Moon Dust

Chapter 17

Ezra smiled down at the girl he had just saved. The sense of comfort was instant the moment he touched her hand and all he wanted to do was protect her but he could not fully understand what was happening. He listened intently to his supernaturals.

"Ahh!" Alrick screamed and giggled like a high school girl.

Ezra mentally cringed at his wolf's screaming and then realization hit. The girl before him was his lifelong mate and no doubt she would expect them to be happy together but at this point in time, Ezra had to make the hard decision not to accept his mate.

Alrick continued to showcase his excitement, "She's finally here!"

"I know," Ezra uttered in a low tone. The ice blue faded from his eyes and they slowly returned to their normal colors as he took a step back.

"Mate?" Khadeen questioned.

"As much as I'm happy to have met you and would love to love you, I'm just not ready," Ezra uttered as he started to walk away.

"But..." Khadeen uttered as she stretched out to him suddenly feeling cold and vulnerable. Her dragon, however, felt nothing but rage from the pain of his insolence that hit her to the core. She stared at his retreating form and the anger dissipated because she knew what was coming, he was going to need her.

A surge of energy flowed through Ezra's body as his darkness released the blood lust at an uncontrollable rate. Ezra needed to calm the emotions he was feeling but he didn't know how. He had never felt like this before, the anger from his supernaturals threatened to choke him. In a swift moment his eyes turned into black and he grabbed a girl that was strolling by wearing earphones and plunged his teeth into her neck sucking the blood from her body at an alarming speed then leaving her body in the state of a husk and even then he was not satisfied. Ezra thrashed around as he tried to make his way to the hotel but he could barely keep himself composed as he felt the feelings of all his supernaturals. They wanted to tear him apart because they did not want to wait another lifetime for a mate knowing that they may never get another chance again see her again; His eyes kept changing from electric blue to icy blue to scarlet and to black, his eyes were changing faster than he could process what he had just done.

He finally made it to the hotel and he burst through the door of the hotel room he was in. Ezra had no control of all the emotions he was feeling, he felt regret, pain, guilt, sadness, and anger. He didn't know why he felt all these things but the most prevalent feeling was pain; his entire body was engulfed in pain. There was a burning sensation of pain that kept clawing at his insides. He felt like his body was being cut into a million pieces and every time he opened his mouth to scream he heard his blood boiling inside his body. The pain was so intense it was like something was trying to claw its way out but it couldn't so it was willing to destroy him. The pain was so unbearable he thought he'd die and it was enough to drive someone insane. All he could do was curl into a ball and moan in pain as all his supernaturals mourned for the mate they may never have because of their human's stupidity.

Lexia burst through the door in her robe to see what the commotion was about followed by Dylan along with Isis who slowly strolled in looking annoyed.

"Ezra, what's wrong?" Lexia screamed but he couldn't answer, he was in too much pain. She used her vampire speed to get a wet rag and placed it on his head to try to calm him down but her presence beside him only seemed to make the pain worse. Her hand burned at the touch of him and at that moment she was scared.  Dylan looked taken aback by the events happening and he struggled to find out what was the cause of Ezra's pain.

"The human part of him rejected his mate and by the looks of it his mate is a powerful being to have caused this much pain," replied Isis in a smug tone.

Lexia snapped her head in her direction, "And what do you mean by that miss?"

"Tsk tsk stupid vampire," scoffed Isis, "since your peanut of a brain cannot comprehend let me put it in simple words. He has a powerful mate and his human rejected her so he's feeling pain. Get it?"

Lexia growled at her but tried to calm down, "Can you help him?"

"Unfortunately I cannot," Isis answered honestly, "only his mate can."

Lexia opened her mouth to say something but it was short-lived when a blast of light appeared in the room. The three of them stopped in their tracks as the light faded and showed a girl standing with two starry blue wings coming out of her back. She uttered only one word, "Mate."

"Who the hell are you?" questioned Lexia who was puzzled by the sudden appearance of this girl. Khadeen ignored her and walked towards Ezra slowly as her wings receded into her back.

Isis immediately stepped closer to the corner of the room because she knew what was about to come but at the same time close enough to watch the drama unfold. She managed to grab hold of Dylan pulling him closer to her but not too close to be engulfed by his minty smell with a vanilla flavor that provided a calming essence that she liked. She would never admit that she liked the smell he had and feeling close to him to anyone. It was her secret.

Lexia was feeling annoyed so she stepped in front of Khadeen and repeated herself, "I asked you a question, who the hell are you?"

Khadeen's eyes changed color for a minute to a dark brown and she held Lexia's throat and squeezed it until it broke. She threw her to the side and walked over to Ezra and lay beside him.

"Mine," she whispered and cuddled up to him.