I am Broken

Chapter 8- Jake POV

                 It took me just over a day to get back, my blood boiled the whole plane journey, how could he do this? why would he do this?  I didn’t care what it took to get to him I needed answers, I could no longer link them that was severed when I died, I thought it would be painful, but it was like a piece of string cut at both ends always remaining too short to ever connect again and it will always remain that way.

                  I knew Marcus had found out by now as the pull to go home was increasing but being in another country was helping me a lot, it was more like an annoying ich, one that you can’t get rid of, but I had to do this, how could I live by my own words of protecting Willow, if I couldn’t do this. I thanked my pilot and made my way to the cottage I had dragged Willow to, James was dying to run so I wouldn’t deny his fun, he rips from me and an extremely large black wolf looked back at me in the refection of a nearby lake, he growled loudly and howled into the sky.

                They would sense I am here and now that I have given my position It wouldn’t be long until they came for me, the sun was slowly setting giving off a beautiful orange glow, they reminded me of Willow each one I looked at brought me closer to her, this was all for her I reminded myself. I had reached the cottage on the edge of Alex’s border, it was still standing to my surprise as any protection spell would have vanished now, I turned back in to my human form getting some cloths I had left in a small hole in the side of the cottage, I wasn't going to confront him in the nude, I opened the door and to my surprise he was standing in the living room, no one accompanied him, I couldn't sense his scent so he must have covered it but he was here and this was between him and me.

                   “Alex” I said to him, he turns but he already knew I was here, I already knew he could smell me from a mile away as I did nothing to hide my scent, I wanted him to follow me I wanted him to confront me just to have an excuse to bite his head off “Jake, you have returned WHERE IS WILLOW!?” he growls loudly at me but his mighty alpha voice won’t work on me so I just chuckle “that won’t work on me Alex but why now have you started caring?” I asked in a clear voice, I wanted him to spill his guts and tell me the truth before I slit his throat.

                 “I have always cared, what are you on about?” he questioned “so you are still going to hide the truth!?” my growl was much loader than his, but I had multiple species fuelling me, “what truth are you going on about, I have done everything in my power to take you down! I can feel her slipping away from me and being pulled to the dark, I have nightmare’s every night of her killing me but I haven’t given up Jake, who are you to make up stupid s**t, when you are the one who took her from her home and her mate! You are nothing but a disgusting beast that doesn’t deserve to be alive!” he screams as he charges at me, we both knew he couldn’t kill me, not because he didn’t have the strength because that he had but because I was the only lead he had to getting Willow back, I knew where she was and how to get there.

              His annoying attempt to hurt me was getting on my nerves, so I grabbed his neck and pushed him against the wall, I could see Axel trying to take over and change but I was holding his neck too tight that the air was not reaching his lungs “you are going to tell me who you cheated on Willow with so I can rip them apart as well, no one does that to her!” I growl down his ear, I loosen my grip slightly so he can talk but he denial was quick and swift “I don’t know what you are taking about Jake! I have spent day and night looking for her! I don’t have time for myself let alone anyone else, plus any other woman’s touch repulse me!”

               He quickly spued out more lies, I almost wanted to believe him if I hadn’t have seen the evidence myself “why are you lying Alex, Willow fell unconscious from the pain you caused, she said it felt like the pain she felt when you got with Rose but much worse, so you must have been having s*x!” I growled louder as I slammed his back into the wall, his eyes grew confused “what are you on about?” he questioned “Willow was in pain, I left her in the care of friends when I came here, the only way she could fell that pain is if her mate is being deceitful!” he looked like he still didn’t understand, and my patients was running out.

               “I didn’t cheat on Willow; Jake I would never do that!” holding his neck tighter I growled “there is only one way to tell if you are being truthful or not and you’re not going to like it!” I chuckled loudly, he eyes widened in shock but I was too quick as I sank my teeth in to his wrist, I took in the copper tasting blood and drank slowly as he struggled, I was surprised Axel hadn’t rip from within him yet, maybe he needed to know the truth also, I had found that I can visit someone’s memory’s from drinking there blood and I had learned to focus it with my magic I had been practicing, otherwise it could be any point of their life you witness, I try and focus on the last few day but nothing of the s****l nature happens, he had only seen two woman, one was Jess and one was Darcy and neither came within a meter of him, he was telling the truth.

                 I lingered on the memory of Darcy for a second longer, I would not drag her into my darkness, so it was nice to see she was doing okay, I pulled my teeth away from his arm as his faced winced in pain, “have you got your truth?” he asked me, I knew then why he didn’t fight he had nothing to hide but this didn’t explain why Willow was in pain, it just didn’t make sense, there were no missing memory’s, everything was there so it didn’t make sense. “yes, I have but none of it makes sense, if you didn’t cheat on her what happened, she said it felt the same as before!” 

                 “I can explain it to you” a voice came from behind us, I turned to see her, Darcy, she hadn’t changed the last year and I had missed her so much, she was like a mother to me, I released Alex dropping him to the floor as he attempted to recover and walked over to her, I grabbed her tightly and pulled her into a long needed hug, she held me tightly, but we were soon interrupted by Alex clearing his throat “I’m all for a reunion but can someone tell me what the hell is going on” I pulled away from her and smiled as she held my cheeks.

               “I haven’t been completely honest with you boys and I think you should know the truth” she leads us to sit down as she began to explain who she really was, “both of you have faced similar traumas, both have lost you family’s and had to survive, this was never meant to happen but the world was becoming covered in darkness and there was nothing we could to do to stop it” she stopped for a moment, so I thought it would be a good chance to asked who we were “who are the we you speak off” I asked her, she smiled.

         “We are the gods and goddesses of the species, we create who you are and find the ones who are made for you, we will try and lead you in the right path but sometimes nature has a different course, I am the goddess of the witches, your goddess the moon goddess is my sister and my brother is the night god for the vampires and my other sister is the goddess of men, we have tried so hard over the years to join the species together but every time we gave you all mixed mate’s you squandered them and rejected them so we just stopped trying, but you to are different, like your parents Jake, they were the first to accept there mate bond and love for each other, but now that your fates are different I must explain what is going on.”

               We both sat still as we listened to her intently “Willow’s kind is only born if the world needs balancing, it was supposed to be her uncle that brought our world out of darkness but he plunged us deeper into it, killing both your parents in the process, so it was decided that Willow would be born of the same gifts except she was able to heal, she was beyond our expectations but there is still a darkness hanging over her head as she could be flipped to the other side at any time, that is why she has both of you”

              “Both of us?” Alex rose from his silence and asked, “you are both her mate’s, she needed love and protection so the two of you were perfect for that, you three are meant to join the world together, Jake you were already mixed and Alex you were fated to become a hybrid yourself once you were all joined the world was suppose to be at peace” It didn’t make sense, "I was to become a hybrid of what kind?" Alex asked "you were suppose to be a vampire and wolf hybrid connecting all the species" but one thing she did not include was the demons "what about the demons do they not have a god or goddess" I asked "no, unfortunately there were a product of humans greed long ago, a punishment if you will but they spread fast and are the cause of all the darkness in the world" she explained "you were never suppose to be able to turn into a demon Jake it was against nature but somehow it happened and now it must be corrected" 

            I was still so confused but one question lingers on my mind “I though mates were a wolf thing?” I asked, “there are in the sense of what you think but all species have mates, humans call them soul mates, vampires call them forever souls and witches we call them lovers” she smirked a little at their cruder term “but I don’t feel the pull to her?” I asked before Darcy could answer Alex did instead “I felt the same to start with, it was only after spending time with her I soon realised we were mates”   

                “Alex is right, and you have known you have loved and cared for her since the moment you layered eyes on her, so what you did Jake caused her pain as your body has now realised you are mates and is accepting the bond” I lowered my head in shame, I was hurting her not him "wait you were having s*x with someone ?" Alex asked but Darcy spoke before I could "that's in the past now boys he's learnt his lesson its time to move on" and now I have left her there all alone in the clutches of Marcus, as soon as I spoke his name a sharp pain came from my upper abdomen, it was sharp but I could still function, I looked at Alex and he looked up at me feeling the same, Willow was kissing someone we could feel it! 

              “NO!!” he growled “we can’t let her go to the dark side she is mine” the possessiveness showed in both of us as I growled at his words, “she is mine too!” we squared up to each other but Darcy stepped in the middle “she is both of yours if she so chooses, now is not the time to fight, Jake head back to England while I come up with a plan” I lowered my head in shame this was all my fault but one thing worried me, I could not fight against Marcus “I have to obey him Darcy, I will not get away with this, can you help me” I begged her to release me from his bonds but she just looked at me with a sad expression “I’m afraid not Jake this is something you will have to fight on your own, I cannot interfere to much” 

"The demons of this world must be banished, I will not advocate m*********r but if we can find a way to rid them from this world then nature will be balanced and Willow is the key to that, she must fight her urges and unite all for them to be finally gone" her words stuck with me, being a demon was now part of me and people I did care for, was there way to free them, free me from the demon clutches that lay within our body or would we also go down with the sinking ship."Richard wanted to get rid of the demons isn't that what you wanted?" Alex asked, he had a point "he did, that is right but he didn't want to get rid of all of them as you may think he wanted to use there power and control the world with it, putting everyone in danger, his plan would have worked if it wasn't for you two" 

                I nodded my head as I was starting to understand, I was on my own on this fight with the demon with in and if I could not be free I would go down with them, I was just glad Mia wasn't a demon but Gray was but he wasn't exactly good but he never hurt anyone without reason, my heart was torn and I didn't know if I could save him. “Alex trust me one more time when I say I will not let anything bad happen to her, I will bring her back and then we can sort this mess out” he nodded “I still don’t trust you but I know you will keep her safe, and when you bring her home she can decide what she wants” I nodded understanding what he was asking, we all headed out of the cottage, Darcy and I went one way and Alex waited for her “I have to head back to England quickly but I will keep in touch, I have really missed you Darcy” I pulled her into on more hug when she whispered one last thing in my ear “if she gives in to Marcus, you will have to kill her” I sharp breath left my lungs as realty sank in, if she goes dark, death is the only way to stop her.