Born on the Blood Moon

Chapter fifty eight

Everyone is starting to organize what they need to do and getting into motion, but as hard as my mate tries to hide it I can feel his distress. Putting my hand on his back, he calms down turning to me I whisper only for him, "we will make it through this."

Raven holds me tightly and I hold on to him too, I know he feels like it's all starting to slip away and that frightens him. He's had nightmares about it, about us being taken from him. He fell asleep in his office a few nights ago and had a nightmare. That our unborn pup and I didn't make it, that we were taken from him.
He had run up the stairs and raced to our room startling me from my sleep.
I wish I could take away his anxiety and overwhelming fear of losing us but I can't.

All I can do is comfort him and do my damnedest to survive. I will not leave my family to the mercy of those that would hurt them. I will protect what's mine, and God help those dumb enough to test me.

After the meeting is through everyone leaves to get to work, but I hang back and Sabrina does as well. Resuming our seats she begins to elaborate on the story she mentioned before.

Sabrina's POV

"Well Scarlett as you requested let me tell you about Al.

I first met him when we were pups, he was six and I was four. We were in the same pack growing up. He was my first friend, actually he turned out to be many of my firsts, not my FIRST though that was my mate."

She doesn't interrupt, but I can see the question of who my mate is and where is he burning her tongue but I continue with my story.

"Like I said Al...Al was many firsts for me, we...we had thought we would be mates too. But when he turned eighteen he met Rebecca, she was a human, she was beautiful and very kind.

I was sad for me but happy for Al, Becca made him so happy, they got married soon after.
They tried to start a family but were having trouble, after six years of trying they finally conceived. Becca was pregnant with a daughter, Sara.
But life isn't always fair, Becca died during childbirth and Al lost Sara too.

Becca had an aneurism and Sara had a rare form of brittle bone disease.

I only heard this from him after the fact mind you, at the time of these events I was no longer a part of that pack. I had met my mate two years after Al got married.

Rafy...Rafy was my mate, oh that man I tell you was so handsome, we met when I was visiting a cousin of mine who had joined the pack Rafy was from because his mate was there.

We got married soon after meeting, and I got pregnant right away. We had a son, Milo." I stopped for a second to blow my nose.

Taking out my locket I turn to Scarlett and show her the pictures of my husband and son.

"This is my mate and my pup," I hold out my locket and she looks at them with a smile.

"They are both very handsome," she says handing me my locket and I kiss the pictures and put it back on.

"Yes.....ok back to the story, after Al and Even lost Becca and Sara, he came looking for me. I think he was hopeing I would be his second chance mate.

When he found me I was out with my son, and he was quite surprised. He congratulated me on my family and I told him how sorry I was for the loss of his. Becca had been a good woman and would have been an amazing mother.

He had dinner with us that night and left the next day. But tragedy struck once more two years later."

I stop as tears run down my face and a sob lodges in my throat. Clearing my throat I continued.

"It had been raining a lot that day and people were too impatient," *sniff*

"Rafy had just picked up Milo from school and was going to stop to pick up dinner, I was pregnant and sick at the time." *sniff *

"The asshole who took them from me ran a red light, and was going way too fast....he killed my husband and son. Then he had the audacity to die before I could kill him!" I sob smacking the table in frustration.

Scarlett puts her arms around me pulling me into her embrace as I cry reliving the loss of my mate and my son.

"I was with Rafy's mother when it happened, they had to rush me to the hospital but I ended up losing my unborn pup and ended up in a coma."

Sniffing, I sit up and do my best to collect myself.

"When I woke Al was there with Rafy's mother, she had told him everything that happened when he came to visit us.

I had been in a coma for a month, I had missed the funerals, and Al took me to see their graves.

He and Even helped me and my wolf through that dark time, but I suspect that they wanted more than I could give.

I never looked at another man like I did my Rafy, I never wanted anyone else, not even Al. He said he understood but something tells me maybe he didn't or maybe I'm thinking too hard on this. In any case we only stayed friends. The same with our wolves. They cared for each other but my wolf only had eyes for Reyes.

I miss them so much it hurts sometimes... but Dev and our pack keep me going and now you do as well."

Turning to Scarlett I take her hands in mine, "I vow to you now I will do all I can to protect you and yours from any and all harm that I can. I don't want you to feel the loss as I have not that you haven't felt it before but you get where I'm going with this right?" I ask and bless her she nods with a look of understanding and love.

Hugging Scarlett it feels as though she is the daughter I never got to have.