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Original Published Date: 14 May 2016
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Estelle
"I'm not afraid of you, James. How could I? You're my mate." I say to him.
"Even when you're dying and we're in a place where only you and I can hear each other you're still lying to yourself." He shakes his head with a low chuckle. "You see we're not human, so there's no heaven or hell for us, there's just each other."
"What are you talking about James?" I say.
"I'm saying we have each other and eternity. So if you die, you're born again with no memory of you're Estelle life, and that's why some werewolves mates are like twenty years younger than them. So you die and give up right now and I'll find you again and pretend to love you like I do now, but won't mention a thing about this girl... You." He smiles. And I begin to think. "You know I'm right." He grins.
"I know you're lying. There's only one me-"
"Yeah, until you die." He laughs. "I can't wait for you to die." He says. "Maybe when you're reborn you might actually be cute, maybe pretty, and if you're lucky... beautiful." He smirks.
"Why are you saying this to me?" I try to hold back the tears that threatens to falls.
"I'm just saying what I've been thinking before and after I found out we were mates. I teased you because you deserved to be teased, you are ugly and stupid." He just shrugs his shoulders like this was no big deal. "Are you about cry? Go ahead! If I'm lucky enough I'd get to watch you drown in your sorrow." That was it just saying that made the tears cross over and my cheeks burn red.
"What about our baby?" I ask him.
"I know. I was really hoping it was Victors, so I wouldn't have to raise a baby that got its ugly looks from its mother. But I'd definitely not mind getting Taylor pregnant, but she's mated to that dumb fuck Aaron. But that Luna, Danielle, she's so fine, I just wished you looked like her because I would fuck her all day. You... you're lucky I did you once." James smiles at me and laughs at my sobs. "Damn you're weak."
"What happened to you?" I ask.
"Nothing. Now that you're dying I won't have to be tied down to one bitch for eternity." I cry even more.
"Why?"
"I dunno. You're weak. So weak you can't even have a healthy baby." He walks closer to me, and places his hand on my shoulder. "Just give up. Just die. Be reborn because I don't love you. I never have, and I never will. So do everyone a favor and... die." Those were the words that did it. Those words broke my heart, and I felt my heart stop.
James
I feel my eyes open slowly. Then some one says. "He's coming to." It was a pretty nurse. Black hair green eyes, reminds me of Estelle.
Estelle! What happened to her? "I need to get to my mate." I say with my voice hoarse.
The nurses eyes went wide. "Oh, uh, not right now. I'm nurse Lily by the way." She smiles.
"Lily. I need to get to my mate." I say sitting up.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." She says trying to lay me back down.
"I can do what I want, and right now I want to see my mate, I have to make sure she's okay."
"James. How long do you think you've been unconscious?" She asks cautiously.
"I don't know. A couple hours..." I say scratching my head.
"More like three weeks and almost a month." Lily says.
"What do you mean?" I ask unconvinced.
"I mean. You've been unconscious for three weeks. What's the last thing you remember?"
"You ask a lot of questions."
"That's because I need a lot of answers. Now, what's the last thing you remember?" Lily asks again.
"Um..." I rub my forehead trying to remember. "Me punching Victor." I say.
"Yup. Three and half weeks ago."
"What does this have to do with me not being able to see my mate?" I ask.
"Look who's asking all the questions now." She smiles.
"I only asked one- why can't I see Estelle?"
"As of right now... no one can." She frowns.
"And why's that?"
Victor
"I heard he's woke." I say walking into the room with Ethan, Danielle, Taylor, Aaron, Kyle, Erik, Chelsy, and Tom. "Who's gonna tell him?" I ask.
Everyone looks around and Taylor immediately starts crying. The four month old baby in Chelsys arm starts to cry. A one pound baby, only survived because of the alpha blood running through its veins. Her name is Evelyn, named after Estelle's biological mom.
"So who's it gonna be?" I ask again, but no one answers.
"This isn't even real. This is just one long bad dream." Taylor cries. "None of this is real." She burried her head in Aaron's shoulder.
"With every death, there's a life, right?" Aarons says, and I can hear the tears in his voice. But I can't see them in his eyes.
"She's not dead!" Taylor yelled. She pulled out her phones and showed the timer. "Doctor Zack said she had at the least a month left."Â She cried.
"That was a month ago!" Aaron yelled. I can see in his eyes he was reminiscing, with all those long days of when he dated Estelle.
"No!" Taylor yelled. She pointed to the timer on her phone. "She has two hours, thirty-seven minutes, and twelve seconds. To wake up. In the Bible it says, 'With faith the size of a mustard seed, you could move mountain' and in these two hours I will move a thousand mountains." She got up and stormed out the door.
As soon as she passed the doorway a earpiercing howl covers the sky. "I think he knows."
Everyone looked at me. "He could use his bestfriend right now." Tom says looking at me.
"I think Erik should. He's the only one who hasn't done anything wrong to him." I say.
"I hit him in the back of the head with a beer." Erik admits.
"It's not worse than what I did." I lower my head in disappointment.
"Y'all are all dumb as hell!" Taylor yelled coming back into the room. "She's dying! You're holding her baby without a care in the world. I'm going to go see her, and if any of you have your common sense you'd come too." She growled.
James
"Hey... I heard about, your mate. Is she going to be ok?" Justyce asks.
"How'd you know I'd be here?" I growl at her.
"You told me when you're stressed you go to this cliff and try and think things through." She places her hands on my bare shoulders. But I shrug them away. "Just tell me what you're thinking."
"I'm thinking that I should jump." I say looking at the more than eight thousand foot depth below.
"How much time does she have left?" Justyce asks.
I look up at the sky as it gives me the time of day. "An hour and under thirty minutes." I say lowering my head.
"Ok... instead of mopping about rather or not you're going to commit suicide or not, go to her."
Estelle
I lay on the ground and cry as James keeps insulting me insult after insult. Kicking me down and wishing I don't get back up.
"Bitch, give up, you're weak. They took the baby when you were ready to give up. I just wish you would give up right now, this will be a lot easier if you just died. No one likes you and frankly I'm still mad the Goddess mated us. I'm way out of your league!" It's been weeks, I know it. Every time he speaks, he says something new, and something hurtful, but the same things in different ways.
"Shutup!" I yell, scratching at floor.
"Die! Do me a favor, and everyone else of a favor, and die. I don't want you here!"
"I would've gave up... but I don't believe you mean the harm... I believe you mean the opposite of everything you say." I say sitting Indian style on the ground.
"No... maybe I'm your mate but I'd fuck Danielle again, and Taylor, Justyce, Malory-"
"Justyce? Malory?" I ask.
"Oh... Of course I didn't tell you. In those three days when you practically rejected me, I needed to get rid of my pain and Kyle suggested going to a strip club. I met this one chick, Justyce and she saw my depression. She didn't give me lap dance or anything we talked and I drank and went to my house and fucked." He smirked and my eyes well up with tears, then I remember he's lying. "You don't believe? Ok. If you chose to wake up, ask him about Justyce and Malory." He panics and runs. "They're coming."
"Who?" I ask standing up.
"Elijah, Gabriel, Mathew, Thomas, David, Samuel, Zachariah, and Daniel."
"Who are they?"
"Your hidden guardians."
James
"Don't give up on me Essy. I need you." I hold her hand. "How much time is left Taylor?"
"Twelve minutes." I blink and my cheek is wet. "She has so much to lose, James... she won't leave us, or her baby. She's a smart girl." Taylor crys too.
"Baby?" I lay my hand flat on her stomach. "Where's the baby!? Did it-"
"No! But its really small, you can't hold it."
"Why not! Its my baby!" I yell.
She puts her hand against mine and its a lot smaller. "The baby can fit in the palm of my hand... and she can fit in your fist." I raise my eyebrows. "Her name is Evelyn. She was only four months."
"Who named her?" I ask a little defensive.
"Chelsy. She thought it would be a good a idea to name her after her birth mother."
I was going to respond but eight guys walked through the door or Estelle room. "We're here for Estelle West."
"What?" I ask them in disbelief. The one on the far right snapped his fingers. "What was that? Sass?" I ask.
He snaps his fingers and again and points to Estelle. I was hoping she'd be alive, but she wasn't woke but her stomach was ... a bump? "The baby is where it belongs." He says. "I'm Daniel."
"I want a explanation?" I say confused.
"Estelle's a alpha. Her mother was a powerful Luna, but your uncle wanted land in California, so they invaded it. But Evelyn had just given birth to Estelle three days in advance. Erdiss called us, to be her guardian for 13 billion dollars, we would've done it for free but he insisted to him she was worth everything. He told us to take her and don't look back. But our job was too dangerous to keep her the entire time, so Samuel, our shape shifter, acted as Evelyn and gave Estelle to Chelsy and that same day, they let us into the pack as Eli, Gabe, Matt, Tom, Dave, Sam, Zack, and Dan. We were always there when she needed us. I'm Elijah." He explained.
"Eli? Eli... When Aaron broke up with Estelle for like the tenth time she had no one to go to the winter formal with her..." She paused for a minute. "Two days before Winter formal you asked her." Taylor says.
"And when she was in second grade when that kid put sand in her hair and everyone laughed, I shape shifted into a younger version of me, and made her feel better." Samuel said.
"That was stupid you were there one day and everyone called you a ghost and her imaginary friend."
A guy looked at his watch. "She has three minutes, less chatting. But although we helped we never interfered with her in a life of death situation.. this a freebie from the goddess."
"Thats Zachariah... he's serious about this job." Eli says.
He walks up to me. "This will hurt, but Gabriel will heal you." His left hand grips my right shoulder and he cuts me then sticks his fist in my new wound, and pulled put a green sack. His hand was bloody but a blow of his cold breath the green sack was dry and he crushed it to dust and mixed it in water and put it in a new IV bag and switches it.
"What did you do?" I ask him as Gabe places his hand over my wound.
"Zachariah used the dust of your gallbladder to save her life. Now all she has do is open her eyes, and she has a minute to do it. I'm Matthew by the way." Matthew answered.
"Now what?" I ask.
"We wait." Elijah said stepping forward, and they all circled around her closed their eyes.