With an Open Heart (Book 2, sequel to "His Mate's Tears")

Are you dumb?

Ravic's POV

We stood at the edge of the forest looking at the rogues that chose to attack the pack. I couldn't tell them to move because I knew Sabella had a plan and I needed her to tell me what I could do. I saw our wolves begin to attack and I gave the word for my wolves to go. A man rushed by us and I spun around to attack him but he vanished as I fully turned. I felt my breath leave me as I fell to the ground.

"Ravic!" Sharif shouted and rushed to me. "Are you ok?"

The fight around us finished as quickly as it started and I knew Sabella was the cause, and I also knew she was the cause of me feeling like this.

I grabbed his arm as support as he pulled me to my feet. "Where's Sabella?" I shouted. Wolves looked at me and looked away guilty. Something was up. 

"I won't ask again, where is my mate? Where's Rachel?"

Wolves diverted their eyes from me. My wolf was getting upset. I growled loudly. I saw her brother coming towards me. I never waited for him to reached me. I moved up to him full speed and held him by the throat.

"I told you to protect your sister. Where is she?" My wolf had charged now and I gave it to him. 

I felt a small hand touching my biceps.

"He can't answer you if you kill him and Bella wouldn't like that," my sister, Destiny said. She stepped back as I dropped him to the ground. I moved towards her and a young man stepped infront of me.

"She's in the cave. And I'm Destiny's mate, " he said answering my unspoken question. 

I would have had further discussion but I just needed my mate. Wolves moved as I passed making sure not to touch me or look into my eyes.

"What should we do with the dead, Alpha?" Jason asked. Of course it was him no one would be as dumb to direct any question to me. 

"Do we have any dead?" I was holding on by a thread. I needed to go to her but after all that's happened the wolves were restless and on edge and needed a command. "Burn the rogues and collect the bodies of our dead wolves so we can have a proper burial now." In our pack we burnt our wolves; this allowed for a fast rest for the dead and peace of mind for the mind of the deceased, rather than going through a lengthy and prolonged process of planning extravagant funerals. But its not that we just burn the bodies, we do it at midnight when the moon is at the center of the sky. Its ritualistic , its like we're offerring the body back to the goddess. 

"Yes." His head fell. I opened my link to the pack and felt the sorrows flooding in. "Four wolves died."

"Prepare their bodies for the send off." I paused at the entrance to the cave. "Who gave the order to kill the wolves?"

"Sabella. She said to kill them all."

I hadn't seen her outside so I know she did something in order to protect the pack but I'm just wondering how far she went in order to save them.

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Sabella's POV

I told myself I wouldn't let my baby die. I couldn't let my pack. I ouldn't let myself die. But here I was in what seemed like the bridge between worlds- Alive or dead. That means I was holding onto a thread. I tried to push against what seemed like a dark wall but it wouldn't budge. 

I looked around me and saw ghastly, grotesque figures reaching out to me. I pulled away. All around me dark smoke  obscured the view. But there wasn't much to view. The figures that reached out to me had sulkened eyes and skin was rotted, the maggots could be seen coming out of them and falling on the black sand beneath my feet. I tried to move but couldn't.

It seemed like they were the ones that guarded the world between worlds. And I was a trespasser. 

"Don't touch her," a melodious voice called. And they vanished. I looked at who was in front of me. Me calling her beautiful would not do her justice. Fresh-faced, petite with long silver wavy hair She looked naturally beautiful, clear complexion with long, curled eye-lashes fluttering over her blood red eyes. She wore a flowing white skirt tied at the waist with a white fabric covering her breasts and a gold necklace resting around her slender neck. She was bare footed and walked gracefully to me. 

"Who are you?" I asked her.

"The person who's going to fix your problems." She placed her hand on me and brought me to a different place. It was just a blank envionment. It was completely white. I looked t her wondering, what the hell was going on?

"I'm going to help you get rid of the person who attacked you. He's possessed by a dark spirit he thinks to be his mother but she had long since left this world. Daemon et anima (The Soul Demon) has possessed him. He's slowly eating at his soul but you can defeat him. Just kill his host under the full moon and the soul demon will go back to the cage he was in before my brother released him. I was condemned to this world as punishment for disrespecting my father, The Lord of the World between Worlds, Mundi Dominus inter mundos."

"Who are you?" 

"Crysallis. I am the guardian of this world. I'm sending you back."

"Why are you helping me?"

" Because if I get him back into his cage my father will free me from here."

I didnt care what she wanted I just knew that I wanted to get out.

"I'll help you. But how do I kill him?"

"Just learn how to use your powers and you can." 

Her figure became distorted. She was sending me back.

"Please kill him." Her voice faded.  

I held arms trying to shake me awake. I pushed them away. I tried to get up.

"You idiot. You scared me!" I heard Rachel's shrilly voice.

"You knew you were pregnant and you attempted dark magic! Are you dumb?!"

I heard Ravic's voice.

Oh shit!

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