I am Broken

Chapter 10- Alex POV

Jake was returning to England and I just hope I wasn’t making a huge mistake by trusting him, my heart burned for Willow and since she started to accept me, It was ten time harder to be away from her but I stayed strong I had to for my pack and her, she would kill me if she found out I was being useless, so I threw myself into pack work, we now knew where she was and I had to put my trust in Jake, if what Darcy says is true then I have to have faith in her but I felt a lot more needed to be explained.

I had invited everyone important to meet and talk to Darcy, some truths needed to be finally said and if we have a battle on our hands then we needed to be prepared, a knock came at my office door “come in” I shout as Darcy opens the door “hi Alex, is anyone here yet?” she walks in and realised the answer, “well that answered that” I chuckled and offered her a chair “I wanted to say thank you for this Darcy or should I call you goddess?” she smiled “Darcy Is fine, I may be thousands of years old but we are friends so no formality’s” I nodded in reply.

“I will explain what I can Alex but there are somethings I cannot say, nature cannot be swayed, even if I know the answer, its down to people choices, there are always two paths you can go down, and until you reach the cross roads things will still be unclear so don’t ask questions about the future just the past as that cannot be changed” it was interesting to know she had that knowledge but I would respect her wishes and when everyone arrives they will too.

Everyone started to filter in, Marco, Jess, baby Isla was on a play date with Albes kids so they came alone which was good because I needed their attention, Zara and Lucas arrived after, once everyone had settled we began “I have brought you all, here to today as you are my family and the people I trust the most, as you may have already smelt I have had meeting with Jake” there were a few gasps but they quickly quietened “Jake came to accuse me of cheating on Willow, but he was mistake I didn’t cheat on Willow but he did”

Everyone’s eyes widened, they didn’t know how to react or what to say, “I don’t understand Alex, is Willow okay?” Marco asked “she’s okay and safe but she is still in danger not from death but from evil, Jake came back to kill me for causing Willow pain, but I didn’t cause that pain he did” everyone looked even more confused but before I could speak Darcy beat me to it “Jake and Willow are also mates, they are fated like her and Alex” I felt anger rise in me at the mention of having to share Willow but I had to look at the bigger picture, if she needed two of us to love and cherish her then that’s what she will get but it doesn’t mean I’m happy about it.

“That doesn’t make sense, how can she have two, I mean don’t take this the wrong way but she wasn’t even Alex’s first mate” I felt a growl come from me and Axel as he never saw Rose as our mate in the first place, but I rained him in, Marco was just asking a question and all of this was confusing so I rained myself back in, “Willow is a once in a life time being, she doesn’t know it yet but the balance of the world rests on her shoulders, she needed two people who can love and cherish her, going to the dark side is too easy and we have witnessed some of her power, can you imagine if she gives in and becomes what Marcus wants, there would be no stopping her and now she have Richards powers she slipping away quicker”

“How do you know all this?” Jess asks, “she is a goddess” I replied, I knew it was okay to share her secrets to my family “yes, I am the goddess of witches and I will explain to you how this all came to be” we all sat and got comfortable, I felt this would explain a lot “so as you know there was one demon king, Valick, he started this hundreds of years ago, he was born a normal human and was born in to a rich influential family, he knew no pain or suffering, you could say he was given a good life but he squandered it, he grew darker and obsessive, and one day a beautiful woman was passing through his village”

“Once he laid eyes upon her, he was obsessed, no matter what, he had to have her, but little did he know she was a chosen and was betrothed to my brother Demetrius the vampire god, she was not forced and chose to be with my brother, I had never seen love like it before, to say I wasn’t jealous would be a lie but I was happy for them and as long as we were alive no harm would fall upon her” to say we listened intently was an understatement, the room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

“She wished to stay human until the night of the wedding, to live the remainder of her human life with her family on the wedding night he would complete her transformation, but that night never came, she was of no importance in the human world she had no royal blood, no riches but he kindness and respect for living beings drew my brother to her, her beauty was out of this world but her personality was bigger and more beautiful, I could see why he didn’t want her to leave his side but she was willing to leave her family and life for him so he could at least give her last few human months with her family”

We all remained still and didn’t want to interrupt “one day she was tending to her horse a majestic golden white beast my brother had gifted her, when a commotion came from the house, she ran back inside to see what was happening, when she came across Valick holding a knife to her father’s throat, he came to ask for her hand but her father refused, telling him clearly she was betrothed and no amount of money was going to change the fact”

“Valick grew angrier, no one said no to him and this weakling he saw in his eyes was defiant and needed to be taught a lesson, now my brother always had people watching over her, he wouldn’t leave her undefended but this was different, someone had betrayed him and turned a blind eye, they felt a human would make her master weak, so my brother never new of the incident until it was too late” we all sat on the edge of our seats to know the rest of the story “she fought so hard, she would not give in to his demands, she knew her love would come for her and she was always loyal but Valick did not care, as much as she warned him, he beat and killed her family in front of her but she remained strong, determined in the fact she would be saved but when my brother failed to show she started to lose faith, and when he r***d her and murdered her for her defiance all was lost, including my brother”

“He was heartbroken, he found his traitor Lilybeth and captured Valick, he then asked us to do the unthinkable, make them inhuman, demons only to be killed by ice like the ice in their heart, they would grow old slowly, there life prolong and then placed in a fire tomb never to know the peace of death, they would wither away slowly, there bodies may look young but they would be weak like a frail elderly person, slowly withering away to dust but always alive, it was worse than death and we agreed, they would live out this punishment together but who would knew they would procreate, turning wondering travellers into demons and stealing children from there beds turning them into dark creatures”

“Why did you not do anything to stop them?” I asked “we did not know until it was too late, the world moved on and we had to with it, our own spices were at threat and we didn’t have time to care about them but now we realise it’s too late, we created this mess and we tried to restore balance, but Richard failed us, so our last hope was to restore Maribeth’s soul into Willow”

“Wait your brothers wife’s soul is in Willow?” I asked “she is Willow, but she remembers nothing of her past life, that was the agreement made by my brother and when she dies, her soul will return to him but after what happened with Richard, she needed more love, two souls to complete her one, she is still fragile even if she doesn’t remember the past” Marco spoke before I could “what is she here to do?” he asked “she is here to restore balance, Demons were never meant to be created and should not exists in the world, to many have been created to be killed but they need to be sealed, never to walk this earth again if they continue to grow this earth will fall to their hands and it will be too late”

“We must stop that from happening at all costs and I mean at all costs, if we lose her, we lose everything” my head landed in my hands, this was a lot to take in but I wasn’t going to argue, our only hope now was to get Willow and find a way to stop this apocalypse, one question popped into my mind that I wanted answering out of everything it seemed the most pointless but I had to know “does she look like her?”

Darcy paused thinking about her answer “yes Alex, they are the same person, but she has no memory of the past” I had to ask another “what about your brother, does he want her back?” I didn’t need anyone else lusting after Willow “he loves her dearly and has not married anyone since but my brother is a good man and knows when the right thing needed to be done, once Willows human life is finished, she will wake with her memory’s and its up to her to decide if she would like to rest eternally or become his bride once more, this is the one thing none of us can argue against, understood” I nodded but my heart sank, even in death Willow will have to decide, I’m sorry Willow, this is not the life I want for you.