t help but compliment me.I know I look gorgeous and I feel proud that it is my men who have made is possible.I am taken out of the house by mom, Alex’s mother, and the other women and taken to the makeshift hall that was erected just for this wedding.It was built for around a thousand people and I can tell that it is very small as there are people outside and some chose to climb trees and the roof had to be slid out even before time.I walk with mom up to the bog doors and the band is notified of my arrival and dad is there to walk me in.There is smooth violin music playing as per my request and I can’t help but smile as I watch my husbands in similar tuxedos waiting for me at the altar.I don’t know my heart is beating so loudly to a point that dad asks me to
116. Tessa’s POVThe wedding happened in the Silvano vampire clan. It was a white wedding.Maybe it’s because many vampires were once human and all but they do most of the things the way humans do.I didn’t worry though. No.However they, my mates, chose to hold the wedding, what I wanted at the end of the day was that they were mine and that we were now officially one.It was an odd wedding for many had never seen a trouple.When we decided that we hold the formal white wedding in the vampire clan and then the mating ceremony in our pack, I felt that it was the best decision we had ever made for then, everyone would have got their way and the people in the vampire clan would be able to see their alpha marry their queen but the problem came when murmurs started going round asking who Alex was.You should have seen the looks of shock when the person who was officiating the wedding married us.It was strange though because instead of two people, there were three.“Alpha Mason Jason Sil
115. Tessa’s POVSince my children were taken, this was the moment I had really dreamt about.I had always fantasized of how I will react when I see Mara and Jamila.The pain they gave me was still fresh in my mind and I loathed them more for the fact that I didn’t have the luxury of suckling my children or even holding them and feel the warmth of a mother.I was all powered up and was ready to finally face them.“Hello little girl? I see you have got some guts,” Jamila said and I guess that she was underestimating me.She though that she was facing the same girl who couldn’t help herself because she was n the loins of labour.“Hello Jamila? Long time no see. I see you have grown some guts for a new vampire like you,” I mocked and that wiped the ugly smile on her beautiful face.“I am here for two things…” I began but Jamila interrupted me.“To get killed and buried here?” She asked me and then even without warning, she jumped at me.She was so fast that I was impressed since she wasn
114. Tessa's POVI looked at Mara and laughed.Maybe she thought that she had everything under control and she didn't understand how we were here."How did you get here?" She asked again and I laughed."Through the gates of course.Or is this your coven?" I asked and she seems to have nothing to say to that.The woman who was with her seemed to realise that I wasn't Mara's friend even though I had called her aunt and she run towards me.Mara tried using the little magic she had to pull her back but I tripped her by enchanting the soil below where she was standing and she fell."Go and save those who are locked in that room," I told my mates and they agreed in unison but my eyes were still on Mara."Where are the children?" I asked the woman who had come to hide behind me."They are with that vampire in my parents house where they are holding them," she told them and I enchanted any rope I could find and they tied up Mara and I asked the woman to lead the way.Now that the cloaking spe
113. Tessa's POVWe were already here and I was thinking of a way we could go in without notifying the people inside that there were intruders.We couldn't do that up the wall, we couldn't blast the wall and I didn't want to bring up the shield I was sure Mara had placed because by now I knew her work and so, we had to look for another way."Only if we had enough time to did a hole below the wall," Alex said."It's just that we don't know how deep the wall is," Mason said and I looked at them."Have you guys forgot who your wife is?" I asked and we were speaking though out link.I didn't even look to see whether the others were looking at us or not.All I know is that they must have been surprised to see us smiling and looking at each as if we were speaking but there was ni sound.But I was sure that the wolves knew what was happening.I looked at Alex and smiled at him because he had just given me and idea: dig below the wall.And since I could enchant the earth, I would try it one m
112. Tessa’s POVI was engaged and getting married.It’s not that they would never have married me, no, it would have definitely happened since we are mates and all, but the fact that they thought of doing this for me, it meant the whole world to me.The fact that they proposed to me means that they want to marry me not because it is a duty they have to fulfil but because they are truly in, love with me.That is why I feel blessed and glad that I realized my ways before I could lose them.I love my mates.We are a crazy combination but I love us.They had prepared all kinds of dishes and most were my favourite: KFC.Even in such a situation, nothing beats a well fried chicken drumstick, fries and ice cream.If I had a say on what was to be served in my wedding, I would go with buckets and buckets of KFC chicken and burgers and fries.And then the desert will be bucket loads of ice cream.There was a knock on the door and Alex went to answer it.“Alpha, the vampire is awake,” it was on
111. Tessa's POVWe were back home but without our children but with an unconscious aunt of mine whom I had never met before today and a badly beaten up vampire."Why did you have to beat him that much?" I asked Mason when I saw the condition the vampire was in.He shrugged his shoulders and gave that smile he always gave when he didn't have a good explanation for something."He… he said that alpha vampires were overrated and I wanted to show him that we weren't overrated," he said and Alex slapped him on the shoulder in that way men do."Good. He shouldn't have underestimated my mate," he said and they both smiled at each other."Alex, stop encouraging him! He could just have bitten him and that would have paralyzed him," I told them although I didn't use a stern voice."It won't happen again not unless they underestimate us again," Alex said and I rolled my eyes at him.He talked as if he was the one who beat up the man.We couldn't ask them any questions because they were both unco
110. Tessa’s POVThe woman I was with fainted as soon as we left the hurt and she congratulated me.From her reaction, I could clearly tell that she wasn’t a big fan of her big sister.She was so happy when we left the hut that it made me smile.Now, I had to carry her and look for a way out.I couldn’t see the gate I came in through and the place looked like it was curved straight out of the ground and there was no way out because it was a round wall all around us.I tried shaking Martha awake and she didn’t even stir.I even tried using my powers to see whether they would nourish her enough to wake up and nothing.I regretted not listening to the oracle when he told me to learn a few basic healing spells. I never thought I would ever need them as I was surrounded by wolves and vampires who could heal themselves when and if trouble arose.When I realized that she wasn’t waking up any time son and if I dilly dallied she would die here, I took it upon myself to look for a way out.If
109. Mason’s POVI was with the last group that was keeping watch of the periphery of the coven’s jurisdiction and I was also to act as back up to Alex’s group.When we were planning this, I wanted the three of us to be in the same group and so did my half souls.But if we wanted to succeed, I knew that Tessa and Leo were right. We needed to stick with the strategy.Leo was with Alex since they were like one. A beta had to stick with his alpha.Tessa was keeping us updated with what was happening to her in the first group and so far, they hadn’t found Mara.They had, however, found a secret entrance and it was she only who went down.The wolves that were with her told Leo that after she stepped on the first staircase, it floated away and the place where it was turned to earth and the tree slid to place again. That meant that if Tessa didn’t come out and soon, we needed to look for the services of another witch who would help us open the door again.But for now, that wasn’t even the pr