Unique Mate

~24~

*Ashley's POV*
I close the distance between Jenna's body and me, I shift back not caring that I was naked. I crawl up next to her and pull her lifeless body into my hands, it's cold to the touch, and when I see a tear land on her cheek is when I finally notice that I am crying. I pull her head to my chest and sob into her blood-soaked hair. I know I haven't known this little girl lying dead on my lap very long but the time I did know her, she became someone I very much cherished. Like a little sister to me. I don't bother to hold back the sob that escapes my mouth, I scream in frustration and in pain. My breathing is ragged and shaky and my body starts shaking almost matching my breath. Although the situation is pounding through my brain I think of anything, any spell that could possibly change the outcome of this situation but its hard to think when I can feel her blood run down her neck, dripping onto my hands and legs. I close my eyes trying to focus trying to think. My head throbs in pain but I can't help but focus. My eyes widen as I feel a sense of hope leap into my throat. I quickly lay Jenna's small frail, lifeless body on the ground in front of me and I place my hands over her heart that wasn't beating. I take a deep breath and recite what I need to.

"Hanc puellam a mortuis reducere fac eadem, sed me potius." I repeat myself squeezing my eyes shut trying to stop the tears while reciting the spell, I kept praying in my head that it would work but I couldn't help but feel like she was already gone. But that thought was quickly pushed away when I felt a burning sensation in my throat, I whimper in pain and my heart race quickens. When I open my eyes I watch as Jenna's throat slowly closes with my words, the pain in my throat slowly increases and I feel blood start dripping down my neck and with the pain intensifying with every second that passes I struggle to keep reciting the spell. Soon its too much for me and I stop, I feel my head start to spin from the amount of blood I feel spilling out from the forming cut on my throat. I try to focus and look back down to Jenna and see her slit throat is slightly closed and not as bad,  I try to feel for a pulse on her and give a sigh of relief as I feel a slow and weak but still there pulse.

I reach up and touch my own throat and wince as my hands come in contact with the cut that has made its way there. I feel my fingers warm up slightly and I pull them back only to be faced with the crimson liquid drenching my fingers, it dripping down trying to cover the rest of my skin in its red thick liquid. The smell of iron is so strong around me making my head pound, the more blood I lose I start to feel more and more dizzy, my vision going in and out of focus but I shake it off try to focus my mind on Jenna's breathing that was slow but still there. I blink trying to clear my vision as it goes blurry again, I shake my head but that only sends a sharp piercing pain that threatens to split my skull in half, the pain pushes me back to the point where I'm laying on the ground holding my head. It's not long before the pain becomes too much. Everything goes black.

*Adrian's POV*

All I see is red. My father and my paws shake the ground beneath us as we tear up the ground pushing our legs as fast as they can possibly go so I can keep this blurred figure in sight. My teeth are clenched to the point where my jaw is so sore but the anger is radiating off my father and I in waves that I hope this man running from me feels. My legs are burning at this point but I don't let up for nothing. The fear in my baby sisters eyes is forever imprinted in my mind, it's there every time I close my eyes and to keep my from breaking down I focus on killing the person that took my sisters life with little to no effort. How easily he could steal a life, let alone a child's life fuels my anger more.

"Give up Alpha." Conner's voice surrounds me like its in my head, I growl and shake my head trying to get his mocking voice out of my brain before my head splits open. I dodge pass so many trees keeping Conner within my vision range and I push my legs more and more but I don't get any faster. My lungs feel like there on fire and every time I breath in, it fuels the fire making it harder and harder to breath but I refuse to give up. It isn't much longer before I see from the corner of my eye that my father was slowing down. His tongue was hanging out of his mouth and it was clear as day he was struggling to catch his breath, and I contemplate on whether or not to stop but the anger within me keeps me going. My father slowly fades behind me as I keep pushing my body to keep going, to keep up with the man that cold heartedly murdered my sister, the image flashes in my head and I can't help the whimper that escapes my lips, the pain sets in and my body slows down and moments later my legs give out from underneath me.

My body collapses to the ground, my muscles scream with a burning feeling. I can tell I'm alone and not on my own territory but I can't find it in me to care, my body's confused wanting to fall numb but also screaming in pain from pushing my body beyond it's limits. I pant trying to get a deep enough breath to relax me, something that never comes. My mind goes back to my sister. In her last moment's she had to watch everyone she depended on do nothing as her life was stolen from her, she watched knowing we couldn't do anything to help her. The guilt sets in and my eyes swell up with hot tears that threaten to fall and I let them. My efforts were not good enough to safe my sister why should I try to hold back tears. In a way I feel so week and am grateful that no one is around to see me like this. I take a moment and let my thoughts take me away into the darkest part of my mind.

" Pathetic." My head snaps in the direction of the voice and I stare face to face with Conner and his dark red eyes, that almost match the color of blood. I growl in his direction and he just gives a smirk showing off his pearly white fangs. I try to get to my feet but my legs shake violently and give out making my body slump to the ground but that doesn't stop me from glaring him down but he brushes it off.

"You think this hurts? Wait till I take what I really want." His eyes narrow on my and his smile makes my blood run cold, I blink and he's gone. I look around but every trace that he was ever here is gone leaving behind bone chilling words that shake me to my core.

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