Kane

16. Sora

"A coma?" 

I can't hear my voice anymore, the room is spinning and I feel like I might throw up on the clean white floors inside the royal hospital.

My legs give out and my son Caelan catches me before my knees could hit the floor. "Mother-"

"I want to see my mate, I need to see him, p-please Caelan, I need to see my m-mate!" I practically beg out, tears falling from my eyes freely now as I grip onto my son's shirt, seeing my own broken reflection in his eyes.

He nods his head, a look of dread on his face as he looks at me, then those around us.

I could care not for what people are thinking right now, I am not being emotional, my mate was dug out of that collapsed building, the love of my life, their past King, the strongest wolf to date was buried alive, fighting for his life.

I knew something was wrong the instant I felt like something had landed on me, I sensed Kane in dire trouble, my chest was hurting way too much to ignore, I could feel everything he was feeling and I could do nothing but clench my chest and steady my breathing.

Hours...

It took us hours to get him out of there, if not for the mate bond, we would have never found Kane, and when we did- I will never get the image of him impaled out of my mind, for as long as I may live, the image of him laying there unconscious will stick with me forever.

I had almost lost him, he wasn't breathing, I could feel the bond starting to crack.

No matter how much pain I was in from almost losing my mate, no pain could keep me from finding him, and in pain I was, I had never felt anything like it before, I had only heard stories of the pain from losing your mate, but I never thought I would ever feel this pain.

Kane couldn't die, he just couldn't, he can't leave me, not my Kane.

Our entire family is here, waiting for any news that I will bring back, causing pain in the pit of my stomach at the dread of the millions of thoughts that race through my mind right now, all the things that could go wrong, what if he doesn't heal? What if..

No, I cannot think like this, I must stay strong, for Kane, my mate!

I feel eyes on us as Caelan hold onto me to stop myself from falling again, we walk down the hall where doctors rush in and out, some stand outside with distress on their faces and I know exactly why.

It's Kane's room..!

I release Caelan's grip from me and I run down the hall until I reach his room, and the overwhelming stench of Kane's blood has me nauseous, so nauseous, then I see his face, so bloodied and bruised, and pale- oh so pale I couldn't tear my eyes away from him.

Doctors were trying to stop the bleeding from the hole in his chest, a clean large hole had pierced his torso, missing every vital organ he had survived but the loss of blood was making his body work harder than it was used to, hence why they had to work fast to fight infection.

I see a man rush past me and go to his side as I pray to the moon goddess for comfort, I hear him cast something, making the room glow a bright blue that hurt my eyes and the eyes of every wolf in the room.

Kane's face shifts and I can feel his pain, I can feel everything and a part of me is glad, that the bond did not break, he will be fine- I keep telling myself he will make it.

I rush to his side and glad hold of his hand and caress it. "I'm here Kane, I'm here! I'm not leaving your side- please come back to me." I whisper to him as I move the strands of hair from his wet forehead, which is covered in blood.