PROLOGUE
"I, Luci Blackthorne, rejects you—" I wasn't done with my sentence when he started doubling over, like it actually hurt him to stand and he was gasping for air like a fish out of the water. I heard a collective gasp before I started to go towards him and suddenly, everything went black.
"I-is th-this h-how y-you f-felt w-when I d-did i-it t-to y-you?" He asked. I momentarily opened my eyes and found myself in the pack clinic and the lights blinded me so I just settled for closing them again. I felt the pressure on my hand, meaning he's holding it. I could still hear his quiet sobs as he tried to calm himself down, but to no avail.
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I was awoken by the excrutiating pain in my chest, and by several other things. The moment my eyes came into focus, I took in the scene before me, which is pure chaos.
The pack doctor is tending fantically to my mate, and the nurses were trying to assist him as best they could. My parents were crying, our siblings too, and then, dead silence that made me terrified.
"NO! NO! GODDESS, NO! PLEASE!" I said hoarsely, trying to rub the pain away from my chest, while crawling towards the bed where my mate lay motionless.
"CHARGE!"
"THERE'S NO HEARTBEAT, DOC!"
"WE'RE GOING TO LOSE HIM!"
"CHARGE!"
"s**t, I REFUSE TO LET HIM DIE!" The doctor said, trying to resucitate my mate, but we all couldn't hear any heartbeats coming from him at all, making my heart thud painfully in my chest. My dad is wailing, while daddy was desperately tring to calm him down, but he felt it too...
"NO!" I screamed and howled, I don't know for how long, I couldn't remember, but all I know is that the moment I did that, I sounded so broken, like it really wasn't me. I heard the sounds of other wolves howling with me, but they don't know how it feels like! No! They don't!
My mate, my brother, my other half, my soulmate is taken from me, all because I took him for granted. It's all my fault, all mine...