Not Mine but His Mate (Completed)

Chapter 4: Awake 🐾

~Third Person~

"She's awake, Nic. She's awake," Clover repeated with her hands on Dominic's arm.

The room remained quiet as they wondered which way the next events could go; where Sparrow lives or dies. Clover stared Dominic straight in his eyes, unwavering. She hoped that Dominic would do the right thing and she was right, he did.

He lowered Sparrow down, releasing his hold from around his neck. The color of Sparrow began to reappear. As Sparrow gasped for his breath on the floor, Dominic focused his eyes from Clover to Sparrow, "You're lucky that she is alive Sparrow, because had she not been, you wouldn't have been either."

Sparrow couldn't form any words because of the severe pain in his throat, but he nodded in gratification.

"Don't thank me yet, Sparrow. You better hope she recovers, because if she doesn't, I won't hesitate to finish what I started," Dominic made sure that the latter part came off very clear.

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Dominic and Clover briskly made their way out of the room and toward Hazel's room. Once they arrived on the outside, Dominic watched as Hazel laid in the bed sleeping. He stared at the monitors that looked as if everything were stable.

"Shes awake, Dominic," Clover said to Dominic as she stood on the side of him.

"Yes, I know. You've told me.

"No Dominic, she's awake," she repeated more dramatic than before and suddenly the mood had shifted.

Dominic crumbled his eyebrows in confusion. He looked over to Clover staring back at him, she now had his attention.

She elaborated, "She's awake Dominic, meaning that she is alert and she will remember what happened to her. She will remember how she got here and the fact that she never asked to be here in the first place. She will remember all the horrors she has had to endure while here."

She paused, shaking her head slowly, "I know it was hell for you in your Lion form--and to come out from your form to almost losing her is angering. I know you're mad, I know all you see is rage, but Dominic that's not you. That has never been you, and it doesn't need to be you now. It cannot be you now."

Dominic's blood began to boil, but he knew Clover was right.

"So you, Nic, when you go in there, you have to pull yourself from this animalistic rage you have. You have to, or else you'll scare her. You'll scare her away and you won't have another chance to convince her to stay and she will reject you. She will reject you and you will lose her. I know you don't want to wait another hundreds of years for another opportunity for someone else, if Goddess Amora even allows that. Right?"

"She's the one Clo, she is the one I've been waiting for. I know it," Dominic responded.

"Then you go in there and be you. You go in there and you be the Dominic I grew up with," Clover asserted and instead of Dominic getting angry, he tried his best to receive it. He tried his best to receive what she said before walking in that room. Hazel deserved that much at least after all she has went through.

He nodded and went inside the room, closing the door behind him. He stayed in front of the door for a moment and he closed his eyes. Closed eyes, he began listening to the sounds all around him. Still controlled by his inner Lion, everything he heard had been enhanced--everything was competing to be heard. But he knew he had to shut everything out and focused on what he wanted to hear specifically....her.