Second Chance Mates

-00- 🌹 One Last Moment

[A/N - Wait until it says to in the story to play the song 🌹]

"One last word, one last moment, to ask you why you left me here behind. You said you'd grow old with me."
~Michael Schulte, 'You Said You'd Grow Old With Me'

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*Landon's POV*

Numb.

Everything is... numb.

All the sounds of people shouting, sobbing, machines beeping, it's all muffled in my ears and I'm just... numb.

I faintly register the sounds of my mom crying, pleading with me to say something.
To look at her. To do something. Anything.

But I can't.

All I can do it sit on that cold plastic chair and pray to the Moon that this is all some sick joke. I run my fingers through my disheveled blonde hair before burying my face in my hands.

Maybe I'm hallucinating.
Maybe all the stress I've been facing has finally made me snap.

That has to be it.

This is just all one big...
Nightmare.

Because there's no way I'm really here, sitting in a sterile hospital with our families releasing broken sobs, begging the doctors to do something.

What can they do? It's too late.

I.... I was too late.

I should've known. I should have fucking seen this coming. I could have stopped it. If I only opened my eyes for one goddamn second, I would've seen this coming from a mile away and stopped it.

This is all my fault.

This is because I failed to protect him. I failed to protect my mate.

And now Easton's dead.

My mate... he's dead.

Amidst the chaos in the hospital waiting room, my dad is angrily shouting at Silas, Easton's dad and our former Alpha. The Alpha before Easton turned of age and became our Alpha.

"How dare you say such things about my son?!" My dad screams, his face turning red and the veins on his throat nearly bursting. "In case you've forgotten, Landon is hurting too! He lost his mate, for fuck's sake!"

"And as his mate, he should've protected my son!" Silas roars, tears streaming down his face and soaking his beard. "If your son had done his job, my son would still be alive! This pack's Alpha would still be alive! What the fuck am I supposed to say to our pack?!"

"Is that all you care about right now?! The pack?!"

"I'm the only Alpha now! Someone has to care about the pack! Easton cared about his people, and because of your son, all of that is destroyed!"

Stop it...

"Landon didn't ask for this! It's not his fault, none of us saw this coming!"

Stop...

"That thing hasn't cried once since we found them! Does he not feel?! Where is his remorse?!"

Please...

A hand touches my arm, making me jump slightly. I look over and see a nurse gazing down at me. My father and Silas are still shouting and don't notice the nurse talking to me.