My Two True Mates (Book 2 True Fated Mate Series)

Chapter 7

King Finn POV

The young queen Magdalena Riordan has been asleep for 20 minutes now. I rub my hands together, working my magic, making it stir at my palms. I clear my head and slow my breathing, I send a prayer to the goddess to guide me and to protect us both.

Taking a deep breath in, I placed my hands on each side of her temples. I felt her power spike a little. I rubbed circles around her temple, massaging her skin, letting her magic know that I was not here to harm. Her magic settled down, having recognized my magic from before. Hmm. Interesting, her power is intelligent. Old, ancient, I guess that is why it's way easier for me to slip into her mind. Her angelic side recognizing danger in her sleep is a lucky thing to have. No creature will be able to get into her head without permission.

As for me getting into her head, it's like her magic knows I am doing so with good intentions. Her magic knows she gave full permission. Her magic knows that she subconsciously needs help. Her magic knows my aura, my magic already. I know all this because my magic is also intelligent and very ancient as well. Not like hers, though. Hers are heaven's magic. Soon, our magic began merging, working together to bring me into her mind with painless ease.

I sift through her memories, skimming them, not watching them to respect her privacy. I focused on the main purpose of why I am here. It doesn't take me long until I see it. Her behavior.

Lena is sitting by a fire after talking to Lukas about their relationship. By this time, she was fully pregnant. Then he leaves after he kisses her forehead. She then stares off into the fire in front of her. I'm just staring and staring. She doesn't even glance up when Hardin walks up to the fire and tosses in another log. I see him raise his brows at her, then shake his head and walk away, giving her privacy. 35 minutes go by, and she blinks, then suddenly she yawns and heads into the house. Hmm.. This all started the time she was pregnant. I wonder...

I skipped over the years after that. She does it more and more. She does it even in front of people. Now, I see why Ryker wanted her to come here. It has gotten worse over time. So much so, that she had begun losing time.

Now to dig deeper at what her mind can't seem to process for her. What is causing this? As I dug deeper, I could feel a wall that was up. I started to scratch the wall and began to peel back the layers. Slowly, the wall began to crumble as I kept peeling layer after layer. Behind that wall, I can hear Lena sobbing in the distance.

The last layer of the wall was much harder to crumble, so I gently placed my hand on the wall and whispered, "Sshh... I don't want to hurt you. I want to see what is hurting you, what it is that is making you blank. You don't have to see it. Let me endure it for you, and then you can put your wall back up. You don't have to see if you don't want to."

Slowly, the wall that my hand was resting on started melting away completely before me. I walked through the wall into a brightly lit forest. Lena was sitting by the wall with her hands covering her face her sobs echoing the entire area as she rocked herself back and forth.

I knelt beside her and pulled her into my arms. "Thank you, my dear friend. It is up to you to come with me to see." She shook her head violently into my shoulder and sobbed. "Ssh, it's okay, I got you."

Lena looked up at me with tears in her eyes, "I don't want to see it anymore. Can you take it away? It's too painful." she whispered.

"Let me go see what it is first, then we will talk." She nods her head and goes back into her position of rocking back and forth, covering her eyes.

I stand up walk past her and head deeper into the forest. I see a clearing up a head, and then I soon realize that I am approaching the Southern kingdom. When I got closer to the tree line. I see piles of bodies on the far right side of the tree line. Then, on the left, there are rows and rows of bodies. My heart clenched as guilt consumed me. This was my doing. This was my fault. My anger and rage had consumed my rational thinking at the time, due to my lost faeries who were just children at the time. This scene pains me to see.

If I had talked to the Southern Lycan Kingdom kings and the queen, instead of being fueled by anger and assumption, I wouldn't have attacked this place at all. These bodies that are in rows are the cause of my army. The pile of the vampire and werewolf rogues and ferals' bodies were of the allies that had owed me, but now they're all dead. I closed my eyes and looked away momentarily as I realized the thing that pained me was the same thing that pained my dear friend Lena. I truly regret this day.

I walk further, feeling that I need to. I got closer to the scene. Sure enough once I reach the treeline, I am in the open. I see Lena sprawled over two men. She lay above them both protectively. These men, I hadn't met. Who are they? Why does this pain her so much?

I watch as Ryker and Lukas try to talk to her, but it's as if she doesn't hear them as she clings to these men.

Then, shockingly, I watched as they miraculously woke up and reunited with Lena. I noticed how she hung on to the blonde one a little longer than the other. Then I watch as they walk away and head to the castle together following her mates. She however does not let go of both of their hands.

What happens next surprises me as her father Michael takes the two men with him. I grinned to myself as I nodded. I got it. I have it. I walked back to where Lena was sobbing on the ground and asked her, "Are you ready to face it? You are not alone, I will be there with you the entire time."

She looked up at me, hopeful. Then nodded. I pulled her from her sitting position on the ground. I wiped her tears and then pulled her with me from this part of her mind. The further we walked away from this area, she began to smile, and soon, she disappeared.

I pull myself from her mind with ease. There is no pain on my end, and hopefully, there will be no pain on her end when she wakes up. I take my hands away from the sides of her head and walk to the end of the bed to wait for her to wake up.

Lena wakes up and looks at me right away. I give her a small smile. She sits up slowly, "I don't feel any pain at all." She holds her head in wonder, then she asks, "Did you find the problem?"

I nodded at her, and then I used my magic to make two cups of spring water appear. I handed her one as I took long shots of it. I can't believe how thirsty I am. "Well, it seems as though you had a block in your mind. A painful memory that you couldn't face on your own. I could help you erase the way they looked when they were dead. The block is gone, the block was the main factor of your blanking out problem, it was caused by their faces at that time they lay dead. For that, I am truly sorry, it was my fault they died." I saw her gulp her water, as she drank. Her eyes looked misty.

I knew she didn't want to remember them. It's why I didn't mention their names. Even all memories of them were hard for her to face. The reason she goes blank is to block out their dead faces. She could live with them being gone because she's been imagining they are at a training camp. I am curious to know more about her father but I will respect her privacy. If she wanted to tell me, she would.

I know I could've looked into her memories to find out for myself, but I'm not invasive like that. That wasn't my goal. My goal was to help her seek what was making her space out, and I did.

Finally, after Lena had finished her water, she said, "Please, Finn, take that image away from me, please." she begged as a tear slipped down her cheek.

I nod my head and gesture for her to lean toward me as I sat on the bed in front of her. I touched her temples and went into her head again with no fight from her magic this time. I searched for their dead faces that repeatedly came to the surface now that her block was gone. I erased them from her mind. Then, I slipped back out of her head and removed my hands. Her eyes were closed, and she had a smile. Her face looked more relaxed. Her eyes slowly opened. She smiled at me as her grey eyes shined with unshed tears she said, "Thank you, Finn."

"You are welcome, Lena," I tell her with a small genuine smile.

After we finished our second glass of water that I conjured. We made our way back to the library. We are not sure how long we have been gone. But the moment we entered the library, my mate was standing there looking worried. "My love, Lena." She bowed her head in greeting and she looked at the both of us, concern swimming around her. I reached for my love and she held my hand. Her worry was for Lena more than me. Freya looks at Lena and says, "Lena, I sense that you need blood. We have a nurse here waiting for you so she can do a blood transfusion. You both were in there for 5 days."

"5 days?!" Lena and I both exclaimed in shock as we said it together in unison.