Justified Salvation (Completebook 4 of The Atonement Saga)

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“Of course, wait here I’ll be back in a minute”

I nod while taking a seat, my body was shaking. Still in shock after what just happened. How the hell did this happen? How? Why would she do that? I know grief is a weird thing but that was not greif, that was total lunacy and for once I’m glad she’s dead.

The doctor returns with bags and bags of blood, a drip, needles and anything else he needed.

Thankfully it doesn’t matter what blood type you are as a wolf, you have the ability to mix bloods, change the dna of yourself by marking another so it didn’t matter what kind of blood it was as long as it’s blood.

I portal us back to the house where mum was now washing down Dexter, hunter by his side silently waiting for her to finish, then she dresses him in pyjamas and lay’s him on the sofa next to hunter.

He rests his head on hunters legs, shaking and crying. Little hunter just lets him get comfortable, like they were best friends. But as mum wipes around his neck, he flinches and cries at the pain. Hunter growls at her

“Caful nana jezz”

He snaps, Carter snorts turning around as mum just looks at him in shock. He shakes his head and looks down at Dexter

“It otay I’m white here”

Dexter nods, snuggling in closer. Mum sighs

“I just need to wipe your neck baby then I won’t touch it again”

“No”

He shakes his head before continuing

“It huwts”

“Shush baby it’s ok, I’m here and I’m not leaving your side ok”

Mum pleads with him

“Why”

He whispers looking up at her with big doe eyes

“Why what?”

She asks

“Why’d she hait meh, why’d do yow lovb meh. Does dat mean yowr ma mummy now”

“Yes I do love you, I love you very much, we all do”

Mum takes the pain as the doctor places the blood transfusion into his arm. He jumps, making hunter growl at him, glaring in his direction. The doctor's eyes light up in shock at this little baby being so darn protective of his best friend.

“I’m just trying to help him, he needs blood and it might sting just a little”

The doctor tells hunter as Mum pushes hair from dexter's face

“I would like to be your mummy, would you like that?”

She asks trying to distract them

“Yep, buh I wanna forgeh”

Mum nods her head

“Well that’s what we will do, you will forget”

She kisses his head as he continues to cry silent tears. Mum looks to me

“I’ll need you, derek, Carter and me to make him forget”

She tells me as dexters eyes slowly start to close and he falls asleep. She looks to the doctor and points at him

“Not a word of this to anyone, if they ask tell them my son fell and lost a lot of blood when he got hurt, if anyone asks we adopted Dexter from the witch orphans, if they ask tell them he is both Lycan and witch and we adopted him”

The doctor nods his head

“Ofcourse”

I look to Derek and carter, they both look ill

“We need him to forget her, we need him to forget it all. I want him to think his parents died a long time ago, that we adopted him. I don’t want him knowing who Zoe is, what she did, what she said! None of it. No child should ever go through that so I need your help”

I reach out and squeeze her hand

“We can at least try”

I tell the boys

“It will work, we need the 3 of us to hold back his magic long enough for mum to get into his mind and switch his memories around”

“Lead the way”

I answer, sitting next to mum, Carter takes the seat beside me and Derek is in front of us.

“Come hunter, dexters ok now I promise but they need space so he can forget”

Adlai tells him holding out her hand, he looks between us nervously

“Downt wet him forget me?”

I smile kissing his little cheek

“Nothing in this world could ever make him forget you. I promise baby, go with mummy and when you wake up tomorrow he will be all better”

He sighs leaning down and kissing dexters sleeping head

“Wob you dexta”

We all pout at how damn sweet he is, Adlai taking him away to get him dressed for bed. When he’s gone I look back to Carter.

“Ok follow me in, when we get in we need to go to the darkest part and pull it back, then mum you can do your thing”

I feel my mist move within me before I even ask for it, it cools my body right down as the cold starts from my toes and slowly travels up my body and into my mind and fingertips.

The mist flows from within me, Carter’s mixed with mine as Derek and mum hold onto him. Our mist travels in through his mouth and nose, his eyes snap open and he gasps as his aura changes from darkness.

My mist moves his mind, like it was a string attached to wall only the wall was darkness and the string was more like dental floss than it was string.

It takes a minute and then I feel it budge as Derek joins the flight. I could see it clearly in my mind, I could feel it move and work hard. I could feel mum creep past his surroundings and slip into the back of his mind.

I hope this works and if it does I hope it sticks and doesn’t effect him. He would find out one day but today was not that day. Today he needed to never think of this again. We all did.

Soon his aura starts to lighten, turn from the black that it was to the white as the stress and memories disappear and his future begins to take a turn for the better.

As mum pulls away I pull my magic back and we let him sleep it of as the blood ran through his veins and replenished him with life’s essence once again.

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Adlais POV

I had a sobbing Hunter on my chest in our bed as I held him. We had managed to save him and no more, he was on death's door and Hunter saw it all and heard it all.

“Are you ok bud?”