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“Kat?”
“Inside” I tell him.
“Derrick?”
“Taking Shirley to the morgue until we deal with funeral arrangements”
“Okay, I already spoke to Mathias to tell the family of our men that died”
“Mated?” I ask him and he shakes his head.
“No, but they were brothers” Mateo says and I sigh. One thing losing one kid but two, Sh*t I would have to go see their parents, it would be disrespectful not to.
“You should go inside, let me handle this. Go be with Kat” Mateo says.
“Yeah she isn’t going to like me very much” I tell him, running a hand through my hair before flicking off some blood, yuck.
“Yeah pretty sure she will hate all of us, we all stood there and watched, don’t think it was just you, if looks could kill Jasmine and I would be dead to with the way she stared at us for not helping her” He says as he grabs the man’s foot and starts dragging him over to the pile of bodies.
“Hey, you coming in after?” I ask him.
“Yes, if you want me to” Mateo says, stopping and I nod to him.
‘Kat is all yours when she wakes up, Kora called me some pretty horrid things and I am not dealing with her crazy ass, she has a huge vocabulary of curse words’ Maddox growls.
‘Great, you are ditching me too’ I tell him.
‘No, I just don’t want to blow up near her, she doesn’t understand, she thinks we did it because we hate her mother and I am to riled up to be near her’
‘I don’t hate her mother’ I tell him.
‘No, but I do, love that she saved Kat, but that doesn’t change what she did, Karma can be a real b*tch’ Maddox says. Yeah probably best he steers clear, Kat won’t appreciate him saying that. Walking inside, I head for the bedroom hoping she wakes up and sees reason, we couldn’t let her die for the sake of her mother, we can heal injuries but not a silver bullet in the heart.
Walking into the room, she was still out cold. I never thought I would have to knock her out like that, marking someone tends to be erotic to the person your marking but can also be used to ascertain dominance over your mate forcing them to submit, I hated that Maddox did it but we had no other choice. It did make me wonder how long she would be out though, having never done it before.
Her body was limp, completely limp as I pulled her over to me, the mate bond still affecting her even in her comatose state. She presses her face into my neck inhaling my scent, her scent always calming me mint and eucalyptus but sweeter, almost fruity such a weird combination but oddly right. I try to get comfortable sitting back on the headboard, her arms falling down my sides limply. Resting my eyes, I must have dozed off because a while later Mateo scent hit my nose waking me. Looking up, he was standing next to the door looking at me.
“She is still asleep” He states and I look down at her before nodding and resting my head back on the headboard.
He walks over sitting on the bed next to me before brushing her hair from her face. Her face moving slightly under his touch as she sniffed his wrist and I could feel Kora stirring within her yet unable to rouse themselves awake completely.
“Derrick asked if he could stay the night, I put him in one of the guest rooms. I think he just wants to be near Kat”
Mateo says and I nod.
“Yeah, I couldn’t imagine how weird it would be going home to an empty house” I tell him and he nods.
“When was the last time you ate, want me to get dinner for everyone?” Mateo asks.
“This morning, and it’s up to you” I tell him and he leans down kissing her head, Maddox watching him but says nothing just makes me sniff him for some reason. When I noticed his scent was changing slightly, yet I couldn’t wrap my mind around why I thought that.
“Can I ask you something?” I ask him and he looks at me.
“What does she smell like to you?” He shrugs, “similar to you, probably because she has your mark or maybe the other way around and you smell like her, but mint, and” He seems to think like he was searching for the word.
“Eucalyptus?” I ask him.
“Yeah, that’s it but sweeter like strawberry essence thrown in there, strange combination why?”
“That’s what she smells like to me too” I tell him and he seems to think for a second before he sniffs me.
“Your scent is stronger than hers though, more masculine while hers is sweet,” he says before realising he just sniffed me.
“Sorry, that was probably weird of me to do” He chuckles looking away.
“Well you have always been weird” I tell him not willing to admit I sniffed him as well.
“The good kind of weird though” he says making my lips tug up slightly, yes a good sort of weird, I think to myself.
“I will go get dinner and see what Derrick wants to eat” He says hopping up and walking out. I watch him leave. I could hear Derrick in one of the guest rooms, but figured I would Mateo check on him and I didn’t want to go anywhere in case she woke up, which wasn’t long after Mateo left. She shifted slightly, her hands pushing up on my chest before she turned her head to the side and I looked down watching her eyes flutter open before she sits up suddenly, looking around. I could feel her confusion, like she wasn’t sure if it was a dream or not.
“My mum?” She asks and I just stare back at her before realisation hits her and I could see Kora was talking to her by how bright her eyes glow before they suddenly dim and she is back looking at me, focused on me yet the way she looked at me was hollow and empty before I felt nothing through the bond like she suddenly just switched off, by the look on her face she did exactly that, she was completely devoid of emotion.
Katya POV
Waking, I sit up to see Ezra, and our room making me wonder if it was all some sick dream my mind conjured up to torture me with, another vision of a time to come.
“My mum?” I ask him, praying he would be confused and not know what I am talking about, that it was in fact just a dream, yet he just stares, his eyes softening like he didn’t know what to say.
‘She is gone Kat, it wasn’t a dream, I wish it was’ Kora wails in my head, her soul crushing pain, making me feel it in every fibre of my being, she was dead.
I never pictured my life without my mother in it, who does. You don’t think of someone who raised you, who was the strongest figure in your life, the one that holds the most influence in who you become as gone. My mother was my biggest supporter, my biggest critic but she was mine. Nothing measures up to the pain that comes with losing a mother especially when she gave her life for yours. Inconsolable pain, soul shattering, destroying pain is what it feels like when you realise the woman that was always there would no longer be.
Then there was my father, if I felt like this I would hate to know what it feels like to him, to lose a mate. Your other half, a piece of yourself, yet he lost it twice and all because he loved me. I am my father’s destruction, that I know will always be mine to bear, my life not only once took everything from him, first my real mother, then the woman who raised me. My life seems to cost everyone theirs all for some curse bestowed by a Moon Goddess who was supposed to love us, though she condemned me to a life of misery and watching those i love die around me. Anger was not a strong enough word for how much I hated my existence because without it she would still be here.
“Your father is staying in one of the guest rooms” Ezra says, making me focus back on him. I nod climbing off him, exactly how does someone tell their own father I’m sorry for being the reason your soulmate is dead. I couldn’t face him not now.
“Kat?” Ezra says as I sit on the end of the bed, this could have been avoided if they let me heal her, they all stood and watched, watched her turn grey, watched her die for me and not one of them let me help her when they knew I could.
‘We can’t save everyone Kat, not without suffering the consequences, the consequences for her life would have been ours’ Kora says.
‘We don’t know that and now we will never know,” I told her.
‘I know it wasn’t a risk they were willing to take Kat, not even your father was willing to trade her life for yours, mum wouldn’t, she would hate us if we tried and died for her. I see that now, you just need to too’ Kora says.
Now what, what happens now we just move on like she never existed, I couldn’t fathom going on without her, not without hearing her voice, feel the softness of her hands and the warmth of her hugs. How does one survive without that?
‘We have them, we have dad that’s how’ Kora says yet her words don’t make me feel any better.
‘Stay out of my head Kora’
‘Bit hard when I live in it’ She retorts becoming annoyed with me, I was annoyed at her too.
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