Austen's POV 'Welcome, love you''Love you too'Lucas says, his voice shaky before he cuts the link.Today has been so much more than I ever imagined it would end up.Almost losing Damon to that witch, I never felt so helpless as I watched his body hang suspended in the air against that tree.Seeing Chloe shift, her ripping the heart out of that horrid woman, my heart swelled with pride, joy, thanks.She saved him, Chloe saved the person sworn to protect her.I watched her, I saw her eyes, the look in them as she saw what was happening.Her own mate was fighting for his life yet she stopped her fears, stopped everything she was going through to save Damon.I will never be able to express to her how much I love her, how thankful I am to her, never.Not that she'd ever let me, she will say she did it because she loves us, we are her family, I know this but it doesn't change my gratitude. When I saw Aria jump on King Lucien, saw what she was doing I just reacted.Running with all my mi

Damon's POV After I was slammed into that tree my whole body ached.The magic that woman possessed was so much stronger than any I had ever felt before.The darkness that surrounded her, the feel of her magic flowing against me was beyond overwhelming, I truly believed I was going to die.If it wasn't for Chloe, I would have. The person I am here to protect, to care for, to keep alive saved me.I watched through blurry tear filled eyes as she shifted then ripped the heart from that witches chest.Even after she had no heart within her, her magic still flowed, it took a minute before I was released from it to fall hard onto the ground below, Austen was right there to grab a hold of me, the mate bond helping with the pain.I could still see her magic flowing from her body over to King Lucien, that's when I saw him catch King Alaric off guard, slamming him down to the ground before pounding into him.I tried to get up, to get over to them but my body was still having trouble getting fee

Chloe's POV I felt helpless.Waking up to see Alaric like that, seeing how tortured Lucas was by everything, feeling his emotions hanging on by a thread as he tries to remain strong for us.After talking to Damon, we all are just here, looking down at Alaric, my heart racing as I try to come to terms with what is going on."Now what do we do?How can we find out how to bring back his Lycan?"Damon sat down on the bed with me as he flopped an arm over my shoulders while Lucas never stopped staring at Alaric. I looked over at Damon as he sat there, no words being spoken as we all try to figure out something.Damon having magic, I'm praying he may be able to figure out something but my heart was breaking as I tried to focus in on Alaric. I couldn't feel anything.No Lycan.Not even him.I couldn't feel any emotions at all coming from him, it was as if he was gone already yet here he is, laying in a bed in front of my eyes.A machine breathing for him with a weak heartbeat on a monitor

Austen's POV Hours passed with Chloe, Lucas wanted her to take her time so we sat eating something small then went to sit with the children for a while.It helps her to be around them but I noticed, after a while of being with them that she was starting to seem off again.Knowing I was hungry again, since we didn't really eat anything big before I decided to go down to make us some food before meeting Chloe back in her suite.She started putting the kids down to bed as I went down to the kitchen.After about 30 minutes I headed back up with some sandwiches, chips, veggies, along with fruit since I know how much she likes having strawberries with sliced up bananas.Watching Chloe go through the turmoil that was eating at her.We were sitting down eating, well I was while she sat there trapped inside her own thoughts, even though she is still in this room with me she isn't really here.She was mumbling about dream walking to find him but I'm not exactly tly positive what that is all ab

Chloe’s POVSitting back in the darkness of my mind, still feeling the sobs rack through my body as I no longer fought against Callie for control.My body, my mind, everything just felt weak right now, I was broken.It took everything in me to keep us from killing that poor girl in the house, we definitely hurt her, but i fought back, hurting myself to keep from ripping her to pieces. I hope she was able to get some help, hopefully she will heal properly from the gash that sliced through her like a knife cutting through softened butter.The feel of her flesh slicing through our claw felt amazing, almost intoxicating so it took all of me to stop it from happening again.Callie wouldn’t listen to me, she has tried to block me from speaking to her, her rage is consuming her but I am so tired I just don’t know how to get through to her.She ran us off into the woods after I broke our front paw then sliced through my hind leg with my other claw. The pain was overwhelming as I hear her grow