CHARLOTTE
He was mad. I mean he really was mad. I was never going to let him keep either of the boys and I knew Jonah wouldn't allow that to happen either.
Jonah was their father and I was their mother. Luca had no right to tell me what was going to happen with them and he certainly had no right to tell me that Jonah was nothing more than a sperm donor - we were going to be a proper family at the end of all this and there was nothing he could do to change that.
"It's almost sweet how much you care for my sister. I would be jealous if I loved you," I said. I knew that was a low blow but I didn't really have anything left to lose now. All my cards were on the table and there wasn't anything else for me to hide other than what my plans for Ellie were.
"I understand now why you were left behind. I wouldn't want to save you either," Luca sneered. And that comment actu
LUCA I didn't understand what was going through Charlotte's mind. I really didn't. She was left to die and she was forgotten about. I get that and I understand she is going to be pissed. But Ellie was a child herself and she didn't ask for any of this just like Charlotte didn't ask for any of it - if Charlotte wanted to blame anyone she should have been looking to Nicole and taking her anger out on her. Not on her sister. Not on the girl who was just as young and defenceless as she was at the time. But all I could see when I looked at Charlotte was hatred, there was no other emotion on show, just plain old hatred and that hate was consuming her; it was turning her into someone she never wanted to become. I wanted to know what the hell she was planning. It was the only way I could save her before it was too late. But she wasn't seeing that.
JONAH "Just you and me now my friend. Are you ready to talk?" the pup smirked and the look sent chills down my spine. He grabbed the chair from the middle of the room and sat directly in front of me. I knew I was in the shit before he even said anything else to me. I knew I could manipulate Ellie and I could break her down. I had the power to break her down and there was nothing she could do about it because she was powerless to prevent the plan we had in motion. I had nothing on this kid. He may have been Charlotte's mate but he didn't seem to be bothered by the fact he was in the same room as I was. I couldn't threaten him or even tell him I had something which was going to break him because it was all a lie. I was, for the first time since Charl came up with this plan, totally defenceless and I didn't know what the hell I was going to do. There wasn't a chance
LUCA "I'm so-orry," Jonah choked out the words. The poor guy had obviously never said those words before in his life but I didn't give a fuck. Stabbing him with silver did nothing to relieve the anger and tension in my body. It didn't make me feel in the slightest bit better about anything which had happened. And it didn't make me hate him any less than I already did. The guy had single handedly ruined my life and didn't even bother to stop. All he needed to do was stop and think, he would have been able to see that Charlotte was totally fucking mental and it was a terrible idea to follow through with any of her ideas. He should have known this is where it was always going to end. He is the reason I feel so god damn empty. He is the reason my wolf is both mourning and pissed. He is the reason my heart has shattered into a million different pieces and I don't know
BLAKE When I walked out of that cell I wanted nothing more than to go back and rip that bitch's throat out but I knew that wouldn't achieve anything. If anything, it would make Ellie hate me and I'm already not in her good books, she blames me for what happened to the twins. She shouted at me and told me that I shouldn't have offered to go to the cells with her and I should have gone back to the twins when I left the hospital and then they would still be with us now. I knew she didn't really blame me and she was only saying what she was because she was hurting. She was their mother and it was her job to keep them safe but she couldn't do that and, just as she blames me for not being there, she also blames herself for not being able to be there to protect them. It hurts knowing how much she hates herself and knowing there is nothing which can be done to help her. I am her mate and I am at a total loss as to
ELLIE The moment I heard their cries, I ran out of the house and was greeted with Jayson and Luca holding one twin each, I didn't stop running until I reached the both of them. Luca handed me Maxwell. I checked him over to make sure that sick bastard hadn't touched my son and, upon finding nothing, I held him close and cried a little as he gurgled and giggled happily in my ear. "I am never letting you out of my sight again," I whispered to my son and kissed him on the side of his head before handing him back to Luca so that I could check Nicole. She was crying in Jayson's arm and she continued to cry as I took her from him - she should have realised that I was her mother and that I wasn't going to hurt her but she was fighting against being in my arms. I noticed the scratch on her cheek and the other one which covered her arm. There was a mark where a needle had
ELLIE I don't know how long I had been here for now. Time seemed infinite when there were no windows to know whether it was day or night and there was no clock for you to be able to tell what the time was. All I could do was embrace the silence and allow my thoughts to consume me. I wondered what Blake what be doing now. I wondered whether he would be looking after the twins or whether he would be pulling his hair out frantically trying to work out where Bradley had taken me or whether he had turned into a recluse who didn't wish to speak to or see anyone. I had heard stories of what happens when you lose your mate. You lose your other half and it feels like your heart has been torn out of your chest. You don't see the point in living because there is nothing for you to live for. To put it simply, when you lose your mate, you want to die and you will do anything to get that wish.
JAYSON "Blake. The twins need you," I sighed for the thousandth time. Ellie had been gone for nine days now and Blake had done nothing besides look hopelessly out of the window. Luca was in charge of the pack running and, being honest, he was doing a damn good job given that he doesn't have any Alpha blood in his system. Jackson had been discharged from the hospital four days ago and was milling about the house as he tried to think of ways to get Ellie back from wherever the hell it was she had been taken to. And I was on babysitting duty since Luca was busy with the pack and Blake was falling apart without his mate for support. I didn't really mind spending time with the kids. I was quickly falling in love with all four of them and I loved spending time with them. Especially Luca's boys - Daniel always wanted to do something new each time he saw me and Michael had stopped hiding behind his book when he was around me and had actu
"Why are you doing this?" I turned my attention back to my mother and growled at her. "Why? Oh son you truly are naïve," my mother rolled her head back in laughter and I was about to answer when I felt Blake's teeth sink into my other shoulder. I could feel the blood rolling down my back and I am almost certain that I heard the sound of my shoulder cracking as he pulled me backwards. His arm was across my throat and my back was against the wall before I could really register what was happening. Mixed with the amount of blood I was losing from both my shoulders and the fact Blake was cutting of the air supply to my body, I could feel that I was close to passing out and then I didn't know what he was going to do to my mother. "Are you a part of this? Is this the reason you came back?" Blake growled. When I refused to give him an answer he applied more pressure to my neck and I could feel my life slowly slipping away as I fought to stay away. "Fucking answer me.