Mated or fated? (Completed Book #5 of the blood moon saga)

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We jumped up

"Get to the kids protect them we are under attack"

Caden and Baylee stood up with Lola and James. Mum and dad ran inside to get the kids to safety. Brian was by my side as Xavier ran off alone. I growled pissed that he would leave me when everyone else fought with their mates

Me

Why the hell is he on his own? He's acting like a damn hero!

Harper

A hero that's going to get himself killed

Me

Should we go to him

Harper

No! I'm not letting you die because he's stupid he wants to die let him I f*****g still hate him anyway! You stay by Brian's side. At least he didn't leave us

Tables and chairs flew in every direction as panicked parents lifted their kids and pushed them into the packhouse. The smell of rot filled the air as rouges came in every direction surrounding us

We jumped into battle and I ignited my hands and arms jumping from rogue to rogue Breaking their necks. 4 surrounded me. I let them touch me pretending to surrender but when they touched me I ignited my skin and let them feel the full effect of my fire.

I grabbed one's throat with my hands and burned through his neck, his head fell to the ground in front of us. Shocking the other 3 long enough for me to break their necks.

When they were dead I circled trying to see who needed my help. Xavier was fighting on his own. But I see Benji run to him to fight by his side but Brian was overwhelmed.

I jumped into his fight where he was completely surrounded. If I wasn't so panicked I'd be in awe of him. His skills were amazing, up there with Caden and Baylee. I broke 3 of their necks as he worked to break the other 4 and gave me a wink when we were done.

He fought by my side, never leaving me, helping me kill rogue after rogue. I was shocked at the sheer volume of rogues. But I was never afraid. Not when Brian was by my side, like he was my other half and we just worked fluidly together. His skill far outdone mine but I did keep his back safe.

but out of nowhere a pain split through my chest so strong i screamed while it knocked me on my ass. I couldn't breathe it hurt so bad. Then I realised it was coming from the bond. What I was feeling was xaviers heart stopping.

I screamed as the pain overwhelmed me and I stood to my feet, my entire body engulfed in flames as I looked for him. Then I saw it. 3 rogues held him. One to each arm and another stabs him in the heart. I scream louder than I've ever screamed before as my heart rips into a million pieces.

I run to him as fast as my body can get to him but they rip him to pieces. They rip him limb from limb as I fall at his feet and scream.

My entire body felt like it was being burned from the inside out. Every piece of sanity ripped to shreds. I didn't even fight them. I didn't care if they killed me, I wanted to die. The pain was so bad.

I wanted this pain to stop. Every memory flooded through my mind.Even though they were the worst memories of my life the bond that connected us was there and for him to die would mean I am in constant pain forever. I would feel his death over and over again constantly until the day I day.

Harper was howling in my mind. Completely broken and destroyed. Nothing could fix this pain. Nothing could ever make this better.

We were better off dead. But as I waited for them to kill me it didn't happen. I couldn't tear my eyes from my mate who was in Bits in front of me. I screamed and sobbed wishing I could go back in time.

Unable to move or breathe.

Pain.

All I felt was life shattering pain.

Forever broken in a hell of fire.

Only when James came into my line of view did I realise I was no longer screaming but seeing his face pushed me back over the edge and I sobbed harder than before.

Seeing him alive means I'm alive.

It means he's really dead and I'm not. I'm still here and I cried not only for the pain but because I would have to spend the next 200 years alone living with it. I'd never get a break from it.

I needed to die I couldn't do this

I didn't even feel it when his arms enveloped me. I didn't hear any sounds, I couldn't smell or taste, there was no feeling in my body other than red hot poker pain. Pins with acid would have been kinder than this.

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Brian POV

my gut twisted painfully and ripped in 2 when I heard her scream. A scream so raw and full of emotion that everything around us stopped. Everyone stopped fighting and the rogues retreated at her scream.

I knew by the noise alone what had happened before I even saw it. There was nothing like the pain of losing a mate. But losing an alpha was an entirely different thing.

I followed the sound and collapsed beside her as she screamed over his lifeless broken body. Ripped into pieces in front of her eyes

I couldn't even process the pain of losing my best friend when Megan fell apart in front of me. She was completely engulfed in fire and I found it hard to stop myself from throwing myself into that fire just to ease her pain even just for a second

I didn't cry for my dead best friend.

I didn't cry for my brother.

I cried for her.

I cried that she was right in front of me but I couldn't reach out and just touch her.

Someone needed to help her.

Someone needed to take this pain away from her. I stood up and looked around the field as tears ran down my cheeks

"SOMEBODY HELP HER! Somebody please help her please! Somebody, anybody, stop her pain please"

I screamed at everyone, their eyes went from her to me as I screamed for them to do something.

Something to stop her pain.

Stop her from hurting.

I collapsed on the ground as everyone watched me Confused but I didn't care what I looked like or what I sounded like I just needed them to help her

"PLEASE PLEASE JUST HELP HER I CAN'T TAKE HER PAIN PLEASE HELP HER STOP HER PAIN PLEASE"

I sobbed into the ground. Even it was tainted with her pain. It was radiating off her in waves filling the area and shattering my soul into tiny pieces.

"I've got her Brian, i've got her don't worry I have got her"

I looked up at James. His face was broken. He felt it too, as lola fell beside me and held me but I didn't want Lola, I wanted Megan. I needed Megan

I watched as James grabbed her and pulled her onto his knee and she sobbed. She sobbed her heart out and all I wanted to do was touch her. Let her know I was there for her. Let her know I was going nowhere.

I felt arms tug at me. I pulled them off me but they came back. I looked up and it was dad trying to pull me away from her

"No I stay with her"

I said firmly. He dropped his hands and fell to his knees and held me

"I need to touch her, I need to take it from her. Please someone take this pain from her, I can't bare it"

"I didn't know. I didn't know"

"Please help her, please"

I cried watching her, never taking my eyes off her burning body, I needed to help her. I need to touch her and take the pain. Harden howled in my head he needed to touch her too. He needed to ease her and Harper's pain just as much as I needed to.

Megan's mum fell to the ground in front of me she touched me and I felt calm I pulled away

"No. Take her pain. I just need you to take her pain please help her not me! her"

"I can't until the fire burns out"

I sob and look at her. Even engulfed in flames and crying she is the most beautiful person i've ever met. My mind goes back to that first day. The first moment I saw her. The moment my entire life changed, the day that I realised I'd lived my life in a daze and in a fast second that all changed. She woke me up and brought me to life.

We walked into the kitchen and just as we did I watched a lump of toast fly past her sister's head and hit Xavier square in the face. I snorted with laughter as everyone else froze. Until I heard the most amazing sound I've ever heard in my life. It was like music to my ears.

My eyes connected with hers and I knew I was going to love this girl and I couldn't help but laugh with her. She snorted like a little pig and it was infectious. I instantly loved it.

Then she stopped and her face distorted and a look of horror crossed her features. I wanted to kill the reason behind her face contorting like that.

Then I heard the words that devastated me.

Broke me.

"Mate"

And it suddenly hit me. I was going to have to stand by and watch her love him.

Have a family with him.

All of it with him.

But then panic and fear washes over her and she jumps up and backs up like a wild animal cornered.

I looked to my best friend just as he growled at her. I wanted to punch him so bad. Why would he scare her like that? Her brother jumped to her rescue and wolf after wolf piled into the dinning hall on her command.

I didn't know if I should worship at her damn feet or be terrified that she could do that with one word. Then Xavier went to move and I watched her panicking. She didn't want this, she didn't want him not right now and he wasn't helping.

I had to hold back my own growl as he threatened her wolves. Threatened the very things that were willing to die for her. I was so glad that the alpha of alphas got up and put him in his place.

How dare he treat her like that. Why would he make her fear him? I was pissed. so I stormed out before I said something I would regret, only it occurred to me that if he didn't wise up I might never see her again.

I might never get to be a part of her life, I might not be the one in her bed, but I could be her best friend, I could make her happy in other ways. I could make her laugh like that everyday.

That's the moment I decided I would help him even though he didn't deserve it right now. Not after how he reacted to her fear. But I would help him make her happy. But then I heard a bike and everything inside me told me she was leaving

My wolf screamed to run as fast as I could and stop her before we never saw her again. Or never hear that laugh.

I sprinted to her and she was just as amazing as I remembered. She heard me out and her features softened and she smiled at me.

Me.

She smiled at me.

When she took me on her bike I nearly had a damn heart attack. I almost peed myself, but her laugh made it all worthwhile.

Then when she faced off with him she gave him cheek. She put him in his damn place so quickly I never fell faster or harder than I did at that moment.

I was still pissed at him so I followed her. I got to touch her and she was happy to let me. He didn't like it but he made his bed so he had to learn to lay in it.

I couldn't keep my eyes off her. She was amazing and she decided to give him a chance. I knew I was going to have to watch her love him and that hurt, but if it made her happy that was just a small price to pay.

And when they disappeared that night I just knew what was happening and it felt so wrong. My chest physically hurt knowing what was happening and I hated it so I drank way too much and kissed the first girl I could find.

I didn't care who she was but I needed for the ache in my heart to stop but it didn't work. Eventually it fizzled out and when she tapped me on my shoulder I pulled her into a hug and brought her with me

But I knew right then and there something was wrong. She had been crying that much was obvious and the way she clung to me scared me.

I could smell blood on her and my own started to boil but I couldn't react around her because she was already afraid. It radiated from her and I just knew what he had done.

I could see it written all over her face as her arms clung to me. She was in pain as well. I watched her flinch and it took everything in me not to kill him right then and there.

How could he hurt her? No never mind that, He tried to break her and I would kill him for it.

I wasn't letting her go anytime soon. She told me I was going to pack her room and I was Intrigued to see what her life looked like, but when she refused to let him touch her and she wrapped her body around mine she started to relax and I realised just how terrified she had been. She fell asleep in my arms and when I knew she was sleeping I glared at the bastard.

"What the f**k did you do to her! How could you, you sick f**k! She is your mate. I should f*****g kill you for this"

"What is your deal with her? She's my mate not yours and what happens between us is between us"

"No. Not when she is bleeding. Not when she is scared. It's been hours and I can still smell the blood. What the f**k did you do that has her bleeding this long"

He growled at me

"Don't concern yourself with my mate"

"I'll do what I have to do to protect my Luna and don't f*****g forget it! Now explain what the f**k happened!"

He slapped his hands against his head and sighed.

"Look, she wanted everything we did. She is mine and I can do what I want with her and now she's marked"

He was a sick bastard and if she wasn't so peaceful I'd have killed him right then and there. How had I been blinded by that my whole life? How have I not seen this side of him? Blinded by our brotherhood and f****d up past. But not anymore. Now I would see him for everything he was and I wouldn't let him do it anymore.

"Did you at least ask for permission? The way she's acting proves otherwise!"

"Why would I ask to take what is mine! She is mine and burks, not yours"

"And who was incharge! You or that asshole? And don't pretend to me that you don't know what's happening when he takes over. we both know you do and you enjoy it just as much as he does, you might be able to lie your way out of it with other people but we both know the truth so f*****g tell me did she tell you no!"

He chuckled. The bastard chuckled. Then shrugged

"I didn't give her the chance to say no, but don't worry she loved every second of it"

I growled and punched him as hard as I could.What did that even mean! Did it mean he forced her? Either way the answer pissed me off.

"You will not touch her ever again without her permission. Count your lucky stars she's still allowing you to live, if her family found out you would be so f*****g dead right now just the way you deserve to be. Touch her again I'll kill you myself and until she says so I'm not leaving her alone with you"

After that I committed every beautiful feature to memories and I relaxed with her lavender scent filling me up. I made a vow in that moment that I would never let him harm her again

When I woke up on top of her and I saw what she had done to Xavier I couldn't contain my laughter until I realised she had done it to me too.

I chased her through the house while she laughed that perfect laugh and when her brother told us she wasn't behind his chair she snorted like a pig and I couldn't contain my laughter any longer until her brother laughed.

He laughed at our expense but he did. Everyone was quiet but him as we listened to his laugh and I saw it all over her face just how much that meant to her and I was so happy I forgave her for drawing on my face.

If it made him laugh like that then it was all worth it. And when I saw her naked my heart nearly fell out of my ass. She was drop dead gorgeous and even though it was wrong I wanted to commit it to memory.

That night when he hurt her playing the game, have you ever. He hurt her heart because of that slag Ronnie and I couldn't even sit beside him any longer.

I needed to help her. I needed to ease her pain from my douche of a best friend. Not that he wasn't my friend anymore. The man I used to know would never harm a head on his mate's head. This man was a disgusting excuse of a man

When she settled in my arms and fell asleep I felt complete.

"You're pissed at me too, aren't you?"