Fall of the Luna (completed)

Hope

Finn’s POV

              No, Kayla, please no! I screamed and tried to reach out to my mate but she was walking further and further away from me. Her hand held the hand of a little boy and he turned to look at me curiously. I caught a glimpse of his beautiful green eyes before they vanished into the fog.

              “Finn, wake up! Finn!” Leyton’s voice brought me out of my nightmare and I sat up on my office couch. “I can’t, Leyton. I can’t lose her.” I covered my face with my hands as desperate tears rolled down my cheeks. The sense of helplessness from five years ago overwhelmed me as I’ve once again failed my mate. Our warriors had tracked them down to a point downstream and found some tire tracks, but all tracks had the same scent and ended in the middle of nowhere. I wouldn’t doubt that magic had something to do with this but that thought robbed me of the last shred of hope that I had. The last time that we were up against magic, it was Kayla who had revealed her location to us and who had in the end saved all of us.

              “Get your s**t together, Finn! It has been less than 24 hours and you’re already all broken and useless. You know what? f**k this! I’ll look for my sister on my own.” Leyton’s words were like a giant slap in my face but it wasn’t enough to pull me out of my misery. He didn’t know what I had felt in the river. “It wasn’t just the blood, Leyton. I felt this pain, like my heart was being ripped out of my body and it burned so bad, like it would have consumed me. And now, I can’t feel her at all. I’m afraid..” My voice broke and I couldn’t bring myself to say the words that I feared. “It can’t be, you fool! If.. if she’s gone, with the strength of the bond between both of you, you’d be near death by now. So get your s**t together, Finn! We can’t fail her again.” This time, Leyton’s words got me back up on my feet. He’s right! She’s still alive and out there. My wolf whimpered as he saw hope for the first time since Kayla was taken from us.

              She must hate you, though. You chose pup over mate. The hurt in Kayla’s eyes in that final moment that we shared appeared in my mind again as my wolf reminded me of what I did. My heart clenched as I realized that we’ve not only failed Kayla again, we’ve also betrayed her. But what was I supposed to have done, you stupid wolf?! I couldn’t let that rouge mutt kill my pup! Conflicting emotions hammered my heart as I pushed my wolf to the back of my mind and concentrated on continuing to search for my mate with Leyton.

Kayla’s POV

              My eyelids were heavy and hard as I tried, I couldn’t lift them up. I wanted to so badly to find the source of the annoying beeping and turn it off. A warm hand caressed mine and it felt nice. I wish that hand could make that beeping sound stop. I wonder where I was. Why is there a beeping sound? Am I in the afterlife realm?

              “Hey little girl, you’ve been sleeping for so long. I think it’s a good time to wake up now, don’t you think?” This voice was oddly familiar and I struggled to remember who it belonged to. When I realized whose voice it was, all the memories came flooding back into my mind. The party, Jacob being held hostage and Finn choosing his pup over me… Pain gripped me and I felt like there was a huge weight on my chest, stopping me from breathing. The beeping sounds became louder and more jarring as I heard more voices shouting at each other. Everything became clearer and louder, until I could finally open my eyes, even though that was the last thing that I had wanted.

              The blurry images sharpened and I could make out clearly the face in front of me. A chill ran down my spine and I shivered in fear. “Hey, hey, it’s ok, you’re ok now,” Jake tried to assure me. The act itself was so ironic that I would have laughed out loud if I wasn’t so afraid of him. I can’t do this again. I can’t relive what happened five years ago. With that thought, I pulled out the needle attached to my arm and pierced it towards my wrist. Blood squirted everywhere but the pain that was supposed to follow didn’t. I blinked away my tears and realized that I’ve violently pierced the needle into the back of Jake’s hand, as he held my wrist in his grip. “I know you hate me, Kayla, but you must live, not even for yourself but at least for the pup growing in your body now,” he said softly.

              The pup growing in your body now. The words echoed in my head but I couldn’t seem to comprehend. Slowly, my hand reached down to my belly and I felt a jolt of warmth like something was reacting to my touch. I tried to call my wolf but she wasn’t responding. I couldn’t even feel her yet I felt that I wasn’t alone. Hope filled my heart and I dared myself to believe that perhaps this was real. “We can do an ultrasound tomorrow and you can see your pup. I’ll ask my cousin to come over with the machines. He’s a doctor.” Jake’s gentle voice was laced with pain but nothing mattered to me now, nothing but my pup. I gave him a faint smile and nodded as I laid back down and slowly drifted off to sleep again.