Love Loss

Chapter 16

As we all sat quietly in the bushes around the werewolf camp, a gust of wind alerts me to Mina's scent, along with others I don't recognise, until.
   "No... I thought you said she was just with rogues?" I whispered to Avery. He nods and confusion fills his face as fear fills mine. "I can't, he isn't... he's not rogue... I can't fight him I'm sorry." I turn to flee, but Corvin blocks my path.
  "Calm down, tell me who he is?" He says, his voice calm, collected, cautious.
  "He's... he's... bad, he's bad okay just very bad, can we please go? I can't do this I'm so sorry Candice." I try to move around him but he blocks my path either way I try. "Please Corvin!!!" I urge him, i would scream it at him, if he wasn't so close. "This isn't the place, I can't be here, please..please, don't make me face him. Not yet, I'm not ready...I can't." I beg him urgency building with each word.
   "Tell me who he is? Am I not here to protect you?" He pauses to gaze deeply into my eyes. "Is your life not connected to mine?" He plants a small, soft, loving kiss on my lips, my mind empties of everything but his lips, and his last question catches me off-guard, and the look on his face as he asks me causes me to feel a pain in my chest that I had never felt before. It was like a knife to my heart. "Are you not my mate?"
  "Y..yes of course I'm your mate, and you are mine. You must know that, don't ask me such hurtful things." I say as I grasp at my chest, the breeze blows again and fear shivers its way down my spine, and again I am that frightening yearling again. "Please, we have to hide. He cannot find me, you cannot let him find me. Please, if you love me at all you will swear to protect me from him, please he's evil, I can't... I can't go back... I won't...I..." My eyes begin to stream with tears, Corvin takes a hold of me and pulls me close, he begins to cradle me against his chest.
  "I will protect you from anything, I would give my own life to keep you safe my love, but..." my head whips back and my eyes find him with urgency, but he smiles warmly at me and says, "...I still need to know who he is. I can't do a thing if I don't know who I'm up against, now can I?" He places a soft kiss on my forehead, before softly rest his forehead against mine and breathing my scentnin deeply before sighing. "But know this, no matter who it is, I will never let anyone harm you, I will do everything in my power to make sure he doesn't get you you, because.." He pauses, leans up off my head to see me clearly and gazes into my eyes, "..you're mine, and only mine darlin', and nobody can change that." He whispers softly, and somehow I feel my strength return to me, I was back to the ancient vampire with weird and special abilities, a white lycans mate. A sired yearling no longer, that was long in the past.
   I took a deep breath, glanced around and as I took in the confused and concerned faces surrounding me, I decided to quickly compose myself before I began.
  "Sorry, erm, that's D..Da..Dario, he's my, um," I looked down at the mud beneath us, the grass barely pushing through, flattened by us trampling it. 'Dam it! Why is it so hard to say this' I screamed in my head.
   "Is he your maker?" I could feel the sudden tone change in Corvin, almost like the thought saddened him. I nodded slowly whilst looking back at the floor, digging the tie of my boot into the mud, making a dent. "So that's why you can't fight him. I thought the sired bond was broken after they release you?" His voice carried so much pain, I couldn't help myself from blurting it out, louder than I should have.
   "He never released me!" I quickly checked to make sure they hadn't heard. They where still checking which cabin to go into. "Sorry, I didn't want you thinking it was love that makes me not want to go up against him. I escaped, he was cruel, evil, I ca-" My words were interrupted by Corvins lips crushing down on my own, my strength returned in full, I feel like I could do anything. As long as Corvin was with me.
  I pull myself away as I hear a door creak open, I spin my head to watch and lower my voice. "I can't fight him if I'm still sired, and I can't see any reason that he would release his, at the time, favourite plaything." I could feel a wave of sadness and fear sweep across me as I remember the last interaction with Dario.
  "Okay, change of plan  we follow, find the place. Then come back, regroup, think of a new plan." Corvin whispers, I can see Avary and another couple of the younger males want object, but Candice quickly replies,
  "Sounds like a plan, let's get focused." Avery glare at her with fury, until Candice shot him a look that made him immediately back down.