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I wondered if my demon was stating that to give me some sort of reassurance or if he needed to say it to convince himself. Panic raced through me either way, and my wolf responded to the anxiety by pushing himself to surpass our limits.
If this world didn’t stop us from teleporting from this sector, I would have been at her side in a heartbeat, but the constraints of the valley’s core were made to ensure no one easily got in or out.
Not without fighting to reach its most vulnerable part.
It was only a few seconds before my nostrils took in the familiar scent of my love, and my heart skipped in fear at the intensity of blood that didn’t carry a tainted aroma to it.
Why does it smell like human blood?
No one could answer my internal question, which may have been why I pushed for my wolf to pull back entirely, triggering my shift.
I began running on my two legs and suddenly skidded to a stop just as my eyes locked onto the sight just a few steps before me.
Blood.
Pools of blood.
Shades of dark red with hints of black, mixed with pretty magenta strands that floated on top of the thick surface that continued to spread from the being lying upon the black sand surface.
My woman.
My mate.
My pretty little monster.
My hammering heart came to a dramatic stop as my pounding ears only fought harder to ignore my pumping blood to try to find the heartbeat of my fated mate.
Trembling in place, I stood ever so still, fighting every urge to scream, cry, and race to her side because I knew my enemy was waiting for my erratic reaction.
Waiting for me to lose my sanity so I could be his next victim in this game.
I fought to hear it…begged the Goddess herself to ensure my queen was alive within that pool of red, but the seconds passed — tick-tock, tick-tock — and yet I couldn’t grasp a single beat. I knew my expression had to be completely void of emotion as the demon of mine began to growl and allow his boiling fury to crash through me.
My wolf was still taking in the scene — as if he was attempting to find any sort of flaw that would make this all but an illusion. Acknowledging our mate, naked with her flesh bruised in various areas, made me realize that what attacked her wasn’t simply physical.
It had to be something internal. The pain from such an attack led to it beginning to ooze to the surface of her flesh where her bruises were showing and spreading with every second that passed.
I didn’t want to think of what she’d just gone through, or more importantly, force myself to acknowledge how late I was in saving my dear beloved from my father’s wrath, and yet here I was, being forced to witness the fact that I’d let my queen down.
That despite how fast we’d run from the hidden depths of the valley’s core, we were seconds late from saving her from the hands of death.
NO! She can’t be dead. She’s ours! Our Demon Queen! Our Sweet Lex! OURS!
My demon would never fathom such a tragic ending, and I wanted to play along to this tune. To the level of disbelief that would let us sway to its melodic sound until our brain forced us to accept reality as it was, but my wolf knew better.
My poor wolf could sense that his other half was gone…
He howled long and hard within my subconscious. The sound made it almost impossible to continue standing here, acting like the scene before me hadn’t shattered my heart into a million pieces.
It was already taking so much to not shed tears and crumble in defeat, but I couldn’t do it. I wouldn’t do that. I couldn’t give this man the satisfaction of seeing me become the brittle weakling that he always told the world I was.
I bet you he did the same in this moment. Riddled my name to the ground and destroyed my image to Lexianne before stealing her flame that burned with so much force and life.
So much determination and striving to survive…all in hopes of gaining a happy ending that would lead her to a life of happiness after all the struggle and torment she’d gone through in this cruel world.
I braced for the collateral toll of my agony to cripple me, and yet, my body just felt numb. From my hands to my toes, the various feelings that should have continued to contribute to my internal suffering simply melted away until there was nothing to experience anymore.
It was if my mind finally understood what had been holding me back.
