My Merciless Alpha Mate

Chapter 9

As much I loved Violet's company, I did deeply miss my family. I wanted my mother to soothe me telling to was all going to all right and I will make the right choice in time. I needed hear the words 'You are strong, Athi. I know you will succeed!' from my father. I needed the encouragement from them. I know Zayden was the half to make me whole through souls, but I liked to believe it was family that empowered your heart to make you whole. My family helped me forget the pain of missing home for some time. I wanted to be in my mother's embrace. A sudden strong type of necessity for my father's advises and protection overwhelmed me. I needed them like never before.

"Violet.." I said her name quietly to grab her attention.

"Yeah?" She answered immediately.

"Have you seen my family? I need to talk with them, please." I gave her a weak smile. The information I gained from her had emotionally drained me, too many thoughts were swirling in my head at once.

As I asked, the glow in her eyes disappeared into the mist of darkness, as she hid the answer. But I knew from the sudden change nothing something was terribly wrong. I felt myself gulp and the smile that once stretched my lips shrunk away, allowing a shaky breath to leave through them as they parted in fear.

Why wasn't she answering me?

While I knew something had gone wrong, I didn't want to accept that, I prayed they were safe.

"Violet please answer me.." I asked, a soft whimper left my lips. As much as I tried to hold back another round of unshed tears, I knew this time I wouldn't be able to hold them.

"Athi your family..." She started but never finished. A wall of hesitance and unsureness built up in her eyes. She didn't want to the bearer of bad news, but I deserved to know. That was my family!

"Violet just tell me, please." I begged.

I watched as she gulped, "Athina, those rogues from yesterday...they kidnapped them.." Her words strike me like lightening cause a tightness in my chest that prevented me breathing the air. At first, I wanted to laugh at the cruelness of what fate had given me and now..no, I wanted to scream until I had lost my voice.

"M-My family...why?"

At this point, I didn't know what came from my mouth, the only think on my mind was my parents and brother me going through. If I had a mere claw mark on my arm, what torture were they under?

As the seconds passed, I felt numb pain on head that started to spin the world around me. The dizziness caused me to loose the balance I had on myself. One second, I was sitting the next, my head was hanging off the bed. The patterns on the floor starting dancing, playing with my mind.

I could hear Violet's very indistinct voice, but I couldn't understand what she was saying. I felt her hand on my shoulder trying to push fully back onto the bed. But my body seemed have a mind of its as it shut away my aching brain and tried placing both my feet on the ground.

"Athina! Stop!" Violet's voice came clear, before it quickly became unclear again. Her voice muffled and indistinct, like I was under water. The blurriness in my eyes was the warning I needed to sit it and not move, my body, however, seems to have ignored all the warnings and signs. I could hear the annoying sound of monitors beeping alarmingly, a sound that shot clear through my head only worsening the ache. The scream that escaped my lips wasn't like any other. It was cry, not only for help, but also for the fear of this fate. This fate had endangered the lives of those I love and cherish. This fate that gave me a man who trusts and accepts no one but himself.

I could no longer bear the ache the monitors brought, with something along the lines of a cry and a frustrated scream, I pulled off the wires and needles that connected to my skin. Violet's protests and stern voice was there, but I did not understand what she was saying, all I could focus on was the pain and adrenaline that rushed together.