Chapter 5
CHAPTER 5
KAI
I was so close to telling her the truth. The situation between Valeria and me was getting out of control. My phone buzzed just before I broke; it was Eli. No matter what happened I couldn’t ignore my brother’s call. He could mind his matters, but if he was calling that meant he really needed me. So I immediately picked up the call and before I asked Eli screamed. “Anna…. Anna needs us….. she is …… she’s bleeding! Her water broke! Kai!”
I responded immediately, “Coming.” I ended the call and dashed out of my office. I told Valeria that something else needed my attention. I knew Alex would not be in the car so I opened the driver’s door and sat inside. I reached my mansion in record time. My phone started to buzz again. I picked it up without looking at the screen. “Eli, I just entered the mansion.”
Eli stammered, “Come to the basement.”
Even if he hadn’t mentioned it I would have gone to the basement, we both have basements due to our being oversized wolves and this was the main reason for constructing a mansion. Anna was behind the idea because she was newly transformed and she was having difficulty in suppressing the urge to transform into her wolf form.
When I entered Anna was lying on a delivery bed and Alex was standing next to her, carrying a big giant book, and trying to read it while anxiously checking on her. Next to Alex, there was a table full of open and closed books in disarray. He kept changing the books in his hand to find something, God knows what?
I knew they had been practicing for this day for so long. Anna is a doctor. Eli and Alex had been receiving training from her. She was taking care of her pregnancy at the mansionby herself. Alex used his network to buy every machine or equipment she asked for. I also joined them in a few sessions because Anna told us it's best to have more sets of hands at the time of delivery. I ran towards them and reminded Eli to check her dilation. He spread her legs and checked. Eli nodded, “Yeah, it’s time.”
I moved to Anna and started pushing on her bump as she had instructed me. Alex was holding her hand. “Anna, please push.”
Anna screamed and nothing happened. I told her to breathe to relax and then after a few minutes Anna tried but still nothing happened and Anna fell unconscious because she didn’t have the strength to push anymore. She was drained. Eli stood up and tried to wake her, but Anna’s skin started to get pale. Alex and Eli looked at each other and nodded. Alex ran towards a stretcher and dragged it towards Anna’s bed. “What are you doing?” I asked.
Eli looked at me, “Anna had doubted that our baby is half Earthly and half Eldarian so we might go for a cesarean section.”
I yelled, “Cesarean, are you out of your mind? We need a proper doctor for this! She’s already lost a lot of blood.”
Eli pointed at the stretcher. “Kai, we have been practicing cesarean section for months, and trust me, Alex and I can do it.”
I had no clue what to do or what not to do, except to agree to whatever they were saying.
Alex walked to my side and pointed at the dish full of equipment. Anna had made me memorize every single name. “Just go there and give us whatever we ask you to give us.”
Anna trusted Eli to take major steps. The baby wasn’t coming out easy and Anna's life was on the line. I rush in to help despite my inner turmoil. My focus shifted fully to Anna's survival. I lacked the strength to console Eli if something happened to Anna.
The anxiety rose as Eli and Alex successfully delivered twin babies. All the machines suddenly began to beep and Anna’s heart stopped beating. She looked dead. Eli stood still, overcome by sadness, wrath, a sense of loss, and betrayal.
Alex was holding one baby and I was holding the other one and I told him to give her CPR. Eli worked tirelessly to save Anna and then I reminded him to inject her blood. Before Anna changed herblood group was the same as her brother's; however, when Eli had marked her and she transformed into a magnificentwolf, her blood type mysteriously altered. Eli injected Anna with his blood and within a second we found Anna’s weak heartbeat.
Alex started cleaning up the babies and began hugging them. We put the babies in incubators. They would need special care as Anna had delivered before her due date. Eli was sitting next to Anna kissing her hands. Seeing Eli do things for Anna I could feel his emotions. Before meeting Valeria I never truly understood.
I told Alex. “I’ll be in the mansion. Just call me if I’m needed.”
Alex nodded, standing next to the incubators. I stormed out of the basement hoping things would be good for Anna and Eli. I rushed upstairs to the bar in the mansion and didn't bother to pour the whiskey into a glass I opened the bottle and gulped. I sat there for a while unable to think anything as anger and frustration coursed through my veins. I recalled my conversation with Valeria so I threw the bottle and it crashed to the floor. I was watching a broken bottle on the floor and then my eyes landed on Eli’s shoes.
Eli asked, “What happened?”
I refrained from answering his question. “How is Anna?”
Eli didn’t answer my question and asked, “Is it related to Valeria?”
I once again refrained from answering his question. “Is Anna awake?”
Eli sighed. “Kai, we can do this allday. It’s better if you tell me what is bothering you?”
I shook my head. “Right now Anna should be your priority not me and my problems.”
Eli responded, “She is awake, but her body is drained so she needs time to rest and to heal.”
I opened another bottle and gulped, “You should be with her.”
Eli walked over to me and snatched the bottle. “You look strange today.”
I looked at Eli. “Don’t you dare drink those babies and Anna needs you right now.”
"How on Earth are you acting so concerned about my girlfriend and babies? You are usually irritated by my closeness with her.”
I held out my hand for the bottle. “It's not like that.” Eli moved the bottle away, “Kai, you are not going to sip a drop until you tell me the truth.”
"It's Valeria, my bond with her is torturing me. I want to be with her, I want to touch her, and it’s tormenting to see her leaving me every day after work. I can't sleep for fear of what will happen to her. I cannot bear the thought of her suffering as a result of my actions. I feel helpless. I have never felt that in my thirty years on Earth."
Eli sat down next to me. “Did you tell her the truth?”
I looked away. “How could I make her believe me when I didn't believe it myself until a list of girls died on my account?”
Eli asked, “Did you even try?”
I clenched my jaw, “I was so close, but then you called me and I had to leave her in the middle of our conversation.”
Eli shot up his shoulders. “So tell her tomorrow. What is the problem here?”
“If you told Anna that you were the same as me, would you have stopped approaching her?”
Eli raised his brows. “Oh….”
I nodded. “Yeah, oh.”
Eli talked to himself while repeating what I was trying to get him to understand. So you want her to unlove you by herself.
After a while, he banged on the counter and looked at me. “Why don't you use this Earthly tradition of the shapeshifter community to reject her as your eternal soulmate? I mean fated.”
I asked, “Do you think it will work in my case?”
Eli ducked his head. “There is no harm in trying.”
I nodded, “Hmm.”
Eli punched my shoulder. “Or you don’t want to sever the bond?”
I slump my shoulders. "Elli, I'm not sure what I want. Something is burning inside me, and I think it is killing me."
Eli stood up, “Only you can decide what you want, Kai.”
I picked up a bottle and gulped. Eli continued, “Whiskey is not going to help you with any kind of decision-making.”
I flicked my hand in dismissal because now I needed some alone time to think about his suggestion. “Get the fuck outta my bar.”
Eli sensed it and smiled, “You are welcome.”
I spent the entire night pacing in my room. My decision consumed my thoughts: I was preparing to sever our bond. The thought of living without her filled me with fear and anxiety. I kept considering the repercussions of my actions. What if she decided to leave her job? For the time being, at least, seeing her every day provided some comfort in an otherwise chaotic mental terrain.
As the hours passed I was unable to shake the crushing anxiety. Every tick of the clock seemed to heighten my concerns. I'd never felt so weak or defenseless in my entire life. My usual sense of resolve and determination had all but vanished, replaced by a gnawing helplessness. The weight of my decision pushed hard on my chest making it difficult to think or even stay still.
The next morning when I entered Valeria stood up and walked by my side and told me the whole schedule which I wasn’t listening to because my mind was already wrapped up with thoughts of her. When I entered my office, I assumed she had gone toher seat, but when I turned around to check I bumped into her and was standing face to face since she was standing behind me. She lost her balance, but I held her arm to prevent her from falling.
I asked, “Are you alright?”
She didn't answer. Instead, she asked the same. “Are you alright?”
I showed her my false bravado, “Yeah. I am perfectly alright.”
She squinted. “Then why were you not listening when I was telling you the schedule for today?”
I lied, “I was listening. Why do you think I wasn’t?”
Valeria asked, “Tell me when is the meeting with Mr. Mark?”
“At 2 p.m.,” I replied instantly.
Valeria raised her brow. “Today you don’t have any meeting with Mr. Mark.”
I had nothing to defend myself so I asked her to leave. She came close to me and dug her finger into my chest. “You keep doing that but I am not going to give up this time.”
“What do you mean this time?”
Valeria looked at me for a while and then stepped back and looked the other way. “None of your business.”
She hurt my fragile ego. Anything related to her is none of my business. She reached the door and was about to turn the doorknob. I felt her pain due to our bond. I couldn’t resist I ran and grabbed her arm and turned her to face me then shoved her against the door.
Valeria looked up in my eyes. “Why are you doing this again? Who are you to me?”
My frustration, anger, and physical closeness mixed together and my mind stopped working. I groaned. I was not able to control myself as my lips crashed onto her. When she resisted and tried to push me away I held her by the neck and deepened the kiss until she stopped resisting and started kissing me back. Her hands moved under my jacket and wrapped around my torso. I parted her lips, softly, and our embrace became stronger. It developed into a powerful fusion of desire and passion that overwhelmed us both. It was an intense exchange, a thrilling moment that demanded that we both totally surrender to the dominating power of our shared emotions. She groaned as I put my tongue inside her mouth. I experienced a surge of enthusiasm as her quivering fingers traced across my chest.
I gently traced my tongue along her lower lip before breaking our kiss "You are driving me crazy, Val."
Valeria grinned mischievously. "I am not doing anything."
I picked her up, walked over to my table, and placed her on the edge. My hands were all over her, while she ran her fingers through my hair. Valeria took deep breaths, her chest rising and falling, capturing my attention with its beautiful breasts. She tipped her head to face me, giving me more access as I stroked my tongue over the curve of her neck. I firmly slipped my hand under her dress and pulled down her panties. Valeria gasped and I leaned in and whispered, “Are you afraid?"
She kissed me, “Not at all."
Valeria smirked and jumped off the table, and bent down on her knees, her hands moved to my belt and I looked at her “Not now, Val.”
“What if I want to?”
I stopped her, “Not until you scream my name.“
I placed her back on the table and parted her legs and dragged a nearby chair over to sit on and then buried my face into her pretty pink pussy. I swiped her slit with my tongue as she moaned. Then I slipped my tongue into her curls and swirled my tongue under the hood of her pussy and I heard her exclaim, “Ahh, God.”
My hand brushed her inner thighs and when her body started to clench I started sucking her clit and her moans got a bit louder than before. Her reactions made me sure that I was on the right track. I moved my hand close to her pussy and started to dig in while kissing her clit. Her pussy was so wet that my finger plunged into it in one thrust and a weak scream left her lips. I started to move my finger in and out while kissing her soft pinkness. Her body started to move against my finger another signal that she was loving it. “Kai, I… I am… so close…!” Valeria stammered her voice trembling.
I kept sucking her clit and moving my finger. Valeria kept rocking back and forth over my finger until she screamed and released her warm pent-up desire on my fingers. Valeria’s body stiffened until the rest of the tremor passed and then she collapsed on my tablebreathing heavily. I stood up and unzipped her dress and pulled it over her head. Valeria’s globes sprang out and I was actually started to drool to see such beautiful, plump, perfect breasts. I couldn’t control myself and wrapped my mouth around her breast and swiveled the other between my finger and thumb. I was circling her nipple with my tongue when Valeria moaned and she gripped the edge of my table. I kissed and sucked both breasts until she screamed my name.
I shoved down my pants along with my briefs and spread her legs until I saw her slit open and in full bloom. When the tip of my dick touched her pussy Valeria looked at me and I asked, “Are you sure, Val?”
Valeria nodded and I started slamming myself into her throbbing pussy. She was so tight I felt her pussy swallowing my dick. At first, there was a small amount of friction but due to her wetness, I reached the depth of her pussy in no time and her body relaxed. I started to move my ass against her needy core, pleasure started to emanate in my body. The sensation was so strong. I sped up my pace as a rush coursed through my body. I could feel the veins in my head tingling with each thrust, a definite sign of the tremendous thrill I was experiencing. I enjoyed a level of sexual fulfillment I hadn't had in a long time. I felt as though I had traveled to an ecstasy-filled realm.
As the peak of my pleasure hit me, I couldn't hold back an uncontrollable curse that echoed around the room. At that exact moment, all the stress that had been building up inside me finally released. It poured into her with such force that I couldn't catch my breath. At that moment, I realized what I had done as the waves of excitement faded.
I immediately withdrew myself from her pussy and slipped myself back into my clothes. I told her to stay and rushed into my bathroom and brought a warm, wet towel. I cleaned her and when I wiped her pussy she flinched. I held her after I cleaned her and then I handed her her clothes. We didn’t talk and when she had her clothes back on she looked at me. I sighed and told her what Eli suggested. Valeria was taken aback as she held the edge of my table because she couldn’t believe what I just said.
Valeria lost her patience. “What the fuck is wrong with you, Kai?”
I pretended not to be bothered by her question. “You heard me. I rejected you as my mate.”
Valeria yelled at me. “I am not going to accept this rejection. Keep that in mind.”
I opened my mouth but she raised her finger at me. “Also I am not going to leave this job. I will stay here until you embrace our bond.”
I lied, “I don’t want you as my mate why is it so difficult for you to understand?”
Valeria crossed her arms against her chest. “I am not going to give up. Why is it so difficult for you to understand?”
I clenched my jaw. “You are wasting my time.”
Valeria walked towards the door and shot back, “Time will tell who is wasting whose time.” She left my office and left me alone, restless and miserable because I could still feel her pain.