Chapter 5 Bad dreams

Leighton

“You don’t want to do this Rhiannon,” I pleaded with her, struggling to stay upright with the pain of her words.

“Accept it now, before she loses her pup, the potion only helps for so long.”

The dawning sensation that he had drugged me while I slept him me like a ton of bricks. I let Titan take over, happy to rip his head of.

“Leighton help.”

Piper had been pulled away from me and a mist was climbing up the walls and wrapping itself around her throat.

“Insurance, accept it or she dies.”

The pain was intensify as I fought the rejection I could see Rhiannon had fallen to her knees and but Piper couldn’t breathe now. I could take out Mathew but I didn’t know if he was controlling the mist.

I could see tears in Pipers eyes as Rhiannon collapsed to the floor.

“I accept your rejection.” I saw stars before falling to the floor , I saw Piper in my

peripheral vision hit the ground gasping for breath as I felt a burning hot pain at my marking spot.

I woke up with a start, feeling my marking spot but it was cool. Looking around I was in my bed, alone.

It had taken days for the burning pain of Mathew marking my mate, or ex mate to settle. But each dream it felt as real as the first time.

After I collapsed during his marking of her, Piper dragged me out the office and into the car. When I didn’t wake she took me to a small witches coven nearby.

They managed to revive me with a potion but I was delirious and kept trying it go back and get my mate so when I passed out again when he mated and marked her again that evening they let me sleep.

When I woke the second time I felt nothing other than a dull ache where her mark should lie.

Piper never mentioned a word but let me lick my wounds in peace. She came to see me the night before we were heading back to Eclipse. I had myself back under control, Titan was safe from ripping someone’s head off.

“You know you can talk about it if you want.”

“I don’t want, and I’d rather you didn’t say anything when we get back either.” I saw her surprised face. “I don’t want their pity or to make it awkward. I just want to forget it ever happened.”

She gave me a hug, standing on her tiptoes to look me in the eye. “You didn’t deserve this, she didn’t deserve you. Maybe now you will get a second chance.” I could see hope in her eyes.

“I don’t want another mate, I think I’m done with the whole mate thing.”

By rejecting me Rhiannon maybe thought she was giving me a chance at another mate, but I had waited so long for her and Titan was still not speaking to me for accepting the rejection.

“You wouldn’t have let Piper get hurt either and what about the pup?”

“The pup would have been gone!”

“Our mate would never have forgiven us for that.”

“Well we wont know because you gave her up.”

It was going to be a while before he got over this.

The witches had suggested that we go back to New Dawn and confirm the rejection worked but once the got pain in my neck subsided I only felt it in my nightmares so I knew it was done.

I couldn’t even blame the moon goddess, it was my mates choice. She chose power and position over me and love.

Jackson had been worried when I told him that Matthew clearly knew more of the gifted wolves locations than I would have liked. As a result he was sending me to England to pick up that damn princess tomorrow.

He hadn’t given an exact time I would arrive and the idea was I could snoop while she got ready to leave. It would be interesting to see how many other gifted wolves were there.

I read the file on Princess Estelle, but it was bare and the only photo was clearly taken years ago. It didn’t state her gift but her parents were both royal gold wolves from different lines so I expected she would be gifted. Her father could control water but her mothers gift wasn’t mentioned. Usually that meant they couldn’t use them properly or were not very powerful.

Reading the little bit of history it seemed that Queen Anna was descended from gold wolves that controlled light and air, but the former gift was temperamental and not all wolves could control it.

King Louis wouldn’t really be King without his Queen, her kingdom the largest of the two before they merged. They were fated mates though, which seemed a rarity in the lives of royal wolves.

While there didn’t seem to be any links with Greer that I could fine but Queen Anna descended from one of the oldest wold families so it was a good place to look, especially when the King himself reached out.

I took my grumpy mood out on Piper in the afternoon, feeling bad when she wiped blood from her nose after a rough sparring session.

“Bad night?” She asked, opening a beer and passing it to me.

“Hmm.” I half heartedly replied taking a swig.

She drained her beer. “Im going to shower, you are welcome to join me.” She winked and walked offs, swishing her hips in a way that she knew I was watching.

That last night with the witches I had slept with her, wanting to dull the pain in my heart. The s** had been good so now we had fallen into a pattern of being friends that hooked up occasionally.

I had regretted pouncing on her that night, now we had crossed a line. I made it very clear I wasn’t going to be her chosen mate and that we needed to keep it quiet because when she did meet her mate he might not be happy about it.

I wasn’t really complaining, without a mate to worry about I didn’t need to worry about what romantic entanglements would do but Piper did and I needed to remember that. Joining her in the shower was not a good idea.

“There you are.” Greer wandered into the training rooms looking around. “I really need to get back here.”

“You do, can’t have you getting rusty.” I bumped her shoulder.

“There is just always so much to do, and Jackson won’t let me out of his sight.” She smiled ruefully, she wants annoyed she knew it was just because he loved every golden hair on her head.

“Can you blame him, you do tend to attract trouble.” I teased her.

She pouted. “He is looking for you. He wants to see you before you go.”

Jackson was in his office.

“You know the plan, but I want you to watch your back. I don’t trust these wolves. It felt like the Prince had a hidden agenda.”

“Don’t worry I’ll check the place out, grab the Princess and I’ll be back before you have a chance to miss me.”

He snorted, we had grown close over the years, I was god parent to the latest pup. Danica a little blonde bombshell that kept everyone on their toes.

Just then we were assaulted by his pups.

“Daddy.” Asteria flew into his arms with Alexander hot on her heels.

“We are playing hide and seek, we can’t find Danica.”

Lachlan can running in. “It’s okay I found the brat.” He dragged Danica along behind him.

“Mum says we have to help you, she is going training.”

Jackson put down what he was doing and took the younger twos hands.

“How about we go see if there are any of Iris’s cookies left?”

“Good luck Leighton, see you soon.”

He left with the pups and I felt a pinge of jealousy that I wasn’t going to have that. Before brushing it off heading to the jet.