2-110 “Help is coming Mina. Hold on just a little longer okay?” She just nods at me while she is trying to hold her position and taking deep controlled breaths.
About five minutes later several things happened all at once. Mina drops to the ground in the fetal position, panting and holding her arm, but not making a sound. She is trying to be brave and stay calm like Doc Sylvia asked. Then she let out a blood curdling scream and went limp in my arms as a pulse of magic burst out of her and expanded away from us like a ripple from a drop of water. Then I heard the most feral gowl I have ever heard in my life.
Doc Sylvia comes running at me from the front of the castle, a door bangs behind me but I can’t be bothered to look while my friend lays here limp. The next thing I know I am lifted off my feet and tossed aside I slid across the floor coming to a stop only because I hit a wall.
“What did you do to her?!” Xander’s growl and menacing look told me his wolf was almost completely in control.
“Xander? I…I didn’t do anything. Please let Doc Sylvia help her.”
“Stay back! No one else hurts mate!”
Mate?! Oh sh*t!
“Xander, please. Her warrior bond broke, but it wasn’t supposed to do that. She’s in pain. Let Doc Sylvia help her. Where is Oscar? He’s going to want to be with her too. She needs both her mates.” I try pleading with his wolf, staying right where I am. I don’t need his wolf attacking me or shifting right on top of her.
“Oscar?” His growl is still there, but less as the thought of his other mate calms him.
“Yes, call for Oscar.” I plead. “He needs to be here too. You both together can help her heal. She’s been having trouble with her warrior brand for weeks. Maybe your bond caused it to break since you have been spending so much time together.”
“That’s a good theory, Skylar. Can You call Oscar though, I don’t know if Xander’s wolf is going to give him enough control to do that.”
“Oscar, we need you. We found your female mate and Xander is losing his mind here. Please try to calm him or a lot of us are going to get hurt. His wolf is on a warpath.”
“I’m on my way Midge, I thought I felt something in my chest open up. Who is she?”
“Mina, your Luna is Mina.”
“Really?! What happened?”
I told him about the itching and the warrior brand bothering her for a while. It didn’t take him long to get here and the moment he touched Xander, the tension surrounding the room evaporated like fog.
“We have her my love. We are complete now.” Oscar kisses the side of Xanders head and they both hold her while Doc Sylvia works around them.
“It’s been two days! Why is she still out?” Xander snarls the same question he’s been asking for the last 48 hours while pacing a hole in the plush carpet.
“Her brand was not designed to leave her like that, it took its toll. You need to be calm for her. If what Skylar said is right they should have their brands until next summer, she was forced out of hers because of how strong your connections are. You should be proud of her f f her for enduring that.” Doc Sylvia both scolded and comforted in the same statement.
“I am proud of her, I just need to see her eyes, open and alive. It’s different now that she is our mate.” He sits down for the first time in a very long time and I place a glass of water in his hand.
“She is a fighter and you know that.
Let her heal and come to terms with the idea of being the next Luna Queen. Do you know the kind of pressure that is? We used to laugh about it when we would stay up talking when I couldn’t sleep.
Luna Queen had the ultimate pressure. She has to be strong and independent, but also kind and soft, while supporting the Alpha King and all their subjects, but at the same time have her own identity and calling in life. There’s no way anyone who really understands what the
Luna Queen’s expectations are would choose to enter into that position.”
He stops to look at me for just a second, and then walks over to me and wraps me in a hug. Thank you for being here and keeping me sane through all of this. I don’t know what any of us would do without you Midge.”
“That’s what family is for, right?” I hugged him back. “Now go and be by your mate. She is resting, getting ready for the likes of both of you.” I wink at him. “That takes a little mental preparation. No one plans to have two mates and you and Oscar have had time to wrap your heads around this, who knows what she is thinking.”
“You are the first person I am going to add to our advisory council. You will be the youngest person to be called an elder.” He laughs as he gives me one more squeeze and then lets me go, to go and lay by Mina.
We had her moved to the room he and Oscar share to make her more comfortable and in the hopes that their scents would help her heal and wake faster. She’s in a kind of coma. SHe’s breathing and responds to basic muscular manipulations, but is stuck in her sleep. She moves and turns, but it doesn’t seem fitful or like she is frightened, just moving. She cuddles to both Oscar and Xander when they sleep next to her, but she will reach out if I am near. Elena thinks that is because we got our warrior bonds together and we have a connection forged from that experience.
