Whispers of Hope- Book # 3 (Mated Hearts Series) Complete

Chapter 10 (Zach)

“Whispers of Hope”

Chapter 10 (Zach)



This was supposed to be the ultimate  party of the year.  I should be living it up, getting drunk off my ass and having the best time of me life.  Everyone else seemed to be enjoying themselves well enough, I thought to myself.


So why am I the only one sitting alone on the couch wallowing in my own misery and wishing that I was anywhere other than here?

I’ll tell ya why.

One reason.  One reason only, a certain auburn haired angel with tantalizing green eyes embedded on the face of a goddess.  Marissa May Combs, my mate.

I have tried my damnedest to give her what she requested.  I have graciously allowed her the space she asked for and it was killing me.  Every hour, every minute, every second that I stayed away from her was another moment of hell for me.

I needed to hold her.  I wanted to inhale her delicious scent.  I wanted to taste her luscious pink lips.  I needed my mate.

“Zach….Zach….”  a frantic looking Steven stumbled into the living room calling my name.

“Yea” I answered looking up at him curiously.

“They need you in the kitchen man.  Now.”  he said it with urgency.

Jumping up I was already moving to the door when I barked out, “Amy, is something wrong with Amy?”   God help me if something happened to my sister.

Steven grabbed me by the arm pulling me to an abrupt stop.  His brown eyes looked serious and it was then that I knew something was definitely not right.

“No, it's not Amy." he told me.  "It’s,  it’s Marissa” he said looking hesitant.  “Something really bad is wrong” he added as I quickly pulled away from him in a hurry to get to my mate.

Just before I hit the kitchen door a dreadful scream reached my ears.  It sounded like an animal in agony. The scream pierced my heart because I knew that the sound was coming from my Marissa.

I halted when I entered the kitchen at the sight of seeing my tiny mate curled up in a fetal position writhing in pain.  For a moment all time stopped as I saw my life quickly flash before my eyes.  Without Marissa I am nothing I suddenly realized and that realization woke me up quicker than anything else ever could.

“Marissa……Marissa ” I breathed out through the tight knot in my throat while kneeling down beside her and cradling her head gently in my hands.  

“Zach” she answered me her voice hoarse and her eyes squeezed tightly closed.

Her face was as white as a ghost and her breathing was starting to come in quick pants.  Carefully I smoothed the sweat dampened strands of her hair back from her face,

“Sshh, I’m here baby” I told her wanting so badly to take away all of her pain away.

“It burns, make… make it stop” she wined throwing her head recklessly from side to side.  I could see the sweat beading into tiny droplets across her forehead and down the side of her face.  The heat was coming in waves off of her skin and I had never in my life felt so helpless as I did right then with my mate in my arms.

Then I smelled it.  At first it was just the faintest of scents but a second later it was much more pronounced.  I didn’t understand how in the hell it was happening  but it clearly was, right here and right now, in front of my very eyes.