“How long has she been like this?” Amanda asks in a worried tone, checking Amara’s vitals. The child is white, pale white and immobile and she has a fever, her temperature is high and heart rate is slow. Amanda looks up at Leila who is looking down at her child in perpetual sadness, nibbling away at fingers, her eyes red and puffy with dark bags underneath her sleep deprived eyes, fear gyrating back and forth in her heart, worry taking command of her mind, she cannot sleep, she cannot think straight, she cannot do anything. All she feels is anguish and pain. She should be the one lying down on the bed, Amara should be hale and hearty, she will gladly trade places. She looks away and she starts to cry again. She just doesn’t know what is going on, no one seems to know what is wrong with her daughter, three hospitals and four paediatric specialists and no one can figure out what is wrong. Four days ago, Amara was hale and hearty. She returned from the playground with Tatum and would
The sound of her scream makes them all run into the room just as Katrina struggles to her feet, her forehead torn open and blood covering her face.“Maledictio,” Katrina mutters with fear rapt in her dark eyes as she points at Amara, “tenebris maledictio.”“What is she saying? What is she saying?” Leila asks frantically, hugging Amara on the floor. “What have you done to my daughter? I can barely hear her heartbeat.”Leila lunges from the floor, ready to tear the scared witch to pieces when Kelvin blocks her path.“I think this is beyond her Leila. What she said was latin, she says it’s a curse, a dark curse.”“A curse?” Leila’s heart throbs in fear as shock grips her. “Who would curse a child?”This has to be when she went out with Tatum.She should never have allowed them to go out together alone, what is wrong with her? What was she thinking? Everyone in this pack hates her, they see her as their enemy and they know Amara is her child.What if one of them cursed her daughter? What
How could anyone curse a child, a child so sweet and harmless? Leila questions herself as she gets into her car, her vision blurred in tears, her heart soaked in fear as she drives to Tatum’s office. The first name that comes to her mind is Carmela, she once tried to kill her baby in the womb and she cannot put this beyond her even if she has no proof. Carmela is as vile and as wicked as they come and goddess help her, if she finds out that Carmela has anything to do with this, she will no longer sek revenge the proper way that she plans to, no, she will rip Carmela’s heart out and spit on her fucking dead body. She doesn’t know where Tatum is but she has to find him, he keeps blocking her mindlinks. She pulls up to the packhouse, ignores the people staring at her, breezes past the ones who try to walk up to her to make small talk, skips fucking protocol and procedures to see the Alpha and she goes into Tatum’s office but he isn’t there, it doesn’t even look like he has been here i
Leila wraps her other hand around Carmela’s throat and squeezes in a tight grasp.“Do you feel that, my claws grazing your heart, the air being cut from your lungs?” She asks, her voice blended with her wolf’s, cold as ice, her aura blazing around her, suffocating and powerful.Carmela nods gently, fear in her eyes as tears stream out of them.“Good,” Leila replies, feeling Carmela’s heart pound with fear in her hands. “Remember this feeling, because if I find out you have anything to do with the curse on my child, this is the last feeling you’re going to get before I kill you.”“I don’t know what you are talking about,” Carmela grunts in pain, “I was only asking for her welfare, she’s a sweet girl.”Leila plunges her hand deeper, slicing into Carmela’s heart and Carmela yells in pain, hot tears flowing down her eyes.“And if I ever see you anywhere near my house again…I better not see you,” Leila snarls, retracting her claws and she pulls her hands out of Carmela’s chest, wipes the b
Leila quickly wipes her face with the back of her hands and rolls down her car window. “Hi,” she says sharply, fruitlessly trying to put some cheer on her face, “I never got your name the other day.” “Antonio,” he smile widens, “but you can call me whatever you like kitten.” He winks at her. “Can you not call me that? I don’t even know you,” Leila’s brows furrow as she squints at him, a small frown on her face. “But I do know you little mate,” his smile remains plastered. Leila suddenly feels the involuntary change in her emotions just like last time when she could no longer feel fear. Her sorrow drowning, the anguish bleeding away, the pain in her heart dissipating and she knows it’s not her doing. Why does that happen in his presence? Is he the one taking away these emotions or does it have something to do with this whole second chance mate theory? “I’m not going to ask why you are crying but I’m going to get in your car, we’re going to go for a drink and we are going to che
Leila is about to reply when she gets a mindlink from Tatum and she looks away from Antonio to the cars driving past the window outside as she hears Tatum’s voice. For some reason, she doesn’t want Tatum to see her mysterious second chance mate.‘I was told you came by the office, I’m there now.’‘I’ll be on my way,’ Leila replies and drops the mindlink, turning back to face Antonio but he’s gone and in place of him is a note on the table.[I’ll see you soon, kitten. Antonio.]Leila picks up the note and gazes around but there is absolutely no sign of him and she smiles.There is something about Antonio that scares and excites her at the same time. She puts his note in her purse and heads to Tatum’s office.The moment Tatum hears Leila coming, he pulls open the drawer on his table, frantically putting away the drugs he just took and tosses the syringes into the trash can, simultaneously increasing the blow rate on his air freshener to hide any smell of medicine that may linger in the
“Thank you,” Leila replies. She did not expect him to agree so easily. There is a reason wraith-kons don’t live within a pack, they are rumoured to bring death and destruction with them, wherever they go. Tatum should be aware of this, he’s the first person who told her about wraith-kons even before she found out her grandmother was one but he doesn’t seem to care about that. Does she tell him about the curse on Amara? She doesn’t want him anywhere near her anymore, right? But she is still his child and he is an Alpha, he may have connections to someone who might be able to help as well. “Would that be all?” Tatum’s curt voice snap her attention back to him. “Yes,” Leila replies, noticing the way his eyes are completely stoic and unreadable and his demeanour is cold. Why does that bother her? How long has it been since he found out they were mates? Has it been a while or did he just find out when she returned? He is getting ready to marry Carmela, he should be talking of rejec
“Sister, huh?” Leila whispers to Kelvin as she ushers them inside.Kelvin glances at her and the guilt in his eyes tug something in Leila’s heart.Could this Tatiana be the reason Kelvin has been scarce around her for some days now? Does he like Tatiana? She’s the first lady she has seen Kelvin with in a long time and he even brought Tatiana to her house.“Make yourself comfortable, just want to have a quick chat with Leila,” Kelvin sits Tatiana on the couch and gestures for Leila to come with him.“I know this is going to sound crazy but–”“You’re seeing her?”Leila cannot stop herself from asking, watching Kelvin’s eyes carefully.“What? No, yes, I mean, look–” Kelvin pauses and heaves a deep sigh. “She has witch blood.”He glances at Tatiana from over the counter before he turns back to Leila and Leila does not miss the admiration in his eyes. “She’s one of the new employees in my firm, we’ve had a few drinks, nothing serious but today over lunch, I was quite distracted because