Shifting Love

Chapter 25: Easier Said Than Done

Dante's P.O.V.

My father would have called me a coward. I could just hear him sneering at me before slamming the cage door shut in my face. 'You're nothing but a waste of space,' he would have spat at me. Tristan snickered while he shut the lights off on me.

But that wouldn't have mattered to me. My conscious would be clear. All that mattered was what Ari would have thought of me if she knew I killed her other mate, my own twin brother. I wouldn't cause her any more unnecessary pain.

I made sure the glass didn't pierce any major organs. I just couldn't do it. He would have done it in a heartbeat. He wasn't smart enough to pierce all my major organs. By dumb sheer luck he missed them.

He coughed a few times and blood bubbled out the sides of his mouth. I ripped the bottom half of my shirt that wasn't covered in blood. I attempted to clean him up a little.

What was I thinking? Attempting to kill my own flesh and blood? That wasn't something I would have normally done. The rage from him trying to steal Ari from me was completely taking over me. Day by day it got harder to suppress. Soon it would overcome me and my wolf would be in charge. I needed to get a grip on things.

I steadied myself and with one punch to his temple he was out cold. I needed to come up with another plan before the rest of his pack came looking for him.

My hand accidentally brushed against my abdomen and I growled in pain. The shard of glass was really stuck inside. Blood was starting to seep out fast. If I pulled it out now I risked losing blood and fainting. If I fainted there was a good chance I wouldn't wake up. There had to be someone around to help me.

"You don't look so well Dante."

The back of my hand pressed against my eyes as m vision blurred. A wave of nausea swept over me. A small, warm hand touched the back of my neck. The woman tried to steady me when my whole body swayed on the deck.

"I am losing too much blood."

"Sit down and rest for a moment. I will go get Teresa and one of the doctors."

"There isn't any time Carla."

"There is always time."

"I couldn't do it."

"Of course you couldn't. No one expect you to murder your own family, Dante. To do such a terrible crime without feeling any guilt would make you no better than him."

"What am I going to do?"

"Sedate him like he did to her."

"What?"

"Heavily sedate him. Your plan to kill him might not have worked but it could still play out the way you wanted it to. We can sedate him so much they still think he is you and that you are dead."

"What happens when he wakes up?"

"Hopefully by then you will have full control of the other packs and be at war with the hunters. It will be too late."

"And if it's not too late."

"We will worry about it then."

"Go get a doctor. Tell him to bring tranquilizers and lots of them," I ordered her as the plan really sunk in.

There was no other way around this. I couldn't kill him; no matter how badly I wanted to squeeze the last breath out of his lungs. I just couldn't bring myself to wrap my hands around his neck.

The pain of losing a mate was not something I wanted to put on Ari. She was too precious to me. I wouldn't be able to handle the sadness in her eyes. I am her true mate and still around, but losing him would cause pain to her soul. That was not a risk worth taking in my mind.