His Forbidden Mate

Chapter 2

Artemis' POV

That dream again!

I am in the woods, in a forest. I hear screaming, so many people screaming, and then blood, so much blood...pools of it...red, red everywhere! I can't do anything to stop it! It's a slaughter, a major one but I am like a ghost watching everything from above, floating on air like I am watching a movie.

But my heart beats faster and faster like it would if I was there. What if I was there? What would I do? Protect them? And protect who? I can't see faces... I don't even know those people or do I?!

I can only hear screaming...

My head hurts. I feel my breathing hitched, the oxygen leaving my lungs...I want to breathe, I need to breathe!

Delaine Frey: Artemis! ARTEMIS!

I jump up awake, shaking and trying to catch my breath.

Delaine: Hey, baby girl, everything is alright! I got you!

Delaine takes me into a warm hug, my heart is still pounding in my chest but I manage to nod to myself reminding me that it was just a nightmare...

Artemis Frey: I'm fine...

Delaine: You definitely don't look like it! You are sweating like you ran a marathon...the nightmares again?

Artemis: Yeah...

She sighs and soothes my hair before she pulls back to look at me.

Delaine: We won't go hunting today..you don't need to worry. It's our day off.

Artemis: I know.

She smiles reassuringly but I know she is as worried as I am. Which is my story? Let me tell you...

My name is Artemis Frey. Or so I've been told. Delaine is like a sister to me, well basically, she is my sister. She is a year older than me, 23, but we grew up as sisters. Her father, well my father, or better my adopted father, is Calvin. He is a good man..and one of the best hunters. He saved me when I was a baby from a werewolf's attack. He told me, my parents were killed that day but I was only some months old and I don't remember anything well except the nightmares.

That I've grown to believe they are memories. Memories that I don't really understand how it would be possible to remember? That I don't know... but every time I see a nightmare we lose a battle. With whom? The shifters... supernatural motherfuckers who think they are better than anyone else but in reality, they are a threat to humanity itself!

Both me and Delaine are one of the best huntresses. She is like dad completely ruthless. She won't let anyone survive her bow. But I can't kill in cold blood. I feel like it's wrong... I've never said that to anyone... but sometimes I think I am on the wrong side even though that doesn't really make sense since we share the same values with my sister and father. 

Delaine: Come on, get up and get dressed! We'll go shopping! We deserve some free girls' time!

Artemis: Are you kidding?! You hate shopping!

Delaine: *shrugs* True.. but what are we supposed to do?! Stay here and be miserable?! Besides, you love it. 

Artemis: No. I am not saying that. Maybe I could go see Alex.