Chapter Eleven

Aria's POV 

I feel like I am teleporting to somewhere unfamiliar. The forest looks lush with a huge grassland and trees in sight.

An extremely beautiful blonde woman with white eyes, comes to view. She has a wooden staff in hand, the tip placed upon the head of a little girl. She begins to chant in an unfamiliar tongue.

“La thorno mobuele tinos vierde demunno lonas, pylas curo mantinis frielde kinku mun. Lonas kunfre mundi julnis modas.”

A bluish glow surrounds the beautiful woman then swiftly slides into the wooden staff. The staff then explodes and the same bluish light envelopes the little girl. She rises above the ground for a short while and everything goes back to normal like it all didn't happen. 

The woman of mystery picks the little disoriented girl off the ground and turns behind her. I finally noticed a short unclear figure behind her, I hadn't seen it earlier. It seems to be a male probably early teens.

“Please, take her. I can't keep her safe any longer, he'll be here soon.” She pushes the little girl into the hands of the figure.

He hesitates for a moment, then takes up the little girl and flees towards the opposite direction.

She follows them with a long gaze until they get out of sight. A loud growl disrupts the peace, what surprises me is that no one seems to notice me.

A huge black wolf littered with wounds slowly approaches the woman, its paws pounding hard against the forest floor. The mystery woman's face goes completely expressionless.

“You will never win, maybe not today but you will reap the excruciating pain you have caused…”

The wolf pounces on her in a giffy, gruesomely tearing her head off before she could complete her words.

“Noooooo,” a scream rips through my throat, how can someone kill another without batting an eyelid. 

The wolf lifts its snout and releases a loud howl. Several other wolves respond with similar howls in the distance. 

A force pulls me from wherever this is, and my eyes push open, I peer around. I'm in Kael's room it would seem. Drops of sweat trickled down my skin.

“You're awake,” my mate says with glee.

“I……” my voice sounds patched. “Water,” I say with my voice breaking. 

“Sure thing, Kitten.” He rushes to the cupboard table beside me and gives me a hand pulling me in a sitting position. 

“Drink, love,” he urges, placing the cup against my lips and tilting it a bit, soon it gets empty. 

“You want more?” He asks with concern.

“No, I'm good.” My voice sounds a lot less croaky.

He heaves a loud sigh and sits by my bed, turning to face me.

“The doctor couldn't figure out why you were out cold, but he mentioned that you look a lot healthier than before,” he stares at me lovingly. 

“He insisted that you're fine and it's probably something minor, you were out for six hours.” He finishes with concern evident in his tone.

“I feel fine, I promise,” I say soothingly to ease his worry. “Hope, I didn't make a bad first impression to your friend?”

“He is worried about you and is right outside the door. He's beating himself claiming that he probably overwhelmed you.” My mate explains with a resounding chuckle. 

“Let him in, I feel bad he thinks so.” I urge him, nodding towards the door.

“Fine, Kitten,” my mate's eyes glaze over for a moment, not long after I hear a gentle knock on the door.

“Come in, O'Brien.”

The door knob twists and the door pushes open. The familiar face from earlier comes into view, this time looking a little guilty but still friendly. 

He then clears his throat, “Hello, Luna I'm sorry if I overwhelmed you, it's nice to meet you again.” He shifts uneasily on both feet.

I smile brightly at him which seems to ease him up a tad bit.

“Hello O'Brien, Kael has told me a lot about you, it's so nice to finally meet you.”

“The pleasure is all mine, Luna.” He says finally at complete ease. He shoots my mate a brief look then stares back at me with a mischievous look.

“Would you like to know about Kael's embarrassing moments in middle and high school?” He asks with glee to the detriment of my poor mate, who releases a low growl paired with a dark glare.

I laugh at their childish antics and encourage him, “Sure, I'd love to hear every part of it.”

“Well, well kids don't make me regret allowing you guys to meet.” My mate says jabbing O'Brien a little hard. 

“Ouch, Kael,” Obrien whines.

“I didn't even hit you that hard,” My mate says blankly.

“Tell him sorry,” I nudged him gently.

“Fine, sorry,” he says, not sounding the least remorseful. 

“I'd better get out of here before your jealous mate eats me alive,” O'Brien says playful, then heads out the door.

A comfortable silence fills the room.

“You know this is the third time you're getting unconscious within a rather short interval of time.” My mate says unable to reach my eyes.

“It pains me to know that I'm unable to protect you as a mate should,” he continues. 

“You are not at fault, Kael, you've protected me better than anyone ever did.” I say with conviction. 

“Don't pull yourself down, you mean so much to me and my heart breaks seeing you beat yourself up like this.”

“Calm mate down,” Willow says soothingly in my head.

“Let me out, please Aria, I also want to talk to, mate.” I allow her to take over.

“Hi mate,” Willow says to our mate, taking off the blankets and sitting atop his laps facing him. Her voice sounds so powerful and soothing at the same time.

“What's your name, little one,” Kael answers her with so much adoration. 

“I'm Willow,” She bats her lashes at him, “Can I meet your wolf, please.”

“Sure thing, Kitten, I can't tell you no.” His eyes turn completely black.

“Hello mate, I finally get to meet you,” Kael's wolf says with a deep authoritative voice.

“What's your name,” Willow says in admiration, her usual sassy self now gone because of her mate. I'd make sure to use this against her soon.

“I'm Alec, and I've been waiting for you a while. We're worried for you my love, and feel you're carrying a lot of weight and past wounds but we can't do anything about them until you let us in.”

Willow kisses her teeth, “Alec, you are the best mate ever, don't beat yourself over things that are out of your control and have happened before you even knew that I existed.” 

“Aria has some past wounds she's yet to heal from. The members of the Blood Moon pack really hurt her. She was an orphan in the pack and was always looked down upon. It got worse when she couldn't shift, they deemed her wolfless and worthless. In fact, even when I made my presence known to her in the back of her mind she told no one.”

“She never knew what it meant to be cared for until she came to this pack.” Willow finishes.

“I'm so sorry that happened to you, I wouldn't have even let them in the pack if I had known it was this bad ” he says in regret. “I knew that your former pack treated lower ranking wolves badly but didn't know it was this bad.”

“Even Omegas treated her badly, at least they had wolves.” Willow says with venom. “They thought her to be nothing but trash and even the fact that they called her runt or worthless Omega was an elevation.”

“They also abused her physically, the scars faded after I reappeared again. A painful occurrence had almost killed me since I took most of the pain.”

A deep guttural sound escapes his lips, “Who laid their hands on you, tell me and they will be taken care of. Also what was the painful occurrence that occurred.”

“Should I tell him about the rejection?” Willow asks me in my mind.

I whimper softly remembering the ache it caused me. “Go ahead, I don't have the strength to tell him yet.”

“Well I was…..”

A knock on the door interrupts me. A loud voice follows.

“Alpha, Luna there's an issue at the borders.”