Healed by the Alpha (Hunted Book Two)

Chapter Seventy Two

Dominick

Flames and fire greeted me as we appeared in a crumbled down town. There was smoke coming from cars that were turned on their backs, and the sky was thick with an orange crimson glow. This didn't look like the cute little cabins in the snow that we left behind. People were running and screaming as the Earth tore beneath their feet. Not just any people... my people. Those were my pack members. Wolves that had shifted were dodging the disaster and wolves that were too scared to, ran the opposite way. What the hell was happening? I ran towards Whitt, "what's going on?"

She looked at me, her eyes red with tears from the smoke, "they're gone. Everyone is gone." My body was as still as a statue. "What do you mean everyone is gone? Gone where? What the hell happened here?" I looked towards the woman that had travelled us here, "what happened?" Her eyes were streaming with water as she looked out at the disaster unfolding around us. "It's the dark witches," she cried, "they've managed to do it."

I turned to Whitt, who looked stricken with grief, "what did they do Whitt!" She rubbed her nose and looked around at the mess, "Logan was meeting with them, he was helping them. We all were. We thought they were the good guys." How could they let this happen? "I trusted you!" I shouted at her, "I trusted you to take care of our pack!" I was pacing, walking back and forth. Trying to make sense of this whole thing. "Why did we end up here?" I asked the moon goddess. "I wanted to see the epicentre of the problem." She spoke solemnly. "I didn't realise your pack would be so involved.

Whitt looked ashamed, "you weren't here Dom. We did everything we thought was right. But you weren't here." As I looked at all of the faces of the people running and people falling through the gaps, I saw that two people were missing.

My heart seized.

"Where are Emily and Malik?"

"They would be back at the cabins. I made the decision to see how bad it was here first."

A huge earthquake rocked the ground again and it split beneath my feet. I jumped to narrowly avoid falling through the empty space below. Just as I thought I was free, I heard a scream. My head snapped to the pace my sister was standing in moments before. Logan was crawling at the edge of an earth tear, reaching for her. I didn't think, I ran. Regardless of what he had done, he didn't deserve this, none of these people did.

I felt my heart hammering against my chest as I reached for him. I gripped his wrist as the Earth beneath him fell away, Whitt had just about managed to get his left arm when we started to pull. The more that we pulled, the more that the tarmac around my chest crumbled away and fell into the dark depths below. "Help us!" I screamed behind me at the moon goddess who was hunched over in mourning. "Help us for goodness sake!" I felt the Earth around me start to slip. We all looked below as more dirt fell below.

When I looked back, my eyes locked with Logan's. "I'm sorry. I really thought that we could trust them." I shook my head as my arm strained, scraping against the tarmac as my body edges closer to the drop. I shushed the Midnight Moon Alpha, "you didn't know. It wasn't your fault. Now come on, I'm going to try to pull you up." Logan looked at my sister, his eyes filling with tears as the floor beneath her started to crumble too.

He didn't take his eyes off her, not for a single second as he said, "take care of her Dom. She'll make a fine Alpha." With his last bit of strength he looked back up at Whitt, "see you around, Alpha Jessie Fenton." He released his hold on us and I felt as the Alpha of the Midnight Moon pack slipped through my fingers. My mouth opened and closed, trying to gulp in the air it would take me to come to terms with that. A screeching wail came from my sister as she watched her mate descend into the darkness.

She stood up and I instantly followed her, ready to catch her on her unsteady legs. "Not him, god not him." She was inconsolable. All too fast, her face changed. Her features were blank as she watched the place that her mate had taken his last breath. She spun around to face me, "why Logan?" I wish I could answer her, I would I could take away that pain. Before I could wrap my arms around her body her left leg tilted backwards, she crossed her arms over her chest and whispered, "find me, wherever I go."

I reached for her too late.

She fell.

Willingly.

A life without your mate, is no life worth living.

Like the Earth below me, I crumbled at the loss. My soundness scream rocketed through the sky. I had only just found her. I'd had my energetic, beautiful sister back in my life for mere months. The pain in my chest was crushing. It was devastating. I was furious.

All I could see was anger. All I could feel was pain. "Where is my mate!" I spat to the moon goddess. "Is this happening everywhere?" Her only reply was a nod of her head. She reached into her pocket to retrieve the amulet once more. With shaking fingers she offered it to me, fresh tears ran down her face as she took a breath, "I can't reach Ferdinand."

Oh no.

Emily.

I placed my hand over the necklace and in a split second we were taken from one horror scene to another. It was the same scenario, only much worse. I wasted no time, I scanned the face of every person that I could see. Bodies were running around me, screaming. They weren't her. Please let her be alive. Please let her be safe. Please don't let me be too late.

"Emily!" I screamed into the darkening sky. The smoke made it almost too impossible to see. "Emily!" I closed my eyes, squeezing my them shut as I shouted her name though my mind. "Emily please hear me." I felt a nudge. Then another. And another. My eyes shot open as I was my beautiful mate running towards me out of the blackening smoke. "Emily!" I cried, running towards her. Her eyes were stained with soot, her broken smile matching mine.

"I thought I'd lost you!" I shouted, running as fast as I could at her. A terrible shrieking filled my ears, I stopped and covered them from the noise. That's when I saw it. A car trying to escape the growing cracks in the ground. A car that was lifted as the crack grew deeper. I watched in frozen horror as Emily looked to her right, her eyes widened and her head snapped back to me. "Dom!" She scrunched her eyes closed and held her arms to the right as she prepared for the inevitable impact.

Her sweet voice ghosted through my head in those last seconds,

"I love you."

The car collided with her torso, sending her straight into the window screen and back onto the road again. I roared out as her body hit the pavement, cold. I couldn't remember getting to her, I couldn't remember holding her in my arms as my tears mixed with her blood and soaked through her shirt. My mate. My mate. My soul mate. Her lips were fading from their rosey colour, I watched as the pink left her cheeks. I watched as her soul no longer inhabited her body.

"Why!" I screamed to the moon goddess, but she wasn't there. No one was. Everyone was gone. Now I was utterly alone.