Behind The Unseen Stars

Chapter Seventeen The Real Me

Rina's POV

I was trying to make sense of it all, it's like I took a backseat and I watched as I slit that man's throat then everything went black.

I'm sure that it had to be Cleo that took control and that's fine because I don't think I have the power in me to be the one to do something like that again. I knew that by killing him it had brought me one step closer to The Dark.

I didn't want to think about what I did but I knew deep down that if someone came and tried to threaten my cubs or my mate again I would take him down just the same if not I worse, probably cause a little bit more pain than I had.

I knew I wasn't dreaming or even sleeping. I think I was in recovery mode and shocked at what just happened. But it was getting ridiculous. I had been laying in this bed for a week and a half now. I didn't move. I couldn't respond in any way but Luca never left my side.

Leo would come in and visit Cleo, then take reports back to Luca which I was okay with because I couldn't do it myself.

I knew the cubs were okay. Luca was using his magic to make sure they had enough nutrients to survive he also hooked me up through a magical link to him so whatever he ate so did I.

I guess you could say he was feeding me like I was feeding my cubs, since both me and the cubs were feeding off from him he had to eat a lot and by the time he was done with this he was going to be so sick of smoothies.

He remembered that my body would only handle smoothies and so that's what he stuck to this entire time, without the blood though. I could feel myself getting weaker and weaker, day by day. I needed blood, I needed to wake up and soon.

You may be thinking that he is a meat eater and so am I and the cubs but until they are born they don't need the meat to survive and Luca didn't need it either but I could tell that he missed eating it.

All I wanted to do was come out of this, I wanted to be able to hold Luca in my arms again to snuggle into him and to have a conversation with him.

Jade kept coming in and checking on me as well, she said it was my body's way of healing. Her and Jewale both were okay, Luca gave Jewale a reward for her bravery and he told her that she would become a commander with a little bit more training.

She had saved Jade to, she's the one that pushed Jade out of the way of the magic animal attack, the bite would have been fatal to Jade. We're still not sure how Jewale pulled out of it.

Jewale has come to see me once or twice telling me everything that Luca had done for her and her little sister Ruby.

I am so proud of my mate and what he has done, I just wish I could tell him that.

"Rina, I need you to come back to me. I need to hear your sweet voice, please." This is the way he has been pleading with me day in and day out and it's never worked...

Until today.

I could feel my body respond to it, I don't know what about today made it different but whatever it was I was thankful for it. Maybe my body just needed blood so bad that it had to wake up or I wouldn't be waking up at all.

I felt my energy flow back into my body, and once again I could move my arms and legs. I quickly shot my eyes open, I was staring into his beautiful green and black eyes.

Oh, how I have missed his eyes, I reached up and ran my fingers across his cheeks and then up into his hair pulling him down into a kiss.

His lips were just as soft and rough as I remembered them being, he took full control of the kiss once he realized what was going on.