0045
Dane
Veronica stomps off, both furious and upset that she hadn't gotten what she wanted. After all these years, I half expected her to be used to it, but still, she remains persistent, looking for a way back in. Though I had to hide my amusement at Neahs thoughts. Once again, the darkness in her makes a subtle appearance. Though only I could hear it.
"She's a piece of work." Devon mutters.
'I agree,' Aero mutters
"Why didn't you just tell her you're gay?" I ask, ignoring Aero's ramblings
"What would be the fun in that?" Devon smiles, still watching Veronica stomping away, over the snowy grounds. "Besides, she was too dumb to follow what I was saying. So what's the deal there?"
"It's a long story. And one that doesn't really concern you." I tell him, I see how his eyes momentarily flicker to Neah, but this time, he keeps his mouth shut. Recognizing that he had no authority to question my decisions as an Alpha.
In the house, I ask one of the Omegas to show Devon to his room and insist that he is placed in one of the rooms furthest away from mine.
Neah, Eric, and I, head into the office. I needed a plan in place. I needed Trey and Cassandra hunted down and killed. There was no way I was letting either of them find my mate or find someone to impregnate her.
Neah sighs and rubs her eyes. But just like every other time, she sits in silence, regretting her dark thoughts. Questioning herself on how evil she could be.
In my eyes, she wasn't evil. She just wanted revenge, a revenge that was more than deserved. But when it came to it, I wondered if she could actually go through with killing them.
"Take some of the warriors into the city. See if you can find anything." I tell Eric. I wanted time alone with Neah
"Do you want me to take Devon? I mean, he should be able to sense them, right? It might make it a little easier." "Don't let him out of your sight."
"Not a chance."
As he stands up to leave, I tell him to kill them on sight.
And I notice Neahs lips are a little curved up.
Her smile disappears when she realizes I'm looking at her and she lowers her face, embarrassed that she had been caught. "We have wasted enough time." I tell her. "I'm sick of their games or whatever they want to call it. Death can't come quick enough for them."
"I... I always thought that they wanted me dead but I could never understand why they didn't just kill me." She pulls her legs up in front of her. "I begged for death. There were nights when I wished the Moon Goddess wouldn't make me wake in the morning. I even thought about throwing myself down the stairs"
"You kept fighting."
She lets out a heavy sigh. "I didn't want to."
"If you hadn't, our paths would not have crossed. You would not be sitting here, opposite me, claimed. Instead, you would likely be knocked up, raped by one of the many men in Moonshine." I wasn't intentionally trying to scare her, instead, I was trying to give her some hope that everything that has happened has led her to me.
"If they do find me...."
I cut her off, my eyes locked on hers. "I will burn everything to the ground to find you. But they would also need to kill me first. Or it would kill you anyway."
'To fucking right. The whole world can burn for all I care!' Aero announces. It was something we could finally agree on
She sits quietly, hugging her legs.
"You know it would be easier if you just spoke to me. As much as I enjoy reading your mind, you do like to make it difficult, with your thoughts not focussing on one thing. I've told you before. You don't have to keep quiet here. If you have something to say, say it." She shakes her head at me.
"Neah?"
She scowls. "W...why would they agree to bind me so many times?"
"We said...."
"No, the um.... the witches?"
"Madame Curie said you were powerful. That she had never seen anything like it. She bound you twice and wouldn't do it again. Fucking bitch!" My fist slams against the table, making Neah jump. Neah clutches her legs tighter as she stares at me with wide blue eyes.
"She knew the consequences. She wouldn't bind you a third time. That's what she meant when she said she wouldn't do it." I was furious.
"I thought...." Neah whispers, "I thought she told you the truth."
"She usually does, eventually."
'There are too many trying their luck with us.' Aero murmurs. 'We need to remind them who the top Wolf is!'
Glancing over at Neah, her face rested on her knees and her eyes had closed.
'Is she asleep?' Aero asks
"Neah?" I had just been talking to her.
She doesn't stir as I try waking her.
'She's been sleeping a lot lately.' Aero mutters. 'Have you noticed that?'
'She's probably still adapting to life here. She was exhausted. Her body is just playing catch up.'
'Who are you trying to bullshit? You've been asking her if she feels okay for days now!'
Placing the back of my hand against her forehead, I feel the extreme heat she is giving off. It was new, I hadn't felt it when I had my arm around her.
"Neah?" She still doesn't stir
"Neah?" I try shaking her shoulders to wake her. Her legs fall down as her head rolls back, Her heart is beating just as steady as ever. It didn't make sense why she wasn't waking up 'RAVEN!' I link my sister, demanding that she comes straight away. She arrives in minutes and quickly tends to Neah.
Checking her over, she tells me that she can find nothing wrong.
"Then tell me, why is my mate burning up?"
"I don't know." She frantically rolls up Neah's sleeves, investigating her arms
"What are you looking for?"
"I don't know. A needle site, a bite, she could be having a reaction to something?"
"She can heal."
Neah coughs in her unconscious state, and a tiny bit of bright red appears at the corner of her mouth.
Forcing her mouth open, I smell the blood before I see it.
Her mouth quickly starts to fill with it and if I hadn't leaned her forward, she would likely have choked on it. "Fuck, fuck, fuck. What has she eaten?" Raven mutters as she continues to search Neah's arms
"I don't know. She hasn't had anything since we have been in the office."
Looking around the room. I looked for something she might have touched or something that didn't belong. Nothing seemed out of place
"I need her in the hospital, Dane. I can't treat whatever this is, here."
Picking Neah up, I carry her on her side so that she doesn't choke on the blood. There were many things we could heal from, but suffocation was not one of them.
By the time we got to the hospital. Neah's heart is racing. It's almost impossible to hear a single heartbeat under the constant hum.
"We need to strip her," Raven mutters. "Something has to have happened."
"Surely he wouldn't be so stupid," I mutter, helping to remove Neah's top.
"Who?"
"Devon. Neah let him out and he held her wrist, moments before he made a threat."
"Woah, that is a lot of information in one sentence," Raven murmurs as she tugs Neah's jeans off.
"Where did he grab her?"
"Her wrist."
Checking her wrists again, there was nothing. No sign of anything that looked even a tiny bit different.
Then I see it. A small raised bump just off of her shoulder and as I looked at Neah, I saw blood leaking from her ears and I already knew what she had been injected with.
This could not be happening.
Raven quickly draws some fluid out of the small bump.
A clear liquid mixed with a little of her blood.
"Is that what I think it is?"
"Blood of Wolfsbane."