Bear Shifters (Book 4)

Chapter 15-Ava

I crash my lips against Minho's happy to be back, but I'm only procrastinating. I know I have to tell him the truth about what happened while I was in other, but I was just happy to be back. He finally pulls away from me.

"You seem...different," Minho comments.

"I am Minho, but...it's a long story..." I start, but a sob escapes me when I take in Adam's bloodied form.

I pull away from Minho and rush over to him, dropping down on my knees in the puddle of blood. I move my hands, but they only hover over his body. I don't know what to do. He's dead.

"He was dying form a bullet to the chest before he came here then he said he was going to take Celine with him to hell," Minho whispers wrapping his arms around me from behind.

"I was supposed to go to hell..." I breathe as a few tears fall from my eyes.

"Ava, I don't know what happened, and you are going to have to tell me, but right now we need to make sure everyone else is taken care of and get everyone buried," Minho reasons, pulling me back up to his feet.

"Okay," I respond, steeling my spine and hardening my heart.

Later. Later I would deal with this whole mess, right now I had to make sure everyone else was taken care of before I worried about myself.

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"So tell me everything," Minho sighs as he drops down onto his bed.

It has been two days since everything happened and now all we had to do was deal with this...vampire thing. The humans were taken care of. We found Celine's family, which consisted of a set of twins and a newborn baby. They were currently with one of our pack members, trying to figure out what to do with them, but that was the only other thing.

I lay my head on his chest as I curl into his side. I start to tell him. The whole experience flows out of me as if I wasn't even the one speaking. Minho stays quiet throughout the whole thing, listening and playing with my hair.

"So that's why you haven't shifted in the past few days? Because you can't?"

"I can't. I can't even feel my wolf anymore. She's just gone... but it was what I had to do to get back to you, so I sacrificed it. It was worth it, my wolf would agree," I smile to myself, running my hand along his bare chest.

"So after I mark you...I need to drink your blood and you need to kill me or I just need to die,' Minho says, causing me to jerk up into a sitting position as I look down at him.

'You don't have to though. I understand if you don't want to..." I start, but Minho cuts me off my pulling me back down on top of him and kissing me.

"of course I'm going to do it. I get to live an eternity with you and start a whole new species, which I admit is kind of strange, but you sacrificed your wolf for me, I can sacrifice my bear for you. We can do this," he says, pulling away from me.

"Can I still call you my cuddly panda?" I ask hopefully.

"Baby, you can call me whatever you want as long as I can mark you," he says looking up at me with dark eyes.

"Okay," I breathe, closing my eyes.

I didn't want him to regret this decision later, but I was being slightly selfish at the moment, I wanted my mate with me for all time.

I felt his teeth graze me neck before sinking into my flesh. I bite my lower lips against the pain, but it's over before I can even process what's happening. I look down at Minho as he licks the excess blood from his lips.

I bite my wrist with my new found sharp fangs, creating two puncture wounds, I bring it towards his mouth and he drinks it without hesitation, sucking on my skin. I pull my wrist back and stare down at him, making sure he's good with this. He gives me a firm nod, before gripping my hips.

"I love you," I tell him before kissing him with everything I have, before I have to kill him.

I know he's going to come back, but that doesn't make this any easier. I close my eyes and bring my hands to his head before pulling away and snapping his neck with tears in my eyes. I don't look at him, knowing I have killed him is the worst thing ever, but the knowledge that he's going to come back keeps me from breaking down and killing myself.

I feel him move under me, before I feel the touch of his cold hand son my chin, forcing me to look over at him. He's okay. He's back.

"How do you feel?" I ask him hesitantly.

"Thirsty."