"I'M PREGNANT!" I scream loudly
I wait to feel the sting of the knife on my body but I never get to feel it. I open my eyes, I had shut them down in instinct but now I opened them to see a conflicted Lyanna looking down at me, the knife just inches away from my heart.
I'm not ashamed to confess I was sobbing a little bit. This is my children's lives we are talking about and mine after all.
"Please..." I continue. Right now I'll say anything to keep her from harming my babies. "You had a daughter once and a mate, I have those too. A mate who must be going crazy looking for me and two unborn children in my womb who I wish to hold in my arms more than anything...Are you really so cruel as to do the same to me what was done to you?"
"No... Shut up!" she yells at me looking conflicted. She was hesitant now, I just had to convince her that she didn't have to do this.
"Please...think of Alyna and Henrik, they wouldn't have want for you to do this"
"Don't you dare talk about them!" she yells at me "Don't you understand? I am nothing without them! Just an empty shell of what I used to be..."
"No..." I refuse to believe that, tears were still falling down my face "I refuse to believe that"
"Then you're a fool." she tells me "You have no idea what it feels like to lose them. When they died I begged and begged to be killed too but my punishment was worse, and now...I can't even remember the face of my own daughter...I try and try but I can't...and that breaks my heart. Why can I not remember the face of my own daughter?"
She sounded like a broken woman. Which I guess she was.
"You'll see them again" I say "In the afterlife you will be reunited with your loved ones."
"That's an old fairy tale story Freya" she says "There is no afterlife, once I die, I'll be a pile of bones on the ground and be forgotten."
"You're wrong" Now that I think about it, whoever heard this conversation would think that I am trying to convince her to take her own life, but I was trying to do the exact opposite, I wanted her to have hope that they would see each other again and live the rest of her life in peace of that knowledge.
Suddenly we hear shouts and roars from upstairs. Even though my link with Mason was still numb, I could tell he was upstairs. I look at Lyanna in desperation.
"If you let me go, I won't let no harm be done to you." I try to convince her for both our sakes.
She just smiles at me.
"There is nothing left for me in this world child. It is time for me to face my future, let us just hope you are right" she says but I'm confused with her words. Right? Right about what? I soon got my answer when she slits her throat right in front of me.
"NO!" I yell than the door is thrown open with a loud bang and a large brown wolf, I immediately recognise, advances trough me.
"Mason?" I call him
He transforms and a few seconds later I have him fully human right in front of me. He looks relieved to see me alive and he rushes to unleash the ropes tying me down.
"Careful! They've been bathed in wolf bane" I warn him
He flinches as he touches them. He looks around and finds the knife Lyanna used to slit her own throat. I could see her still breathing, barely, she hadn't cut that deeply but the blood loss was evident and it could kill her if not stopped right away.
"Hurry" I tell him and he does a quick work in removing all the rope tying me down. I hug him tight feeling the need to have him by my side more than ever, especially after Lyanna told me her story.
"I'll so glad your ok love" Mason says holding me tight. I give him a quick kiss reassuring him I was there and I was okay.
"Hen..rik..." I hear Lyanna murmur quietly.
I remove myself from Mason's hold and crunch down next to Lyanna. I hold her head in my lap, tears falling down freely.
"Do you see him?" I ask her
She gave me a small smile "Y..yes...and Al..y...na..." I caught a tear that had fell down her eye "So beau...ti..ful.." and those where her last words.
With a last intake of breath, her heart stopped beating and her eyes fell shut. The only thing that remained was the smile on her face. And I knew that she was with them again, with her mate Henrik and their daughter Alyna.
I drop her head in the ground, tears still falling, this time I couldn't even stop them if I wanted to. After everything that happened it was like I just lost control of my body. I cried until I ran out of tears and Mason held me the entire time, whispering comforting things in my ear. I was crying from the kidnapping, the fact that I almost lost my babies...I was crying for Lyanna, who had been a victim more than anything.
"I was so afraid Mason" I tell him in the car while somebody was driving us back to the pack. I was in the backseat, in Mason's lap. I don't think I'm going to leave this position for a long time.
"I know love, but you're safe now." Mason assures me "You and the pups will be alright" he lays his hand on my stomach, massaging it.
"I'll need to talk with my mom" I had just told him everything Lyanna had told me and he agreed on my request without hesitation.
"But only after you see the Dr. Meghan." he informs me and I accept. I knew he was still on edge with everything that had happened and he wanted to make sure the babies weren't arm in any way. Especially since I have no idea what I was injected with.
"Everything will be okay baby" this time it was my turn to comfort him. And he accepts my comfort gladly.
I still didn't know the state of our pack after the battle with the rogues so I was shocked when we entered the pack territory I saw a couple of our pack's members transporting bodies of fellow pack mates and laying them down on a designated area near the pack house.
"Dear Goodness..." I murmur. I had a hand on my mouth trying to contain myself from sobbing. "How...How many?" I ask, this was all my fault. All this death...
"So far we counted 9" Mason told me with anguish. This was our pack, it was our job to protect them, keep them safe, and now 9 of our own had died.
"9..." It pains my heart. 9 wolves had lost their lives today, they were all somebody's sons and daughters, some were parents, brothers, friends...
The pack would mourn their death, and honour their sacrifice. They died protecting their pack, and their sacrifice will be remembered for as long as we both shall live.
Dr. Meghan reassures us that the babies hadn't been harm in any way, as for me, apparently I had been injected with diluted wolf bane. Not deadly like when it's in his original form, this dose was particularly diluted to the point where it would weaken me and block any attempts of communicating with the pack. Dr. Martin had call it a work of a genius and he ask permission to start experimenting on the subject and see if he could replicate the result.
This could be of used for our advantage in the future against future enemies. I wasn't very keen on using it but I understood why it was important. So I told Mason to go forward with it. My parents could only come in the morning so I told Mason I wanted to rest, Dr. Meghan herself told me not to push myself for the next 48 hours and I plan on following her orders without any complain. I feel as if once I fall in bed I won't be getting up until the next year.
Mason took me too the pack house and I could see pack mates crying over the dead bodies of their pack mates. I wanted to stay and cry with them but Mason wouldn't have any of that and he took me to my room so I could rest in bed.
"Mason?" I call him while he was tucking me under the sheets
"Yes love? Do you need anything?" he asks concern
"Is Maria okay?" I ask him only remembering the little girl now. I'm a terrible friend to Jade, she must be so mad at me for leaving her two years old daughter alone, in a room, in the middle of a rogue invasion.
"She's fine honey. Jade took her to her house, away from..." he didn't finish his sentence but I knew what he was going to say. No child should have to see that.
"Will you stay with me? Until I fall asleep?" I ask him knowing he had to go take care of the pack, but wanting him just for a little while longer next to me.
"Of course love" he says. He removes his shoes and he jumps on the bed next to me. I'm under the sheets while he's on top of them but that doesn't stop me from snuggling into him.
"I love you" I tell him as I start to succumb to sleep
"I love you too" I hear him say then I feel the touch of his lips on my forehead, after that I don't remember anything else. I must have fallen asleep.
Poor Lyanna, the pain in her heart was so big she took her own life, just in the hopes that Freya was right and that she would see Henrik and Alyna in the afterlife.
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