Filed To Story: Their Bullied and Broken Mate by Teri Petry
I felt Alette’s arms wrap under mine and she did her best to drag me back into the car. It took all the strength I could muster to help her, but somehow I was able to get into the back seat with Willow.
“Stay with me, my love,” I heard her cry. She peeled out the tires onto the road and flew towards Blood Moon. Through her sobs she plead to the moon goddess to keep me alive. Willow was still crying as I placed my hand on her little leg, and hoped it would calm her. I wasn’t sure how with my own emotions all over the place, but I tried.
It was after that point that everything became hazy and even more chaotic. The burning in my veins combined with the ringing in my ears became overwhelming. I eventually passed out, and briefly opened my eyes to see Phoenix and Maddix’s faces. They were moving me from the car to what I think was a gurney.
I heard Phoenix’s voice telling me that I was going to be alright, to stay awake. I just couldn’t keep my eyes open very long to do as he asked. Zion was still fighting whatever it was that was going on with us, and It caused me to be overly weak. I felt like I was going to vomit, so I turned my head and tried to lift myself up.
I didn’t have the strength and released my stomach onto the small gurney and on myself. I heard Zion tell me to keep vomiting, but my stomach was empty. Whatever it was that was causing this, was taking it’s toll on me.
Phoenix pushed me into a room, and the ER doc was right in behind him. They drew blood, and I heard the doctor ask if I had a history of any illness. Phoenix said he wasn’t sure, and he sent aunt Roxy out to talk to Mel.
Even though I was in the room, and I was the one being worked on, it felt like I was floating above everyone and everything. Watching what was going on from above them, but I couldn’t see and only hear what was going on. There would be random times I would be able to lift my eyes, and they would try to talk to me, but words barely came out.
A nurse had rushed in with test results, and I heard my brother-in-law groan. “Damn it! It’s silver poisoning!” he exclaimed.
“Doc, traces are minimal, so I am assuming that someone has been poisoning his food or drink,” Phoenix continued. Poisoned? Who the hell in my pack would want me dead? I didn’t understand. We had exiled anyone who still had allegiance to my dad, or so we thought.
I passed back out and fell into a deep darkness. I was so unsure of everything anymore, my world was spiraling out of control.
I felt myself being pulled back by the sweet voice of my mate. She was praying to the goddess to bring me back. I could feel the warmth of someone trying to heal me, but it wasn’t her. She prayed for whoeever was healing me to have help from Selene herself.
“Moon Goddess, I pray for your help. Help my mother heal my mate. He has to come back to us, me and our pup need him. Please don’t take him or Zion when our lives are just beginning together. Goddess, I beg you, please let him come back to us,” she cried. She found out she was pregnant, but she only said pup. There is definitely more than one.
I tried to open my eyes, but the bright lights were blinding. “Alette, baby?” I whispered. I heard her strangled breath gasp, and she brought her face to mine. “My love, I’m here. We are here. You’re going to be a daddy. You have to fight and wake up completely, my love. Please, fight for us,” she sobbed.
I opened my eyes and there before me were the most beautiful amber orbs with tiny green flecks in them. “I’m not going anywhere where you are not, baby. You are stuck with me until the day we both die together old and grey,” I told her while trying to smile.
She climbed up into the bed with me, not caring about the wires I was hooked up to, and held me as close as she could. She accidentally set off one of my alarms, and her brothers and the doctor came flying in to check on me. What they saw was definitely not what they were expecting.
The doctor fixed the alarm and asked my mate if she could allow him to exam me. She nodded her head and blushed as she crawled off of the bed. The doctor withdrew more blood to check to see if I still had traces of the silver in my blood. He explained that there wasn’t much to begin with, but enough to poison Zion sending him into a frenzy.
He did his examination, and as soon as he stepped away, Alette was right back next to me. Zion had calmed down, and was resting, so I took the time to relax to regroup my strength. “Did you hear me say you were going to be a daddy?” she asked. I nodded my head, and whispered, “There isn’t just one, baby. I can smell more than one, but not sure how many more.”
She looked up at me and her mouth fell open. “You’re sure?” she asked. I nodded my head and she laid her head back on my chest. We laid in silence for a while and eventually I heard her say something. “Alaska says there are 2. We are having twins, babe. Twins.”
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