Infinite Bonds

Chapter 3

I am standing in our voluminous training center enjoying the performance. We are the largest pack on the West coast of North America, and we are preparing for the pack games. Victory is our destiny. I am the Alpha heir and soon all this will be mine. I look over at my father as he proudly watches his warriors prepare. This seems to be the only place where I ever see him smile. I see my best mate and future Beta Dylan furiously take down his opponent. He raises his hands in victory and gives me a big smile. I know just how to wipe that smile off his face. Dylan is my complete opposite day to my night. All the pack women go crazy for Dylan and he isn’t even a full wolf. His blond hair and ice blue eyes always have a twinkle. I must laugh because those eyes that are warm and twinkly become a tumultuous storm when Dylan is in warrior mode. After receiving a shoulder squeeze and head nod from my father Dylan heads over to me. I am about to give him some dap when my eyes roll back in my head and I feel my body being physically pulled out of this room and away to another land.

I am having a waking dream I feel my body become light and I do not feel pain my eyes begin to search, and I blink rapidly to bring the picture before me into full focus. Its her my “Mystery Girl”. I have never seen her like this before. She is aglow with power and it is radiating all throughout her body. I watch her wrathful take down of a male and she is stealth and resplendent. Her copper hair is flying all over the place and she is hyper focused on her prey. She begins to pound his face and body and I can see the blood droplets spaying everywhere. The others in the pack once they recover from their gross miscalculation finally begin to pull her off the male. She releases a thunderous growl that would make any Alpha submit. I can see from her expression that she is horrified. She makes a mad dash out of the small training center and I must really turn it up to keep up the pursuit. I begin to feel fright and despondency. I know these are not my feelings. They must be hers. My heart begins to prick with pain. She is magnificent and her hurt and pain causes me significant pain. This isn’t the first time she has been in pain. She has not had a kind life. I have felt her agony many times throughout our encounters. She is lonely. This year I haven’t been around as much preparing for my decent to Alpha. She is my world. My tether to this world.

I approach her softly when I see her staring at her reflection at the waters edge. She is blocking me. She is blocking everyone. She has never put any kind of impediment between us before. I must let her know that I am here. We haven’t had much physical touch throughout our whole relationship. What we share is very much a relationship. I know everything about her inside and out. We are two halves that make a whole. She is my twin flame. My heart beats the same rhythm as hers. Recently our contact has become stronger. I can physically feel her when she is near me and when we touch the currents of electricity sing in my body causing me a pleasure I have never known. I focus hard and stretch my hand out and let it rest on her cheek. I see the awareness in her beautiful amber eyes. Her eyes are glowing and that electrical energy that I saw surging through her becomes almost nuclear. I close my eyes and moan escapes from my lips. The pulses of energy that are afflicting my body are delectable. I center myself and when I open my eyes, I see hers are still closed. She is mine and I am hers.

“My Love” I ask her, and I realize with true conviction that she is my love. She is my True Mate and I am hers. When she opens her eyes, I see the fervor of her love for me. I see her earnestness and rapture. I am completely undone. I bring my body close to hers and I can feel the heat radiating off her body. It is rolling in waves all around us. There is nothing there she is all I see our bodies begin to glow when I press my body deeper into hers our joining marks are on fire. My heart begins to race so fast I feel as though it will launch out of my chest. When our eyes meet I see a lifetime waiting for me. I am home and I never want to leave this place. She places an elegant hand upon my mark and the feeling is complete ecstasy and utter abandonment. We are transported. Just when I know I cannot take anymore without completely absorbing her inside of me I am rocked into consciousness. My arms are empty my lids are black, but I hear an urgency in the voice that is calling to me.

“Neo!!! Neo wake up please?” I must force my eyes open I look up into the eyes of my father. He was pleading to the mother for my return. I am angry with him because I want so badly to go back to that place. Nothing exists outside that place. Where I was so full and alive, I now feel deflated and numb.

“Neo, thank the Mother you have returned to us.” There is a desperation in his uttered prayer. This allows some dispensation to my anger. I am still not delighted to be back here.

“I thought we lost you, your body was on fire I have never felt such an immense heat. Are you okay my son?”

My throat feels parched from a thirst I haven’t quenched. “I’m fine Alpha” I croak out

“You don’t have to call me Alpha son” He shakes his head with humor and relief.

“I want you to go see the pack physician son I have never seen anything like this before. Your body was quacking, we have been trying to bring you back for the last 20 minutes”

Twenty minutes I have been gone for twenty minutes. “No dad I am fine. There is someone that I must see though” When I look up at his face, I can see the recognition light his eyes. There is touch of sadness in his smile, but he nods his head in acknowledgement.

“Dylan, can you help me up?” I stretch my palm towards my mate and he gratefully grab my hand and pulls me to upright. I do not feel dizzy, but I feel hollow. I rub the center of my chest at my mark and I can still feel the heat that was there, but it is no consolation for the depletion I feel from the loss of Her. My love, my life, my Mate.

“Do you need to lean on me?” Dylan asks with concern etched across his face.

“No Dylan I do not need to lean on you.” I look at him and smirk the concern evaporates. He knows that I am alright. I playfully push him away from me all my strength returning. One though is prevalent in my head. “Mom” I need to talk to my Mom she is the only one who truly and completely understands about My Mate. It is the only time that there is life in her when I relay the stories about “My Mystery Girl”. Every other interaction with my mother is lifeless. She has become lifeless. She is feeble and lays in a room day and night. She hasn’t left the bed that she is held captive in since I was six years old. At least that is the longest I can remember. I have no memories before the age of six everything is black. I only remember her as a zombie until the first time I mentioned my sleeping and waking dreams. When I tell her what “My Mystery Girl” looked like and the things that we did together in my sleeping and waking dreams there is light in her eyes, color in her cheeks, and that is the only time she has any interaction with me and I used to live for it. I do not anymore because next week I will be eighteen years old. I will inherit this pack and become a Supreme Alpha like my father before me and his father before him. It is as inevitable as is the Girl in my sleeping and waking dreams is my destiny. She is my Life now. When I look down at our shared mark there is now a braided bond in the center of my mark. Even the mark knows it we are constrained and enslaved by this infinite bond.