Behind The Unseen Stars

Chapter Fourteen Losing Her Own

Luca's POV

This morning, when I realized my mate hurt herself falling from the tree my world just stopped and I felt like crap. I should have been more careful with her. Then when she got mad at me for just trying to protect her I wanted to strangle her. Then she had to reset her shoulder herself, just to make me mad. I didn't know how I was going to keep up with her! What were they thinking, putting us together?

But what scared me the most was when I almost lost her. I didn't know what was going on, I just knew that somebody had cast a spell on my mate, a dormant spell that would only come out when it's trigger word was spoken or thought of. When was this done to her? Could I have stopped it?

I don't know what triggered this but I hoped it wasn't me, I couldn't live with myself if I had done something to cause this. I was starting to think that, her father was the one to do this to her, to my mate.

I was so helpless, feeding my magic into her trying to pull her back, but it didn't matter how much I was putting in, it wasn't working, even when Jade stepped in to help, it still wasn't working. She was going to be taken from me, just like that.

But when I felt the smallest nudge against my powers, I knew she was reaching out to me and as quickly as I could I wrapped her in my magic and I held on. No one was going to take her from me, not after I had waited for her for over 300-years.

I wasn't going to let her go, if she left me she would have to take me with her. I know that was selfish of me, that I would leave my Pride here without their King and Queen but I couldn't live without my mate. I would end up dying if she was taken from me.

I could feel something was still holding onto her and I couldn't break it off from her. After all me wanting to keep her safe I couldn't do anything this time, it had to be her!

And then she just snapped back, I felt her chest rise and fall again, I felt her breathe. It was the best feeling in the world to feel that again. I would do everything in my power to never let this happen again.

I quickly ran my hands over her face into her hair holding onto her as I spoke to her. I wasn't going to let her go, nothing could make me let her go, she was mine.

Just thinking about it was like I was living it all over again. But what surprised me most is what she told me... How could that be?

She was carrying my cubs? I would've sensed it, I did smell the change in her scent, even now I can smell a change, but why hadn't I smelled it before now?

"Jade. I need you to check to see if she is carrying cubs and we need to do everything in our power to make sure they are okay. I will start putting together a protection spell" I had to be fast. "What did you find out on her blood? I need to know before I can do any spells on her or the cubs."

Jade scurried around the room looking for what she needed to test my mate to see if she was carrying my cubs. I'm not saying my mate was lying but I needed to be sure, I needed to know how many there were.

Usually they came in twos or fours, well technically they never come in anything but.

I quickly came up with a protection spell, all I would have to change would be the number and the part about her just being a Wiccan, if she was more than a Wiccan, that is. "Jade what is taking so long?!?!"

"I'm sorry Luca, I am trying. I just need a few more minutes for the blood to finish being tested." She was standing over by her desk, I could see the green and yellow magic, sparks flying everywhere. Because we had magic we were about to test the blood within minutes. "I did get the other blood test back this morning and Rina is more than just a Wiccan, it's from her father's side."