Only For Her

I'm Coming Home

Hayden's P.O.V

I wake up in the bed, with a raging headache. I sit up and Eric jumps up.
"Hayden are you okay? I'm so sorry." He says and I look up at him. My hand touches at my neck and I let out a small groan of pain.
"It didn't work," he whispers and I look up at him.
"We're not mates," I look at him. He gulps and presses a gentle kiss to my lips.

"C'mon, we've got a plane to catch." Eric calls and he throws our bags into the trunk of the car.
"I'm going, I'm going." I say and he playfully wraps his arm around my neck. My hands move to get him off, and he presses a kiss to my cheek. I giggle and push him away. I grab my phone and pull up Alexa's number.
"Hello?" I hear her quietly ask.
"Alexa," I say and I hear the anger in my own voice. Kane told me she wasn't going to help, and I'm hurt.
"I'm sorry, but I can't do it." She whispers and I bark out a cold laugh.
"You can't or you won't?" I ask.
"I won't. My pack and mate need me." She answers.
"My mate needs me to lift up this curse, your mate was never branded. You don't know the pain of not being able to be with each other." I growl.
"I do know the pain," she snaps.
"No, you don't. He left for months, not days." I snarl and she growls lowly. "And if I remember correctly, it was you who left him."
"He rejected me!" She suddenly screams.

I hang up and Eric raises his eyebrow at me.
"You shouldn't taunt her like that. She's one of your vital allies and you don't want to ruin that." He says and I look down.
"I don't want to ruin any ties I have right now, but she's backing out of a fight that might save her pack's future." I say and he wraps his arm around me.
"I know you want to do what's right, but she has to want to do it."
"Kane is all I need. He has a large pack, and can take his place as Alpha." I say and Eric stills.
"Kane is powerful, and a natural born leader. In a fight years ago, Kane lead like the Alpha he is. I want to help him get his birthright back." Eric looks down.
"I... I am the cause of a battle he fought. I am the cause of his destruction." He says lowly and I look up at him.
"You were that wolf, that guy," I whisper and I shrink away. He was the cause of Kane losing...

"I never meant to do that to him, things got out of hand." He says and I press my finger to his lips.
"It's in the past. What happened in the past, happened. I can't hold you accountable for that." I say and he buries his head into my neck.
"I don't deserve you." He murmurs.
"Damn right you don't." I mumble and he chuckles.

We arrive at the airstrip and I begin to panic. I rush off to the forest beside the strip and try to relax.
"Hayden, what's wrong?" Eric asks and he places his hands on my waist.
"I-I can't do this," I whisper and I attempt to push him away.
"What can't you do?" He asks and I look him in the eye.
"This. I will lose all respect I have from my pack. I don't want to ruin what I have." I say and he grabs me by the shoulders.
"Look. Who cares what your pack thinks. If you have your loyal members, it doesn't matter. Plus you have my pack as well. They will respect you." He says and he pecks my temple. I lean into him and he nuzzles my neck.
"You would've truly be going into heat when we arrive, if your mark was true." He says.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"If we both go into heat, then we can mark each other. It lasts longer than when we aren't in heat." He says and my brows knit in confusion.
"Both mates go into a heat. It's natures way of saying you're true mates." He explains. "But most packs don't believe in that."
"What do you mean?"
"It's believed that all females should mate with her Alpha during her heat, marking her as his mate so other packs stay away from her." He explains and I gulp. Then I shiver. Imagine if I had stayed as Beta in the Druid pack. I'd have to mate with Alpha Greene. Gross.

Eric leads me back to the plane and he helps me in. We sit together and he moves me so I can lay my head in his lap.
"Go to sleep. We'll be in here for a while." He says and I nod.
I close my eyes, and know our flight will be quick.

I had Alastair relocate the pack from our home in North Carolina to our safe house in Vermont. I didn't want Robert coming. Robert had called me, a month ago, screaming that it was my fault Fane and Elayne would never happen. I knew deep down it was.

If I had complied, my father and brother never would have died. I wouldn't be Queen, and I'd be living a fantasy. Except, if I had complied, I never would have met Jai and Luke. I never would have met the men, who fixed me. Then a thought popped into mind, one I heard all that time ago.

Their love story will be a very tragic one. Bad things will occur at the beginning of their love, and they will lose faith in each other. But at the end, they'll both have what they've always wanted.

I truly never understood who the Sun God meant when he told me this, now I do. It was never Alex or Nick. It was the one who I haven't met. I'm destroyed, but I know he'll fix me.

And then I was leaning over Eric, my cropped hair brushing against his cheeks as I bent to kiss him. Our lips met and I felt like I was diving into oblivion. The kiss grew deep, immediate and hungry. He lifted me up and I wrapped my legs around his waist, molding my body against his. Our kisses were so full of need, so long, so fierce that I could hardly gasp for breath. He laid me back against the couch.
His hands slipped beneath my shirt, stroking my stomach, sliding up, pushing aside my bra. I moaned and bit his lip, reveling the full press of his weight against me as our bodies began to move together.
With each touch of his fingers my skin came alive, crackling like tinder under a lit match. Burning away fear. Burning away sorrow. Burning away loss.
I heard my own cry of pleasure as his mouth followed the path of his hands, and I struggled for thought in the face of torrid sensation.
I pull away first and he looks at me with lusty eyes.
"Why'd you stop?" He breathes out.
"Don't want to get too carried away." I reply and I lay my head on his chest. I feel his chest vibrate with his laugh.
"Trust me, later you'll be begging for me." He laughs and I growl.

We fall into uneasy sleep and I can feel his arms tighten in his sleep and a smile spreads across my face.