Mated to the Wizard

Orange Leaf - 23

Everest's P.O.V

At first, I thought it was a headache from the beer I've been drinking. But then it got worse. This is not a hangover, that much is clear.

It's a shooting pain right above both of my ears, hurting like hell. The glass shatters beneath my fingers and causes blood to pour through my hand, but I don't pay any mind. The throbbing in my brain is ten times worse.

I mutter under my breath and clutch at my head, trying to somehow repress the pain, but nothing happens. Finally, it starts to numb enough for me to notice the ringing phone.

Stumbling to the table, I grab my mobile and pull it up to my ear.

"Yes?" I grumble, groaning at the new found ache in my brain.

"Everest? Please tell me you didn't take her again? After everything we talked about?" Gabe's frantic voice gushes through the receiver. I groan again in pain.

"What are you talking about – ah-" another wave of ringing hits my eardrums and I sink to the floor.

"Avery. What's happening? Are you alright?" my wolf's ears perk up at the sound of her name, worry consuming me as I try to stop the double vision.

"What happened to her? She's okay, yeah?"

"She's missing... we thought you took her. Alpha Kyle sent scouts out everywhere." He replies, confused. My breath hitches as the realisation sinks in. This pain isn't my pain, it's Avery's. Something happened.

"I don't have her, Gabe. But my head hurts like a bitch; I think there's something wrong." I grit out, standing up and grabbing the keys before transporting myself to outside of the pack boarders. Thankfully, there's no one there to stop me from walking in. "I just got here, where is everyone? Where the fuck is my mate?" the last part was from the anger surging through from my wolf, mainly directed at me.

"You're here?! Everest, everyone is trying to locate you for taking her away from them in the first place; you'll get killed for sure if they find you on this land." He exclaims from over the phone. I breathe heavily down the line in conflict, but continue to walk deeper into the forest on their side of the boarder anyway.

"I have to make sure she's okay. I have a really bad feeling about this." I tell him curtly before hanging up the phone. I hold my hand out at a leaf on the ground. It's a new spell I was practicing the other day, and granted, it didn't go so great, but there's no harm in trying.

Mumbling some Latin under my breath, I tell the leaf to go to Avery in my head. It sounds weird, but it works. Normally, I can just do spells like this with a flick of the wrist, but I've only used this one a handful of times.

The dry orange leaf moves along the ground and I follow it, until I hear voices in the distance. Quickly making myself invisible, I continue through the branches of hedges and trees for around ten minutes. My anxiety grows worse and worse as we go, but I try to ignore it. I may not care for her like normal mates do, but the protective trait is still in my blood, and this is half of my soul.

And you have to keep her safe for when you kill her. I can imagine father pointing out.

The trees start to thin out as I go further. The leaf slows down, but I don't hear anything. I thought I would hear screaming since the pain is so bad, but there's nothing but silence. Eerie silence. There's a soft breeze in the air, making me shiver slightly, but I try to pay it no attention as I stumble over branches and old leaves on the ground.