The Huntress & Her Alpha

CHAPTER 19: My Mate, I'm Sorry

RHYDON

I feel terrible putting her in the basement for a few days now. Treating her like she's some kind of a rogue but I feel I have no other choice. Because even though I understand in why she was upset towards me the other day, at the same time, I feel as though it wasn't fair.

I've even been going back and forth with myself in talking to the Moon Goddess and asking her if there is any hope at all for  Gemma and I to ever be able to return to how things were between us. But decided against it.

I haven't had much sleep lately from thinking about her and have been more short tempered with everybody as a result of thinking about her and busy trying to figure out in who this creature is.

There still hasn't been anymore attacks for some time now, so it's been more hard to find any evidence to try and figure out who the creature is.

I've been really worried about everything between what's going on with Gemma and what's about to happen with this creature and how we can try and stop it even.

Frustrated more than enough at the moment and wanting to get myself a drink, I start to head out the office and towards the door when I stop as soon as I see Corwin carrying Gemma in his arms bridal style up the stairs and carries her into the guest room. What the hell is he thinking? And why is he touching MY mate?

"What is she doing out?" I ask him as I enter the room.

"Alpha, please, don't be upset, she blacked out." He says.

I was about to say something else until I stopped and felt my heart start to break when I looked over at her body. Though it had been only three days, I could tell she was dehydrated and hadn't eaten. Oh my god, what have I done?

Corwin snaps me back to reality when he says my name and tells me to head out of the room with him. Then as soon as he closes the door, I hear Lorraine come walking up the stairs with a tray of foods and drinks.

When she gets to us, she stops and begins to glare and scowl at me.

"You bastard!" She says while stomping towards us but is stopped by Corwin.

"Babe!" Corwin stops her by putting his hand up. "It's okay. We're gonna go and take a walk. Just take care of Gemma." He tells Lorraine.

She continues to glare at me and then walks right up to him and smiles before giving him a kiss.

"Alright my love." She then kisses his cheek and starts heading into the room, closing the door behind her.

"What the hell is her problem?!" I asked a little irritated.

"Come on. Let's go for a walk Alpha. I need to talk to you." He tells me.

"I have things I'm gonna do." I start to lie.

"This isn't a request. Just come with me." He says with much plead in his eyes.

So I don't say anything and instead just roll my eyes out of irritation as I start to follow him out the back and we stay in our human forms.

"I need to talk to you not as my Alpha but as my best friend." He begins.

"Great, here we go." I say, already having an idea in what he wants to talk about.

"Okay, seriously?" He asks frustrated as we stop and look at each other. "You've been a dick for the past few days and it's getting old real fast. I mean, I have always stood beside you and your decisions but with what you've done to Gemma, the way she looks now." He says.

I know he's right. There's no excuse for how I reacted and taking my lack of sleep and irritation out on her along with the frustration of the situation, then after her defending the asshole that took her and did god knows what, I lost it completely.

"Look, I know I fucked up. I mean don't you think I don't blame myself every single day for never going to see her? Despite knowing I was told not to?! Then when I finally get her back and we start getting close, I find out she didn't REALLY remember me and was playing." I fire back at him with more pain and sadness then pissed off in my voice.

He looks at me with sympathy and takes in a breath then lets it out before continuing.

"Then stop acting like a jerk and go take care of her! Because this is one thing that I don't want to be a part of. You know better than to treat her the way you have and not to mention she told me she needs something from some kind of a witch. She said that Kora told her." He says and I look back at him in shock.

"Kora? But she's...dead." I look at him confused.

"I know, but she told me before she passed out that Kora had just visited her in her dream. She mentioned how she helped Gemma remember everything. Who she is and what all happened with the fight and you guys being mates. And something about seeing a witch for something that could help her. But when she started telling me to get you I told her you didn't want to see her." He looks down and has a hint of guilt in his voice as he tells the last part.

I can't help but feel more of a dick because now he feels like shit again like he did already because of what happened. So I walk up and put my hand onto his shoulder.

"I'm sorry man, you're right. I've been an asshole and feeling sorry for myself that I didn't realize how much of an asshole I've been. I'm sorry." I tell him.

"It's fine. I know how you can get." He jokes and chuckles a little bit. "But you need to make things right with Gemma." He smiles at me.

I nod my head in agreement and we turn back and I head back towards the house. Which took a while for me to go near Gemma because Lorraine was still pissed off at me but luckily Corwin helped me out by mind linking her to leave us and that's what she did.

The minute I looked and saw Gemma sleeping, I saw her pale skin and chapped lips from the dehydration. I almost fell to my knees and knew that I needed to find out more about this witch and find out what she needed.

Next chapter will be posted soon! :)