Scarlett
When I came to the Black Moonstone pack, I was emotionally broken and a lonely girl who was trying to overcome the pain of losing her sister and the hate of her family. Within a month, I didn’t even realize when I started healing from the death of Rhea but now, when I was sitting beside my mate, I felt deja vu.
The memories of Rhea's limbs covered in blood rushed into my mind and I couldn't breathe. Why did the Moon Goddess give me more pain? Losing my sister was painful enough for me to overcome, I won't be able to lose one more special person in my life.
Klaus was the only person who had me occupied with his tactics and stupid actions that I was healing from the pain of losing Rhea. I wanted to believe his promises and fight beside him for us.
I touched my mark on his neck which made me feel the same sparks and a twang spread in my body as our marks glimmered with a golden hue. My lips pulled into a smile and my eyes shedded the worried liquid.
“What does this mean?” I asked Layla and Asher as they were doing some experiments on his blood to opt for the herb that would mix with his blood and bring all the silver out from his body.
Their eyes widened in awe as they noticed the golden light shimmering through our marks.
“You guys have some history together, it’s the reincarnation of both of you,” Asher said with perplexed expressions on his face while Layla pretended as if she didn’t see anything.
Reincarnation?
We had heard the stories of the rebirth of Selene and Kai, their story was heart-touching and my favorite bedtime story. Rhea used to tell me the stories of how Selene and Kai were the first mates and werewolves and how many obstacles they went through to be with each other.
Selene was the daughter of the Moon Goddess, the first werewolf who was mated to Kai, the first male werewolf. They found their happily ever after in their second birth but they loved each other truly.
“You have to come back to me, my mate. You have to wake up for me,” I asserted firmly, wiping my tears off and pecking a kiss on his forehead.
Placing my finger on my mark on his body, I tried to get access to his brain without his consent. The voice in my head wanted to know everything that happened before he took that crucial step, I wanted to know the reason behind his suicidal attempts.
As I closed my eyes and focused on his memories, the conversation between his mother and him played in my mind. Jerking my hand off, I opened my eyes and took a deep breath. I was feeling suffocated with all the pain that he went through.
My mouth went dry and my already aching heart dropped its beating speed causing me to pant. I felt my head spinning and my body leaning to his as the gravity drew me to lower my head.
His cinnamon and pine scent calmed me and I leaned to his neck to inhale his scent for a little longer. I felt his pain and I would be lying if I said that it was his fault. I could see his memories and everything was crystal clear that he didn’t want to marry Amber.
My mate wanted me.
He needed me.
Klaus loved me.
And this thought made me feel thousands of sensations without his touch or kiss. Being wanted, needed, and loved by your mate who was ready to die for you was the best feeling I had felt in my entire life.
Any Alpha in his place would have liked to marry the daughter of Alpha King. Marriage with her would bring fortune to any pack whilst the Black Moonstone needed this favor the most as they were financially broke and the pack of rogues whom other packs had abandoned.
Nevertheless, Klaus prioritized me, not the powers. He could simply reject me and I might have gotten rid of this miserable life thus he could live happily with Amber and his pack would have been an alliance with the Dark Moon pack.
“I’m sorry for all the things that you went through alone. I shouldn’t have doubted you, I’m sorry,” I mumbled with muffled sobs.
“Calm down, Letty,” Layla patted my shoulders and that’s when I realized that I had said it out aloud instead through mind-link.
Asher came along with a syringe in his hand. He also sympathized with me, he motioned with his hand to give him space so he could give that syringe to Klaus. Standing up from his bedside, I sat on the chair closer to him and held his hand again.
Seeing my handsome hunk lying on the stretcher lifelessly and his muscular chest wounded badly whilst his skin burnt due to the silver, I was feeling intense pain in my heart that could take my life away from me and I wouldn’t even regret losing my life because a life without my mate would be futile. He was being manipulated, hurt, and wounded by his own family members. The last thing I should have done was to doubt him. Perhaps if I wouldn’t have doubted him, he wouldn't have tried to kill himself and would have married Amber.
It would have broken my heart into a million pieces, would have hurt me beyond cure but at least he would have been alive. The more I thought about it, the more regret I felt and the burden on my chest increased.
If his mother wouldn’t have manipulated him, he would have died while fighting for me in an Alpha duel though he wasn’t an Alpha yet and he couldn’t challenge an Alpha for a duel until he became an Alpha but I knew that he would have done anything possible to be with me.
Could someone love me the way my mate loved me? No.
Could someone fight for me risking his life? No.
And I still doubted his intention which was making me hate myself. How kind of mate I was? I kept calling him a jerk but all he was trying to do was save me from feeling heartbroken when he would get married to someone else. Still, I kept hurting both of us with my immature actions and filthy words.
This was it. The love mate had for each other, the love only true mates could make each other feel, the soulmates who shared each other’s pain.
I was fortunate enough to have a true mate, not everyone had that kind of mate. Although I was unfortunate enough having to see my mate fighting for his life in front of my eyes.
“His wolf isn’t responding to the treatments,” Asher muttered, removing his gloves.
“If his wolf won’t respond, he won’t heal soon and it might take his life,” Layla spoke in a panicked voice, forgetting that I was still in the room and as soon as my blurry eyes met hers, she regretted it.
“His heart’s beating has dropped to the lowest and his body is getting cold,” Asher informed when the machine behind the stretcher started beeping loudly.
I rose to my feet and walked to Asher. “Please, save Klaus anyhow. I’m ready to do anything, just save my mate,” I begged him, my voice cracked as I pleaded.
“I also want to save him as much as you do, he has grown up in front of me. I have seen him feeling sad whenever he saw Kia and me together. He always called us the perfect mates and wanted to have the same bonding with his mate like us,” Asher muttered in a muffled voice, the tears glistening in his eyes.
“I’m sorry, it’s all because of me. He tried to end his life because of me,” I whined and my knees met the floor as I became hopeless.
“No, dear. It’s not your mistake. In fact, we saw him smiling when he was around you. You’re the sunshine of his life. You have to be strong,” Asher crouched to my level, patting my shoulder.
“He is coughing blood,” Layla’s panicked voice made us quickly stand up and we scooted toward him.
Klaus’s mouth was covered in blood followed by his neck and chest. My hands reached to my mouth to stop myself from screaming. The sight of him covered in blood was so terrifying that I couldn’t bear the pain anymore.
“It’s the effect of the herbs I gave to him. He is vomiting the blood mixed with silver which is a good sign but his wolf’s unavailability and loss of the blood are the issues that aren’t letting him be out of the danger,” Doctor Asher explained everything.
Layla rushed to me and grabbed my hands. “Letty, you’re the only one who can save him now.”
I nodded my head in approval. I would do anything to save him.
Anything.
She extended her hand to lend me a knife. “Slash your wrist and let your blood fall on his heart till we can see his wolf responding and his wolf’s fur on his skin.”
“It’s dangerous, Layla. Scarlett might lose all her blood and Todd might never be awake,” Asher seethed, clicking his teeth together.
Yanking the knife from Layla’s hand, I ambled to Klaus and did as she said, ignoring doctor Asher’s advice.
“It’s a suicide,” he complained, shaking his head in disapproval.
“I don’t want to live a life without him. If my blood can awaken his wolf and it can heal Klaus, I’m ready to let the last drop of the blood in my body help him,” my voice cracked as I spoke. The blood gushed out of my vein and I could feel my body weakening.
“Scarlett,” Layla and Asher both shouted in unison as I was about to pass out. That was the only thing I heard before I passed out.