The Alpha's Chase

Chapter 37. We die..., right?

~Mila~

When I heard Asher’s message to his pack I did the same with mine only added that Asher was in charge for now and I was being benched due to my ‘condition’ What I did not anticipate were the cheers in my head by the men, they were elated by the news of the pregnancy. Later on Callum explained that this meant that they could finally rebuild after the war, perhaps not me but one of my future offspring could take over the territory. The idea of splitting up Crimson Blood and Darklight territory kept brewing in my mind. It would make sure that Asher and I would be able to spend more time together. The warriors were also very happy to have a cause again so they could fight and I felt that they were happiest when having a goal to work towards.

I dozed off a bit and woke up when I heard a soft knock on the door.

‘Can I come in?’ Kate asked from the other side.

 ‘Sure.’ I called out to her and she walked inside, closing the door behind her.

She flopped down on the bed next to me and got comfortable. After a moment of silence she said. ‘Carmine told me that I will probably feel sleepy the next one and a half months. Werewolf pregnancy and all.’

‘Yeah, Asher told me when he took me upstairs. My wolf Calia is a good help. How is yours?’

‘She likes the fact that we are pregnant but she loathes the restrictions it puts her under. She’s very strong but I’m on top of it, no more free reign until I’m ready for that. She really needs to earn my trust back after the stunt she pulled.’

‘Yeah, we wouldn’t want a return of the body snatcher.’

She laughed at my dry humor and said. ‘No way, it was bad enough the first time. Did Asher order you to stay inside as much as possible and stay out of the action as well?’ She asked curiously.

‘Something like that.’ I mumbled and said. ‘But that does not mean I’m not going to train whenever I have the time. If something does go wrong I still want to be prepared.’ I needed to get the stopping time thing under control so I could help out and having the dreams could help as well.

‘Same here. That’s why I came to you, I know you can fight. Will you teach me? I would ask Carmine but he’s kind of busy at the moment. Plus that he wants me to be extremely careful with the baby but I think it´s more dangerous when I’m not able to protect myself.’

‘Sure, that would be fun.’ I exclaimed and hugged her. ‘Are you feeling anything already? What did James say? Any clue on how far along you are?’

‘Yeah. About fifteen weeks already. Your dad was really busy but we did get to hear a heartbeat today. That felt nice.’ She touched her belly. ‘I wonder how he or she will be.’ Was I imagining things or does Kate already look really pregnant?

I still couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that I would be a parent in a few months time. It felt unreal. So to see Kate virtually glowing with excitement over the exact same thing felt very foreign to me. I looked at my friend and tried to imagine what was happening in my own womb. To no avail, it was still too fresh.

When I didn´t answer Kate looked at me knowingly. ‘So on a scale of one to ten.., how freaked out are you right now?’ While thinking of that question tears were brimming and fell down my cheeks. Kate pulled me into a big hug.

‘Eight. It’s so much to take in Katie and I don’t even have the time to take in all the changes. Sometimes I feel like I am dreaming and I’ll wake up any moment.’

‘It’s okay Mila. Those Turned won’t go anywhere. We’ve got them pinned down. Asher and Carmine are killing them as we speak so they won’t hurt anyone else. What they did to Kyle was awful, the ones who escaped were the first to die. If only we found the witch earlier we might have stopped the war beforehand because the turned would have been. Well unturned. But it’s too late now. Banes is attacking today so they cannot be helped.’

‘Wait, what?’

‘Carmine sent me here to be safe, you know that right.’

‘Yeah, I guess but what witch are talking about?’

‘The witch?’ She paused and looked at me incredulous. ‘Shenay Brown? She found a way to permanently unturn the Turned with the right enchantment but the transition takes three weeks so there was not enough time. You don’t remember? Sweety, have you gone into shock? I’m sorry I brought up Kyles death. The funeral was only yesterday.’

Something dawned on me, this wasn’t the now, this was the future. ‘Kate, what date is it today?’

A far cry distracted us and Kate ran up to the window. ‘No! It’s already starting. It’s too soon, the best fighters are trying to neutralise the Turned we have in custody! Oh goddess, they are already at the pack grounds and heading straight for the prison! We need to do something!’ The scene below was one out of your worst nightmares. Like a flood werewolves systematically took hudle after hudle until they reached the packhouse and the alpha house.     

‘Kate, what date is it!’ I yelled frustrated, instead of being scared i needed to gather as much information as I could.  

‘The seventh of January.’ She turned towards me and looked completely scared. ‘We are going to die aren’t we?’

‘We might not, what happened? Tell me quick!’ She looked at me like I was insane. ‘Please just do it! Start when we came back from Wolfs Rock.’ I ordered. And she did as I asked. Trusting me.

‘What needed to be different?’ I urged her. The crashing of windows and screams from downstairs was evident. We were running out of valuable time.

‘If the witch was found earlier and we knew before that the Turned could be an valuable asset then this would not happen. And you need to control your time freeze. Why couldn’t you master it in time?’ I couldn’t answer that. Kate collapsed on the ground, almost clawing at her chest in pain. She looked at me in horror and cried in agony. ‘Carmine!’ I caught her before she fell to the ground.  

I looked at her empty expression and that’s when I felt it as well.   

It was nothing like a punch in the gut. It felt like my heart had just been ripped from my chest. My body was on fire with a pain I had never felt. I had never felt such agonizing torment and it only intensified. Consuming every thought, every sense and every emotion. I felt lonely and hollow to the core. I was still alive and yet I died. The pain subsided but the hollowness grew, it consumed me completely and I knew that Asher had just died. The last thing I saw when I blacked out were memories of Asher. When I had first seen him, the first time we spoke, kissed, made love and the moment he heard he would be a father. Never would there be more memories, this is where it all ended.