Bound Book 2

Chapter 53 - Old Memories

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Skylar

The retching doesn't stop until eventually, only bile is landing on the floor.

"Skylar?" Gael's hand reaches out to touch me as I flinch back, my back hitting the glass door of this replica of my old house, except this one was spawned from hell itself.

"It's me, Dmitri." My head snaps up to meet the brown eyes of Gael, wondering why he would play this trick on me. Tears are streaming down my face from all the heaving and the situation I am in.

"It's really me, Skylar, and we don't have much time," Gael says to me, his face much softer than it has been since we arrived here. A ruse to convince me of this deceit?

"I don't trust you," I say to him, a small smile on his face at my words.

"That's my girl. You shouldn't trust him. We shouldn't have trusted him from the beginning." The contrast between what Gael is saying now and how he has stated earlier that I can trust him makes me wonder if this is indeed real. Is this really Dmitri here in Gael's body?

"Prove it," I say, not wanting to be fooled into a trap.

"I would expect no less," he says before a familiar push followed by the words 'I can smell you, Skylar,' pop into my head.

"I can smell you, Skylar," he says shortly after, the elation in my chest almost making it physically ache as I throw my arms around him. Only Dmitri could mind link me like that. And only Dmitri knows how much those words mean to me.

"Dmitri, it's you," I say as fresh tears stream down my face.

"It is. I miss you so much," he says, pushing me slightly back so that he can look at me.

"Has he hurt you?" He asks me, his eyes trailing my body, looking for any signs.

"No, but he did try and take my power. It didn't work. I'm not sure why," I say, remembering the confusion and disappointment on Gael's face when he realized he had failed.

"And he put this on me, so I can't use my powers." My hand touches the choker around my neck, frustration once again surging.

"Skylar, it's not your power. We," he says, his hand moving between us, "are the key the Legend spoke of."

"But how? If that's true, then what do we unlock?" I ask him, still not understanding how the power I wield is not mine.

"Unlocked. It's already done." His hand glides down to my stomach, the next words hitting me like a freight train.

"We're pregnant, Skylar. It can't happen, but it has. Between you and I. Human and Lycan. The baby you carry is the tribrid The Legend speaks of."

My mind sifts through little things that have happened lately that now make sense. The weight gain in light of all the vomiting. The faint scent I saw when I shifted. I'm pregnant. We are pregnant.

"Oh my god Dmitri, we are going to be parents," I say, looking back at him as he smiles. He is happy. I am happy.

"We are. But we need to get you out of here," he says, pointing to our surroundings.

"You're at your old house? We looked there," he says, confused.

"It's not. This fucking weirdo created a replica. It's actually quite close to my old house but not in Willow Falls, just outside the town. Look for a place close to a cliff. There is a path that leads off to the right through some bushes," I say as he gets up and looks out the window.