Death of an Alpha

Chapter 13

Aurora POV

I don't remember when I fell asleep but I definitely remember waking up. I woke up to sudden pain in my chest. Excuriating pain. Feels like someone stabbed me with a red hot poker through the heart. I find myself falling out of bed onto the floor. I try to mindlink Mason. Nothing. I try to mindlink Derek. Nothing. Then I try to contact Katya, my wolf. She had taken a back seat to everything today and I am worried. Nothing. She's not there.

I start screaming for help but the pain is so unbearable I'm not getting any sound out. My vision starts to blur. What was happening to me? I need him, I need Dimitri.

I feel myself starting to drift. Just as I feel I'm about to pass out I hear the door smash and being hit by splinters of the wood door. I look up and there he is. Dimitri is leaning over me saying something but I can't hear it. I try to reach for him but he feels too far and then I'm out.

*beep beep beep*

I'm awoken by the sound of hospital monitors beeping. It takes me a moment to realize it but the bright white walls of a hospital room confirm it. My eyes adjust to the light and I take a look around the room. Empty no one here. I unattach my IV. Helping in the pack hospital as a teen taught me something. I know this is our pack hospital so that's good. I don't know what happened but I feel different. Somehow I feel weaker even though I'm not in any pain.

"Katya?" I call but my calls for my wold go unanswered. It feels like I'm just repeating her name in my head.

She's gone. I look down at my hands in shock. I was human. Not just wolfless but human.

"Aurora?" I hear a familiar voice behind me. It sounds like him but I can't sense him. I turn to make sure and my heart drops. Dimitri. It's him. The same handsome man from before but now without the scent or pull of the mate bond. His face looks at me and I can tell he already knows. He knows what I've just discovered. We are no longer mates.

I burst into tears. I used to be so strong and now I was weak. Everything in me wanted to give up and if I let it I would be in trouble. But why shouldn't I let it? I'm no longer a werewolf which means I am no longer a part of the pack. That also means I'll no longer be the Luna. And I lost Dimitri. I lost him without either of us dying.Oh my goddess. Cassian, Dimitri's beast. He must be in turmoil.

"Aurora, I know, I know, we'll fix this I promise." He was rubbing my back and consoling me. It didn't feel like anything other than anyone else's hand, which hurt my heart even more. I lean my face into his chest. After what seems like forever I finally calm myself.

"What happened to me?" Those are the only words that I could squeak out before tears filled my eyes again.

"We don't know exactly but we think Alpha Jaxon somehow managed to poison you." Dimitri replies.

"He killed Katya. She's gone. My beautiful wolf just gone." I can feel the panic and sorrow bubbling up inside me again. He wraps me in his arms and although the bond isn't there, it feels nice.

"No. We don't know she's gone. She could just be dormant. We will find a way to get her back, Aurora. I promise we won't stop." Dimitri holds my face in both his hands, forcing me to look at him.

"I do, Dimitri. She's gone. I'm human." Dimitri lowers his head in sorrow, I think. No mate bond makes it feel like I don't know what he's thinking at all.

"This doesn't change anything." Dimitri states.

"It changes everything, Dimitri." There's no way things would stay the same. I can't protect my pack so I can't be Luna. I can't protect myself, which will only hurt anyone around me. I'm going to have to use the only strength I have left and protect everyone I love.

"What are you thinking? I can see the wheels turning." Dimitri asks.

I don't say anything. I can't tell him or else he'll stop me.

"Where's Mason?" I ask, hoping to change the subject.

"Derek and him are in your room. Trying to find evidence of what happened. Been there the past three days." Dimitri replies.

"Wait, I've been out for THREE days?? And you still don't know how he poisoned me?" I panic.

"Sorry, no we haven't. We can't figure out how he got to you. Someone else must've snuck it in. We will figure it out." Dimitri was still sounding like there was options. There isn't. I'm a human and there's some laws even the Lycan King can't break.

"You know the law, Dimitri." I say urging him to brace the elephant in the room.

"Doesn't matter. You were mine, you will always be mine." Dimitri grabs my face and places a kiss on my lips. Great kiss but I've had the kiss with a mate bond. It wasn't the same. "I won't have any talks of laws or of being human. We need to focus on stopping Alpha Jaxon. He must have something big planned if he was willing to kill your wolf."

"You're right. When can I leave here?" I ask, feeling blasé. I didn't feel anything now. Numb.

"I'll go get the dr and see if you're good to go." I nod and he gets up and leaves. Leaving me alone but without Katya, it's utterly alone. I took her for granted. I had been pushing her out since Dimitri showed up. She was so excited to have found our mate. She was going to be happy and I think I was going to be happy with Dimitri too, but now I was going to be alone.

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Back at the packhouse I could feel all the stares. All the looks that portray sadness with a hint of pity. They knew. The rumor mill has been churning out my predicament and it was all true. They still were greeting me as their Luna but I knew that it wasn't going to stay that way. When Dimitri showed up people would whisper about me no longer being Luna but they were happy, at least from what I could pick up on, that I would be their Queen. Now it's sadness of me not being anything.

Dimtri hasn't let me out of arms reach since we got back. Following me around like something worse is going to happen. But at this point the only thing worse is my death but somehow it's also not. I haven't seen Mason or Derek yet. I was hoping for something familiar, I was hoping to see my family.

I was sitting in the kitchen on an island stool. It was currently empty of any staff and that seemed odd. Are they avoiding me? Dimitri was busy typing something out on his phone on the stool beside me.

"Where is everyone?" I ask, breaking the silence.

"They are still under quarantine." Dimitri replies coldly, not even looking up from his phone.

"I'm sorry Dimitri but I know all of our staff. None of them would do this." I touch his shoulder to get him to look at me. He meets my eyes and places his phone on the counter.

"We can't take that chance Aurora. It very possible it was slipped into some food or a drink." Dimitri ran his hands through his hair before reaching over and grabbing mine.

"I didn't even eat that night, and the last drink I had was from Mason. It wasn't any of my staff. I would bet my life on that."

"I"M NOT WILLING TO DO THAT!!" Dimtri bursts out standing in a show rage. "I'm not willing to lose what is mine."

"Was. I was yours. Now I'm no ones." I say hanging my head hiding my tears again.

"No, You are still mine." Dimitr starts to come towards me when he suddenly stops. His eyes glaze over and I see he's getting a mindlink. Another thing I can't do anymore.

"I'm sorry. I have to go." He comes and kisses me on the top of my head and leaves.

I've never really had silence. But now its all around me.