Mine to Protect Chapter 149: BLIND FURY

*Derek*

Her cheek feels so cold under my touch, and her lips are turning bluish, no, she can’t fucking leave me now, I won’t accept it. She slowly closes her beautiful green eyes, the machines attached to her going haywire, signaling heart failure. Fuck, no!

The doctor and nurses shove me out of the way, while they try to restart her heart with the defibrillator, once, twice, thrice, it’s not working.

The doctor has now shifted to manual heart compressions, but the monitors are still showing a flatline, and then I feel it, a pack-link snapping, the mate bond being severed. No!

I try to follow our tether, the link that bonds us together, I could always feel her presence, her warmth, her love, at the end of it, but now there’s nothing, nothing to feel, no warmth, no love, just nothing.

People start wailing loudly in the room, no doubt they have felt the link to their Luna snap too, and now they are mourning her, crying for her.

The doctor is still busying himself trying to save my mate, he knows that she is dead, but I have commanded him to save her, and he can’t stop.

“Stop,” I order him in a voice that doesn’t even sound like my own. I don’t want anyone touching her, torturing her any further, she should rest peacefully now, without anyone bothering her, I can at least do this for her.

He looks at me wide eyed, then bends his head in shame.

“I am sorry, Alpha, I couldn’t save our Luna.”

I just shake my head, trying to convey that it is not his fault, not able to put two words together.

I hear howls of despair outside, probably warriors showing their respect to their Luna, and that reminds me of what is still happening out there, of the people, or better the person that attacked us, the person who cowardly killed the love of my life.

I don’t even feel the shift, I am out of the door in a heartbeat, barreling through the battlefield, and killing every enemy wolf I can find on my way. From what I can see, our numbers are dwindling fast, which is understandable, seen how our warriors have already been through two fights, without being able to rest, and have been also weakened by the wolfsbane gas they attacked us with at the beginning.

I need to kill Jackson, and this war will finally be over.

“Where is he?” I link Damon.

“On your left, about 300 meters.”

I immediately turn left, running as fast as I can, until I see rows and rows of warriors standing in a circle, protecting their Alpha from attackers.

In the middle of the circle Alpha Jackson is beating the shit out of Damon, who’s trying to attack back, but unsuccessfully.

I roared in outrage, and charge at the warriors surrounding them, making my way to the center with teeth and claws.

Jackson sees me and smiles deviously, he has Damon held up by his neck, and by his posture it’s clear he’s planning to claw his heart out and let me witness the show. I won’t be able to get him in time, but if the Moon Goddess is still watching over us, I should still be able to use my powers.

I try to create a shield for Damon, like Hazel has thought me, thinking about her fucking hurts, and I channel my fury in creating the shield, giving more energy to my powers.

The shield appears just when Jackson is about to claw at Damon’s chest, his hand instead smashes on the shield, burning his hand in the process. Jackson hisses in pain, and immediately lets Damon go, letting him fall on the ground in a heap.

Now that Damon is safe, I don’t waste any time charging at Jackson, I am going to deliver him his death, and I will make sure that it is incredibly painful.

He’s fast, he shifts into his wolf, and avoids my attack moving to his right, then he charges at me, as do all his warriors standing around us.

Fucker, and coward, he doesn’t even have the guts to fight against me alone, he’s only good at beating people weaker than him.

I call to the wind power, I have never used it before, but I have seen Hazel use it, and kind of got a hack of how these powers work.

I make a swiping movement, and make all the warriors fly back, trying not to bang them too badly, it’s not their fault if their Alpha is a cowardly prick.

Jackson seems taken aback at first, but then his evil grin comes back in full force.

“Not man enough to fight me without super-powers, uh? Your Luna is not really missing much, or I should say, former Luna.”

He’s making fun of her death, this fucker is laughing at the death of half of my soul, I can’t let him live a second longer.

I charge at him again, he doesn’t move, which makes me think this is a trap, but I don’t care, I keep going forward. I am two steps from him, when I sense the wheezing sound of bullets coming at me, the fucker, but I don’t relent, I use my wind power to stop the bullets mid-air, and then I sink my teeth deep into his jaw.

He whimpers, his eyes wide in disbelief, he wasn’t expecting me to stop the bullets, idiot, did he really think that I would not use my powers, when he’s full out cheating. And honestly, I don’t really care showing off my superiority, I just want him fucking dead.

He tries to fight me, clawing at my snout, but I just sink my teeth further in, blood gushing out of the wound. I shake my head viciously, making him wail in pain.

Then I let him go, and I direct the bullets still standing mid-air towards him, one at a time, savoring with my ears his cries of pain.

He can no longer keep his wolf form, so he shifts back into his human form, and I do the same.

I crouch beside him, watching his life essence slowly drawing out of him. He tries to speak, but only gurgling sounds come out of his wounded throat. I watch him, and watch him, not even paying attention to what is happening around me, I want to see the exact moment his soul leaves his body and gets to the pits of hell that are awaiting him.

I want him to die seeing the smile on my face, but I can’t bring myself to smile, I have nothing to smile for, not even his death is bringing me any joy, all I feel is void and emptiness.

Finally, he exhales his last breath, and the fight on the battlefield dies with him. His warriors still, some of them howl in agony, at the loss of their leader, others just slump on the ground, the fight leaving space for exhaustion.

I feel a hand on my shoulder, I turn around to see it is Damon, he’s still covered in bruises, but he’s recovering fast. His eyes are sad, and he doesn’t need to say the words out loud, I know he’s giving me his condolences, telling me to stay strong, but I don’t know if I can, now that Jackson is dead, I have nothing to channel my despair into, an anguish that is threatening to send me insane.

A cute blonde runs in our direction, making me frown, is she a friend or a foe? She bumps into Damon and hugs him from behind.

“I have nearly lost you. Why would you do something so reckless? You could have been killed!”

Her voice is cute, even when angry.

Damon turns around in her arms, hugs her shoulders tightly and places a kiss on her head; she’s so much smaller than him, the top of her head reaches only the middle of his chest.

“I needed to set a score right, sorry if I made you worry,” Damon says tenderly, making me raise my eyebrows in shock. When has he ever been this sweet towards his girlfriends?

He must have felt my shock, because he looks back, and with a wide grin says, “Alpha, this is Meera, my mate. She’s from Woodrock Pack. Meera, meet Alpha O’Brien, my boss and old friend.”