I yelled, “WARRIORS ON ME NOW!” My dad called, “Son, what’s going on?” Oden linked, “You’re not noticing something.”I replied, “I’m busy. What am I not noticing?” Oden answered, “We aren’t here alone in this reality. Mate is here.” FUCK!
I explained, “We have to go and get to Red Run right now!” My mom said, “If you say so.” She popped away. My dad growled, “FUCKING SERIOUSLY?” Peter asked, “What’s going on?” Elise and EJ ran back in wolf form with the pack.
Elise looked terrified when she asked, “What’s wrong with Ladybug?” Sam answered, “Nothing. She just got grounded.” I declared, “My mate is being fucking kidnapped, but my Melanie is here too. Yours is probably with her. So, we have to go.” I felt pain rip through me.
I snarled, “SHE IS HURT!” I popped to my mate. The other Melanie’s eyes were wide with horror. My Melanie whispered, “I saved him this time.” I looked down at the man who looked like Tristan. I grabbed him by the throat.
The other Melanie screamed, “XANDER PLEASE, don’t hurt him! It’s T!” I assured her, “This is not your version of T.” I used my pushing power. I reached out for the Coven members minds creating this illusion and crushed their brains, so the illusion disappeared.
I snapped the neck of the Warlock I was holding. I heard a gasp for breath and turned around. I roared in anger because my Melanie had been shot. The smell of her blood hadn’t reached me until now. What the hell kind of illusion had they put my mate in?!
My Melanie was fading. I growled, “Come the fuck on! I need to heal you!” Melanie reasoned, “The Ribbon sends us back if we get hurt.” I tried to heal her, but she was already gone. I roared, enraged. The stupid illusion had kept me from smelling her blood.
I could hear fighting outside and threw everyone in the room out of my way and grabbed the man with the gun. I snarled, “Did you shoot my mate?” The other Melanie whispered, “He shot hertwice. She pushed me out of the way and then… T… what’s going on? How was that not T? I don’t understand?”
The other me burst into the room and ran over to her. He growled, “MINE!” He picked her up off the floor. I squeezed the man’s throat, “Where is my mother and who the fuck are you?” He wheezed, “Slade Carter.” Well, he must be wearing a Fairy charm somewhere because he didn’t look like himself.
I threw him at EJ saying, “He’s the leader of the Hunters. Where is mom?” I heard my dad roar in rage and the other me popped away. I felt a distant pull to my mom, so I popped to her. This realities version of my mom was gasping for breath.
I knelt down with the other me and started to heal her. When we were done, she jumped up, “Ok, that’s it. I’m with Swear-y Haley! FUCKING WITCH BITCHES AND THEIR FUCKING ILLUSIONS! She told us all and we didn’t listen!”
I chuckled, “That’s my mom.” Oden agreed, “That’s definitely what they call our mom.” It was funny and at least they weren’t referring to her height. The other version of my mom said, “Well, your mom is right. Swear-y Haley said we just need to end those bitches and put them in fucking ditches. That’s a direct quote.”
I grinned saying, “Definitely my mom.” Mom waved, “This one had a dang Fairy charm too!” My dad pulled her to him asking, “What happened? Who is this woman?” My mom ground out, “I thought it was Melanie. I mean she looked like Sam and Drake. She was putting up a fucking fight about leaving, but I just thought it was some type of trauma.”
“Or that she’d been put into a state of shock from being attacked. Then the illusion snapped, and I grabbed her Fairy charm. I was about to ask why in the damn hell she had one then she stabbed me. It only happened because she looked like Melanie. These Witches are a problem, and they must go.”
My dad held onto her tightly. My mom snorted, “It wasn’t that bad of a stabbing, Eric.” My dad growled, “No gettingstabbed.” My mom sighed, “Christ Almighty. I will never hear the end of this.” I asked, “Where’s Blade?”
My mom groaned, “He’ll never leave my damn side again, that’s where Blade is. Does anyone care that I killed the fake Melanie?” I laughed, “I’m sure this realities me would’ve loved to kill her.” The other me growled, “Yes, I would’ve. Mom, this is the real Melanie and she’s mine.”
My mom said, “I figured that was the case since the other reality you came in to save her from the damn army waiting to take her.” I frowned asking, “Army? What army?” I popped back to the front of the McAlister’s house and gaped at the sight before me.
There were wolves down all over the place. Tank was hurt. I popped to him as he coughed up blood. Ziggy shouted, “TANK!” Tank wheezed, “They are trying to kidnap Ladybug. I have to fight.” I knew then and there he’d done the same that night in our reality.
I told him, “She’s safe with your me. I’m going to heal you.” Ziggy snarled, “Someone fucking stomped on my mate!” I healed his ribs and lung and stepped back. I turned and promptly snarled when I saw Robert wasn’t in chains.
I popped beside my mate’s bully and threw him on the ground. Jason asked, “Alexander, what’s wrong?” I answered, “He’s part of the plot to take her!” Robert said, “No, I’m not. You’re wrong! You just don’t like me because you’re jealous.”
I scoffed, “Of what? A weak ass Alpha blood wolf who lusts after she wolves that are not his? A man who has been bullying a little girl for over a decade? A man who plotted against his pack and his Beta’s daughter because his biological dad told him to? Please.”
“You’re weak and pathetic. You also seem to have forgotten there are people here who can make you tell the truth, youasshole. Now, someone that’s here take over Black Path so I can get the fuck out of here and heal my damn mate.”
“My wife saved her younger self, and her brother, from being shot. When she knew it wasn’t her damn brother! God damn it! My Melanie knows this wasn’t real and she dove in front of that goddamn Warlock anyway!”
Oden linked, “If you saw someone trying to shoot EJ and Brutus we’d do the same thing. Or any of our brothers. I used him because Apollo is mate’s big brother.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know full well what I would do.
Tristan asked, “Ladybug took a shot for a fake me?” I replied, “Yours wasn’t shot though so that’s good.” Tristan growled, “When you go back to your reality tell my sister I’m the one who takes bullets for her. I don’t care what reality it is, she’s not to do that.”
I replied, “Mine saw the fake you take one for her. I’m sure that Warlock thought he’d get patched up, but they let him die. These fucking assholes traumatized my mate and she really hasn’t even tried to get over it yet. She just started therapy recently.” Tristan winced.
Right now, I wanted an audience with Azoney. I just wanted to do something nice for my mate tonight. I wanted a normal night where we danced, but of course that’s not afuckingllowed. Someone better have found my wife and gotten my mom to her. I needed to get back to my reality.
Cassie put a hand on my back. My sister said, “I’ll make sure Robert tells the truth, big brother.” I sneered at Robert, “For your information, this would not be considered leaving Melanie alone. I told you what would happen if you didn’t.”
Robert paled before he whispered, “My dad will come for me.” I snarled, “You should’ve been happy with the man who raised you. Not the spiteful, hateful man who whispered nicethings in your ear.” My dad asked, “Who are you talking about?” Robert yelled, “No one! He’s crazy.”
I threw myself at him and we crashed to the ground. Oden broke free and shifted, and Robert did too. Oden had his wolf on the ground in under a minute. I shifted back, “Some Alpha blood you are.” Someone snapped me clothes.
