Song- All time Low by Jon Bellion.
Above, I have added a cover by AJ Mitchell on te same song and let me tell you, before hearing the original song, I heard AJ sing it, and I still satnd by the fact that AJ's cover is way better than the original. (Sorry Jon)
Check it out if you haven't already! You will thank me later! (I promise)
P.S. AJ is bae.
Chapter #10- Olivia's Mate.
OLIVIA'S POV
"Let go of me" I growl as I try to yank my hand away from Teague.
"No fucking way" he growls right back, using his brute force and pulling me into his side.
My head falls in the crook of his neck as his hands latch around me, his breathing hard and frantic.
"You are mine" He states.
"No, I am not" I lie with gritted teeth, trying to rein in Destiny and all the cells in my body that are telling me to loosen up in his hold.
He roars and it is loud, tearing through the silent night as his hands tighten around my waist to the point that I am hurting.
"YOU ARE MINE" he snaps again.
"Stop... stop saying that" I choke out as my mind keeps on wandering.
My body is humming with desire as my hands involuntarily bunch in his shirt. But my mind is a whole different story. It cannot stop thinking about all that happened ten years ago and flashes of his eyes, Steve's eyes, as his soul left his body keep on flickering in the back of my head.
It's weird and not the thing that bothers me. What bothers me is that in place if Steve's face, I picture Teague.
"Let. Go. Of. Me" I growl and summoning all the strength in me, I push him away. He barely moves.
"Mine" He hisses in my ear.
I am about to shout at the top of my lungs to catch someone's attention, when he shoves my face even further in his neck and just like that, my canines meet his flesh.
I try to pull back, (I have no idea how our mating will work. Or if I even want a Mate. Or if he wants one. Or if we are even Mates) so that no damage is done, but his hold on my head does not allow me and as the rusty taste of his blood meets my tongue, I know it is a lost cause. He moans.
His hold on me loosens ever so slightly as he throws his head back and my canines deep in further. They go all the way in and I feel like I am soaring.
Like I am suddenly flying. So so high, that I allow myself to get lost in the feeling.
For a minute.
Because when my canines retract, and common sense returns to me, I realize the weight of my actions.
Taking advantage of his momentary distraction, I push again and this time he stumbles back.
Not meeting his eyes or the mark he probably had on his neck by now, I turn and sprint add fast add my legs can take him.
Once I am a safe distance away from him I realize just how dumb I have been.
He is a Cat, so he has no idea all the changes he will fo through now....
Nor do I.
How does mating between a cat and dog even work?
Are we even Mates?
Oh my Good Lord! I am freaking out.
And he must be freaking out too...
I know I am new to this but he is even newer... like he probably doesn't know what to expect. Nich. Nada.
Oh My.
I hope he is okay...
Maybe I should go back and check on him?
My feet turn on their own, but an image of Teague's lifeless eyes flash in my mind and just like that, I stop.
I have to talk to someone about this.
'Lys?' I try Alpha Ulysses first. He is my best friend and also one of the few people who know about my past.
'Yes?' He asks back.
'Where are you?' I ask making my way to the apartment complex as I chat with him.
'Patrolling the south border' He replies.
'Huh? When did you take up night shifts?' I am confused. He takes afternoon shifts on Saturdays and Sundays.
'I am not on call... just with my Mate...' He answers and my heart swells.
I can't keep him away from Luna Delilah. So I tell him that I will drop by his place early tomorrow morning and cut the link off with him.
'Damon?' I try my cousin next.
'Olivia' He sounds do damn formal and I know that he is still pissed about me not getting along with his Mate. Before he met Tulia, the two of us were close.
'Where are you?' I ask him anyway. No matter how pissed he is, I know he has my back.
'At Abeula's' He replies and I take a deep breath in.
It's been so long since I have talked to Abeula Jane. Or even visited her.
'I'll be there in five' I say, already pushing my feet towards west, where Abeula's coven is.
Yeah, Abeula Janet, or Jane as she likes to be called is a witch. And she lives in the coven that resides on our land. She is my Mother's mother, and though she is a witch, my Mother was not. Nor is Damon's father. Nor Damon and I. She is probably the last generation of Right witches.
That is also one of the reason that she doesn't likes us much.
Once I am outside Abeula's hut, I see some of the other witches (both male and female) and wave at them. They wave back though I can see their clenched jaws clearly in the night.
They are not happy to see me, but since I am a warrior, they are willing to tolerate my presence. I smirk at the thought.
I knock twice on the wooden door, and since the door is open, I welcome myself in. No need for Damon or Abeula to come see if it is a rogue or someone.
My legs make their way up the stairs to where Abeula's room is, and I peep in to see her and Damon sitting on the couch. Having Tea.
Abeula is a witch, so naturally her aging us slower, and she looks younger than her age... in human world, she'd probably be mistaken for my dead mother.
"Hello, my beloved family" I say in a deep voice.
"Olivia" Abeula Jane looks at me from under her glasses with an assessing look. "Come join us" She huffs.
"No, 'I missed you my little girl' or 'How are you darling?'?" I tease as I take a seat beside Damon and hug him sideways.
Abeula fixes me a cup of tea.
No milk. Lots of Sugar. For little old (lactose intolerant) me.
"Thank you, Abeula" I grin at her as I pick up my cup.
She is staring at me as I take a sip, as if waiting for me to say something.
"What?" I ask putting my cup down because I can't bear the heat of her stare.
"Why did you come here?" Abeula is Mexican by birth, but her Spanish is as horrible as mine. Courtesy to living in Little West where barely anyone speaks the language.
"To meet you" I say automatically and she shakes her head.
"I am old, Olivia. Not stupid" She shakes her head and I can feel Damon's glare on my face.
"Abeula..."
"Speak Olivia. Or leave. I do not want your pity visits. My Damon is enough for me" She says in a stern voice and I gulp.
I love Abeula, I really do... but... I just hate coming to her hut. It reminds of too many things that I desperately wanna forget.
"Abeula..."
"Speak!"
"Fine!" I glare at her.
She takes a sip from her cup snootily.
"I think I have a Mate" I tell in a small voice and I can almost feel Damon's disbelief.
"What?!" This from Damon.
"Why do you think you have another Mate?" Abeula asks, setting her cup on the coffee table gingerly.
"I kissed him today and there were sparks" I grit out, my body turning warm on it's own.
"Do you think it could be because your heat is just a week away? The sparks?" Abeula prods gently and I shake my head.
"They weren't the normal sparks Abeula. Like I feel when I get intimate with someone I am attracted to... They were the kind of sparks I used to feel around Steve" Even his name on my mouth leaves an acrid tate.
"Okay... so it is a good thing right?" She is confused why I am freaking out.
"Abeula... Last time I had a Mate, I killed him..."
"Because he was a traitor" Abeula adds.
"I am worried I might end up screwing this too" I whisper and duck my head, my vision blurry.
"Olivia" Abeula calls out my namr and Damon rubs my back.
"Olivia Destiny Jones" She snaps and my head shoots up.
"Come here, girl" She motions for me to lean forward and when I do, she clasps her hands around my head and starts murmuring something in Spanish.
"Abeula what are you doing?!" I ask as I feel my mind spinning.
She doesn't answer but a panicking Damon tips me off that whatever it is she is doing will not bode well for me.
I struggle to get out of her grasp, but her hands are firm, not letting me move an inch.
(¥-¥)
"Liv" I turn around to see is Tulia, Damon's Mate.
"Hey, Tulia" I smile at her but she doesn't smile back.
"Where is Damon?" She asks and I frown. Before I could tell her I had no idea where Damon was, she grumbles, "He better not be with that old witch" I know she is referring to Abeula.
"I don't know where he is" I tell her anyway, because she is my cousin's mate.
She glares at me and says, "I am going to check with Ulysses and you go to that... hut and see if you can find him" She orders in a flippant tone and though I want to tell her that I am supposed to stay here and wait for Steve to come and take me on a date, I obey her.
She is 18 years old. An adult. To be Beta Female.
And Damon would have my back if I upset her.
So I nod, and even though my heart tells me to wait for Steve (he is an hour late already) and tell Tulia to go find Damon on her own, and start making my way to Abeula Jane's hut.
I am by the gate of the coven, the main entrance gate that to 14 year old me seems spooky with all the vines and what not hanging on it, when I see it.
Chaos.
Utter chaos.
There is blood everywhere. Each and every place. Not a sight of gravel is to be seen. All of it covered in red.
And bodies.
They are few, thankfully, but none of them are moving, lying still on the ground.
I am scared. So scared.
Are they dead?
I try to sniff the air to determine, but since I have never seen a dead body before, much less smelt it, I can't say.
Nor can Destiny.
Speaking of Destiny. She is on edge. Like really on edge. Like she is about to take over me and do something stupid on edge.
Shit! Where is Abeula Jane? Oh my Moon! Is she okay?
She has to be okay!
I don't see anyone standing, and though I am scared out of my mind, I start making my way to Abeula Jane's hut, mentally shouting at her that why did she have to live so deep inside?!
I gingerly step over the bodies in my way and am glad to see that their chests are heaving.
They are alive.
The breath that I hadn't realized that I was holding leaves me at this discovery, and I fasten my pace. Walk faster. More briskly. Towards Abeula's hut.
'Damon?' I try to contact him via the mond link. But he has me blocked.
'Hayden?' He too has his walls up.
'Rebecca?' She doesn't reply either.
'Steve?' He is as silent as ever. He never talks to me via the mind link. Even though it has been a year since we found each other. He was a part of the rogue pack that was trespassing on our land and though Alpha Ulysses killed most of them, he let Steve live. For me.
'Tulia?' I try her, and she replies a second later.
'What? Did you find Damon?' She demands.
'No' it comes out like a sob.
'Are you... are you crying?' She asks after a few seconds.
'Please come to the coven, Tulia. Please' I choke out and then add, 'And bring help'
'Liv... you are scaring me. I can't reach Damon. I can't reach Ulysses. I can't reach Hayden. I cannot reach anyone! And you are telling me to bring help?!' She is shouting at me. Anf my head is paining. And I can feel Destiny about to jump out of my skin.
I block her when I reach the wooden door of Abeula's hut. Thankfully, my legs knew they had to keep walking even when my mind was preoccupied.
The door is open, and it looks like someone had kicked it open, because it is broken, splinters coming out of the gash.
I suck a breath in. Fear taking root deep in my belly. For Abeula.
We may not be as close as Damon and she is, but she is still my Abeula.
"You are going to pay for it!" Is that Steve's voice.
I look around, trying to see where the voice cane from, and when I see no one downstairs, I realize they are up.
In Abeula's room.
Oh, please let it be Steve. Please let him save Abeula.
I try to smell him, to see if it is him, but instead only the rusty stench of blood hits my nose.
Deciding that I should stop being a coward and just go upstairs, I do just that, even though Destiny tells me otherwise.
"Let her go" The voice that spoke is one I have heard before but can't put a name to.
I start taking two steps at a time, cussing at how narrow they are and when I reach the door to Abeula's room, it feels like all the oxygen has been stolen from me.
"Steve?" My voice cracks as my vision starts getting blurry.
"Olivia!" He growls at me and adds, "come and stand behind me!"
"What are you doing to Abeula?" My voice wobbles.
"Come now, Olivia. Or I kill her" he threatens, his hold on my Abeula's neck tightening.
I let out a pained "No!" And my eyes jump to Alpha Ulysses, who was first standing upright in a fighting stance, but is now doubled over.
Steve follows my eyes and his fill with mirth.
"What- what is happening to Alpha Ulysses?" I ask and he smiles. It is a grim smile. That makes me wanna puke.
"Nothing, Mate. Just giving him a taste of his own medicine" He taunts and Alpha Ulysses growls. It is a low and dangerous growl that makes goose flesh rise on my skin.
"You bastard!" He coughs out and Steve smiles. I notice his hold on Abeula loosen and I take a discreet step further.
"Aw, poor Alpha" he cocks his head to the side and pouts, throwing Abeula away as if she is an old newspaper. Abeula's limp body hits the wall.
"Or should I say poor Alpha's Mate?" He asks with a laugh. It is so evil, so cruel, that I cannot recognize the man in front of me.
Is he really my Steve? The man I fell in love with? My gift from the Moon? My Mate?
"What are you doing to her?" Alpha Ulysses growls out but I can see his eyes are glassy. As if he is in some sort of haze.
I can't understand what is happening to him.
"Not me, Alpha" Steve smiles. "My pack" he adds and I want to tell him that this is his pack. We are his pack.
"You killed our leader, Alpha" He spits the word Alpha out. "So I took over my pack. We are just taking revenge, Alpha"
I cannot believe what I am hearing.
Did he forget that his leader had killed hundreds of men, both supes and humans? That his leader was a scum who had fun seeing other people suffer? A sadist?
"Leave my Mate out of this" even in pain Alpha Ulysses sounds threatening.
"Where will be the fun in that?" Steve teases seemingly forgetting I am still in the room as he gets in Alpha Ulysses' face.
Making my decision and steeling my heart, I look around in the room for something. Anything. And that's when I see the knife.
I pick up a discarded knife from the floor and walk towards him.
Destiny is telling me not to do it. To just turn around and forgive him. To forget all of this and start a fresh.
I ignore her.
I don't want a sadist for a mate. I'd rather be mateless than be with a monster who threatens my pack. My Alpha. My Luna.
"We knew we could not touch you, so we went for your Achilles heel, Alpha" Steve boasts.
"And would you look at the date? 5th of November. Your Mate must be in her first heat right now... shouldn't you thank me for putting her out of her misery?" Those final words of his seal the deal.
I tap him on the shoulder and as soon as he turns, I shove the knife in his jugular with everything in me.
His eyes are wide. His lips open. As if he wants to say something. But now word leaves him mouth. Only blood.
I shove the knife even further as my eyes glue on his.
Seeing them turn hazy. And then stony.
The life leaves him.
I fall to the ground, Alpha Ulysses besides me. He is having heavily and though I want to check on him, I can't get myself to move.
I cannot shift my eyes away from the dead male. My mate.
I killed him.
Destiny is howling in my head, weeping. Grieving. Blaming me for it.
And she is right.
Because I killed my Mate.
(₩-₩)
I gasp and wipe hastily at the tears that have left my eyes and scoot away from Abeula Jane.
"Why-y?" I can't help but feel betrayed by Abeula. How could she make me relive that memory? I had worked si hard to bury it in the depths of my mind.
"To remind you just why you did what you did" she stares at me with pitiful eyes.
"You didn't do anything wrong, Olivia" Abeula says softly.
"I-I killed him" I sob.
"Olivia" Damon clasps my shoulders and makes me face him.
"Listen to me" He cups my face.
"Steve would have been killed anyway. If not by you, then by Ulysses or Hayden or me or anyone else from the pack who knew what he did" His words are true, but they don't make me feel any less guilty.
"Why do you think you were here at that time?" Damon asks and I look at him. He knows his Mate sent me here to check on him.
"Because Tulia-"
"No, Liv. You were here because the Moon wanted you to be here" he speaks slowly.
"The Moon wanted you to see your Mate for what he truly was" He gives me a sad smile.
"And this new guy? Who you think is your Mate?" Damon is now smiling, "He is your reward from the Moon. For being loyal to your pack. And brave" he whispers and leans in to peck my forehead.
And in that moment, I realize that no matter how far apart Damon and I are from each other, he is still my brother.
Who cares about me like no one else can.
I hug him.
(+_+)
Hello Everyone!
So... when Liv was 14, Del was 13... and now we know who those guys were who were trying to hurt Del. And why they were doing it... (luckily, Teague had saved her...)
Did anyone see this coming? Be honest!
Also, Answer to the previous chapter's question- My favorite soap(s) is (are) The Vampire Diaries and The Originals
I totally have dibs on Klaus.
Today's question.
Q. If you could choose between flying or being invisible, which super power would you choose?
That's it.
I am logging off.
Adios.
#Peace
-N.