Run **unedited**

Chapter 12

"What is wrong with you?" i snapped as soon as we got outside the doors of the grand councils meeting hall.

"You were disrespecting our most respected elders, what else did you expect me to do? I needed to stop you" andy said, his voice low and calm.

I wanted so badly to start screaming but since we were still in the building and there were lots of people milling around i knew it would be a bad idea to cause a scene. Instead i grit my teeth and in the calmest, ok not so calm, voice i could said "i can handle myself, andy, i do not need a baby sitter. If i needed your help in there i would have asked you for it"

He rolled his eyes, yes actually rolled his eyes at me, "like you've 'asked' for my help with the excruciating pain your in?"

Ok, that was it. I wrenched my hand out of his and stormed off, forcing the doors open and stomping out of town hall. I stormed down the stairs and kept going, doing my best to ignore the growing tightness in my chest that was nearing the point of being unbearable with every step i took farther and farther away from andy. He didnt try and follow me, probably convinced i would come running back as soon as the pain became to much, clearly he doesnt know me that well.

I stomped all the way down to the beach, kicking at rocks and twigs on the ground as i did so, grumbling to myself about how men were stupid and useless, how mates were nothing but a hindrance and how i was going to find a way out of this bond if it was the last thing i did. I mean honestly all a mate was good for was to procreate and i had no plans of ever having children, so why would the moon goddess ever give me one, let alone two idiots. Atleast now i only had one of them to think about since jasper was no longer a problem-

Fuck!

I nearly screamed as a sharp bolt of pain ripped through my chest, forcing me to drop to my knees in the sand. I gripped my shirt front over my heart and fought back the tears that tried to force there way out.

"Kari!" i barely even heard the shout as someone ran towards me.

This has got to be how i die, right? I'm going to die here in the sand on this pristine beach from this unbearable pain tearing through me. I thought as another bolt shot through my heart.

We will not give up. My wolf groaned from the back of my mind, feeling the same excruciating pain that i was.

"Kari, baby, come here" slim arms wrapped around me and my face was pressed into someones shoulder. "It's ok, sweetheart, it's all gonna be ok" i recognized that voice, i knew that voice. The pain was muddling my thoughts but i knew that the voice and the feel of the arms around me was familiar. There weren't any sparks so i knew it couldn't be andy, but the pain was subsiding slightly so i guessed it had to be someone i knew.

"Ally?" i croaked out, taking a guess. Earlier when we had hugged i had noticed the pain had subsided slightly so she had to be the cause of this now right?

"I'm here, baby, i'm here" that was her voice! Oh thank the goddess. "Mark went to go get andy, you're gonna be ok-"

"No! No andy, i have to do this myself" i sobbed, finally giving in and letting the tears flow. I hadn't cried this much in one day since my parents kicked me out.

"Baby girl you cant, i can tell this is to much for you. Please let your mate help you" ally begged.

I shook my head against her shoulder and sobbed even harder than before. Sure the pain had decreased but only slightly, it still felt like my heart was being electrocuted, just slightly less than before.
I needed to prove that i could handle this, not just to andy but to myself. I needed to prove to myself that i could truly handle anything and that included being without my goddess given mates.