Chapter 9
1987 Words
I can’t believe what’s happened to me. Demetrius is truly a monster.
It’s been a few days since I woke up. Violetta says this baby is a boy. Each night they’ve come to ask me if I would join them for dinner but each night I’ve declined, surprisingly they haven’t forced me to join them. But I won’t be surprised if that all changes soon. I thought I was strong enough for this but this is all becoming too much for me. That same feeling of darkness that once clouded my thoughts is starting to settle back into mind.
I lay back on my bed shutting my eyes. Maybe if I lay here I could just forget everything. The tears I thought had dried up escape my eyes again. Countless times this week I’ve cried myself to sleep. I keep pinching myself hoping to wake up and be home. But reality is, I’m here and this has happened. It’s real, all of it.
All of a sudden I’m jolted out of my sleep by the first kick I’ve felt from this Hybrid baby... and then another... and another. It feels so surreal. My bump is still very small only showing slightly under my usual baggy clothes, I didn’t think I’d be feeling movement from him any time soon. Despite not having a choice in what’s happened I can’t help but smile after feeling his first movements.
That’s when it hits me... This isn’t his fault. Although my hatred for Demetrius runs deep I can’t hate this child, he didn’t choose this either. We’ve both been left with no choice and at the end of the day he is still mine, he is still half of me. Maybe, just maybe I can nurture him into becoming a good man, unlike his father. This baby has now given me the motivation to get both of us out of here, to get us away from that devil.
“Don’t worry son, Mommy will get us out of here” I whisper to my unborn child as I begin to drift off to sleep.
Third Person P.O.V
Mid sleep Namirah senses something strange, she inhales and is hit with the scent that her heart has been longing for. As fast as lighting she flies off her bed, then she sees him...
“Kyron?” She asks in disbelief.
“Namirah” he replies, she runs straight into his arms.
“Kyron, what are you doing here?” she sobs into his chest.
“I needed to see you.”
“It’s not safe here Kyron, I want nothing more than to be with you but you can’t stay, you have to go, it’s not safe.”
“I know.”
“How are you here? You just appeared out of thin air.”
“I come from a family of witches, they put me here but I can’t be here for too long. But I promise I’m going to get you out of here soon, I’ll kill him if it’s the last thing I do.”
“No Kyron, I don’t want you to get hurt, I can’t lose anybody else because of me.”
“Namirah, I’m putting a lot of planning into this. It won’t be right now but I promise you it will happen. Your children, our children, they all need you and so do the rest of us” he says as the pair of them go to sit on the bed with Namirah on his lap.
“You... You know about the twins?”
Kyron nods in response.
“H-how are they?”
“Big. Strong. Especially Reign. He is far ahead of his age group.”
“That sounds about right, he’s very special.”
“That he is. I guess you can say he’s taught me a thing or two, he’s even saved me actually.”
“What do you mean saved you?” she asks worriedly and Kyron sighs.
“Look Namirah things with your pack... haven’t been too great.”
“W-what?”
“I’ve actually just returned from New Orleans, there... there was a war. A huge army of both Rogues and Vampires attacked your pack” he begins to explain, she gasps in horror. “It was a nasty war. Only a few of your allied packs over there joined the fight while the rest were too scared. I took warriors from my pack as well as Andy and Dahlia to help.”
“Y-you went all the way there... to help?”
“Yes. Not only are they one of our allies more importantly they are one of my sons packs as well as yours. The war I just came back from was actually the second one. I wasn’t there for the first attack and I regret it a lot. I just wish I could’ve saved more...”
“Saved more? What exactly was the outcome?”
“Namirah... there’s no easy way to put this... your pack lost a lot of members.”
“W-what...”
“I’m so sorry... In the first war... Beta Reign was killed.”
“No... no, no, no” she cries.
“A part of me blames myself. Your brother had asked me to help before it happened but I didn’t want to risk taking the twins and Reign back there and putting them in danger.”
“You had Reign... with you?”
“They sent him to live with me before the war started, that’s how I found out about our twins. Reign and I formed a sort of bond, we are... connected in a way.”
“Connected? What do you mean?”
“I am a Lykaon Wolf too. We have certain senses, if one of us are in danger the other can feel it. And that’s how Reign saved me, one of your Deltas betrayed us and stabbed me with some sort of magical dagger that stopped my heart.”
“That... no that’s not possible our Deltas are too loyal for that.”
“Not this one. And that’s when Reign saved me, somehow he got out of the vault... he put himself in danger for me.”
“Is-is he okay?”
“Yes. But Namirah there’s something I need to tell you that might freak you out.”
“Well now you’ve already freaked me out just by saying that.”
“Reign... he killed him... he ripped his body apart” she gasps in shock putting a hand to her mouth.
“No... That’s not possible he’s only four years old. How can he manage to kill someone, a Delta at that.”
“I’m not lying Namirah, he did it, he had no choice when the Delta attacked him.”
“One of my Deltas attacked my child?“
“Yes but moving on from that there’s something else... Lucia...”
“Lucia what about...” she says with a shaky voice.
“She died Namirah, she died giving birth to their daughter during the war.”
Namirah is speechless, frozen, completely in shock.
“Nate, he’s still alive but on the inside he’s dead. He has no emotion besides being a father to his daughter.”
“Oh Nate... I-I wish you didn’t tell me these things Kyron” she says looking down as she begins to sob even more.
“I had to. I needed to tell you these things to motivate you into coming home. Your family, your pack, your children they all need you... and so do I.”
“But I’ll put them all in danger, Kyron.”
“Stop worrying about everybody else. You’ve done enough already. I’ll get you out of here okay, just be rea—“
Suddenly they’re interrupted when Irina appears in the room
“Kyron, time is running out, we’re holding off the dark witch for now but we need to go... hello Namir—“ Irina gasps.
“Irina... what’s wrong?” Kyron asks, she points to Namirah with a shaky hand and shocked expression.
“K-Kyron... there’s something I need to tell you...” Namirah says before taking a deep breath.
“Kyron... I’m pregnant.”
Kyron gets up abruptly with Namirah falling off of him.
“Kyron! He didn’t give me a choice, he forced me” she says sobbing “you think I wanted this? To carry a demons child! This child... I... despite him being Demetrius’s son, he is still mine. I can’t just abandon him” she argues. Kyron scoffs furrowing his eyebrows at his mate.
“You can’t just abandon him? YOU CAN’T JUST ABANDON HIM?! Like how you did to your other THREE kids! You abandoned them and left them with no mother and no explanation! And now you can’t abandon this... this devil off spring. I can’t believe you Namirah. Who the hell...”
“Kyron, please don’t hate me. I know my other sons will be in safer hands with all of you, where as this one, he will only have Demetrius... I-I’m just worried about how he’ll turn out.”
He rakes his hand through his hair in frustration.
“I can never hate you Namirah, this is just... I didn’t expect it and I definitely didn’t expect you to say what you just said, despite what you’ve already done. It felt like a slap in the face.”
“If it makes you feel any better we didn’t have s*x, he made me go through IVF.”
“Whatever. What’s happened has happened and I guess there’s nothing I can do about it. But I promise you this Namirah, I’m going to get you out of here and I’m going to kill Demetrius and if this child poses as a threat to my sons, Reign included... I’ll kill him too.”
“Kyron we have to go” Irina says.
“I’ll be back for you I promise” he says walking away from her.
“Kyron... I love you” she says reaching for his hand, Kyron sighs gripping her hand tightly.
“I love you too, Namirah. Just please look after yourself. I’ll be back for you I promise” Kyron says kissing her forehead.
“Goodbye, my love.”
Then just like that Kyron disappears leaving Namirah behind.
Everything he just told her starts sinking in... the war... the losses... her best friend... her family... everything hits her all at once.
She drops to the floor with her head in her hands trying to contain her emotions, trying to keep herself together. But she can’t take it anymore, she screams. Her screams of heartache can be heard all through the building.
“Namirah...” Demetrius says as he busts into her room. But nothing else can be heard apart from the sound of her screams. Even the devil himself feels a pinch in his ice cold heart as he watches and listens to her. He can’t stop his feet as they take him towards her.
“Namirah....” he says again as he gets down beside her “Namirah, what’s wrong?” He asks calmly.
“Everything’s wrong! I can’t take it anymore!”
Demetrius suddenly feels conflicted, he truly didn’t think he was capable of any sort of feelings but now he feels as if he is falling into a moment of weakness.
He sighs heavily before surprising himself by wrapping his arms around her. He’s even more surprised when instead of fighting him off she leans into him. For once Demetrius embraces his werewolf side and for the first time in years he allows his body to feel the warmth of his inner-wolf. As the heavy emotions continue to weigh Namirah down she slowly but surely falls asleep in the one place she never thought she’d ever be... in the arms of Demetrius.
- Writer
