The Alpha's Runaway Mate

WHAT CAN BE DONE?

Edward's POV

"Angel?!, ANGEL... Open your eyes" When she didn't I felt so much fear, something was awfully wrong. All evening she had felt wierd but nothing that could really lead to her passing out all of a sudden after one step. "Nathaly, darling please come back, look at us!" pleaded her mother while holding her hands an inch away from her face. Then I looked up for a second and saw my second and third in command looking worried at their unmoving Luna, her dad and brother started talking to an omega I recognized, she escorted my mate to her room the first time she fainted in my arms. They were calm, but their stance was authoritarian, they were looking for answers. Then I saw her brother mindllink someone and approach her sister.

"She is... something is wrong, I can't get to her" that was all Aran needed to jump into actioin, both of us growled.

"Where is the hospital?" and her brother rushed me back to packhouse, through hallways I had seen with her not so long ago, and both of us started uding our wolf's speed, because the second we looked down at her a side from the vulnerability and uneasiness she showed her cheecks had gone paper white and her heat was starting to fade from her body. 'What on the name of the Goddess is going on with her Aran?' I knew my words holded confusion and fear, fear of loosing my other half, from loosing the one thing I had looked for so long. 'Mate dying' I noticed Aran was angry, as he growled his answer, and then I knew he feared to loose her and wanted to go and hunt down whoever dared to do this to our mate, our angel, our life. When I noticed we were close, I sensed the potent presence of antiseptics and antibiotics I ran even faster on that direction and barged inside the pack's hospital. Her brother had mindlinked them before we got here, so they were ready, but when someone tried to touch her I growled, after a few seconds I noticed it was a nurse that even though she was scared wasn't about to let me keep her from saving Nathaly.

"Alpha trust me, I will take good care of her, we will do our best to save her"

I looked back to my pale and weak mate, and rested her gently on the stretcherthey brought, and like that my mate disappearedinside a room. It felt like an eternity when the doctor came out, his face was grim, and his eyes holded deep concern, she is not okay, she is not getting any better... I tried to keep my composture, but couldn't help to throw myself on a chair and rub my temple with exasperation. Why is she not okay?! Why isn't she coming back to me?!

"Do you have the glass you told me about?" I hadn't really seen her parents before this moment, the holded anger in their expresions, and hurt forwhat  their child was going through right now.

"Here is it" and they handed the glass of champaign, still almost full of the liquid.

"Is this all she took in the past hours?" WHY is this taking so long?!

Now I snapped, anger dripping from my words "This is everything she drank, two f***ing sips, and look at her, now take the d**n glass and save her" the doctor looked and left. When I looked around me her parents expressions were the ones that strocke me the most. They had anger and hatred clear on their eyes, and their lips were thin rigid lines, I knew that feeling all too well, they wanted blood for what had been done to their daughter, they wanted the responsable to suffer. Her brother'[s face was an angry one, he couldn't stand watching his sister die knowing that her killer was loose and free from punishment, while his Lna was on the verge of tears, from anger, frustraition and impotence. On the other hand Axel and Darrin loked down at me expecting orders, "Do we know who did this?" my voice was harsh and murderous.

"Hannah herself captured him, it was an intruder in middle of the waiters, right now we had him locked up in the dungeons" said the former Alpha, his face had changed from anger to pure hatred towards the creature that had the guts to threaten his daughter's life.

'Go and make that b***ard incapable of escaping' I told both of them, and with a silent nod asked for the Alpha's permission to enter the dungeons and 'talk' to the prisioner. They were going to induce that ass***e in so much pain he will beg them for mercy and they will deny that from him, just as he denied the same courtesy to their Luna.

I noticed all of them wanted to s*******r the man who had their dear family go through this much pain, but kept their masks on for the sake of the pack, through them the pack members around them could be angry but would stay calm and work swiftly in order to save their beloved member. This was a lesson that was being taght right now by the former Alpha and Luna to their successors, because they could have left Nathaly in the hands of the doctors, the Alpha, the Luna and her mate but instead they stayed here, their calm in the middle of this storm allowed the new Luna to keep her head held high and her tears in her eyes, while for the Alpha it stopped him from running to the dungeons and hurt the b****rd that had injured his sister.

I can only imagine the amount of restrain that Alpha Peter and Luna Asil had, the stood impassive in the hallway waiting to hear something, anything about their child's state. But deep down I knew they wnated to make that man regret with every ounce of his body whta he had done. As a child I had heard stories about the brutality of the Silver Crimson Pack punishments and tortures, how they made traitors cry out their motives, beg for mercy, and then be killed slowly while they made them hear their mate's rejection. Those punishments where done to people who had committed crimes against the pack, but there was no previous record of what had happened to someone that dared threaten the Alpha's family directly. I can barely imagine what would they do to him, if I am already designing the perfect slow and most painful torture I can muster in order to make him tell me who had sent him to hurt my angel, and then give him a slow torturing dead. My thoughts were interrupted by the doctors hopeless expression.

"I have... news" this can't be right, I would do anything, give anything just for her to come back to me, I need her like the air I breath, and now I am staring into the eyes of a man that is about to tell me I will have to let her go?!

He continued after the new Alpha gave him a silent nod. "Miss Nathaly has been poisoned, we haven't been able to determine what it is, most probably it is a mixture of various substances, we have tried everything, from filtering her blood to antidotes, and nothing seems to be working out. By each minute her state worsens... and her heart grows weaker"

"She is dying" said with a broken voice her sister in law, and the doctor nodded grimmly.

"What can be done Matthew?" those were the first words that her brother muttered after getting here.

"Medically, nothing. But Muria thinks a certain ritual could save her" from behind the doctor a Moon High Priestess showed up. She bowed to the Alpha and Luna, and looked at all of us, making sure she had all our attention. She was a young women, just a bit alder than the former Luna, was wearing a long black dress that was decorate like the sky with shining stones al over it, and her hair was left loose crowned with a simple tiara that in the middle holded a little full moon on it as her her earings and bracelets.

"What could we do to save her?" I said almost pleading.

"The Bloodbonding Ritual could be just the thing", a ritual that human werewolf matebond went through in order to turn the human into a werewolf. "But this one would be different, I would drain half of her blood and half of her mate's blood. It has never been done, and it would be completely different from any other Bloodbonding, this instead of strenghtening them it would weaken them, and it could even kill her mate"

'We would rather die than live in a world without her on it, if we loose her we would loose our minds and go berserck, someone else would have to kill us, and our pain would endure until they manage to end our miserable existence', I guess that in this case we agree, Nathaly ha to live, regardless of the cost we may have to pay. "Farther explain what we would have to do please Priestess" her face lighted a bit, with something like hope.

"Alpha, your live is the most at peril, because your blood would start healing her immediatly it entered her system, but you will have to endure an excruciating pain when her blood starts filling you because it would bring the venom directly to your veins. The fact alone that we would be taking half of your blood is dangerous enough to both of you, then it is this thing, we are not going to fill you entirely after the bonding, only seven partes of your tenhold would be filled, therefore you will be weak and vulnerable until your organisms accept the bloodbonding. Basically, this is the most lethal Bloodbonding that has ever been done, as I said there are no previous records of anything like this being tried before so the danger you are taking is even bigger"

After a few silent moments, we gave our answer, not that I doubted doing the ritual for my sake but for for hers, all I could think of was her surviving.

"Can you promise she would survive?" I looked deep into her grey eyes, begging for an impossible answer.

"I am sorry Alpha, that's not something I can promise, but I assure you I will do my best to bring back your mate and Luna" that would have to suffice.

"Let's do it, as soon as possible"

"She is weak, she won't last until tomorrow night" said the doctor.

"We still have time before the moon reaches it's peak tonight, take them to the cave"

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We were taken to a big cave, deep carved in the stone, in the middle of the chamber was a moon embedded into the stone that had carved on it lines and cicles that were clearly mirroring the moon stages, and it had two slightly higher sections where both mates had to lie. The Piestess explained to me that when the moon touched the rock they would start draining my mate's blood and it would flow through the irregularities of the stone, and my blood will flow to her in a direct channel underneath the floor, and while my blood entered her system hers would start coming inside mine as well. I was told that usually this ritual was pleasing and sweet, because it turned the mates into one and strenghtened their bond incredibly.  High  Priestess Muria, on our way here, with my mate on my arms, looked at me sadly and said that I should get ready for an unmessurable amount of pain because I would start feeling her pain, and then I would embrasse what was hurting her in order to cure her, and that would hurt more than anything I had ever felt.

We were ready for the ritual and all I could do was look at my mate, my dying mate, I will have her back and I will never allow anybody to hurt her again, never again. I turned and saw that the Priestess was gettinh a silver dagger ready for the ritual, and bowls full of salt and a mixture of herbs. When Muria noticed that the moonlight was about to get to the moonshaped stone she entered the circle with the bowls and the dagger.

Immediatly the moonlight touched the stone I felt hundreds of needles pierce my skin, and saw how Muria was cutting deep into my mate's flesh as the altar started flodding with her blood, she was being cut every where, her neck, her arms, her torso and legs were all letting go a river of her blood, I tried to move, but the dizziness caused by the amount of blood I was losing only allowed me to look to her already pale figure go paler and paler.

Several minutes went by my head was spinning, my whole body was weak, I felt every single part of my body freezing, I wasn't sure how I wasn't already unconscious. And then I saw my mate open a little her eyes, at thet second I felt and amount of pain that was nearly unbearable, that's when I saw it, she had woken up due to the pain that caused the mixture of the salt and herbs on the cuts Muria made al over her body. She wanted to scream, but was so wick that she only let out gasps of pain. My blood should be flowing into her now, and as well hers into me, that's why I can feel her pain burning on my skin, it feels like if the silver had pierced my skin a thousand times, and now every single one of it's piercings was being held open by someones fingers, then I felt the salt and herbs being purred in the wounds, it burned worse than fire on my skin, suddenly it started, flowing through my freezing pale limbs first, her blood, it caused me to wince, it was destroying my body from inside and I felt how my heart's pace tried to go faster, but the bloodloss had left him too weak, the world was spiraling around me, it was as if I could feel the world moving around us and I felt my head was about to explode, my eyelids were heavy, but refused to close and leand me a bit of relief in darkness, at the same time I watched how my mate shed little tears of pain, without sobs, but none of us could move. I felt the cold moonlinght showering us, and looked how in meddle of my unfocused sight it made my mate look even paler, and let her tears and blood shine while the last of the blood that had been sucked out from each of us entered our bodies.

The Bloodbinfing Ritual ended and the deedles that had pierced my flesh to get my blood transfered to my mate's weakened frame. I was definitely weakened and couldn't make myself stand, but when I saw my mate, she was breathing better, and a bit of color had returned to her cheecks, the ritual had worked, and we were both alive. I started to give in to the appeals of my poisoned and destroyed body when my mate started moving frantically, and her wounds started reopening, I saw red when her blood began to flow again dangerously. I wouldn't let her get her, I wouldn't let her die, there was no chance I would let her slip away from me again.

In an ungraceful movement I stood up and got on top of her, with my last bit of strength I grabbed a hold of her arms and legs, making her stop hurting herself. After that last action I felt myself difting away while the Priestess and her family ran to help seal her bleeding injuries. I rested my head on her chest, praying to our Goddess to please take care of her, to please deliber her from any harm. I heard her heart beating in a steady rithm, and that made my wolf purr lowly, our mate was safe, she wasn't leaving us to madness and misery.

We snapped our face up by one excruciating scream from her, provoqued by the salt and herbs being poured in her wounds. She screamed in pain, and her eyes looked feral, even if I wasn't able to see her previous sweet and kind dark brown eyes I knew she still was my mate, my angel, the only person I would give my live for with no questions aked, and then I understood I was looking into the eyes of my mate, as a full again in front of me, my wolf howled in content and even through the soreness of our body we looked deep into her eyes and whispered "Calm down Angel, you are safe now", that made her relax under our grip and she breathed heavily under us while wincing through the pain her wounds caused her, but not even for one second did we brocke eye contact. This seemed to ease her a bit, and I felt fire runing through my skins wherever our bodies were in contact, it wasn't hurting me, it was more like warming us up, and meant to show us that we were meant to be together forever. This time she felt it too, her eys stated glowing a bit more black and leaned her forehead against my chest, after that I just felt all my energy being drained from my whole body, and collapsed by her side not before I made sure I wasn't hurting her. The last thing I felt was my tiny mate cuddle softly by my side, letting me fell her arms around my chest and her head bellow my chin, that way she allowed me to give into my tireness with her scent intoxicating the air around us, and I felt that she was taking deep breaths in my chest, getting to know my scent. I wonder what do I smell like for her?